Question

【題目】—It's reported that our country is very short _______ oil now.—That's right. What's worse, the price of oil has increased ________ 60 percent.

A.of; to
B.of; by
C.from; by
D.for; on

Answer 1

【答案】B
【解析】句意：---據(jù)報道我們國家現(xiàn)在非常缺乏石油。---是的，更糟糕的是，石油的價格已經(jīng)增長了60%。短語：be short of短缺；介詞to與by的不同是：to表示增加或減少“到”；by表示增加或減少“了”，根據(jù)句意，所以答案是B。