2000年八级试卷及答案

PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN.) 2000年八级试卷及答案TEXT A

Despite Denmark‘s manifest virtues, Danes never talk about how proud they are to be Danes. This would sound weird in Danish. When Danes talk to foreigners about Denmark, they always begin by commenting on its tininess, its unimportance, the difficulty of its language, the general small-mindedness and self-indulgence of their countrymen and the high taxes. No Dane would look you in the eye and say, “Denmark is a great country.”You‘re supposed to figure this out for yourself.

It is the land of the silk safety net, where almost half the national budget goes toward smoothing out life‘s inequalities, and there is plenty of money for schools, day care, retraining programmes, job seminars-Danes love seminars: three days at a study centre hearing about waste management is almost as good as a ski trip. It is a culture bombarded by English, in advertising, pop music, the Internet, and despite all the English that Danish absorbs—there is no Danish Academy to defend against it —old dialects persist in Jutland that can barely be understood by Copenhageners. It is the land where, as the saying goes, ―Few have too much and fewer have too little,‖ and a foreigner is struck by the sweet egalitarianism that prevails, where the lowliest clerk gives you a level gaze, where Sir and Madame have disappeared from common usage, even Mr. and Mrs. It‘s a nation of recyclers—about 55 % of Danish garbage gets made into something new—and no nuclear power plants. It‘s a nation of tireles s planner. Trains run on time. Things operate well in general.

Such a nation of overachievers — a brochure from the Ministry of Business and Industry says, ―Denmark is one of the world‘s cleanest and most organized countries, with virtually no pollution, crime, or poverty. Denmark is the most corruption-free society in the Northern Hemisphere.‖ So, of course, one‘s heart lifts at any sighting of Danish sleaze: skinhead graffiti on buildings (―Foreigners Out of Denmark!‖), broken beer bottles in the gutters, drunken teenagers slumped in the park.

Nonetheless, it is an orderly land. You drive through a Danish town, it comes to an end at a stone wall, and on the other side is a field of barley, a nice clean line: town here, country there. It is not a nation of jay-walkers. People stand on the curb and wait for the red light to change, even if it‘s 2 a.m. and there‘s not a car in sight. However, Danes don‘t think of themselves as a waiting-at-2-a.m.-for-the-green-light people——that‘s how they see Swedes and Germans. Danes see themselves as jazzy people, improvisers, more free spirited than Swedes, but the truth is (though one should not say it) that Danes are very much like Germans and Swedes. Orderliness is a main selling point. Denmark has few natural resources, limited manufacturing capability; its future in Europe will be as a broker, banker, and distributor of goods. You send your goods by container ship to Copenhagen, and these bright, young, English-speaking, utterly honest, highly disciplined people will get your goods around to Scandinavia, the Baltic States, and Russia. Airports, seaports, highways, and rail lines are ultramodern and well-maintained.

The orderliness of the society doesn‘t mean that Danish lives are less messy or lonely than

yours or mine, and no Dane would tell you so. You can hear plenty about bitter family feuds and the sorrows of alcoholism and about perfectly sensible people who went off one day and killed themselves. An orderly society can not exempt its members from the hazards of life.

But there is a sense of entitlement and security that Danes grow up with. Certain things are yours by virtue of citizenship, and you shouldn‘t feel bad for taking what you‘re entitled to, you‘re as good as anyone else. The rules of the welfare system ar e clear to everyone, the benefits you get if you lose your job, the steps you take to get a new one; and the orderliness of the system makes it possible for the country to weather high unemployment and social unrest without a sense of crisis.

