问答题 People and organizations in relationships play certain roles. For example, business organizations in India may play the role of the Morally Superior in negotiations about the United States and Japan. They are an old and.【M1】______venerable culture with well-established regulations for social behavior and deep-rooted expectations for business behavior. They have not been responsible for atrocities or moral behavior, in their own view.【M2】______They cast both the United States and Japan the role of the Morally【M3】______Inferior. This means they persuade with great moral authority, not on the basis of facts but on the basis of what is morally right. This gives in them【M4】______higher status than their Japanese or United States counterparts, and status has priority in India. Here is for an example from recent history.【M5】______In 1984, a pesticide manufacturing company in the city of Bhopal, India experienced a disastrous leak of toxic gas. Thousands died, with【M6】______thousands more suffered terrible injuries. The episode was viewed as morally wrong by the Indians felt the company had failed to behave【M7】______responsively. The company was a joint venture, 50.9% owned by Union【M8】______Carbide, a United States chemical company, and 49. 1% owned by Indian investors and the government. Some Indians called on the【M9】______extradition of the American president of Union Carbide at the time. The morally outraged victims who survived continue more than 20 years later to charge the company about not releasing information about【M10】______the gas and about possible treatment, and to ask for more compensation.
问答题 【M1】
【正确答案】正确答案:about一with
【答案解析】解析:表示“与某人协商谈判”的固定用法为in negotiations with sb.。
问答题 【M2】
【正确答案】正确答案:moral一immoral
【答案解析】解析:根据上文作者对商业组织(business organizations)的描述,可知本句意为“在这些组织看来,他们对暴行或不道德的行为并不负责”。
问答题 【M3】
【正确答案】正确答案:∧the role一in
【答案解析】解析:表示“选派某人在……扮演角色”的固定搭配为cast sb.in the role of sth.,本句意为“他们(印度的商业组织)认为美国和日本在道德上低人一等”。
问答题 【M4】
【正确答案】正确答案:in一/
【答案解析】解析:give为及物动词,可直接用give sb.sth.结构表示“给予某人某物”。give in意为“投降,让步”。
问答题 【M5】
【正确答案】正确答案:for一/
【答案解析】解析:本句意为“这里举一个……例子”,固定用法为Here is an example。
问答题 【M6】
【正确答案】正确答案:with一and
【答案解析】解析:此处Thousands died和thousands more suffered terrible injuries为两个并列结构,都是完整的句子,应用连词and,而不能用with这一介词来连接。
问答题 【M7】
【正确答案】正确答案:the Indians∧一who
【答案解析】解析:本句前半部分The episode was viewed as morally wrong by the Indians已经是完整的句子结构,因此后半部分应为先行词the Indians的定语从句,且先行词在定语从句中作主语,不可以省略,所以用连接代词who来引导。
问答题 【M8】
【正确答案】正确答案:responsively一responsibly
【答案解析】解析:本句意为“印度人将这一小插曲视作极为不道德的,认为该公司的行为不负责任”。responsively意为“应答地,易感应地”,与文意不符,应改为responsibly“负责地”。
问答题 【M9】
【正确答案】正确答案:on一for
【答案解析】解析:本句意为“当时一些印度人便要求引渡美国联合碳化物公司的总裁”。call on意为“拜访;号召”,作“号召”之意时,固定用法为call on sb.to do sth.;call for意为“要求”,用法为call for sth.,由介词后的名词extradition可知后者更符合语境。
问答题 【M10】
【正确答案】正确答案:第一个about一with
【答案解析】解析:表示“控告某人某事”的固定用法为charge sb.with sth.。