2000年10月语法题
1． The role of the ear is ____ acoustic disturbances into neural signals suitable for transmission to the brain.
(A) to code
(B) so that coded
(C) coded
(D) it coding
答案：A
分析：这是不定式做表语，表示目的。
翻译参考：耳朵的任务就是将声音的搅扰编码成适合传输到大脑的神经信号。
 
2. The imagist movement in poetry arose during the second decade of the twentieth century ____against romanticism.
(A) when a revolt
(B) as a revolt
(C) a revolt was
(D) that a revolt
答案：B
分析：空格前是一完整句子，空格后没有谓语，因此选项里如果有连词就必然同时有谓语，排除A，D。反之如果有谓语就需要有连词，所以C也不对。
翻译参考：作为对浪漫主义的一种对力，在诗坛上意象派运动出现在二十世纪二十年代。
 
3. Virtually ____ species have biological clocks that regulate their metabolism over a 24-hour period.
(A) all there are
(B) all
(C) all are
(D) they all
答案：B
分析：that后是定语从句，that前有主语species和谓语have，因此空格处应是形容词修饰主语，所以选B。
翻译参考：事实上，所有的物种都有生物钟来调控他们24小时的新陈代谢。
 
4. According to United States criminal law, insanity may relieve a person from the usual legal consequences____.
(A) what his or her acts have
(B) of his or her acts are
(c ) of his or her acts
(D) what of his or her acts
答案：C
分析：空格前主谓宾全，空格后要补充说明consequences，可以是短语也可以是从句，但A应该是that引导定语从句，B有are没有引导词，D结构混乱。
翻译参考：根据美国刑法，精神错乱可能会使一个人从他或她的行为的正常的法律后果中得到解脱。
 
5. In addition to ____a place where business deals are made, a stock exchange collects statistics, publishes prices quotations, and sets rules and standards for trading.
(A) being
(B) it is
(C ) that which
(D) where is
答案：A
分析：in addition to 后应该是名词或名次性短语，只有A对。
翻译参考：除了作为交易成交的地点外，股票交易所还收集数据，公布报价单和设立交易规则和标准
 
6. The first inhabitants of the territories ____Canada came across the Bering Strait and along the edge of the Arctic ice.
(A) make up that now
(B) make up now that
(C ) that make up now
(D) that now make up
答案：D
分析：根据空格前有主语，空格后有动词判断，空格处应是个定语从句，A, B不对，C now副词应放在谓语之前。
翻译参考：在组成现在加拿大领土上的第一批居住者跨越白令海峡并沿着北极的边缘线到达。
 
7.____ need for new schools following the Second World War that provided the sustained thrust for the architectural program in Columbus, Indiana.
(A) Since the
(B) To be the
(C ) The
(D) It was the
答案：D
分析：整个句子缺少谓语，因此空格处只有D有was做句子谓语才对。
翻译参考：是二战后对于新学校的需求，为印第安纳州Columbus的建筑学课程提供了持久不变的促进作用。
 
8. The soybean contains vitamins, essential minerals, ____high percentage of protein.
(A) a
(B) and a
(C ) since a
(D) of which a
答案：B
分析：这道题关键是percentage的用法，percentage常用作单数，a percentage of
翻译参考： 大豆含维他命，基本矿物质，以及高含量的蛋白质。
 
9. Hail is formed when a drop of rain is carried by an updraft to an altitude where ____ to freeze it.
(A) is the air cold enough
(B) the air cold enough
(C ) the cold enough air
(D) the air is cold enough
答案：D
分析：空格处是wherey引导的定语从句修饰altitude，只有D是完整句子。
翻译参考：当雨滴被上升气流带到一定高度，在此高度空气足够冷以使雨滴结冰，这时冰雹就形成了。
 
10. Geometrically, the hyperbolic functions are related to the hyperbola, ____ the trigonometric functions are related to the circle.
(A) just as
(B) same
(c ) similar to
(D) and similar
答案：A
分析：空格前后都是完整句子，空格处需要一个连词连接两个句子，因此选A。B same是形容词，C similar to是介词。
翻译参考：从几何学角度来讲，双曲线的作用与双曲线相关，就像三角法的作用是与圆相关的一样。
 
11. ____, Kilauea is one of the world’s most active volcanoes, having erupted dozens of times since 1952.
(A) The big island of Hawaii’s location
(B) Locates the big island of Hawaii
(C ) Located on the big island of Hawaii
(D) On the big island of Hawaii’s location
答案：C
分析：空格后是一个完整的句子，因此空格处是一个从句；
A,D 意思不通，
B有动词没有连词，错
C是 Which is located on the big island of Hawaii的定语从句，省略了Which is
翻译参考：位于夏威夷最大的岛屿上的Kilauea是世界上最活跃的火山之一，自从1952年起喷发了数十次。
 
12. Not until the eighteenth century ____ the complex chemistry of metallurgy.
(A) when scientists began to appreciate
(B) did scientists begin to appreciate
(C )scientists who were beginning to appreciate
(D) the appreciation of scientists began
答案：B
分析：这是个倒装句。Not until提前，句子倒装。
翻译参考：直到18世纪，科学家才开始认识到冶金学的复杂化学特性。
 
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