单选题
The suclptural legacy that the new United States {{U}}(21) {{/U}} its colonial predecessors was {{U}}(22) {{/U}} a rich one, and {{U}}(23) {{/U}} in 1776 sculpture as an art form was {{U}}(24) {{/U}} in the hands of artisans and craftspeople. Stone carvers engraved their motifs of skulls and crossbones and other religious icons of death into the gray slabs that we still see {{U}}(25) {{/U}} today in old bruial grounds. Some skilled craftspeople made intricately carved wooden ornamentations for furntiture or architectural decorations, {{U}}(26) {{/U}} carved wooden shop signs and ships figureheads. {{U}}(27) {{/U}} they often achieved expression and formal excellence in their generally primitive style, they remained artisans skilled in the craft of carving and constituted a group {{U}}(28) {{/U}} from what we normally {{U}}(29) {{/U}} as "sculptors" {{U}}(30) {{/U}} the word.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】句意：美国从殖民先驱那里继承来的雕刻遗产。inherit from继承，从前任接过；adapt to适合；adopt收养，采纳。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】句意：远非一个丰富完善的事物。far from远非，远远不是；nearly几乎； rarely很少地，罕见地。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】前文提到sculpture在那时不完善，本处接下来描述的是它当时的实际状况，故用in fact。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】句意：它仍然只是存在于工匠手中。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】see sth. doing看见某物做某事，本处指“看见它们屹立在墓地”。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】本句表示两种匠人的工作对比，用while；泛指情况下，使用some... others... 结构。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】句意：虽然他们用原始的风格表达出了……，但仍然与我们所说的雕刻家不一样。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】distinct from形容词短语在句中做定语，修饰group。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】think of sb. as sth. 将某人视为。句中normally“通常”决定了本处应用一般现在时。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】in today's use of word在现今措辞使用中。usage强调惯用法，use动作意味较强。