单选题
The phrase "anticipate the green light"(Line 1, Para. 3)is closest in meaning to
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】此题为细节理解题。anticipate表示“先于”、“抢先于”。
[难点解析]
▲ The chief problem in coping with foreign motorists is not so much remembering that they are different from yourself,but that they are enormously variable:这里,not so much...but that...构成比较结构,表示“与……相比,……更……”,but后若手补上 remembering就更容易看清楚了。更为常用的比较结构是:not so much…as…。
▲ sharpie:(美俚)机灵鬼
▲ amber:这里指(指挥交通的)黄灯。
▲ scrupulously:严谨地,一丝不苟地
▲ on hearsay:凭道听途说,凭传闻