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晒晒英语专业考研10大院校真题之上外题(2)

http://www.sina.com.cn   2008年11月07日 10:34   北京环球时代学校

  II. PROOF-READING & ERROR CORRECTION (20 points)

  The following passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:

  Example

  When ∧ art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an__

  it never buys things in finished form and hangs (2) _never_

  them on the wall. When a natural history

  museum wants an exhibition, it must often (3) exhibit

  build it.

  Not too many decades ago it seemed "obvious" both to the

  general public and to sociologists that modern society has

  changed people's natural relations, loosed their responsibilities(1)_______

  to kins and neighbors, and substituted in their place (2)_______

  for superficial relationships with passing acquaintances.(3)_______

  However, in recent years a growing body of research has

  revealed that the "obvious" is not true. It seems that if you are

  a city resident, you typically know a smaller proportion of your

  neighbors than you if you are a resident of a smaller community. (4) _______

  But, for the most part, this fact has a few significant (5) _______

  consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you know few

  of your neighbors you will know no one else.

  Even in very large cities, people maintain close social ties within

  small, private social, worlds. Indeed, the number and quality of

  meaningful relationships do not differ from more and less (6) _______

  urban people. Small-town residents are more involved with kin

  than do big-city residents. Yet city dwellers compensate by (7) _______

  developing friendships with people who share similar interests

  and activities. Urbanism may produce a different style of life,

  but the quality of life does not differ between town and city. Or (8) _______

  are residents of large communities any likely to display (9) _______

  psychological symptoms of stress or alienation than are

  residents of smaller communities. However, city dwellers do

  worry more about crime, and which leads them to a distrust of (10) ______

  strangers.

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