每天一练：2008年大学英语六级试题：第五十期

American law regards a partnership as an association of two or more persons who have agreed to combine their labour, property, and skill, or some or all of them, for the purpose of engaging in lawful business and shared profits and losses between them. 1.____The parties forming such an association is known as 2. ____partners. Partners may create a name and use a real 3. ____ family name or names for a partnership. The agreement to form a artnership is known as an article of copartership or partership contract. The importantest 4.____provision of the agreement is the one stipulating the manner of distributing profits. Any number of persons may contract to forming 5. ____ a partnership, and firms of partners may enter into partnership with one nother. However, most corporations have not power to enter into partnership 6.____ if such power is expressly given in the corporate charter 7.____or article of association. New members may be admitted into an existed partnership only with the 8.____consent of all the partners. The agreement of a partnership has a definite term of years in general. If no duration is specified, it is said to be a partnership at will and can legally terminate at any time by any 9.____partners. A partnership can be dissolved or terminated 10.____and the terms of the partnership agreement modified at any time.
　　答案部分
　　 1.【参考答案】将shared改为sharing。
　　【参考译文】该组织联合几方或全部的劳动，财产或技术，以从事合法的商业活动为目的，共享利润，共担损失。
　　【试题分析】本题辨析分词作定语时的误用。
　　【详细解答】 句中，engaging in lawful business和shared profits and losses between them,作the purpose的定语。engaging与shared是并列的，他们的共同的逻辑主语是anassociation of two or more persons,在逻辑关系上，都是主动的，而且，share business本应该是动宾关系，而过去分词shared的误用却改变了这种关系，使shared profits成为一个由过去分词修饰的名词短语：共享的利润。从而使句法混乱，因此，将shared改为sharing。
　　 2.【参考答案】将is改为are。
　　【参考译文】构成这种组织的各方称为合伙人。
　　【试题分析】 本题辨析谓语动词单复数的误用。
　　【详细解答】本句的主语是The parties，故谓语动词应该用are,在使用时，不要受anassociation的干扰。
　　 3.【参考答案】将and改为or。
　　【参考译文】合伙人可以给合伙企业起一个名字，也可以使用一两个真实的姓名作为合伙企业的名称。
　　【试题分析】本题辨析并列连词的误用。
　　【详细解答】表示并列关系常用的连词有两个：即and和or。and表示“和……”表示兼而有之，or表示“或……”，表示选择。句中的意思是：可以起一个名字，或者可以使用一个或几个真实的姓名。因此，不用and,而该用or.[ZK)]