1. In its most recent approach, the comet Crommelin passed the Earth at about the same distance and in about the same position, some 25 degrees above the horizon, (that Halley’s comet will pass) the next time it appears.
(A) that Halley’s comet will pass
(B) that Halley’s comet is to be passing
(C) as Halley’s comet
(D) as will Halley’s comet
(E) as Halley’s comet will do
ANSWER D. As for (E), can it be corrected as "as Halley’s comet will pass", "as Halley’s comet will do so", or else expression?
2. Bob Wilber became Sidney Bechet's student and protégé when he was nineteen and, for a few years in the 1940's, came as close to being a carbon copy of the jazz virtuoso in performance (as anyone has ever come).
(A) as anyone has ever come
(B) as anyone ever had been
(C) as anyone ever had done
(D) that anyone ever did
(E) that anyone ever came
If (A) is modified as "as anyone has ever done", is this choice still true?
If (C) is modified as "as anyone had ever come" or "as anyone had ever done", can either of these choices, or both, be ture, if "1940's" is compared with the time before it?
3. Opened in 1683, the Ashmolean was the first public museum in Great Britain, (while earlier the Bodleian has been ) the first truly public library.
(A) while earlier the Bodleian has been
(B) where the Bodleian earlier is
(C) just as earlier the Bodleian had been
(D) as the earlier Bodleian has been
(E) the Bodleian earlier being
if (C) is right, does that mean the Ashmolean is NOT the first public museum in Great Britain NOW?
Because if not, the earlier Bodleian should have been the first truly public library, just as (D) states.
4. Building large new hospitals in the bistate area would constitute a wasteful use of resources, (on the basis of avoidance of duplicated facilities alone) .
(A) on the basis of avoidance of duplicated facilities alone
(B) on the grounds of avoiding duplicated facilities alone
(C) solely in that duplicated facilities should be avoided
(D) while the duplication of facilities should be avoided
(E) if only because the duplication of facilities should be avoided
B,C,E, which one is better? If (E), is it right to join the two conjunction, "if" and "because", together in English?
5. Intended primarily to stimulate family summer travel, the new airfare, which allows both an adult and a child to fly for the price of one ticket, (and also shortens the advance-purchase requirement for family travel to a minimum of seven days rather than fourteen).
(A) and also shortens the advance-purchase requirement for family travel to a minimum of seven days rather than
(B) and also lessens the advance-purchase requirement for family travel to a seven-day minimum from
(C) also shortens the advance-purchase requirement for family travel to a minimum of seven days rather than that of
(D) also lessens the advance-purchase requirement for family travel to a seven-day minimum from
(E) also shortens the advance-purchase requirement for family travel to a minimum of seven days rather than
C or E, which one is right? Can "that" in (C) refer to "a minimum"? why
6. New techniques in thermal-scanning photography, a process that records radiation from surface areas,( makes it possible to study the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river in greater detail than ever before).
(A) makes it possible to study the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river in greater detail than ever before
(B) make it possible to study, in greater detail, the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river than ever before
(C) have made it possible to study in greater detail than ever before the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river
(D) make possible the study of the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river in greater detail than it ever was before
(E) has made it more possible than ever before to study in greater detail the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river
Answer C. But if (B) is modified as "have made it possible to study, in greater detail, the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river than ever before", compared with C, which expression is more idiomatic?
7. Cooperative apartment houses have the peculiar distinction (of being dwellings that must also operate as businesses) .
(A) of being dwellings that must also operate as businesses
(B) of dwellings that must also operate like businesses
(C) that they are dwellings that must operate like business
(D) that, as dwellings, they must also operate like businesses
(E) to be a dwelling that must also operate as a business
which one is better, why?作者: linsonstudy 时间: 2003-11-10 17:39
第一题： 1. the same ...as... 2. the next time it appears 应该用一般将来时态
3.as...will do，比较从句中应该保留助动词，省略实义动词
4.倒装结构可以用在比较从句中既可以用as sth. will 也可以用as will sth.
所以如果 E 去掉do也是对的。作者: jxtju 时间: 2003-11-11 10:58
