11. --- technically proficient; it also explores psychological questions.
(A) Not only is Barbara Astman’s artwork
(B) Not only Barbara Asiman’s artwork
(C) Barbara Astman’s artwork,, which is not only
(D) Barbara Astman’s artwork not only
KEY:A
分析:第一步分析句子完整性,发现句子缺少主语和谓语,很明显由此得出A选项。
不必要知识点:考点是倒装结构。not only...(but)also是固定搭配,句首有否定词或否定短语
时,部分到装(谓动的一部分,助动词/系动词,放到主语前)
(B)无动词;
(C)选C,则主句无谓语;
(D)无动词。
参考译文:芭芭拉·爱丝曼的艺术作品不仅技艺精炼,还探究心理问题。
12.Although Canada’s Parliament can neither administer or enforce laws____ initiate policy, it does have the power to make laws and vote on the allocation of funds.
(A)not
(B)nor
(C)and
(D) either
KEY:B
分析:第一步分析句子完整性,发现主谓齐全。第二步观察四个选项,不能得到结论。第三步,看空前后的关系,发现neither,很明显这里应该是nor才以。
必要知识点:考点是固定搭配。neither...nor...固定搭配。
参考译文:尽管加拿大国会不能执行法令和施行政策,但它拥有制定法律和表决基金分配
的权利。
13.Willa Cather considered her novel of life in nineteenth-century Nebraska, My Antonia, _______.
(A) was her best work
(B)her best work
(C) her best work it was
(D) being her best work
KEY:B
分析:第一步分析句子完整性,发现主谓齐全,首先排除A和C。第二步看其余两个选项,D与前面的considered不搭配,所以由此得出B选项。
不必要知识点:考点是宾语成份。空格前主谓完整,因此空格填宾语补足语。答案B,名词短语充当宾补
(A)谓语动词重复
(C)同上
(D)固定结构consider(sb/sth as)sth
参考译文:维拉·卡瑟认为她关于十九世纪内布拉斯加生活的小说《我的安东尼亚》是己最好的作品。
14.First designated in 1970, Earth Day has become an annual international event _____concerns about environmental issues such as pollution.
(A) dedicated to raising
(B) dedicated raising
(C) dedicates to raise
(D) that dedicates to raising
KEY:A
分析:第一步分析句子完整性,发现主谓齐全。第二步,观察四个选项,这里区别不大,所以应该是考固定搭配才对,所以只有A是正确的。
必要知识点:考点为定语成分和固定搭配。空格是对event的修饰,并且dedicated to doing固定搭配。答案A。
参考译文:从1970年第一次被设立以来,地球日已经成为一项年度国际盛事,致力于提升(公众)对污染之类环境事业的关注。
15.In 1992 Albert Gore, Jr., the son of a former United States senator, became ____Vice President of the United States.
(A) who was the forty-fifth
(B)and the forty-fifth
(C) the forty-fifth
(E) he was the forty-fifth
KEY:C
分析:第一步分析句子完整性,发现主谓齐全。第二步分析四个选项,不能得出结论。