5. Juan is ______ examining his own feelings and motives: he cannot tolerate introspection.
A.embarrassed about
B.accustomed to
C.averse to
D.mindful of
A B C D
C
[解析] 形容词词组辨析。embarrassed about“尴尬”;accustomed to“习惯于”;averse to“反感,厌恶”;mindful of“知道的,注意的”。根据冒号后面的cannot tolerate判断,此处应填入与examining his own feelings and movies(检查自己的感觉和动机)同义的词组,故答案为C。
6. The small mountain village was ______ by the snow for more than one month.
A.cut back
B.cut out
C.cut off
D.cut away
A B C D
C
[解析] 动词词组辨析。cut back“削减;缩减”;cut out“停止;切下”;cut off“切断;使隔断”;cut away“切除;砍掉”。根据句中的主语the small mountain village判断,village被snow阻断,故答案为C。
7. Henry is so arrogant after being promoted president of the company ______ accept the invitation to his former coworker's wedding.
A.in order to
B.as to
C.as to not
D.as not to
A B C D
D
[解析] 固定搭配。so...as to...是个固定搭配,意为“太……以至于……”;动词不定式的否定形式是not to do,故答案为D。
8. Almost 300 ships arrived in Victoria in 1852, bringing 100,000 people ______ gold to the colony at the rate of 2,000 a week.
A.in search of
B.in the search of
C.searching of
D.in search for
A B C D
A
[解析] 介词固定搭配。in search of为固定搭配,意为“寻找”。也可以这样搭配:in the search for sth.。没有D项的搭配。
9. The society is unstable, full of criminal cases, so you can't be ______ careful.
A.very
B.so
C.too
D.such
A B C D
C
[解析] 固定搭配。can not...too表示“无论怎么……都不过分”。
10. Doing your homework is a sure way to improve your test scores, and this is especially true ______ it comes to classroom tests.
A.when
B.since
C.before
D.after
A B C D
A
[解析] 固定搭配。when it comes to是习惯用语,意为“当涉及……时,当谈到……时”。
11. He was not ______ to the club because he wasn't a member.
A.allowed
B.admitted
C.permitted
D.approved
A B C D
B
[解析] allow和permit后均接sb. to do sth.,不合本题题意。admit sb. to意为“允许某人进入;让某人进入”,admit后可接动名词的一般式或完成式,也可以接复合结构;approve sth. 批准,approve of doing sth. 赞成,赞许做某事。只有admitted符合句意。
12. The retired man donated most of his savings to the school damaged by the earthquake in Yushu, ______ the students to return to their classrooms.
A.enabling
B.having enabled
C.to enable
D.to have enabled
A B C D
A
[解析] 现在分词短语做谓语动词donated的结果状语。故答案为A。
13. That is the only way we can imagine ______ the overuse of water in students' bathrooms.
A.reducing
B.to reduce
C.reduced
D.reduce
A B C D
B
[解析] the way to do sth. 意为“做某事的途径、方式”。we can imagine做定语,前面省略了that。故答案为B。
14. As the light turned green, I stood for a moment, not ______ and asked myself what I was going to do.
34. Typical of the grassland dwellers of the continent ______, or pronghorn.
A.it is the American antelope
B.the American antelope is
C.is the American antelope
D.the American antelope
A B C D
C
[解析] 此句为形容词短语be typical of做表语前置而引起的完全倒装句,空白处缺少的实为倒装的主语和谓语动词,A和B未倒装,D无动词,均排除。此句正常语序应为:The American antelope, or pronghorn, is typical of the grassland dwellers of the continent. 故答案为C。
35. Television is one of the means by which these feelings are created and conveyed and perhaps never before ______ so much to connect different peoples and nations as in the recent events in Europe.
36. ______ she wondered if she had made a mistake.
A.Not until long afterwards that
B.Not long until afterwards
C.It was not until long afterwards that
D.It was long afterwards until
A B C D
C
[解析] 强调句。本题综合考查了not...until...和强调句的用法。本句正常语序为She did not wonder if she had made a mistake until long afterwards. 可以将not until放在句首,此时主句部分倒装,变为Not until long afterwards did she wonder if she had made a mistake. 还可以再加上It was...that...结构将此句变为强调句,但是由于此时not until不再位于句首,故主句不需倒装。
37. ______ that the pilot couldn't fly through it.
A.The storm so severe was
B.So severe was the storm
C.So the storm was severe
D.Such was the storm severe
A B C D
B
[解析] 加强语气。so (such)...that结构中的so位于句首时使用倒装。
38. So seriously ______ in the train accident that he has lost his memory of anything.