英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(七)

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Whenever you see an old film, even one made as little as
ten years before, you can’t help being strucked by the __1__
appearance of the women taking part. Their hair styles and
make-up look date. their skirts look either too long or too __2__
short. their general appearance is, in fact, slightly ludicrous.
The men taking part, on other hand, are clearly recognizable. __3__
There is nothing about their appearance to suggest that
they belong to an entire different age. This illusion is created __4__
by changing fashions. Over the years, the great minority of men __5__
have successfully resisted all attempts to make it change their __6__
style of dress. The same cannot be said for women. Each year,
a fewer so-called top designers in Paris and London lay down __7__
on the law and women around the world run to obey. The __8__
decrees of the designers are unpredictable and dictatorial.
Sometime they decide arbitrarily, that skirts will be short and __9__
waists will be height. hips are in and buttons are out. __10__

参考答案及解析:

1. strucked改为struck或者stricken
过去分词形式有误。strike的过去式是struck，过去分词为struck或者stricken。

2. date改为dated或者outdated

3. on other hand 改为 on the other hand

4. entire改为entirely
副词修饰形容词different，并与different一起修饰age。

5. minority改为majority
从上下文以及常识判断，多半男性成功地抵制了改变他们服装款式的企图，即多年来，男性大服装款式跟女性服饰相比没有多大的变化。

6. it改为them
them指代the great majority of men。

7. fewer改为few
此处没有比较的意味。

8.去掉on
lay down为习语，表示“规定(规则，原则，法规等)”。

9. sometime改为 sometimes。

10. height改为high
形容词作be 的表语。