问答题 《复合题被拆开情况》 After the horror became public in his hometown, Sylacauga, Alabama, city council president George Carlton told a reporter, "This is not the type of place that this happens. " A week ago, few people could【S1】________have pointed out Sylacauga on a map. A tiny city of 13,000, halfway between Birmingham and Montgomery, Sylacauga was known as for its【S2】________white marble quarries, textile mills and ice-cream factories. And last【S3】________week Sylacauga became a chapter in the recent history of hatred. According to police, Steven Eric Mullins, 25, and Charles Monroe Butler Jr. , 21, plotted for two weeks to murder Billy Jack Gaither, 39. In Feb. 19, they arranged to meet him at a Sylacauga【S4】________bar and lured him to secluded area. There they beat him and【S5】________dump him into the trunk of his car. They then drove about 15 miles to【S6】________Peckerwood Creek. There, says Sheriff’s Deputy Al Bradley, "they took him out of the trunk, took an ax handle and beat him to death. " They set two old tires flame, says Bradley, " then they put the body on【S7】________the fire. " They did it all, the deputy says, while Gaither was gay.【S8】________ Gaither’s death has become a rallying point for gay-rights organizations and state legislators’ pushing a bill that would extend【S9】________Alabama’s three-year-old hate-crimes law beyond race, color, religion and national origin to cover crimes related to sexual orientation as well. "It’s fortunate that somebody had to lose his life in order for this【S10】________legislation to pick up momentum here in the state of Alabama," says state Representative Alvin Holmes, who failed to get the original law amended when it was passed in 1996.《问题》:【S3】
【正确答案】And—But
【答案解析】连词误用。上文提到“在一周前还很少有人能在地图上指出锡拉科加这个地方”,此处说“上周,这个小镇一下子成为近代仇恨史上的一章”,可见上下文存在明显的转折关系,因此把And改为But。