s should be tolerated in public places for its unique role which Mandarian can not replace. We should guartee its existance because dialects stand for our culture. From a long-term perspective, dialects should not and would not be prohibited. There is no need for any purposeful and deliberate attempt to protect dialects. Just let dialects take their natural course.
09專八改錯(cuò)題目 Proofreading & Error Correction:
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The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes
from one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference (1)_____
between shcool lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learnt
in early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener (2)_____
has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. (3)_____
The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting
It may be something from twenty to seventy years. With the playground (4)_____
lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on whtin the very hour (5)_____
it is learnt; and in the general, it passes between children of the (6)_____
same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in age
between playmates to be more than five years. If therefore, a playground
rhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or (7)_____
even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitting over
and over; very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three (8)_____
hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live (9)_____
after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the (10)____
original wording.
09專八改錯(cuò)參考答案,僅供參考,歡迎指正。
(1)illustrated,承接has shown and illustrated...
版本二:the改為a
(2) the little listener改為a little listener,因?yàn)槭遣淮_指
版本二:when改為until
(3)their改為his以于上文匹配
(4)something 改為somewhere,前者少指時(shí)間之長短
版本二:something改為anything
(5)therefore顯然應(yīng)為however
(6) in the general去掉the
(7) currently 改為current
(8) it has passed along 改為 it has been passed
版本二:over and over 后面加again
(9) live 改為 alive
(10) to let alone去掉to 改為 let alone