1. Two years after she was chosen president of the Texas State Senate, ---successfully for a seat in the United States Congress.
(A) Barbara Jordan's campaign being
(B) Barbara Jordan campaigned
(C) Campaigning for Barbara Jordan
(D) Barbara Jordan campaigning
2. The values of a people, their customs, and their perceptions of the world ---their language.
(A) are influenced
(B) be influenced
(C) influencing
(D) influence
3. Over a very large number of trials, the probability of an event's ---is equal to the probability that it will not occur.
(A) occurs
(B) will occur
(C) can occur
(D) occurring
4. ---fashioned from a wick floating in a bowl of oil functioned according to the principle of capillary action.
(A) All lamps early
(B) Lamps all early
(C) All early lamps
(D) Early all lamps
5. Annie Jump Cannon, ---discovered so many stars that she was called "the census taker of the sky."
(A) a leading astronomer who
(B) who, as a leading astronomer,
(C) was a leading astronomer
(D) a leading astronomer,
参考答案：
CBAAB
6. Early United States revolutionaries shaped an orderly processes by which frontier territories would move from colonial status to statehood.
答案：A
分析及考点：单复数混用。前面有单数标志词an，所以processes改成process
参考译文：早期美国革命形成了一个有序的操作过程，使得边境领土从殖民地状态向过于状态转移。
7. In music， cacophony is discordant sounds， false harmony， or noisily and inharmonious combinations of sounds.
答案：C
分析及考点：词性误用。修饰名词用形容词。And连接对称结构，所以改成noisy.
参考译文：在音乐中，杂音是那些不协调的声音，错误的和弦，或者吵闹和不协调的声音的混合。
8. Small to medium-sized marsh birds similar in body shape by cranes， rails are found throughout the world， except in the polar regions.
答案：B
分析及考点：固定搭配，介词误用。Similar后面跟to连用，所以把by改成to
参考译文：体型上跟鹤相似的、小到跟中等体型的沼泽鸟一样，秧鸡可以在除了极点地区的整个世界范围内被找到。
9. The completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869 gave California its first direct rail connection with a rest of the United States.
答案：D
分析及考点：冠词误用。表示……的剩余部分，固定表述为the rest of
参考译文：在1869年第一条横贯大陆铁路的完工，成为了加州第一条直接和美国其他部分连接的铁路
10. Whilhelmina Cole Holladay she was the founder and first president of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington， DC.
答案：A
分析及考点：主语重复。已经有确切主语Whilhelmina Cole Holladay，代词she就多余了，去掉既可。
参考译文：Whilhelmina Cole Holladay是位于华盛顿的女性国家博物馆的创建者和第一任馆长。
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