Question

Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker, ____ novel set in ___ small town of Kearney, Nebraska, US, has won the 57^th US National Book Award for fiction.

A．the; the

B．a; a;

C．a; the

D．/; the

Answer 1

C

本题考查冠词。a novel一本小说，泛指；the small town特指小城镇，用定冠词。句意：理查德·鲍尔斯的《回声制造者》，是一部以美国内布拉斯加州卡尼小镇为背景的小说，赢得了美国第57届国家图书奖。