關於英語專業八級的改錯練習

The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough

and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical __1__ words have “less meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them __2__ “empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. But this is a rather __3__ misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like the is not the name __4__ of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a __5__ sharp difference in meaning between “man is vile” and “the man is vile”, yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. Moreover, grammatical words __6__ differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have even in __7__ the lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “little words.”

But size is by no mean a good criterion for distinguishing the grammatical words.” __8__ of English, when we consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. __9__ Apart from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people say:

we certainly do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is __10__ illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.

　　答案：

1 刪掉the 此處的most並不表示obvious的最高級，而是用作副詞修飾obvious，表示程度很高，因此前面不能加the。

2 將but改爲and 根據文章的意思，這裏要用並列關係的and。

3 將in改爲to。 as apposed to 是固定搭配，意思是“與……相比”。

4 將misled改爲misleading

5刪掉away。 此處考查固定用法。 far from being...意思爲“遠非”“遠遠不怎麼樣”，符合這裏的意思。而far away from 表示離某處很遠。

6 將single改爲only或者sole。這裏要表達“唯一的”。

7 在as後面加to或者將as 改爲in。聯繫上下文，此處的.意思是“grammatical words 本身在某某方面也有相當的差異，”as to 有“關於”或者“在某某方面的意思”；將as改爲in，用differ from something in…也可表達這個意思。

8 將mean改爲means

9 將as改爲like，或者在as前面加such

10 將number改爲deal或者amount。obscurity是不可數名詞，不能用a number of 來修飾。