196.No one imagined that the apparently_____businessman was really a criminal.
A.respectful B.respectable C.respective D.respected
[答案]B.respectable.
[注释]respectable受到尊敬的。详见117.注释。
本题译文:没有一个想象到这个看起来令人尊敬的商人竟是一个罪犯。
197.At first the institute refused to purchase the telescope,but this decision was_____revised.
A.occasionally B.consequently
C.successively D.subsequently.
[答案]D.subsequently.
[注释]subsequently(=afterwards)随后,其后。
198.The speaker_____several other subjects in the course of his talk but mostly kept himself to the main topic.
A.held on B.worked out C.touched on D.kept out of
[答案]C.touched on
[注释]touch on简单谈到。
199.Comrade Li Dazhao,_____librarian of Beijing University,was one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party.
A.sometimes B.sometime C.some time D.some times
[答案]B.sometime.
[注释]sometime(=former)过去的,以前的:Alice Brown,a sometime pupil of our school,is now a teacher there.
200.Alice was very sorry to hear that her grandmother had_____two days before.
A.broken off B.passed off
C.given away D.passed away
[答案]D.passed away.
[注释]pass away(=die)死亡,是“死亡”的委婉语。
break off中断;give away给掉;泄露;pass off中止,中断。