错误类型

　　十一、易混淆词的使用错误

　　英语词汇中有很多词在拼写上、语义上很相似，如 assure/ensure ， rise/arise/raise ， effect/affect ，但是它们的用法却迥然不同。这些易混淆的词构成六级改错的一个重要错误类型，也是比较难的一种类型，这个需要考生在平时的学习过程中注意知识的积累，并多做些总结和归纳，从中找出一些规律。

　　例 1　　His persistence was awarded when the car finally started.         1.__________

　　句中“ award ”是“颁发，授予（奖赏）”之义，而文中要表达的意思是“汽车终于启动了，那就是对他坚持不懈精神的回报”，应把 award 改成 reward .

　　例 2　　Deciding how much discomfort and risk we are prepared
　　to put up with in the name of better health is a highly
　　personal matter, not a decision we should remain to doctors 1.__________
　　alone.

　　“ remain ”意为“保持，仍然”，是一个表示状态的动词，其用法和系动词“ be ”相似，后面所接成分一般是名词或形容词，作表语，而“ leave sth. to sb. ”意思是“把某物留给某人”。本句很明显是“ leave…to… ”的句型，所以应该把 remain 改为 leave .

　　例 3　　Of course the press means more than newspaper. A vast
　　amount of magazines are published, aimed at readers    1.__________
　　interested in all sorts of subjects.

　　因为 amount 表示数量时只与不可数名词连用，而本句中后面所接名词为“ magazines ”，是复数名词，应该使用表示复数形式的 number ，故应该把 amount 改为 number .

　　例 4　　Today, flint has small importance as an industrial product. 1.__________

　　“ small ”用于表示人或物的体积尺寸，不能修饰抽象名词 importance ，因此应把 small 改为可以修饰不可数抽象名词的 little .

　　练习题

　　1 Industry officials predicted that mobile communications
　　service will soon be comparative in many respects to the   1.__________
　　service provided by telephone that do not move.

　　2 In today's society, “Smoking effects your health” has  2.__________
　　become a warning which is known to almost every house hold.

　　3 For his outstanding achievements in graduate teaching
　　he is held in big esteem by his students and colleagues.   3.__________

　　4 Supersonic craft may disturb the upper atmosphere to
　　such an extent that dangerous radiation from the sun might
　　reach the earth, with unimaginative effects on life there.  4.__________

　　5 In the late nineteen century, farm work and life were not 5.__________
　　much changed from what they had been in the old days.

　　6 Deciding how much discomfort and risk we are prepared
　　to put up with in the name o better health is a high personal  6.__________
　　matter, not a decision we should remain to doctors alone.   7.__________

　　7 Whenever the subject of smoking and health is risen,   8.__________
　　the governments of most countries hears no evil, see no evil
　　and smell no evil.

　　8 If I were to live my life over again, I would pay more
　　attention to the cultivation of the memory. I would strengthen
　　that faculty by every possible mean, and on every possible  9.__________
　　occasion.

　　9 The government of most countries spending huge sum of
　　money for international defense.             10.__________