2007英语六级考试综合改错题训练(十六)

十一、易混淆词的使用错误  

英语词汇中有很多词在拼写上、语义上很相似，如 assure/ensure ， rise/arise/raise ， effect/affect ，但是它们的用法却迥然不同。这些易混淆的词构成六级改错的一个重要错误类型，也是比较难的一种类型，这个需要考生在平时的学习过程中注意知识的积累，并多做些总结和归纳，从中找出一些规律。

 

例 1

His persistence was awarded when the car finally started.                   1.__________

 

句中“ award ”是“颁发，授予（奖赏）”之义，而文中要表达的意思是“汽车终于启动了，那就是对他坚持不懈精神的回报”，应把 award 改成 reward 。

 

例 2

Deciding how much discomfort and risk we are prepared

to put up with in the name of better health is a highly

personal matter, not a decision we should remain to doctors              1.__________

alone.

 

“ remain ”意为“保持，仍然”，是一个表示状态的动词，其用法和系动词“ be ”相似，后面所接成分一般是名词或形容词，作表语，而“ leave sth. to sb. ”意思是“把某物留给某人”。本句很明显是“ leave…to… ”的句型，所以应该把 remain 改为 leave 。

 

例 3

Of course the press means more than newspaper. A vast

amount of magazines are published, aimed at readers                        1.__________

interested in all sorts of subjects.

 

因为 amount 表示数量时只与不可数名词连用，而本句中后面所接名词为“ magazines ”，是复数名词，应该使用表示复数形式的 number ，故应该把 amount 改为 number 。

 

例 4

Today, flint has small importance as an industrial product.                  1.__________

 

“ small ”用于表示人或物的体积尺寸，不能修饰抽象名词 importance ，因此应把 small 改为可以修饰不可数抽象名词的 little 。

 

 

 

练习题:

 

1 Industry officials predicted that mobile communications

service will soon be comparative in many respects to the                    1.__________

service provided by telephone that do not move.

 

2 In today’s society, “Smoking effects your health” has                     2.__________

become a warning which is known to almost every house hold.

 

3 For his outstanding achievements in graduate teaching

he is held in big esteem by his students and colleagues.                    3.__________

 

4 Supersonic craft may disturb the upper atmosphere to

such an extent that dangerous radiation from the sun might

reach the earth, with unimaginative effects on life there.                    4.__________

 

5 In the late nineteen century, farm work and life were not                 5.__________

much changed from what they had been in the old days.

 

6 Deciding how much discomfort and risk we are prepared

to put up with in the name o better health is a high personal              6.__________

matter, not a decision we should remain to doctors alone.                  7.__________

 

7 Whenever the subject of smoking and health is risen,                    8.__________

the governments of most countries hears no evil, see no evil

and smell no evil.

 

8 If I were to live my life over again, I would pay more

attention to the cultivation of the memory. I would strengthen

that faculty by every possible mean, and on every possible                9.__________

occasion.

 

9 The government of most countries spending huge sum of

money for international defense.                                                    10.__________

 

 

 

答案解析：

1. comparative→comparable。当仅仅表达“比较的，比较性的”意思，而没有涉及到具体的比较时，应该用第一个词，但是当设计到具体的两者之间的比较时，则应该使用comparable。此句属于第二种情况。

2. effects→affects。“effect”当作为动词使用时，表示“产生，引起，实现”的意思，作为名词时才是“影响，效果”，显然不符合，应该使用affect，意思是“影响”。

3. big→high。

4. unimaginative→unimaginable。该句中所要表达的是“难以想象的”，而unimaginative是“没有想像力的”意思，不符合句意。

5. nineteen→nineteenth。

6. high→highly。

7. remain→leave。

8. risen→raised。

9. mean→means。

10. international→national。表示“国防”的意思时应该使用national defense。