專八改錯練習：英國的酒文化

相信大多數同學都已經迎來了期待已久的寒假，不過英語專業的同學可不能放鬆哦，等下學期一開學，專八考試就近在眼前了，所以不如趁着寒假趕緊多複習複習，多做做題練練手，非英語專業的同學也可以來看看，說不定英語水平能有個大提升呢。

the debate about problem drinking and how to stop it nowadays centres most on the working-class young.(1)____ they are highly visible-and inaudible-as they clog city centres on saturday nights.(2)____ but a chapter in a forthcoming book, intoxication and society, by philip withington, a cambridge historian, argues that it was the educated elite whom taught britons how to drink to excess.(3)____in the 17th century, england experienced a rise in educational enrolment unsurpassedly until the early 20th century. literacy inclined and the universities of cambridge and oxford, as well as the inns of court and chancery where barristers leamed their craft, brimming with affluent young men.(4)____(5)____ this was the crucial period which modern drinking culture was formed. mr withington's description of 17th-century drinking practices will sound familiar to anybody who has been within a few miles of a british university. it was characterised by two conflicting aims. men were to consume large qualities of alcohol in keeping with conventions of excess.(7)____ yet they also supposed to remain in control of their faculties, bantering and displaying wit.(8)____ students and would-be lawyers formed drinking societies, where they leamed the social-and drinking-skills required of gentlemen.a market in instruction quickly emerged. collections filled with jokes, quotes and fun facts proliferated, promised to teach, as john cotgrave's wits interpreter put it, "the art of drinking, by a most learned method".(9)____ mirroring the standardisation of language after the invention of the printing press, codes of intoxication were disseminated to many a wider audience as society became more literate and censorship declined.(10)____

1．most→mostly詞彙錯誤。most作副詞時，表示“最，非常”。根據本句句意“如今對飲酒和禁酒的爭論大部分圍繞在年輕的工薪階層”，故most與上下文不符，應用副詞mostly，表示“大部分地，大多數地，主要地”。
2．inaudible→audible語篇錯誤。inaudible表示“聽不見的，不可聞的”，根據前面提到的highly visible可以判斷，此處要表示的意思是“週六晚上城市中心擠滿了這些年輕人，隨處可見，處處可聞”。故inaudible的反義詞audible符合上下文語境。
3．whom→who/that語法錯誤。本句是強調句，強調的部分是the educated elite，當強調人時應該用引導詞that或who，且不能省略。
4．inclined→declined訶匯錯誤。incline作動詞表示“傾斜，傾向於，易於”，與上下文不符，前一句話提到“從17世紀至20世紀早期，英格蘭地區教育擴招規模空前”。
緊接着本句提到illiteracy（文盲），可以推測，此處想表達的意思是“文盲數量減少”，因此要用incline的形近詞decline，表示“減少，降低”。
5．brimming→brimmed語法錯誤。brim with sth.表示“（使）滿，盛滿”，此處是過去分詞作伴隨狀語，對universities和inns進行補充說明，表示這些地方雲集了很多年輕人。
6．which→in語法錯誤。此處which引導定語從句，修飾先行詞period。而定語從句中主謂部分完整，period在該從句中屬於時間狀語成分。故應在which前加in．表明“現代酒文化是在該重要時期形成的”。
7．qualities→quantities詞彙錯誤。qualities表示“質量，品質”，本文討論的是酗酒現象，不涉及酒的品質好壞問題，另外根據後面的excess（過量）一詞也可以判斷這裏強調17世紀的飲酒風俗就是大量飲酒。因此用quantity（數量）形成圄定搭配large quantities of，表示“大量的”。
8.also→were詞彙錯誤。be supposed to是固定搭配，表示“應該；認爲必須；被期望”，且be動詞應該放在also之前。全句意爲“本以爲他們能保持自控，談笑風生”。
9．promised→promising語法錯誤。promise並不是和謂語proliferated並列，不能加and，而是作伴隨狀語，修飾前面整個句子，因此要用promise的現在分詞形式promising。
10．many→many詞彙錯誤。many a是固定詞組，表示“許多的”，修飾可數名詞單數，但此處audience（觀衆）是集合名詞，當形容觀衆人數多或少時，通常用big，large，huge，wide以及small，心血等形容詞修飾，但不用many, few修飾，因此刪掉many。

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