專八改錯：文學與技術
相信大多數同學都已經迎來了期待已久的寒假，不過英語專業的同學可不能放鬆哦，等下學期一開學，專八考試就近在眼前了，所以不如趁着寒假趕緊多複習複習，多做做題練練手，非英語專業的同學也可以來看看，說不定英語水平能有個大提升呢。
The book is dead. technology has killed it. the libraries of the world are dooming to become museums. (1)____ americans, however, attend to bring an either-or mentality to most things. (2)____ the invention of television led to predictions about the demise of radio. the making of movies was to be the funeral bell of alive theater; recorded music, the end of concerts.(3)____ all these forms still exist-sometimes overshadowed by their siblings, but not smothered by them. and with the direst predictions, reading continues to be part of the life of the mind.(4)____there's no question that reading off-paper, as i think of it, will increase in years to come. (5)____ a library that got 10 as gifts reported that within a half hour they had all checked out. (6)____ and there's no question that once again we will be treated to lamentations suggesting that true literacy has become the lost art. the difference this tune is that we will confront with elitism from both sides. (7)____ not only have literary purists now complain of the evanescent nature of letters onscreen, the tech fanatics have become equally disdainful of the old form.(8)____perhaps we should look past both sides to concern ourselves with function instead of form. i am cheered by the gallup poll in which asks a simple question do you happen to be reading any books or novels at present?(9)____ in 1952 a merely 18 percent of respondents said yes.(10)____ the last tune the survey was done, in 2005, that number was 47 percent. so much for the good old days.
答案：
1．dooming→doomed詞彙錯誤。doom作動詞時，表示“註定，判定”。be doomed to是固定搭配，表示“註定”。
2．attend→tend詞彙錯誤。attend表示“出席；照料；注意”，attend to是固定搭配，表示“注意，專心”。下一句提到“電視機的發明預示着無線電的消亡，電影的製作敲響了歌劇的喪鐘，而錄製的音樂也將終結演唱會。”因此本句不是強調美國人關注某件事，而是強調思維的傾向性，因此用attend的形近詞tend，表示“傾向於”。
3．alive→live詞彙錯誤。alive是形容詞，表示“活着的，有活力的”，不能作前置定語修飾theater，這裏應該用形容詞live，表示“現場的”。
4．with→despite話篇錯誤。本句前半部分說“有着這些可怕的預言”，後半句指出“閱讀一直都是精神生活的一部分”，從語義邏輯來判斷此處表示讓步，由於with也後面是名詞，不能用連詞though，只能用表讓步的介詞despite。
5．years→the詞彙錯誤。本句中to come是不定式短語作後置定語修飾前面的years，表不“在即將到來的幾年裏”，既然有定語對years進行限定，那麼這裏就應該是特指，因此要加上定冠詞the。
6．checked→been語法錯誤。本句說某圖書館獲得了10部電子讀物作爲禮物，這裏的they指代的是前面提到的10 books，這些書在半小時之內全部借出，應該用被動語態，因此在checked out前面加been。
7．with→with 一詞彙錯誤。confront表示“面臨，遭遇”，若要與with搭配則應該用be confronted with的形式，表示“使面臨”，本句話是說“我們從兩方面來看待精英政治”，那麼此處要麼用be confronted with，要麼直接用confront，此題只能用第二種改法，因此刪掉with。
8．have→do語法錯誤。not only放在句首要都分倒裝，如果have作助動詞，那麼本句是現在完成時，complain應該用過去分詞形式，但是本句有一個明顯的時間詞now，表示現在一般性的動作，因此要用一般現在時，助動詞have改成do。
9．in→in 語法錯誤。本句是定語從句修飾先行詞the gallup poll，而定語從句中首先出現了謂語動詞asks，可見缺少的是主語，而不是狀語，因此要有關係代詞that或which替代the gallup poll，本句中which前面的介詞in必須刪掉。
10．merely→mere語法錯誤。merely是副詞表示“僅僅”，此處放在不定冠詞a之後用來修飾名詞性短語18 percent，因此要改爲形容詞mere。
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