英语六级历年短文改错真题

2000年1月大学英语六级短文改错

PartIV         Error Correction     (15 minutes)
　　Until the very latest moment of his existence, man has
been bound to the planet on which he originated and
developed. Now he had the capability to leave that planet       71.________
and move out into the universe to those worlds which he has
known previously only directly. Men have explored parts of       72.________
the moon, put spaceships in orbit around another planet and
possibly within the decade will land into another planet and     73.________
explore it. Can we be too bold as to suggest that we may be   74.________
able to colonize other planet within the not - too - distant        75.________
future ? Some have advocated such a procedure as a solution
to the population problem. ship the excess people off to the
moon. But we must keep in head the billions of dollars we        76.________
might spend in carrying out the project. To maintain the
earth's population at its present level. we would have to
blast off into space 7,500 people every hour of every day of the year.

　　Why are we spending so little money on space                    77.________
exploration ? Consider the great need for improving many        78.________
aspects of the global environment, one is surely justified in
his concern for the money and resources that they are poured 79.________
into the space exploration efforts. But perhaps we should
look at both sides of the coin before arriving hasty                    80.________
conclusions.

2000年1月大学英语六级短文改错参考答案
Part IV　 Error Correction
71. had----->has
72. directly----->indirectly
73. into----->onto/on
74. too----->so
75. planet---->planets
76. head----->mind
77. little----->much
78. consider----->considering
79.　删 they
80. arriving----->arriving at (或 reaching)

2000年6月大学英语六级短文改错

Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes)

   When you start talking about good and bad manners you
immediately start meeting difficulties. Many people just cannot
agree what they mean. We asked a lady, who replied that she
thought you could tell a well-mannered person on the way they 71._______
occupied the space around them—for example, when such a
person walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of 72._______
others. Such people never bump into other people.
   However, a second person thought that this was more a
question of civilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this 73._______
other person told us a story, it he said was quite well known, 74._______
about an American who had been invited to an Arab meal at 75._______
one of the countries of the Middle East. The American hasn't 76._______
been told very much about the kind of food he might expect.If
he had known about American food, he might have behaved 77._______
better.
   Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread that
looked, to him, very much as a napkin (餐巾） Picking it 78._______
up, he put it into his collar, so that it falls across his shirt. 79._______
His Arab host, who had been watching, said of nothing, but 80._______
immediately copied the action of his guest.
   And that, said this second person, was a fine example of
good manners.

2000年6月大学英语六级短文改错参考答案
71、on→by
72、unaware→aware
73、as→than
74、it→which
75、at→in
76、hasn't→hadn't
77、American→Arab
78、as→like
79、falls→fell
80、of→删

2001年6月英语六级短文改错真题

Part IV Error Correction

Example:

More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of any
other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably
been the case in quite a while. During the early stages of		71. _____
the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh		72. _____
deaths in Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the		73. _____
disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the		74. _____
global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. With
occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and
infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily		75. _____
through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, the
introduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened the
trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed
to be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers		76. ______
declared victory and withdrew.
They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of		77. ______
infections and deaths started to pick up again around the
world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in		78. ______
many places where it had never been away, it grew better.		79. ______
The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7
billion people (a third of the earth’s population) suffer
from tuberculosis. Even the infection rate was
falling, population growth kept the number of clinical
cases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around		80. ______
3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor
countries. 2001年6月大学英语六级短文改错参考答案 71. in： for 72. seventh：seven 73. were：was 74. now： then 75. the： / 76. imported：exported 77. are：were 78. vanished：had ~ 79. better：worse 80. constantly：constant

2002年1月英语六级短文改错真题

Part IV　　　　　　　　　Error Correction　　　　　　　　(15 minutes)
Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mis-
takes, 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, lf you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.

Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of
hunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modern S1.________
footballer 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 S2.________
scores a goal, enjoys the hunter's triumph of killing his prey. S3._________
To understand how this transformation has taken place we
must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over a S4.________
million year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survival S5.________
depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this pressure
their whole way of life, even if their bodies, became radically S6.________
changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers,
throwers and prey-killers. They co-operate as skillful male-group S7.________
attackers.

Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely S8.________
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 ), S9.________
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. S10.________

2002年1月大学英语六级短文改错参考答案
S1Viewing应改为Viewed

S2 inaccurate应改为accurate

S3. 在enjoys前加主语he

S4 look up at应该用look at

S5 year应改为years

S6 even if应该用even

S7 and应改为or

S8 when应该改为after。

S9 were应该改为 was。

S10 farming 应该改为hunting。

2002年6月英语六级短文改错真题

Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes)

A great many cities are experiencing difficulties
which are nothing new in the history of cities, except
in their scale. Some cities have lost their original
purpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich 　　S1___
city is going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, 　　　　　　S2___
filling with hopes of prosperity which are then often
disappointing. There are backward towns on the edge of 　　　　S3___
Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of
seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century 　　　　S4___
Paris. This is new is the scale.

Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor　　 S5___
of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found 　　S6___
there, are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today -
the poor can still be numbered in millions.

The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but
behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a promised land, 　　S7___
that attracts immigrants from rural poverty and brings it flooding 　　S8___
into city centers, and the myth of the country as a Garden of Eden,　 S9__
which, a few generations late, sends them flooding out again to 　　S10___
the suburbs.

2002年6月大学英语六级短文改错参考答案
S1. new  a new
S2. filling  filled
S3. though  if
S4. This  What
S5. was  were

S6. dissimilar  similar
S7. lies  lie
S8. that  which
S9. it  them
S10. late  later

2003年6月英语六级短文改错真题

Part IV Error Correction (15 minute)

The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that
has recognized the need for change and done something about
it. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversity
of the communities to which they provide information.

It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk S1.____________
losing their readers' interest and their advertisers' support.
Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial S2. ___________
minorities, the paper has put into place policies an
d procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The S3. __________
underlying reason for the change is that for information to be
fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the S4. ____________
same kind of population that reads it.

A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and
photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times’ S5. ____________
content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about
diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content S6. ____________
audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of
representation of woman and people of color in photographs. S7. _____________
Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too
infrequently and were pictured with a disproportion
ate number of negative articles. The audit results from S8. _____________
improvement in the frequency of majority representation and S9. _____________
their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a S10. ____________
result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.
The diversity training and content audits helped the Seattle
Times Company to win the Personnel Journal Optimal Award
for excellence in managing change.

2003年6月大学英语六级短文改错参考答案
S1. it ：they
S2. percents：percent
S3. maintain：maintaining
S4. subjective ：objective

S5. value ：evaluate

S6. an ： /

S7. woman ：women
S8. from ：in

S9. majority：minority
S10. with：as

2003年9月英语六级短文改错真题

Part ⅣError Correction(15 minutes)

 "Home, sweet home" is a phrase that expresses an
essential attitude in the United States. Whether the reality
of life in the family house is sweet or no sweet. the     S1.________
cherished ideal of home has great importance for many
people.

 This ideal is a vital part of the American dream. This
dream, dramatized in the history of nineteenth-century
European settlers of the American West, was in find
a piece of place, build a house for one's family, and           S2.________
started a farm. These small households were portraits of  S3.________
independence: the entire family -- mother, father, children.
even grandparents -- live in a small house and working     S4.________
together to support each other. Anyone understood the life S5.________
and death importance of family cooperation and hard work.
Although most people in the United States no longer
live on farms, but ~he ideal of home ownership is just as      S6.________
strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.

When U.S, soldiers came home before World War II. for        S7.________
example, they dreamed of buying houses and starting
families. But there was a tremendous boom in home    S8.________
building. The new houses, typically it the suburbs, were
often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied            S9.________
a deep need. Many regarded the single-family
house the basis of their way of life.            S10.________

2003年9月大学英语六级短文改错参考答案
1. no：not
2. place：land
3. started：start
4. working：work
5. anyone：everyone
6. but：(去掉)
7. before： after
8. But： And
9. it ：they
10. 在house后增加as

2004年1月英语六级短文改错真题

Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions: This part consists of a short passage, hz this passage, there are altogether IO mis-takes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change ti word. add a word ordelete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided.lf 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, lf you delete a word, cross Rout and put a slash (/) in tile blank.

Thomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principle
of Population" almost 200 years ago. Ever since then,
forecasters have being warning that worldwide famine was S1_____
just around the next corner. The fast-growing population's
demand for food, they warned, would soon exceed their S2_____
supply, leading to widespread food shortages and starvation.
But in reality, the world's total grain harvest has risen
steadily over the years. Except for relative isolated trouble S3_____
spots like present-day Somalia, and occasional years of
good harvests, the world's food crisis has remained just S4_____
around the corner. Most experts believe this can continue
even as if the population doubles by the mid-21st century, S5_____
although feeding I0 billion people will not be easy for
politics, economic and environmental reasons. Optimists S6_____
point to concrete examples of continued improvements
in yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, more S7_____
fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more than
double corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere, S8_____
rice experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few S9_____
stems and more seeds. There is no guarantee that plant
breeders can continue to develop new, higher-yielding
crop, but most researchers see their success to date as reason S10_____
for hope.

