2019年mpa考试英语真题——冠词468

{01}------ I heard that as many as 100 people were killed in that coal mine accident?
------ Yes, ______ news came as ______ shock to us. A.the ; / B.the ; a C./; a D./; / 解析：考查冠词。“我听说有100人死于那次矿难事故？”“是的，消息传来时，我们都感到震惊。”特指那次事故，用the，排除C、D；指“一次震惊人的事”时，shock是可数名词，用a修饰。故选B。
本题选B。
{02}Most of the officials had expected the government’s move to reduce poverty would be_____success, but it ended up in ____ failure as a result of the financial crisis.
A ∕, ∕        B a, the           C a , ∕         D ∕, a
解析：略
本题选C。