单选题
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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 {{B}}ANSWER SHEET{{/B}} 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”。