问题
选择题
. ---I heard that more than 500 people were killed in ten days during that Cholera outbreak.
---Yes, ______ news came as ______ shock to us.
A．the; /
B．the; a
C．/; a
D．/; /
答案
B
本题考查冠词。news前加定冠词the，特指的上面所提及的消息。shock这里指“使人震惊的事”，为可数名词，选B。