16. The author thinks that Danes adopt a ___ attitude towards their country.

A. boastful

B. modest

C. deprecating

D. mysterious

17. Which of the following is NOT a Danish characteristic cited in the passage?

A. Fondness of foreign culture.

B. Equality in society.

C. Linguistic tolerance.

D. Persistent planning.

18. The author‘s reaction to the statement by the Ministry of Business and Industry is ___.

A. disapproving

B. approving

C. noncommittal

D. doubtful

19. According to the passage, Danish orderliness ___.

A. sets the people apart from Germans and Swedes

B. spares Danes social troubles besetting other people

C. is considered economically essential to the country

D. prevents Danes from acknowledging existing troubles

20. At the end of the passage the author states all the following EXCEPT that ___.

A. Danes are clearly informed of their social benefits

B. Danes take for granted what is given to them

C. the open system helps to tide the country over

D. orderliness has alleviated unemployment

TEXT B

But if language habits do not represent classes, a social stratification in to something as bygone as ―aristocracy‖ and ―commons‖, they do still of course serve to identify social groups. This is something that seems fundamental in the use of language. As we see in relation to political and national movements, language is used as a badge or a barrier depending on which way we look at it. The new boy at school feels out of it at first because he does not know the fight words for things, and awe-inspiring pundits of six or seven look down on him for not being aware that racksy means ―dilapidated‖, or hairy ―out first ball‖. The miner takes a certain pride in being ―one up on the visitor or novice who calls the cage a ―lift‖ or who thinks that men working in a warm seam are in their ―underpants‖ when anyone ought to know that the garments are called hoggers. The ―insider‖ is seldom displeased that his language distinguishes him from

the ―outsider”.

Quite apart from specialized terms of this kind in groups, trades and professions, there are all kinds of standards of correctness at which mast of us feel more or less obliged to aim, because we know that certain kinds of English invite irritation or downright condemnation. On the other hand, we know that other kinds convey some kind of prestige and bear a welcome cachet.

In relation to the social aspects of language, it may well be suggested that English speakers fall into three categories: the assured, the anxious and the indifferent. At one end of this scale, we have the people who have ―position‖ and ―status‖, and who therefore do not feel they need worry much about their use of English. Their education and occupation make them confident of speaking an unimpeachable form of English: no fear of being criticized or corrected is likely to cross their minds, and this gives their speech that characteristically unselfconscious and easy flow which is often envied.

At the other end of the scale, we have an equally imperturbable band, speaking with a similar degree of careless ease, because even if they are aware that their English is condemned by others, they are supremely indifferent to the fact. The Mrs Mops of this world have active and efficient tongues in their heads, and if we happened not to like their ways of saying things, well, we ―can lump i t‖. That is their attitude. Curiously enough, writers are inclined to represent the speech of both these extreme parties with –in‘ for ing. On the one hand, ―we‘re goin‘ huntin’, my dear sir‖; on the other, ―we‘re goin‘ racin‘ , mate.‖

In between, according to this view, we have a far less fortunate group, the anxious. These actively try to suppress what they believe to be bad English and assiduously cultivate what they hope to be good English. They live their lives in some degree of nervousness over their grammar, their pronunciation, and their choice of words: sensitive, and fearful of betraying themselves. Keeping up with the Joneses is measured not only in houses, furniture, refrigerators, cars, and clothes, but also in speech.

And the misfortune of the ―anxious‖ does not end with their inner anxiety. Their lot is also the open or veiled contempt of the ―assured‖ on one side of them and of the ―indifferent‖ on the other.

It is all too easy to raise an unworthy laugh at the anxious. The people thus uncomfortably stilted on linguistic high heels so often form part of what is, in many ways, the most admirable section of any society: the ambitious, tense, inner-driven people, who are bent on ―going places and doing things‖. The great er the pity, then, if a disproportionate amount of their energy goes into what Mr. Sharpless called ―this shabby obsession‖ with variant forms of English—especially if the net result is (as so often) merely to sound affected and ridiculous. ―Here‖, accord ing to Bacon, ―is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter …. It seems to me that Pygmalion‘s frenzy is a good emblem …of this vanity: for words axe but the images of matter; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a picture.”

21. The attitude held by the assured towards language is ___.

A. critical

B. anxious

C. self-conscious

D. nonchalant

22. The anxious are considered a less fortunate group because ___.

A. they feel they are socially looked down upon

B. they suffer from internal anxiety and external attack

C. they are inherently nervous and anxious people

D. they are unable to meet standards of correctness

23. The author thinks that the efforts made by the anxious to cultivate what they believe is good English are ___.

A. worthwhile

B. meaningless

C. praiseworthy

D. irrational

TEXT C

Fred Cooke of Salford turned 90 two days ago and the world has been beating a path to his door. If you haven‘t noticed, the backstreet boy educated at Blackpool g rammar styles himself more grandly as Alastair Cooke, broadcaster extraordinaire. An honorable KBE, he would be Sir Alastair if he had not taken American citizenship more than half a century ago.

