1997年01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) its longer history
(B) a longer history
(C) the longer the history
(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 respons: 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.
(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 ven 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, bad 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)为动名词，可作主语，符合题意，故 选(B)。
翻译参考:施感情于没有生命的物体，比如机器，是万物有灵论的一种表现。
10. ____, dolphins have no n of smell.
(A) As known as far
(B) Known thus far as
(C) It is known as far
(D) As far as is known
答案：(D)
分析：四个选项中只有(D)符合英语表达习惯，构成完整的状语，故选(D)。
翻译参考:就目前所知，海豚没有嗅觉。
11. The growth of psychobiology owes ____ to major conceptual advances in the way people think about the brain.
(A) much
(B) as much as
(C) much which
(D) there is so much
答案：(A)
分析：(B)为同级比较，句中无比较对象，故排除。(C)中which是多余的．因为句中没有从句谓语动词与之配合，(D)为句子，缺从句引导词，故也排除。(A)中much为名词，作动词owes的宾语，符合题意，故选(A)。
翻译参考: 精神生物学的发展很大程度归功于人们在认识大脑方面的主要概念上的进步。
12. In 1938 Pearl S. Buck became the first American woman ____ the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(A) receive
(B) received
(C) to receive
(D) she received
答案：(C)
分析：空格处显然缺名词后置修饰语。(A) (B) (D)中均有谓语动词，但都不能构成完整的从句，故排除。(C)为不定式，可作名词后置修饰语，故选(C)。
翻译参考:1938年Pearl S. Buck成为第一个获得诺贝尔文学奖的美国女性。
13. Now considered an art form, quilt-making originated as a means of fashioning bed covers from bits of fabric that otherwi ____.
(A) not u
(B) were no u
(C) had no u
(D) it was not ud
答案：(C)
分析：空格前有从句引导词that，空格处显然缺从句谓语部分。(A)中u作动词或名词都有语法错误，(B)若改为were of no u则可入选，(D)中多主语it，故三个选项都可排除。 (C)符合各项条件，故选(C)。
翻译参考:现在被认为是一种艺术形式的棉被制作，起初只是精加工那些没有用处的碎的织物成为床上覆盖物。
