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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(二)模拟题25 Section Ⅰ Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. Baltimore was founded in 1729. For a generation it seemed no different from a dozen other small settlements 1 up at the head of the Chesapeake Bays. Its claim to 2 consisted of a blacksmiths shop, flour 3 , and tobacco warehouse. Yet Baltimore was 4 for a more dynamic future than its slow beginnings seemed to 5 . 6 by an agricultural revolution in the Maryland and Pennsylvania countryside as well as dramatic disruptions in the Atlantic economy, Baltimore at mid-century began to 7 . By 1799 it had risen to become the new Republics fourth largest city with 8 to overtake the three still 9 : New York, Philadelphia and Boston. 10 the Baltimore village of the Jeffersonian era looked utterly unlike the colonial village from 11 it had emerged, the two shared more than it might be 12 at the first glance. Baltimores economy had expanded tremendously, to be sure, but the same forces that sparked 13 around 1750 continued to 14 it fifty years later. 15 the establishment of new government at the state level in 1776, national level in 1788, and 16 level in 1797, the same irritating issues continued to attack its politics. If Baltimore had become richer and bigger, its occupational structure, wealth 17 and residential patterns withstood the pressure of growth and looked about the same in 1790 as in 1812. In other words, 18 the frozen and seemingly chaotic pace of 19 , Baltimore enjoyed a strong element of stability. For in 1812, no 20 than in 1729, Baltimore was a pre-industrial town. 1.A.comingB.risingC.springingD.going答案:C[解析] 此题属于语义搭配题。spring up=to come into being意为“出现，涌现”，例如：Towns had sprung up in what was a dry desert．其他选项中的动词与句中的up一词构成的短语不能修饰se