英語八級改錯練習題及答案

　　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

　　詞組on the basis of 中須用介詞on而不是in。

　　2.to(attending)--in/of

　　不要將objective和objective相混淆，object后需加介詞to，但這里應用in或者of表示“上大學的目標是……”。

　　3.critically--critical

　　thinking在這里已變成名詞，因此前面應該用形容詞critical來修飾，表示“批判性思維”。

　　4.^attributed--been

　　attribute作動詞時是及物動詞，通常的搭配是 to attribute sth to sth，因此這里應使用被動語態，加上been。

　　5.economy--economics

　　economy表示一個國家的“經濟”，而economics才表示“經濟學”，因此這里應使用economics。

　　6.and--while/but

　　and表示順接，而這里缺少的是一個表示對比的連詞，因為歷史系學生和經濟系學生在人數上形成很大對比，所以應改and 為while或者but。

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

　　consist的意思是“包括，由……組成”，一般要與介詞of連用，而comprise或者constitute則表示“組成……”，而且不需要與of連用。

　　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"應是并列結構跟隨介詞with，所以這里應將declared變為declaring，與前面的分句保持形式上的一致。

　　9.marketed--marketable

　　原句的意思是“經濟學的文憑是有市場的，有銷路的”，所以應該是marketable。

　　10.of(high salaries)--/

　　garner后面不需加介詞of，直接說garner sth即可。