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.< br>For a < u>wrong< /u> wordunderline the wrong word and write the correct one in the< br> blank provided at the end of the line.< br>For a < u>missing< /u> wordmark the position of the missing word with a " A " sign< br> and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank< br> provided at the end of the line.< br>For an < u>unnecessary< /u> word cross the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the< br> word in the blank provided at the end of the line.< br>A considerable amount of work in linguistics has gone in looking at the 1.______< br> distribute of talk between women and men, and there is some evidence that2.______< br> men intend to talk more than women in mixed sex conversations. Scholars 3.______< br> have suggested that the reason why it is accepted that women are talkative 4.______< br> sex is that the amount they talk is not comparing with the amount that men 5.______< br> talk, but with silence, arguing that in fact silence is the preferred state for< br> women in a patriarchal society. There is certainly some support for the< br> hypothesis at least in our dramatic heritage: some of Shakespeare’s< br> characters implicitly regard silence in women as a virtue. Coriolanus, for 6.______< br> example, greets his wife as "My gracious silence, hail!" King Lear grieves< br> on his daughter Cordelia, and praises her quiet voice: "Her voice was ever 7.______< br> soft, /Gentle and low -an excellent thing in a woman. " According to< br> some further researches, for the part of some contemporary woman playwrights,8.______< br> the issue of women’s rights to speak in drama has been handled skillfully.< br> Female characters who appear strong in plays generally achieve their appearance< br> of strength by manipulating the kinds of discourse they use, and adapt the 9.______< br> stereotypes of masculine and feminine behaviours to serve their own ends. 10.______< br>
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