MBA考试

【单选题】An earthquake hit Kashmir on Oct. 8, 2005. It took some 75000 lives, (1) 130000 and left nearly 3.5 million without food, jobs or homes. (2) overnight, scores of tent villages bloomed (3) the region, tended by international aid organizations, military (4) and aid groups working day and night to shelter the survivors before winter set (5) .
Mercifully, the season was milD、But with the (6) of spring, the refugees will be moved again.Camps that (7) health care, food and shelter for 150000 survivors have begun to close as they were (8) intended to be permanent.
For most of the refugees, the thought of going back brings (9) emotions. The past six months have been difficult. Families of (10) many as 10 people have had to shelter (11) a single tent and share cookstoves and bathing (12) with neighbors. "They are looking forward to the clean water of their rivers," officials say. "They are (13) of free fresh fruit. They want to get back to their herds and start (14) again. "But most will be returning to (15) but heaps of ruins. In many villages, electrical (16) have not been repaired, nor have roads.Aid workers (17) that it will take years to rebuild what the earthquake took (18) .And for the thousands of survivors, the (19) will never be complete.
Yet the survivors have to start somewhere. New homes can be built (20) the stones, bricks and beams of old ones. Spring is coming and it is a good time to start again.

A、AltogetherB、Almost C、Scarcely D、Surely
网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
[解析] 副词辨析。空格后的overnight作副词，表示“一夜间”，应填一个表“几乎”的词来修饰，指“几乎一夜间”，四个选项中只有B项Almost意思相符，为正确答案。A项Altogether意为“完全；总而言之”，C项Scarcely意为“几乎不”，D项Surely意为“确实”，均不符合语境。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>