排除题干中的冗余信息

    这些冗余信息包括插入语、定语从句、伴随状语等：

    1. John plays football ___, if not better than, David.

    A. as well B. as well as C. so well D. so well as

    解析：若能排除题干中的插入语If not better than 此题难度则大大降低，该题考查副词的比较等级的用法，as well as 这里意为“和......一样好”。答案是B。

    2. Is this the girl ___you think is kind and honest?

    A. which B. who C. whom D. of whom

    解析：若能排除题干中的插入语you think，便会发现定语从句缺少主语。而且指人，应用关系代词who，因此答案为B。

    3. Hardly had all the points that the teacher taught ____down when the bell rang.

    A. to taken B. taking C. taken D. been taken

    解析：此题句子结构复杂，难度颇大，里边包含hardly...when...句型，表示“一……就……”。若能识别出定语从句that the teacher taught ，则会发现其余部分是被动语态，答案为D。该句意为：我刚抄写完老师教的知识点就下课了。

   4. Mr. Green together with his wife and children ___to Egypt by air for the ten –day holiday.

    A. go B. have gone C. is going D. are going

    解析：题干中together with his wife and children 是伴随状语而不是并列主语。这样主语只有Mr. Green，据此判断谓语动词应用单数形式，只有C项符合乎要求。因此答案是C。

    5. We didn’t plan our art exhibition like that but it ____very well.

    A. worked out B. tired out C. went on D. carried on

    解析：本题中的tired out 是“精疲力竭”；went on 是“继续进行”；carried on是“进行下去”。通过上文“并没计划着像那样”，说明这一活动已结束，而从上面已知的B/C/D都无法表达这一语义，我们熟知work out 有“算出、解决”的意思，进一步延伸就是“结果”，所以选A。

    6. It’s generally believed that teaching is ___it is a science.

    A. an art much as B. much an art as

    C. as an art much as D. as much an art as

    解析：本题考查的是as...as 结构中的语序，所以A、B都不合适。因为第一个as 是副词，所以它不能直接修饰名词结构，它要求把这一结构中的形容词提到冠词之前，故本题选D。

    评注：为了培养学生们的探索精神，以及在阅读中面对未知单词有良好的心理素质，命题人有意设计一个我们十分陌生的表达方式。我们可以依据我们所知道的、熟知的条件把它放在新的语境中，如果都不合适，那麽不熟悉的就可能是我们要选择的。