第二十篇： Error Correction (15 minutes)

　　Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerful

　　political pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistributing wealth and in�� 71.____ come in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and upper

　　class interests. People can be relatively rich only if you are relatively poor, and as 72.____power is mainly in the hands of the rich, public policies reflect their interests than 73.____ those of the poor.As Mr. Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from the point of view of the non�瞤oor. Poverty ensures that dirty work gets doing. If there 74.____ were no poor poeple to scrub floors and empty bedpans, there jobs will have to be 75.____rewarded with high incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs for many of the non�瞤oor, such as police officers, welfare workers, and government bureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cookers, 76.____gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores when their employers enjoy 77.____ more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for more inferior goods and 78.____service, such as day�瞣ld bread, run�瞕own automobiles, or the advice of competent 79.____physicians and lawyers. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb the costs of change. It is just that poverty is an inevitable outcome of the American economic system, in which the poor are politically powerless to influence or change. 80.____

　　答案：

　　71.redistributing改為redistribute。attempt to 后面一般接動詞原型，而不接動名詞，因為這里的to是不定式符號，而不是介詞，即attempt to do sth.。��

　　72.you 改為others。此句是說，如果一部分相對比較窮，那么一部分人就會相對比較富。將人群分為兩部分，此處就不能用you，others才可以表示人群的一部分。��

　　73.在interests和than中間加上rather。此句不是表示比較(than)，而是表示轉折(公眾政策反映他們的利益，而不是窮人的利益)，所以應該用rather than (而不是)代替than。��

　　74.doing改為done。此句是被動語態，表示“臟活被完成”，get 是系動詞，所以應用do的過去分詞形式done。��

　　75.will改為would。此句使用了虛擬語氣，表示對現在情況的假設，所以主句應用would。��

　　76.cookers改為cooks。廚師是cook，而不cooker。cooker指炊具，與后面的“gardener(園丁)and other workers”不一致，所以應改為廚師(cook)。��

　　77.when改為while。此處不是表示時間上的同時性，而是表示兩種情形的對比，“一些人在做……，而另一些人在做……”。表示對比的連詞一般用while。��

　　78.去掉more。inferior本身就表示“低級的”，已經構成了比較形式，所以前面一般不能再加more。��

　　79.competent 改為incompetent。此句講的是窮人所能享受的服務，過期的面包、報廢的汽車，還有不合格的醫生和律師所提供的建議。如果是competent，則成了合格的醫生和律師所提供的建議，那么與整句意思不符。��

　　80.去掉in。此句中的which引導非限定性定語從句，作influence和change的直接賓語，因為influence和change均為及物動詞，所以不能加in。