( I )

　　Naturalists have long known that the apes, our nearest relative in the animal 1.______

　　kingdom, communicate with one and another through gestures, sounds and facial 2.______

　　expressions. But it was always thought that only human beings can use words 3.______

　　and sentences. In the 1960s, however, researchers set themselves the task of reach 4.______

　　chimpanzees to communicate with humans. At first the scientists tried make them 5.______

　　to speak. But no chimp ever managed to acquire a vocabulary of more than four words 6.______

　　and even these were spoken with great difficult. The breakthrough came when two 7.______

　　scientists from the University of Nevada decided to try America Sign Language, 8.______

　　system of gestures used by deaf people. After four years, they had taught their first 9.______

　　chimps to use 132 signs correctly to communicate their wants and needs. 10.______

　　( II )

　　The Finnish sauna (steam bath) is of very important 1.______

　　in the life and is also the culture of this country, which 2.______

　　winters are always dark and where the midsummer sun 3.______

　　never sets. The sauna has stayed same for years. 4.______

　　It has always been central to people's life and once is 5.______

　　even when babies were born!

　　Today the sauna is so popular 6.______

　　as ever, not only in Finland, but also in abroad-wherever Finns 7.______

　　go, they expect a sauna, even they have to build it themselves. 8.______

　　There are a million of saunas in a country of five million people. 9.______

　　There is even a sauna in the Parliament building. 10.______

　　[答案与解析]

　　(I)1.relative→relatives。此处的relatives是apes的同位语，故用复数形式。

　　2.去掉第一个and。one another是固定词组，意为"互相"。

　　3. can→could。此处应该用一般过去时态，使上下文时态一致。

　　4. reach→reaching。动名词作介词宾语。

　　5. tried后加to。try to do sth.表"试图；设法"。

　　6.去掉第一个to。make后面接动词不定式作宾语补足语时，动词不定式符号to应省略。

　　7. difficult→difficulty。此处应该用名词作介词宾语。

　　8. America→American。形容词作定语。

　　9. system前加a。a system作America Sign Language的同位语。

　　10.本行无错。

　　(II)1.去掉of。important是形容词作表语，of多余。

　　2. which→where。where引导定语从句，在从句中作状语。

　　3. and→but。此处表转折关系。

　　4. same前加the。same前常用定冠词the。

　　5. is→was。此处用一般过去时态，表"曾经是"。

　　6. so→as。这里用的是"as...as"句型。

　　7.去掉第二个in。abroad是副词，前面不用介词。

　　8. even后加if。even if引导状语从句。

　　9.去掉第一个of。a million后面直接跟复数名词，of多余。

　　10.本行无错。

　　(文/文玉荣；英语辅导报高三版2003-2004学年第30期；版权归英语辅导报社所有，独家网络合作伙伴新浪教育，未经许可，不得以任何形式进行转载。)