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。有一種觀點認為，冒險精神已不再具有進取精神，乍一看，這似乎是令人沮喪的事實。文章通過論述，駁斥了這種觀點。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有“未知領土”的巨大空白，也不再隨機猜測遙遠大陸的形狀。空處修飾名詞land-masses，應用形容詞。表示“遙遠的”，應用distant。故選D。

【2】

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

【3】

考查名詞。句意：于是就由我們來填補探險的細節(jié)，而這些探險在過去被認為是不可能的�？仗幾鹘樵~with的賓語，應用名詞。表示“探險”，用名詞expedition。它是可數名詞，空前沒有冠詞，應用復數形式。故選E。

【4】

考查過去分詞。句意：空白已經被填補。結合前一句中的“It was left to us to fill in the details”可知，該句表達的意思是：空白已經被填補。the gaps和fill之間是被動關系，該句應用被動語態(tài)�，F在完成時的被動語態(tài)為：have been done。故空處應填過去分詞。故選G。

【5】

考查句意：在繞地球旋轉時發(fā)送信號的衛(wèi)星已經變得很常見了�？仗幾�become的表語，應用形容詞。表示“常見的”，應用commonplace。故選A。

【6】

考查形容詞。句意：現在，一切似乎都是可行的。該段前半部分提到：如果三十年前，一位科學家敦促我們向外太空發(fā)送信息以希望得到答案，他會被認為是不負責任或瘋了。而衛(wèi)星的存在使得這一切變得可行。故該句表達意思應為：現在，一切似乎都是可行的�？仗幾�seem的表語，應用形容詞。表示“可行的”，應用feasible。故選F。

【7】

考查動詞。句意：我們必須滿足于我們自己的、經常旅行的世界。前一句提到：進入太空旅行很好，但它們卻不是為我們準備的。由此推知，該句想表達的意思為：我們必須滿足于我們自己的、經常旅行的世界。must是情態(tài)動詞，后面接動詞原形。表示“滿意，滿足”，應用content。故選B。

【8】

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

【9】

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

【10】

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