语法与词汇 17.Thanks to its remote location and ______terrain, Henderson Island has never been successfully colonised , either by people or by other introduced species.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】本题考查形容词辨析。由and可知,remote location(偏僻的位置)和______terrain(______的地形,地势)并列,再由后半句中的has never been successfully colonised(从未被成功殖民)可判断,forbidding意为“难以接近的,难以通过的”,可用于形容地势险峻,符合语义,故答案为[A]项。constraining是动词constrain的分词形式,作形容词,意为“限制的,抑制的”;straining是动词strain的分词形式,作形容词,意为“拉紧的”;prohibiting是动词prohibit的分词形式,作形容词,意为“禁止的”。