英语短文改错精选.doc

短文改错 Culture refers to the social heritage of a people --- the learned patterns for thinking, feeling and acting that characterize a population or society, include the expression of these pattems in ___1____ material things. Culture is compose of nonmaterial culture --- ____2____ abstract creations like values, beliefs, customs and institutional arrangements - and material culture - physical object like ____3____ cooking pots, computers and bathtubs. In sum, culture reflects both the ideas we share or everything we make. In ordinary ____4____ speech, a person of culture is the individual can speak another ____5____ language - the person who is unfamiliar with the arts, music, ____6____ literature, philosophy, or history. But to sociologists, to be human is to be cultured, because of culture is the common world ___7____ of experience we share with other members of our group. Culture is essentially to our humanness. It provides a kind ____8____ of map for relating to others. Consider how you fred your way about social life. How do you know how to act in a classroom, or a department store, or toward a person who smiles or laugh ____9____ at you? Your culture supplies you by broad, standardized, ____10____ ready-made answers for dealing with each of these situations. Therefore, if we know a persons culture, we can understand and even predict a good deal of his behavior.  1. include - including 2. compose - composed / comprised 此出的意思是“由…组成”，固定搭配有be composed / comprised of，be made up of，consist of。 3. object - objects Object是可是名词，一般说来可数名词以单数形式出现时要有不定代词或冠词修饰，而在此没有任何冠词，而且上下文对应的均使用了复数形式，所以应该把object改为复数。 4. or - and 此处是固定搭配both…and…。 5. individual后加who / that 这句话出现了两个谓语动词，在英语中不符合语法规范。从上下文可以看出individual后面的部分是修饰individual的定语从句，缺少了引导词，所以应该加上who或that。 6. unfamiliar - familiar 根据常识，“文化人”应该是“熟悉艺术、音乐…”的人，因此把否定改为肯定。 7. of - / 表示原因时，because后跟从句，because of后跟名词性质的词或词组。此处是从句，所以把of去掉。 8. essentially - essential be后面的表语不能用副词。 9. laugh - laughs 此处的smile和laugh是并列成分，作定语从句修饰person，又因为先行词per