单选题Directions:There are 10 blanks in the following passage.
For each numbered blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the
best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single
line through the center. Increasingly, the
development of tourism is seen to have an effect on the environment. Erosion
(磨损) is one problem. The steps and stones of major popular {{U}} {{U}}
1 {{/U}} {{/U}}like Shakespeare's birthplace or Stonehenge (巨石阵) are
literally being worn away by millions of foreign feet. The {{U}} {{U}}
2 {{/U}} {{/U}}in the case of Britain's best known prehistoric monument
has been to use railings to keep visitors at a distance. Such measures can
hardly be {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}in the house of the Bard,
however, where tourists want to enter the actual building.
Overcrowding in cities, towns and villages is {{U}} {{U}} 4
{{/U}} {{/U}}problem. Traffic jams are an outcome. In narrow roads, tourist
vehicles cause congestion. {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}traders
and residents cannot get around to do their work. Car parks fill up, {{U}}
{{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}strangers park their cars where they can: in
streets, across gateways, in lay-bys, or even in {{U}} {{U}} 7
{{/U}} {{/U}}driveways. This causes obstruction. The sheer weights of
in-comers can be a hazard. Thus Venice, a city built for half a million
inhabitants, is {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}by another half
million who populate the city daily in the tourist {{U}} {{U}} 9
{{/U}} {{/U}}—eight million visits each year. The mayor recently decided to
{{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}visitors to 90,000 a day: the only
way to save the city from overcrowding.
单选题
A. residence
B. dwellings
C. monuments
D. sites
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】四个选项的意思有点相近。A项residence指“住处，住所”；B项dwelling指“住宅，寓所”；C项monument指“纪念馆；碑”；D项site指“旧址，遗址”。从此句所举的例句Shakespeare's birthplace or Stonehenge(莎士比亚出生地或巨石阵)看，正确答案显然应为D。
【答案解析】由上一段的主题句Erosion is one problem可推断，本段所谈的是旅游业所带来的另一个问题，即overcrowding“过分拥挤”。A项second“第二个”意思上正确，但序数词前应加冠词，如the second chapter of a book“书的第二章”，a second opportunity“再一次机会”。C项other“其他的”后需接名词复数；D项the other指“(两者中的)另一个”，因此C和D均不正确。正确答案应为B项another“另一个”。
单选题
A. Urban
B. Local
C. Rural
D. Foreign
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】上句提到，旅游车辆在狭窄的马路上造成交通堵塞，那么不能正常去工作或干活的当然应该是当地的商人和居民。因此B项Local“当地的”是正确答案。由于旅游景点可能在cities，towns and villages，故A项Urban“城市的”和C项Rural“农村的”，都是以偏概全；D项Foreign“外国的”与题意完全不一致。