(单词翻译:单击)
改错练习题
If you smoke and you still don’t believe that there’s a definite link
between smoke and troubles, heart disease and lung cancer, 1. _____
and you are certainly deceiving yourself. No one will accuse you 2.___
with hypocrisy. Let us just say that you are suffering from a bad case of 3.______
wishful thinking. This needn’t make you too uncomfortable because you are
in a good company. Whenever the subject of smoking and health is 4.___
raised, the governments of most countries hear no evil, see no evil and
smell no evil. Admittedly, a few governments have not taken timid 5.______
measures. In Britain for instance, cigarette advertising has been banned on
television. The conscience of the nation is appeased, while the population
continues to puff its way to smoky, cancerous death.
You don’t have to look very far to find out that the official reactions 6._____
to medical findings have been so lukewarm. The answer is simple money. 7._______
Tobacco is a wonderful commodity to tax. It’s almost like a tax on
our daily bread. In tax revenue lonely, the government of Britain 8.______
collect enough from smokers to pay for its entirely educational facilities. 9._____
So while the authorities point out ever so discreetly that smoking may,
conceivably, harmful, it doesn’t do to shout too loudly about it. 10.______
参考答案
参考答案及解析:
1.smoke -> smoking
smoke作名词时意为“烟雾”,作动词时意为“吸烟”。此处指吸烟和肺部疾病的关系
故使用smoking。
2.and -> / 或and -> then
and是并列连词,连接两个对称的分句。但此处前面是条件状语从句,不对称,故应该去掉and或将and改为 then,使后面变成主句
3.with -> of
accuse sb of sth 意为“为….而控告或谴责某人”,不能使用介词with
4.a -> /
此处显然不是“在一家好公司”( in a good company)的意思,而是说“有人和你作伴”(in good company)。此处的company意为“陪伴”,抽象名词,前面不用冠祠。
5.not -> /
逻辑错误
6.that -> why
此处的意思是要找到“为什么官方对医学发现应冷淡”。
7.simple -> simply
这里的句意是“答案仅仅是钱”,故使用副词simply。simple的意思是“简单”。
8.lonely -> alone
lonely意为“孤独”的,alone意为“单独,一个”,此处意为“单税收一项”,故用alone
9.collect -> collects
本句的主语是the government of Britain ,是单数,所以谓语collect也要用单数。
10.harmful前加be
本句的conceivably 是插入语,如果不看它的话,就很容易看出这个句子缺少了系动词be。