参考译文：1918 年在华盛顿特区开张的“Phillips Collection”是美国第一家收集 现代艺术品的博物馆。
23. A mortgage enables a person to buy property without paying for it outright; thus more people are able to enjoy to own a house. 答案：D
分析：enjoy 后面应该接ing 形式。 改正：to own → owning
参考译文：抵押可以使人们购买货品而不必马上付钱，因此，有更多的人愿意购买房屋。 24. Alike ethnographers, ethnohistorians make systematic observations, but they also gather data from documentary and oral sources. 答案：A
分析：alike 是表语形容词，后面不可以接名词，应该改为like 改正：Alike → Like
参考译文：就像人种学家一样，人种史学家也要进行系统的观察，但是他们也通过记载和口述来获得数据。
25. Basal body temperature refers to the most lowest temperature of a healthy individual during waking hours. 答案：B
分析：最高级重复，lowest 已经是最高级。 改正：most lowest → lowest
参考译文：基体温度是指健康个体在醒着时期的最低温度。
26. Research in the United States on acupuncture has focused on it use in pain relief and anesthesia. 答案：C
分析：it 不能修饰名词，要用所有格its。 改正：it → its
参考译文：在美国，针灸疗法的研究致力于减轻痛苦和解除麻痹。
27. The Moon?s gravitational field cannot keep atmospheric gases from escape into space. 答案：C
分析：keep…from doing sth.是固定用法 改正：from escape → from escaping
参考译文：月球的重力场不能避免大气层脱离月球而飞向太空。
28. Although the pecan tree is chiefly value for its fruit, its wood is used extensively for flooring, furniture, boxed, and crates. 答案：B
分析：value 是名词，不能被副词修饰，所以应该改为valuable。 改正：value → valuable
参考译文：尽管美洲山核桃树主要因为它的果实而珍贵，但是它的木材也被广泛 用来做成地板，家具，盒子以及箱子。
29. Born in Texas in 1890, Katherine Anne Porter produced three collection of short stories before publishing her well-known novel Ship of Fools in 1962. 答案：B
分析：collection 为可数名词，应该用它的复数形式。
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改正：collection → collections
参考译文：Katherine Anne Porter，1890 年生于德克萨斯，在1962 年出版她著名 小说“Ship of Fools”之前写了三部短篇小说集。
30. Insulation from cold, protect against dust and sand, and camouflage are among the functions of hair for animals. 答案：A
分析：protect 为动词，不能与前面的名词并列。 改正：protect → protection
参考译文：避寒、隔离尘土和沙子以及伪装是动物毛发的几个功能。
31.The notion that students are not sufficiently involved in their education is one reason for the recently surge of support for undergraduate research. 答案：C
分析：recently 是副词，不能修饰后面的名词。应该改为形容词形式。 改正：recently → recent
参考译文：学生不能有效的投入学习的这种观点是最近掀起的支持大学生调查 热潮的原因之一。
32.As secretary of transportation from 1975 to 1977, William Coleman worked to help the bankrupt
railroads in the northeastern United States solved their financial problems. 答案：C
分析：help 后面接不定式可以省略to，但不能接过去式或过去分词。 改正：solved → solve/to solve
参考译文：由于1975 年到1977 年的部长流动，William Coleman 在美国的东北部 帮助破产的铁路部门解决他们的财政问题。
33. Faults in the Earth?s crust are most evidently in sedimentary formations, where they interrupt
previously continuous layers. 答案：A
分析：evidently 是副词，不可以作表语，应该改为形容词。 改正：evidently → evident
参考译文：在沉积层，地壳的断层最明显，他们打断了先前形成的连续的地层。 34. Many flowering plants benefit of pollination by adult butterflies and moths. 答案：B
分析：benefit from 是习惯用法 改正：of → from
参考译文：许多开花的植物受益于成年的蝴蝶和蛾子的授粉。
35. A number of the American Indian languages spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New
World in the late fifteen century have become extinct. 答案：D
分析：fifteen 是基数词，表示第几世纪应该用序数词。 改正：fifteen → fifteenth
参考译文：许多在15 世纪末欧洲人到达新大陆那个时期所讲的美国印第安语都
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已经消失了。
36. George Gershwin was an American composer whose concert works joined the sounds of jazz with
them of traditional orchestration. 答案：D
分析：them 是宾格代词，根据题意应该用指示代词those 一面重复提到前面的名词sounds。 改正：them → those
参考译文：美国作曲家George Gershwin 的音乐会作品融合了爵士乐和传统的管弦乐。 37. One of the problems of United States agriculture that has persisted during the 1920?s until the present day is the tendency of farm income to lag behind the costs of production. 答案：B
分析：from……until 习惯搭配 改正：during the → from the
