37篇专八短文改错(模拟)37篇专八短文改错(模拟).doc

模拟1 We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say _____1 that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with school, including college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of science as people _____2 with comparable education in Western Europe.There are a lot of kids who know everything about computers—how to build them, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask _____3 them to explain about the principles of physics that have gone into creating the _____4 computer, you don’t have faintest idea. _____5 The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human _____6 creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between science and _____7 technology. Lots of people don’t differ between the two. Science is the production of _____8 new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application of knowledge to the production of some products, machinery or the like. The two are really different, and people who have the faculty for one very seldom have a faculty for the others. _____9 Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology, it’s not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast the consequences _____10 of new technology, which can be enormous. 　　About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries could be avoided if women had used family planning methods to prevent high risk ____1 pregnancies, according to a report publishing recently by the Johns Hopking University. ____2 The report indicates that 5.6 million infant deaths and 2,000,000 maternal Deaths could be prevented this year if women chose to have theirs children ____3 within the safest years with adequate intervals among births and limited their ____4 families to moderate size. This amounts to about half of the 9.8 million infant and 370.000 maternal deaths in developing countries