There are great impediments to the general use of a standard in pronunciation comparable to that existing in spelling (orthography). One is the fact that pronunciation is learnt ‘naturally’ and unconsciously, and orthography __1
is learnt deliberately and consciously. Large numbers of us, in fact, remain throughout our lives quite unconscious with what our speech sounds __2
like when we speak out, and it often comes as a shock when we __3
firstly hear a recording of ourselves. It is not a voice we recognize at once, __4
whereas our own handwriting is something which we almost always know. We __5
begin the "natural" learning of pronunciation long before we start learning to read or write, and in our early years we went on unconsciously imitating and __6
practicing the pronunciation of those around us for many more hours per every __7
day than we ever have to spend learning even our difficult English spelling.
This is "natural", therefore, that our speech-sounds should be those of our im- __8
mediate circle; after all, as we have seen, speech operates as a means of holding a community together and give a sense of "belonging". We learn quite early to recognize a __9
"stranger",
someone who speaks with an accent of a different community perhaps only a few miles far. __10
【答案】
1將and改為whereas/but/yet
2 將with改為of
unconscious of 是固定搭配。
3 刪掉out
speak out 意思為“大膽地說”，“大聲地說”，與此處意思不符。
4 將firstly改為first
5 將which改為that或者將which刪掉
限制性定語從句前面的先行詞是something，因此要用that引導定語從句。也可以將which刪掉，不用任何引導詞。
6 將went改為go
7 刪掉per或者every
8將This改為It
It在此處做形式主語，後面的that從句是真正的主語。
9 give 改成 giving
10將far改為away
“只有幾英里遠”應是 a few miles away。
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