正确答案: B

not always hopeful

题目：Mrs. White is different from her friends who were ______.

解析：解析：本题题干上的信号词为different和friends，依据句为“Unlike her friends， however，she never lost heart.”其中lose heart =lose hope。此句意为“她从来都是满怀希望，而她的朋友与她不同，并不是经常满怀希望”。

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[单选题]Which of the following objects was an important woodworking tool used by early American craftsmen?

A chisel

解析：解析：应该在文章中找到每一个选项的单词在文中出现的地方，然后判断出其是否是工具还是木雕作品。只有D选项chisel一词与另一种工具knife作为并列关系同时出现，所以可以判定其为另外一种工具。其他选项代表的全是木雕作品。

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B． as C． and D． but 正确答案：D解析：本句话是一个转折关系，应该由but一词体现前后的对比关系。全句意思为：也许他们是胜利者，但他们肯定不是最文明的。

but

解析：解析：本句话是一个转折关系，应该由but一词体现前后的对比关系。全句意思为：也许他们是胜利者，但他们肯定不是最文明的。

[单选题]The passage suggests that the early shops for making tools were ______.

not very sophisticated

解析：解析：本题的依据句是“At first，these articles were whittled with a knife，but when pioneer craftsmen set up their primitive shops most of them were fashioned on a lathe--a machine which holds an object and rotates it while it is being shaped by a tool.”在这里，A选项的not very sophisticated 意思为“并不复杂，是简单的”，对应原文中的primitive(原始的，简单的)。其他选项的内容属于无关信息。

[单选题]Even if it ______ this afternoon, I will go there.

rains

解析：解析：主句如果是一般将来时，状语从句一般用一般现在时。

[单选题]According to the passage, the first settlers used wood for their utensils and tools because it was ______.

available

解析：解析：注意题干上的信号词utensils and tools，以此为目标可以很容易地找到本题的依据句“Because of the lack of other materials，early settlers were forced to make tools and utensils out of wood.”选择C的原因在于当时十分缺乏其他材料而木材到处都有所以得到采用。available意思为“有，存在”。

[单选题]At the foot of the mountain ______.

stood a village

解析：解析：当句首状语是表示地点、处所的介词短语时，要引起全部倒装。D选项的错误在于其单词后没有加s。