英语四级改错精练(5)
than in an other month of the year. 6.__________
Apparent our intellectual seasonal cycles are 7.__________
completely different from our criminal tendencies.
professor Huntington, of the Foundation for the Study
of Cycles, made extensive studies to discover the
seasons when people read serious books, attend scientific
meetings, make the highest scores on examinations,
and to propose the most changes to patents. In all 8.__________
instances, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak
separated by a summer low. On other hand, Professor 9.__________
huntinton's studies indicated that June is the peak
month for suicides and admissions in mental hospitals. 10.__________
June is also a peak month for marriages!
参考答案
1. before → ago
2. surprised → surprising
3. does → do
4. however → moreover
5. being → be
6. an → any
7. apparent → apparently
8. to(1) → /
9. On ∧ other → the
10. in → to
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Personal relationaships are very important. They
are the key of doing business in Arab countries. Try 1.__________
to identify the decision-maker regarding as your 2.__________
product or service immediatelyand get to know him
on a friendly basis. Do your homework. Be prepared to
discuss detial of your product or proposal. Be ready 3.__________
to answer technical questions.
Familiarize yourself to the Moslem and national 4.__________
holidays. Avoid a visit during Ramadan, the Moslem
month of fasting. Most Arab countries have a six-day
workweek from Saturday through Thursday. When matching 5.__________
with the Monday to Friday practice in most Western
countries, it leaves only three and a half workdays
shared.Remember this in planning your appointments.
Moslems do not eat pork. Some are strict about the
religion's prohibition for alcoholic beverages. If you 6.__________
are not sure, wait your host to suggest the proper 7.__________
thing to drink.
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Only a generation ago, Mauritania's capital city was
many day's walk from the Sahara. Today it is in the Sahara. 1.__________
The sand blows through the city streets and piles up in 2.__________
walls and fences. The desert stretches out as far as the
eye can see.
In some parts of the Amazon rain forest in brazil, all
the trees have cut down. The earth lies bare and dry in the 3.__________
hot sun. Nothing grow there anymore. 4.__________
Over vast areas of every continent, the rainfall and
vegetation necessary for life is disappearing. Already 5.__________
more than 40 percent of the earth's land is desert and 6.__________
desert-like. About 628 million people--one out of seven--
live in these dry regions. In the past, they have managed to
survive, but in difficulty. Now, largely through problems 7.__________
caused by modern life, our existence is threatened by the 8.__________
slow, steady spread of the earth's deserts.
Many countries first became concerned in 1970s after 9.__________
a terrible drought and famine destroyed Africa's Sahel,
the fragile desert along the south edge of the Sahara.
Thousands of people died even though there was a worldwide
effort to send food and medicine to the starved people. 10.__________
参考答案
1. day's → days'
2. in → against
3. have ∧ cut → been
4. grow → grows
5. is → are
6. and → or
7. in → with
8. our → their
9. in ∧ 1970s → the
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The first man known to use a signal other than a
bonfire used a chandelier. He was lord of a castle that
stood near a rocky seacoast. He hang the chandelier, 1.__________
containing many large tallow candles, in the highest
tower of his castle. Thus he warned passing ship from 2.__________
the danger along the coast.
Candles soon became the common fuel for signal
lights. They were later replaced by oil lamps, that 3.__________
could burn larger and brighter. Kerosene and gas lamps 4.__________
also tried. These are still in use now in some smaller
lighthouses. But today most lighthouses sent electric 5.__________
light blazing out over the sea.
The ancient fire signals only say "Danger! Keep off!".
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