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1994 年 08 月语法题
1. Groups of muscles in the head direct the actions necessary for _____.
(A) chew and swallow
(B) to chew and to swallow
(C) being chewed and swallowing
(D) chewing and swallowing

2. In the Osage tribe of Oklahoma, beaded belts _____ who held a high social status.
(A) only by women were fashioned
(B) by women were fashioned only
(C) were fashioned only by women
(D) were by women fashioned only

3. _____ commonly chosen as the first step to a career in public office.
(A) Why legal training is
(B) Legal training is
(C) Legal training that is
(D) It is legal training

4. In 1852 _____ one hundred piano-makers in New York alone.
(A) were
(B) had been
(C) there were
(D) being that there

5. Mammals have a larger, more well-developed brain _____ other animals.
(A) than do
(B) that are having
(C) which have
(D) that do

(A) so
(B) very
(C) quite
(D) much

11. Elisha G. Otis invented a safety device designed to stop the fall of an elevator _____ supporting
cable should break.
(A) that which the
(B) if its
(C) might the
(D) were its

12. In areas away from the poles, the size of glaciers decreases in summer because the rising
temperatures cause the lower parts _____.
(A) melt
(B) are melting
(C) melted
(D) to melt

13. The final step in manufacturing cloth is ironing it between heavy rollers, _____ calendering.
(A) which process called
(B) process is being called
(C) is calling that process
(D) a process called

14. The science of horticulture, _____ the primary concerns are maximum yield and superior quality,
utilizes information derived from other sciences.
(A) and which
(B) in which
(C) which is

24. Eclecticism is the practice of mixing elements dissimilar in style in single work of art.

25. Speed refers only toward the rate of motion without specifying any direction of motion.

26. Turbines provide power for a various of machines including electric generators and water pumps.

27. Deciduous trees are those that shed all or nearly all of its leaves each year.

28. The same molecular orderliness that makes crystals so easy to analyze mathematically makes
them difficult using in the laboratory or the factory.

29. The Pacific Ocean constitutes about half of the Earth‘s water surface and cover about one-third of
the total area of the globe.

30. The Tennessee Valley Authority has chartered by the United States Congress in 1933 to construct
dams, power structures, and flood-control works along the Tennessee River and
its tributary streams.
分析：谓语动词后紧接 by+名词的短语，说明谓语应当用被动语态。应为 was chartered。
解题要点：见到划线的词后接 by+名词，应注意此处是否应当用被动语态。

31. The cost of preparing and harvesting an acre of field corn is extremely high even though in the
best of weather.
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32. John Audubon‘s firsthand acquaintance with birds and his impressionistic artistic give his drawings
their high value and wide popularity.

33. One of Phillis Wheatley‘s earliest verses, composed in her teens, celebrates learning, redemption,
and virtue, three principal themes of her work subsequent.


(D) It is the

3. _____, the silvery-checked hornbill chooses a hollow tree for a nest and seals herself in until her
chicks are grown.
(A) Protection for predators against
(B) Against protection predators for
(C) For protection against predators
(D) Predators against protection for

4. A floodplain is an extension of a river channel, _____ not inundated except during a flood.
(A) where is it
(B) but it is
(C) or is
(D) in case it

5. Even though John F. Kennedy failed to receive the Democratic Party‘s vice presidential nomination
in 1956, _____ won their nomination for President in 1960.
(A) he
(B) who
(C) and
(D) but

6. Since Tampa has a mild winter climate, _____ as a tourist resort.
(A) popular it
(B) that as popular
(C) popular
(D) it is popular

7. Cosmetics, rarely noted today for any dangerous properties, have been _____ for serious health
problems in the past.