If it sounds snobbish to draw attention to his humble origins, it should be reflected that the real snob is Cooke himself, who has spent a lifetime disguising them. But the fact that he opted to renounce his British passport in 1941 — just when his country needed all the wartime help it could get-is hardly a matter for congratulation.

Cooke has made a fortune out of his love affair with America, entrancing listeners with a weekly monologue that has won Radio 4 many devoted adherents. Part of the pull is the developed drawl. This is the man who gave the world ―midatlantic‖, the langua ge of the disc jockey and public relations man.

He sounds American to us and English to them, while in reality he has for decades belonged to neither. Cooke‘s world is an America that exists largely in the imagination. He took ages to acknowledge the disaster that was Vietnam and even longer to wake up to Watergate. His politics have drifted to the right with age, and most of his opinions have been acquired on the golf course with fellow celebrities.

He chased after stars on arrival in America, Fixing up an interview with Charlie Chaplin and briefly becoming his friend. He told Cooke he could turn him into a fine light comedian; instead he is an impressionist‘s dream.

Cooke liked the sound of his first wife‘s name almost as much as he admired her good looks. But he found bringing up baby difficult and left her for the wife of his landlord.

Women listeners were unimpressed when, in 1996, he declared on air that the fact that 4% of women in the American armed forces were raped showed remarkable self-restraint on the part of Uncle Sam‘s soldiers. His arrogance in not allowing BBC editors to see his script in advance worked, not for the first time, to his detriment. His defenders said he could not help living with

the 1930s values he had acqui red and somewhat dubiously went on to cite ―gallantry‖ as chief among them. Cooke‘s raconteur style encouraged a whole generation of BBC men to think of themselves as more important than the story. His treacly tones were the model for the regular World Service reports From Our Own Correspondent, known as FOOCs in the business. They may yet be his epitaph.

24. At the beginning of the passage the writer sounds critical of ___.

A. Cooke‘s obscure origins

B. Cooke‘s broadcasting style

C. Cooke‘s American citizenship

D. Cooke‘s fondness of America

25. The following adjectives can be suitably applied to Cooke EXCEPT ___.

A. old-fashioned

B. sincere

C. arrogant

D. popular

26. The writer comments on Cooke‘s life and career in a slightly ___ tone.

A. ironic

B. detached

C. scathing

D. indifferent

TEXT D

Mr. Duffy raised his eyes from the paper and gazed out of his window on the cheerless evening landscape. The river lay quiet beside the empty distillery and from time to time a light appeared in some house on Lucan Road. What an end! The whole narrative of her death revolted him and it revolted him to think that he had ever spoken to her of what he held sacred. The cautious words of a reporter won over to conceal the details of a commonplace vulgar death attacked his stomach. Not merely had she degraded herself, she had degraded him. His soul‘s companion! He thought of the hobbling wretches whom he had seen carrying cans and bottles to be filled by the barman. Just God, what an end! Evidently she had been unfit to live, without any strength of purpose, an easy prey to habits, one of the wrecks on which civilization has been reared. But that she could have sunk so low! Was it possible he had deceived himself so utterly about her? He remembered her outburst of that night and interpreted it in a harsher sense than he had ever done. He had no difficulty now in approving of the course he had taken.

As the light failed and his memory began to wander he thought her hand touched his. The shock which had first attacked his stomach was now attacking his nerves. He put on his overcoat and hat quickly and went out. The cold air met him on the threshold; it crept into the sleeves of his coat. When he came to the public house at Chapel Bridge he went in and ordered a hot punch.

The proprietor served him obsequiously but did not venture to talk. There were five or six working-men in the shop discussing the value of a gentleman‘s estate in County Kildare. They drank at intervals from their huge pint tumblers, and smoked, spitting often on the floor and sometimes dragging the sawdust over their heavy boots. Mr Duffy sat on his stool and gazed at them, without seeing or hearing them. After a while they went out and he called for another

punch. He sat a long time over it. The shop was very quiet. The proprietor sprawled on the counter reading the newspaper and yawning. Now and again a tram was heard swishing along the lonely road outside.

