案例分析题
The passage contains 10 errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way.
For a wrong word underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the
blank provided at the end of the line.
For a missing word mark the position of the missing word with a " A " sign
and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank
provided at the end of the line.
For an unnecessary word cross the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the
word in the blank provided at the end of the line.
A considerable amount of work in linguistics has gone in looking at the 1.______
distribute of talk between women and men, and there is some evidence that 2.______
men intend to talk more than women in mixed sex conversations. Scholars 3.______
have suggested that the reason why it is accepted that women are talkative 4.______
sex is that the amount they talk is not comparing with the amount that men 5.______
talk, but with silence, arguing that in fact silence is the preferred state for
women in a patriarchal society. There is certainly some support for the
hypothesis at least in our dramatic heritage: some of Shakespeare’s
characters implicitly regard silence in women as a virtue. Coriolanus, for 6.______
example, greets his wife as "My gracious silence, hail!" King Lear grieves
on his daughter Cordelia, and praises her quiet voice: "Her voice was ever 7.______
soft, /Gentle and low -an excellent thing in a woman. " According to
some further researches, for the part of some contemporary woman playwrights, 8.______
the issue of women’s rights to speak in drama has been handled skillfully.
Female characters who appear strong in plays generally achieve their appearance
of strength by manipulating the kinds of discourse they use, and adapt the 9.______
stereotypes of masculine and feminine behaviours to serve their own ends. 10.______