大学英语六级改错指导：冠词

本期重点：冠词

冠词主要考查不定冠词和定冠词的混淆。还有的是考查一些固定搭配，例如on the other hand, for instance / example（中间没有an）等。

考点解析：

例1：With occasional breaks for war, the rates of death
and infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily S5._________
through the 19th and 20th centuries.

解析：定冠词the通常表示特指。Europe是专有名词，无需加定冠词特指。

例2：Their experiments have shown that reading disorders
are most likely the result of what is, in an effect, faulty wiring S3. __________
in the brain—not laziness, stupidity or a poor home environment.

解析：in effect / fact是固定搭配，表示陈述事实，意为“事实上，实际上”。

例3：Most American businesses are open five days a week. American
school children attend the school five days a week as well 2._________

解析：attend school意为“上学”，而不是特指“学校”，所以将the 去掉。相类似的词还有go to bed, in hospital（住院），in the hospital（在医院）等。

例4：Every week hundreds of CVs(简历) land on our desks.
We’ve seen it all: CVs printed on pink paper, CVs that are 10
pages long and CVs with silly mistakes in first paragraph. A S1 __________

解析：表示“第几”时，在序数词前面要加上定冠词the。但是如果把名词paragraph，lesson等词放在基数词前则不需加定冠词，例如lesson one等。