【2017年整理】专八辅导改错题.doc

Ⅰ. It was market day so people and traffic had been pouring into the town from early morning. There was not enough room for all the pedestrians on the pavements and they overflew (1) _________ into the road, endangered their lives from passing (2) _________ vehicles, the drivers which were constantly blowing their (3) _________ horns to persuade people to get out of the way. Yet it was a colorful scene. Peasants swayed along the street, their heads being piled high with baskets or (4) _________ beautifully woven blankets which they hoped to sell to the townsfolks. Men with barrows forced their way along (5) _________ shouting their wares at the top of their voices. They were selling peaches, melons and grapes----the harvest of their fields. Through it all, women in bright summer clothes threaded their way, laughing and chattering but children darted in and out of the crowds shrieking (6) _________ with laughter or sobbing with fear because they lost. (7) _________ Noise went on all the day. People did not even stop for a meal. The rubbish from all the activities of the day were begun to collect in the street. (8) _________ Finally, when night came, the street was emptied and (9) _________ only the rubbish remained sad blowing in the cool night wind. (10) _________ Ⅱ While more people than ever before are learning foreign languages in public and private institutions, there are three striking sources of inefficiency in modern teaching. First, language provides a means of saying and doing (1) _________ things, teaching is generally divorced from the use we make of language. We teach an unapplied