專業英語八級的改錯練習

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 將affect改為effect,affect是動詞。effect是名詞。

2 將suggests改為 suggesting,這是一個以while引導的從句，其中suggest應該與capturing並列。

3在fact後面加上that,因為引導同位語從句的關係詞不可以省略。

4 將their改為its,這裡its指代單數名詞caricature

5 將century改為複數形式

6 將was省略,appear是不及物動詞，不應用於被動語態。

7 將his改為their,這裡指代複數名詞 the caricaturists

8 將primary改為primarily,primarily在這裡做狀語，修飾不定式短語

9 將close改為比較級形式closer,從後面的`連詞than，可以看出，這裡使用了比較狀語從句

10 將amusing改為 amused,主語subject（受攻擊的人）和amuse的邏輯關係是動賓關係，應使用過去分詞形式。