1. As sweeteners, there is very small difference between honey and sucrose, although the former does contain minimal quantities of vitamins, minerals, and amino acids.
答案:B
分析及考点:形容词误用。修饰不可数名词表示小的形容词,应该用little.
参考译文:作为甜料,蜂蜜和蔗糖之间的差别很细微。尽管前者确实包含有少量的维他命、矿物质和氨基酸。
2. Cultivated for salad since ancient times, lettuce is harvesting before its flower stem shoots up to bear its small yellow flowers.
答案:B
分析及考点:动词形式的误用。应该用被动形式,harvested
参考译文:从古代就种植用于色拉食用,生菜在它花茎生出去支持它的小黄花之前就被收割了。
3. Phonological structure encodes speak sounds as a sequence of vocal tract configurations —— successive positions of the larynx, jaw, lips, tongue, and velum.
答案:A
分析及考点:单词形式的误用。修饰名词要用形容词,所以改成它的形容词形式spoken
参考译文:声音体系的结构,是把发声声音作为一系列声道的构造来编码,这些构造取自于喉、下颚、唇、舌头和小舌头的连续的位置。
4. The steamship contributed of the development of fast news-gathering during the nineteenth century.
答案:B
分析及考点:介词误用。Contribute to固定搭配。
参考译文:在19世纪,汽船对快速的信息收集过程的发展做出了贡献。
5. The 1880's saw not only the creation of the curtain wall and wind-braced iron frame also the architectural mastery of these structural devices.
答案:B
分析及考点:连词的固定搭配,not only….but also.
参考译文:1880年的人,不仅仅看到了窗帘幕墙和抗风支撑的铁架结构窗的发明创造,而且也看到了这些结构设计在建筑上的运用。