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  • 第1题:

    The underlined word “they” in the last paragraph refers to 。

    A. criminals B. pigeons

    C. the stolen cars D. demands for money


    正确答案:D
    考点:代词的指代。按照就近原则去找。前面提到Demands for pigeon-delivered money故正确答案应该选择D。

  • 第2题:

    单选题
    The word “they” underlined in Paragraph 1 refers to ______.
    A

    organisms

    B

    fish

    C

    toxins

    D

    flesh


    正确答案: B
    解析:
    指代题。第一段首句指出microscopic organisms会以一种不知名的毒素麻痹鱼类,然后把鱼吃掉。该句意为“他们也许会使人类得病”。可知microscopic organisms对鱼类和人都会造成危害,因此此处的they指的即是前面的microscopic organisms。

  • 第3题:

    单选题
    The underlined word “it” (in Paragraph 3) refers to _____.
    A

    a rock

    B

    the group of bees

    C

    a hill

    D

    the river


    正确答案: D
    解析:
    细节推理题。第三段第二,三句话是说“从远处看,这群蜜蜂就像是一团浓烟。当它们越来越近时,我意识到,事实上这是成千上万的蜜蜂飞向我”。由此可知it是指the group of bees。故选B项。

  • 第4题:

    单选题
    The word “pedantic” underlined in Paragraph 1 most probably means.
    A

    participant or pedestrian

    B

    academic or scholastic

    C

    political or patriarchal

    D

    social or sociological


    正确答案: B
    解析:
    语义题。第一段中的pedantic analysis之后出现了修饰成分of the artist who happens to be expressing himself through them,从artist一词可知pedantic指的是“学术的”,因此选B。

  • 第5题:

    单选题
    The word “particulars” underlined in Paragraph 1 means ______.
    A

    minor errors

    B

    specific facts

    C

    small distinctions

    D

    individual people


    正确答案: C
    解析:
    语义题。“particulars”出现在文章第一段第二句,该句指出“一项由the University of Michigan School of Public Health所做的研究揭示了似乎适用于广大民众的…”,接着该段给出一些事实论据,由此可以推断“particulars”应指的是“具体事实”,因此选项B为答案。

  • 第6题:

    单选题
    In Paragraph 2, the underlined word “that” refers to _____.
    A

    being good at something

    B

    setting a practical goal

    C

    putting in more time

    D

    succeeding in life


    正确答案: B
    解析:
    此处的代词that替代前句中的“set a goal and then gradually make it more practical”,可得出B项为正确答案。

  • 第7题:

    单选题
    The word “there” underlined in Paragraph 4 refers to.
    A

    our own planet

    B

    the outer surface of the sun

    C

    the core of a black dwarf

    D

    the planet mercury


    正确答案: A
    解析:
    语义题。“there”出现在最后一段最后一句,前一句指出“太阳成为一个黑色矮星时,地球就会变得黑暗并且寒冷”。该句紧接上一句,进一步讲述地球上的情况,因此there指的是上一句的主语the earth,故答案为A。

  • 第8题:

    单选题
    In Paragraph 4, the underlined word “it” refers to _____.
    A

    acting well at work and in politics

    B

    feeling depressed for the news media

    C

    accepting and understanding what has happened

    D

    saying something negative when bad things come


    正确答案: D
    解析:
    第四段倒数第一句提到“It will save you a lot of sadness…”应该是前面提到的行为做法能让人省掉许多悲伤。所以此处it指代前面第四段第二句“Accept these things as they are, and try to understand why they’re that way”内容,即:接受事物本来的样子,尽量去理解它们为什么会是那样子。故选C。

  • 第9题:

    单选题
    The word “it” underlined in Paragraph 2 refers to __________.
    A

    the experiment

    B

    economic motivation

    C

    the Western Electric Hawthorn plant

    D

    the Hawthorne effect


    正确答案: D
    解析:
    本题是词义题。此处的“it”指的就是前面所提到的“霍桑效应”。句意:这是第一次被记录下来且被广泛引用的在工作中的影响心理作用的依据;它导致了第一次旨在调查工作场所中心理和社会因素影响的认真研究。所以,D为答案。

  • 第10题:

    单选题
    The word “dissemination” underlined in Paragraph 4 means ______.
    A

    plantation

    B

    distribution

    C

    reception

    D

    direction


    正确答案: B
    解析:
    “dissemination”所在句指出“铁路和蒸汽船的出现促进了消息和信息的长距离dissemination”,由此可推断出dissemination指的是“(信息、消息的)传播”,因此与distribution表达意思相近。plantation栽培;殖民;大农场。reception接待;接收。

  • 第11题:

    单选题
    The phrase “that injury” underlined in Paragraph 5 refers to.
    A

    his bad back

    B

    the doctor’s weightlifting

    C

    his clinically inappropriate practice

    D

    his dishonest cheating


    正确答案: A
    解析:
    本题是词义题。第四段第二句中提到:他还欺骗了GMC这个专业行为委员会,因谎称后背受损使他无法出席听证会,使其将对他的听证会延期了四次;第五段中的“that injury”即指上述内容,因此答案为选项A。

  • 第12题:

    单选题
    The word “blindsided’’ underlined in Paragraph 3 means.
    A

    terrorized

    B

    haunted

    C

    hit

    D

    caught


    正确答案: D
    解析:
    语义题。划线部分所在分句主要描述了第二类恐惧症即惊恐性障碍的症状,指出“患者会周期性地被无缘由的强烈的恐惧所…”根据语境可知此处应该指的是“受折磨的”。因此选haunted(受到折磨的;焦虑不安的)。

  • 第13题:

    The underlined word “rainbow” in the last paragraph refers to ______.

