求教基础英语问题

1. Around a thousand years ago, one group emerged ____ was uniquely well adapted to copy with the Arctic environment.A. that B. there知道这题能选A，可觉得B也行，把emerged there看成one group的定语不行吗？2. Why don’t you ____ smoking for a while until your cough gets better?A. lay off B. lay asideAB两项都有stop的含义，朗文字典上说lay aside有to stop using, doing, or preparing for a time之意，即暂时放弃，B不是更适合填在这里吗？3. Any readers of comics really get the important message that the cartoonist often tries to convey.改错，哪个划线处有错？把any readers改成not all the readers对吗？4. For your purpose of passing the Reading Skill test, don’t waste your money for a speed-reading course.改错，哪个划线处有错？应该怎么改?5. In New York, as many as in most communities in America, basketball is more religious rite than sport.还是改错，找到原句是把as many as改成as much as,为什么？原句还在more religious前多了一个a,那改成more a religious可以吗？6. The man, of whom the red car is parked in front of our house, is a prominent physician in this town.改错，有人说把of whom改成whose,在句中作定语，这是什么意思？of whom为什么不可以？语法书上还有这样的句子：There are in this class twenty students, of whom the backgrounds are different.这句为什么可以？ 7. The manager refused to answer any specific questions, tersely(简洁地) suggesting that the questioners must read the patents(专利) for particulars about the processes.改错，觉得must有问题，suggest好像做“建议”或“暗示”都说得通，还有只查到了particulars about,到底哪错了？ 8. What a mistake! You haven’t paid the least attention to the spelling.改错，这句话貌似没错…答案说a mistake错，怎么改?难道改成mistakes强调拼写错误太多？9. The typhoon could sweep off all the things in the village, ____.A. be they high trees or buildings B. should they be high trees or buildings这两项不都是虚拟语气吗？为什么B对A不对？10. The boy anticipates ____ the first prize in the contest.A. winning B. his winning貌似两个都行，为啥B行A不行？11. Some dieters find that after their dieting is over, they eat twice more than they did before their diet.改错，答案说more than错，难道over没有和前面的after意义重复吗？12. 改错：Except for occasional differences of opinion, Bob and Paul got along very well.13. 改错：They reported their findings in Nature magazine.答案把Nature的斜体改了，对吗？该怎么改？ 14. The scandal has made the President more ____ to public criticism than his less qualified predecessor (前任；前辈).A. receptive B. resistant C. doomed D. susceptible请简要说明选哪个、为什么不能选其他。 15.The ____ of all this work engineering is efficiency”,答案选target,可我觉得object更好，target不是强调“靶子”吗？￾