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Can a building be so ugly that people get angry just looking at it? For years, the Old Executive Office Building (the OEOB) in Washington, D.C., received __(11)__ its share of insults. President Warren G. Harding proclaimed that the building was "the worst I ever saw." Mark Twain described it as the "ugliest building in America." At a __(12)__ of ten million dollars over seventeen years of construction, the OEOB was completed in 1888. For many, it was __(13)__ at first sight. The building was used for many purposes over the years and then fell into neglect. Then one day in 1974, a college student named John W. F. Rogers was working in the mail room of the White House. He was sent to get a chair in one of the OEOB "storerooms." Rogers thought he had entered "the castle of the Sleeping Beauty." "Everything was __(14)__ dust and cobwebs," he recalled, "and yet I saw beauty." Years later, Rogers became the administrator of the building. Once he was __(15)__ , one of the first things he did was to restore the old "storeroom." It is now the grand White House Law Library!

At a ____ of ten million dollars over seventeen years of construction, the OEOB was completed in 1888.

Acost正確答案
Bpay
Ccharge
Dworth
答案與詳解
A
正確答案
考「花費/代價」語境下的名詞搭配:at a cost of 是固定片語,表示「以…的代價/費用」。

為什麼答案是 A

短文語境為「歷時17年建造、花費一千萬美元」,'at a cost of ten million dollars' 是標準固定片語,表示「以一千萬美元的代價」,完全符合語意與語法。

考點:固定片語 at a cost of考點:名詞語意辨析 pay=薪資考點:名詞語意辨析 charge=收費考點:名詞語意辨析 worth=價值
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