答案解析:
36. 答案:accident
解析:根据冠词an,可以预测此处是个以元音开头的名词,注意双写字母c。
37. 答案:rushed
解析:本篇全文都是用过去时态表达的,因此填词时要注意时态一致。注意过去式、过去分词听不清词尾时要根据语法知识补上。
38. 答案:awe-inspiring
解析:根据并列结构中and前的astonishing可知此处很可能也是个-ing结尾的形容词。注意这个合成词中有连字符;不要漏掉不发音字母e。
39. 答案:creatures
解析:根据其后定语从句中的human beings,可知此处是个复数名词。
40. 答案:understood
解析:根据前面的make themselves可预测此处是个分词或形容词,注意understand的过去分词有两个o。
41. 答案:treated
解析:根据句子结构,此处需要过去时态的谓语动词。此词中的/i:/音是由字母组合ea发出的。
42. 答案:normal
解析:根据语义及系动词be,可知后面应该是个描述“她”的状况的形容词。
43. 答案:suffering
解析:根据前面的was probably可预测此处是个分词或形容词,注意有两个f。
44. 标准答案:But when she gave her address, it was in a town over a thousand miles from the hospital
听音关键:address, a thousand miles from the hospital
答案重构:But her address was in a town more than a thousand miles away from the hospital
画龙点睛:主从复合句的重点在主句信息。可以用turned out to be代替was。
45. 标准答案:Her car had been found with the driver's door open and the engine running
听音关键:car, found, door open, engine running
答案重构:The drive's door of her car had been found open and its engine running
画龙点睛:with+名词+形容词/分词,表伴随状态,应该学会使用。如果改写,必须保证原意不变。
46. 标准答案:but as though a large, circular, white, hot object had burned through it
听音关键:a large circular white hot object, burned
答案重构:but as if a large, round, white, hot object had burnt through it
画龙点睛:as though可换成as if,此处是虚拟语气,要用过去完成时体现出来;burned可换成burnt。