最新财经新闻保险:英语选择题

问题不在times和period的区别，而是介词搭配。times通常和in搭配，而period和during搭配，而且一般要加the: during the colonial period

事实上，此题摘自NCE第三册的课后练习，原文第一段：
Lesson 9 Flying cats 飞猫
Q: How do cats try to protect themselves when falling from great heights?
Cats never fail to fascinate human beings. They can be friendly and affectionate
towards humans, but they lead mysterious lives of their own as well. they never
become submissive like dogs and horses. As a result, humans have learned to
respect feline independence. Most cats remain suspicious of humans all their
lives. One of the things that fascinaes us most about cats is the popular belief
that they have nine lives. Apparently, there is a good deal of truth in this
idea. A cat’s ability to survive falls is based on fact.

Recently the New York Animal medical Centre made a study of 132 cas over a
period of five months. All these cats had one experience in common: they had
fallen off high buildings, yet only eight of them died from shock or injuries.
Of course, New York is the ideal place for such an interesting study, because
there is no shortage of tall buildings. There are plenty of high-rise
windowsills to fall, from! One cat ,Sabrina, fell 32 storeys, yet only suffered
from a broken tooth. ‘Cats behave like well-trained paratroopers,’ a doctor
said. It seems that the further cats fall, the less they are likely to injure
themselves. In a long drop, they reach speeds of 60 miles an hour and more. At
high speeds, falling cats have time to relax. They stretch out their legs like
flying squirrels. This increases their air-resistance and reduces the shock of
impact when they hid the ground.

10 _____ there is a good deal of truth in this idea. (l.7)
a. As a matter of fact b. In the event c. It would seem d. Surprisingly enough
练习上给的答案和解释是：
10． C
it would seem (that )… ----apparently

对于这道题，我也有疑问！！！，题目的意图显然是对原句中的apparently作出解释的，因为后面主句照抄不误！，问题就来了：原题句有个逗号，为何问题句中没有了逗号？是不是漏打了？
如果有这个逗号，是不是正确答案就是A呢？
因为没有了这个逗号，才选C的吧？那我问一下：It is said that--主语从句， It seems that-主语从句中的连词that可以省略吗？
还有为什么C项用虚拟语气it would seem而不是it seems呢？因为it would seem 比it seems 的语气是更不肯定！而apperently可以用Obviously来代替的!,很明显，c项并不是最佳替换，甚至是错误的！
是的，apparently 是有三个不同的解释：表面上地：明显地，似乎
但是在此文中，似乎不是”似乎“，而是第二种解释。
最后，选择题设计的原则：四个选项的功能、词性应该相同，另三项具有干扰性，很显然，该题中的ABD是状语性质的，与原句的apparently词性相同，功能相同，而It would seem that-选项属于句子转换而非词语解释，该项显然与另三项不同类，也就是说，如果说，此题答案是C，则也是 一失败的题，因为另三项一点干扰作用都没有！有人说了，这三项是需要有逗号的，这一个没有逗号，就可以排除三个了！而如果有了逗号呢？则只能排除C项（会出题的，有逗号，也不会出这样的C项，应该出副词性的短语才行！），接下来，还是要理解apparently在原文中的确切含义，选择三个中的一个为最佳答案。
实际上，B项也不是很有干扰性。D项倒是有一定的干扰性。如我下面所说，本书后面的练习题，有问题者不少！

结论：原题设计不当，可能打字疏忽，原题中有逗号。
参考答案因逗号而误解。原作者的答案为A
新概念英语自上世纪70年代进入中国以来，经久不衰。此书是经得起考验的。不过，由中国人改版的NCE，在课文前加了听力问题，在后面加了不少的选择题，此乃何教授的学生所为吧，有不少题是有问题的。这不是原版的问题。要批判地使用。
以上回答你满意么？

period 强调的是一段时期，而
times 强调的是一个时期，比 period的范畴大的多！
其实像这些你只要平时注意体会自然就会明白了！