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Read the following article and choose the best word for each space. For questions 26~45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on you
Read the following article and choose the best word for each space. For questions 26~45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on you
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Read the following article and choose the best word for each space.
For questions 26~45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on your Answer Sheet.
As Oil Declines, So Does America
More than 100 years ago, America’s first great economic【C1】______abroad was spearheaded by its giant oil companies, notably John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company. These companies【C2】______powerful beachheads in Mexico and Venezuela, and later in parts of Asia, North Africa and, of course, the Middle East.【C3】______they became ever more dependent on the extraction of oil in distant lands, American foreign policy began to be【C4】______around acquiring and protecting US oil concessions in major【C5】______areas.
With World War II and the Cold War, oil and US national【C6】______became thoroughly intertwined. After all, the United States had prevailed over the Axis【C7】______in significant part because it possessed vast reserves of domestic petroleum, while Germany and Japan lacked them, depriving their forces of vital【C8】______supplies in the final years of the war. As it happened, though, the United States was using up its domestic【C9】______so rapidly that, even before World War II was over, Washington【C10】______its attention to finding new overseas sources of crude oil that could be【C11】______under American control. As a result, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and a host of other Middle Eastern producers would become key US oil suppliers【C12】______American military protection.
There can be【C13】______question that, for a time, American domination of world oil production would prove a potent source of economic and military power.【C14】______World War II, an abundance of cheap US oil spurred the【C15】______of vast new industries, including civilian air travel, highway construction, a【C16】______of suburban housing and commerce, mechanized agriculture, and plastics.
Abundant oil also underlay the global expansion of the country’s【C17】______power, as the Pentagon defended the world while becoming one of the planet’s great oil guzzlers. Its global dominion came to【C18】______on an ever-expanding array of oil-powered ships, planes, tanks and missiles. As long as the Middle East — and especially Saudi Arabia — served essentially as an American gas station and oil【C19】______a cheap commodity, all this was relatively painless. That is why the use of military force has been a【C20】______of American foreign policy since 1987.
【C19】
选项
A、stayed
B、kept
C、remained
D、contained
答案
C
解析
“remain”和“stay”都指“继续停留”或“继续保持某种状态、关系或行动。”remain常可与stay互换。
1.表示“继续待在某处”时,应该用不及物动词remain或stay,例如:Stay indoors for a few days until you recover from your cold.及Heremained in his seat after all the other students had gone home.
2.表示“继续保持或处于原来的状态”时,可用remain或stay,例如:Three of them remained single.Shops should remain open till later in the evening.及The door stayed closed.Butthe police themselves prefer to stay unarmed.
3.表示“暂住、短期停留”时,只能用不及物动词stay。例如:My mother-in-law stayed with us this week when shevisited us.
4.表示“残留、剩下”时,只能用不及物动词remain.例如:Not muchof the house remained after the fire.及Of the seven brothers,only four now remain;the rest are dead.
5 remain强调“继续停留于一处或保持原状态、情况性质而不改变”,stay强调“某人(物)继续留在原地而不离开”,如:This place remainscool all summer.这个地方整个夏天都凉爽。及He stayed to see the end of thegame.Keep相当于be动词,后跟形容词,表示维持一种状态,比如:keep calm;keep还可以跟名词,表示保留收藏什么东西,比如:keep this book;而stay后跟副词、介词短语的情况比较多。比如stay here,stay overnight.此题选“remained”,是指如果美国的石油继续保持便宜的状态的话。
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