問題詳情


(C) Skiing has come a long way since the Stone Age, when early humans jumped on boards before going out to hunt. Back then, sliding down snowcovered hills was merely a means of pursuing prey. _(26)_ a successful skiing trip in the Stone Age would have required bringing home a wooly mammoth, today it merely involves a trip to any of the three hundred plus alpine skiing resorts scattered around the globe.　　It took quite some time for skiing to _(27)_ the gap between utility and recreation. The first evidence of skiing simply _(28)_ the sake of skiing can be found in Icelandic poetry written roughly 1,000 years ago. One poem boasts of the high speed achieved by a skiing Viking king. King Hadrade skied for no other reason _(29)_ to feel the air against his face, the pull of gravity on his body, and the sensation of controlled falling that skiing provides.　　Of course, skiing equipment also took some time to advance beyond the 4,500-year-old wooden skis archeologists found in Scandinavia. Early skis were _(30)_ tree branches stripped of their leaves. Neither the materials nor the shapes of those early skis _(31)_ much resemblance to modern ones. Today's skis are complicated mixtures of fiberglass and metal, _(32)_ more like hourglasses than tree branches. These developments have made skiing easier and thus more enjoyable. (10-1)
26.
(A) When
(B) As
(C) Because
(D) While

參考答案

答案：A
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(3),B(2),C(1),D(1),E(0)

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