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In the mid-nineteenth century, work began on a crucial section of the railway
In the mid-nineteenth century, work began on a crucial section of the railway
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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. [br] 【C5】
选项
A、at present
B、at least
C、at most
D、in particular
答案
C
解析
本题考查的是副词词组和介词词组的语义辨析以及对上文语义的理解。A现在(副词词组);B至少(副词词组);C最多(副词词组);D尤其(介词词组)。本句的意思是,James Hayward是新英格兰的一位杰出铁路工程师,他估计,贯穿Hoosac山所需要的费用至多为两百万美元。
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