As he sat there, living over his life with her and evoking alternately the two images on which he now conceived her, he realized that she was dead, that she had ceased to exist, that she had become a memory. He began to feel ill at ease. He asked himself what else could he have done. He could not have lived with her openly. He had done what seemed to him best. How was he to blame? Now that she was gone he understood how lonely her life must have been, sitting night after night alone in that room. His life would be lonely too until he, too, died, ceased to exist, became a memory-if anyone remembered him.

27. Mr Duffy‘s immediate reaction to the report of the woman‘s death was that of ___.

A. disgust

B. guilt

C. grief

D. compassion

28. It can be inferred from the passage that the reporter wrote about the woman‘s death in a ___ manner.

A. detailed

B. provocative

C. discreet

D. sensational

29. We can infer from the last paragraph that Mr Duffy was in a (n) ___ mood.

A. angry

B. fretful

C. irritable

D. remorseful

30. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Mr Duffy once confided in the woman.

B. Mr Duffy felt an intense sense of shame.

C. The woman wanted to end the relationship.

D. They became estranged probably after a quarrel.

Part III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE [ 10 MIN.]

There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.

1. Which one of the following is NOT particularly British Christmas tradition?

A.enjoying the Pantomime

B.the Queen broadcasting her Christmas message

C.receiving gifts from Santa Claus

D.shopping on the Boxing Day

2. Which of the following is NOT a power of the president?

A.The president can veto any bill passed by Congress.

B.The president has the authority to appoint federal judges when vacancies occur.

C.The president can make laws.

D.The president has broad powers, with the executive branch, to issue regulation and

directives regarding the work of the federal department.

3. Which of the following writers was NOT associated with Modernism?

A. D.H Lawrence

B. E.M Forster

C. Charles Dickens

D. Virginia Woolf

4. Which of the following is generally considered to be the masterpiece by Joseph Conrad?

A. Sybil

B. The Heart of Darkness

C. Bleak House

D. Wuthering Heights

5. Three of the following are characteristics of Emily Dickinsons‘ poems. Which one is not?

A.Her poems mix gaiety and gloom.

B.Her verse are filled with the names of faraway, exotic places.

C.Her poems are very long and powerful.

D.Her poems show that she was fascinated by both life and death.

6. ---------- does NOT belong to the ―Lost Generation‖.

A.John Dos Passos

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. F.Scott Fitzgerald

D. John Steinbeck

7. The Australian national day is set on January 26 to commemorate

A.the founding of the Commonwealth of Australia.

B.The discovery of the great southern ?unknown land‘.

C.The first European settlement of the continent.

D.Captain James Cook‘s first voyage around Australia.

8. A ------- in the embedded clause refers to the introductory word that introduces the embedded clause.

A. coordinator

B. particle

C. preposition

D. subordinator

9. In semantic studies,------refers to the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.

A. reference

B. sense

C. synonym

D. homonymy

10. The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called ---------.

A. semantics

B. sociolinguistics

C. pragmatics

D. psycholinguistics.

PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN.)

The grammatical words which play so large a part in English

grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different 1. ___

from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may

seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have ―less

meaning‖, but in fact some grammarians have called them 2. ___

―empty‖ words as opposed in the ―full‖ words of vocabulary. 3. ___

But this is a rather misled way of expressing the distinction. 4. ___ Although a word like the is not the name of something as man is,

it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a sharp 5. ___ difference in meaning between ―man is vile and‖―the man is

vile‖, yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. 6. ___ Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among

themselves as the amount of meaning they have, even in the 7. ___

lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been

―little words‖. But size is by no mean a good criterion for 8. ___ distinguishing the grammatical words of English, when we

consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart 9. ___ from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some

people say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity 10. ___ when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry of

Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.

PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN.)

