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2014英语专八改错题密集训练及答案解析（27）

Answer 1

　　Whether the eyes are "the windows of the soul" is debatable;they are intensely important in interpersonal communication is a__1__ fact. During the first two months of a baby's life, thestimuli that __2__ produces a smile is a pair of eyes. The eyesneed not to be real: a __3__ mask with two dots will produce asmile. Significantly, a real human　face with eyes covered willnot motivate a smile, or will the sight of __4__ only one eyewhen the face is presented on profile. This attraction to __5__ eyes opposed to the nose ormouth continues as the baby matures. __6__ In one study, when American four-year-old wereasked to draw __7__ people, 75 percent of them drew people with mouths, and 99 percent__8__ of them drew people with eyes. In Japan, furthermore, where babies __9__ are carried ontheir mother's back, infants do not acquire as much attachment to eyes like they do in othercultures. As a result, __10__ Japanese adults make little use of the face either to encode or decode　meaning.

　　参考答案及解析:

　　1.^they-that.分句后的分句应有它独立的主谓结构，正像它前面的结构一样。而后半句的谓语是is，表语是fact，主语似乎是缺失的，因此在they前面加上that就构成了主语从句作为这半句的主语。

　　2.stimuli-stimulus.stimuli看似单数实则是stimulus的复数形式，因此应改为stimulus。

　　3.to-/.这里的need作情态动词，因此删去to。

　　4.or-nor.并列的否定，用否定形式nor表示倒装。

　　5.on-in.in profile表示 “侧面，从侧面”。如：The painting shows her in profile。

　　6.^opposed-as.opposed前应使用连词as引导比较分句。

　　7.old-olds.由谓语的复数形式可以看出这里需要用复数形式four-year-olds。

　　8. and-but

　　9.furthermore-however.上一句话指明美国文化中眼睛的重要性，而这一句话似乎指出日本文化中眼睛并不具有同样的重要性，因此两句话的关系是转折而不是递进。

　　10.like-as.句子中有一个as……as比较结构。