英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析58
a first pregnancy can be both anxious and exciting__1__
time for a woman. having never given birth
before, the expected mother is usually filled with__2_
worries. she regularly thinks her unborn child has
stopped moving. at another times, she wonders if __3_
her baby will be normal, if it will be deformed and __4_
retarded, and, most frightening to her, if it will be
stillborn. because she hates thinking __5_
these possible misfortunes, she cannot__6_
help it. however, she is usually unable to comfort__7_
herself with her excitement. she constantly wonders how__8_
her child will be like, what color of hair
and eyes it will have, when it will arrive. these __9_
feelings are to be expected of the first-time mother; __10
this is perhaps the most anxious and exciting period
of her life to date.
答案:
1. both后加an
time在此表示一段时期，是可数名词，而anxious以元音开头，所以加an
2. expected改为expectant
the expectant mother为习惯用法，表示the woman who is pregnant
3. another改为other
another后应为单数名词
4. and改为or
用or表示两者任意一种情况
5 because改为although
根据上下文逻辑关系判断，这里应该为让步关系
6.these前加of
think是不及物动词，think of表示”想起，想到”等含义
7. unable改为able
根据上下文可做判断，用将要做妈妈的这种兴奋来安慰自己
8. how改为what
what做be like的表语
9. when前加and
并列从句用and连接
10.the 改为a
表示泛指任意一个