2015年英语专八改错练习题及答案解析(1)
Eye behavior can give subtle messages which people pick up in their daily life. It tells more than words can. Meeting or failing to meet another person’s eyes produce a particular effect.When two Americans __1__
look searchingly at each other’s eye, emotions are __2__ heightened and the relationship becomes closer.
However, Americans are careful about where and when to __3__ meet other’s eye. In our normal conversation, each eye-contract lasts only a few seconds before one or both individuals look away, because the longer meeting of the eyes is rare, and, after it happens, can generate __4__ a special kind of human-to-human awareness.
For instance, by simple using his eyes, a man can make a woman aware of him comfortably or uncomfortably; a long and steady gaze from a policeman or judge intimidates accused. __5__
In the U.S., proper street behavior requires a nice balance of attention and inattention. You are supposed to look at a passer-by just enough to show that you are being aware of his presence. If you look too little, __6__you appear haughty; too much, inquisitive.
Much eye behavior is such subtle that our reaction to it is __7__ largely instinctive.
Besides, the codes of eye behavior vary dramatically from one culture to other. In the __8__
Middle East, it is impolite to look at the other person all the time during a conversation; in England, the polite listener fixes the speaker with an inattentive __9__ stare and blinks eye occasionally as a sign of interest and attention.
In America, eye behavior functions as a kind of conversational traffic signal control the __10__ talking pace and time, and to indicate a change of topic.
参考答案及解析：
1.把produce改为produces。
本句中两个主语meeting和failing to meet another person’s eye用or连接，这时谓语动词应该采取就近原则，与最相邻的主语一致。
2.把at改为into。
此处的动作应该是look into(注视)，而不是一般的“看”(look at)。
3.把where改为how。
上下文介绍的是目光交流的方式方法。
4.把after改为when/if。
5.在accused前面加上the。
intimidate(胁迫)是一个及物动词，后面不能只接形容词，此处应该加上定冠词，与accused构成名词短语，表示一类人，即“被告”。本句的意思是：
例如，只要运用目光，男人就可以让女人很自在或者不舒服地感觉到他的存在;而警察或法官的长时间的注视可以威吓被告。
6.删除being。
7.把such改为so。
8.把other改为another。
表示不定指代的“一个或者另一个”应该用one and/or another。
9.把inattentive改为attentive。
10.在control前面加上to。
control the talking pace and time 应该和to indicate a change of topic并列，作为conversational traffic signal 的定语，也要用动词不定式。
