1. She was afraid that unless the train speeded up she would lose her _____ to Scotland.
A. ticket
B. place
C. seat
D. connection
[答案] D. connection
[注釋] lose one's connection to 誤了到......地方去的 (汽車、火車、輪船的) 聯(lián)運(yùn); The train was late and I missed my connection.
2. The ship was _____ in a storm off Jamaica.
A. drowned
B. sunk
C. wrecked
D. submitted
[答案] C. wrecked
[注釋] wreck vt. 撞壞, 毀壞; 1) My son wrecked my car. 2) My car was completely wrecked in the accident.
sink vt. 下沉, 沉沒, 該動(dòng)詞也可作及物動(dòng)詞用, 意為“使下沉”, 但按本題句意看, 用被動(dòng)語(yǔ)態(tài)不妥。 drown 溺死, 淹死： (vt.) He drowned his wife. (vi) He drowned in the river. (他在河里淹死了。) submit 1) (=put oneself under the control of another) 提交, 呈送 (to) ： Should a wife submit herself to her husband? (妻子應(yīng)順從他丈夫嗎？) 2) (=put forward for option, discussion, decision ect.) 提出 (供評(píng)論、討論決定等) You must submit your request to the committee. 3) (=surrender (to) , give in) 屈服,投降：After being defeated, they submitted to the enemy. (打敗后, 他們向敵人投降了。)
3. No one has _____ been able to trace the author of the poem.
A. still
B. yet
C. already
D. just
[答案] B. yet
[注釋] yet 常用于現(xiàn)在完成時(shí)的否定句中, 意為“尚, 還”。
4. More than one-third of the Chinese in the United States live in California, _____ in San Francisco.
A. previously
B. predominantly
C. practically
D. permanently
[答案] B. predominantly.
[注釋] predominantly (=mostly; mainly) 主要地。 previously (=coming earlier in time or order) 先前, 早先; This is better than any solution previously. (這個(gè)辦法比以前提出的任何解決辦法都好。) practically (=really; in a practical way) 實(shí)際上。permanently (=going on for a long time) 永久地。
本題譯文：在美國(guó), 華人中有三分之一居住在加利福尼亞洲, 其中主要是在舊金山。
5. The new secretary has written a remarkably _____ report only in a few pages but with all the details.
A. concise
B. clear
C. precise
D. elaborate
[答案] A. concise.
[注釋] concise (=brief; giving much information in few words) 簡(jiǎn)明扼要的：He gave a concise report of the meeting. (他對(duì)會(huì)議作了簡(jiǎn)明扼要的報(bào)道。) clear 清楚的。precise (=exact; correctly stated; free form error) 精確的, 明白無(wú)誤的; Please tell me the precise measurements. (請(qǐng)告訴我精確的尺寸。) elaborate (=worked out with much care; carefully prepared) 精心制作的, 豐盛的：Peter worked out an elaborate scheme for raising the money. (彼得制定了一項(xiàng)詳盡得計(jì)劃來(lái)籌集著筆款項(xiàng)。) 孤立地看, 似乎4個(gè)形容詞均能修飾report, 但從句子的邏輯關(guān)系看, 后半句中有only in a few pages but with all the details, 故concise 是最貼切的選擇了。
