2016年托福考试词汇语法强化试题四
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中2016年托福考试词汇语法强化试题四
1.In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, the United States developed the reusable space shuttle ________to space cheaper and easier.
A. to make access
B. and making access
C. which made accessible
D. and made accessible.
答案:A
分析:从句意可以看出是不定式表目的;固定词组make access to;
make的用法:1 make sth sth;
2 make sth adj 或者 make adj sth 或者 make adj n that
3 make it adj that 或者 make it adj (for sb)to do
参考译文:在20世纪70年代末80年代初,美国开发了一种能再利用的航天飞机,使得进入太空更容易,花费更少了。
2. Genetically, the chimpanzee is more similar to humans _______.
A. are than any other animal
B. than is any other animal
C. any other animal is
D. and any other animal is
答案:B
分析:看到more后面应该有比较词than,排除C,D;A,are在这里做不了成分,反而造成谓语冲突;B,补出any other animal的动词is正确。
参考译文:一般来说,比起其他动物,黑猩猩与人类更相似。
3._______more than 65,000 described species of protozoa, of which more than half are fossils.
A. Being that there are
B. There being
C. Are there
D. There are
答案:D
分析:there be 句型,D项清楚明晰,其它形式都是错误的。
参考译文:已经有65000多种(经过科学家)描述过了的原生动物,其中一半以上是化石。
4.The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 ___ nearly unanimously through the United States Congress.
A. passed
B. in passage
C. having passed
D. passing
答案:A
分析:很简单,句子缺少谓语。
参考译文:1890年的Sherman Antitrust议案几乎无一反对的通过了美国议会。
5.Modern skyscrapers have a steel skeleton of beams and columns ___a three-dimensional grid.
A. forms
B. from which forming
C. and forming
D. that forms
答案:D
分析:从句,之所以用单数,是因为a steel skeleton of beams and columns的中心词是skeleton;A,造成谓语冲突,这里have不是助动词,是动词;B,介词+which+完整句子;C,and没有平行并列结构与其匹配。
参考译文:现代的摩天大楼有一个梁和圆柱组成的钢制骨架,从而形成了一个三维的网状结构。
6.The average level of United States prices grew very little from 1953 until the mid-1960’s when ____________.
A. did inflation begin
B. inflation began
C. the beginning of inflation
D. did the beginning of inflation
答案:B
分析:when加从句且无需倒装。
参考译文:从1953年到60年代中期通货膨胀开始这段时期,美国的平均物价水平增长一直很缓慢。
7.The basis premise behind all agricultural production is _____available the riches of the soil for human consumption.
A. to be made
B. the making
C. making is
D. to make
答案:D
分析:如第一题的分析,是make adj. n.的用法,排除B,C;A,用被动没有必要。
参考译文:一切农业生产的基本前提是确保土壤肥沃供人类消耗利用。
8.___to the united states House of Representatives in 1791, Nathaniel Macon remained in office until 1815.
A. Election
B. Why he was elected
C. Elected
D. Who was elected
答案:C
分析:Elected做状语放句首,表示句子的主语Nathaniel Macon的被动;A,不知做能句子什么成分;B,不符合句子意思,而且造成一个句子中两套主谓宾的矛盾;D,做从句放在修饰的Nathaniel Macon后还可以考虑考虑。
参考译文:Nathaniel Macon1791年被选为美国众议院代表,直到1815年他仍在当局(工作)。
9.________ of classical ballet in the united states began around 1830.
A. To teach
B. Is teaching
C. It was taught
D. The teaching
答案:D
分析:A,to teach of 不妥,teach是及物动词;to do is to do是常见句型;B,标点就否定这个选项了;C,句子谓语是began,造成谓语冲突,排除;D,teaching自身就是一个名词,n + of + n,【teaching:the work or profession of a teacher】
参考译文:在美国,古典芭蕾舞的教学是从大约1830年开始的。