单项选择题
Section Ⅰ Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on Answer Sheet 1. On the afternoon of April 19th, 1587, Sir Francis Dr. ake led his convoy of 31 ships into the port of Cadiz, (1) the Spanish navy was being prepared to (2) England. The Spanish were (3) completely by surprise, and Dr. ake’s men quickly looted, sank or burnt every ship in sight. After clearing the harbour of stores and (4) off a Spanish attack, Dr, eke and his ships (5) without the loss of a single man. Back in England, Dr. aka became a national hero, and his daring attack became known as the "singeing of the King of Spain’s beard", As well as (6) back the Spanish plan to invade England by several months, Dr. ake’s daring attack (7) the success of a popular new drink. For among the stores that he (8) from Cadiz were 2,900 large barrels of sack, a wine made in the Jerez region of Spain, and the (9) of today’s sherry. The wine makers of Jerez looked for overseas markets, and sack started to take off in England,. In 1587, the celebratory drinking of the sack brought back from Cadiz by Dr. ske gave it a further (10) and made it hugely fashionable, (11) its Spanish origin. For (12) chemical reasons, sack was an unusually long-lasting and (13) wine. This made it ideal for taking on long sea voyages, (14) which alcoholic drinks acted as a vital social lubricant that (15) the hardship of spending weeks packed into a (16) ship. Columbus took sack with him to the new world in the 1490s, making it the first wine to be (17) into the Americas. In 1604, sack was (18) official recognition of (19) when James I (20) an ordinance limiting its consumption at court. By this time sack was popularly known as sherris-sack (sherris being a corruption of Jerez), which eventually became the modern word sherry.
Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.19()
A.where
B.when
C.as
D.which