专业英语八级（改错）模拟试卷319
语言知识
Educational philosophy has changed a great deal in the 50
years since I was in school. Back then, for example, I had the
highest grades in school, but many of my teachers went out of their
way to cut me down because I wouldn\’t get conceit. Aside from【M1】______
the debated question of whether that worked, the point is that【M2】______
today, the educational establishment has the opposite philosophy.
They tend to tell all kids they are smart. I have seen elementary
schools that most students are selected as \\
1.【M1】
conceit一conceited
解析：词汇错误。conceit可以作名词或动词，此处应该用其形容词形式conceited，意为“骄傲的，自负的”。
2.【M2】
debated一debatable
解析：词汇错误。debated作形容词，意为“被争论的”，debatable的意思是“有争议的；可争论的”。而此处作者要强调的是这个问题具有争议性，所以用debatable更合适。
3.【M3】
that一where
解析：语法错误。schools后接的是一个定语从句，而在此定语从句中，that既不是作主语，也不是作宾语，而是作状语，表示“在这些学校”，所以应该用表示地点的关系副词where来引导。
4.【M4】
if一whether
解析：词汇错误。引导主语从句一般用whether，而不用if。
5.【M5】
depend一depends
解析：语法错误。depend的主语是whether引导的从句，单个从句作主语时，应该当做单数名词来看，所以谓语动词也应该用单数形式。
6.【M6】
and一but
解析：语篇错误。从上下文的语义来判断。句间的逻辑关系应为转折关系。前面一句说到“最有可能从错误当中学习的学生是那些认为自己并不那么聪明”。后句则说“聪明到足以认识到通过努力可以变得更聪明”，前句的“不那么聪明”和后句的“聪明”形成语义的转折，故应把and改为but。
7.【M7】
system∧一that
解析：语法错误。仔细分析此句的意思，theycan get better if．．应该作a“growth mindset”或者abelief system的同位语，用以说明它们的具体内容，而同位语从句的引导词that是不能省略的。
8.【M8】
(invest)in一去掉in
解析：词汇错误。invest表示“投入(时间，金钱等)”时，通常用在invest time／money／effort(insth．／in doing sth．)结构中，故此处删掉in。
9.【M9】
∧students—the
解析：词汇错误。此处是特指参加实验的学生，所以应加上表示特指的定冠词。
10.【M10】
few一fewer
解析：词汇错误。few意为“很少，几乎没有”，而由此句的better一词，我们可以看出此句是对比实验前后学生的表现，而且从上下文以及客观常识来推断，一次实验并不能让学生不犯错误，所以此处应该用比较级fewer。
In a Bertelsmann Foundation study on social justice released
this fall, the United States came in deadly last among the rich【M1】______
countries, with only Greece, Chile, Mexico and Turkey faring
worse. Whether in poverty prevention, child poverty, income
inequality and health ratings, the United States ranked below【M2】______
countries like Spain and South Korea, not mention Japan,【M3】______
Germany or France.
It was another sign of how badly Americans are hurting their
middle class. Wars, famine and violence have been devastated【M4】______
middle classes before, in Germany and Japan. But when the smoke
cleared and the dust settled, a social structure roughly similar to
what existed before would always resurface.
No nation has ever lost an existing middle class, and the
United States is in danger of that yet. But the percentage of【M5】______
national income holding by the top 1 percent of Americans went【M6】______
from about 10 percent in 1980 to 24 percent in 2007, that is a【M7】______
worrisome signal. So before the United States continues on its
current road of dismantling its version of the welfare state, of
expanding the gap between rich and poor, Americans might do
well glance south. The lesson is that even after a large middle class【M8】______
emerges, yawning inequities between rich and poor severely strain <
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