Question

【題目】Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

The view that the spirit of adventure no longer has any scope for its enterprise seems, at first glance, depressingly true. The highest mountains have been scaled; the deepest seas plumbed. Maps today no longer contain huge blanks marked "Unknown Territory", nor do they make random guesses at the shapes of 【1】 land-masses. All major journeys of exploration to 【2】 the true shape and nature of the globe have been made in the past. It was left to us to fill in the details with 【3】 which once would have been considered impossible. The gaps have been 【4】. What next?

The obvious answer, of course, is that man is now looking upwards into space. Discoveries are being made at such a tremendous rate that even authors of science-fiction are finding it difficult to keep up with them and have to tax their imagination to invent bigger and better space-craft. Satellites sending signals as they swing round our globe have become 【5】.

Astronauts have successfully landed on the moon and its entire surface has been photographed. The information that satellites may provide fueling stations for manned rockets no longer strikes us as preposterous. If thirty years ago, a scientist has urged that we send messages into outer space in the hope of receiving an answer, he would have been regarded as either irresponsible or mad. Now, anything seems 【6】.

From dreams like these, we return to earth with a bump. Trips into space are all very well, but they are not for us; we must 【7】 ourselves with our own, much-traveled world. The earth itself is the training-ground for adventurous spirits, for "adventure" need not mean the seeking out of something new. A person can be called adventurous when he finds out something for himself, and it does not matter how many times the discovery has been made before. No one would say that men who set out now to cross the forbidding Antarctic are less enterprising than their predecessors who tried to do the same thing. The little boy who climbs the small hill that 【8】 his town, or even he who tries to climbs and fails, has precisely the same spirit that led Hillary to climb Everest. For the bold spirit and inquiring mind, there are inexhaustible possibilities. So long as there are people willing to 【9】 places that are well-known, there will be those who will, one day, set foot on remote and 【10】 shores.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】E

【4】G

【5】A

【6】F

【7】B

【8】I

【9】J

【10】K

【解析】

這是一篇議論文。有一種觀點(diǎn)認(rèn)為，冒險(xiǎn)精神已不再具有進(jìn)取精神，乍一看，這似乎是令人沮喪的事實(shí)。文章通過論述，駁斥了這種觀點(diǎn)。對于大膽的精神和探究的頭腦，有無盡的可能。太空探索尤其如此。

【1】

考查形容詞。句意：今天的地圖不再包含標(biāo)有“未知領(lǐng)土”的巨大空白，也不再隨機(jī)猜測遙遠(yuǎn)大陸的形狀�？仗幮揎椕�詞land-masses，應(yīng)用形容詞。表示“遙遠(yuǎn)的”，應(yīng)用distant。故選D。

【2】

考查動(dòng)詞。句意：所有確定地球真實(shí)形狀和性質(zhì)的主要旅行都是在過去進(jìn)行的。to ___2___ the true shape and nature of the globe是動(dòng)詞不定式作定語，修飾all major journeys of exploration，空處應(yīng)用動(dòng)詞原形，表示“確定”，用動(dòng)詞determine。故選C。

【3】

考查名詞。句意：于是就由我們來填補(bǔ)探險(xiǎn)的細(xì)節(jié)，而這些探險(xiǎn)在過去被認(rèn)為是不可能的。空處作介詞with的賓語，應(yīng)用名詞。表示“探險(xiǎn)”，用名詞expedition。它是可數(shù)名詞，空前沒有冠詞，應(yīng)用復(fù)數(shù)形式。故選E。

【4】

考查過去分詞。句意：空白已經(jīng)被填補(bǔ)。結(jié)合前一句中的“It was left to us to fill in the details”可知，該句表達(dá)的意思是：空白已經(jīng)被填補(bǔ)。the gaps和fill之間是被動(dòng)關(guān)系，該句應(yīng)用被動(dòng)語態(tài)�，F(xiàn)在完成時(shí)的被動(dòng)語態(tài)為：have been done。故空處應(yīng)填過去分詞。故選G。

【5】

考查句意：在繞地球旋轉(zhuǎn)時(shí)發(fā)送信號(hào)的衛(wèi)星已經(jīng)變得很常見了。空處作become的表語，應(yīng)用形容詞。表示“常見的”，應(yīng)用commonplace。故選A。

【6】

考查形容詞。句意：現(xiàn)在，一切似乎都是可行的。該段前半部分提到：如果三十年前，一位科學(xué)家敦促我們向外太空發(fā)送信息以希望得到答案，他會(huì)被認(rèn)為是不負(fù)責(zé)任或瘋了。而衛(wèi)星的存在使得這一切變得可行。故該句表達(dá)意思應(yīng)為：現(xiàn)在，一切似乎都是可行的�？仗幾�seem的表語，應(yīng)用形容詞。表示“可行的”，應(yīng)用feasible。故選F。

【7】

考查動(dòng)詞。句意：我們必須滿足于我們自己的、經(jīng)常旅行的世界。前一句提到：進(jìn)入太空旅行很好，但它們卻不是為我們準(zhǔn)備的。由此推知，該句想表達(dá)的意思為：我們必須滿足于我們自己的、經(jīng)常旅行的世界。must是情態(tài)動(dòng)詞，后面接動(dòng)詞原形。表示“滿意，滿足”，應(yīng)用content。故選B。

【8】

考查動(dòng)詞。句意：那個(gè)爬上俯瞰他家鄉(xiāng)的小山丘的小男孩，甚至是那個(gè)試圖攀登卻失敗的小男孩，都有著引領(lǐng)希拉里攀登珠穆朗瑪峰的同樣的精神。表示“俯瞰”， 應(yīng)用動(dòng)詞overlook。that ___8___ his town是定語從句，修飾the small hill，空處在從句中作謂語，根據(jù)主謂一致原則，謂語動(dòng)詞應(yīng)用第三人稱單數(shù)形式。故選I。

【9】

考查動(dòng)詞。句意：只要有人愿意重新發(fā)現(xiàn)那些著名的地方，總有一天，會(huì)有人踏上那遙遠(yuǎn)而無跡可循的海岸。be willing to do是固定句式，空處應(yīng)用動(dòng)詞原形。表示“重新發(fā)現(xiàn)”，應(yīng)用rediscover。故選J。

【10】

考查形容詞。句意：只要有人愿意重新發(fā)現(xiàn)那些著名的地方，總有一天，會(huì)有人踏上那遙遠(yuǎn)、無足跡的海岸�？仗幒�remote并列，修飾名詞shores，應(yīng)用形容詞。表達(dá)“沒有足跡的”，應(yīng)用trackless。故選K。