Question

The monthly sales of Mo Yan's works ________ 199 times compared with those before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A．accelerated	B．stretched
C．multiplied	D．switched

Answer 1

C

C 考察动词词义辨析。句义：与获得诺贝尔文学奖之前相比，莫言的作品每个月的销量增加了199倍。Accelerate加速，stretch伸出，伸展，张开；multiply乘，增加；switch转换，切换。根据空格后的199times可知Ｃ项符合上下文。