英语专业八级改错10年真题.doc

99年改错 The hunter-gatherer tribes that today live as our prehistoric 1.______ human ancestors consume primarily a vegetable diet supplementing 2._____ with animal foods. An analysis of 58 societies of modem hunter- gatherers, including the Kung of southern Africa, revealed that one half emphasize gathering plant foods, one-third concentrate on fishing and only one-sixth are primarily hunters. Overall, two-thirds and more of the hunter-gatherer’s calories come from plants. Detailed 3.______ studies of the Kung by the food scientists at the University of London, showed that gathering is a more productive source of food than is hunting. An hour of hunting yields in average about 100 4.______ edible calories, as an hour of gathering produces 240. 5.______ Plant foods provide for 60 percent to 80 percent of the Kung 6._______ diet, and no one goes hungry when the hunt fails. Interestingly, if they escape fatal infections or accidents, these contemporary aborigines live to old ages despite of the absence of medical care. 7._______ They experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little dental decay, no high blood pressure, on heart disease, and their blood cholesterol levels are very low( about half of the average American 8._______ adult), if no one is suggesting what we return to an aboriginal life 9.________ style, we certainly could use their eating habits as a model for 10.________ healthier diet. 2000改错 The grammatical words which play so large a part in English? grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different 1._______? from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may? seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have“ less? meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them 2._______? “empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. 3.________? But this is a rather misled way of expressing the distinction. 4._________? Although a word like the is not the name of something as man is,? it is very fa