公共英语考试

解析：Read the following text.Choose

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【单选题】
Read the following text.Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and markA,B,C、or
D、on ANSWER SHEET 1.

D、vAlign=top width="100%">High oil prices have not yet produced an economic shock among consuming countries, but further rises, especially sharp {{U}} (21) {{/U}} , would undoubtedly hurt the world economy, and {{U}} (22) {{/U}} would inevitably harm producers, too.Beyond this obvious point, {{U}} (23) {{/U}}, higher prices could even do harm to both oil firms and producers.
Big oil firms {{U}} (24) {{/U}} rolling in money today, but that disguises the fact that their longer-term prospects are {{U}} (25) {{/U}}Behind the reserves-accounting scandal at RoyalDutch/ Shell {{U}} (26) {{/U}} a problem bedeviling all of the majors: replacing their dwindling reserves. {{U}} (27) {{/U}} existing fields inAlaska and the North Sea are rapidly declining; OPEC、countries and Russia are {{U}} (28) {{/U}} them out. {{U}} (29) {{/U}} they are to survive in the long term, the big oil firms must embrace other sources of energy {{U}} (30) {{/U}} oil.
{{U}} (31) {{/U}} it is to believe, higher oil prices could be bad news for producing countries {{U}} (32) {{/U}} Political leaders in Russia, Venezuela and other oil-rich countries are bending laws to crack {{U}} (33) {{/U}} on foreign firms and to strengthen their grip on oil {{U}} (34) {{/U}} through state-run firms. This may be convenient for the political leaders themselves.Alas, it is {{U}} (35) {{/U}} to do much for their countrymen. For years corruption and inefficiency {{U}} (36) {{/U}} the typical results of government control of oil resources.
Producing countries should {{U}} (37) {{/U}} embrace open markets. {{U}} (38) {{/U}} one thing, shutting out foreign investment will only hurt their own oil output by {{U}} (39) {{/U}} the sharpest managers and latest technologies. For another, economic liberalization (including reform of bloated welfare states) would help OPEC、countries {{U}} (40) {{/U}} their economies—as the NAFTA、trade deal has done for oil-rich Mexico—and so prepare them for the day when the black gold starts running out.
A．For hard
B．As hard
C．Very hard

D、As hard as

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[考点解析] 本题的考点为连词的词义辨析。As hard as it is to believe尽管很难令人相信。其他选项[A] For hard，[B] As hard，[C] Very hard都不能与下面的句子形成通顺的连接。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>

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