单选题 Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank.
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单选题
  • A. went
  • B. go
  • C. goes
  • D. going
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查一般现在时用法。As time goes by(随着时间的流逝),这是一个普遍真理。故选C。
单选题
  • A. through
  • B. out
  • C. off
  • D. up
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查work后接介词用法。work through战胜;work out解决问题,结果;work off除去,消除;work up发展,改进。故选A。
单选题
  • A. rush through
  • B. rush into
  • C. rush out
  • D. rush away
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查介词用法,rush through仓促通过;msh into仓促行事;msh out冲出去,赶制;msh away急走。故选C。
单选题
  • A. sick
  • B. strong
  • C. weak
  • D. sickly
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查形容词词义。sick病的;strong强壮的;weak(虚弱的;sickly多病的。根据前后句意,选A。
单选题
  • A. large
  • B. largest
  • C. the largest
  • D. larger
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查形容词比较级用法。空后有介词山an,故只能用形容词比较级,选D。
单选题
  • A. stick
  • B. fasten
  • C. connect
  • D. bind
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查动词用法。stick插入,粘贴;fasten,bind系紧,捆绑;connect连接,结合。根据句意,选C。
单选题
  • A. whose
  • B. who
  • C. whom
  • D. which
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查定语从句先行词用法。因在此句中先行词代指人,故应选B。
单选题
  • A. nevertheless
  • B. however
  • C. otherwise
  • D. therefore
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查副词、连词用法。nevertheless可做副词或连词,然而,依然;however然而,表“然而”时为副词,用在句首,其后用逗号;otherwise为副词,否则,用别的方法,以不同方式,也可做连词,表“否则”;therefore为副词,所以。根据句意,选C。
单选题
  • A. lacked
  • B. met
  • C. provided
  • D. needed
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查动词用法。lack缺少;meet会见,有词组meet one's needs(满足需要);provide提供;need需要。根据句意选D。
单选题
  • A. lead
  • B. leaded
  • C. shown
  • D. show
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查动词用法。首先根据句意,该空应用被动语态。lead的分词形式应为led;show的运去分词为shown。故选C,意为领某人进入…。
单选题
  • A. Laying
  • B. Lieing
  • C. Laid
  • D. Lying
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查lie,lay动词的用法。lie平躺,撒谎;lying为它的-ing形式;laying为动词lay(放置,置于)的-ing形式,laid为其过去式;无lieing,故选D。
单选题
  • A. print
  • B. prescription
  • C. printing
  • D. printout
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查名词意义辨析。print印刷,印刷品;prescription药方,疗法;printing印刷术;printout(打印出的)资料。故选D。
单选题
  • A. career
  • B. educational
  • C. medical
  • D. living
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查根据后句句意选词,后句有“this lady should be dead over ten times”故此题选C。
单选题
  • A. was
  • B. is
  • C. should be
  • D. will be
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查虚拟语态用法。前句有“I thought”,从此可知“dead over ten times”并非真实内容,故应用虚拟语态,选C。
单选题
  • A. with
  • B. at
  • C. on
  • D. into
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查动词curse后接介词的用法,其后接介词at,curse at(咒骂,诅咒)。故选B。
单选题
  • A. offense
  • B. defense
  • C. action
  • D. attack
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查名词意义辨析。offense令人讨厌/不快的事物,take offense生气,不快;defence防御,防卫;action行动,行事;attack攻击。故选A。
单选题
  • A. rewrote
  • B. repeated
  • C. pronounced
  • D. reread
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查动词词义辨析。rewrite重新写;repeat重复说一遍;pronounce发音;reread重读,重看reread的过去式和过去分词皆为reread发音为[ri'red]。故选D。
单选题
  • A. presenting
  • B. presented
  • C. presents
  • D. present
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查被动语态用法。据题意,本题应使用被动语态,故选B。
单选题
  • A. remedies
  • B. prescriptions
  • C. conditions
  • D. symptoms
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查名词词义辨析。remedies疗法,药方;prescriptions处方,药方;conditions情况,境况;symptoms症状。据题意,前词为medicines,后为illnesses,故选D最合适。
单选题
  • A. catched
  • B. got
  • C. seized
  • D. grasped
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查固定搭配catch one's attention吸引某人的注意。故选A。