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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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2019-06-10
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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.
【C1】
选项
A、spread
B、run
C、derive
D、range
答案
B
解析
本题考查动词词义辨析及对语句的理解。A铺开,摊开(不及物动词);B延续(不及物动词);C从……衍生出,从……得到(不及物动词);D(在一定的范围内)变化,变动(不及物动词)。原文是说,增加的这一段铁路将会从马萨诸塞州的Greenfield一直延续至纽约州的Troy。
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