英语8级练习题答案及解析
Cities can be frightened places. The majority of
the population live in noisy massive tower blocks. The sense of belonging to a community tends to appear when you live thirty floors up in a skyscraper. Strange enough, whereas in the past the inhabitants of one street all knew each other, nowadays people on the same floor in tower blocks even say hello to each other. Country life, on the other hand, differs from this k ind of isolated existence in that a sense of community generally keep the inhabitants of a small village together. People have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they need help. So country life has disadvantages too. For example, shopping becomes a major problem and for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to go for an expedition to the nearest large town. The country has the advantage of peaceful and quiet, but suffers from the disadvantages of being cut off. The city has noise and population which do harm to human health. But one of their main advantages is that you are at the centre of things and that life doesn' t come to an end even at ten at night. Some people
have found a compromise between the two: they expressed their preference for the quiet life by leaving for the city and moving to the country within commuting distance of the large city
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参考答案及解析：
1.把 frightened 改为 frightening。frightened 是 “受到惊吓的”,表明心理状态，而frightening表示“令
人害怕的”，表示事物性质。
2.把appear改为disappear。"当你住在摩天大厦的 三十层里”，可以推测这里要表达的是归属感的消失，而不 是产生归属感。
3.把 Strange 改为 Strangely。Strangely enough, 是固定短语，经常用作插入语，意思是“说
也奇怪，最奇怪 的是”。
4.在say前面加上don，t。此处说的是，现在住在同
一层楼的人甚至见面都不打招呼。
5.把keep改为keeps。in that引导的句子主语应该 是a sense,故谓语应为单数。本句的意思是，农村生活与 这种隔绝孤立的生活不同，因为一种归属感把小村里的居民 联系在一起。
6.把so改为but/yet。上文提到了乡村生活的好处, 下文是转折，要用but或者yeto
7.把for改为on。“去远征”应该用go on a expedition,而go formonarchy的意思是“去，努力获取，拥护”。
8,把peaceful改为peace。of后面不应该用形容词， 所以应该改为peaceo这里需要注意的是quiet既是名词又 是形容词，不要被迷惑。.把their改为its。此处的代词应 该指代上文的the city。
10.删除leaving后面的for,或者把for改为from。 leave表示“离开某地”,而leave for表示“离开某
地去 另外一个地方”，for后面接的是目的地。本句说的是离开 城市，搬到乡村，所以for是多余的。
美国概况
练习题：
1 The traditional dividing line in America between "east" and "west" is .
The earliest part in America to be found and taken over by early settlers is .
The largest racial group in the whole population of U. S. A is. BeforeOOO, the largest minority group in the United States is. has the world, s oldest written constitution and political party. The economic problem caused by the depression in 192was eventually solved by.
In the United States, primary education requires years.
Most college students in the United States are in institutions. The three main levels of court
s of
the federal judicial system in America are.
10 is not governed by the common law.
练习题答案及题解：
1. The Mississippi River,密西西比河是美国传统 的东方和西方的分界线。. The Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain,最早被早期定居者发现和占领的地方是大西洋及其 沿岸平原。
.Non-hispanics white,非西班牙裔的白人是美国 最大的种族体。
,African Americans, 000年以前非裔美国人是美国 最大的少数民族体。2000年以后，拉丁裔美国人的人数超 过了非裔美国人的人数，成为美国第一大少数民族体。
,America,美国拥有世界上最古老的宪法和政党。
6.World War II,第二次世界大战的爆发帮助美国 走出了经济困境。
7.Six years,美国的小学要花费大约六年的时间。
8.Public,大部分美国大学生都在公立学校就读。
.美国的联邦法院系统包括：the United States District Courts: the United States Courts of Appeal ; the United States Supreme Court.
10 .Louisana,路易斯安娜州不受共同法的约束。 美国概况
练习题：
1 Of the fifty states of America,states now have the death penalty as punishment.
The four major regions of the United Sates are.
region' s culture character was shaped largely by Puritan spirit.is the largest state in terms of size and population in America." Hollywood " is often used as a synonym for
The most important and largest river in the United States of America is.
The north-eastern part of the United States    New England enjoys a climate.
To the west of mainland American lies the  Ocean.
Detroit, a U. S. city bordering Lake Erie, is famous for its. 10 The natives of the continent of the America are the.