Question

The giant vending machine (自动售货机) is a new village shop
Villagers have long been used to facing a drive when they run out of basic supplies. However, help is now nearer at hand in form of the country’s first automatic push-button shop. Now residents in the Derbyshire Village of Clifton can buy groceries around the clock after the huge vending was installed outside a pub in the village this week.
Peter Fox, who is小题1:______electrical engineer, spent two and a half years working on the project. The machine 小题2:______ (equip) with securing cameras and alarms and looks like a mini shop with a brick front, a grey roof and a display window.
Mr. Fox said he hoped his invention, 小题3:_____ is set to be installed in other villages in the area over the coming months, will mark a return to convenience shopping for rural communities.
He said:“ I had this idea a few years ago but I couldn’t find a manufacture who could deliver what I wanted, so I did it by 小题4:_____. The result is what amounts to huge outdoor vending machine. Yet I think the term “automatic shop” is far 小题5:______ (appropriate)
In recent years, the commercial pressure from supermarket chains小题6:______ force village shops across the country to close. In 2010, it was estimated that about 400 village shops closed, 小题7:______ (urge) the local government to give financial support to struggling shops or set-up new communities stores.
Hundreds of communities have since stepped in and opened up their won volunteer-run shops, but Mr. Fox hopes his new invention will offer a solution小题8:______these villages without a local shop.

Answer 1

小题1:an
小题2:is equipped
小题3:which
小题4:myself 
小题5:more appropriate
小题6:has forced
小题7:urging
小题8:to

试题分析：一个电力工程师花了两年半的时间从事的项目，在没有商店的村子安装自动售货机，想给没有商店的村子提供一个解决的方法。
小题1:一个电力工程师花了两年半的时间从事这个项目。这里考查冠词，泛指“一个电力工程师，用不定冠词，electrical是元音开头的单词，所以用an。
小题2:这个机器配备有安全摄像机和警报。考查词组“配备有…”be equipped with ,因为主语是单数，所以用 is equipped
小题3:这句话用了非限制性定语从句，先行词是invention，定语从句中缺少主语用which引导定语从句
小题4:根据上文的句子：可知没有生产商愿意将他的想法生产出来，所以他就自己做了。考查词组by oneself“独自”，填myself 
小题5:我想用“自动商店”这个名字更合适。Far后面接形容词的比较级：more appropriate
小题6:近几年，来自超市连锁店的压力已经迫使乡村商店关门，实际上recent years，和现在完成时连用，因为主语是pressure所以谓语是单数：has forced
小题7:估计有400家乡村商店关闭了，强烈要求政府提供经济支持给这些濒临倒闭的商店或是建立新的社区商店。这里用现在分词做状语：urging
小题8:Fox先生希望这个新的发明给没有商店的村子提供一个解决的方法。使用词组offer sth to sb.所以填to