TOEFL语法大全1991年05月语法题

1. ---a bicameral, or two-chamber parliament.

(A) Canada has

(B) Having Canada

(C) Because Canada has

(D) That Canada is having

答案：A

测试点：主谓结构．

分析：本句主谓俱缺，应在答案中选择主语+动词的结构，即(A)．(B)不是主谓结构；(C)(D)均为从句形式。

 

2. ---time and labor, cartoonists generally draw the hands of their characters with only three fingers and a thumb.

(A) Saved

(B) Saves

(C) To save

(D) The saving

答案：C

测试点；不定式．

分析：逗号前的部分为表示目的的状语，可由不定式短语或从句承担．答案中无从句，故选不定式(C)．

 

3. The recent discovery of a novel by Harriet Wilson, published in 1859, ---a landmark in Black American literature.

(A) has brought to light

(B) light to brought has

(C) brought to light has

(D) has light to brought

答案：A

测试点：词序/习语．

分析：本句有主语而缺谓语，bring sth to light是固定短语，如宾语较长可放在to light之后，即bring to light+宾语．故选(A)．

 

4. ---telescopes of the 1600's magnified objects thirty-three times their original size.

(A) That the

(B) The

(C) This is the

(D) Being where the

答案：B

测试点；冠词。

分析：空格后句子完整，句首的名词前缺限定词，故选冠词(B)。

 

5. Thyme, ---, yields a medicinal oil containing thymol.

(A) a fragrant garden herb

(B) garden herb which is fragrant

(C) fragrant garden herb

(D) is an herb in a fragrant garden

答案：A

测试点；同位语．

分析：本句主谓语俱全，主谓之间两边逗号隔开的成份要么是分词短语作后置定语，要么是名词性同位语．答案中只有(A)是名词词组，作Thyme的同位语．

解题要点：记住此句型：主语___谓语……．空格部分为标准的同位语结构．

 

6. Until the ninth century, written words were not actually separated, ---in some literary writing, dots or points were used to indicate divisions.

(A) in spite of

(B) contrary

(C) contrast to

(D) but

答案：D

测试点：连词．

分析：空格两边都是完整的句子，中间应有连词将其连接．答案(D)为表示转折的连词．(A)，(C)为介词性质，(B)为形容词，均不可连接句子。

 

7. Nutritionists ---goat milk to be rich, nourishing, and readily digested.

(A) consider

(B) is considered

(C) are considered

(D) considering

答案：A

测试点：谓语．

分析：本句有主语而缺谓语，应在答案中选择可作谓语的动词，即(A)．(B)(C)为被动态，与句意不符．(D)为非谓语形式．

 

8. ---conventional black ink costs newspapers about thirty cents a pound, most rub-resistant inks add at least ten cents more per pound to the bill.

(A) Furthermore

(B) Meanwhile

(C) Moreover

(D) While

答案：D

测试点：连词．

分析：本题为两个完整的句子，其意义相互对比，应用连词while连接．(A)、(B)、(C)均是副词．

解题要点：4个答案中如有while，应首先考虑它。

 

9. John Lone's physical grace and ---age, sex, and culture make him an extraordinary performer.

(A) his ability to transcend

(B) is able to transcend the

(C) the transcending ability

(D) with his ability transcending

答案：A

测试点；并列结构。

分析：and要求它所连接的成份性质相同。and前是名词grace，故应在答案中选择名词性的结构．排除系动词开头的(B)和介词开头的(D)．空格后另有三个名词age，sex and culture，它们与前面的词的关系要么是并列，要么是其宾语．(C)无动词，不能带宾语．只有(A)既是名词词组，又可后带宾语．

 

10. Before ---of synthetic dyes, yarns were often colored by dyes obtained from natural vegetable and mineral matter.

(A) introducing

(B) introduction

(C) the introduction

(D) introducing that

答案：C

测试点：名词／冠词。

分析：of前应为名词，而名词前应有冠词，故选(C)．

 

