Question

2014英语专八改错题密集训练及答案解析（45）

Answer 1

　　Today we take for granted that the mail will be delivered__1__ daily at our door. But many years ago it might havebeen placed in a tree trunk and underneath a rock. In the early__2__ days of the mail no one could be sure about where orwhen it will arrive. __3__ At the southern tip of Africa there wasonce a post office under a rock. At the old days the route fromEngland to __4__ India was around the Cape of Good Hope.The journey was　stormy and danger. It took six long months. Sailors often __5__ wished tosend mail home, but they seldom met ships bound　back to England. So at the cape the sailorswould go on ashore. They headed for a certain large stone. On the __6__ stone scratched thewords “Look here under for letters.” __7__ They would leave their letters there, knowing that the　next homeward ship would stop and pick it up. __8__ There was another post office like this atthe southern tip of South America. During the golden rush days, boats __9__ sailed around CapeHorn to California. At Cape Horn was　a keg(小桶) nailed to a post. Boats coming from the eastcoast would send some sailors to this post office. They　picked up any letters in the keg. At thesame time they　mailed letters home that boats sail east could pick up. __10__

　　参考答案及解析:

　　1.take for granted 改为take it for granted. take it for grantedthat: 想当然认为…，在该结构中，it为形式宾语，that引导的从句才是真正宾语。如：Don’t take it for granted that you arebond to win. 别想当然地以为你注定会赢。

　　2.and 改为or,根据句意知，此处应是选择关系，而非并列关系。

　　3.will改为would。根据句中In the early days和could 知此句主句时态为一般过去时，故其宾语从句中的将来时应为过去将来时，用would。

　　4.At改为In。at表时间点，如几时几刻：at five o’clock, at 10∶30表一段时间用in, 如：in twoyears, in a week, in a few days,自然此处the old days 前应用in。

　　5.danger 改为dangerous. 由于本句是系数结构，故应用形容词;况且从修辞上看既然stormy有“风暴的”是形容词，后面and 并列的词性也应是形容词。故应将danger 名词改为其形容词dangerous。

　　6.go on ashore 改为go ashore 或go on shore, ashore 是副词，意为“上岸，在岸上”。此处“上岸”可用go ashore或go on shore来表达。

　　7.scratched 改为were scratched或they scratched。若用were scratched，则此句为倒装句，主语是words,用过去时和被动语态。若用they scratched，则words是宾语，该句缺主语，根据上下文，加上they即可。

　　8.it改为them。句中的pick it up 中“it”指的是主句中的letters。根据单复数一致的原则，应用them指代letters。

　　9.golden改为gold。golden 是形容词，意为“金色的”，“黄金般的”，gold 作名词，意为“黄金”，作形容词，意为“全制的”。故“淘金热”应为“gold rush”。

　　10.sail 改为sailing。根据boats sail east could pick up 中could为谓动词，到sail 应变为现在分词，作定语，修饰boats。若无字数限制，改成boats which sailed east 这样的定语从句也可以。