2018年專八語言知識即改錯部分的測試目的是檢查學生在實際語境中靈活運用語言的能力。該項目考查學生的語法和詞彙知識，但更側重評估學生的綜合語言能力。下面，小編爲大家送上兩篇專八語言知識練習題。
It is hardly necessary for me to cite all the evidences of the depressing ____(1)____state of literacy. These sums from the Department of Education are ____(2)____sufficient: 27 million Americans cannot read at all, a further 35 million read on a level that is less than sufficient to survive in our society. (3) But my own worry today is more that of the overwhelming problem of____ (4)____elemental literacy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the skill even of the middle-class reader, of his unwillingness to afford those spaces of silence, those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentrating,____ (5)____that surrounds the image of the classic act of reading. It has been suggested____ (6)____that almost 80 percent of America's literate, educated teenagers can no longer read with accompanying noise (music) in the background or a television screen flickered at the corner of their field of perception. We know____ (7)____very little about the brain and how it dealt with simultaneous conflicting ____(8)____input, but every common-sense intuition suggests we should be profoundly alarmed. This violation of concentration, silence, solitude goes to the very heart of our notion of literacy; this new form of part— reading, of partperception against background distraction, enders impossibly certain____ (9)____essential acts of apprehension and concentration, leave alone that most important tribute any human being can pay on a poem or a piece of prose he or ____(10)____she really loves, which is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.
答案和解析:
1. evidences—evidence. evidence 爲不可數名詞，不能使用復
數形式。
2. sums—改成figures。sums 表示“總和”，但後面列舉了一些具體數字，與總和並無多大關係。因此sums應改爲figures。figures意即“數字”。
3. on—at。表示“在„„水平上”時，level 前須用介詞at。
4. more—less。more A than B意即“與其說B，倒不如說A”而less A than B則表示與其說A，倒不如說B”。根據上下文，此處more應改爲less。
5. concentrating—concentration。 and前後成分應對等，由於and前面是名詞，其後面也應該用名詞。因此concentrating應改爲concentration。
6. that—which。這兒which用來指代前面的整個句子。
7. flickered—flickering，flicker爲不及物動詞，不宜使用過去分詞形式作定語，故用現在分詞形式作定語。
8. dealt—deals。該文章主要採用一般現在時，因此dealt應改爲得deals。
9. impossibly —impossible。render sth + adj爲一常用結構，表示“使„„如何”。如果其中賓語太長，可將其後置。顯然impossibly 應改爲impossible
—to。pay tribute to sb/sth，系常用短語，意即“稱讚某人⁄某物”。故on應改爲to。
專八語言知識練習題二We use language every day. We live in a world of words. Hardly any moment passes with someone talking, writing or reading. Indeed, __1__languages is most essential to mankind. Our lives increasingly depend on fast and successful use of language. Strangely enough, we know __2__more about things around us than on ourselves. For example, language __3__is species specific, that is, it is language that differs human from __4__animals. However, we do not know yet how exactly we inquire language __5__and how it is possible for us to perceive through language; nor we __6__understand precisely the combinations between language and thought, __7__language and logic, or language and culture; still less, how and when language started. One reason for this inadequate knowledge of language is that we, like language users, take too many things for granted. __8__Language comes to every normal person so naturally that a few __9__
of us stop to question what language is, much less do we feel the necessity to study it. Language is far more complex than most people have probably imagined and the necessity to study it is far greater than some people may have assured. Linguistic is a branch of science which __10__takes language as its object of investigation.
參考答案及解析:
1. with 改爲 without。”hardy any moment passes without someone…” , 兩個否定: without 和hardly，意思是“每一時刻有人……”。
2. fast 前面加the因爲fast and successful use 這個詞組後邊有一個前置詞短語 of language 修飾use，所以被修飾的詞前面加定冠詞。
3. than on ourselves 改爲than things on ourselves。在這裏比較的是兩件事：things around us and things on ourselves(我們周圍的事物和我們自身的東西)。第二個things不能省略，否則引起誤解。
4. differs 改爲distinguishes。語言區分人與動物，differ是不及物動詞，後面不能帶賓語，只能用介詞，如：Man differs from animals in that man possesses language。
5. inquire改爲acquire“習得語言”應該是acquire language，名詞短語是language acquisition。 Inquire 是“詢問”的意思。
6. we前面加上 do 副詞nor放在句首表示強調，應用倒裝句，一般現在時強調句是在主語前面加助動詞 do。
7. combination改爲relationships.語言和思維的關係，不是結合;語言和思維的關係是當代語言學研究的`重要領域。
8. like 改爲as。根據上下文，要表達的意思是“作爲語言的使用者”，不是“像語言的使用者”。
9. a 去掉 這裏是否定的意思：“我們沒有多少人……”而不是“我們一些人.….”。
10. assured 改爲 assumed. 這句的後半部分意思是“研究語言的必要性比我們想象的要大得多”。Assure譯爲“確保”;assume譯爲“假設”或者“想象”的意思。
