菜鸟开贴盖楼一**学语法

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                  英文基础实在太差，阅读几乎都是浮读。由于实在是菜鸟，不敢贪多，先由每日五题开始，培养耐心和兴趣，欢迎批评指导，大家轻拍。我选择的材料首先是OG12.

1 The Glass House Mountains in Queensland,Australia, were sighted in 1770 by the English navigator Captain James Cook, bywhom they were named supposedly because its sheer wet rocks glistened (闪闪发光的)likeglass.

(A)   by whom they were namedsupposedly because its（被动语态罗嗦&单复数不一致）

(B)   by whom they were namedsupposedly and their  （改变句子原意，没有突出because）

(C)   naming them supposedly sincetheir  （句子主语是Mountains而非James Cook）

(D)  who sonamed them supposedly because their

(E)   who so named it since supposedly their（主谓不一致）

正确选项：D
我：          D

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2 Although a surge(汹涌，大潮) in retail sales have raised hopes that there is a recovery finally under way, many economists say that without a large amount of spending the recovery might not lasts.
（A）have raised hopes that there is a recovery finally  (主谓不一致，罗嗦)
（B） raised hopes for there being a recovery finally  （罗嗦）
（C） had raised hopes for a recovery finally being     （时态有问题，罗嗦）
（D）has raised hopes that a recovery is finally
（E） raised hopes for a recovery finally.

正确选项：D
我：　　　Ｅ

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Although various eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American poets had professed an interest in Native American poetry and had pretended to imitate Native American forms in their own works, until almost 1900, scholars and critics did not begin seriously to study traditional Native American poetry in native languages.
(A) until almost 1900, scholars and critics did not begin seriously to study
(B) until almost 1900 scholars and critics had not begun seriously studying （不该用过去完成时）
(C) not until almost 1900 were scholars and critics to begin seriously to study   （罗嗦）
(D) it was not almost until 1900 when scholars and critics began to seriously study
(E) it was not until almost 1900 that scholars and critics seriously began studying

正确选项：　Ｅ
我：              C

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4. Of all the vast tides of migration that have swept through history, maybe none is more concentrated as the wave that brought 12 million immigrants onto American shores in little more than three decades
(A) maybe none is more concentrated as (短语用错）
(B) it may be that none is more concentrated as
(C) perhaps it is none that is more concentrated than
(D) maybe it is none that was more concentrated than
(E) perhaps none was more concentrated than

正确选项   E
我：          E

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5. Diabetes（糖尿病，多尿症）, together with its serious complications（并发症）, ranks as the nation’s third leading cause of death, surpassed（超越） only by heart disease and cancer.
(A) ranks as the nation’s third leading cause of death, surpassed only
(B) rank as the nation’s third leading cause of death, only surpassed  （主谓一致）
(C) has the rank of the nation’s third leading cause of death, only surpassed
(D) are the nation’s third leading causes of death, surpassed only
(E) have been ranked as the nation’s third leading causes of death, only surpassed  （主谓一致）


正确选项：A
我：         E

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ilhht 发表于 2013-5-27 10:43
2 Although a surge(汹涌，大潮) in retail sales have raised hopes that there is a recovery finally un ...

E选项的时态也不对。原句用的是现在完成时，表示“直到现在仍然有影响”，而E用过去时，说明“现在无影响”。
此外，很重要的一点：raise hopes for sth. 和 raise hopes that sth. do...是有区别的。前者强调的是（什么样的）东西；而后者强调：东西怎么样