1. The operating principles of the telephone are ______ they were in the nineteenth century.
(A) the same as today
(B) the same today
(C) the same today as
(D) today what the same.
答案:C
分析:B, D the same as形式都不完整,先排除;A today与后面的过去时态不符。
翻译参考:当今的电话操作原理和它们在19世纪的时候是相同的。
2. Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie used part of his wealth _______ more than 2,500 public
libraries in English-speaking countries between 1881 and 1919.
(A) helped in building
(B) helped him to building
(C) to help build
(D) his help in building
答案:C
分析:use sth to do …与cause sth(sb) to do…是toefl语法中经常考的。
翻译参考:钢铁大亨Andrew Carnegie用他的部分财产于18811919年间在英语国家
帮助修建了2500多个公共图书馆。
3. Not until 1949 _______ Canada's tenth province.
(A) became Newfoundland
(B) did Newfoundland become
(C) Newfoundland did become
(D) Newfoundland became
答案:B
分析:not until放在句首,谓语部分倒装,这时候只要找到以助动词打头的选项就
可以了。