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2009年专八真题 PART IV PROOFREADING ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN) The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes from one schoolchild to the next and illustrates the further difference ____1____ between school lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learnt in early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener ____2____ has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. ____3_____ The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting it may be something from 20 to 70 years. With the playground ____4____ lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on within the very hour ____5____ it is learnt; and, in the general, it passes between children of the ____6____ same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in age between playmates to be more than five years. If, therefore, a playground rhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or ____7____ even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitted over and over, very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three ____8____ hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live ____9____ after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the ____10____ original wording. SECTION A MINI-LECTURE Writing Experimental Reports I. Content of an experimental report, e.g. --- study subject/ area --- study purpose --- 1____ II. Presentation of an experimental report --- providing details --- regarding readers as 2_____ III. Structure of an experimental report --- feature: highly structured and 3____ --- sections and their content: INTRODUCTION 4____; why you did it METHOD how you did it RESULT what you found out 5____ what you think it shows IV. Sense of readership --- 6____: reader is the marker --- 7____: reader is an idealized, hypothetical, intelligent person with little knowledge of your study --- tasks to fulfill in an experimental report: introduction to