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Cloze 1 ❌4 ​

精析P401

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In the early days in the United States, salt was very __1__, so the storekeeper of pioneer days was very careful __2__ his salt. __3__ he __4__ out salt for a customer, he did not like for anyone to walk __5__ the floor of the store. The walking might __6__ the floor and could cause the salt to "settle" and __7__ the storekeeper would have to __8__ a little more salt to the __9__ he had already poured out!

In the modern world salt has many uses beyond the dining table. It is used in the making of glass and airplane parts, in the __10__ of crops, and in killing weeds. It is also used to make water __11__ etc. Salt even helps to relieve itching __12__ it is rubbed on mosquito or other insect bites.

Salt can be __13__ in various ways besides being taken from mines underground. Evaporation of salt water from the ocean or salt lakes or small seas is one of the more common __14__ for manufacturing salt. Yet __15__ it is obtained, salt will continue to play an important part in the lives of men and women everywhere.

  1. A. few B. little C. scarce D. thin
1 ✅

稀少
exclude: D
可能选C

  1. A. to B. for C. upon D. with
2 🟨❌

days was careful ___ his salt.
固定搭配
exclude: C
A (不知道, 乱填之) ❌
D ✅

  1. A. Since B. As C. Because D. Even
3 🟨❌

C ❌
B ✅

  1. A. ran B. got C. poured D. gave
4 ✅

C?

  1. A. cross B. across C. pass D. among
5 🟨✅

B

  1. A. ruin B. damage C. spoil D. shake
6 ✅

ABC的意思都一样, 所以选:
D

  1. A. on the other hand B. as a matter of fact C. as a result D. nevertheless
7 🟨✅

C

  1. A. produce B. cost C. expand D. add
8 🟨❌

C ❌
D ✅

  1. A. number B. amount C. content D. figure
9 ✅

exclude: D
B

  1. A. growing B. growing up C. building D. building up
10 ✅

A

  1. A. drink B. to be clean C. soft D. being fresh
11 🟨✅ 🤖

exclude: A
C (make America great again! 所以我选形容词原型) (厉害👍)
make sth+done/adj/doing

  1. A. before B. until C. where D. when
12 🟨✅

exclude: A, B
D

  1. A. obtained B. bought C. refined D. settled
13 ❌

C (提纯的意思吗?) ❌
A ✅

  1. A. subjects B. processes C. supplies D. purposes
14 ✅

B

  1. A. however B. whatever C. whoever D. whenever
15 ✅

A

Cloze 2 ❌7 ​

精析P402

strange

It takes + 名词 + to do sth
（表示“做某事需要某种条件/资源”）

The world is pretty complicated today __1__ what it was forty years __2__. And it’s getting more so all the time. We have to __3__ more and more specially __4__ people. We need them to find new ways to __5__ disease, to design the machines of industry and the labor-saving gadgets of the home. And we need them more and more for the ordinary things of everyday life.

It __6__ special training to be a good carpenter, or plumber, or car mechanic. Jobs in electronics acquire even greater skills. We used to think a radio repairman had to have a pretty whole kind of training. But it’s even tougher to be a television repairman.

Some of you are __7__ thinking, “That’s all right __8__ technical people.” But suppose I want to be an artist, a druggist, or a nurse. Suppose I want to go in business for myself. What good will math __9__ me? All right, let’s see.

Many artists today are in __10__ is called applied art. They use their __11__ in advertising, interior decoration, some similar job. But people in __12__ who hire the artists for that kind of work say that simple artistic ability is not enough. __13__ lots of young people have that. But not enough of them know anything about physics, or mechanical thing, or math.

__14__ a druggist you have to study chemistry. You can’t learn chemistry __15__ knowing something about algebra.

  1. A. comparing with B. comparing to C. compared with D. compared to
1 🟨❌

并不是过去式, 所以排除C, D
但是我不知道
A ❌
C ✅ (被动)

  1. A. before B. ago C. time D. pass
2 ✅

B

  1. A obtain. B. take C. require D. have
3 🟨❌

exclude: A
C ❌
D ✅ (为什么不能选C?)

