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:由信号词分析:由信号词than可知空各处应填more.
参考译文:一台显微镜能展示远超过肉眼看见的非常多的细节。
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:空格前为主语,空格出缺谓语动词,故首先排除(B)。(C)中must后应该接动词塬形,故也排除。Plant是及物动词,在没有宾语的情况下应该用被动语态形式,故选(A).
参考译文:种植水仙花球时应该至少保持3IN的间距,并且要用大约4IN的有良好透水性的土壤覆盖。
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:空格后为形容词最高级,空格处应填定冠词。
参考译文:由人类所造成的环境变化中,工业化导致了环境最根本的变化。
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:句子缺少谓语动词。(A)项没有与neither对应的nor.(B)(C)不能做谓语,故选(D).
参考译文:在许多地区,陆地的坡度和地形决定了过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:句子缺谓语动词。四个选项用词相同,语序不同。程度副词very修饰副词powerfully,必须放在powerfully之前。故选(A).
参考译文:颜色和光混合一起,将对一座建筑物内部的审美效果产生非常强烈的影响。
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后是从句,空格应填主句。(B)(D)没有谓语动词,
参考译文:Rachel Carson于1962年出版的《沉静的春天》一书可能是发展无毒杀虫这一灵感的主要源泉之一。
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:逗号之外是完整的句子,空格在主语之后一般是同位语,定语,状语或非限定性定语从句。(A)(C)含从句引导词,但没有谓语动词,(D)有谓语动词,但没有从句引导词,均排除。(B)为名词短语做同位语,故选(B)。
参考译文:完全色盲,一种稀有的症状,是由视网膜缺陷所致。
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:逗号前应是从句,(A)(B)(D)都不能引导从句,故选(C).
参考译文:儘管没有令人信服的证据,许多专家们依然坚信,车轮一旦被发明接着就传遍全世界。
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:逗号后面是主句,is是系动词,空格处应是表语。(C)缺名词做中心词,(D)多it,排除。根据题意应选(A)
参考译文:无论何处,在生长季节期间,只要由大量雨水,就会有各种各样的生命存在。
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是句子谓语,四个选项里都有动词,所以空格处应是从句的引导词和从句主谓语,排除(A)(D)。空格前没有指人的先行词,排除(B).
参考译文: 按照今天的说法,在Isadora Duncan时代,她应该视为是一位获得解放的女性。