TEXT A

短文大意：本文是有关丹麦社会秩序的介绍。

16.答案：B

【参考译文】作者认为丹麦人对他们的国家持什么样的态度？

【试题分析】本题为推理题。

【详细解答】短文第一段首句说―Despite Denmark‘s manifest virtues, Danes never talk about how proud they are to be Dan es.‖由此可知，丹麦人对他们的国家持谦虚态度，故答案选B。

17.答案：A

【参考译文】下列哪一项不是文中所评价的丹麦人的特征？

【试题分析】本题为细节题，可用排除法解答。

【详细解答】短文第二段第二句说―…and despite all the English that Danish absorbs — there is no Danish Academy to defend against it — old dialects persist in J utland that can barely be understood by Copenhageners.‖由此可知，丹麦是一个在语言上有容忍性的国家，故可排除选项C；下一句接着说―It is the land where, as the sa ying goes,― Few have too much and fewer have too little, ‖and a foreigner is str uck by the sweet egalitarianism that prevails,…‖由此可知丹麦社会是个人人平等的社会，故可排除选项B；由本段最后一句―It‘s a nation of tireless planner. Trains r un on time. Things operate well in general.‖可知，丹麦是个有秩序守时的国家，故可排除选项D。文中并没有提到丹麦人喜欢外国文化，故选项A为正确答案。

18.答案：D

【参考译文】作者对工商业部长所说的话的反应是什么？

【试题分析】本题为推理题。

【详细解答】工商部长在讲话中说到丹麦是世界上最干净，最有秩序的国家，没有污染，没有犯罪与贫穷等等，作者并没有直接地表达自己的态度，而是列举了一些与该部长谈话相反的社会现象，由此可知，作者是持怀疑的态度，故答案选D。

19.答案：C

【参考译文】根据该短文，丹麦社会的井然有序怎样？

【试题分析】本题为细节题。

【详细解答】短文第四段中说到―Orderliness is a main selling point.‖由于丹麦缺乏自然资源，井然有序的社会秩序对该国经济发展起到重要作用，故选项C为正确答案。

20.答案：D

【参考译文】下列哪一项不是作者在文中最后一段陈述的内容？

【试题分析】本题为细节题，可用排除法解答。

【详细解答】由本段第三句―The rules of the welfare system are clear to everyone,… ‖，可排除选项A；由第二句中的―…you shouldn‘t feel bad for taking what you‘re e ntitled to,…‖可排除选项B；由最后一句―the orderliness of the system makes it p ossible for the country to weather high unemployment and social unrest without a sense of crisis.‖可排除选项C。本段并没有提到―井然有序的社会秩序有可能减轻失业问题‖，故答案选D。

TEXT B

短文大意：本文主要介绍的是三类使用英语的人。

21.答案：D

【参考译文】自信类的人对语言的态度如何？

【试题分析】本题为细节题。

【详细解答】短文第三段在谈到自信类的人时说―…who therefore do not feel th ey need worry much about their use of English. Their education and occupation make them confident of speaking an unimpeachable form of English: no fear of being critici zed or corrected is likely to cross their minds, and this gives their speech tha t characteristically unselfconscious and easy flow which is often envied.‖由此可知，自信类的人总是泰然自若、无所畏惧的样子，故答案选D。

22.答案：B

【参考译文】为何焦虑类的人被认为是不幸的？

【试题分析】本题为细节题。

【详细解答】短文第五段第三句说―They live their lives in some degree of nervousnes s over their grammar,…‖第六段第二句说―Their lot is also the open or veiled co ntempt of the ?assured‘on one side of them and of the ―indifferent‖ on the oth er.‖由此可知，内外受困使得焦虑类的人成为不幸者，故答案选B。

23.答案：D

【参考译文】作者认为应该如何看待焦虑者为实现他心中的好英语所做出的努力？ 【试题分析】本题为推理题。

【详细解答】短文最后一段首句说―It is all too easy to rais e an unworthy laugh at t he anxious.‖这些人可能会在语言方面花费过多的精力，以致被英语的各种形式所困扰。作者认为这些做法是不明智的。故答案选D―不合理的，荒谬的‖。

TEXT C

短文大意：本文是对著名广播节目主持人库克的一生的评论。

24.答案：C

【参考译文】短文的开头，作者似乎对库克的哪一方面进行了批评？

【试题分析】本题为细节题。

【详细解答】短文第二段首句中说―…it should be reflected that the rea l snob is Coo ke himself, who has spent a lifetime disguising them.‖ 这句话表明作者对于库克放弃英国护照的做法是持批评态度，认为这一点是不能容忍的，故答案选C。

