大学英语六级模拟题：改错部分20篇（五）

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第九篇： Error Correction (15 minutes)

Some people, in all seriousness, say that
humans will be living in space within the next
hundred or so years. Planet Earth will be crowded,
dirty and lack of resources. A sort of exodus --71.
(移居) of mankind will begin.
Spaceships will be assembled so that they
revolve around the earth. Some may orbit around
Mars. These space stations will be serviced by
space buses. We saw the first space bus launch in --72.
April 1981. This was "Columbia", it made several --73.
orbits around the earth and then returned, landing
on a huge dry lake bed in California. "Columbia"
will be used again. previous spaceships have
been abandoned, only the nose cone being used
to bring the crews back to earth. --74.
Upon established, each space station will --75.
generate its own atmosphere and have its own
agriculture. it will need to rotation to provide --76.
an artificial gravity. people will be forced inwards --77.
from the center by centrifugal（向心的）force.
The moon and Mars could become new sources of
new materials. Driving through space will no --78.
longer need Earth fuel-the energy would come
from the sun. This energy would be converted from --79.
electricity to work magnetic rockets.
That all sounds quiet fantastically but, with --80.
the rapid development of modern technology, who
knows about what the future holds?

答案：
71. sort -- short
72. launch -- launched
73. it -- which
74. crews -- crew
75. Upon --- Once
76. rotation -- rotate
77. inward -- outwards
78. will -- would
79. from -- into
80. fantastically -- fantastic

第十篇： Error Correction (15 minutes)

People often dream of living in a perfect place where no
one would be poor, and everyone would be considerable of --71.
everyone else. Such a place, however, is very good to be true: --72.
such a place is nowhere, and thats what the word "Utopia"
means. It is made up two Greek words meaning "not a place". --73.
The word was first used by Thomas More, a sixteen century --74.
English writer whose book Utopia, published in 1516,
describing a perfect island country. Mores idea for tale came --75.
from Plato. Platos The Republic described what would be a
perfect state. Early legends told a perfect place existing --76.
somewhere in Atlantic. These legends were no longer believed --77.
when the explorations of Americans began, but after Mores
time they became common for writers to imagine there places. --78.
Utopia, if is effected, would not suddenly make everything --79.
perfect because people are of nature imperfect. --80.

答案：
71. considerable → considerate
72. very → too
73. made up → made up of
74. sixteen → sixteenth
75. describing → described
76. told → told of/about
77. Atlantic → the Atlantic
78. they → it
79. is effected → effected 或 it is effected
80. of nature → by nature