专业英语八级的改错练习

Artists use caricature to distort the human face or figure for comic affect, __1__while at the same time capturing an identifiable likeness and suggests the essence __2__of the personality or character beneath the surface. The humor lies in the fact __3__the caricature is recognizable, and yet exaggerated.

From their origin in Europe as witty sketches, caricature grew through __4__the eighteenth and nineteenth century, becoming enormously popular in __5__the United States early in this century. In 1920s and 1930s especially,

this lively form of illustration was appeared in newspapers and __6__magazines throughout the country. The caricaturists in this era drew his __7__portraits of important figures primary to entertain. In spirit their work was __8__close to the humor of the fast-developing comic strip and gag cartoon than to the __9__string of political satire. Their subjects were more often amusing than offended __10__by amiable attacks.

答案： 1 将affect改为effect,affect是动词。effect是名词。

2 将suggests改为 suggesting,这是一个以while引导的从句，其中suggest应该与capturing并列。

3在fact后面加上that,因为引导同位语从句的关系词不可以省略。

4 将their改为its,这里its指代单数名词caricature

5 将century改为复数形式

6 将was省略,appear是不及物动词，不应用于被动语态。

7 将his改为their,这里指代复数名词 the caricaturists

8 将primary改为primarily,primarily在这里做状语，修饰不定式短语

9 将close改为比较级形式closer,从后面的`连词than，可以看出，这里使用了比较状语从句

10 将amusing改为 amused,主语subject（受攻击的人）和amuse的逻辑关系是动宾关系，应使用过去分词形式。