单选题
Everything seemed to have become a weapon of war. Our enemies had{{U}} (1) {{/U}}the most familiar objects{{U}} (2) {{/U}}us, turned shaving kits into holsters and airplanes{{U}} (3) {{/U}}missiles and soccer coaches and newlyweds into involuntary suicide bombers. So it was{{U}} (4) {{/U}}the President and his generals to plot the response.
That is because we are{{U}} (5) {{/U}}one enemy but two: one unseen, the other inside. Terror on this scale{{U}} (6) {{/U}}to wreck the way we live our lives-make us flinch when a siren sounds,{{U}} (7) {{/U}}when a door slams and think twice before deciding{{U}} (8) {{/U}}we really have to take a plane. If we falter, they win,{{U}} (9) {{/U}}they never plant another bomb. So after the early helplessness, what can I do? I've already given blood-people started to realize that{{U}} (10) {{/U}}they could do was exactly, as precisely as possible,{{U}} (11) {{/U}}they would have done if all this{{U}} (12) {{/U}}.
That was the spirit{{U}} (13) {{/U}}in New York and Washington and all across the country, faith and fear and resolve in a tight braid. Because the killers who hate us did the{{U}} (14) {{/U}}, nothing is unthinkable now. A plume of grill smoke venting from a Manhattan steak house{{U}} (15) {{/U}}the evacuation of midtown office towers. After the Pentagon{{U}} (16) {{/U}}, generals called their families and told them{{U}} (17) {{/U}}the water, it could be poisoned. Sales of guns and gas masks spiked. The National Football League{{U}} (18) {{/U}}its games for the first time ever; bomb scares emptied 90 sites on Thursday in New York City{{U}} (19) {{/U}}. People wore sneakers with their suits{{U}} (20) {{/U}}they had to fly fast down the stairs.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】turn something against sb将……用作反对某人的工具。其余选项： A．used接不定式；B．changed接介词into；C．applied接to。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】against反对。此处需要一个介词，而A．fight和D．struggle为动词； D．opposite为形容词。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】turn．．．into将……转变成。其余选项不符合上下文的短语搭配。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】up to取决于……，须由……决定的。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】fighting not one enemy but two不是和一个，而是和两个敌人同时作战。注意否定词not的位置。选项B．not fighting否定的是fighting，而此处需要否定的是one enemy。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】be meant to do按预计要做，该会是，例如：You were meant to ask me why I was disappointed with this idea．你该问问我为什么对这种想法感到失望。其余选项为“意味着”之意。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】注意与前面的动词的关系：make sb jump，省略不定式符号to。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】只能选择whether，选项人证在此没有“是否”的含义，而对于 C．when，D．how之类的问题一般不必三思而行(think twice before deciding)。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】even if即便是。其余选项都没有这层意思。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】what they could do他们能做的一切。此处需要由what引起的主语从句。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】whatever用于强调宾语。从搭配上看，A．whenever用于强调时间， B．whoever用于强调主语，D．however用于强调方式，均不合题意。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】hadn't happened，注意此处的过去虚拟语气：要是眼前这一切不曾发生，让他们做什么他们都愿意。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】此处的building为“增大，加强”之意，例如：The plot builds steadily toward a climax．情节不断向高潮发展。此处用现在分词，具有主动、正在的含义。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】the unthinkable不可思议的事情。unthinkable加定冠词the，变成了名词，其余几个选项的形容词没有这样的用法。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】leads to导致，造成。根据题意，此处需要填入一个谓语动词，且为第三人称单数，而不是动词的其他非谓语形式或动词原形。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】was hit 被撞。根据题意，此处需要用一般过去时的被动语态。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】注意不定式做宾补的否定式的结构：tell sb not to do sth。其他选项结构搭配不当。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】canceled its games取消比赛。其他选项：A．forbade禁止； B．prohibited不准；D．cut down减少。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】in New York City a lone仅在纽约市。注意掌握alone一词的用法，是直接放在所修饰的名词的后面。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】in case以防。其他选项都不符合题意。