分析:改为by,见到v+ed,就要想被动,想到by,介词也是常考项目,注意。 参考译文:代数是数学的一个分支,是关于操作数和符号代表的其他元素的集合。 难度:3
22. As her focus changed, the love poetry that Edna St. Vincent Millay produced in the 1920?s increasing gave way to poetry dealing with social injustice. 答案:D
分析:改为increasingly,找不到错时关注画线两边,副词修饰动词。
参考译文:随着她的焦点改变,由E 于19 世纪20 年代创作的爱的诗集,大量的让位于处理社会不公正的诗集。 难度:3
23. When a pearl is cut in half and examined under a microscope, but its layers can be seen. 答案:C
分析:改为去掉but,多余,but 连接两个分句,when 引导从句。
参考译文:当一个珍珠被劈成两半,放在显微镜下检查,它的层状结构可被看到. 难度:3
24. A conductor uses signals and gesture to let the musicians to know when to play various parts of a composition. 答案:C
分析:改为去to,let 后无to
参考译文:指挥用信号和姿势让乐师们知道什么时候演奏不同的乐曲。 难度:1
25. If a glass lizard loses its tails, a new one grows to replace it. 答案:B
分析:改为tail,由后面的it 知道这里是单数。
参考译文:如果眼睛蜥蜴失去了它的尾巴,一条新的会长出来代替它。 难度:2
26. Many of the recording instruments used in vary branches of science are kymographs. 答案:B
分析:改为various,此处应为形容词修饰名词。注意vary 动词,various 形容词,variety 名词,常考。
参考译文:许多记录仪器用在各分支科学领域,如波动曲线记录仪。 难度:2
27. It was near end of prehistoric times that the first wheeled vehicles appeared. 答案:A
分析:改为near the end。固定用法加冠词
参考译文:就是在史前时代末期,第一辆有轮车出现了。 难度:2
28. Martin Luther King Jr.?s magnificent speaking ability enabling him to effectively express the demands for social justice for Black Americans. 答案:B
分析:改为enable,全句无谓语,不能庸用分词。
参考译文:马丁路德金高超的演说能力使得他能有效的表达出为米国黑人争取社会的公平的要求。
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29. Designers of athletic footwear finely tune each category of shoe to its particularly activity by studying human motion and physiology. 答案:C
分析:改为particular,后面接的是名词,用形容词。注意不要误改shoe,一定要看完四个选项,选错的最明显的。Shoe 这里是集合名词。
参考译文:运动鞋的设计者精美的调整每一种鞋的种类按照它特殊的活动,通过研究人类的运动和生理。 难度:3
30. Gothic Revival architecture has several basis characteristics that distinguish it from other nineteenth-century architectural styles. 答案:B
分析:改为basic,形容词修饰。Basis 名词,base 动词,三者注意区分。 参考译文:哥特式复兴建筑有几个基本特征区分与十九时间其他的建筑形式。 难度:3
31. Since rats are destructive and may carry disease, therefore many cities try to exterminate them. 答案:C
分析:改为去掉therefore,since 与therefore 不连用,同though,but。 参考译文:因为鼠类具有破坏性而且可以传输疾病,许多城市都努力灭之。 难度:3
32. In the United States among 60 percent of the space on the pages of newspapers is reserved for advertising. 答案:A
分析:改为about 或去掉among。Among 引导介词短语,此句就缺少主语。在其他试题中,among 与during 互换,出现among 应多注意。
参考译文:在米国,约60%的报纸空间保留给广告。 难度:3
33. Recently in the automobile industry, multinational companies have developed to the point where such few cars can be described as having been made entirely in one country. 答案:B
分析:改为very。Such 不与形容词连用。
参考译文:最近在汽车工业,跨国公司发展迅猛,现在很少汽车能完全在一个国家里制造。 难度:3
34. Scientists believe that by altering the genetic composition of plants it is possible to develop specimens that are resisting to disease and have increased food value. 答案:B
分析:改为resistant。Be resistant to 固定用法。
参考译文:科学家认为通过改变植物的基因组成,可以改进物种,可以抵抗疾病和增加产量。 难度:2
35. The purpose of traveler?s checks is to protect travelers from theft and accidental lost of money. 答案:D
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分析:改为loss,of 前永远是名词,lost 是动词。
参考译文:检查旅客的目的是保护旅客免于盗窃和意外失财。 难度:2
36. The early periods of aviation in the United States was marked by exhibition flights made by individual fliers or by teams of performers at country fairs. 答案:A
分析:改为period,后面动词为was,前面为单数。
参考译文:米国早期航空领域具有明显的标志,由个人飞行者或执行国家事务的成队表演者组成的飞行展览会。 难度:2
37. The American anarchist Emma Goldman infused her spirited lectures, publishes, and demonstrations with a passionate belief in the freedom of the individual. 答案:A
分析:改为publications,and 并列结构用名词,publish 为动词。
参考译文:米国无政府主义者EG 鼓吹她的生机的演讲,出版物和展示,伴随着一种自由主义的激情信念。 难度:3
38. Being the biggest expanse of brackish water in the world, the Baltic Sea is of special interesting to scientists. 答案:D
分析:改为interest,形容词后跟名词。
参考译文:作为世界上最大的盐水湖,波罗的海引起了科学家特殊的兴趣。 难度:2
39. The main advertising media include direct mail, radio, television, magazines, and newspaper. 答案:D
分析:改为newspapers,and 并列,单数名词要注意是否加冠词或用复数。 参考译文:主要的广告媒介包扩直接邮件,广播电视,杂志报纸。 难度:2
40. While studying the chemistry of human body, Dr. Rosalyn Yalow won a Nobel Prize for the research she conducted on the role of hormones. 答案:B
分析:改为of the human body,考点同上,单数名词加冠词。
参考译文:当研究人体化学时,R 博士由于她在研究激素作用获得了诺贝尔奖。 难度:2 __ 第12套
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第14套(1996年12月北美语法题) 1.The province of Newfoundland has ____ than any other region of North America in
which the first language is English. (A) (A)its longer history
(B) (B) a longer history
(C) (C) the longer the history (D) (D) the history is longer 答案:(B)
分析:空格处显然缺动词has的宾语。(A)中its指代不明,(C)、(D)均不能作宾语,故排除。(B)为名词短语,既能作宾语,又符合题意,故选(B)。
翻译参考:纽芬兰比其他第一语言是英语的地区有更长的历史。
2. Clinical psychologist Dr. Carl Rogers found that 80 percent ____ verbal communication involved five types of responses: evaluative, interpretive, supportive, probing, and understanding.
