1. ______ the Radio Communications Directory, there are 16,376 licensed radio stations currently broadcasting.

A. Due to    B. Taken by    C. Required by    D. According to

2. Dr. Corley holds a Ph.D. in anthropology, and ______ a book about the Nile delta last October.

A. publish    B. published    C. publisher    D. publishing

3. Under ______ and chief executive Diane Johnson, Johnson Legal has become a successful law firm.

A. found    B. founder    C. founded    D. foundation

4. The e-mail server will be down ______ between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday so that we can upgrade the software.

A. permanently    B. immediately    C. temporarily    D. successfully

5. Unfortunately, the New York office has failed ______ its sales goals in each of the last three quarters.

A. achieves    B. to achieve    C. achievement    D. the achievements

【參考答案】

1.【答案】D

【解析】：考查短語辨析。句意：根據(jù)《無線電通訊名錄》的記載，目前有16376家獲許可的無線電臺正在廣播。A. Due to 由于；B. Taken by 被……吸引；C. Required by 被……要求；D. According to 根據(jù)。只有D選項符合題意，故選D。

2.【答案】B

【解析】：考查動詞時態(tài)。句意：科利博士擁有人類學(xué)的博士學(xué)位，并且在去年十月份他出了一本關(guān)于尼羅河三角洲的書。由句中的last October可以判斷時態(tài)是過去式，所以選B。

3.【答案】B

【解析】：考查詞性辨析。此處空格中的單詞與and 后的chief executive 并列，故只能選B。foundation 雖為名詞，但意為"建立"，不符合語境，故可排除。

4.【答案】C

【解析】：考查副詞詞義辨析。句意：周三晚上9:30到10:00之間電子郵件服務(wù)器會被暫時卸下，這樣我們就能更新軟件了。A. permanently 永久地；B. immediately 立刻，馬上；C. temporarily 暫時地；D. successfully 成功地。根據(jù)題干中的時間段between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m可以推斷，服務(wù)器是被暫時卸下而不是永久卸下，所以A選項不正確，B和D選項與題意不符，故選C。

5.【答案】B

【解析】：考查固定搭配。句意：不幸的是，紐約辦公室在上三個季度都沒能達到銷售目標。本題考查fail與動詞的搭配，fail to do 是固定用法，表示失敗或未做成某事，故正確答案為B。