1. Her face gave her ______ when she told a lie.
A. off
B. up
C. out
D. away
2. Mary became______ homesick and critical of the United States, so she fled from her home in west Bloomfield to her hometown in Austria.
A. completely
B. sincerely
C. absolutely
D. increasingly
【长难句英译汉】
1. If the small hot spots look as expected, that will be a triumph for yet another scientific idea, a refinement of the Big Bang called the inflationary universe theory.
1.D
【句意】当她撒谎时,她的面容就暴露了她在撒谎。
【解析】词组辨析。give off“发出(光等);长出(枝、杈等)”;give up“放弃;交出”;give out“分发;宣布”;give away“丧失(优势);暴露;赠送”。由关键信息“Her face她的面容”与“when she told a lie当她撒谎时”的对应知“暴露”符合语境,由此知D项正确。
2.D
【句意】玛丽变得越来越想家,对美国也越来越感到不满,因此她从西布卢姆菲尔德的家逃到了奥地利的家乡。
【解析】副词词义辨析。completely“完全地;彻底地;完整地”;sincerely“真诚地;由衷地”;absolutely“绝对地;完全地”;increasingly“越来越;渐增地”。由关键词“homesick”知“越来越”符合,由此知D项正确。
【长难句英译汉参考答案】
1、【参考译文】如果这些小热点看上去像预期的那样,那么这对另一种科学观点而言将是一种胜利,而该科学观点属于对被称为宇宙膨胀说的大爆炸论的完善。