大學英語四級考試綜合測試專項突破：改錯

　　模擬練習七

　　If one person can be said to have led the world into

　　the age of technological it was Thomas Elva Edison.1.

　　Not only did he invent and perfect many of the technologies

　　vital to the modern world—including the electric light,

　　the motion picture camera and the first sound recordings—

　　he also sets the standard for how research and development2.

　　is done today. Edison�餾 most�瞜nown saying goes: “Genius is3.

　　one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”

　　This belief is his religion: he worked day to night4.

　　for much of his life. At the time he died in 1931,5.

　　he had patented over 1,100 inventions. Some were entirely

　　his own, but many were improvements he made6.

　　to the inventions of others. Edison�餾 career began in New York,

　　in 1869, when he was 22 years old. He arrived in the city with nothing

　　but the shirt on his back. It came out that the old family friends7.

　　he had hoped would help him had move on; consequently,

　　Edison found himself out on the street. He ended up slept8.

　　in the cellar of a company that operated an information service

　　for stockbrokers. In those days, information was been sent9.

　　from place to place using tickertape, and one day the system

　　collapsed. In the chaos that followed, Edison offered to fix the problem

　　and within minutes had the equipment worked again.10.

　　He was immediately given a job.

　　【答案及解析】

　　1.【答案】technological改為technology

　　【解析】本題考查語法規(guī)則。“技術(shù)時代”應為“the age of technology”,介詞“of”之后不能出現(xiàn)形容詞，以此應將形容詞“technological”改為名詞“technology”。

　　2.【答案】sets改為set

　　【解析】本題考查語法規(guī)則。此句前半部分是以“not only”開頭的倒裝句，時態(tài)為一般過去時，句子后半部分的時態(tài)應與之一致，故不用“set”的三人稱單數(shù)形式而用過去式“set”。

　　3.【答案】most�瞜nown改為best�瞜nown

　　【解析】本題考查固定搭配。“最著名的”或“最為人知的”應為“best�瞜nown”而非“most�瞜nown”。

　　4.【答案】to改為and

　　【解析】本題考查固定搭配�！癲ay and night”為固定表達，在句中意為“夜以繼日地工作”或“日夜地工作”。

　　5.【答案】at改為by

　　【解析】本題考查語法規(guī)則及語義理解。下一行出現(xiàn)的“he had patented”為過去完成時，故表示時間時應作“到1931年他去世時”，因此應將表示時間點的介詞“at”改為“by”。

　　6.【答案】made前加had

　　【解析】本題考查語法規(guī)則及語義理解。聯(lián)系句意可知，句子應使用完成時而非一般過去時，所以應在“made”前加“had”構(gòu)成過去完成時。

　　7.【答案】came改為turned

　　【解析】本題考查固定搭配。詞組“turn out”用于表示結(jié)果，文中描述愛迪生希望故交能提供幫助而結(jié)果是他們搬走了，根據(jù)句意應把“came”改為“turned”。

　　8.【答案】slept改為sleeping

　　【解析】本題考查語法規(guī)則及詞匯用法。出現(xiàn)在介詞后的動詞應改為動名詞形式，應此動詞過去式“slept”應改為動名詞“sleeping”。

　　9.【答案】去掉been

　　【解析】本題考查語義理解及語法規(guī)則。本句時態(tài)為一般過去時而非完成時，故不能出現(xiàn)“been”，應去掉“been”,用“was sent”表示一般過去時的被動語態(tài)。

　　10.【答案】worked改為working

　　【解析】本題考查語法規(guī)則。在句中“had”意為“使”或“讓”，它并不是與后文的“work”構(gòu)成完成時。而“work”在句中不充當謂語，所以應考慮非謂語形式;又因“equipment”與“work”之間為主動關(guān)系，故應把“worked”改為“working”。

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