单选题 Change, or the ability to (31) oneself to a changing environment is essential (32) evolution. The farmer whose land is required for housing or industry must adapt himself: he can transfer to another place and master the problems (33) to it; he can change his occupation, perhaps (34) a period of training; or he can starve to death. A nation which can't adapt its trade or defense requirements to (35) world conditions faces an economic and military disaster. Nothing is fixed and permanently stable. (36) must be movement forward, which is progress of a sort, and movement backward, which is decay and deterioration.
In a changing world, traction can be a force for good or for evil. (37) long as it offers a guide, it helps the ignorant and the uninformed to take a step (38) and, thereby adapt themselves to (39) circumstances. But if we make an idol of tradition, it ceases to be a guide. It becomes an obstacle (40) on the path of course. Man is to accept the help which tradition can give but to be well aware of its limitations in a changing world.

【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[注释] adapt oneself to 为常用词组,表示“使自己适应……”。在阅读句子时,应注意下文中反复出现了该词,抓住这一线索,就可选出正确答案。A.change(变换),B.fit (与……相称,使符合),D.adopt(采取,采纳;领养,收养)。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[注释] be essential to(for)... 为固定搭配,意为“对于……是不可少的”。句中指的是“对于发展来说是必不可少的”。同义词组为be vital to。还要掌握二者在下面结构中的用法:It is+ essential /vital+ that从句,该结构的主语从句中要用(should)+V.形式。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[注释] 选项中的四个形容词都可以和介词to搭配使用,但意义不同。根据题意选A. peculiar合适,表示“……所特有的”;B.strange构成be strange to,意为“对……是生疏的”;C.familiar构成be familiar to,意为“对……来说是熟悉的”;D.stiff意为“生硬的,严厉的”。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[注释] 该题必须要在理解文章内容的基础上进行推理后再选择。前一句指出:“他可能要改行”,根据上下文可断定,改行应该是在培训之后,不可能在培训之前,所以应选 D;after。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[注释] 根据本句句意,此处应选A.meet,相当于satisfy,意为“符合,迎合,满足”。 B.come into(进入,得到);C.turn into(进入,使变成);D.encounter(遭遇,遇到,偶然或意外地遇见)。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[注释] 该句为there be句型的变体。其中谓语动词可以是must,might,ought to等情态动词+be 构成,或seem to be,happen to be,be likely to be等词组,或是用live, come等动词来表示,但必须以there开头。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[注释] is (so)long as为短语连接词,意为“只要”,引导条件状语从句。其他三项都不是短语连词,而且词义也不通。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[注释] 根据上下文分析,应该是向前(取得进步),所以应选C.forward(向前)。 A.backward(向后);B.aside(在旁边);D.amidst同amid(在……中间,在……当中)。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[注释] 从语法角度看四个词都可作circumstances的定语。但从上下文内容分析,此处应译为“……因此使他们适应变化的环境。”本句中的thereby意为“因此,所以”,等于 therefore;C.old-fashioned(过时的);D.up-to-date(时髦的);A.unchanging为现在分词,时态不合适。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[注释] lying为动词lie的现在分词形式,意为“躺,位于,存在,展现”。A.laying是 lay的现在分词,意为“放,搁;布置,安排;下蛋”;C.laid是lay的过去分词;D.lain是lie的过去分词;意思是“说谎”。