09专八改错题目 Proofreading & Error Correction:

题目及参考答案，仅供参考。

The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes

from one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference (1)_____

between shcool lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learnt

in early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener (2)_____

has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. (3)_____

The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting

It may be something from twenty to seventy years. With the playground (4)_____

lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on whtin the very hour (5)_____

it is learnt; and in the general, it passes between children of the (6)_____

same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in age

between playmates to be more than five years. If therefore, a playground

rhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or (7)_____

even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitting over

and over; very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three (8)_____

hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live (9)_____

after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the (10)____

original wording.

09专八改错参考答案，仅供参考，欢迎指正。

（1）illustrated，承接has shown and illustrated...

版本二：the改为a

(2) the little listener改为a little listener,因为是不确指

版本二：when改为until

（3）their改为his以于上文匹配

（4）something 改为somewhere，前者少指时间之长短

版本二：something改为anything

（5）therefore显然应为however

(6) in the general去掉the

(7) currently 改为current

(8) it has passed along 改为 it has been passed

版本二：over and over 后面加again

(9) live 改为 alive

(10) to let alone去掉to 改为 let alone