英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析67
a country's latitude, or distance from the equator,
has an important effect on its climate. in places
locating at low latitudes, or near the equator, like__1__
ecuador and northern brazil, the amount of sunshine
changes the most during the years. at mid-latitudes, in __2__
places like japan or argentina, there is less sunshine__3__
in the summer than in winter. the greatest change
occurs at the highest latitudes, in places like northern
canada and alaska. in these places, the nights are very
long for half the year, and the days are long during
other half. at the north or south pole, sunlight lasts __4__
the longest during the winter. but light and heat are __5__
the most intense at the equator.
altitude and distance from the sea also affect climate.
the thin air in the high mountain areas absorb less of the __6__
sun's heat than the thicker air at sea level. the daily
change in temperature also increases with distance
from the sea. snow and rain are not very important to __7__
climate. snow reflects as much as eighty or ninety
percent of the heat from the sun, and making the __8__
weather even colder. but a large forest area can reflect
as little as five percent of the sun's heat. this makes
the weather warmer. of course, the general effects of
climate do not explain everything about the weather.
for example, either the driest places in the world and __9__
the place with the most rainy days are located in chile.
calama, in the atacama desert, has had no rain over__10__
400 years. but during the year 1916, it rained in bahia
felix, chile for 348 days.
答案及解析:
1. locating—located
locate作位于解释时，常常用被动语态
2. most—least
根据上下文及常识，低纬度或赤道地区的日照量变化最小
3. less—more
常识告诉我们，诸如日本，阿根廷等纬度不高不低的国家或地区，夏季的日照要比冬季的日照多得多
4. 在other前加the
是指另外半年。other用于the、my、your、his等之后与一单一名词连用，意义为“两个中的另一个”
5. winter—summer
根据常识或科普知识可得
6. absorb—absorbs
the thin air是动词absorbs的主语
7. 删除not
我们的常识和下文snow reflects as much as eighty or ninety percent of the heat from the sun, and making the weather even colder.能充分说明如果该句中有not一次是彻底错误的。
8. making—makes
makes the weather even colder由and链接reflects as much as eighty or ninety percent of the heat from the sun
9. either—both
首先是下文的and；其次，谓语动词是are located
10. 在over前插入for
for用于表示一段时间，作为时间状语，其修饰的谓语动词常常用完成时。