201. What makes the space shuttle _____ is that it takes off like a rocket but lands like an airplane.

A. exceptional　　 B. strange　　 C. unique　　 D. rare

[答案]C. unique.

[注釋]unique(=being the only one of its type)同類事物中獨(dú)一無二的。如：This stamp is unique; all others like it have been lost or destroyed.

200. Alice was very sorry to hear that her grandmother had _____ two days before.

　 A. broken off　　 B. passed off

　 C. given away　　 D. passed away

[答案]D. passed away.

[注釋]pass away(=die)死亡，是“死亡”的委婉語。

break off中斷；give away給掉；泄露；pass off中止，中斷。

199. Comrade Li Dazhao, _____ librarian of Beijing University, was one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party.

A. sometimes B. sometime　 C. some time　 D. some times

[答案]B. sometime.

[注釋]sometime(=former)過去的，以前的：Alice Brown, a sometime pupil of our school, is now a teacher there.

198. The speaker _____ several other subjects in the course of his talk but mostly kept himself to the main topic.

　 A. held on　　 B. worked out　　 C. touched on　　 D. kept out of

[答案]C. touched on

[注釋]touch on簡單談到。參閱Ⅲ.178注釋。

197. At first the institute refused to purchase the telescope, but this decision was _____ revised.

　 A. occasionally　　 B. consequently

　 C. successively　　 D. subsequently.

[答案]D. subsequently.

[注釋]subsequently(=afterwards)隨后，其后。

196. No one imagined that the apparently _____ businessman was really a criminal.

A. respectful B. respectable C. respective　 D. respected

[答案]B. respectable.

[注釋]respectable受到尊敬的。詳見117.注釋。

本題譯文：沒有一個(gè)想象到這個(gè)看起來令人尊敬的商人竟是一個(gè)罪犯。

195. We won't know whether it will be successful. We won't know whether there will be good _____.

　 A. ends　　 B. results　　 C. effects　　 D. causes

[答案]B. results.

[注釋]result意為“由某種活動(dòng)或某種原因所產(chǎn)生的結(jié)果”，如：obtain(=get, attain, gain win, secure)good results(取得好結(jié)果)，publish the results(公布成績)。

194. The government placed _____ on the numbers of foreign cars that could be imported.

　 A. limitations　　 B. restraint

　 C. requirements　　 D. restrictions

[答案]D. restrictions.

[注釋]restriction(可數(shù)名稱)限制性規(guī)定：It is a club with rigid restrictions on its membership.Limitation局限性，不足之處，不利之處(可數(shù))：1)I know my limitations.(我了解我的不足之處。) 2)Every from of art has its limitations.(每種藝術(shù)形式都有其局限性。)

193. He ate what he could, and gave the _____ of the food to the birds.

A. remain　　 B. uneaten　　 C. rest　　 D. part

[答案]C. reset

[注釋]the rest (of)剩余部分，其余。remain作“剩余物”(=what is left)解時(shí)常用復(fù)數(shù)形式，如：the remains of a meal(殘羹剩飯)。[ALI]《新英漢辭典》認(rèn)為也可以用單數(shù)，可作參考。

192. Mary had taken _____ to see that her guests had everything that they could possibly want.

　 A. efforts　　 B. pains　　 C. attempts　　 D. endeavors

[答案]B. pains.　　　　　　　　　　　　

[注釋]take pains to do sth.下苦功夫做某事：I'm grateful because you have taken pains to show me how to do the work.