第一題：

　　(1)正確答案：C

　　答案解析：

　　Paragraph 1: "Please, please tell your readers they cannot come to see the squid unless they book," pleaded one.即只有預(yù)訂的參觀者才能看到巨魷。選項D的意思是只有預(yù)訂的參觀者才能進(jìn)博物館，這是干擾選項。

　　(2)正確答案：D

　　答案解析：

　　Paragraph 3: The rest had to do without—and judging from the looks of museum staff, this news often went down badly. Without后面的意思補(bǔ)充完整就是"without seeing the 30ft behemoth"。

　　(3)正確答案：A

　　答案解析：

　　Paragraph 4: The intensity of the public's response to Archie's arrival has been extraordinary….

　　(4)正確答案：

　　Off/near Falkland Islands

　　答案解析：

　　Paragraph 5: …the news that the most complete giant squid ever found (off the Falkland Islands)…

　　(5)正確答案：Planet Earth

　　答案解析：Paragraph 5: …BBC1's latest David Attenborough extravaganza, Planet Earth, tonight.

　　(6)正確答案：reverent/besotted/intrigued

　　答案解析：　Paragraph 4: …and the reverence we feel for our fellow creatures. 此處按照問題“How could we describe the feeling…”要求，應(yīng)使用形容詞，故將名詞reverence改為形容詞reverent。Paragraph 5: We are becoming ever more besotted with animals, it appears. Paragraph 7: We have always been intrigued with wildlife, of course….

　　(7)正確答案：habitat destroyed/climate change

　　答案解析：Paragraph 7: …we are killing off other species at an equivalent rate because of habitat destruction and climate change.

　　(8)正確答案：world's smallest vertebrate/a species of fish/Paedocypris progenetica

　　答案解析：Paragraph 9: …and the world's smallest vertebrate, a species of fish called Paedocypris progenetica. This last wonder, a mere 8mln long, is smaller than a fly and was discovered on Sumatra by an international team that included museum researcher Ralf Britz. 句子中This last wonder即指前面的Paedocypris progenetica。

　　(9)正確答案：20 days

　　答案解析：Paragraph 10: But for every day you spend in the field looking for new animals, you have to spend 20 studying what you bring back and work out its relationships with other creatures.

　　(10)正確答案：gold standard/basic data

　　答案解析：Paragraph 11: These specimens are the gold standards of the animal world and provide the basic data that have allowed scientists to unravel the history of natural selection on Earth.

　　(11)正確答案：billing

　　答案解析：Paragraph 12: But how long he will retain his number one billing, it is hard to say.

　　(12)正確答案：great media attention

　　答案解析：Paragraph 12: …contains a 4ft fish: a coelacanth, once thought to have become extinct millions of years ago but discovered—to great media attention—in the Indian Ocean in 1938.

　　第二題：

　　(1)正確答案：D

　　答案解析：Paragraph 1: …and no other theory can match its description of how light and particles behave on small scales.

　　(2)正確答案：A

　　答案解析：Paragraph 2: But it can also be mind-bending.

　　(3)正確答案：B

　　答案解析：Paragraph 3: scientists are…trying to harness quantum's bizarre properties to advance technology, …

　　(4)正確答案：ultraviolet catastrophe

　　答案解析：Paragraph 4: Previous theories allowed atoms to vibrate at any frequency, leading to incorrect predictions that they could radiate infinite amounts of energy-a problem known as the ultraviolet catastrophe. 注意不要被問題和原文里lead to的使用所誤導(dǎo)，問題所在的句子主語是atomic energy，而原文中動詞短語lead to的主語是previous theories。

　　(5)正確答案：photoelectric effect

　　答案解析：Paragraph 5: Then, in 1905, Einstein cracked the mystery of the photoelectric effect, whereby light falling on metal releases electrons of specific energies. The existing theory of light as waves failed to explain the effect, but Einstein provided a neat solution by suggesting…

　　(6)正確答案：(the) act of measurement, one's observation/what we observe

　　答案解析：Paragraph 6: In his "Copenhagen interpretation", Bohr argued that the very act of measurement affects what we observe.

