2020年济南成考学位英语：短文挑错题(一)

　　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 __1__ after more than a hundred years of a steady decline,producing the"baby boom."__2__ These young adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large families that went for more than two decades and caused a major but temporary __3__ reversal of long-term demographic patterns.From the 1940s through the early 1960s,Americans married at a high rate and at a younger age than their __4__ Europe counterparts.__5__ Less noted but equally more significant,the men and women who formed __6__ families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the divorce rate after a __7__ postwar peak;their marriages remained intact to a greater extent than did that of __8__ couples who married in earlier as well as later decades.Since the United States __9__ maintained its dubious distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world,the temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in Europe.__10__ Contrary to fears of the experts,the role of breadwinner and homemaker was not abandoned.

　　答案：

　　1.将height改为high/peak。整句话的大意为他们把男女的婚龄降了下来，使出生率达到了20世纪的高峰。high可以用作名词，意为“高峰”，“高水准”，“更高纪录”。height可以作“极点，顶点”解释。例如：The height of cleverness is to conceal one's cleverness。

　　2.将第二个不定冠词a去掉。steady decline意为持续的下降，前面不用加冠词。又如：years of hard work。根据语感可以判断出来。

　　3.在went后加on，或将went改为lasted。此处是“持续”的意思，所以可以用went on或者last来表达。

　　4.将high改为higher。此处意为美国人结婚率比以前提高了，有与战前相比的意思，因此应用比较级。

　　5.将Europe改为European。

　　6.删掉more。此处的大意为战后离婚率也下降了，这个现象不大有人注意，但同样也很重要。另外，more与equally相矛盾。

　　7.将nevertheless改为also或者删掉nevertheless。此处上下文之间不是转折关系，而是递进关系。

　　8.将that改为those。此处的代词应指marriages这个复数名词，因此应用those。此处考察代词与先行词一致的问题。

　　9.将Since改为Although/Though/While。此处是转折关系，不是因果关系。

　　10.将in改为to。短语to the extent是固定搭配。

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