英语八级改错练习题及答案

　　Many students today display a disturbing willingness to choose

　　academic institutions, fields of study and careers in the basis of __1__

　　earning potential. In an extensive 1989 survey of college students

　　nationwide, 72 percent of students reported that their primary

　　objective to attending college was to make more money upon graduation. __2__

　　This state of mind came with the present generation. Studies show

　　that the majority of baby boomers attended college to develop

　　themselves, their critically thinking skills and their personal __3__

　　philosophies of life.

　　Nationaly, the number of students going into business-related fields

　　has sharply increased, and this rise has attributed primarily to __4__

　　the shift in educational and career priorities. At Duke, economy is __5__

　　now the most popular major, attracting nearly 15 percent of the under-

　　graduates, and history majors comprise only 5 percent of undergraduate __6__

　　population. Thirty years ago the situation was reversed, with economic

　　and business administration majors together consisting 8.7 percent of __7__

　　undergraduates and almost 12 percent of undergraduates declared __8__

　　themselves history majors. The number of English majors has also decreased,

　　from 9 percent in 1969 to 5.5 percent today.

　　Degrees in economics are marketed and likely to garner their holders __9__

　　of high salaries without the added effort of medical or law school. __10__

　　And given the objectives of current college students, such options

　　are attractive.

　　答案及解析:

　　1.in--on

　　词组on the basis of 中须用介词on而不是in。

　　2.to(attending)--in/of

　　不要将objective和objective相混淆，object后需加介词to，但这里应用in或者of表示“上大学的目标是……”。

　　3.critically--critical

　　thinking在这里已变成名词，因此前面应该用形容词critical来修饰，表示“批判性思维”。

　　4.^attributed--been

　　attribute作动词时是及物动词，通常的搭配是 to attribute sth to sth，因此这里应使用被动语态，加上been。

　　5.economy--economics

　　economy表示一个国家的“经济”，而economics才表示“经济学”，因此这里应使用economics。

　　6.and--while/but

　　and表示顺接，而这里缺少的是一个表示对比的连词，因为历史系学生和经济系学生在人数上形成很大对比，所以应改and 为while或者but。

　　7.consisting--comprising/constituting或者 consisting^--of

　　consist的意思是“包括，由……组成”，一般要与介词of连用，而comprise或者constitute则表示“组成……”，而且不需要与of连用。

　　8.declared--declaring

　　“almost 12 percent of undergraduates declared themselves history majors”和“economic and business administration majors together consisting 8.7 percent of undergraduates"应是并列结构跟随介词with，所以这里应将declared变为declaring，与前面的分句保持形式上的一致。

　　9.marketed--marketable

　　原句的意思是“经济学的文凭是有市场的，有销路的”，所以应该是marketable。

　　10.of(high salaries)--/

　　garner后面不需加介词of，直接说garner sth即可。