1. My pain__1__apparent the moment I walked into the room, for the first man I met asked sympathetically: "Are you feeling all right?"
A. must be B. must have been C. had been D. had to be
2. It is only when you nearly lose someone__2__fully conscious of how much you value him.
A. do you become B. then you become C. that you become D. have you become
3. Just as the soil is a part of the earth,__3__the atmosphere.
A. as it is B. so is C. the same as D. and so is
4. While driving along the treacherous road,__4__.
A. my right rear tire blew out B. my right rear tire had a blowout C. I had a blowout on my right rear tire D. I had my right rear tire blowout
5. Jean Wagner's most enduring contribution to the study of Afro American poetry is his insistence that it__5__in a religious, as well as worldly, frame of reference.
A. is to be analyzed B. has been analyzed C. be analyzed D. should have been analyzed
答案:
1. B) 【句意】 我刚一走进房间时一定表现得很痛苦,因为我遇到的第一个人同情地问我:“你没事吧?”
【难点】must与完成时不定式连用往往表示对过去发生的事情的主观推测,常译成“一定是…”。
2. C) 【句意】 只有当你快要失去什么人时,你才充分意识到他对你是多么重要。
【难点】 该句是一个典型的强调句式,即It is...that...。
3. B) 【句意】 正像土壤是地球的一部分,大气层也是。
【难点】Just as...,so...为一固定结构,意为“正如…,…也…”。
4. C) 【句意】 当我在险峻的山路上驾车急驰时,车的右后胎爆了。
【难点】 此句为一个带有时间状语从句的主从复合句。在英语中,由while, when等引导的时间状语从句,如果其主语与主句中的主语相同,从句中的主语可以省略,而只剩下分词短语。驾车的应该是人,所以只能从C)和D)选,而D)的意义不符,所以选C)。
5. C) 【句意】 杰恩·瓦格那对亚非诗歌最永恒的贡献是他坚持认为,这类诗歌除用凡俗的参考框架,还应用宗教的参考框架进行研究。
【难点】insistence是个从insist派生来的名词,二者后面分别接同位语从句和宾语从句,句中皆应使用虚拟形式,即should+动词原形或动词原形。