Question

英语完形填空有两题不懂

The Japanese pay much attention to the luck of telephone number. The bathhouses, for example, (1) _____ to use 4626, because when read in Japanese, it has the (2) _____ pronunciation as “Have a good bath.” (3) _____ the clothes shops and the butcher’s like 1429 better than (4) _____ number because this number can either be read as “good dress” (5) _____ “good meat.” (6) _____ these numbers are (7) _____ with something (8) _____, people can remember them very (9) _____. So they have (10) _____ advertisements for the shops. On the other hand, there are also telephone numbers which are (11) _____ as forbidden by the Japanese people. 1564, for example, has the sound of “kill people” (12) _____ the number 4219 has (13) _____ of “people die”. At present there are about forty-four million (14) _____ in Japan. Yet it is almost (15) _____ for everyone to get (16) _____ telephone number. So these (17) _____ have become commodities(商品) and can be (18) _____ as goods. The (19) _____ can reach as (20) _____ as 222 thousands Japanese yen(日元
12. A. but B. because C. as D. while
13. A. sound B. meaning C. that D. this
为什么这两题答案给的是d和c

Answer 1

这句话翻译出来是：
比如说，1564，发音像“杀人”，而同时4219发音像“人去死”。

12. 两句话之间是并列关系，不是转折关系所以不能用but，不是因果关系不能用because和as。
while的意思是“于此同时”，是并列连词。

13. that 指代the sound. 这个空可以填that或the sound。
sound缺定冠词，meaning意思不对，指代不用this用that。