历年托福考试语法真题全面解析18

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6. The worldwide race to develop an affordable synthetic fuel has so far consumed billions of dollars and __________ few results.
& r2 ]8 o4 }  ]9 |. v" z, ](A) yielded
. K) V5 s8 g6 u3 y2 S* j(B) yielding
(C) yield ha
  \" k. R9 V  E) Y. q: g(D) has a yield of
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5 _3 b" ~+ K; Y& g答案：A
测试点：并列结构。
1 Q# e' {7 G! ~. I' j5 A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consumed…，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.
. v/ `; `. z' F$ {9 o(A) have been conducting
(B) were conducting
, V4 ?; s) y' C(C) had been conducted
8 j& `% V' ]0 p' x(D) being conducted
  
/ l) \* D' z" t6 V9 ]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)不能作谓语动词。
  
0 A% ]# D; H) G( N' q7 v8. The University of Georgia, __________ in 1785, was the first state supported university in the United States.
& @8 R* \- a0 I. q! i" ~(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TOEFL常考句式。分词短语作定语放在它所修饰的名词后面(A)，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
' |9 J) r; c2 z0 J- t$ u3 R(B) not the
(C) none other
(D) nothing but
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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 many as twenty to thirty copies of each of Mary Jane Holmes’s books on hand.
(A) Inventories showing
. r9 v! l5 @: g(B) That show inventories
(C) Inventories show that
(D) Showing the inventories
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答案：C
: X. L8 R: f! E# ^$ u6 @' E  U测试点：复合句。
' k9 ]7 U/ ?: }; K- U$ V分析：本句中some后的部分为从句，前面缺少主句，及连接词。应在答案中选择完整的主谓结构，即(C)。