(A) all (B) is the (C) with (D) of all
答案:(D)
分析:…percent of…”是习惯表达法,故选(D)。
翻译参考: 临床的心理学者Carl Rogers博士发现, 80%的口头交流中包括五种类型的反应:可估价的,解释性的,支持性的,试探性的,以及了解的。
3. The early feminist leader Susan B. Anthony became increasingly aware through her work in the temperance movement ____ the same rights as men.
(A) women were not granted that (B) that women were not granted (C) not granted women that wore (D) that were not granted women
答案:(B)
分析:分析句子和选项可知,正确答案是一个由that引导的从句。(A)、(C)中that的位置显然不对,(D)中从句主语women位置不对,故排除。(B)使句子结构完整,由于动词grant 可接双宾语,被动语态后面可再接宾语,故(B)为正确答案。
翻译参考:早期的女权主义者的领袖Susan B. Anthony通过她在禁酒运动中的工作逐渐地意识到女性并没被赋予男性同等的权利。
4. DNA, ____, is found in the cell nucleus in the form of very long and thin molecules consisting of two spiral strands.
(A) inherits material
(B) is inheritance material (C) material is inherited
(D) the material of inheritance 答案:(D)
分析:空格处显然缺主语同位语。(A)、(B)、(C)均含谓语动词,不能作同位语,故排除.(D)为名词短语,可作同位语,且符合题意,故选(D)。
翻译参考:DNA,一种遗传物质,是一种包含在细胞核中的形状非常长和细小的、并由二个螺旋形链组成的分子。
5. ____ plants, which manufacture their own food, animals obtain nourishment by acquiring and ingesting their food.
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(A) Unlike (B) Different (C) Whereas (D) As much
答案:(A)
分析:两个逗号之间是非限定性定语从句,接着是主句,空格处显然缺介词构成介词短语作状语。四个选项中只有(A)是介词,故选(A)。(B)、(D)都不能构成状语,(C)引导从句,故排除。
翻译参考:不同于植物可以制造自己的食物,动物靠获取和吸收他们的食物来获得营养。
6. The Hawaiian alphabet, introduced by missionaries in the 1820’s, ____ and only seven consonants.
(A) the five vowels consists of (B) consisting of five vowels (C) that consists o five vowels (D) consists of five vowels
答案:(D)
分析:空格处显然缺谓语和并列的宾语。(A)多主语,(B)为非谓语动词,(C)是从句,都不能作句中谓语,故排除。(D)为动宾结构,符合题意,故选(D)。
翻译参考: 夏威夷语的字母表,在19世纪20年代由传教士引入,仅由五个元音和七个辅音组成。
7. Working like a telescope, ____ the size of objects at great distances.
(A) which magnifies a telephoto lens (B) a telephoto lens magnifies
(C) a telephoto lens which magnifies (D) and magnifying a telephoto lens
答案:(B)
分析:空格处显然缺主谓结构。(A)为非限定性定语从句,(C)为带定语从句的名词短语,(D)为并列的现在分词短语,显然都不能作句中主语和谓语,故排除。(B)为主谓结构,故选(B)。 翻译参考:像望远镜的工作方式一样,远距离摄影镜头将远距离的物体的大小放大。
8. Volcanoes are divided into three main groups, based on their shape and the type of material they ____.
(A) are made (B) made of (C) are made of (D) made for
答案:(C)
分析:空格前是主格代词they,由此可知空格处缺从句谓语部分。四个选项中只有(C)构成完整的符合题意的句子,故选(C)。
翻译参考:根据火山的形状和构成它们的物质的类型,火山分为三种主要的类型。
9. ____ to inanimate objects, such as machines, is a form of animism.
(A) When attributing emotion (B) Attributing emotion (C) Emotion is attributed (D) If emotion is attributed
答案:(B)
分析:空格处缺主语,(A)、(C)、(D)都是句子,但都不能构成主语从句,故排除。(B)为动
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