2010年3月公共英语三级考前每日一练(5)PETS考试

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　　Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.
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　　For the __________26 month, mysterious falls of large chunks of ice (冰雹) ________27 rained down on Spain and Italy. Juana Sanchez, a 70-year-old woman in Almeria, southern Spain, was knocked ________ 28 when she was struck on the shoulder by a falling ice chunk ________29 she walked in a street ________30 her home. On January 12, just about 200 miles away in Seville, a man narrowly ________ 31 serious injury when a 9-pound ball of ice ________ 32 into his car. ________33 the evening of January 27 priests at the Salesian monastery in LAquila, Italy were startled by a loud crash. _______ 34 the noise, they discovered a large chunk of ice on their yard, _______ 35 intact. Upon examination, the block of ice _______ 36 in at 2 kilograms and no source _______37 . On the same day, about 100 miles northeast in Ancona, Italy, the local officials were called to investigate the report of a man _______38 was struck _______ 39 the head by a 1 kilogram chunk of ice that apparently fell from the sky.
　　Spain and Italy arent the only European _______40 getting attacked by huge ice blocks in January. On January 2 in Surrey, England (southwest of London), an East Indian man was walking through Newton Athletic Park when he _______ 41 a strange whistling sound overhead. Seconds _______ 42, a large hunk of ice fell out of the clear blue sky and pounded into the soft ground, shattering over a 50-foot-wide area. The ice dug a hole of a foot deep and a foot in diameter. Even the shattered remains of the mystery ice were as large as tennis balls and were described as opaque _______43 no unusual color or smell.
　　Although eyewitnesses to the phenomenon report that they did not see anything in the sky that could account _______ 44 the ice, scientists had to come up with a rationalization. Professor Jesus Martinez Frias, the geologist investigating the ice falls in Spain, told BBC News that the ice pieces had probably been _______ 45 through sudden temperature 0drops in the stratosphere. This was the most likely explanation, he said, for the "very unusual" phenomenon.
　　26. [ A ] last
　　[ B ] past
　　[ C ] passed
　　[ D ] early
　　27. [A] was
　　[B] were
　　[C] has
　　[D] have
　　28. [ A ] conscious
　　[ B ] consciously
　　[ C ] unconscious
　　[ D ] unconsciously
　　29. [ A ] before
　　[ B ] after
　　[ C ] as
　　[ D ] since
　　30. [ A ] at
　　[ B ] in
　　[ C ] along
　　[ D ] near
　　31. [A] escaped
　　[B] went
　　[C] attacked
　　[D] got
　　32. [ A ] smashed
　　[ B ] broke
　　[ C ] roiled
　　[ D ] fell
　　33. [ A ] In
　　[ B ] At
　　[ C ] During
　　[ D ] On
　　34. [ A ] Investigate
　　[ B ] Investigating
　　[ C ] Investigated
　　[ D ] Investigation
　　35. [ A ] large
　　[ B ] largely
　　[ C ] big
　　[ D ] huge
　　36. [ A ] weighs
　　[ B ] weighed
　　[ C ] has weighed
　　[ D ] had weighed
　　37. [ A ] determined
　　[ B ] has determined
　　[ C ] was determined
　　[ D ] had been determined
　　38. [ A ] which
　　[ B ] who
　　[ C ] whom
　　[ D ] what
　　39. [A] in
　　B] at
　　[C] from
　　[D] on
　　40. [ A ] country
　　[ B ] nation
　　[ C ] countries
　　[ D ] place
　　41. [ A ] saw
　　[ B ] found
　　[ C ] heard
　　[ D ] witnessed
　　42. [ A ] ago
　　[ B ] before
　　[ C ] after
　　[ D ] later
　　43. [ A ] in
　　[ B ] with
　　[ C ] has
　　[ D ] have
　　44. [A] /
　　[B] for
　　[C] with
　　[D] on
　　45. [ A ] formed
　　[ B ] caused
　　[ C ] made
　　 [ D ] fallen来源：考试大
　　参考译文
　　在过去的一个月里，西班牙和意大利都不可思议地下起了大块大块的冰雹。胡安娜