改错题

Directions: Revise the underlined part of each sentence as listed below in accordance with the requirements of standard written English. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. 

问答题  Today, China is once again among the largest economiesof the world, overtaking Japan in 2010.
【正确答案】…having overtaken Japan in 2010.
【答案解析】“赶超日本” 发生在2010年,是过去的事,因此用完成时。
问答题 It is as difficult to prevent crimes against propertyas these that are against a person.
【正确答案】…as it is to prevent those against a person.
【答案解析】前半句中it是形式主语,指的是to prevent crimes against property,因为平行,所以后半句也需要it的形式。
问答题 Los Angeles has higher numbers of family dwellings percapita than any large city.
【正确答案】…higher numbers of family dwellings per capita than does any other large city.
【答案解析】题干说落杉矶有更高的人均家庭住宅要比任何一个大城市,很明显落杉矶本身也是个大城市,它不能和自身进行比较,加了other以后就把落杉矶自己排除在外了。
问答题 Nowhere in Prakta is the influence of modern Europeanarchitecture more apparent than their governmentbuildings.
【正确答案】…more apparent than in its government buildings.
【答案解析】government buildings指的是普拉克塔的政府建筑,因此代词应该用its。
问答题 In assessing the problems faced by rural migrantworkers, the question of whether they are better offmaterially than the urban working poor is irrelevant.
【正确答案】In an assessment of the problems faced by rural migrant workers
【答案解析】assessing的逻辑主语应该是人,原文中并没有出现人,也就是说这个评估的对象是不存在的,所以无法使用分词的省略结构。
问答题 As the price of gasoline rises, which makessubstituting alcohol from cereal gram attractive, theprices of bread and livestock feed are sure to increase.
【正确答案】making alcohol distilled from cereal grain an attractive substitute
【答案解析】这道题目中划线部分的which只 能用来指代价格,但是价格的本身是不能说明用从谷物中蒸馏出来的酒精来做替代品 变得更有吸引力的,油价上涨了这件事情方能说明,所以应该用现在分词做伴随状语来表结果。
问答题 Unlike a typical automobile loan, which requires atwenty percent down payment, the lease-loan buyer is notrequired to make an initial deposit on the new vehicle.
【正确答案】…a lease-loan does not require the buyer to make an initial deposit on the new vehicle
【答案解析】unlike表示比较,前面是“a typical automobile loan” ,因此后面也应是某种贷款,即“a lease-loan” 。
问答题 Florida will gain 250, 000 jobs this year alone, many ofthem in high-paying fields like electronics and banking,making the state’ s economy far more diversified than tenyears ago.
【正确答案】…many of them in such high-paying fields as electronics and banking
【答案解析】表示举例使用such as不用like。
问答题 The country received huge sums of capital from theUnited States after the Second World War, using it to helpbuild a modern industrial system.
【正确答案】The country received huge sums of capital from the United States after the Second World War to help build…
【答案解析】using的逻辑主语为the Second World War,与句意不相符。
问答题 For many people, household labor remains demanding,even if able to afford household appliances theirgrandparents would find a miracle.
【正确答案】…even if they can afford household appliances their grandparents would have found miraculous.
【答案解析】able to前少了主语。 后面的their grandparents would have found miraculous是一个定语从句,省略了引导词,修饰前面的household appliances。