1995-2015年历年英语专业八级改错真题(窄页边距).docx

1995-2015年历年英语专业八级改错真题(窄页边距)
1995-2015年英语专业八级短文改错真题解析及参考答案

2015年3月21日专业八级考试改错
When I was in my early teens, I was taken to a spectacular show
on ice by the mother of a friend. Looked round a the luxury of the 1. ______
rink, my friend’s mother remarked on the “plush” seats we had been
given. I did not know what she meant, and being proud of my 2. ______
vocabulary, I tried to infer its meaning from the context. “Plush”
was clearly intended as a complimentary, a positive evaluation; that 3. ______
much I could tell it from the tone of voice and the context. So I 4. ______
started to use the word. Yes, I replied, they certainly are plush, and
so are the ice rink and the costumes of the skaters, aren’t they? My
friend’s mother was very polite to correct me, but I could tell from her 5. ______
expression that I had not got the word quite right.
Often we can indeed infer from the context what a word roughly
means, and that is in fact the way which we usually acquire both 6. ______
new words and new meanings for familiar words, specially in our 7. ______
own first language. But sometimes we need to ask, as I should have
asked for Plush, and this is particularly true in the 8. ______
aspect of a foreign language. If you are continually surrounded by 9. ______
speakers of the language you are learning, you can ask them directly,
but often this opportunity does not exist for the learner of English.
So dictionaries have been developed to mend the gap. 10. ______






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acquisition of an additional language?
What socio-cultural factors, if any, are relevant in studying the
learning of additional languages?
From a check of the literature of the fi