冠词的错误使用或遗漏

　　全真例题分析

　　(1) The Yukon River, which fllows into the Baring Sea, gives its name to a region of Alaska and a territory of the Canada.

　　(答案) D删掉定冠词the. Canada是专有名词，无需加冠词。表示“国家”“城市”“人物”等概念的专有名词前不加冠词。

　　(2) Langston Hughes, a prolific writer of the 1920’s was concerned with the depicting the experience of urban Black people in the United States.

　　(答案) C 删除冠词the。动名词前不应加冠词。特别是当这个动名词带有宾语，它的动词属性更强烈，因而不能加冠词。

　　(3) Some geologists predict that, by end of the next century, movement along the San Andreas Fault will have caused part of California to separate from the continent (88.1)

　　(答案) A 加入定冠词the,组成固定短语by the end。含冠词的词组不能随意删除或更换。

　　(4) At a first, the scientific method may appear to be a narrow and restrictive way of gaining (89.10)

　　(答案) A 删除不定冠词a。At first为固定短语结构，不能随意添入冠词。

　　(5) Seven of planets rotate in the same direction as their orbital motions, while Venus and Uranus rotate in the opposite direction. (91.8)

　　(答案) A 此句的planets特指太阳系中的九大行星，故应加入定冠词the,即Seven of the planets……。

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