单选题 When immigrants arrived looking forward to the new opportunities and new freedom, they found danger and more hardship in a land devoid of any but the most elementary means of communication.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[分析] 形容词辨析 devoid(与of连用)空的；缺乏的；A. deprive 夺去，剥夺；使丧失(of)；B. deluge 涌至，汹涌而至的事物；C. diffuse 漫射；散播；扩散；传开；D. destitute of一般用于be destitute of something 剥夺；本句意为：当移民们抵达后期盼新机遇和新的自由之时，他们发现这块大陆上的危险和更多的艰难，甚至缺乏最基本的交流方法。因此A为答案。