Sample Questions:

SC7.1.         Parliament did not accord full refugee benefits to twelve of the recent immigrants because it believed that to do it rewards them for entering the country illegally.

1. to do it rewards
2. doing it rewards
3. to do this would reward
4. doing so would reward
5. to do it would reward

 

Answer:

永远错误的形式

标准书面语中，用“do + 代词 it / this / that / them / these / those”代替前文的动词短语，永远错；正确用法为：do so，副词so和do连用表示前面说到的那个动作。

ABE do it永远错。

D do this永远错

D为正确选项

                     

SC7.2.         Machines replacing human labor, there was wide anticipation that the workweek would continue to become shorter.

1. Machines replacing human labor, there was wide anticipation that
2. When machines replaced human labor, there was wide anticipation
3. As machines replaced human labor, it was widely anticipated that
4. Insofar as machines replaced human labor, it was widely anticipated
5. Human labor being replaced by machines, there was wide anticipation that

 

Answer:

简洁性性原则

there be + adj. + 动作性名词，表达不简洁，故意复杂化，应该直接用动词短语表达。

ABE there was wide anticipation绝对错。

逻辑意思的合理性

C as引导状语从句，表示时间概念

D insofar as引导状语从句，相当于to the degree that，表示到…程度。

根据上下文逻辑意思，时间概念更合理。

C为正确选项

                    

SC7.3.         More than thirty year ago Dr. Barbara McClintock, the Nobel Prize winner, reported that genes can “jump”, as pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another.

1. as pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another
2. like pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another
3. as pearls do that move mysteriously from one necklace to others
4. like pearls do that move mysteriously from one necklace to others
5. as do pearls that move mysteriously from one necklace to some other one

 

Answer:

like和as的习惯用法

as（介词）+名词，表示作为…

as（连词）+主谓结构，表示比较强调动作的相似性

like（介词）+名词，表示比较

like（介词）+主谓结构，标准书面语中永远错

A moving作为定语修饰pearls，核心词是pearls，as + 名词（pearls），表示作为珍珠，上下文逻辑意思不合理。

D like + 主谓结构，错。

习惯搭配

one…another; each other; each…the other; some…others

C one…others不符合习惯搭配。

E one…some other one不符合习惯搭配。

B为正确选项

                    

SC7.4.         The ordinance is intended to force householders to separate such hazardous waste like pesticides, batteries, fertilizers, and oil-based paints from the general stream of household trash.

1. to separate such hazardous waste like
2. that they should separate such hazardous waste like
3. separating such hazardous wastes as
4. that they should separate such hazardous wastes as
5. to separate such hazardous wastes as

 

Answer:

举例的表达方式

like + 名词，表示比较，不能表示举例；such as + 名词/-ing形式，表示举例。

习惯用法

force sb. to do

C force sb. doing搭配错。

D force sb. + 从句，不符合习惯搭配。

E为正确选项

                    

SC7.5.         Some bat caves, like honeybee hives, have residents that take on different duties such as defending the entrance, acting as sentinels and to sound a warning at the approach of danger, and scouting outside the cave for new food and roosting sites.

1. acting as sentinels and to sound
2. acting as sentinels and sounding
3. to act as sentinels and sound
4. to act as sentinels and to sound
5. to act as a sentinel sounding

 

Answer:

平行结构的形式要对称

A and连接to do 和 doing，形式不对称。

习惯用法

such as 表示举例：such as + n. / -ing形式

CDE such as + to do永远错。

B为正确选项

                    

SC7.6.         While the base salary for the top five officers of the company did not change from 1990 to 1991, cuts were made in nonsalary compensation, as in allowances for overseas assignments and club memberships.

1. cuts were made in nonsalary compensation, as in
2. cuts were made in such nonsalary compensation as
3. cuts were made in such nonsalary compensation as those in
4. cut in nonsalary compensation were made in areas like
5. there were cuts made in nonsalary compensation, in areas like

 

Answer:

举例的表达方式

allowance for…是对nonsalary compensation的举例。

A as + 介词短语不能表示举例。

DE like + 名词表示比较，不能表示举例。

代词指代

C 代词those无法指代单数名词nonsalary compensation。

B为正确选项

                    

SC7.7.         The odds are about 4 to 1 against surviving a takeover offer, and many business consultants therefore advise that a company’s first line of defense in eluding offers like these be to even refuse to take calls from likely corporate raiders.

