There great impediments to the

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 a means of holding a

community and to 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__

參考答案及分析：

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”，與此意思不符。

4. 將firstly改為firsstly

5. 將which改為that或刪除which。限制性定語從句前面的先行詞是something，所以要用that引導定語從句。您也可以在沒有任何引導詞的情況下刪除which。

6. 將went改為go

7. 刪除per或every

8. 將This改為IT

It在這里做形式主語，后面的that從句是真正的主語。

9. 在comunity后面添加together

這里的大意是“語音是團結社區的工具”。

10. 將far改為away

“只有幾英里遠”應是 a few miles away。

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