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Q39:

Seldom more that 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, but it ran 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, the Erie Canal connected the Hudson River at Albany to the Great Lakes at Buffalo, providing the port of New York City with a direct water link to the heartland of the North American continent.

1. Seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, but it ran 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, the Erie Canal connected

2. Seldom more than 40 feet wide or 12 feet deep but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, the Erie Canal connected

3. It was seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, and ran 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, but the Erie Canal, connecting

4. The Erie Canal was seldom more than 40 feet wide or 12 feet deep and it ran 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, which connected

5. The Erie Canal, seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, connecting

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Q40:

Since February, the Federal Reserve has raised its short-term interest rate target five times, and because of the economy’s continued strength, analysts have been predicting for weeks that the target will be raised again in November.

1. because of the economy’s continued strength, analysts have been predicting for weeks that the target will

2. with the economy’s strength continuing, analysts predicted for weeks that the target

3. because the economy continues strong, analysts predicted for weeks that the target would

4. due to the economy’s continued strength, analysts have been predicting for weeks that the target

5. due to the fact of the economy’s continued strength, analysts predicted for weeks that the target will

Q.39:

seldom 表否定意义，所以后面的连词应该用or，而不是and，所以首先排除A,C,E.

D，which 引导的非限定定语从句，逻辑上应该是修饰的是The Erie Canal ，但是语法上修饰the rugged wilderness of upstate New York。

个人认为B is the best.

39 B

40 A

Q.40:

句子的以上是，从二月以来，the Federal Reserve 已经提高了5次short-term interest rate target ，由于经济的持续强劲，经济学家分析short-term interest rate target 在11月的时候，会再次提升。

那么，时态就应该是现在，排除B/C/E,

因为是预测11月的情况，所以target 提升应该用将来时。

所以，A is the best.

个人意见。

for weeks 所以用have been doing 而且continuous也是对have been 的一个提示

并且 predict后面不用would虚拟，直接will搞定

关键问题是 predict后面是否用虚拟