1. There seems to be no ________ the reading public’s thirst for books about the 1960’s: indeed, the normal level of interest has ______ recently be cause of a spate of popular television documentaries.
A. quenching … moderated
B. whetting … mushroomed
C. curtailing … warned
D. ignoring … transformed
E. slaking … increased
2.Despite a tendency to be overtly _______, the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks the imagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.
A. diverting
B. emotional
C. didactic
D. romantic
E. whimsical
3. One of the first ______ of reduced burning in Amazon rain forests was the chestnut industry: smoke tends to drive out the insect that, by pollinating chestnut tree, allow chestnuts to develop.
A. reformers
B. discoveries
C. casualties
D. critics
E. beneficiaries
解析：
1、第一空無(wú)法輕松判斷，第二空是現(xiàn)在完成時(shí)并且出現(xiàn)了recently(重要的時(shí)間對(duì)比特征詞，最近發(fā)生的動(dòng)作一定是與以前相反)，前面無(wú)論是否出現(xiàn)about the 1960’s也應(yīng)該知道一般現(xiàn)在時(shí)There seems to be表示一般慣常狀態(tài)，現(xiàn)在完成時(shí)+ recently表示最近發(fā)生的動(dòng)作，是對(duì)過(guò)去或者一般狀態(tài)的改變，所以“no+第一空”應(yīng)該與第二空相反(題感好的同學(xué)應(yīng)該能夠馬上覺(jué)察到the reading public’s thirst與the normal level of interest是同義重復(fù)，尤其是thirst 與interest很明顯)，以前thirst沒(méi)有什么和現(xiàn)在interest有什么，正好與時(shí)間相反一致，兩空填同義詞即可，只有C。注意 moderate不表示quenching熄滅。
注意時(shí)間相反題型的特點(diǎn)：1、時(shí)間相反一切相反。2、總是后者否定前者。3、現(xiàn)在否定過(guò)去，將來(lái)否定現(xiàn)在，更遠(yuǎn)的將來(lái)否定較近的將來(lái)。參考譯文：看起來(lái)20世紀(jì)60年代閱讀人群對(duì)書籍的渴望并沒(méi)有減少;事實(shí)上，興趣的正常標(biāo)準(zhǔn)只是最近下降了，因?yàn)槿藗兛释ㄋ椎碾娨曃墨I(xiàn)片。
2、簡(jiǎn)單的轉(zhuǎn)折題�？崭裼蓅parks the imagination and provides lively entertainment取反決定，要想不幻想不生動(dòng)不娛樂(lè)，只有C(didactic說(shuō)教的)啦。
參考譯文：盡管趨勢(shì)是明顯地說(shuō)教，但是中世紀(jì)的詩(shī)歌經(jīng)常激發(fā)(人們)想象力和提供以生動(dòng)的樂(lè)趣以及虔誠(chéng)的感情。
3、冒號(hào)表示同義重復(fù)，后面顯然對(duì)煙是負(fù)評(píng)價(jià)，所以前面說(shuō)減少燃燒也就是減少煙顯然是好的情況，所以空格填正評(píng)價(jià)詞，一眼看出E最合適。閱讀中注意一般不去看in后面的東西，否則你很可能會(huì)粗略讀后把“在亞馬遜雨林中減少焚燒”理解成“減少燃燒亞馬遜雨林”。
參考譯文：在亞馬遜雨林中減少焚燒的直接受益者之一是栗子工業(yè)：煙會(huì)驅(qū)除昆蟲(chóng)，而昆蟲(chóng)卻通過(guò)給栗子樹(shù)授粉而使栗子得以生長(zhǎng)發(fā)育。