  1. A. teaching B. instructing C. scientific D. trained
4 ❌

C ❌
D ✅

  1. A. suffer B. conquer C. deal D. solve
5 ✅

exclude: A
B

  1. A. spends B. takes C. commands D. prepares
6 🟨✅

exclude: C, D
B
这一题书上写着是考查固定搭配, 可我找不到它考的是哪个固定搭配

  1. A. likely B. probably C. possible D. stubbornly
7 ❌

A ❌
B ✅ (为什么不能选A?)
likely 作副词时需搭配程度副词（如 very likely），单独使用不自然。

  1. A. by B. to C. for D. from
8 ✅

C

  1. A. for B. to C. towards D. do
9 ❌

A ❌
D ✅
缺谓语

  1. A. case B. reality C. fact D. what
10 🟨✅

exclude: A
D

  1. A. capacity B. ability C. possibility D. personality
11 ❌🤖

A和B差不多
D ❌
B ✅
如果B能选的话, A是不是也可以选了? 我就是考虑到它俩的意思差不多所以才不选它俩的
ability​ 精准对应艺术家将已掌握的专业技能应用于工作的场景，而 capacity 侧重未开发的潜力

  1. A. business B. those C. time D. difficulty
12 ✅

A

  1. A. They are B. It is C. There are D. Theirs is
13 ✅

C

  1. A. like B. To be C. Even D. Through
14 ❌

C ❌
B ✅

  1. A. in spite of B. unless C. without D. more than
15 ✅

C

Cloze 3 ❌2 ​

精析P403

Salt is very important for people. We need salt for our health and it __1__ food taste good. In the days before people learned to get large __2__ of salt __3__ the sea or earth, salt was very __4__. Many people use salt as money.

For example, Roman soldiers, around 100 A.D., were paid with salt. The English word "salary" — the __5__ that you __6__ every week __7__ from the Latin word "salarium", which __8__ "salt money". Today in the United States, __9__ a man is a good worker, his boss will say, "He is buying his salt."

Other countries used different foods __10__ money. For example, in Mexico, in the sixteenth century, Aztec Indians __11__ beans from the cacao tree as money. The __12__ were small, easy to carry and __13__, and did not break. Cacao beans were __14__ valuable that some people made false "beans" from clay, painted them, and put them in bags __15__ real ones.

strange

clay是陶土的意思吗?

  1. A. provides B. brings C. offers D. makes
1 ✅

D

  1. A. amounts B. number C. groups D. bags
2 ✅

A

  1. A. within B. from C. over D. in
3 ✅

B

  1. A. ordinary B. frequent C. valuable D. impressive
4 ✅

C

  1. A. meat B. food C. money D. bill
5 ✅

C

  1. A. get B. pay C. win D. manage
6 ✅

A

  1. A. came B. coming C. comes D. had come
7 🟨❌🤖

非谓语, get是从句that you...的, 所以主句没谓语
A ❌
C ✅
这一词的来源不应该早就来源了吗? 那不应该就要用过去式吗???? 回答我! look in my eyes! tell me why baby

尽管“salary”一词的拉丁词源是历史形成的，但此处需用 ​一般现在时（comes）​​ 强调该词源关系作为语言学中的客观事实。若用过去式（came），则暗示这种关系已不复存在，与实际情况矛盾。

  1. A. issues B. involves C. grants D. means
8 ✅

D

  1. A. if B. although C. unless D. while
9 ✅

A

  1. A. like B. for C. as D. earn
10 ✅

C

  1. A. invested B. involved C. used D. deposited
11 ✅

C

  1. A. beans B. trees C. sums D. foods
12 ✅

A

  1. A. learn B. count C. draw D. destroy
13 ✅

exclude: A, D, C
B

  1. A. too B. very C. so D. quite
14 ❌✨

B ❌
C ✅
考查so...that...

  1. A. with B. by C. beside D. from
15 ✅

A

Cloze 4 ❌5 ​

精析P403

Cotton, like silk, was discovered and made into cloth by man before the historical period __1__. Its first recorded use was in India, __2__ cotton cloth of very fine texture, almost __3__ silk, was made. When the Spanish __4__ in the New World, they found that the Incas, the Mayas, and the Aztecs knew how to make cotton cloth.

__5__ of the cotton cloth made in Peru, even before the days of the Incas, is so fine that it is kept in museums.

Cotton is the most important of __6__ textiles. Even now, with many artificial materials __7__, more than half of all textile products are made of cotton.

