Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark(∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.
改错题是六级特有的一种题型。首先我们要看清题目要求。15分钟之内找出并改正10处错误。
改错只有三种题型：一是改变一个单词，二是增加一个单词，三是删除一个单词。
改错首先要记住是在文章中标注出错误，然后把正确的改正写在空格中。
改错的方式也只有三种：一是在文章中把错误的单词划掉然后在右边相应的空格里边写出正确的单词。二是要加词，我们要在文中加一个∧字符，然后把需要增加的词放在右边的空格中。如果是要删除一个词，那么我们要在文章中划掉这个单词，然后在右边空格中划一道/。
实际操作中，我们在文章里划掉单词，右边也写出修改的单词。加词也请大家在右边空格也要写出来。删词我们在右边空格中也要写出来。
Example:
Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods. 1.time/times/period
Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature as a 2. having
school subject are valid for∧study of television. 3. ∧the
范例：2003年6月改错题The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that
Has recognized the need for change and done something about
it. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversity
of the communities to which they provide information.
It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk S1.____________
losing their readers'' interest and their advertisers'' support.
Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial S2. ___________
minorities, the paper has put into place policies and
procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The S3. __________
underlying reason for the change is that for information to be
fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the S4. ____________
same kind of population that reads it.
A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and
photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times'' S5. ____________
content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about
diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content S6. ____________
audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of
representation of woman and people of color in photographs. S7. _____________
Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too
infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate
number of negative articles. The audit results from S8. _____________
improvement in the frequency of majority representation and S9. _____________
their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a S10. ____________
result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.
The diversity training and content audits helped the Seattle
Times Company to win the Personnel Journal Optimal Award
for excellence in managing change.
The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that
Has recognized the need for change and done something about
it. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversity
of the communities to which they provide information.
It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk S1. They
losing their readers'' interest and their advertisers'' support.
Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial S2. percent/per cent
minorities, the paper has put into place policies and
procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The S3. maintaining
underlying reason for the change is that for information to be
fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the S4. objective
same kind of population that reads it.
A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and
photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times'' S5. meet
content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about
diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content S6. an
audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of
representation of woman and people of color in photographs. S7. women
Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too
infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate
number of negative articles. The audit results from S8. in
improvement in the frequency of majority representation and S9. minority
their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a S10. as
result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.
The diversity training and content audits helped the Seattle
Times Company to win the Personnel Journal Optimal Award
for excellence in managing change.
我们一起总结一下吧！
解题思路：
1．通读全文，有些错误可以第一次搞定：比如2，3，6。
2．注重最常见的考点（参看最常考点的总结）。
3．再次通读全文检查一下。
改错最常考考点的总结（呵呵，千万不要象某些同学一样敢于去怀疑一切，哈哈！）
1．多词少词的错误，每次考试都会出现一题，有时会有两道。（自己去发现，找到没有的情况一定要告诉我哟！）
2．逻辑错误每次考试必定出现！（主要是考察我们的上下文的理解）
3．词汇问题（词性的混用，代词的滥用）
4．语法问题（时态，语态，主谓一致，连接词，平行结构，分词）
来源：沪江英语