专八改错练习第十六篇:

Whenever you see an old film, even one made aslittle as
ten years before, you can't help being strucked by the__1__
appearance of the women taking part. Their hair stylesand
make-up look date; their skirts look either too long ortoo __2__
short; their general appearance is, in fact, slightly ludicurous.
The men taking part, on other hand, are clearly recognizable. __3__
There is nothing about their appearance to suggest that
they belong to an entire different age. This illusion is created __4__
by changing fashions. Over the years, the great minority of men __5__
have successfully resisted all attempts to make it change their __6__
style of dress. The same cannot be said for women. Each year,
a fewer so-called top designers in Paris and London lay down __7__
on the law and women whole world over run to obey. The __8__
decrees of the designers are unpredictable and dictatorial.
Sometime they decide arbitrarily, that skirts will be short and __9__
waist will be height; hips are in and buttons are out. __10__

答案及解析(反白可见):
1. strucked—struck或strucken
过去分词形式有误.strike的过去式是struck,过去分词为struck或strucken
2. date—dated
look为系动词,其后应该是形容词,构成系表结构
3. on other hand—on the other hand
4. entire—entirely
副词修饰形容词different,并与different一起修饰age
5. minority—majority
从上下文以及常识判断,多半男性成功抵制了改变他们服装款式的企图,即多年来,男性的服装款式与女士服饰相比没有多大变化
6. it—them
them代表the great majority of men
7. fewer—few
此处没有比较的意思
8. 去掉on
lay on为习语,表示“规定(规则,原则,法规等)”
9. Sometime—Sometimes
sometime为“在任何时候”,sometimes为“有时”
10. height—high