Question

几道BEC中级改错题，求解析

我的改错非常不好，根本原因是语法不好，每次改错的12题，我得错一半。。。。。。。哎 我也不知道该怎么办，从上中学开始，英语课都没听过，到高三的时候才开始猛背单词。。。语法真的是一塌糊涂。。。。
关于这篇改错，我还有几个地方不懂，希望大家可以解答，这些问题估计在别人看来都是再简单不过了吧。。。真是有点不好意思了

The Myth of the Paperless Office

0 The concept of a paperless office grew with the advance of technology. It was

00 widely been claimed that as email became commonplace, people would stop

34 writing memos, keeping bulky files and bringing piles of paper to the meetings.

35 But the reality has in fact been quite the reverse, and paper, having already

36 survived five thousand years of technological change, and has proved remarkably

37 resilient. Worldwide, the amount of paper used for each year continues to

38 rise up, although statistics now show a slight reduction in the amount

39 it consumed in the UK. So, has technology failed in its aim to end the use of

40 paper? Max Bray, a business lecturer, thinks office workers still distrust computers.

41 ‘Technology is unreliable in most of people's eyes,’ he says. 'If you are sent an

42 important email, you are likely to print it, because there is always the

43 fear that it might have get deleted.’ In contrast, Paul Blunt, a marketing

44 manager for desktop products, who says there has been significant progress in

45 automating a wide range of tasks, even though the transition between has been more of an evolution than a revolution.

正确答案我有 可我还有几个地方不明白
35.我觉得应该把having already该成have already。。。。可正确答案是这行没有错误。。。
37.为什么要把for去掉？used for each year,我觉得也说得通啊
41.if you are sent an .......这句子怎么解释？被动语态？如果是被动语态怎么翻译呐？难道是“如果你被发送了重要的邮件？、
谢谢了

Answer 1

35. having already 是现在分词短语在句中做时间状语 after the paper has already survived five thousand years of technological change, 可以变成这么个介词短语引导的时间状语从句, 只是这样句子就不够简练了
37. 下面一个是过去分词作定语的用法 used each year 每年使用的纸张量 持续增长
be used for 是被用来做... for 后面跟名词 这里用used 只是表示纸张和用这个动作之间是被动的关系 纸张是被使用 而不是自己使用自己 比如说 Most of the people invited to the party were famous scientists. 原句可以变成定语从句 the amount of paper, which is used for each year , continues to raise up
41. If you are sent an important email, you are likely to print it, because there is always the fear that it might have get deleted.’如果有人给你发了封很重要的邮件, 你很可能会把邮件打印出来,因为总是会担心这个邮件会被误删. 这里用you are sent an important email 指的是别人发送给你 而不是你发送 是指你收到了一封重要的邮件 那么you 和send 之间是被动的 所以用被动语态了

Answer 2

35 要跟36 连起来看
paper（对paper的描述）has proved remarkably resilient。

the amount of paper 是use的宾语，each year是副词短语， for 在这里没有成分可充当，如果for表示每年以来，应该是for years。

send sb sth=send sth to sb 在被动态里倾向于用前者。