首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
It has been a hundred years since the last big one in California, the 1906 San Francisco earth quake, which helped give (1)_____
It has been a hundred years since the last big one in California, the 1906 San Francisco earth quake, which helped give (1)_____
admin
2010-02-22
75
问题
It has been a hundred years since the last big one in California, the 1906 San Francisco earth quake, which helped give (1)_____ to modem earthquake science. A century later, we have a highly successful (2)_____, called plate tectonics, that explains why 1906-type earthquakes happen—along with why continents drift, mountains rise, and volcanoes (3)_____ the Pacific Rim. Plate tectonics may be one of the (4)_____ triumphs of the human mind, geology’s (5)_____ to biology’s theory of evolution. And yet scientists still can’t say when an earthquake will happen. They can’t even come (6)_____.
What scientists can do right now is make good maps of fault zones and (7)_____ out which ones are probably due (8)_____ a rupture. And they can make forecasts. A forecast might say that, over a certain number of years, there is a certain (9)_____ of a certain magnitude earthquake in a (10)_____ spot. And that you should fix your house to its foundation and glue the water heater to the wall.
Turning forecasts into predictions—"a magnitude 7 earthquake is (11)_____ here three days from now"—may be impossible, but scientists are doing everything they can to solve the (12)_____ of earth quakes. They break rocks in laboratories, studying how stone (13)_____ under stress. They hike (14)_____ ghost forests where dead trees (15)_____ of long-ago tsunamis. They make maps of unsecured, balanced rocks to see where the ground has (16)_____ in the past and how hard. They dig ditches across faults, searching for the active trace. They have wired up fault zones with so many sensors it is (17)_____ the Earth is a patient (18)_____ intensive care.
(19)_____, we tell ourselves—trying hard to be persuasive—there must be some way to (20)_____ order and criterion on all that untrustworthy ground.
选项
A、with
B、in
C、at
D、over
答案
B
解析
固定搭配题。in care为固定短语,意为"被照顾的,受关注的",本句中,该介词短语修饰a patient,意指"接受精心照料的病人"。with,at,over三个介词均无此用法。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/i144777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Brandsarebasicallyapromise.Theytellconsumerswhatqualitytoexpectfroma【C1】________andshowoffitspersonality.Firms
Oldpeoplearealwayssayingthattheyoungarenotwhattheywere.Thesame【C1】________ismadefromgenerationtogenerationan
Oldpeoplearealwayssayingthattheyoungarenotwhattheywere.Thesame【C1】________ismadefromgenerationtogenerationan
Couldyoursmartphonepreventacarfromhittingyou?GeneralMotorsandotherresearchersthinkthat’sapossibility【C1】_______
Thenewsaboutvitaminskeepsgettingworse.Manystudiespublishedinthelastfewyearsshowsthatavarietyofpopularsupple
Thenewsaboutvitaminskeepsgettingworse.Manystudiespublishedinthelastfewyearsshowsthatavarietyofpopularsupple
Insomeplaces,ithashelpedcurbcorruption,encouragedmoregirlstogotoschoolandenabledcitizenstomonitorelectionvi
Asmanycountriesemergefromlockdowns,researchersarepreparedtousegenomesequencingtoavoidanexpectedsecondwaveofC
Fromthepassagewelearnthat______.Accordingtothepassage,whichofthefollowingisTRUE?
随机试题
骨折后,反复整复的最严重的并发症是()
下列除哪项外,均是缺铁性贫血脾气虚弱证的临床表现
某学龄儿童采用0.05%NAF、漱口水预防龋齿,其使用方法应为
自重内力计算必须考虑施工(形式)过程的有( )。
某产品本月成本资料如下:(1)单位产品标准成本:本企业该产品预算产量下标准工时为1000小时。(2)本月实际产量20件,实际耗用材料900千克,实际人工工时950小时,实际成本如下:要求:计算变动制造费用耗费差异和效率差异。
下列各项中,属于会计估计变更的有()。下列关于A公司就其会计政策和会计估计变更后有关所得税会计处理的表述中,正确的有()。
地接社没有安排旅游团人住协议书规定星级的酒店,游客不满,地陪应及时采取有效措施消除游客不满,即采用()。
Imagineyou’reatapartyfullofstrangers.You’renervous.Whoarethesepeople?Howdoyoustartaconversation?Fortunately,
()收益人()到期()外汇风险()国际交易
25yearsago,RayAnderson,asingleparentwithaone-year-oldson【B1】______aterribleaccidentwhichtookplacewhenthedrive
最新回复
(
0
)