　　(7)正確答案：Heisenberg uncertainty principle

　　答案解析：Paragraph 10: Bohr defeated Einstein in a series of thought experiments in the 1920s and 1930s using this principle,…這里的this principle指的是上一段的Heisenberg uncertainty principle。

　　(8)正確答案：linked/entangled

　　答案解析：Paragraph 11: Entanglement is the idea that in the quantum world, objects…They become linked, or entangled,…代詞They指quantum objects。

　　(9)正確答案：finance/money transfer/computer network

　　答案解析：Paragraph 14: In April 2004, Austrian financial institutions performed the first money transfer encrypted by quantum keys, and in June, the first encrypted computer network with more than two nodes was set up across 10 kilometres in Cambridge，Massachusetts, US.

　　(10)正確答案：Maximise particles' signal/distance travelled

　　答案解析：Paragraph 15: But keeping quantum particles entangled is a tricky business. Researchers are working on how to maximise the particles' signal and distance travelled.

　　(11)正確答案：fast calculation

　　答案解析：Paragraph 16: …they could be used to carry out many calculations at once, …compared to the years required by conventional computers.

　　第三題：

　　(1)正確答案：previously

　　答案解析：這個表達(dá)方式也可參照本文第二段第一句話末尾的表達(dá)“…than previously thought”。

　　(2)正確答案：thank

　　答案解析：thank for是常見短語，表達(dá)因果關(guān)系。

　　(3)正確答案：first

　　(4)正確答案：earlier

　　答案解析：空格后的than提示此處應(yīng)使用形容詞比較級形式。

　　(5)正確答案：until

　　答案解析：not…until…的用法。

　　(6)正確答案：on/onto

　　答案解析：on (onto) the scene是常見搭配。

　　(7)正確答案：most

　　答案解析：空格前有定冠詞the，空格后是形容詞important，此處是多音節(jié)形容詞最高級的形式。

　　(8)答案:different

　　答案解析：空格后是名詞，空格前是表達(dá)數(shù)量的hundreds of，此處需要一個能修飾限定名詞的成分，應(yīng)該是另一個名詞或一個形容詞。

　　(9)答案:estimate

　　(10)答案:approximately/around

　　答案解析：

　　第九題和第十題可互相參考。第十題空格后是表示年代長短的數(shù)字，這個長度常理應(yīng)該是無法確定精確年份的，所以考慮使用表達(dá)“大至，大概”的詞，那么這個數(shù)字也就是估測的數(shù)字。

　　(11)答案:led

　　答案解析：從文章第一段結(jié)尾和第二段開頭"…U.S. researchers reported Thursday."，"Researchers at Harvard University…"可見進(jìn)行此研究項目應(yīng)該是多人組成的研究小組作的，所以此處選用led比較合適。

　　(12)答案:plants

　　答案解析：空格前是代詞these，據(jù)此推斷空格處應(yīng)選擇上文提到的事件。

　　(13)答案:both

　　答案解析：空格后足由并列連接詞and連接的兩個表達(dá)位置的短語in the forest canopy和in the more complex leaf litter on the forest floor，此處應(yīng)選擇能表達(dá)“兩個都”意義的詞。

　　(14)答案:ants

　　答案解析：整個一段是山and連接的兩個并列分句，前半部分"These plants provided ants with new habitats"，后半部分主要結(jié)構(gòu)是"the herbivorous insects provided food for…"，即植物為ants提供新的棲息地，而植食性昆蟲(herbivorous insects)為其提供食物。

　　(15)答案:issue

　　(16)答案:using

　　(17)答案:widely

　　答案解析：be widely used是常見表達(dá)方式。

　　(18)答案:determine

　　(19)答案:rate

　　答案解析：at a rate的用法。

　　(20)答案:related

　　答案解析：be related to的用法。