2004年1月大学英语六级短文改错参考答案
S1. being > been
S2. their > its
S3. relative > relatively
S4. good > poor / bad / scanty
S5. as > /
S6. politics > political
S7. by > for
S8. double > doubled
S9. few > fewer
S10. reason >a reason

2004年6月英语六级短文改错真题

Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes)

Culture refers to the social heritage of a people - the learned
patterns for thinking, feeling and acting that characterize a
population or society, include the expression of these patters in S1. -----------------
material things. Culture is compose of nonmaterial culture - S2. ----------------
abstract creations like values, beliefs, customs and institutional
arrangements - and material culture - physical object like S3.----------------
cooking pots, computers and bathtubs. In sum, culture reflects

both the ideas we share or everything we make. In ordinary S4. ---------------
speech, a person of culture is the individual can speak another S5. -----------------
language - the person who is unfamiliar with the arts, music, S6. --------------
literature, philosophy, or history. But to sociologists, to be
human is to be cultured, because of culture is the common world S7. -----------------
of experience we share with other members of our group.

Culture is essentially to our humanness. It provides a kind S8.---------------
of map for relating to others. Consider how you feel your way
about social life. How do you know how to act in a classroom,

or a department store, or toward a person who smiles or laugh S9. -----------
at you? Your culture supplies you by broad, standardized, S10. ------------------
ready-made answers for dealing with each of these situations.
Therefore, if we know a person's culture, we can understand
and even predict a good deal of his behavior.

2004年6月大学英语六级短文改错及参考答案
1. include：including
2. compose： composed
3. object：objects
4. or：and
5. individual 后+ who
6. unfamiliar： familiar
7. of去掉
8. essentially ： essential
9. laugh ： laughs
10. by -： with

2005年1月英语六级短文改错真题

Part IV Error 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, lf 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.

　　The World Health Organization (WHO) says its ten-year
campaign to remove leprosy ( 麻风病) as a world health
problem has been successful. Doctor Brundtland, head of the
WHO, says a number of leprosy cases around the world has         S1. ______
been cut of ninety percent during the past ten years. She says      S2. _____
efforts are continuing to complete end the disease.                  S3.________

　　Leprosy is caused by bacteria spread through liquid from
the nose and mouth. The disease mainly effects the skin and       S4. ______
nerves. However, if leprosy is not treated it can cause permanent
damage for the skin, nerves, eyes, arms or legs.                    S5. __________

　　In 1999, an international campaign began to end leprosy.
The WHO, governments of countries most affected by the
disease, and several other groups are part of the campaign.
This alliance guarantees that all leprosy patients, even they      S6._______
are poor, have a right to the most modern treatment.

　　Doctor Brundtland says leprosy is no longer a disease
that requires life-long treatments by medical experts. Instead,
patients can take that is called a multi-drug therapy. This         S7. __________
modern treatment will cure leprosy in 6 to 12 months,
depend on the form of the disease. The treatment combines         S8. __________
several drugs taken daily or once a month. The WHO has
given multi-drug therapy to patients freely for the last five                S9. _____
years. The members of the alliance against leprosy plan to
target the countries which still threatened by leprosy. Among         S10.______
the estimated 600,000 victims around the world, the WHO
believes about 70% are in India. The disease also remains a
problem in Africa and South America.

2005年1月大学英语六级短文改错答案
S1. a ：the
S2. of ： by
S3. complete ： completely
S4. effects： affects
S5. for ： to
S6. even ：even if/even though
S7. that ： what
S8. depend ： depending
S9. freely ： free
S10. which ： which are

2005年12月英语六级短文改错真题

Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes)

Every week hundreds of CVs(简历) land on our desks.
We’ve seen it all: CVs printed on pink paper, CVs that are 10
pages long and CVs with silly mistakes in first paragraph. A S1 _______
good CV is your passport to an interview and ,ultimate , to S2_________
the job you want Initial impressions are vital, and a badly presented CV
could mean acceptance, regardless of what’s in it. S3__________
Here are a few ways to avoid end up on the reject pile. S4______
Print your CV on good-quality white paper.

CVs with flowery backgrounds or pink paper will
stand out upon all the wrong reasons S5_________
Get someone to check for spelling and grammatical
errors, because a spell-checker will pick up every S6_________
mistake. CVs with errors will be rejected-it shows
that you don’t pay attention to detail.

Restrict your self to one or two pages, and
listing any publications or referees on a separate sheet. S7_________
If you are sending your CV electronically, check the
formatting by sending it to yourself first. keep up S8___________
the format simple.

Do not send a photo unless specifically requested. If
you have to send on ,make sure it is one taking in a S9_____________
professional setting, rather than a holiday snap.

Getting the presentation right is just the first step. What
about the content? The Rule here is to keep it factual and
Truthful-exaggerations usually get find out. And remember S10_____
to tailor your CV to each different job.

2005年12月24日英语六级考试短文改错答案
S1. in first ：in the first
S2．ultimate：ultimately
S3. acceptance ：unacceptance
S4.avoid end ： ending
S5.stand out ：upon
S6.pick up： pick out
S7.listing：list
S8.keep up：keep
S9.taking ：taken


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