问题
选择题
The monthly sales of Mo Yan's works ________ 199 times compared with those before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
A．accelerated
B．stretched
C．multiplied
D．switched
答案
答案：C
C 考察动词词义辨析。句义：与获得诺贝尔文学奖之前相比，莫言的作品每个月的销量增加了199倍。Accelerate加速，stretch伸出，伸展，张开；multiply乘，增加；switch转换，切换。根据空格后的199times可知Ｃ项符合上下文。