2001年6月大学英语六级考试真题试卷 - 改错

Part Ⅳ Error Correction (15 minutes)

More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of any
other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably
been the case in quite a while. During the early stages of 71. __________
the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh 72. __________
deaths in Europe's were caused by the 73. __________
disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the 74. __________
global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. With
occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and
infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily 75. __________
through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, the
introduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened the
trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed
to be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers 76. __________
declared victory and withdrew.
They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of 77. __________
infections and deaths started to pick up again around the
world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in 78. __________
many places where it had never been away, it grew better. 79. __________
The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7
billion people (a third of the earth's population) suffer
from tuberculosis. Even when the infection rate was
falling, population growth kept the number of clinical
cases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around 80. __________
3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor countries.

答案：
71. in改为for 72. seventh改为seven
73. were改为was 74. now改为then
75. 删除the 76. imported改为exported
77. are改为were 78. vanished之前加had
79. better改为worse 80. constantly改为constant