单选题
单选题 Which of the following most probably means what you've just heard?
  • A. It was coffee that Catherine drank.
  • B. Catherine disliked to drink this kind of coffee.
  • C. Is this the coffee that Catherine drank?
  • D. What did Catherine drink with her coffee?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] What Catherine has had this morning was a cup of coffee. [分析] 语义理解题。 原文意思是“今天早上Catherine只喝了一杯咖啡。”由此可见选项A内容与原文相符，因此该项是正确答案。 [解题关键] 理解复合句义。本句中what引导的是主语从句。
单选题 How did they get there?
  • A. They started to look for the subway station.
  • B. They Would rather drive than go by subway.
  • C. They went by subway because the car wasn't working.
  • D. They drove so they wouldn't have to go by subway.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] The car wouldn't start, so they went there by subway. [分析] 语义理解题。 原文意思是“汽车无法启动，所以他们乘地铁去那里了。”由此可见选项C内容与原文相符，因此该项是正确答案。 [解题关键] 根据表示因果关系的信号词理解句子含义。
单选题 What has the speaker been doing recently?
  • A. I would like to go to the football stadium more frequently than I do now.
  • B. My football team has recently won a couple of matches at that stadium.
  • C. Lately, I've been watching TV rather than going to the football stadium.
  • D. I don't watch football matches on TV as frequently as I used to.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] I used to go to the football stadium often, but now I generally stay at home watching TV instead. [分析] 词义理解题。 原文意思是“我过去常常去看足球，但现在我通常在家看电视。”由此可见选项C内容与原文相符，因此该项是正确答案。 [解题关键] 理解原文instead的含义。该词常用在句尾表“以……来代替”，与选项C中rather than“而非”意思相呼应。
单选题 Could you describe the speaker's recent activity?
  • A. He's never lonely, for he has worked in his own company.
  • B. He started a business after he had gained some experience.
  • C. He's upset about his own business for three years.
  • D. He needed to spend three more years working with the IT firm.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] Having worked with an IT firm for three years, he set up his own company. [分析] 语义理解题。 原文意思是“在一家IT公司工作三年后，他创办了自己的公司。”由此可见B项内容与原文相符，因此该项是正确答案。 [解题关键] 理解现在分词完成式表示已完成的动作，其动作发生的时间在谓语动词表示时间之前，因此先有在别的公司工作的经验，再创办公司。
单选题 What does the speaker mean?
  • A. Isn't he standing outside the concert hall?
  • B. The concert hall in the city isn't new.
  • C. Is the concert hall still standing?
  • D. The new concert hall is excellent.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] Isn't that new concert hall outstanding? [分析] 语义理解题。 原文意思是“那座新的音乐厅多么出色呀。”由此可见选项D项内容与原文相符，因此该项是正确答案。 [解题关键] 理解Isn't……?句式结构的含义。实际上该问句表示肯定，是一种强调。