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1. Madge Macklin promoted the expansion of medical training to include genetics _____ supported the founding of genetics departments in North American medical schools.

(A) nor

(B) and

(C) while

(D) if

答案：B

测试点：连词。

分析：空格前为主谓语完整的句子，空格后又出现一谓语动词，即全句有一个主语，两个

谓语。这两个谓语动词之间应用and连接，故选(B)。(A)用于否定句;(C)后接句子或现在分词短语;(D)接从句。

2. _____ mammals have hair at some time in their lives, though in certain whales it is present only before birth.

(A) Most

(B) The most

(C) Most of which

(D) In most of the

3. “I wonder where my reading glasses are. Have you seen them?”

“No, I haven’t. You left them in the office”

A. Should have

B. Should be having

C. Must be having

D. Could have

E. Ought to have

4. would you mind if I this book tomorrow? I’m still reading it.

A. Return

B. Will return

C. Returned

D. To return

E. Am returning

5. I likes him very much, she pretends to ignore him

A. Since

B. Because

C. Whereas

D. Even though

E. However

6. No one in our office wants to drive to work any more there are always traffic jams at rush hour

A. Because of

B. Because

C. However

D. Since

E. Even though

7. After Mila dinner, he wrote several letters and went to bed

1.

答案：A

测试点：定语。

分析：空格后主语、谓语俱全，所缺为定语。应在答案中选择形容词，即(A)。most表

示“大多数”时，不是最高级的符号，前面不用the，且mammals为泛指的复数名词，前面不用冠词，故(B)the多余。

A. had eaten

B. ate

C. has eaten

D. eat

E. is eat

8. The manager working on the report last night and now she will begin to write the other proposal

A. has finished

B. finished

C. finishing

D. is finished

E. finish

9. Had his party won in the general elections, he the president of Indonesia

A. must be

B. must havbe been

C. could have been

D. may be

E. would be

10. If you use the city man, I’m sure that you

A. will get lose

B. will be lose

C. would have lost

D. have lost

E. will not be lost

11. wooden buildings helps to protect them from damage due to weather.

A. Painting

B. Painted

C. The paint

D. By painting

E. Is painted

12. Jimmy Connors, well-known tennis champion, is supposed --- that he did not want to participate in all the tournaments once he had reached forty.

A. has said

B. he says

C. saying

D. to have said

E. said

13. Julia asked Olga her up at 08.00 this evening

A. to pick

B. pick

C. picked

D. picking

E. to picked

14. Ana is used to to bed late at night

答案：D

测试点：习语。

分析：Be supposed to…是固定短语。

A. going

B. go

C. went

D. gone

E. is going

15. Before to the Campus, Nurul eats a big breakfast

A. go

B. going

C. she go

D. went

E. is go

16. I think she doesn’t want to listen to your explanation

A. bored

B. bore

C. boring

D. is bored

E. has bore

17. My father wish that bad news on the TV

A. he knows

B. he can know

C. he knew

D. he had known

E. he was known

18. he told the police about the accident, as if he

A. was at the accident

B. were at the accident

C. were seeing the accident

D. saw the accident

E. had seen the accident

19. An underlying assumption of most market research is that people are continually _____ financial decisions based on their desire for goods that give them the most satisfaction.

A. Making

B. and make

C. being made

D. having made

E. made

20. Early forms of life on Earth, _____ in the absence of oxygen, required elements such as sulfur instead.

A. which lived

B. whose life

C. Lived

D. were living

E. Who lived

答案：A

测试点：定语从句。

分析：句子主、谓语完整，主谓之间用逗号隔开的部分应为定语或同位语。(A)为定语从句。

答案：A

测试点：谓语。

分析：that从句中有主语但谓语不全，选择(A)making与系词and组成进行时。

解题要点：continully和always等词常与进行时连用，表示“一贯如此”。

21. Paper is strong under tension instead crumples easily under the stress of compression.

答案：C

测试点；连词。

分析：instead是副词，而此处连接两个谓语部分应当用连词。应为but。

22. Tariffs are the taxes or customs duties levied against goods that are import from another country.

答案：C

测试点：词形／被动语态。

分析：import是动词原形，而此处应用过去分词与are构成被动语态。应为imported。

23. Each person in the United States consumes an average of 560 pounds of dairy productivity every year.

答案：D

测试点：近义词。

分析：productivity意为“生产力：生产率”，而此处应当用表示“产品”的products。

24. The vascular system consist of the heart, arteries, veins, capillaries, and lymphatics.

答案：B

测试点：主谓数的一致。

分析：主语是第三人称单数的system，谓语动词不能用原形consist，应为consists。

25. The Hopi community of Oraibi in northeastern Arizona is one of the oldest, not if the oldest, continuously occupied settlements north of Mexico.

