Question

帮忙解答下几道英语题，谢谢!

1.some of the oldest and most widespread creation myths are__involving the"earth mother"
A.those B.them C.they D.their

2.__what is now San Salvador, christopher Columbus believed that he had found Japan.
A.He reached B.when did he reach C.having reached D.whether he reached

3.[The] brain is composed of a mass of [softly] [gray matter] in the skull [that] controls our intelligence.框里分别是A B C D，有个有语法错误

4.[Polluter] is a topic of such [importance] today that even elementary school children are [well informed] about [its] dangers.

5.In Vermont,[the] sap the maple [tree] is the [primary] ingredient [in] producing maple syrup.

6.After [to have] [won] the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for A Bell for Adano, John Hersey [wrote a] nonfiction book [about] the bombing of Japan.

7.There is [much] bird migration above the equator,[where] the Pole Star can be seen, than [below] the equator, where [it] cannot be seen.

8.A recent article in The New York Times reported that the typical bussiness graduate of 1990 is [less likely] [to be willing] to work long hours for the [sake of] advancement than [their] 1970 counterparts.

请说的详细点
3题感觉用softly来修饰gray也可以吧，不敢确认，4题选D的能解释下吗？

Answer 1

第四题我之前选错了，应该是A！

1.some of the oldest and most widespread creation myths are__involving the"earth mother"
A.those B.them C.they D.their

Ans: A. those做"那些。。。的东西"讲,其他选项明显不对。

2.__what is now San Salvador, christopher Columbus believed that he had found Japan.
A.He reached B.when did he reach C.having reached D.whether he reached

Ans: C. 主语是后半句里的哥伦布，前面只有C，到达了SS以后，是完成时。

3.[The] brain is composed of a mass of [softly] [gray matter] in the skull [that] controls our intelligence.框里分别是A B C D，有个有语法错误

Ans：B. softly是副词，这里应该用形容词形式，因为修饰matter(名词：物质)，我认为C没错，是灰色物质的意思。

4.[Polluter] is a topic of such [importance] today that even elementary school children are [well informed] about [its] dangers.
Ans: A. Pollution

5.In Vermont,[the] sap the maple [tree] is the [primary] ingredient [in] producing maple syrup.
Ans: 选D. 非要选一个的话选D，in 用在这里不对，应该是for。 maple tree没有问题

6.After [to have] [won] the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for A Bell for Adano, John Hersey [wrote a] nonfiction book [about] the bombing of Japan.
Ans：A，应该是having

7.There is [much] bird migration above the equator,[where] the Pole Star can be seen, than [below] the equator, where [it] cannot be seen.
Ans: A,应该是more,要填比较级形式，more...than

8.A recent article in The New York Times reported that the typical bussiness graduate of 1990 is [less likely] [to be willing] to work long hours for the [sake of] advancement than [their] 1970 counterparts.
Ans: D. 单数形式，应该是its. 注意看前面的谓语都是is!

Answer 2

A C C D B 不过第五题我觉得你少了个 of ……
A A A

Answer 3

1.A
2.C
3.A brain不加定冠词the
4.D
5.B the sap of the maple,maple本身就有枫树的意思不用加tree
6.A
7.A bird是可数名词
8.C 固定词组be likely to do sth.