2015年英語專八改錯練習題及答案解析(7)

　　下面是2015年英語專八改錯練習題及答案解析(7)，希望考生認真訓練，獲得不錯的復習效果。

　　For the last fifteen or twenty years the fashion in criticism or appreciation of the arts have been to deny the existence of any valid criteria and to make the __1__

　　Words “good” or “bad” irrelevant, immaterial, and inapplicable. There is no such thing, we are told, like a set of standards first acquired through experience and __2__

　　Knowledge and late imposed on the subject under discussion. This has been a __3__

　　Popular approach, for it relieves the critic of the responsibility of judgment and the public by the necessity of knowledge. It pleases those resentful of disciplines, it __4__

　　Flatters the empty-minded by calling him open-minded, it comforts the __5__

　　Confused. Under the banner of democracy and the kind of quality which our forefathers did no mean, it says, in effect, “Who are you to tell us what is good or bad?” This is same cry used so long and so effectively by the producers of mass __6__

　　Media who insist that it is the public, not they, who decide what it wants to hear __7__

　　And to see, and that for a critic to say that this program is bad and that program is good is pure a reflection of personal taste. Nobody recently has expressed this __8__

　　Philosophy most succinctly than Dr. Frank Stanton, the highly intelligent __9__

　　President of CBS television. At a hearing before the Federal Communications Commission, this phrase escaped from him under questioning: “One man’s mediocrity __10__ is another man’s good program”.

　　參考答案及解析:

　　1 將have改為has，該句的主語the fashion是單數。

　　2 將like改為as，such as 是固定搭配。

　　3 將late改為later。later和上文first對應。

　　4 將by改為of或者from。relieve sb of/ from sth是固定搭配, 意思為“減輕某人(的負擔等)”

　　5 將him改為them。因為其先行詞為the empty-minded，而“the+adj/p.p” 表示一類人時，通常表示復數概念。

　　6 在same前加the。the same 表示“唯一，獨一無二”的概念，因此必須加定冠詞。

　　7 將decide改為decides。該句的主語the public 表示的是單數概念，這一點從后面的代詞it可以看得出來。

　　8 將pure改為purely。在這里purely作狀語,修飾謂語動詞，因此應使用副詞。

　　9 將most改為more。more than 搭配，引導出比較狀語從句。

　　10 將from去掉。escape在作“被某人情不自禁地說出來”講時，是及物動詞，而只在作“逃跑”講時，才是不及物動詞。