2015同等学力考试：英语冲刺练习题(18)

　　In Switzerland, six miles west of Geneva, lies a collection of laboratories and buildings, and most curious of all, a circular mound of (1) more than 650 feet in diameter. This cluster has unique importance. It is Europe’s (2)______ atomic city dedicated to investigating the atom for peaceful purposes .

　　The strange buildings(3) the European Council for Nuclear Research, more popularly known, from their French initials as CERN. The council was (4) when a handful of statesmen and scientific experts met in Paris in 1950. Their aim was to “(5) an organization providing for cooperation among European states in nuclear research of a pure scientific and fundamental character.’’

　　The CERN agreement was signed in 1953, and work on the atomic city began in 1954. Today CERN’s (6) are among most modern and the most diversified in the world. Impressive as the scientific aspect may be, the real significance of CERN may lie(7) the thousand people –scientists, lab workers, and administrative group drawn from the fourteen member nations(8) populate it. British engineers work(9) with Swiss electricians and Yugoslav nuclear physicists . The official languages are French and English, with German an unofficial third. But CERN is (10) tower of Babel—the language of science is universal and all-embracing.

　　1. A. earth B. dirt

　　C. mud D. soil

　　2. A. one and best B. one and only

　　C. one and an D. one and mere

　　3. A. work with B. belong to

　　C. consist of D. are located

　　4. A. come into being B. constructed

　　C. erected D. born

　　5. A. found B. put up

　　C. build D. establish

　　6. A . resources B. accommodations

　　C. facilities D. funds

　　7. A. in B. with

　　C. on D. at

　　8. A. whoever B. who

　　C. which D. whatever

　　9. A. side by side B. back to back

　　C. heart to heart D. face to face

　　10. A. the B. a

　　C. not D. no

　　答案与解析：

　　1.A dirt的意思是“污物，灰尘”。mud意为“污泥，泥浆”。soil含有“土壤;土地”之意。earth有“土，泥土”之意。根据上下文和四个选项的意思，便可知earth是正确的选择。A mound of earth表示“土堆”之意。

　　2.B 根据上下文和四个选项的意思，可知one and only“唯一的，单独一个的”是正确的选择。

　　3.B belong to意为“属于”，正合题意。而work with则是“为……工作”之意，consist + of意为“由……组成”。二者用在此处均不合适。

　　4.D 从句子的意思看，应选D。born“产生”是bear的过去分词，“been born”表示“产生，出生，诞生”之意。而其他三个选项用在这里均不合适。

　　5.D 从句子的意思看，应选D。establish有“建立;建造”之意，指建立某一机构。而found一般多指在某个基础上创建的新事物;put up意为“建造，搭起”，后接建筑物和具体事物。build主要是指竖立有一定高度或立体的建筑物。

　　6.C facility含有“设备，设施”之意。常用作多数。指可以使人工作起来更加便利的环境、设备及东西。accommodations意为“食宿及其他服务”。resource常用复数，意为“资源”。fund的意思是“基金”，用作复数时，表示“现款”。根据上下文及四个选项的意思，facilities是正确的选择。

　　7.B lie with意为“是……的职权，取决于”，正合题意。而lie in是“在于”之意;lie on意为“是……的责任”，二者在此处均不合适。另外lie不能与at搭配。

　　8.B 根据句子结构，填空部分应填入关系代词，引导从句，填空部分后面的词populate意为“构成……人口”。故选择who是正确的。

　　9.A 根据句子的意思，答案应选side by side(肩并肩，一起)。而face to face(面对面地)和heart to heart(真诚地，坦率地)都不是句子所需要的选择。另外back to back无此搭配。

　　10.D 从本句及上下文的语境看，可确定选D。