专八改错：文学与技术

The book is dead. technology has killed it. the libraries of the world are dooming to become museums. (1)____ americans, however, attend to bring an either-or mentality to most things. (2)____ the invention of television led to predictions about the demise of radio. the making of movies was to be the funeral bell of alive theater; recorded music, the end of concerts.(3)____ all these forms still exist-sometimes overshadowed by their  siblings, but not smothered by them. and with the direst predictions, reading continues to be part of the life of the mind.(4)____there's no question that reading off-paper, as i think of it, will increase in years to come. (5)____ a library that got 10 as gifts reported that within a half hour they had all checked out. (6)____ and there's no question that once again we will be treated to lamentations suggesting that true literacy has become the lost art. the difference this tune is that we will confront with elitism from both sides. (7)____ not only have literary purists now complain of the evanescent nature of letters onscreen, the tech fanatics have become equally disdainful of the old form.(8)____perhaps we should look past both sides to concern ourselves with function instead of form. i am cheered by the gallup poll in which asks a simple question do you happen to be reading any books or novels at present?(9)____ in 1952 a merely 18 percent of respondents said yes.(10)____  the last tune the survey was done, in 2005, that number was 47 percent. so much for the good old days.

答案：

1．dooming→doomed词汇错误。doom作动词时，表示“注定，判定”。be doomed to是固定搭配，表示“注定”。
2．attend→tend词汇错误。attend表示“出席；照料；注意”，attend to是固定搭配，表示“注意，专心”。下一句提到“电视机的发明预示着无线电的消亡，电影的制作敲响了歌剧的丧钟，而录制的音乐也将终结演唱会。”因此本句不是强调美国人关注某件事，而是强调思维的倾向性，因此用attend的形近词tend，表示“倾向于”。
3．alive→live词汇错误。alive是形容词，表示“活着的，有活力的”，不能作前置定语修饰theater，这里应该用形容词live，表示“现场的”。
4．with→despite话篇错误。本句前半部分说“有着这些可怕的预言”，后半句指出“阅读一直都是精神生活的一部分”，从语义逻辑来判断此处表示让步，由于with也后面是名词，不能用连词though，只能用表让步的介词despite。
5．years→the词汇错误。本句中to come是不定式短语作后置定语修饰前面的years，表不“在即将到来的几年里”，既然有定语对years进行限定，那么这里就应该是特指，因此要加上定冠词the。
6．checked→been语法错误。本句说某图书馆获得了10部电子读物作为礼物，这里的they指代的是前面提到的10 books，这些书在半小时之内全部借出，应该用被动语态，因此在checked out前面加been。
7．with→with 一词汇错误。confront表示“面临，遭遇”，若要与with搭配则应该用be confronted with的形式，表示“使面临”，本句话是说“我们从两方面来看待精英政治”，那么此处要么用be confronted with，要么直接用confront，此题只能用第二种改法，因此删掉with。
8．have→do语法错误。not only放在句首要都分倒装，如果have作助动词，那么本句是现在完成时，complain应该用过去分词形式，但是本句有一个明显的时间词now，表示现在一般性的动作，因此要用一般现在时，助动词have改成do。
9．in→in 语法错误。本句是定语从句修饰先行词the gallup poll，而定语从句中首先出现了谓语动词asks，可见缺少的是主语，而不是状语，因此要有关系代词that或which替代the gallup poll，本句中which前面的介词in必须删掉。
10．merely→mere语法错误。merely是副词表示“仅仅”，此处放在不定冠词a之后用来修饰名词性短语18 percent，因此要改为形容词mere。