25.答案：B

【参考译文】不能用下列哪一个形容词来描述库克？

【试题分析】本题为细节题，可用排除法解答。

【详细解答】短文第一段描写的是库克过90岁生日的盛况，由此可知库克相当有名，故可首先排除选项D；短文最后一段第二句说―His arrogance in n ot allowing BBC editors to se e his script in advance worked, not for the first time, to his detriment.‖由此可知他的傲慢个性，故可排除选项C；这里接着说―His defenders said he could not hel p living with the 1930s

values he had acquired and somewhat dubiously went on to cite ―gallantry‖ as chief among them.‖由此可知他是一位保守人物，故可排除选项A ；全文没有提到他的―真诚‖一面，故答案选B。

26.答案：C

【参考译文】在评论库克的一生和他的职业时，作者的语气有点怎样？

【试题分析】本题为推理题。

【详细解答】文中在谈到库克的事业成功给予了肯定。而当谈到他的国籍、婚姻、军队中性犯罪、为人处事等问题时，作者提出了极其严厉地批评。故选项C―尖锐的，讽刺的‖为正确答案。

TEXT D

短文大意：本文主要是对Duffy先生得知旧情人死讯后心情的描写。

27.答案：A

【参考译文】当Duffy先生看到有关那位女士死亡的报道时，他的第一反应是什么？ 【试题分析】本题为细节题。

【详细解答】短文第一段第三句说―The whole narrative of her death revolted him and it revolted him to think that he had ever spoken to her of what he held sacred. ‖这里两次用到revolt（厌恶，反感）一词，因此答案选A。

28.答案：C

【参考译文】从文章中能推断出记者在报道该女土死亡时用的什么方式？

【试题分析】本题为推理题。

【详细解答】短文第一段第四句说―The cautious words of a reporter won over to conce al the details of a commonplace vulgar death attacked his stomach.‖由此可知选项C―谨慎的‖为正确答案。

29.答案：D

【参考译文】我们可以从文章最后一段推断出Duffy先生的心情如何？

【试题分析】本题为推理题。

【详细解答】短文最后—段提到，当Duffy先生坐在房间里回想与―她‖的往事的时，―He be gan to feel ill at ease. He asked himself what else could he have done. He could not have lived with her openly. He had done what seemed to him best. How was he to blame?‖从这里我们可以看出他处于一种自责、懊悔的情绪之中。故选项D―懊悔的‖ 为正确答案。

30.答案：C

【参考译文】根据该短文，下列哪一种说法是不正确的？

【试题分析】本题为细节题，可用排除法解答。

【详细解答】短文第一段第四句说―…he had ever spoken to her of what he held sacred .‖，由此可知他曾经十分信任她，故可排除选项A。第六句说―Not merely had she degra ded herself, she had degraded him.‖这表明他感到非常羞耻，故可排除选项B；该段还提到Duffy先生和―她‖发生了一次激烈的争吵，于是他提出分手，最后一句说―He had no difficulty now in approving of the course he had taken.‖这表明是Duffy先生想要结束他们之间的关系。故答案选项C。

Part III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE [ 10 MIN.]

1.C

2.C

3.C

4.B.

5.C

6.D

7.C

8.D.

9. B 10.C

PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN.)

1.答案：the

【详细解答】本句中的most为副词，修饰形容词obvious，意为―十分，非常‖，由于obvious 不是最高级形式，故不用定冠词the。

2.答案：but→and

【详细解答】根据文章内容判断，but后面的陈述与前文并不是相反之意，而是并列关系。

3.答案：in→to

【详细解答】as opposed to为固定搭配，意为―与……对照，与……相比‖。

4.答案：misled→misleading

【详细解答】根据句意，这里的方式（way）是对他人有误导，不是被他人误导。所以应该用m islead的现在分词表示主动的含义。

5.答案：away

【详细解答】far away from意为―距离某处很远‖，而far from being则意为―远不是，远够不上‖。根据上下文，这里是说―远非毫无意义‖，故应该用短语far from being。

6.答案：single→only

【详细解答】此处用only修饰vehicle比用single更符合习惯用法。

7.答案：as→in

【详细解答】本句中的介词in表示―在……方面‖，as则无此意。

8.答案：mean→means

【详细解答】by no means为固定搭配，意为―丝毫不，绝不‖。

9.答案：have∧→such

【详细解答】such as是常见表达方式，用来举例说明。

10.答案：obscurity→obscurities

【详细解答】a number of 意为―大量的‖，应修饰可数名词复数形式。