单选题 Directions:
In this part there are ten incomplete sentences, each with four suggested answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.

单选题 In 1914, an apparently insignificant event in a remote part of Eastern Europe______ Europe into a great war.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 四个选项的意思分别为:insert“插入,登载”;impose“征(税等),强加”;pitch“投,扔”;plunge“使陷入”。
单选题 The British are not so familiar with different cultures and other ways of doing things, ______is often the case in other countries.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 该题后半部分属关系代词a3连接引出定语从句结构,可置于句首,也可放在句尾。
that不能用于非限制性定语从句。
单选题 A person's calorie requirements vary ______ his life.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 介词throughout和life构成介词短语。
单选题 A survey was carried out on the death rate of new-born babies in that region, ______ were surprising.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 从句子结构分析,逗号后的句子为定语从句。可首先排除A、C两项,因为这两项中没有关系代词。再根据“结果”和“调查”两者的关系,“调查”应是“结果”的定语。
单选题 If I hadn't stood under the ladder to catch you when you fell, you ______ now.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 条件从句和主句发生在不同的时间,必须使用不同的时态。该句前半句发生在过去,后半句发生在现在,所以选择A项。
单选题 The bank is reported in the local newspaper ______ in broad daylight yesterday.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 动词不定式后跟完成式表示发生在过去的事情。
单选题 Agriculture was a step in human progress ______ which subsequently there was not anything comparable until our own machine age.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 句中comparable和to构成一形容词短语习惯搭配。
单选题 All the key words in the article are printed in ______ type so as to attract readers' attention.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 四个选项的基本意思分别为:dark“黑暗的,深色的”;deuse“密度大的”;black“黑色的”;dold“大胆的;醒目的,粗大的”。
单选题 The basic features of the communication process are identified in one question: Who says ______ through what channel to whom?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本句话的意思是:交流过程的基本特征可以通过一个问题来区分:谁说了什么?通过什么渠道?说给谁听?根据题意,答案为C。
单选题 American football and baseball are becoming known to the British public through televised ______ from the United States.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 四个选项的意思分别是:transfer“转变,调整,转换”;delivery“送货,发表”;transportation“运输”;transmission“传递,发射”。