09年英語專業(yè)八級全真試題(7)

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PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)
    Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed.
    When ∧ art museum wants a new exhibit, (1)_______
    it never buys things in finished form and hangs (2)_______
    them on the wall. When a natural history museum
    wants an exhibition, it must often build i. (3)_______
    The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes
    from one schoolchild to the next and illustrates the further difference ____1____
    between school lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learnt
    in early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener ____2____
    has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. ____3_____
    The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting
    it may be something from 20 to 70 years. With the playground ____4____
    lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on within the very hour ____5____
    it is learnt; and, in the general, it passes between children of the ____6____
    same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the differnce in age
    between playmates to be more than five years. If, therefore, a playground
    rhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or ____7____
    even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitted over
    and over, very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three ____8____
    hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live ____9____
    after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the ____10____
    original wording.