英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析30
three passions have governed my life: the longing
for love, the search into knowledge, and the unbearable __1__
pity for the suffering of mankind.
i have sought of love, first, because it brings
ecstasy--ecstasy so great because i would often have __2__
sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this
joy. i have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--
that terrible loneliness which one shivering consciousness __3__
looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable
lifeless abyss. i have sought it, then, because in the __4__
union of love i have seen, in a mystic miniature, the
prefiguring vision of the heaven where saints and poets __5__
have imagined. this is what i sought, and though it might
seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--i have
found.
with equal passionate i have sought knowledge. i have wished __6__
to understand the hearts of men. i have wished to know why
the stars shine...a little this, but not much, i have achieved. __7__
love and knowledge, so far as they were possible,
led upward toward the heavens. but it always pity brought __8__
me back to earth. echoes of cries of pain reverberate in
my heart. children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors,
helpless old people--a hated burden to their sons, and the whole
world of loneliness, poverty and pain make a mock of what __9__
human life should be. i long to alleviate the evil, but i cannot,
and i too suffer. this has been my life. i have found it
worth of living, and would gladly live it again if the chance __10__
were offered me.
答案及解析:
1.into-for
search into意思是“调查”，这里要表示“寻找”，应该用词组search for。
2.because-that
原句意思是：我追寻过爱，首先是因为他带来狂喜——莫大的狂喜，我常会为了几个小时的这种喜悦吧我的余生都牺牲掉。“so...that”句型表示因果关系。
3.^which-in
这句的意思是：我追寻过爱，再者是因为它能排遣寂寞——陷入那种可怕的寂寞，一颗颤抖的心灵在世界的边缘之上俯瞰冰冷，深不见底、毫无生息的深渊。which做关系代词引导从句修饰loneliness，同时定语从句本身主谓语结构完整，因此应在which前面加上in，表示“在这种寂寞中”，做状语。
4.then-finally/lastly
前文已经出现了表示列举的first、next，此句之后也没有再列举其他理由，所以此处应该表示列举最后一条原因，应为finally或者lastly。
5.where-that/which
此处heaven是先行词，后边的定语从句只缺少宾语，不能用关系副词where，应该用关系代词that或者which。
6.passionate-passion
with是介词，后面应跟名词，而passionate是形容词，故改为passion。
7.^this-of
此处a little是名词词组，后面不能直接跟代词，所以加上of。
8.(but)it--/
此句意思是：爱和知识，在可能的情况下，引人向上通往天堂。然而，怜悯却总是把我带回尘世，可见but一句的主语是pity，因此it是多余的，应删除。
9.mock-mockery
此处是固定词组： make a mockery of 的使用，意为嘲笑。
10.(worth)of--/
加动名词表示值得做某事，因此应去掉of。