1. The town was flooded when the river burst its banks. To make it worse, the storm ______ outside.
A. raided
B. ragged
C. raged
D. reaped
2. Stephen Jay Gould, a famous evolutionary biologist and ______ author who influenced his field for decades, died Monday.
A. sinister
B. sham
C. prolific
D. prospective
【长难句英译汉】
1. The food supply will not increase nearly enough to match this, which means that we are heading into a crisis in the matter of producing and marketing food.
1.C
【句意】河流决堤后城镇就被淹没了。更糟的是，暴风雨还在外面肆掠。
【解析】动词词义辨析。raid“突袭;突然搜查(多指警察采取的行动)”;rag(其动词过去式为ragged)“嘲笑;捉弄”;rage“肆掠;发怒”;reap“收获;收割(庄稼)”。由句中关键词“The town was flooded when the river burst its banks.”与“storm暴风雨”的对应知“肆掠”符合语境，故C项正确。
2.C
【句意】影响自己所从事的领域几十年的著名进化生物学家、多产的作家斯蒂芬•杰•
尔德在周一过世了。
【解析】形容词词义辨析。sinister“邪恶的;险恶的;不祥的”;sham“虚假的;假装的”;prolific“多产的;富饶的”;prospective“即将发生的;预期的;有望的;可能的”。由句中关键词“author作家”与“who influenced his field for decades影响自己所从事的领域几十年”的对应可知“多产的”符合语境，由此知C项正确。
【长难句英译汉参考答案】
1、【参考译文】粮食供应量的增加将远远赶不上人口的增长，而这意味着我们在粮食的生产和购销方面正陷入危机。