Digital photography is still new enough that most of us have yet to form an opinion about it, (1)_____ develop a point of view. But this hasn"t stopped many film and computer fans from agreeing (2)_____ the early conventional wisdom about digital cameras—they"re new (3)_____ for you. But they"re not suitable for everyday picture taking. The fans are wrong: More than anything else, digital cameras are radically (4)_____ what photography means and what it can be. The venerable medium of photography (5)_____ we know it is beginning to seem out of (6)_____ with the way we live. In our computer and camcorder (7)_____ saving pictures as digital (8)_____ and watching them on TV is no less practical—and in many ways more (9)_____ than fumbling with rolls of film that must be sent off to be (10)_____. Paper is also terribly (11)_____. Pictures that are incorrectly framed, (12)_____,or lighted are nonetheless committed to film and ultimately processed into prints. The digital medium changes the (13)_____. Still images that are (14)_____ digitally can immediately be shown on a computer (15)_____, a TV screen, or a small liquid-crystal display (LCD) built fight into the camera. And since the points of light that (16)_____ an image are saved as a series of digital bits in electronic memory, (17)_____ being permanently etched onto film, they can be erased, retouched, and transmitted (18)_____. What"s it like to (19)_____ with one of these digital cameras? It"s a little like a first date—exciting, confusing and fraught with (20)_____.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:考查上下文的分析。develop a point of view显然比form an opinion about it要更进一步,因此,既然后者还不行,前者当然是 much less(更少,不及)。rather than胜于;let alone更不用说(后常接名词);so as to使得,以致。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:动词搭配辨析。agree on对…意见一致;填入on符合句意。agree with一致,相符合,但后面常接人,所以不能用with。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:名词近义词辨析题。attachment n.附件,附加装置,配属;auxiliary n.辅助设备,辅助装置;attribute n.属性,品质,特征,加于,归结于;counterpart n.副本,极相似的人或物,配对物。根据句意,应填入auxiliaries与后面But they"re not suitable for everyday picture-taking相对应。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:形似词辨析题。redefine vt.重新定义,填入后符合句意。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:结构分析题。根据句意,所填词应能引导定语从句,四个选项中,只有as可以。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:固定搭配。因为out of step为步调不一致,所以,本句填入 step符合题意。其他词都不能与out of搭配表达此意思。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:名词辨析题。environment n.环境,外界;civilization n.文明,文化,文明社会;community n.公社,团体,社会;culture n.文化,文明。显然,culture与camcorder搭配更好。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:考查习惯表达。根据后文的watching them on TV,显然,digital修饰files更合适。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:形容词辨析题。appealing adj.吸引入的;facilitating adj.简易化的;enlightening adj.启发性的;encouraging adj.奖励的,可奖励的根据句意,此处填入appealing符合句意。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:动词辨析题。所填词显然要表示"冲洗,影印"的意思,所以填入develop符合句意。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:形容词辨析题。unforgiving adj.不可宽恕的,不能原谅的,填入本句符合句意。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:动词近义词辨析题。照相中表示"聚焦"一般用focus。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:名词近义词辨析题。regulation n.规则,规章;rule n.规则,惯例;discipline n.纪律;学科;principle n.法则,原则,原理。显然,填入rules符合句意。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:动词近义词辨析题。pip vt.紧握,紧夹;seize v.抓住,逮住,夺取;grasp vt.抓住,抓紧;capture vt.俘获,捕获,夺取。只有,capture能表示摄影中的抓拍,填入后符合句意。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:名词辨析题。根据句意,显然所填词表示计算机的"显示器",故应选用monitor。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:动词辨析题。constitute vt.制定(法律),建立(政府),组成;illumine vt.照明,点亮;penetrate vt.穿透,渗透;dissolve v.溶解,解散。所以,根据句意,应填入constitute。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:语气判断题。所填同引起的内容与前文在语气上是转折,这里只能选用rather than。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:习惯表达。通过线路传播,我们通常用on-line,这一点,接触过网络的人都会熟悉。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:动词辨析题。只有shoot能表示"照相"的意思,填入后符合句意
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:名词辨析题。四个选项都可表示"可能性",但前三项都只能表达抽象的可能性,而possibilities可指具体的"可能发生的事物",因此,填入本句符合句意。