99年英语专业八级考试全真试卷
Part Ⅱ Proofreading and Error Correction (15 min)The following passage contains TEN errors. Each 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.? For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and wri te the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.? For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.? For an unnecessary word cross out the unnecessary word with a slash “/’ and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.
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 build it. (3) exhibit?
?
The hunter-gatherer tribes that today live as our prehistoric 1.___?
human ancestors consume primarily a vegetable diet supplementing 2.___?
with animal foods. An analysis of 58 societies of modem hunter-?
gatherers, including the Kung of southern Africa, revealed that one ?
half emphasize gathering plant foods, one-third concentrate on fishing?
and only
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