恩波：2008年12月英语六级预测试卷及解析(一)

　　Part ⅤError Correction(15 minutes)

　　Directions:This part consists of a short passage.In this passage,there are altogether 10 mistakes,one in each numbered line.You may have to change a word,add a word or delete a word.Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided.If you change a word,cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank.If you add a word,put an insertion mark(∧)in the right place and write the missing word in the blank.If you delete a word,cross it out and put a slash(/)in the blank.

　　Conflict is a necessary element in fiction. Indeed, it is

　　the backbone of a story; it is conflict that gives us the sense

　　of a story going somewhere.

　　The conflict in a story must first be obvious importance 62        

　　to the characters involved. We can illustrate this by

　　reference to experience. All of us face constant conflicts our

　　daily lives—whenever we cross a street, for example, or

　　whenever the alarm goes off and we have to get up for a

　　class. Most of our conflicts are easily resolved—we wait for

　　traffic and then cross the street without fear, or we shut off

　　the alarm, get up, and after two cups of coffee forget our

　　pain. Furthermore, we also experience conflicts that are not 63        

　　easily resolved. All of us, for example, are faced almost

　　daily with conflicts which have some kind of a permanent

　　effect to us—which alter our basic values or our conception 64        

　　of human nature. Should we report the fellow student whom

　　we look cheating on an examination? Should we pad (虚报) 65        

　　our accounts for books and supplies in that letter home—

　　particularly since we know that father cheats a little here

　　and there on his income-tax returns? None of us have 66        

　　witnessed teachers or ministers or high public officials

　　preach one thing and practice other. All of us have found 67        

　　ourselves in that most common of all dilemmas—the choice

　　between holding to a set of moral and ethical convictions

　　and violate them in order to be accepted by our group. 68        

　　These are the kinds of conflicts which we find fiction; and 69        

　　because they are of this nature, we call fictional conflicts

　　crisis situations. We mean by this that as a result of a given

　　conflict, the character or characters involving will never 70        

　　again be quite the same people that they are before the 71        

　　incident occurred.