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In the mid-nineteenth century, work began on a crucial section of the railway line connecting Boston to the Hudson River. The ad
In the mid-nineteenth century, work began on a crucial section of the railway line connecting Boston to the Hudson River. The ad
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In the mid-nineteenth century, work began on a crucial section of the railway line connecting Boston to the Hudson River. The addition would【C1】______from Greenfield, Massachusetts, to Troy, New York, and it required tunnelling【C2】______Hoosac Mountain, a【C3】______impediment, nearly five miles thick, that blocked the【C4】______between the Deerfield Valley and a tributary of the Hudson.
James Hayward, one of New England’s leading railroad engineers, estimated that penetrating the Hoosac would cost,【C5】______, a very manageable two million dollars. The president of Amherst College,【C6】______geologist, said that the mountain was composed of soft rock and【C7】______tunnelling would be fairly easy【C8】______the engineers had breached the surface. "The Hoosac is believed to be the only barrier between Boston and the Pacific," the project’s promoter, Alvah Crocker, 【C9】______
Everyone was wrong. Digging through the Hoosac turned out to be a【C10】______. The project cost more than ten times the budgeted【C11】______If the people involved【C12】______the true nature of the challenges they faced, they would never have funded the Troy-Greenfield railroad.【C13】______, had they not, the factories of northwestern Massachusetts wouldn’t have been able to ship their goods so easily to the expanding West, the【C14】______of freight would have remained stubbornly high, and the state of Massachusetts would have been【C15】______poorer.
【C7】
选项
A、that
B、whether
C、how
D、where
答案
A
解析
本题考查连接词的使用、断句以及对句意的理解。A连词,that在宾语从句中不做成分,只起连接作用,可以省略;B连词,以whether引导的宾语从句,主要用来引导一般疑问句或选择疑问句意思的宾语从句,在从句中做主语,不可省略;C连接副词,how引导表示方式的宾语从句,引导的成分在从句中做主语;D连接副词,where引导表示地点的成分,在宾语从句中做主语。本句与上半句通过“and”连接,表示,Amherst大学的校长认为Hoosac山是由软岩石组成的,并且他还认为,通过这个山打通隧道很容易。
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