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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