试题题干
Rearrange the following sentences so that they read logically.
Put the corresponding letters in a proper sequence in the boxes provided on the answer sheet. The positions of some sentences have been given.
A. Also, the loss of human life in battle had affected the national psyche (心理): safer
and faster roads were necessary.
B. The peacetime economic development had left the country badly in need of roads to
carry goods between cities and into villages, for the returned soldiers demanded the
modern advantages that they had learned about away from home.
C. During the postwar (战后) period under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a road
building project that would change the country was begun.
D. At the same time, the railroads required full-scale reconstruction.
E. Furthermore, everyone wanted to drive, for there were ample supplies of gasoline,
and the car industry was both ready to hire returning soldiers and willing to take
their money for finished products.
F. The conditions were ripe for the complex project of the national road system.
G. It was a challenging project to connect all major population centers throughout the
forty-eight states
H. The war effort had destroyed their facilities, so that rails, carriages and engines badly
needed expensive repairs.
( )-( )- B -()-H -()- A-()
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试题解析
本题主要考查句子的连贯性。主题是讲述该国家的道路建设的必要性。
首先C句交代了道路建设即将开始,所以应该是首句。
而与此对应的F句说道路系统的条件已经成熟,所以应该是末尾句。
G句介绍项目具有挑战性。
B强调了城市之间的货物沟通的必要性。
D句强调了铁路运输需要改造。
H句强调战争破坏了设施,需要钱。E句强调汽车行业愿意出资雇佣士兵和创造产品。
A句从心理角度强调了更安全和更快的道路是必要的。
BDHA都是在证明道路系统的条件已经成熟。