11. Ducks have been domesticated for many centuries ---commercially for their meat and eggs.

(A) raised

(B) and are raised

(C) raised as

(D) are raised

答案：B

测试点；并列结构／连词。

分析：本句只有一个主语，但却有两个谓语部分。这两个谓语应用连词and连接，故选(B)．

 

12. Maggie Lena Walker, an insurance and banking executive, ---and spent her entire life in Richmond, Virginia.

(A) and was brought up

(B) brought up with

(C) who was brought up

(D) was brought up

答案：D

测试点：谓语／并列结构．

分析：连词and要求它所连接的两边同词性、同性质．and后为动词，and前应是另一动词，故选(D)．(A)重复and； (B)多了介词；(C)为从句．

 

13. The activities of the international marketing researcher are frequently much broader than ---.

(A) the domestic marketer has

(B) the domestic marketer does

(C) those of the domestic marketer

(D) that which has the domestic marketer

答案：C

测试点：比较级．

分析：than后应加被比较的对象．本句被比较的是主语activities,可用those指代"以免重复，故选(C)。(A)(B)被比较的部分与原句不一致；(D)句子结构错误。

解题要点；答案中如有that of／those of出现，应首先考虑．

 

14. Mercury differs from other industrial metals ---it is a liquid.

(A) whereas

(B) in that

(C) because of

(D) consequently

答案：B

测试点：短语．

分析：空格后为表示原因的状语从句，故选(B)．(A)(D)不能表示原因；(C)为介词，不能连接句子．

解题要点：当4个答案中有in that时，应首先考虑它．In that引导状语从句，表示原因．

 

15. In black verse ---of ten syllables, five of which are accented.

(A) line consists of each

(B) consists of each line

(C) each line consists

(D) it consists of each line

答案：C

测试点；主谓结构／词序。

分析：关键词which说明逗号后为从句，则逗号前必然是主句。In引导的短语作状语，主句的主，谓语均缺，应在答案中选择主语+谓语动词的形式，即(C)．(A)(B)不是主谓结构，(D)用了形式主语，与句意不合．

 

16. Some art historians have say that too many artists have tried only to imitate
previous painting styles.

答案：A

测试点：词形/时态．

分析：助动词have后接过去分词，表示完成时态．应为said．

 

17. Inventor Granville Woods received him first patent on January 3, TOEFL语法大全1984, for a steam boiler furnace.

答案：A

测试点：词性．

分析：修饰名词patent应当用形容词性的代词his，him不能作定语．

 

18. Throughout history, shoes have been worn not only for protection and also for decoration.

答案：D

测试点；not only…but also…的用法。

分析：这是考题中常见的结构。看到前面的not only，应立即注意后面是否有but also部分．and应为but．

 

TOEFL语法大全19. Worker bees labor for the good of the hive by collecting food, caring for the young, and to expand the nest.

答案：D

测试点：并列结构．

分析：and两边应同词性、同形式．句中and前为动名词短语collecting…和caning for…，此处也应用expanding与之并列．

 

20. Pathologists use their knowing of body tissues and body fluids to aid other physicians. 答案：B

测试点：词性．

分析：表示"知识"应当用名词knowledge,不用knowing．

 

21. Objects falling freely n a vacuum have the same rate of speed is regardless of differences in size and weight.

答案：C

测试点；多词。

分析：到speed为止是一完整的句子，regardless of…为状语，is多余。

 

22. The construction of sundials was considered to be an acceptable part of a student's educator as late as the seventeenth century.

答案：D

测试点；近义词．

分析：educator意为"教育者"，而此处应用表示"教育"的education．

 

23. Historians have never reached some general agreement about the precise causes of the Civil War in the United States.

答案：B

测试点：some与any的用法

分析：some用于肯定句中，any用于否定句和疑问句中．此句是含有never的否定句，some应为any．

 

24. Of all the Native Americans in the United States, the Navajos from largest group. 答案：D

测试点：最高级／冠词．

分析：形容词最高级前应有定冠词．应为form the largest (group)．

 

25.A neutron star forms
when a star much more massive than the Sun dies and exploded.
答案：D

测试点；时态／并列结构。

分析：and所连接的两个动词应同形式、同时态。and前为一般现在时的dies，and后也应用现在时explodes．

 

26.A thorough study of mythology requires familiarity for the properties of properties of plants and trees, and the habits of wild birds and beasts.

