专业八级改错(26)

Poetry doesn't matter to most people. One has to wonder if poetry has any place in the 2lst century, when music videos and satellite television offer daunting competition for poems, which demand a good deal of attention and considerate analytic skills, as well as some knowledge of the traditions of poetry.(1)____

In the 19th century poets like Scott Byron, and Longfellow had huge audiences around the world. Their works were best sellers, yet they were cultural heroes as well. (2)____But readers had few choices in those days. One imagines, perhaps false, that people actually liked poetry.(3)____ It provided them with narratives that entertained and inspired. (4)____They gave them words to attach to their feelings. They enjoyed folk ballads, too. (5)____ In the sense, music and poetry joined hands.

In the 20th century, something went to amiss.(6)____ Poetry became "difficult". That is, poets began to reflect the complex of modem culture, its fierce disjunctions.(7)____ The poems of Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle and T.S. Eliot asked a lot of the reader, including a range of cultural references to topics when even m the early 1900s had become little know.(8)____ To read Pound and Eliot with easy, for Instance, one needed some knowledge of Greek and Latin poetry.(9)____ That kind of learning had been fairly common among educated readers in the past. The same could be said for most readers in the 20th century-or today, when education has become more democratized and the study of the classics has been relegated to a small number of enthusiasts.(10)____

参考答案及解析:

1．considerate→considerable词汇错误。considerate表示“体贴的，体谅的”，在这里与上下文不符，从前面的a good deal of可以推测，这里表示“大量的”意思，应该是considerable，意为“相当多的”。

2．yet→and语篇错误。句末的as well(也)表明此句与上一分句一样表示褒义，语义上属于并列连接的关系，yet有转折之义，不符合语义，故改成and。

3．false→falsely语法错误。本句逗号中间的内容作插入语，用来修饰前面的动词imagine，表示“认为诗歌受到大众喜欢的观点或许是错误的。”故应将形容词false改成副词falsely。

4．They→it语法错误。根据前一句“诗歌的叙述为人们带来快乐、催人奋进”，it指代的是poetry，接下来，本句提到“表达了人们的内心感受”，主语仍然是指poetry，故将They改成It。

5．the→a词汇错误。in a sense是固定搭配，表示“从某种意义上说”，放在此处符合上下文句意。若要用the，则通常用in the sense that/in the sense of...的形式，观察此处，可知不能用the。

6．to→to语法错误。go用作连系动词，其后接形容词作表语，通常表示主语的某种状态向另一种状态转变，且其后接的形容词常表示贬义。此处go amiss为固定搭配，表示“不顺当”。

7．complex→complexities词汇错误。complex作名词时，表示“综合体，集合体，情结”，此处与modem culture搭配不合适。complexity意为“复杂，复杂性”，此处表明“现代文化的复杂”，符合上下文的语境，进一步说明20世纪以后诗歌开始变得难懂的情况。

8．when→that/which语法错误。本句是定语从句，用来修饰先行词topics，并且在从句中充当主语，所以应该用关系代词that或which来引导，而不用when。

9．easy→ease语法错误。easy是形容词，不能与介词with连用，with ease是固定搭配，表示“轻而易举地”。

10．∧be→not语篇错误。前一句提到“对于过去受过教育的读者来说，了解希腊和拉丁语诗歌是很平常的事”。本句破折号后解释说“到了今天，教育已经越来越民主化，对于经典的学习已经降级到少数热心人士身上。”由此可以判断，20世纪的读者与过去的读者并不相同，所以应该在本句中加否定词not。