参考译文：从20 世纪20 年代一直到今天，美国农业的一个问题是农场的收入 滞后于产品的价格。
38. Volcanism occurs on Earth in several geological setting, most of which are associated with the boundaries of the enormous, rigid plates that make up the lithosphere. 答案：B
分析：由形容词several 可知被修饰的名词为复数形式。 改正：setting → settings
参考译文：火山活动一般发生在几种地质环境下，大多数的这些地质环境都与组成岩石圈的巨大坚硬的板块有关。
39. Early European settlers in North America used medicines they made from plants native to treat colds, pneumonia, and ague, an illness similar to malaria. 答案：C
分析：单个形容词修饰名词一般放在被修饰的名词之前。 改正：plants native → native plants
参考译文：北美洲的早期殖民者利用当地植物做成的药来治疗伤寒、肺炎还有和瘴气很像的一种疾病，疟疾。
40. Some insects bear a remarkable resemblance to dead twigs, being long, slenderness, wingless, and brownish in color. 答案：C
分析：考察形容词的平行结构，winless、brownish 都是形容词，所以应该改为slender。 改正：slenderness → slender
参考译文：一些昆虫与枯枝非常相像，很长、纤细、没有翅膀并且呈褐色。__
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第四套（1997 年08 月语法题）
1. Associated with the Denishawn company from 1916 until 1923, Martha Grahaim developed a powerful, _____ that was integral to the foundations of modern dance. (A) expressively stylish (B) a style expressive (C) stylishly expressive (D) expressive style. 答案：D
分析:看整个句子可知空格处缺少被形容词修饰的单数名词。 A C 缺少名词，排除。
B 中的a 与空格前的a 重复，排除。 D 为形容词修饰名词，复合题意。
参考译文：从1916 年到1923 年,与Denishawn 公司和作， Martha Grahaim 创造了一种 有力的，富有表现力的与现代舞基本功融为一体的风格。 2. Some snakes lay eggs, but others _____ birth to live offspring. (A) give (B) giving (C) they give (D) to have given 答案：A
分析:由but 可知，逗号前后为完整的两个句子。所以空格处应添谓语动词，只有选项A 符合。 参考译文：一些蛇下蛋，而另一些蛇则可以生出小蛇。
3. Because it was so closely related to communication, _____ art form to develop. (A) drawing was probably the earliest (B) to draw early was probably (C) early drawing probably (D) the earliest draw. 答案：A
分析:逗号前是一个原因状语从句，因此空格处应该添主句主谓部分。 A 构成完整主句，符合题意。
B 中was probably art 显然语义不通，故排除。 C、D 不是主谓结构，也可以排除。
参考译文：由于图画与交流的关系十分密切，所以它可能是最早发展起来的艺术形式。 4. Halley?s Comet had its first documented sighting in 240 B.C. in China and _____ it has been seen from the Earth 29 times. (A) after (B) because of (C) since then (D) that is 答案：C
分析:句中含有and，所以前后为完整的两个句子，空格处缺少状语成分。 A B 均缺少介词的宾语。 C 构成完整的时间状语。
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D that is 明显是乱编出来的，应该可以排除掉吧
参考译文：公元前240 年，在中国，哈雷彗星被发现并且记载下来，从那时候到现在，在地球上已经观察到它29 次了。
5. _____ that managers commit in problem solving is jumping to a conclusion about the cause of a
given problem. (A) Major errors. (B) Since the major error (C) The major error (D) Of the major errors. 答案：C
分析:从that 从句和后面的is jumping 可以断定空格处却少单数名词主语。A D 为复数，排除。B 是整个句子成为从句从而缺少主语，排除。
参考译文：经理们在解决问题时犯的主要错误就是直接得出了关于导致给定问题原因的这个结论。
6. Algonkian-speaking Native Americans greeted the Pilgrims _____ settled on the eastern shores of what is now New England. (A) to whom (B) of which (C) who (D) which 答案：C
分析:空格前后都有谓语动词，空格处缺少从句引导词。 A 选项使从句缺少主语。
B D 中的which 只能指代物，与题意不符。 C 为指人的关系代词。
参考译文：讲Algonkian 语的土生美洲人对定居在东海岸也就是今天新英格兰的朝圣者表示敬意。
7. The best known books of Ross Macdonald, _____ writer of detective novels, feature the character Lew Archer, a private detective. (A) is the (B) is an (C) they are by (D) the 答案：D
分析:两个逗号前后可以构成完整的句子，由此可以看出逗号之间应该添入同位语。 所以带谓语的A、B、C 选项都可以排除。
参考译文：侦探小说家Ross Macdonald 的最著名的小说刻画了一个私家侦探Lew Archer。 8. The first building to employ steel skeleton construction, _____.
(A) Chicago, Illinois, the home of the Home Insurance Company Building completed in 1885. (B) The Home Insurance Company Building in Chicago, Illinois, was completed in 1885. (C) Because the Home Insurance Company Building in Chicago, Illinois was completed in 1885.
(D) The Home Insurance Company Building in Chicago, Illinois, in 1885.
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