30. Peggy Guggenheim was none so much attracted to contemporary art itself as she was to the bohemian art world.
* A is wrong. Not/ never so… as …是固定搭配。此外,否定was 应用副词not.
31. 固定搭配: 1) be noted for …
2) bring sth. to light v.使某事暴露;sth.太长时,可写为bring to light sth.
32. moist climate ( moist 是形容词,不能用名词moisture)
33. Among the favorite attractions at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. are the film presented on the five-story-tall screen.
*D is wrong. Among 位于句首,要倒装,主语位于系动词之后,系动词是are 为复数,主语film 应改为复数films.
34. The most often flour is made from wheat, but it may also be made from the seeds of other cereal plants.
* A is wrong. 多词。此处most 修饰often,二者均为副词,作状语,冠词the 多余。
35. The unique ability of the horseshoe crab detected bacterial end toxins was a chance discovery in the 1970’s at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
*B is wrong. The ability (of …) to do … 是固定搭配。Detected 改为to detect.
36. A protagonist of a play is ( ) in tragedy as the suffering main character.
A. what known B. known as C. what it is known D. what is known
* D is the answer. 系动词is后缺表语,what引导的从句是名词性从句,可作表语,what = the thing that.
37. Stars differ fundamental from planets in that they are self-luminous whereas planets shine by reflected light.
*A is wrong. Fundamental is adj,不能修饰动词differ, 应用fundamentally. 注意by reflected light is right.
38. An electromagnet is a device which magnetism is produced by an electric magnet.
* B is wrong. 介词+which结构后接定语从句。从句主语为magnetism,且此句为被动式,不需要宾语,因而which在从句中无法作主语和宾语,故应改为with which作状语。
39. * chemistry is n. chemical is adj.
40. Anthropologists face complex problems of analysis and synthesis when they go about the task of description the culture of a group of people.
* C is wrong. 词性。名词description 不能后接the culture 作其宾语,应用动名词describing.
注意,见到划线的以—tion结尾的名词,应注意其是否应为动词的形式。
41. able (abler ablest) Eg: the ablest public speaker
42. After the First World War, the author Anais Nin became interested in the art movement known as Surrealism and in psychoanalysis, both( ) her novels and short stories.
A. in which the influence B. of which influenced C. to have influence D. its influence in
* Answer is B. 主谓结构。Both前为句子,其后应是短语或从句,A,B为从句形式。从句有主语both而缺谓语动词,故选含动词的B。C似不定式短语,但influence后缺in.
43. ( ) Colonial period the great majority of Connecticut’s settlers came from England.
A. Since B. The time C. During the D. It was
* C is right. ()后为句子,则前面是短语或从句。A、C均可与空格后成份构成介词短语,但since 用于完成时句子中,故选C。D中it为形式主语,但后文无that 或to 的真正主语部分。
44. Nebraska has floods in some years, ( ).
A. in others drought B. droughts are others C. while other droughts D. others in drought
*A is right. Some…, others …是平行结构。前面有in some years, 故后面用A. in others (= in other years). A是…it has drought的省略形式。也可说成drought in others.