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2012年英语专八改错突击练习（31）

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　　The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for
　　the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough
　　and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical __1__
　　words have “less meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them __2__
　　“empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. But this is a rather __3__
　　misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like the is not the name __4__
　　of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a __5__
　　sharp difference in meaning between “man is vile” and “the man is vile”, yet the
　　is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. Moreover, grammatical words __6__
　　differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have even in __7__
　　the lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “little words.”
　　But size is by no mean a good criterion for distinguishing the grammatical words.” __8__
　　of English, when we consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. __9__
　　Apart from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people say:
　　we certainly do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is __10__
　　illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams
　　and newspaper headlines.
　　参考答案及解析:
　　1 删掉the
　　此处的most并不表示obvious的最高级，而是用作副词修饰obvious，表示程度很高，因此前面不能加the。 2 将but改为and
　　根据文章的意思，这里要用并列关系的and。 3 将in改为to
　　as apposed to 是固定搭配，意思是“与……相比”。 4 将misled改为misleading 5删掉away
　　此处考查固定用法。 far from being...意思为“远非”“远远不怎么样”，符合这里的意思。而far away from 表示离某处很远。 6 将single改为only或者sole
　　这里要表达“唯一的”。 7 在as后面加to或者将as 改为in
　　联系上下文，此处的意思是“grammatical words 本身在某某方面也有相当的差异，”as to 有“关于”或者“在某某方面的意思”；将as改为in，用differ from something in…也可表达这个意思。 8 将mean改为means 9 将as改为like，或者在as前面加such 10 将number改为deal或者amount
　　obscurity是不可数名词，不能用a number of 来修饰

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