1997年12月北美语法题
1. The acting of Mary Ann Duff was characterized by subdued dramatic force, fidelity to ____, and a marked unity of effect.
(A) of each play the structure
(B) the structure of each play
(C) the play each structure of
(D) each play the structure of
答案:B.
分析:空格处明显缺名词词组做介词宾语,四个选项中只有B是名词词组,其他都结构混乱,故选B。
翻译参考:Mary Ann Duff 的表演的特点是:其具有柔和的戏剧性的力量使每一场表演的结构保持一致和其显著的效果的统一。
难度:1
2. The coherent light of a lar ____ entirely of synchronized waves of a single frequency that travel in the same direction.
(A) it compos
(B) to compo it
(C) is compod土豆丁
(D) is composing it
答案:C.
分析:此题考compo 动词的用法。A中多主语it 。B选项中不定式不能作谓语。D选项中it指代不清。C选项构成be compod of 符合题意。
翻译参考:激光的连贯光完全是由在同一方向传播的单一频率的同步光组成的。
难度:2
3. _____ that ornithischians, planteating dinosaurs, lived about 225 million years ago.
(A) Scientists believe
(B) Scientists believing
(C) Scientists believe in
(D) Scientists’ belief
答案:A.
分析:空格以后是一个完整的从句,所以空格处显然缺主句,BD无谓语动词,首先排除,C中谓语动词believe in(信仰,信任)不符合题意,故选A。
翻译参考:科学家们认为:鸟臀目恐龙,即一种食草恐龙,生活在大约22500万年前。
难度:1
4. _____ that book American art out of the fomanticism of the mid 1800’s and carried it to the most powerful heights of realism.
(A) Winslow Homer’s paintings
(B) It was Winslow Homer’s paintings
(C) When Winslow Homer’s paintings
(D) Paintings of Winslow Homer
答案:B.
分析:此题考强调句型,it is (was ) ……that …… ,故选B,ACD三个选项都没有谓语动词,不能使结构完整,明显可以排除。
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翻译参考:Winslow Homer的绘画作品标志着美国艺术脱离十八世纪中期的虚幻主义,达到现实主义的最强有力的高度。
难度:2
5. Settlers of the western United States had a n of equality in the face of hardship, ____ democratic political practices.
(A) led to
(B) they had led
(C) which led to
(D) was leading them to
答案:C.
分析:逗号后面显然是非限制性定语从句,空格处缺从句引导词和从句主谓语。ABD都有从句谓语,但都没有从句引导词,排除。C构成完整的从句,故选C。
翻译参考:美国西部的居民有一种在困难面前平等的观念,正是这种认识导致了民主政治运动。
难度:1
6. The National Medal of Science is the ____ given by the United States government.
(A) highest science award
(B) highest award for scientific
(C) award that is the highest scientific
(D) highest, and awarding scientists
答案:A.
分析:空格处显然缺名词短语作表语,空格后面分词做定语。A候选,B中形容词scientific不能作for的宾语,C中that引导的从句不完整,scientific 不能跟空格后面given. D中结构混乱,宾语中心是scientists,逻辑不通。故选送花人A.
翻译参考:国家科学奖章是美国政府颁发的最高荣誉的科学奖项。
难度:1
7. Prehistoric people made paints by grinding colored materials ____ into powder and ad
ding water.
(A) if vegetation and clay
(B) that vegetation and clay are
(C) how vegetation and clay
(D) such as vegetation and clay
答案:D.
分析:去掉空格,题干是完整的句子。空格处缺名词materials的后缀修饰成分,A、C有从句引导词,但都没有从句谓语,B也是结构不完整的从句,故排除。D是materials举例,故选D。
金山游侠2002翻译参考:史前人们通过把有颜色的物质,像植物,黏土,研磨成粉末,并加水的方法来绘画。
难度:2
8. The concept of television, ____ images over distances, had intrigued scientists even before the intention of moving pictures or radio.
(A) the transmission of
(B) transmits to
(C) for transmission
(D) the transmitting
答案:A.
分析:两个逗号之间显然是主语同位语。B为动词 不能出现两个谓语动词,C为介词短语,D为动名词。C、疲劳过度D与空格后的名词无法连接,故都可以排除,A构成名词短语,可作主语的同位语,故选A虾尾的做法。
*相关语法要点:填空题中若除去空格部分是完整的主谓结构,且空格与句子其他部分
之间用两个逗号隔开或用一个逗号隔开一边,则空格处应该填入同位语或定语(详见托福语法高分要点第33页)
翻译参考:电视广播的概念,即远距离传输图象,甚至在电影和无线电通讯的想法出现以前就已经开始激起科学家们的兴趣了。
难度:1
9. Recent technology gives computers ____, making them multimedia machines with
interactive potential.
(A) both audio and video capability
(B) its capability is both audio and video
(C) both audio and video are capable
(D) capable of both audio and video
答案:A.
箱子的英语分析:此题考动词give接双宾语的用法,give sb sth . BC都是句子,但缺从句引导词,故排除,D为形容词短语,不能作宾语,也排除,A为名词短语,可作宾语,符合题意。
翻译参考:最新的科技可以提供电脑音频和视频的本领,使他们成为具有交互能力的多媒体机器。
汤姆索亚历险难度:1
10. ____ at a music store was one of Lil Armstong’s first professional jobs as a young pianist when she came to Chicago in 1917.
(A) Demonstration tunes
(B) Demonstrating tunes
(C) Demonstrate tunes
(D) Tunes that demonstrated
答案:B.
分析:空格处显然缺主语,AD中名词中心词是复数tunes,显然和谓语was不一致,C中demonstrate是动词,显然不能做主语,B是动名词短语,可作主语,故选B。
翻译参考:Lil Armstong 1917 年来到芝加哥时,作为年轻的钢琴家的第一份专业工作是在音乐商店里演奏曲调。
难度:1
11. The first people to live in ____ Hawaii were the Polynesians, who sailed there in large canoes from other Pacific Islands about 2,000 years ago.
(A) now where is
(B) what is now
(C) it is now
(D) now this is
答案:B.
分析:此题考半插入语what’ s now的用法。
What ‘s now Hawaii。 现在是夏威夷的那个地方。
翻译参考:最早生活在现在是夏威夷的那个地方的居民是玻利尼西亚人,他们是2000多年前从其他的太平洋岛屿上乘坐大型木舟航行到那里的。
难度:2
12. The Alaskan blackfish exhibits ____ to both extreme cold and low concentrations of oxygen under the ice.
(A) remarkable, and resistance
(B) remarkable, resistant现代化管理
(C) remarkably resistant
(D) remarkable resistance
答案:D.