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In the mid-nineteenth century, work began on a crucial section of the railway line connecting Boston to the Hudson River. The ad
In the mid-nineteenth century, work began on a crucial section of the railway line connecting Boston to the Hudson River. The ad
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In the mid-nineteenth century, work began on a crucial section of the railway line connecting Boston to the Hudson River. The addition would【C1】______from Greenfield, Massachusetts, to Troy, New York, and it required tunnelling【C2】______Hoosac Mountain, a【C3】______impediment, nearly five miles thick, that blocked the【C4】______between the Deerfield Valley and a tributary of the Hudson.
James Hayward, one of New England’s leading railroad engineers, estimated that penetrating the Hoosac would cost,【C5】______, a very manageable two million dollars. The president of Amherst College,【C6】______geologist, said that the mountain was composed of soft rock and【C7】______tunnelling would be fairly easy【C8】______the engineers had breached the surface. "The Hoosac is believed to be the only barrier between Boston and the Pacific," the project’s promoter, Alvah Crocker, 【C9】______
Everyone was wrong. Digging through the Hoosac turned out to be a【C10】______. The project cost more than ten times the budgeted【C11】______If the people involved【C12】______the true nature of the challenges they faced, they would never have funded the Troy-Greenfield railroad.【C13】______, had they not, the factories of northwestern Massachusetts wouldn’t have been able to ship their goods so easily to the expanding West, the【C14】______of freight would have remained stubbornly high, and the state of Massachusetts would have been【C15】______poorer.
【C15】
选项
A、incurably
B、immeasurably
C、impossibly
D、immediately
答案
B
解析
本题考查的是副词词义辨析和对上下文的理解。A不可救药地;B不可测量地;C根本不可能地;D马上,立即。这句顺应前面几句,意思是,如果这些人没有提供资金建造这条铁路,西北部马萨诸塞州的各家工厂会因为运费高昂而不能很容易地将货物运送到扩张中的大西部,那么马萨诸塞州就会非常的贫困。作者连续用了几个虚拟语句,表示事实与当时的情况相反。
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