单项选择 1. Shelley has worked hard for the examination, so she is sure of passing it at her first ______. A. practice B. risk C. attempt D. art 2. He had ______ to become the first to climb Everest without oxygen tanks and in the end, he made it. A. managed B. attempted C. succeeded D. predicted 3. —How about your trip to Italy? —Oh, ______ the fine weather, we enjoyed ourselves indeed. A. but for B. thanks to C. in spite of D. because of 4. By the end of 2007, about half a million people had flooded into the city, ______ up around 10 percent of its total population. A. make B. made C. making D. to be made 5. He hurried to the station, only ______ that the train had left. A. to find B. finding C. found D. to have found 答案与解析 1. C 句意:谢莉努力准备这次考试,所以她相信这次考试她能一次通过。at one’s first attempt“某人第一次尝试”。 2. B 句意:他试图成为第一个不需要氧气瓶就可以爬上珠穆朗玛峰的人,最后他成功了。此处考查attempt to do sth.“试图做某事”。 |