郸城一高自主招生英语短文改错12篇文档格式.docx

1、72. _generally provides a limited number of courses andspecializations but offer a better student-faculty ratio, thus73. _permit individualized attention to student. Because of its large74. _student body （often exceeding 20,000） consisting in many75. _people from different countries the university e

2、xposes itsstudents to many different culture, social and out-of-class76. _programmes. On the other hand, the smaller, morehomogeneous（同性质的） student body of the big college77. _affords greater opportunities in such activities. Finally, theuniversity closely approximates the real world and which78. _p

3、rovides a relaxed, impersonal, and sometimes anonymous（隐姓埋名的） existence, on the contrast, the intimate79. _atmosphere of the small college allows the student four years ofstructural living in which to expect and preparing for the real80. _world. In making his choice among educational institutions th

4、estudent must, there fore, consider a great many factors.Passage 2 Thomas Malthus published his Essay on the Principleof Population almost 200 years ago. Ever since then,forecasters have being warning that worldwide famine wasS1. _just around the next corner. The fast-growing populationsdemand for f

5、ood, they warned, would soon exceed theirS2. _supply, leading to widespread food shortages and starvation. But in reality, the worlds total grain harvest has risensteadily over the years. Except for relative isolated troubleS3. _spots like present-day Somalia, and occasional years ofgood harvests, t

6、he worlds food crisis has remained justS4. _around the corner. Most experts believe this can continueeven as if the population doubles by the mid-21st century,S5. _although feeding I0 billion people will not be easy forpolitics, economic and environmental reasons. OptimistsS6. _point to concrete exa

7、mples of continued improvementsin yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, moreS7. _fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more thandouble corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere,S8. _rice experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with fewS9. _stems and more seeds. Ther

8、e is no guarantee that plantbreeders can continue to develop new, higher-yieldingcrop, but most researchers see their success to date as reasonS10. _for hope.Passage 3 The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm thathas recognized the need for change and done something aboutit. In the newspaper

9、industry, papers must reflect the diversityof the communities to which they provide information.It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or riskS1. _losing their readers interest and their advertisers support.Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racialS2. _minorities, the p

10、aper has put into place policies andprocedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. TheS3. _underlying reason for the change is that for information to befair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by theS4. _same kind of population that reads it. A diversity committee composed

11、of reporters, editors, andphotographers meets regularly to value the Seattle TimesS5. _content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff aboutdiversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a contentS6. _audit （审查） that evaluates the frequency and manner ofrepresentation of woman and peop

12、le of color in photographs.S7. _Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far tooinfrequently and were pictured with a disproportionatenumber of negative articles. The audit results fromS8. _improvement in the frequency of majority representation andS9. _their portrayal in neutral or positiv

13、e situations. And, with aS10. _result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.The diversity training and content audits helped theSeattle Times Company to win the Personal JournalOptimas Award for excellence in managing change.Passage 4 A great many cities are experiencing difficulties whicha

14、re nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale.Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not foundnew one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poorS1. _immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperityS2. _which are then often disappointing. There are

15、backward townson the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there wereS3. _on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nine-teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. DescriptionsS4. _written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of MexicoCity, and the enormous contrasts that w

16、as to be found there,S5. _are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City todaytheS6. _poor can still be numbered in millions. The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosper-ity, but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as aS7. _promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural p

17、overtyS8. _and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of theS9. _country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late,S10. _sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.Passage 5 Sporting activities are essentially modified forms ofhunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modern

18、footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised huntingpack. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless footballand his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate and hescores a goal, enjoys the hunters triumph of killing his prey. To understand how this transformation has taken place wem

19、ust briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over amillion year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survivaldepended on success in the hunting-field. Under this pressuretheir whole way of life, even if their bodies, became radicailychanged. They became chasers, runners, jumpers,

20、 aimers,throwers and prey-killers. They co-operate as skillful male-groupattackers. Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immenselylong formative period of hunting for food, they becamefarmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their oldhunting life, were put to a new usethat of penni

21、ng （把关在圈中）, controlling and domesticating their prey. Thefood was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks anduncertainties of farming were no longer essential for survival.S10._Passage 6 More people die of tuberculosis （结核病） than of anyother disease caused by a single agent. This has pro

22、bablybeen the case in quite a while. During the early stages ofthe industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventhdeaths in Europes crowded cities were caused by thedisease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing theglobal picture, saw the trouble going into decline. Withoccasional breaks fo

23、r war, the rates of death andinfection in the Europe and America dropped steadilythrough the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, theintroduction of antibiotics （抗菌素） strengthened thetrend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowedto be imported to poor countries. Medical researchersdecla

24、red victory and withdrew. They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency ofinfections and deaths started to pick up again around theworld. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; inmany places where it had never been away, it grew better.The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7billion people （a third of the earths population） sufferfrom tuberculosis. Even the infection rate wasfalling, population growth kept the number of clinicalcases