What is currently (i) ______ civil engineers is not so much a predicted increase in annual precipitation as the likelihood that many storms will come in (ii) ______, thereby making flooding in lower lying riparian regions (iii) ______.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
(A) worrying
(D)more predictable patterns
(G) far more likely
(B) comforting
(E) tighter succession
(H) somewhat infrequent
(C) unimportant to
(F) greater isolation
(I) all but impossible
【答案】
AEG
【单词】
far more likely很有可能
succession:a series of people or thing that come one after the other.
【考点】
not so much A as B(与其说A还不如说B;相当于rather than);另外相关的就是not as…as..; 这些句式很常见,感觉也很难;陈圣元题目中section 18 第三题以及section27第四题有详细的解释as…as的考点。
【争议】
Null
【思路】
首先not so much A as B;A是一个增长;那么B应该比他更强烈;所以第二空选E;由于这个关系,导致后面的结果,在low的地方发生洪水的概率应该就增加了,所以选likely;低洼地区发生洪水这件事,让engineers怎么样?第一空答案就很明显了。