英语专8练习题目英语专8练习题目专八改错练习Tracingmissingpersonscantakemuchpatientdetectivework.Butaspecialkindof“privateeye”cantracethemissingancestorsofwholepeoplesbystudyingthecluesburiedbywords.__1__Thesephilologists,suchasthelanguagedetectivesarecalled,havetraced__2__thewordtrailbackfrompeoplesinEurope,India,SouthAfrica,theAmericas,andthePacificislandsinatinynameless,andforgottentribethatroamedcentral__3__Eurasia5000to6000yearsago,beforethedawnofwritinghistory.__4__Sincealongtimescholarshavebeenpuzzledoverthestriking__5__differenceofwordsindifferentlanguages.InDutch,vader;inLatin,pater;in__6__oldIrish,athir;inPersian,pidar;intheSanskritofdistantIndia,pitr.Thesewordsallsoundedlikelyandmeantthesamething—“father”__7__Wheredidithappenthatwidelyseparatedpeoplesusedsuch__8__closerelatedsoundsymbols?Theproblembaffledlinguistsforyears.Themoreso__9__because“father”wasbutoneofahostofsuchcoincidences.Towardstheendofthe18centuryitdawnedonscholarsthatperhapsallthesewordsstemmed__10__fromsomecommonlanguage.参考答案及解析(反白可见)：1.将by改为in(be)buriedin意思为“被…所掩盖,掩蔽于…”2.将such去掉在这里as是连词,引导状语从句.3.将第一个and改为to(这个句子长,小心上当呀)以便和前文的from构成搭配“from…to…”,表示“从……到……”.4.将writing改为written`“有文字记载的历史”英语为“writtenhistory”.5.将Since改为For因为since做介词,表示“自从……起”之意时,后面一般不跟表示一段时间的'名词.6.将difference改为similarity从后面的例子我们可以看出,作者在这里讲述的是文字的惊人的相同之处,而不是不同之处.7.将likely改为alikelikely意思为“很可能的”,不做“相同的,相似的”解.8.将where改为why这里不是问地点而是问原因,从后面的because也可以看出.9.将close改为副词closely因为形容词close不能修饰过去分词related.10.将18改为18th.Themoresobecause“father”wasbutoneofahostofsuchcoincidences.这句话的themoresobecause是什么意思呢,以为人家出版社错了,不过看两本资料都这么写.有谁看得懂么?还是说真的是出错了.原来themoresobecause意思为:更何况.