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考古题第二套真难啊！许多题读都读不懂！您说，不懂题意还怎么做题啊！还有几题只生词就一大把，查清楚词义再做才可以，我自认为自己的词汇量还可以啊，现在没有自信了！错了一半！大家快来拯救我啊！哪怕只是其中的一题呢！万分感谢！



1、
Not all employment selection mechanisms that have a “disparate effect,” that is, that screen out a percentage of minorities or women disproportionate to their presence in the relevant labor market, are unlawful.
这里的that is,能被which means,替换吗？还有没有其它习语可替换？disproportionate to是习惯用法吗？disproportionate 能不能和其他介词搭配？

2、
Under the new corporate insurance policy, when an employer is charged for damages to a third party wholly or largely as a result of actions by an employee, he is entitled to recoup the amount of the damages.
(A) he is entitled to recoup
(B) the employer is entitled to recoup
(C) he or she is entitled to recoup
(D) he is entitled to recoup for
(E) the employer is entitled to recoup for
答案是B，请问句中两处an employee是指同一人吗？B中the employee是指哪个？最后再请教句子的翻译。谢谢！

3、
In presenting his modus vivendi proposal, Lansing implied that the American government accepted the German view that armed merchant vessels were warships: however, when the proposal was dropped by the Wilson administration, it seemed to be reverting to the British view on this question.
(A) when the proposal was dropped by the Wilson administration, it
(B) after it was dropped, the Wilson administration
(C) by dropping the proposal, the Wilson administration
(D) the Wilson administration dropped the proposal when it
(E) when they dropped the proposal, the Wilson administration
答案是C。我选了B，关键是没理解drop the proposal的含义，有哪个牛牛帮忙解释一下？谢谢！

4、
Art museums do not usually think of their collections as capital or consider the interest income that would be generated if a portion of the capital would have been invested in another form.
(A) be generated if a portion of the capital would have been
(B) have been generated if a portion of the capital would have been
(C) be generated if a portion of the capital were
(D) be generated if a portion of the capital was
(E) be generated if a portion of the capital had been
请问这题考的是虚拟语气吗？答案是C。为什么是were呢？

5、
The work of mathematician Roger Penrose in the early 1970s, on the geometry of what are called aperiodic tiles, turned out to describe the architecture of a previously unknown class of crystals.
请问中间插入语如何解释？难欧！考古题是不是机考题？咋这么难理解呢？turned out to describe什么含义？为什么不能直接described呢？

6、★
The Western world’s love affair with chocolate is well-documented: few people have been known to have tasted it for the first time without requesting more.
(A) few people have been known to have tasted it
(B) few having been known to taste it
(C) it has been tasted by few people
(D) few people have been known to taste it
(E) few people having tasted it
答案是D。请问此句如何翻译？谢谢！

7、
The increased popularity and availability of televisions has led to the decline of regional dialects, language variations which originate from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated by geographic isolation.
(A) which originate from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
(B) that originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
(C) originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
(D) originating from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
(E) originating from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuating
这题和OG书上的210题类似，大家可以参考一下！注意“by”。答案是D。

OG第210题
210. Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
(A)extending
(B)extends
(C)extended
(D)it extended
(E)is extending
答案是A。

8、
During the first nine months of 1979, textbook publishers incurred substantial costs for creating products that, due to a decline in public funding for instructional material, never were sold.
(A) funding for instructional material, never were
(B) funding for instructional material, never was
(C) funding, the instructional material, was never
(D) funding for instructional material, the products were never
(E) funding, they were never
答案是A，这题也不容易吆！never were为什么不是were never呢？另外此句的结构是什么呀？有点乱！请牛牛讲解！

9、
Because of the business community’s uncertainty about the President’s position in regard to the issue of the budget deficit, an unanticipated rise in interest rates has occurred.
(A) in regard to the issue of the budget deficit, an unanticipated rise in interest rates has
(B) on the deficit, an unanticipated rise in interest rates has
(C) regarding the budgetary deficit, an unanticipated rise in interest rates have
(D) on the deficit, an unanticipated rise in interest rates have
(E) regarding the deficit, an unanticipated rise in interest rats have
答案是B。我选的是A，budget省去也行呀？我知道A笨拙、累赘，但我也不敢随便乱省略呀！郁闷啊！

10、
A peculiar feature of the embryonic mammalian circulatory system is that in the area of the heart the cells adhere to one another, beating in unison and adopting specialized orientations exclusive of one another.
(A) beating in unison and adopting
(B) they beat in unison while adopting
(C) beat in unison, and adopt
(D) beating in unison yet adopting
(E) even though they beat in unison and adopt
再来一题，答案是D。做到这儿的时候，欧快要哭了，什么东西，句意不理解啊！您看呢？我的水平真的那么差？

sbbi

Did you try "summary" like
http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=23&ID=27532
?

sbbi

Sorry for being frank. I think the best way to post questions in one by one. So others can easily view, and the new comer can benefit from others' discussion.

sbbi

10 讨论了很多.你找找

sbbi

8) d/e are fragmented sentences

excellent

我刚刚看完您给我推荐的帖子，的确解决了我绝大多数的问题，真的感谢！

谢谢sbbi！