    A. the rainbow in the sky

    B. the stripes on the pavement

    C. something imaginative and fun

    D. important lessons learned in childhood


    正确答案:C
    解析:推理判断题。根据最后一段作者的感慨“to keep our hopes and dreams colorful”,可以推断此时作者提到的rainbow不是指自己曾经画过的街道上的彩虹,而是指自己的人生中的彩虹。

  • 第14题:

    单选题
    The noun phrase “the medicine” underlined in Paragraph 1 refers to the _________.
    A

    turtle

    B

    medicine made from turtle

    C

    cancer cure

    D

    pet trade


    正确答案: C
    解析:
    本题是词义题。参考第71题的解析,可知这里的“这种药物”指的就是B项的“用金钱龟制成的药物”。

  • 第15题:

    单选题
    The word “They” underlined in Paragraph 3 refers to.
    A

    415 counties in the South

    B

    alcohol sales in other places

    C

    attempts by Wal-Mart and others

    D

    church groups and religious leaders


    正确答案: D
    解析:
    细节题。第三段首句指出Wal-Mart和其他企业试图说服南方那些地区解除禁酒令,却遭到some church groups and religious leaders的强烈反对。该段接下来就提到“他们争辩道解除禁酒就意味着更多的家庭暴力…”,由此可看出此处的they指的就是前面一句中提到的some church groups and religious leaders。因此选D。

  • 第16题:

    单选题
    The underlined word “screenings”in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.
    A

    projections

    B

    revelations

    C

    demonstrations

    D

    diversions


    正确答案: B
    解析:
    screenings出现在第一段首句。文章开头首先介绍到据历史记载第一部有声电影是1927年的The jazz Singer,但有声电影并非经过数年的silent screenings之后突然出现。可推测silent screenings应该指的是无声电影。screening意为“放映,播放”,而projection也有“放映”的意思,因此答案为A项。

  • 第17题:

    单选题
    The word these in the first paragraph refers to _____.
    A

    letters

    B

    photographs

    C

    paintings

    D

    objects


    正确答案: D
    解析:

  • 第18题:

    单选题
    The word “they” underlined in Paragraph 4 refers to ______.
    A

    health workers

    B

    officials

    C

    victims

    D

    cases


    正确答案: D
    解析:
    指代题。第四段第一句指出“By April 1978, WHO officials announced that they had isolated the last known case of the disease.”,通过句子结构分析,可知that引导announced的宾语从句,因此they指的就是该句的主语WHO officials。因此选B。

  • 第19题:

    单选题
    The word “they” underlined in Paragraph 2 refers to.
    A

    dry towns

    B

    financial muscles

    C

    county officials

    D

    real estate developers


    正确答案: D
    解析:
    推断题。第二段最后一句提到了“they”,指代的应该是上文的内容。而该最后一句之前提到“business interests”,并指出它们包括“real estate developers, grocery chains, restaurant groups and Wal-Mart”。因此real estate developers是其中一分子,故选D项为正确答案。

  • 第20题:

    单选题
    The underlined word “significant” (in Paragraph 1) most probably means “_____”.
    A

    strange

    B

    terrible

    C

    important

    D

    difficult


    正确答案: A
    解析:
    根据下文,发生在1990年的世界事件:东西德统一,World Wide Web 的诞生。我们不难推测,significant是指“重要,重大”。故选C项。

  • 第21题:

    单选题
    The word “couriers” underlined in Paragraph 1 means.
    A

    general mail service

    B

    persons sending mails

    C

    emergency mail service

    D

    international mail service


    正确答案: A
    解析:
    语义题。第一段第一句将一些国际couriers与“EMS(Express Mail Service), the generic name for the courier services of post offices”进行对比,可以推测couriers与EMS同类。因此选C。

  • 第22题:

    单选题
    The word “fueled” underlined in Paragraph 1 most probably means.
    A

    powered

    B

    bombarded

    C

    created

    D

    pushed


    正确答案: D
    解析:
    fueled所在的第一段第二句指的是“太阳由靠近它中心的高热原子核反应将氢转化为氦来获得能量”,由此可知fuel在文中意为“提供能量”,power作动词时,有“产生动力”的意思,与文中的fuel意思相符。bombard炮轰,轰击。因此选A。

  • 第23题:

    单选题
    The phrase “people in this age group” underlined in Paragraph 2 refers to ______.
    A

    infants

    B

    people in their twenties

    C

    people in their thirties and forties

    D

    elderly people


    正确答案: A
    解析:
    语义题。“people in this age group”出现在文中第二段第三句,该句指出“One exception is found among people in their twenties…, because people in this age group are most likely to have young children.”,由于“people in this age group”出现在该句中的原因状语从句中,可知该词组指的是前面提到的people in their twenties,故选B。