正确答案: D
is
题目:What matters ______ not winning but participating.
解析:解析:此句很可能考句子主语,又因出现动词matter,因此,主语极可能为一主语从句。如主语为名词性从句,谓语动词一般用单数。
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[单选题]Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the【31】of the year, or manured a field; but we know【32】about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so【33】so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are【34】that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are,【35】they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in【36】an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and【37】them how to do it most efficiently — this, after all, is【38】conquerors and generals have done -- is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some way of settling their disputes other【39】by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of other side, and then【40】that that side which has killed most has won.
length
解析:解析:length of the year意思为“一年的天数(时间长度)”;其他选项意思与语境不相符合。
[单选题]
B. request
C. telling
D. requesting
正确答案:C解析:此处的动词应该与前面的getting一词为并列关系,要用动名词形式。在此处,征服者“命令(telling)”别人做事情比“请求(requesting)”别人更有可能。
telling
解析:解析:此处的动词应该与前面的getting一词为并列关系,要用动名词形式。在此处,征服者“命令(telling)”别人做事情比“请求(requesting)”别人更有可能。
[单选题]Maggie ran back to the kitchen, eggs ______ carefully in her hands.
held
解析:解析:该句为独立主格结构,后半部分是eggs being held 的省略形式。
[单选题]
B. these
C. ones
D. some
正确答案:A解析:由于后面有一个定语从句,C选项前面要加定冠词才对;B和D选项不符合语法要求,只有A选项正确。
thoseB. these
解析:解析:由于后面有一个定语从句,C选项前面要加定冠词才对;B和D选项不符合语法要求,只有A选项正确。
[单选题]Which of the following objects was an important woodworking tool used by early American craftsmen?
A chisel
解析:解析:应该在文章中找到每一个选项的单词在文中出现的地方,然后判断出其是否是工具还是木雕作品。只有D选项chisel一词与另一种工具knife作为并列关系同时出现,所以可以判定其为另外一种工具。其他选项代表的全是木雕作品。
[单选题]Wendy: Have you been to the new bakery on the corner? Arthur: No, how is it? Wendy: It is heaven ! ______ !
Their cakes are to die for
解析:解析:从对话语境和供选答案看,Wendy是想说“那里的蛋糕好吃得不得了”。符合习惯的表达只能是Their cakes are to die for!(to die for something = to be eager to have something)。