Question

If you’re in Florence, Italy and see a man on a ladder ________ the dust off statues and buildings, don’t worry. It’s just Alessandro Ricci ________ material for his famous smog painting.

A．wipe; accumulating

B．to wipe; to accumulate

C．wiping; gathering

D．wipes; to gather

Answer 1

C

試題分析：考查非謂語動詞的用法：句意：如果你在意大利的佛羅倫薩看見一個人在梯子上正擦去雕像和大樓的灰塵，不要擔(dān)心這只是亞歷桑德羅·里奇為他著名的煙霧繪畫收集材料。第一空填wiping，使用see sb doing“看見某人正在做”，第二空填gathering“收集，聚集”，是現(xiàn)在分詞做定語，accumulate是“累積”，選C。