PART II PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)
The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved You should proof, read the passage and correct it in the following way:
For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank pro-vided at the end of the line.
For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "^" sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.
EXAMPLE
When ^ art museum wants a new exhibit, it never buys things in finished form and hangs them on the wall. When a natural history museum wants an exhibition, it must often build it.
Demographic indicators show that Americans in the postwar
period were more eager than ever to establish families. They quickly
brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and brought
the birth rate to a twentieth century height after more than a hundred (1)__
years of a steady decline, producing the "baby boom." These young (2)__
adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large
families that went for more than two decades and caused a major (3)__
but temporary reversal of long-term demographic patterns. From
the 1940s through the early 1960s, Americans married at a high rate (4)__
and at a younger age than their Europe counterparts.(5)__
Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women on who (6)__
formed families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the (7)__
divorce rate after a postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to
a greater extent than did that of couples who married in earlier as well (8)__
as later decades. Since the United States maintained its dubious (9)__
distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world, the
temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in (10)__
Europe. Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and
homemaker was not abandoned. 答案解析：
1. 答案： height→high
【详细解答】 height为不可数名词，意为“高度，身高，海拔，顶点”等，故此处应改为可数名词high。
2． 答案：a
【详细解答】 此处steady decline指稳定下降的行为、过程而不是其结果，为不可数名词，故应去掉定冠词a。
3． 答案：went∧→on
【详细解答】 go on为固定搭配，意为“持续”。
4． 答案：high→higher
【详细解答】 根据上下文，此处应为比较级。
5． 答案：Europe→European
【详细解答】 根据上下文，此处应用形容词作定语修饰名词counterparts。
6． 答案： more
【详细解答】 由上下文可知，more与equally矛盾，故应去掉。
7． 答案：nevertheless→also
【详细解答】 由上下文可知，此处讲的内容与前部分内容之间为递进关系，而非转折关系。
8． 答案： that→those
【详细解答】 由上下文可知，此处所指代的应为前面复数形式的marriages，故指示代词也应该用复数形式。
9． 答案： Since→Although（或While）
【详细解答】 从逻辑上讲，此处应表达让步关系，而非因果关系。
10． 答案：in→to
【详细解答】 to．．．extent为固定搭配，意为“到……程度”。