答案：A

测试点：习语／词序。

分析：not if后接从句，意为“如果…，就不…”。后接词或词组、表示“即使不…”，应当用if not。

26. When a corporation needs to raise large amounts of capital, common stock can be issued and sell in part to outside investors.

答案：C

测试点：并列结构伺形。

分析：and两边所连接的成份应同词性、同形式。and前为过去分词issued，and后不能用动词原形sell，应为sold。

27. The development of stratus clouds is extremely common over the cold seawater away the northwestern United States coast.

答案：D

测试点：介词。

分析：away是副词，而此处需要介词连接两个名词词组。应为along。

28. Contemporary management practice have been influenced by investigations in the behavioral sciences.

答案：A

测试点：主谓数的一致。

分析：主语是第三人称单数的practice，助动词不能用have。应为has been。

29. The Yukon River, which flows into the Bering Sea, gives its name to a region of Alaska and a territory of the Canada.

答案：D

测试点：冠词。

分析：国名Canada为专有名词，前面不能加冠词。the多余。亦可由并列结构看出此处错误：and前为a region of Alaska，Alaska前无冠词：and后应为同样结构。

30. Although the United States experienced rapidly growth in the first half of the nineteenth century, it was still predominately concerned with agriculture and forestry.

答案：A

测试点：词性。

分析：rapidly为副词，而修饰名词growth应用形容词。应为rapid。

解题要点：见到划线的以-ly结尾的副词，应注意其是否错用，是否应为形容词。

31. Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin has called the first truly successful North American opera.

答案：B

测试点：被动语态。

分析：根据句意，此处应用被动语态，即has been called。

32. Over the past two decades, the popularity of the bicycle as a mean of transportation and recreation has increased tremendously in the United States.

答案：B

分析：(B)测试点：近义词／习语。表示“方法，手段，工具”的名词是以一s结尾的means。不用mean。A means of是固定搭配，也是TOEFL常考习语之一。

33. Having resided in New Mexico for many years, painter Georgia O’Keefe employs such as Southwestern motifs as bleached bones, rolling hills, and desert blooms.

答案：C

测试点：such as…与such…as的用法。

分析：是两个不同的短语，有时会被故意混淆。此句后文有as，可知应是such…as用法，此处的as多余。

34. Louisa My Alcott’s most famous novels, Little Women and one of the sequels, Little Men are considered classics for childrens.

答案：D

测试点：名词的数。

分析：考题中有时会出现名词变复数的不规则形式问题。children本身是child的复数，不能再加s。

35. Weaving was a function household in the first settlements in colonial America.

答案：B

测试点：词序。

分析：单个的形容词修饰名词时应放在名词前，不应后置。应为house hold function。

36. Fascination by the promise of the internal combustion engine and its application to a self-propelled vehicle, Henry Ford constructed a one-cylinder gasoline motor in1892.

答案：A

测试点：词性。

分析：Fascination是名词，而此处应用动词的过去分词形式，与后面的by…组成分词短语。应为Fascinated。

解题要点：(1)见到划线的-tlon结尾的名词，应注意其是否错用，是否应为动词。

(2)划线的词后紧接介词by，应注意此划线词是否应为过去分词。

37. Marble has long been highly valued for its beautiful, strength, and resistance to fire and erosion.

答案：C

测试点：并列结构/词性。

分析：and所连接的成份应同词性、同性质。and连接的strength和resistance都是名词，而beautiful却是形容词。应为beauty。

38. A majority of the reports received from people claiming to have seen the legendary Loch Ness Monster have proven to be mistakes, misconceptions, or they were being tricked.

答案：D

测试点：并列结构。

分析：连词or与and一样，要求所连接的成分同词性、同性质。or前边是名词mistakes和misconceptions，后面也应是名词，不能是句子。应为tricks。

39. For convenience it is common to speak of plants as “herbs,” “shrubs,” and “trees,” but it is really no sharp distinctions among them.

答案：C

测试点：there be句型。

分析：此处“不代指句中任何成份，而且也不是形式主语，因后文并无真正的主语部分。it应为there。

40. The labor movement developed differently in the United States from the way did it in other countries.

答案：C

测试点：词序。

分析：did it是倒装句的形式，但此处无需用倒装。应为it did。