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老托福语法题
(198908)2-1
摘要:
老托福语法题
(1989.08)2-1
,为助力考生顺利
通过考试,小编为各位同学汇总整理了
1989
年
8
月份的老托福语法题,希望能为各位托福考生提供实质性的帮助。
正在准备考试的
托福
考生,可以参考下面的老托福语
法题,或许可以帮助你提升托福语法。
1. The Cubists were concerned with
how a given subject from different points of view
simultaneously.
(A) represented
(B) do the represent
(C) to represent
(D) representing
答案:
C
测试点:不定式。
分析:
how
后加从句或不定式,而
4
个答案中无相应从句,故选不定式
to
represent
。
2. Sometimes to place physics and
chemistry into separate categories. (A) difficult
(B) is difficult
(C) it is difficult
(D) that it is
difficult
答案:
C
测试点:主谓结构。
分析:本句主、
谓语俱缺,应在答案中选择完整的主谓或主
系表结构,即
(C)
。
(A)
主语、动词均缺
;(B)
缺主语
;(D)
多了
that
,是从句。
3. Martha Graham, ,
has run her own dance company for half a century.
(A) is the great modern
choreographer
(B) one of the
great modern choreographers (C) that the great
modern choreographers (D) the
modern
choreographers were great
答案:
B
测试点:同位语。
分析:接在主语后
面、两边由逗号隔开的成份,可能是主语的
同位语,即一说明身份的名词性结构。答
p>
案中只有
(B)
是名词性的。
(A)
、
(D)
都有系动词
;(C)
以
that
开头,是从句的一部分。
解题要点:同位语结构是中国学生不甚熟悉而
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/p>
考题中常
出现的结构。见到主语和谓语动词
/
系
动词之间的,两边用逗号隔开
的形式,应首先考虑同
位语的可能性,选择名词性结构。
4. Long before
children are able to speak or understand a
language, communicate through facial
expressions and by making noises.
(A) however
(B) they
(C) furthermore
(D) who
答案:
B
测试点:主语。
分析:
communicate
是谓
语动词,前面缺主语。应在答案中选择名词或代词作主语。
(B)
代
词
they
可作
主语。
(A)
、
(C)
既非代词也非名词,不能作主语
;(D)
用在疑问句或从句中。
5. The seating of
musicians in an orchestra is arranged to produce
the desired blend of sounds
from the
various musical sections .
(A) the conductor of
(B) from the conductor (C) the
conductor and (D) by the conductor
答案:
D
测试点:介词短语
/
被动语态。
分析:看到被动语态的
is
arranged
,应想到后面可能接
by…
的结构。在
4
个答案中选择以
by
开头的介词短语,即
(D)
。
6. The worldwide
race to develop an affordable synthetic fuel has
so far consumed billions of
dollars and
few results.
(A)
yielded (B) yielding (C) yield ha
(D) has a yield of
答案:
A
测试点:并列结构。
分析:
and
前后两部分,应同形式、同性质。此处
and
连接两个谓语部分,前面是
c
onsumed…
,后面
应也是一过去式的
动词,即
(A)yielded
。
7. Experiments in
the photography of moving objects in both the
United States and
Europe well before 1900.
(A) have been conducting
(B) were conducting
(C) had been
conducted
(D) being
conducted
答案:
C
测试点:时态。
分析:本句有主语
而缺谓语动词,应选择时态正确的动词作谓语。句中
well before
l900
说
明时间是
“
过去的过去
”
,时态应用过去完成时,故选
(C)
。
(A)
是现在完
成时
;(B)
是过去进行时
;(D)<
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不能
作谓
语动词。
8. The University
of Georgia, in 1785, was the first state supported
university in the
United States.
(A)
chartered
(B) was
chartered (C) it was chartered (D) to be chartered
答案:
A
测试点:分词短语作后置定语。
分析:此句是
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常考句式。分词短语作定语放在它所修饰的名词后面
(A)
p>
,相当于被动
式的定语从
句省掉关系代词
which/that
及系动词
be
。
(B)
若改为
which was chartered
,
(C)
用
which
代替
it
,
(D)
去
掉
to
be
,亦可。
9. Thanks to modern irrigation,
crops now grow abundantly in areas where once
cacti and
sagebrush could live.
(A) nor
(B) not the
(C) none other
(D) nothing but
答案:
D
测试点:短语。
分析:
Nothing
but
是固定的短语。
(A)nor
通常不单独使用,应与
neither
连用
;(B)not
用于否
定动词或
形容词
;(C)
是错误说法。
10. , in the late
1800’s, some libraries had to keep as
m
any as twenty to thirty copies of each
of
Mary Jane Holmes’s books on
hand.
(A) Inventories showing (B) That show inventories
(C) Inventories show that (D) Showing the
inventories