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天津科技大学2005/2006下学期考试卷 考试科目 英语语法 ( B) (考试时间120分钟) Beneath each sentences there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, and D. Choose one word or phrase that correctly completes the sentence. 1. Vitamin, discovered in 1932, _____ first vitamin for which the molecular structure was established. A. the B. was the C. as the D. being the 2. Recent estimates show that ______ more than two million birds-watchers in the United States. A. there are among B. are there the C. there are D. among the Nearly all trees have seeds that fall to the earth, take root, and eventually ________. A. generate new seeds B. new seeds generated C. by generating new seeds D. new seeds generated there An increase in a nation’s money supply, without an accompanying increase in economic activity, ______ result in higher prices. A. tends B. tends the C. tending to D. will tend to Emma Lazarus, a poet and essayist, ______ the sonnet inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. A. who wrote her B. who wrote C. whom she wrote D. wrote Porcupines ______ a dense layer of wool next to their skin. A. grow B. growing C. which grow D. were being grown Benjamin O. Davis. Jr. _______ an assistant secretary of the Department of Transportation in 1971. A. who was appointed B. was the appointment C. was appointed D. whose appointment was Social reformer Jane Adams _____ a prominent role in the formation of the National Progressive Party in 1912. A. playing B. who played C. played D. to play The city of Montreal ______ over 70 square miles. A. covers B. that covers C. covering D. is covered Tropical cyclones _____ much of the rainfall in the Pacific regions. A. causing B. are caused C. have caused D. cause Although she ______ law for only a little over eight years, Florence Allen became in 1922 the first woman to sit on a state supreme court. A.