1. A microscope can reveal vastly _____ detail than is visible to the naked eye.
(A) than
(B) than more
(C) more than
(D) more.
答案:D
分析:由信號詞分析:由信號詞than可知空各處應填more.
參考譯文:一臺顯微鏡能展示遠超過肉眼看見的非常多的細節(jié)。
2. Narcissus bulbs _____ at least three inches apart and covered with about four inches of well drained soil.
(A) should be planted
(B) to plant
(C) must planting
(D) should plant
答案:A
分析:空格前為主語,空格出缺謂語動詞,故首先排除(B)。(C)中must后應該接動詞塬形,故也排除。Plant是及物動詞,在沒有賓語的情況下應該用被動語態(tài)形式,故選(A).
參考譯文:種植水仙花球時應該至少保持3IN的間距,并且要用大約4IN的有良好透水性的土壤覆蓋。
3. Industrialization has been responsible for _____ most radical of the environmental changes caused by humans.
(A) a
(B) the
(C) some of which
(D) which are the
答案:B
分析:空格后為形容詞最高級,空格處應填定冠詞。
參考譯文:由人類所造成的環(huán)境變化中,工業(yè)化導致了環(huán)境最根本的變化。
4. In many areas the slope and topography of the land _____ excess rainfall to run off into a natural outlet.
(A) neither permit
(B) without permitting
(C) nor permitting
(D) do not permit.
答案:D
分析:句子缺少謂語動詞。(A)項沒有與neither對應的nor.(B)(C)不能做謂語,故選(D).
參考譯文:在許多地區(qū),陸地的坡度和地形決定了過量的雨水是不能排到自然的出口的。
5. Color and light, taken together, _____ the aesthetic impact of the interior of a building.
(A) very powerfully influence
(B) very influence powerfully
(C) powerfully very influence
(D) influence powerfully very.
答案:A
分析:句子缺謂語動詞。四個選項用詞相同,語序不同。程度副詞very修飾副詞powerfully,必須放在powerfully之前。故選(A).
參考譯文:顏色和光混合一起,將對一座建筑物內(nèi)部的審美效果產(chǎn)生非常強烈的影響。
6. _____ that Rachel Carson’s 1962 book Silent Spring was one of the chief sources of inspiration for the development of nontoxic pesticides.
(A) There is likely
(B) Likely to be
(C) It is likely
(D) Likely
答案:C
分析:that后是從句,空格應填主句。(B)(D)沒有謂語動詞,
參考譯文:Rachel Carson于1962年出版的《沉靜的春天》一書可能是發(fā)展無毒殺蟲這一靈感的主要源泉之一。
7. Total color blindness, _____, is the result of a defect in the retina.
(A) a rare condition that
(B) a rare condition
(C) that a rare condition
(D) is a rare condition.
答案:B
分析:逗號之外是完整的句子,空格在主語之后一般是同位語,定語,狀語或非限定性定語從句。(A)(C)含從句引導詞,但沒有謂語動詞,(D)有謂語動詞,但沒有從句引導詞,均排除。(B)為名詞短語做同位語,故選(B)。
參考譯文:完全色盲,一種稀有的癥狀,是由視網(wǎng)膜缺陷所致。
8. _____ no conclusive evidence exists, many experts believe that the wheel was invented only once and then diffused to the rest of the world.
(A) Even
(B) But
(C) Although
(D) So.
答案:C
分析:逗號前應是從句,(A)(B)(D)都不能引導從句,故選(C).
參考譯文:儘管沒有令人信服的證據(jù),許多專家們依然堅信,車輪一旦被發(fā)明接著就傳遍全世界。
9. Wherever there is plenty of rain during the growing season, life is _____ in various forms.
(A) abundant
(B) the abundance
(C) an abundant
(D) it abundant
答案:A
分析:逗號后面是主句,is是系動詞,空格處應是表語。(C)缺名詞做中心詞,(D)多it,排除。根據(jù)題意應選(A)
參考譯文:無論何處,在生長季節(jié)期間,只要由大量雨水,就會有各種各樣的生命存在。
10. In her time, Isadora Duncan was _____ today a liberated woman.
(A) calling what we would
(B) who would be calling
(C) what we would call
(D) she would call it.
答案:C
分析:was是句子謂語,四個選項里都有動詞,所以空格處應是從句的引導詞和從句主謂語,排除(A)(D)。空格前沒有指人的先行詞,排除(B).
參考譯文: 按照今天的說法,在Isadora Duncan時代,她應該視為是一位獲得解放的女性。