专八模拟改错(5)

We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say _____1
that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with school, including college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of science as people _____2
with comparable education in Western Europe.There are a lot of kids who know everything about computers—how to build
them, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask _____3
them to explain about the principles of physics that have gone into creating the _____4
computer, you don’t have faintest idea. _____5
The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human _____6
creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between science and _____7
technology. Lots of people don’t differ between the two. Science is the production of _____8
new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application of knowledge to the production of some products, machinery or the like. The two are really different, and people who have the faculty for one very seldom have a faculty for the others. _____9
Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology, it’s not necessarily harmful. No society has yet earned to forecast the consequences of new technology, which can be enormous._____10

答案详解(反白可见):

1. 在 which 前加 in，或将 which 改为 where
在这里which引导限制性从句,修饰先行词the society。in which 在从句中作状语,当然也可以用关系副词where引导定语从句,并在从句中作状语,例如:Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.
2. 将 as 改为than
3. 将 So 改为 But 或者 However 或者 Nevertheless
因为这里上下文是转折关系。
4. 将 about 去掉
因为explain是及物动词。
5. 将 you 改为 they
6. 将 like 改为 as
因为such as 是固定搭配。
7. 将 takes 改为 gives
give rise to表示“引起，导致”之意。
8. 将 differ 改为 distinguish
牵着表示“有区别”。后者表示“区分，找出……的差别”。
9. 将 others 改为 other
这样the other就和上文的one构成固定搭配，表示在两个中“一个……；另外一个……”
10. 将 harmful 改为 harmless，只有这样才可以表达上下文的对比关系。