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高中英语应试辅导：短文改错解析二则 日期： 2005-01-17 　作者： 英卓语言 ( I ) 　　 Naturalists have long known that the apes, our nearest relative in the animal 1.______ 　　kingdom, communicate with one and another through gestures, sounds and facial 2.______ 　　expressions. But it was always thought that only human beings can use words 3.______ 　　and sentences. In the 1960s, however, researchers set themselves the task of reach 4.______ 　　chimpanzees to communicate with humans. At first the scientists tried make them 5.______ 　　to speak. But no chimp ever managed to acquire a vocabulary of more than four words 6.______ 　　and even these were spoken with great difficult. The breakthrough came when two 7.______ 　　scientists from the University of Nevada decided to try America Sign Language, 8.______ 　　system of gestures used by deaf people. After four years, they had taught their first 9.______ 　　chimps to use 132 signs correctly to communicate their wants and needs. 10.______ 　　 ( II ) 　　 The Finnish sauna (steam bath) is of very important 1.______ 　　 in the life and is also the culture of this country, which 2.______ 　　 winters are always dark and where the midsummer sun 3.______ 　　 never sets. The sauna has stayed same for years. 4.______ 　　 It has always been central to peoples life and once is 5.______ 　　 even when babies were born! 　　Today the sauna is so popular 6.______ 　　 as ever, not only in Finland, but also in abroad-wherever Finns 7.______ 　　 go, they expect a sauna, even they have to build it themselves. 8.______ 　　 There are a million of saunas in a country of five million people. 9.______ 　　 There is even a sauna in the Parliament building. 10.______ 　　 [答案与解析] 　　 (I)1.relative→relatives。此处的relatives是apes的同位语，故用复数形式。 　　 2.去掉第一个and。one another是固定词组，意为互相。 　　 3. can→could。此处应该用一般过去时态，使上下文时态一致。 　　 4. reach→reaching。动名词作介词宾语。 　　 5. tried后加to。try to do sth.表试图；设法。 　　 6.去掉第一个to。make后面接动词不定式作宾语补足语时，动词不定式符号to应省略。 　　7. difficult→difficulty。此处应该用名词作介词宾语。 　　 8. America→American。形容词作定语。 　　 9.