2007年12月英语六级短文改错(七)

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本期重点：名词
名词方面主要考查的是名词的单复数形式（例1、4）。此时要注意的是一些词加s后意思就有可能改变，例如：paper（纸）papers（试卷）、safe（安全的）safes（保险箱）、glass（玻璃）glasses（眼镜）、wood（木材）woods（树林）、work（工作）works（作品）等。还有一些特殊的复合名词也要注意，例如father-in-law 改成复数形式是fathers-in-law。

考点解析：
例1：Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial S2__________
minorities, the paper has put into place policies.
解析：在表达“百分之几”时，只需用基数词加上单数percent即可。
例2：In addition, the paper instituted a content
audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of
representation of woman and people of color in photographs S7._________
解析：不定冠词a(n)或定冠词the加上单数个体名词可以指一类事物，若不用冠词，则名词须为复数。此处woman与people并列作为of 的宾语，由于people是集体名词，单数形式表复数意义，从平衡角度出发，应该将woman改为women。
例3：Words came that the missing boy had been found. 1.__________
解析:word为当可数名词时，意思为“（某人所说的）话”，当其为不可数名词时，意思为“消息”。根据句意，本题中word应改为“消息”的意思，所以应该把Words改为Word。
例4：They spent over a million year evolving as co-operative hunters. S5.__________
解析：year是可数名词，而且前面又有a million 修饰，所以要用复数。

巩固与拓展
1．There are majorities of teachers who have a lot of teaching experiences in my school.
__________
2. In some schools there are special woman teachers teaching girl students. __________
3. According to psychologists, there are three factors accounting for this phenomena. __________
4. There is so much voice outside that I can’t concentrate on my study and thinking. _________
5.Culture is composed of nonmaterial culture abstract creations like values, beliefs,
customs and institutional arrangements - and material culture - physical object like ________
cooking pots, computers and bathtubs.

综合练习
If you smoke and you still don’t believe that there’s a definite link
between smoke and troubles, heart disease and lung cancer, 1. _____
and you are certainly deceiving yourself. No one will accuse you 2.___
with hypocrisy. Let us just say that you are suffering from a bad case of 3.______
wishful thinking. This needn’t make you too uncomfortable because you are
in a good company. Whenever the subject of smoking and health is 4.___
raised, the governments of most countries hear no evil, see no evil and
smell no evil. Admittedly, a few governments have not taken timid 5.______
measures. In Britain for instance, cigarette advertising has been banned on
television. The conscience of the nation is appeased, while the population
continues to puff its way to smoky, cancerous death.
You don’t have to look very far to find out that the official reactions 6._____
to medical findings have been so lukewarm. The answer is simple money. 7._______
Tobacco is a wonderful commodity to tax. It’s almost like a tax on
our daily bread. In tax revenue lonely, the government of Britain 8.______
collect enough from smokers to pay for its entirely educational facilities. 9._____
So while the authorities point out ever so discreetly that smoking may,
conceivably, harmful, it doesn’t do to shout too loudly about it. 10.______