Cotton comes __8__ a plant of that name. When the plant is mature, the cotton grows in a white ball around the seed. To __9__ the cotton for market, the seed must be removed from the cotton fiber. This is done by a machine called the cotton gin. Then the cotton is __10__ into huge bundles called bales, __11__ are sent to the mills. __12__ the fibers are combed __13__ they will all be turned in the same direction. __14__, the fibers are spun (纺) into thread. From the thread, the cotton is woven into __15__.

  1. A. begin B. has begun C. began D. was begun
1 ✅

A (选项识别错了)
C ✅

  1. A. there B. where C. which D. that
2 🟨✅

B

  1. A. so fine as B. such fine as C. as fine as D. as fine like
3 ✅

C

  1. A. arrived B. reached C. returned D. came
4

C ❌
A ✅
到达”可以用reach，但不与in连用，

  1. A. Any B. Some C. Certain D. Many
5 🟨❌

exclude: A, C?
D ❌ (cotton cloth 是不可数名词)
B ✅

  1. A. all the other B. all other C. all D. any
6 🟨❌

A ❌
the most important of 是什么意思?
C ✅

  1. A. available B. given C. required D. ready
7 ✅

A

  1. A. from B. through C. out of D. into
8 ✅

A

  1. A. prepare B. leave C. grow D. start
9 🟨

A
B (leave for: 前往? 出发?) ❌
A ✅

  1. A. placed B. packed C. set D. crowded
10 🟨 ❌

A ❌
B ✅

  1. A. that B. those C. which D. they
11 🟨❌

C
D ❌
C ✅

  1. A. Where B. There C. In which D. These
12 ✅

B

  1. A. so as B. such that C. as that D. so that
13 ✅

D

  1. A. Secondly B. After C. Next D. Lately
14 🟨✅

C

  1. A. clothes B. cloth C. clothing D. dress
15 🟨❌

exclude: B, D
C ❌
B ✅

Cloze 5 ❌3 ​

精析P404

When I was younger, I thought that boys and grown men shouldn’t cry. Tears were a sign of being weak, __1__ a man isn’t supposed to be.

However, last June I __2__ that courage isn’t all about trying to keep all the pain inside and trying to hide the __3__. My 18-year-old sister had eloped (私奔) and then I saw how __4__ my father’s heart was. We were used to __5__ him.

For three days he wouldn’t __6__. He would just sit __7__ outside our house in the dark. At the fourth night, I sat beside him and __8__ him to tell me what he felt about everything. For many years I haven’t put my hand on my father’s shoulder as we have drifted (疏远) further and further apart while I was growing up. That night that we had all cried over what happened except my father. I sensed my father trying to __9__ his pain and I wanted him to __10__ it.

I touched my father and said, “Dad, it’s not your __11__.” He began to cry. I __12__ his shoulders shaking as he whispered, “Where did I go wrong? All I ever wanted was for my children to grow up __13__. Why shouldn’t your sister wait?”

I understood then __14__ he preferred to be in the dark. His tears, though we hadn’t seen __15__ before, were there all the time. I saw the pain of that night when my father cried with my hand on his shoulder, and understood his pain.

  1. A. which B. that C. whose D. unless
1 ✅

A

  1. A. discovered B. searched C. wandered D. apologized
2 ✅

exclude: D
A

  1. A. sounds B. tears C. opinions D. qualities
3 ✅

B

  1. A. weak B. poor C. lucky D. honest
4 ✅

exclude: C, D
A

  1. A. looking B. thinking C. seeing D. making
5 ❌ 固定搭配

B ❌
C ✅

  1. A. talk B. say C. come D. go
6 🟨 ✅

A

  1. A. quietly B. politely C. gently D. likely
7 ✅

exclude: B, C, D
A

  1. A. shouted B. asked C. pleased D. demanded
8 ✅

exclude: A, D
B

  1. A. controlling B. being controlled C. control D. be controlled
9 🟨 ✅

非谓语?
C

  1. A. release B. allow C. begin D. create
10 ✅

A

  1. A. character B. task C. fault D. duty
11 ✅

C

  1. A. touched B. felt C. heard D. imagined
12 ✅

B

  1. A. quickly B. kindly C. happily D. right
13 ❌

C ❌
D ✅

  1. A. where B. why C. what D. when
14 ✅

B

  1. A. them B. it C. him D. her
15 ❌

B ❌
A ✅ (为什么?? 为什么不能选B????????)
因为tears是复数, 所以代词也要用复数, 还有them也是可以指代非人的东西的

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