题目内容
【题目】Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Alfred Nobel Rests in Peace
People like Martin Luther King Jr,Nelson Mandela,Aung San Suu Kyi,Kofi Annan,Lech Walesa and Mother Teresan have become famous all around the world.And what do they have in common?They are all winners of the Nobel Pease Prize.But none of them would have received their prize and the 【1】 it brings if it had not been for one Swedish man ,Alfred Norbel.
When Alfred joined the Norbel family company,it had been developing explosives for many years,Aifred's father,lmmanuel,had started the family fortune by working for the Russian army to produce landmines and seamins,which are bombs that are put under the ground or in the sea,and 【2】 when people move over them.But the family made even more money by manufacturing intro-glycerine,which was an 【3】 but evry dangerous explosive.One day Aifred arrived home to find that his 20-year-old brother Emil had been killed in a nitro-glycerine explosion.Alfred became determined to invent a safer explosive.The result was dynamite,which became an 【4】 success all over the world.
Alfred Norbel always wanted dynamite to be used for peaceful means.And when it was used to blast a path for the Panama Canal in 1914 he couldn't have been 【5】 .Unfortunately,in the same year,the First World War started,and,when it ended four years later,dynamite had been used to take away the lives of thousands of young men.Alfred had always hated war and considered it to be ‘the horror of horrors and the greatest of all crimes’.To see his 【6】invention being used in this way made him very sad.
Sometime later Alfred's older brother Ludwig died.one newspaper 【7】 printed Aflred's obituary instesd of his brother's. The obituary described Alfred as a man who had become rich by inventing a weapon of mass 【8】 . When Alfred read this review of his life,he was wery unhappy and decided to do something about it.He decided that he would use the gread fortune that he had made to 【9】 people who had been working to promote good in socirty.The five awards he created were for physics,chemistry,medicine,literature and,most 【10】 ,peace.The Norbel Peace Prize was awarded to the person who had done the most,or the best,work to promote friendship between countries,to adolish armies and to hold and promote peace conferences.
【答案】
【1】BD
【2】AB
【3】D
【4】AD
【5】AC
【6】BC
【7】A
【8】B
【9】CD
【10】ABC
【解析】
这是一篇说明文。文章介绍了诺贝尔奖的由来故事。
【1】考查名词。句意:但如果不是因为一个瑞典人,阿尔弗雷德·诺贝尔,他们中的任何一个人都不会获得他们的奖项和它所带来的认可。根据none of them would have received their prize and the ______ it brings可知the后接名词,且意为“它带来认可”,recognition符合题意。故选BD。
【2】考查动词。句意:这些地雷和海雷是炸弹,放在地下或者海里,当人们移动的时候,他们就会探测到。根据and可知此处用动词,explore意为“探测”符合题意。故选AB。
【3】考查形容词。句意:甘油是一种有效但危险的炸药根据but very dangerous可知此处用形容词,形容词effective意为“危险的”符合题意。故选D。
【4】考查形容词。句意:结果是轰动一时,立即在全世界取得了成功。根据名词success可知此处要用形容词修饰,形容词immediate意为“立即的”符合题意。故选AD。
【5】考查形容词。句意:1914年,当它被用来炸毁一条通往巴拿马运河的道路时,他高兴极了。此处是否定词+形容词比较级表示最高级的意思,意为“再…不过了”,故形容词happier符合题意。故选AC。
【6】考查名词。句意:看到他的发明被这样使用,他非常难过。根据his可知此处要用名词,名词invention“发明”符合题意。故选BC。
【7】考查副词。句意:一家报纸不小心把阿弗雷德的讣告登在了他哥哥的讣告上。根据printed可知此处要用副词修饰动词,副词accidentally“意外地”符合题意。故选A。
【8】考查名词。句意:讣告中把阿尔弗雷德描述成一个通过发明大规模杀伤性武器而致富的人。根据inventing a weapon 可知此处要用名词,名词destruction“毁灭,破坏”符合题意。故选B。
【9】考查动词。句意:他决定用他赚来的巨大财富来奖励那些为社会做好事的人。根据had made to 可知此处要用动词,动词reward“奖励,奖赏”符合题意。故选CD。
【10】考查副词。句意:他创立的五个奖项分别是物理学奖、化学奖、医学奖、文学奖,最重要的是和平奖。固定短语most significantly,意为“最重要的是”符合题意。故选ABC。
第5小题考查了否定词与比较级连用表示肯定。该结构用否定形式表示肯定意义。要掌握该结构的用法,须注意以下几点:
1.该结构多为“can’t/couldn’t+比较级”的形式,意为“再……不过”
I can’t agree with you more.我再同意你的意见不过了。(或:我完全同意你的意见。)
The weather couldn’t be worse.天气再糟糕不过了。
He couldn’t have done better.他做得再好不过了。
2.用于该结构中的否定词除了not之外,还有no,never,nothing等,意为“再……不过”
This could give her no greater pleasure.这使她再高兴不过了。
There's nothing cheaper.这东西再便宜不过了。
3.当该结构中的比较级为less时,其意义为“一点也不”
试比较:He couldn’t care more.他非常介意。(或:他最关心不过了。)
He couldn’t care less.他毫不介意。(或:他最漠不关心了。)
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