There are so many new books about dying that there are now special shelves set aside for them in bookshops, along with the health-diet and home-repair paperbacks. Some of them are so (1)with detailed information and step-by-step instructions for performing the function, that you’d think this was a new sort of(2)which all of us are now required to learn. The strongest impression the casual reader gets is that proper dying has become an extraordinary,(3)an exotic experience, something only the specially trained can do.
(4) , you could be led to believe that we are the only(5)capable of being aware of death, and that when the rest nature is experiencing the life cycle and dying, one generation after(6), it is a different kind of process, done automatically and trivially, or more “natural”, as we say.
An elm in our backyard(7)the blight (枯萎病)this summer and dropped stone dead, leafless, almost overnight. One weekend(8)was a normal-looking elm, maybe a little bare in spots but(9)alarming, and the next weekend it was gone, passed over, departed, taken. Taken is right, for the tree surgeon came by yesterday with his(10)of young helpers and their cherry picker, and took it down branch by branch and carted it off in the back of a red truck, everyone (11).
The dying(12)a field mouse, at the jaws of an amiable household cat, is a spectacle I have beheld many times. It(13)to make me wince. However, early in life I gave up throwing sticks(14)the cat to make him drop the mouse.(15)the drooped mouse regularly went ahead and died anyway.
问题1选项
A.contained
B.embraced
C.packed
D.littered
问题2选项
A.ability
B.skill
C.quality
D.technology
问题3选项
A.and
B.even
C.yet
D.but
问题4选项
A.Furthermore
B.However
C.Even so
D.Since then
问题5选项
A.races
B.creatures
C.people
D.human
问题6选项
A.the other
B.another
C.the next
D.the following
问题7选项
A.caught
B.held
C.took
D.picked
问题8选项
A.that
B.which
C.it
D.this
问题9选项
A.something
B.anything
C.nothing
D.everything
问题10选项
A.crew
B.members
C.corps
D.fellows
问题11选项
A.sings
B.sang
C.sung
D.singing
问题12选项
A.to
B.in
C.for
D.of
问题13选项
A.was
B.was used
C.used
D.was about
问题14选项
A.into
B.on
C.at
D.off
问题15选项
A.but
B.because
C.while
D.in order that
第1题:C
第2题:B
第3题:B
第4题:A
第5题:B
第6题:B
第7题:A
第8题:C
第9题:C
第10题:A
第11题:D
第12题:D
第13题:C
第14题:C
第15题:B
1.考查动词辨析。根据句意,空格处的动词应表示“包括”, A项和B项虽然符合句意,但两者都是及物动词,不能跟with连用。be packed with 表示 “充满/充斥……”,符合搭配跟语义。be littered with 表示 “胡乱丢满,到处都是”,不符合句意。因此选C。
2.考查名词辨析。该处句意为:一些书中充斥着细节信息和详细说明,以至于你会认为这是要求去学习的一种新……。因此B项“技能”符合句意跟搭配。
3.逻辑分析。句子中,exotic表示“奇异的'而extraordinary表示“非常奇特的”,因此,两者之间是递进的逻辑关系。因此B项正确。
4.逻辑分析。前面指出:适当的死亡已然成了一种奇特的经历。后面指出: 书中内容会让你觉得我们是唯一有死亡意识的生物。所以该处是进一步介绍书籍给人们关于死亡的印象。故选A项“此外,而且”。
5.考查名词辨析。该处句意为:书中内容会让你觉得我们是唯一有死亡意识的……,自然界中的其他生命经历着生命的周期和死亡。因此可知,空格处应该为“生物”。
6.考查代词辨析。此处another “又一个”与one “一个” 构成搭配。在这里表示 “一代又一代”。
7.考查动词辨析。选项均为对应动词的过去式。该处句意为:我家后院的榆树今年夏天染上了枯萎病。Catch 染上,患,得(感冒等疾病) ; hold 持有,抓住;take (疾病)突然侵袭;pick 采集,挑选。因此A项符合句意。
8.语法分析。句子中,but是连词,因此,but之前的句子应该是个完整的句子,而“maybe a little bare in sports”是名词性结构,即逗号之前的部分应该是主谓宾完整的句子,故空格处缺少能做主语的词,而且需要指代“elm”,因此,C 项符合要求。
9.考查代词辨析。该处句意为:或许出现些斑点,但……让人担忧,而且外表看来一切正常,而且第二周就没有了……。因为外表正常,而且第二周就没有了,因此,榆树出现的问题不严重,故没有什么让人担忧的
10.【试题答案】A
考查名词辨析。根据句意可知这里应该表示的是“他的全体工作人员”,故选A。
11.语法题。考查非谓语动词。everyone之前是逗号,而前面是完整的句子,因此,everyone的动词应该是非谓语形式,再者everyone与sing之间是主动关系,因此,D项的“singing” 是现在分词做伴随状语。
12.考查介词辨析。a field mouse是dying的定语,因此该处应该是表示“一只田鼠的死”。因此选D项。
13.考查动词辨析。空格处缺少谓语动词。Be to 将要,不符合句意。Be used to 习惯于,不符合句意。Used to do过去常常,符合句意。Be about 即将,正打算,不符合句意。故选C。
14.考查固定搭配。Throw at 投向,掷向。
15.逻辑分析。前句句意为:但是,我老早就不再向叼着田鼠的猫扔棍子,让它
把田鼠放下。该句句意为:被放下的老鼠通常还是会死掉。因此前后是因果关系。后面是原因。故选B。