考博英语改错模拟练习题及答案解析（88）
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Whether the eyes are "the windows of the soul" is debatable;they are intensely important in interpersonal communication is a __1__fact. During the first two months of a baby's life, the stimuli that __2__produces a smile is a pair of eyes. The eyes need not to be real: a __3__mask with two dots will produce a smile. Significantly, a real human face with eyes covered will not motivate a smile, or will the sight of __4__only one eye when the face is presented on profile. This attraction to __5__eyes opposed to the nose or mouth continues as the baby matures. __6__In one study, when American four-year-old were asked to draw __7__people, 75 percent of them drew people with mouths, and 99 percent __8__
of them drew people with eyes. In Japan, furthermore, where babies __9__are carried on their mother's back, infants do not acquire as much attachment to eyes like they do in other cultures. As a result, __10__Japanese adults make little use of the face either to encode or decodemeaning.
答案及解析:
1.they-that
分句后的分句应有它独立的主谓结构，正像它前面的结构一样。而后半句的谓语是is，表语是fact，主语似乎是缺失的，因此在they前面加上that就构成了主语从句作为这半句的主语。
2.stimuli-stimulus
stimuli看似单数实则是stimulus的复数形式，因此应改为stimulus。
3.to-/
这里的need作情态动词，因此删去to。
4.or-nor
并列的否定，用否定形式nor表示倒装。
5.on-in
in profile表示 “侧面，从侧面”。如：
The painting shows her in profile。
6.opposed-as
opposed前应使用连词as引导比较分句。
7.old-olds
由谓语的复数形式可以看出这里需要用复数形式four-year-olds。
8.and-but
9.furthermore-however
上一句话指明美国文化中眼睛的重要性，而这一句话似乎指出日本文化中眼睛并不具有同样的重要性，因此两句话的关系是转折而不是递进。
10.like-as
句子中有一个as……as比较结构。