Almost exactly a year ago, in a small village in Northern India, Andrea Milliner was bitten on the leg by a dog. "It must have (1)_____ your nice white flesh", joked the doctor (2)_____ he dressed the wound. Andrea and her husband Nigel were determined not to let it (3)_____ their holiday, and thought no more (4)_____ the dog, which had meanwhile quietly disappeared (5)_____ the village. "We didn"t realize there was (6)_____ wrong with it," says Nigel. "It was such a small, (7)_____ dog that rabies didn"t (8)_____ my mind". But, six weeks later,23-year-old Andrea was dead. The dog had been rabid. No one had thought it necessary to (9)_____ her anti-rabies treatment. When, back home in England, she began to show the classic (10)_____—unable to drink, catching her breath—her own doctor put it (11)_____ to hysteria. Even when she was (12)_____ into an ambulance, hallucinating, recoiling in (13)_____ at the sight of water, she was directed (14)_____ the nearest mental hospital. But if her symptoms (15)_____ little attention in life, in death (16)_____ achieved a publicity close to hysteria. Cases like Andrea are (17)_____, but rabies is still one of the most feared diseases known to man. The disease is (18)_____ by a bite of a lick from an (19)_____ animal. It can, in very exceptional circumstances, be inhaled—two scientists died of it after (20)_____ bat dung in a cave in Texas.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:词汇辨析及上下文理解。fancied 喜欢,想象;flashed 闪光;flopped 飘动;gasped 喘气。本文从句意可判断出医生开玩笑说那条狗一定是喜欢吃Andrea的肉,其它选项均不合题意。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:上下文逻辑关系。从句意看,医生在给Andrea包扎伤口时跟她开玩笑,可见只有as符合题意。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:词汇辨析。snap猛咬;spoil 破坏,宠爱;stray 迷路;suit适合。通过前面讲到Andrea被狗咬伤了腿,而这句又提到Andrea和她丈夫不想让被狗咬这件事破坏他们度假的兴致。spoil意为"破坏(气氛,兴致),宠爱(孩子)"。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:介词辨析。no more about the dog"不想太多地去想被狗咬伤这件事",more about"更多地关于…";其它介词语意不通。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:介词辨析。文章语句意为"那条咬伤Andrea的狗从村子里悄然消失",只有from合题意。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:固定搭配。常见句型"There is something wrong with...或Something is wrong with...",但该句主句为否定句,所以答案为anything。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:词语辨析。1ikeable,adj.可爱的;likely,adj.可能的;liking,n.喜爱;likewise,adv.同样地(ad)。从句意看,那是一条小而可爱的狗,其它均不合题意。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:上下文句意理解。四个选项均可接my mind,意思分别为:change one"s mind 改变主意;lose one"s mind发狂;set one"s mind on...很想要…;enter (into) one"s mind某人想到…该句的意思是"那是一条可爱的小狗,我没想到它会有狂犬病",因此答案为enter。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:固定搭配。infect传染;inject注射;save挽救,节省;give给予。短语give sb.treatment意为"给…治疗",该句意为"给予她狂犬病治疗",因此答案为give。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:词语辨析。symptoms症状;groans 呻吟;goals目标;coughs咳嗽。短语"to show the classic symptoms"意为"表现出典型病状"。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:动词短语。四个选项中惟有put it down to hysteria"把…归因为癔病"合题意。但putout"熄灭,制造,出版";put up张贴,为…提供住宿;put off推迟。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:词语辨析。loafed游荡;loaned借贷;loaded安放,负荷;located…坐落于。根据语意应是把她安放在救护车里,因此只能选loaded。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:词语辨析。Recoiling in terror at the sight of water意为"一看到水就吓得退缩",其它选项语意不通。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:动词短语。该句前面提到"即使把她安放在救护车里,她也会产生幻觉,一见到水就吓得退缩"那么该句意思应是"把她送到附近的精神病院",故此应是be directed to...
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:动词短语。固定词组sb. give/turn one"s attention to以及sb. pay attention to,而该句主语为symptoms,因此只有received符合题意。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:上下文指代关系。该句用they来代替前面的symptoms。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:同义词辨析。根据句意应是"象Andrea 这样的病症是罕见的,很少有的",所以应选rare,其它用法不当。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:词语辨析。transformed 转变,改革;transferred 转移,调动;transmitted 传导,传播;transported运输。该句意为"这种病是被感染的动物的咬伤而传播的",因此只有transmitted符合题意。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:词语辨析。injected注射;infected 传染、感染;injured损害、伤害;inserted插入。句意为"被传染的动物…",只有infected符合。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:词语辨析。inhaling吸入;inverting使颠倒;inheriting继承;initiating创始。该句讲述两位科学家在Texas一个洞里由于吸入了蝙蝠粪便而死亡。