問題詳情
(D) It seems that some animals __38__ interesting traits to speakers of a language. Take English for example, animal imagerycan be found in many expressions. Here are some of them. When someone is very quiet, we say he is “as quiet as a mouse.” Ifhe feels nervous, we say he “has __39__ in his __39__.” The expression “the car is a white elephant” means the car is rare butuseless or a waste of money. If someone is called “a chicken,” he is a coward. __40__ the above similes and metaphors, someproverbs having animal imagery in them have made English an interesting language as well. For example, “Let sleeping dogslie,” “You can lead a __41__ to water, but you can’t make him drink,” “Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched,”and so on. Indeed, these __42__ expressions have given color to the English language.
【題組】37.
(A) since
(B) whether
(C) if
(D) while
參考答案
答案：D
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)