专八改错集训营

Whenever you see an old film, even one made as little asten years before, you can’t help being strucked by the __1__ appearance of the women taking part.
Their hair styles and make-up look date; their skirts look either too long or too __2__ short; their general appearance is, in fact, slightly ludicrous.
The men taking part, on other hand, are clearly recognizable. __3__ There is nothing about their appearance to suggest that they belong to an entire different age.
This illusion is created __4__ by changing fashions. Over the years, the great minority of men __5__ have successfully resisted all attempts to make it change their __6__ style of dress.
The same cannot be said for women. Each year, a fewer so-called top designers in Paris and London lay down __7__ on the law and women around the world run to obey.
The __8__ decrees of the designers are unpredictable and dictatorial.
Sometime they decide arbitrarily, that skirts will be short and __9__ waists will be height; hips are in and buttons are out. __10__

参考答案及解析

参考答案及解析:
1. strucked改为struck或者stricken
过去分词形式有误。strike的过去式是struck，过去分词为struck或者stricken。
2. date改为dated或者outdated
3. on other hand 改为 on the other hand
4. entire改为entirely
副词修饰形容词different，并与different一起修饰age。
5. minority改为majority
从上下文以及常识判断，多半男性成功地抵制了改变他们服装款式的企图，即多年来，男性大服装款式跟女性服饰相比没有多大的变化。
6. it改为them
them指代the great majority of men。
7. fewer改为few
此处没有比较的意味。
8.去掉on
lay down为习语，表示“规定(规则，原则，法规等)”。
9. sometime改为 sometimes。
10. height改为high
形容词作be 的表语