题目内容
_______ just two hours’ ride from Changsha, the small town is a paradise for tourists.
A. Locating B. Having located
C. Located D. Being located
【解析】选C。考查过去分词作状语。locate与其逻辑主语the small town之间为被动关系,故应用过去分词形式作状语。

Among the most popular books being written today are those which are usually classified as science fiction. Hundreds of titles are published every year and are 36 by all kinds of people. What’s 37, some of the most successful films of recent years have been 38 on science fiction stories.
It is often 39 that science fiction is a fairly new development in literature, but its ancestors can be found in 40 written hundreds of years ago. These books often 41 for the presentation of some form of ideal 42, a theme which is 43 often found in modern stories.
Most of the classics (名著) of science fiction, 44, have been written within the last one hundred years. Books 45 writers, such as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, to mention just two well-known authors, 46 been translated into many languages. 47 science fiction writers don’t write about men from Mars or space adventure stories. They are more 48 in predicting the effect of 49 progress of society and the human mind, or in 50 future worlds which are a reflection of the world, in 51 we live now.
Because of this, their 52 has obvious political undertones(含意). In an age when scientific fact frequently 53 science fiction, the writers may 54 it difficult to keep 55 of scientific advances.
36. A. cut | B. read | C. said | D. stolen |
37. A. more | B. worse | C. better | D. less |
38. A. made | B. depended | C. based | D. focused |
39. A. turned | B. resulted | C. advised | D. thought |
40. A. films | B. notes | C. books | D. libraries |
41. A. found | B. cared | C. wished | D. reminded |
42. A. society | B. idea | C. future | D. end |
43. A. yet | B. still | C. ever | D. already |
44. A. besides | B. therefore | C. however | D. moreover |
45. A. by | B. on | C. about | D. for |
46. A. had | B. have | C. which have | D. which had |
47. A. Ancient | B. Former | C. Past | D. Modern |
48. A. interested | B. fond | C. satisfied | D. tired |
49. A. social | B. literary | C. economic | D. technical |
50. A. recognizing | B. imagining | C. remembering | D. changing |
51. A. them | B. which | C. it | D. that |
52. A. result | B. mind | C. writing | D. present |
53. A. passes on to | B. gets close to | C. catches up with | D. breaks away from |
54. A. find | B. know | C. see | D. make |
55. A. records | B. out | C. ahead | D. back |
A. Popularity of Science Fiction |
80. |
Amongst the most popular books being written today are those which are usually classified as science fiction. Hundreds of titles are published every year and are read by all kinds of people. Furthermore, some of the most successful films of recent years have been based on science fiction stories.
81. |
It is often thought that science fiction is a fairly new development in literature, but its ancestors can be found in books written hundreds of years ago. These books were often concerned with the presentation of some form of ideal society, a theme which is still often found in modern stories.
82. |
Most of the classics of science fiction, however, have been written within the last hundred years. Books by writers such as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, to mention just two well-known authors,
have been translated into many languages.
83. |
Modern science fiction writers don't write about men from Mars or space adventure stories. They are more interested in predicting the results of technical developments on society and the human mind; or in imagining future worlds which are a reflection of the world which we live in now.
Because of this their writing has obvious political undertones.
84. |
In an age where science fact frequently overtakes science fiction, the writers may find it difficult to keep ahead of scientific advances. Those who are sufficiently clear-sighted to see the way we are going, however, may provide a valuable lesson on how to deal with the problems which society will inevitably face as it tries to master its new technology.