单选题 Gianni Agnelli, Chairman of Fiat, Italy's largest private industrial corporation, is known in Italy as the lawyer, because he trained in law at Turin University. Though A he has never practiced, his training may be useful. On April 17th Mr. Agnelli admitted to a group of Italian industrialists in Venice (19) Fiat had been (20) in some corruptions in Italy. On April 21st, Fiat's lawyers and Cesare Romiti, its managing director, met Milan magistrates to (21) the firm's involvement in bribery to win business from state-owned companies.
Fiat is not the (22) Italian company caught up in Italy's increasing political corruption scandal. According to the latest figure, some 200 businessmen and politicians were sitting in prison (23) a result of judicial inquiries into kickbacks paid to politicians by firms. Hundreds more are still (24) influence of Fiat, (25) sales are equal to 4% of Italy's home product, the scandal at the company has (26) the industrial establishment.
Though neither Mr. Agnelli (27) Mr. Romiti has been (28) of wrong doing, several other senior Fiat managers have allegedly been involved in paying kickbacks to win state-owned contracts. (29) arrested include Francesco Mattiol, Fiat's finance director, and Antonio Moscon, the (30) head of its Toro insurance branch. (31) men have been (32) about their previous roles on the board of Cogefar-Impresit, Fiat's construction subsidiary. Last May, Enzo Papi admitted paying a 1.5 million-dollar bribe for a contract (33) to Milan's underground.

【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[精析] 开头有明确的时间April 17th,因此这里考虑时间。故选C。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[精析] 此处的意思是菲亚特公司被卷入到意大利的贪污行贿事件之中,考查的是:be involved in句型,意为:“被卷入某事之中,与某事件有牵连”。故选A。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[精析] 文中第一段最后一句的意思是在6月 21日,菲亚特公司的律师和营销部长与米兰裁判官见面讨论该公司涉嫌行贿一案。故选D。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[精析] 菲亚特公司并非唯一一个涉嫌行贿的公司,此处为习惯用法。例,He is not the only person I love.他并非是唯一一个我爱的人。故选D。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[精析] 考查短语as a result of:“作为……的结果”。故选A。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[精析] 考查短语:“处于……的影响之下”,under (the) influence of。故选B。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[精析] 这里要清楚前后两分句的关系,此处为定语从句,菲亚特的销售额占意大利国内产品总值的4%。故选C。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[精析] 由上下文可知,作者想表述的是:那件丑闻震动了工业界。故选B。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[精析] 这里考查neither…nor…的用法。意思是Mr Agnelli和Mr Pomiti都没有因为涉嫌贿赂而被指控。我们由谓语动词has been这个单数形式判断选择nor是正确的。故选D。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[精析] 此处考查固定搭配:be accused of,“被指控,被控诉,被指责”。故选A。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[精析] 此处考查的是主语从句用法,句子意思是“被逮捕的人员包括……”。我们用Those arrested作为主语。实际上,我们省略了who,即完整的主语应该是those who were arrested include…。故选B。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[精析] 此处考查固定用法。前任负责人即为 former head。故选B。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[精析] 回到上一句我们能够发现,这里的men实际上指的是两个人,即Francesco Mattiol和 Antonio Moscon。而且句子的谓语动词用的是复数形式。故选D。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[精析] 因二人是被逮捕,因此被询问的时候用 question。故选C。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[精析] 这里考查介词搭配,A选项表示“联系”,多为朋友间的通讯联系,不正式,不用于此处;C答案和D答案后接的介词是with;而B选项的意思是“与……联系”,可以接介词to。故选B。