專八改錯練習第十三篇:

Whether the eyes are "the windows of the soul" isdebatable;
they are intensely important in interpersonalcommunication is a __1__
fact. During the first two months of a baby's life, thestimuli that __2__
produces a smile is a pair of eyes. The eyes need notto be real: a __3__
mask with two dots will produce a smile. Significantly, a real human
face with eyes covered will not motivate a smile, or will the sight of __4__
only one eye when the face is presented on profile. This attraction to __5__
eyes opposed to the nose or mouth continues as the baby matures. __6__
In one study, when American four-year-old were asked to draw __7__
people, 75 percent of them drew people with mouths, and 99 percent __8__
of them drew people with eyes. In Japan, furthermore, where babies __9__
are carried on their mother's back, infants do not acquire as much
attachment to eyes like they do in other cultures. As a result, __10__
Japanese adults make little use of the face either to encode or decode
meaning.

答案及解析(反白可見):
-that
分句后的分句應有它獨立的主謂結構,正像它前面的結構一樣。而后半句的謂語是is,表語是fact,主語似乎是缺失的,因此在they前面加上that就構成了主語從句作為這半句的主語。
i-stimulus
stimuli看似單數(shù)實則是stimulus的復數(shù)形式,因此應改為stimulus。
-/
這里的need作情態(tài)動詞,因此刪去to。
-nor
并列的否定,用否定形式nor表示倒裝。
-in
in profile表示 “側面,從側面”。如:
The painting shows her in profile。
6.^opposed-as
opposed前應使用連詞as引導比較分句。
-olds
由謂語的復數(shù)形式可以看出這里需要用復數(shù)形式four-year-olds。
-but
rmore-however
上一句話指明美國文化中眼睛的重要性,而這一句話似乎指出日本文化中眼睛并不具有同樣的重要性,因此兩句話的關系是轉折而不是遞進。
-as
句子中有一個as……as比較結構?