1. that a company’s first line of defense in eluding offers like these be to even refuse
2. that a company’s first line of defense in eluding such offers be to refuse even
3. a company defending itself against offers of this kind that, as a first line of defense, they should even refuse
4. companies which are defending themselves against such an offer that, as a first line of defense, they should even refuse
5. that the first line of defense for a company who is eluding offers like these is the refusal even

 

Answer:

永远错的形式

like + 代词 this/that/these/those/it等，永远错；正确用法：like + 名词/名词短语，表示比较。

like不能表示举例，表示举例时必须用such as。

AE like these永远错。

习惯用法

advise的习惯用法：advise sb. to do…； advise + that从句。

C advise sb. (a company defending…) + that从句，错。

D advise sb. (companies which…) + that从句，错。

虚拟语气

表示建议、要求、命令类的动词后面的宾语从句中，必须使用动词原形表示虚拟语气，不能使用should + 动词原形。

E advise that sth. is…：宾语从句的be动词is应改为原形be。

B为正确选项

                    

SC7.8.         William H. Johnson’s artistic debt to Scandinavia is evident in paintings that ranges from sensitive portraits of citizens in his wife’s Danish home, Kerteminde, and awe-inspiring views of flords and mountain peaks in the western and northern regions of Norway.

1. and
2. to
3. and to
4. with
5. in addition to

 

Answer:

习惯用法

根据习惯搭配range from… to…直接寻找介词to。

B为正确选项

                    

SC7.9.         The new contract forbids a strike by the transportation union.

1. forbids a strike by the transportation union.
2. forbids the transportation union from striking.
3. forbids that there be a strike by the transportation union.
4. will forbid the transportation union from striking.
5. will forbid that the transportation union strikes.

 

Answer:

习惯搭配

forbid的习惯用法：forbid sth.；forbid sb. to do sth.； forbid doing sth.。

BD forbid sb. (the transportation union) from doing (striking) 永远错。

CE forbid + that从句，永远错。

习惯搭配

v. + sb. + from doing sth.表示阻止某人做某事的动词有：prevent / prohibit / stop / keep sb. from doing…。

A为正确选项

                    

SC7.10.     Stable interest rates on long-term bonds are the financial market’s vote of confidence in the Federal Reserve keeping in control of inflation.

1. in the Federal Reserve keeping in control of inflation.
2. that the Federal Reserve will keep inflation under control.
3. for the Federal Reserve, that it will keep control of inflation.
4. that inflation will be kept control of by the Federal Reserve.
5. that inflation would be kept control of by the Federal Reserve.

 

Answer:

习惯用法

be in control of；keep / have / bring sth. under control；get / take / presume / lose control of

A keep in control of 永远错。

CDE keep control of 永远错。

B为正确选项

                    

SC7.11.     Frances Wright’s book on America contrasted the republicanism of the United States with what she saw as the aristocratic and corrupt institutions of England.

1. with what she saw as
2. with that which she saw to be
3. to that she saw being
4. and that which she saw as
5. and what she saw to be

 

Answer:

习惯用法

contrast…with…；see sth. as…；sth. be seen as…（相当于be regarded as）

CDE contrast… to…/ contrast…and…都不符合习惯搭配。

B see…to be…搭配错。

A为正确选项

                    

SC7.12.     Most nations regard their airspace as extending upward as high as an aircraft can fly; no specific altitude, however, has been officially recognized as a boundary.

1. as extending
2. as the extent
3. to be an extent
4. to be an extension
5. to extend

 

Answer:

习惯用法

regard…as… + 名词 / 形容词 / -ing形式。

CDE regard…to 不符合习惯搭配。

形容词和副词不能混淆

B 划线部分the extent是名词，未划线部分high是副词，副词不能修饰名词，并且名词the extent与副词upward也不能搭配。

A为正确选项