专八改错集训营附答案和解析(73)
日期:2014-06-26 10:10

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专八改错集训营

The second most important constituent of the biosphere is liquid water. This can only exist in a very narrow range of temperatures,since water freezes at 0°C and boils at 100°C. This is only a tiny range compared with the low temperatures of some other planets and the hot interior of the earth, let the temperature __1__of the sun.
As we know, life would only be possible on the face of a __2__planet had temperatures somewhere within this range. __3__
The earth’s supply of water probably remains quite fairly constant __4__in quantity. A certain number of hydrogen atoms, which
are one of the main constituents of water, are lost by escaping from the atmosphere to out space, but they are probably just __5__about to be replaced by new water rising away from the depths of the __6__ earth during volcanic action. The total quantity of water is not known, and it is about enough to cover the surface of the globe __7__to a depth of about two and three-quarter kms. Most of it—97% is in the form of the salt waters of the oceans. The rest is fresh, but three quarter of this is in the form of ice at the Poles __8__ and on mountains, and cannot be used by living systems when __9__melted. Of the remaining fraction, which is somewhat fewer __10__than 1%of the whole, there is 10-20 times as much stored as underground water as is actually on the surface. There is also a minor, but extremely important, fraction of the water supply which is present as water vapour in the atmosphere.

参考答案及解析

参考答案及解析:
1.Let ^the 加入alone. Let alone 意为“更不用说”, 表示一种让步关系。
2.face-surface 根据上下文理解,应该指地球的表面。
3.planet^had 加入which或that。这样使得planet后面的句子成为一个定语从句。
4.去掉fairly或quite 意思重复。
5.out改成outer 这里指外层空间。
6.去掉away rise后面不接away。
7.and改成although 短文中这里是让步关系,而不是并列关系。
8.quarter改成quarters 英语表达中,当分子是二以上的数时,分母应为复数。
9.when改成until或者unless 根据上下文,这句话的意思应为:除非(冰雪)融化,否则(地球上的)生命系统就无法利用水。所以when在这里的意思有误。
10.fewer改成less 文中的remaining fraction 仍指水,因此不能用fewer,要用less。

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重点单词
  • fractionn. 分数,小部分,破片
  • volcanicadj. 火山的,猛烈的
  • constantadj. 经常的,不变的 n. 常数,恒量
  • hydrogenn. 氢
  • planetn. 行星
  • extremelyadv. 极其,非常
  • quantityn. 量,数量,大量
  • minoradj. 较小的,较少的,次要的 n. 未成年人,辅修科
  • certainadj. 确定的,必然的,特定的 pron. 某几个,某
  • rangen. 范围,行列,射程,山脉,一系列 v. 排列,归类于