答案：B

测试点：习语／介词．

分析：familiarity／familiar with是固定短语，不用for．

 

27.Quartz may be transparency, translucent, or opaque, and it may be colorless or colored.
答案：A

测试点：并列结构／词性．

分析：or与and一样，要求它所连接的部分同词性、同形式．translucent和opaque都是形容词，此处也应用形容词transparent．

 

28.In an adult human, the skin
weighs about seven pounds and covers it about thirty-six square feet.

答案：C

测试点；多词。

分析：covers的宾语是about thirty-six square feet，it多余。

 

29.A leading Canadian feminist and author, Nellie McClung, struggled relentlessly in the early twentieth century to win
politically and legal rights for Canadian women.

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，同形式．此处and连接两个定语，一个是形容词legal，另一个也要用形容词political，不用副词．

解题要点：遇有-1y结尾的副词下划线时，应注意其是否错用，是否应为形容词．

 

30.Metabolism consists of a complicated series of chemicals reactions carried out by living cells.

答案：B

测试点：词性．

分析：chemical为名词时意为"化学制品、化学药品"，常用其复数形式；为形容词时，表示"化学的"。此处作reaction的定语，应为形容词，词尾不加s。

 

31.Duke Ellington was the first person to compose extended jazz works and gives regular jazz concerts.

答案：D

测试点；并列结构／不定式．

分析：连词and两边的成份应结构相同．其一边为不定式短语to compose…，另一边也应用不定式to give．

 

32.Seismology has not reached yet the stage where earthquakes can be foretold with a great deal of accuracy.

答案：A

测试点：词序．

分析：not yet常在一起连用．而且，动词与其宾语之间通常不加入副词．此处词序颠倒．

 

33.The design of the University of Virginia came at the end of Thomas Jefferson's long career as theoretician, statesman, and architecture. 答案：D

测试点；并列结构／近义词。

分析：and两边应同词性、同形式，其一边为表示职业的名词theoretician，statesman另一边也要用architect．

 

34.At night the desert floor radiates heat back into the atmosphere and the temperature may be drop to near freezing.

答案：C

测试点：多词．

分析：动词drop前不应加系动词be．

 

35.Although they are in different countries, Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan are close neighbors and cooperate on numerous matters of mutually interest. 答案：D

测试点：词性．

分析：修饰名词interest要用形容词mutual，不用副词matually．

 

36.First incorporated in 1871, Dallas, Texas, had become the seventh largest cities in the United States by TOEFL语法大全1976.

答案：D

测试点：数的一致．]

分析：主语是Dallas，Texas(城市名+州名)，为单数其表语也应用单数city．

解题要点：表示"第几"的序数词后应接单数名词．

 

37.Will Rogers was widely recognized for his daily newspaper column, in which he humorously criticized and commented in the politics of his time.

答案：D

测试点；习语

分析：to comment on是固定短语，不用其他介词。

 

38.The free silver movement, promoting unlimited silver coinage, gained prominent, in the late 1800's.

答案：C

测试点；词性．

分析：动词gained后接名词作宾语，而prominent是形容词．应为prominence．

 

39.The continental divide refers to an imaginary line in the North American Rockies that

divides
the waters flowing into the Atlantic Ocean from it flowing into the Pacific. 答案：D

测试点：代词/数的一致．

分析：此处代词指代复数的waters，不能用it,应用复数those．另外，(A)the waters表示"水域、水体，江河"等意义，用复数正确．

 

40.The Petrified Forest of eastern Arizona are made up of tree trunks that were buried in mud,sand, or volcanic ash ages ago and have turned to stone.