優選考古題分析

1.scinetists who research a disease are always in great___ of contracting. The disease.
(a) peril (b)rescue (c)chronicle (d)caveat

正解：(a)

解析：研究疾病的科學家時常處在感染疾病的風險中。
(a)peril (n.) 危險 perilous(adj.) e.g a perilous journey　(b)救援　(c)編年史　(d)警告
to contract (a disease) 染上某病 e.g Three people contracted a killer vius.

資料來源：高點英文歷屆試題詳解

2.which of the following sentence is correct?　 (101 中正大學 )
(a)He would solve the problem if he know how.
(b)Who knows what may have happened if he accepted the job in South America last year.
(c)Hardly had he finished working, when his colleagues arrived.
(d)No sooner has he returned home than it began to snow.

正解：(c)

(a)應改為：He would have solved the problem if he had know.
(b)應改為：who knows what might have happened if he accepted the job in south America Last year.
(d) 應改為：no sooner had he returned home than it began to snow.

◎ 注意：
以 Hardly had, barely had,no sooner had 等開頭的句型原則相似 , 表示兩件事接連快速的發生。
e.g：No sooner had A……than B ( 用簡單過去式 )…..
e.g：Hardly had A…..when B ( 用簡單過去式 )………

資料來源：高點英文歷屆試題詳解