英語專業四級、英語專業八級考試改錯習題
The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for
the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough
and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical __1__
words have “less meaning”， but in fact some grammarians have called them __2__
“empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. But this is a rather __3__
misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like the is not the name __4__
of something as man is， it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a __5__
sharp difference in meaning between “man is vile” and “the man is vile”， yet the
is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. Moreover， grammatical words __6__
differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have even in __7__
the lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “little words。”
But size is by no mean a good criterion for distinguishing the grammatical words。” __8__
of English， when we consider that we have lexical words as go， man， say， car. __9__
Apart from this， however， there is a good deal of truth in what some people say：
we certainly do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is __10__
illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams
and newspaper headlines。
參考答案及解析：
1 刪掉the
此處的most并不表示obvious的最高級，而是用作副詞修飾obvious，表示程度很高，因此前面不能加the。 2 將but改為and
根據文章的意思，這里要用并列關系的and。 3 將in改為to
as apposed to 是固定搭配，意思是“與……相比”。 4 將misled改為misleading 5刪掉away
此處考查固定用法。 far from being.。。意思為“遠非”“遠遠不怎么樣”，符合這里的意思。而far away from 表示離某處很遠。 6 將single改為only或者sole
這里要表達“唯一的”。 7 在as后面加to或者將as 改為in
聯系上下文，此處的意思是“grammatical words 本身在某某方面也有相當的差異，”as to 有“關于”或者“在某某方面的意思”；將as改為in，用differ from something in…也可表達這個意思。 8 將mean改為means 9 將as改為like，或者在as前面加such 10 將number改為deal或者amount
obscurity是不可數名詞，不能用a number of 來修飾
