2007年12月英语六级考试短文改错冲刺训练(14)

　　真题演练

　　Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of

　　hunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modern footballer __1__

　　is revealed as a member of a disguised hunting pack. His

　　killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey

　　into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate and he scores a goal, ___2___

　　enjoys the hunter’s triumph of killing his prey. ___3___

　　To understand how this transformation has taken place we

　　must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over a ___4___

　　million year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survival ___5___

　　depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this pressure

　　their whole way of life, even if their bodies, became radicaily ___6___

　　changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers,

　　throwers and prey-killers. They cooperate as skillful male-group ___7___

　　attackers.

　　Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely ___8___

　　long formative period of hunting for food, they became farmers.

　　Their improved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life,

　　were put to a new use—that of penning (把……关在圈中), ___9___

　　controlling and domesticating their prey. The food was there on

　　the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of

　　farming were no longer essential for survival. ___10___

　　参考答案及解析：

　　1. Viewing -> viewed

　　本句的主语the modern footballer也就是view的逻辑主语，两者之间为被动关系。

　　2. inaccurate -> accurate

　　根据上下文，显然inaccurate使句意前后矛盾，若目标不正确，就不可能score a goal。故应该把inaccurate改为accurate。

　　3. enjoys前加he

　　这是由一个条件状语从句引导的复合句。但主句只有谓语动词enjoys，缺少主语，因此要步上主语。根据从句的his aim可推断应该加上主语he。

　　4. up -> / 或 back

　　表示“看，了解一下”时，只能用look at。

　　5. year -> years

　　6. if -> /

　　even if 表示“即使”，后接分句。本句的大意是说压力让人们发生了变化，一是生活方式，二是身体。此处只能用even“甚至”来引导their bodies，表示递进。

　　7. cooperate -> cooperated

　　事情是our ancient ancestors在过去所从事的，所以要用一般过去时。

　　8. when -> after

　　this immensely long formative period of hunting for food是名词短语，when 后面不能接名词及其短语作时间状语，故when使用不当，根据句子的意思应该改为after。

　　9.were -> was

　　本句的主语是 Their improved intelligence，intelligence表示“智力，智能”时是不可数名词，谓语动词要用单数。

　　10. farming -> hunting

　　根据上下文，这里说的是狩猎。

相关推荐：2007年12月英语六级考试阅读冲刺模拟训练(9)

更多信息请访问：考试吧四六级栏目

＞＞＞来四六级论坛看看吧

＞＞＞四六级博客圈，你开博了吗？