It seems not 21 any afternoon in the village, but all of a sudden, people and animals lose consciousness. 22 they awake, all of the women of child-bearing age have become pregnant.
答案：(A) unlike
not unlike 是雙重否定，意為「與…並無不同」——這個午後看起來與村裡任何一個下午沒兩樣，正好呼應前一句的 a usual sunny afternoon，也讓後面的 but（突然全村失去意識）有轉折的對象。like 會使語意變成「不像任何一個下午」，與前一句的 usual 牴觸；dislike 是動詞「討厭」；alike 只能置於動詞或名詞之後表「相像」，不能後接受詞。
看到 not，你大概會想找一個正面的字來配，於是選 like，讀成「不像任何一個下午」。但這樣就與前一句的 a usual sunny afternoon（一個平常的晴朗午後）牴觸，後面的 but 也失去轉折的對象——前面已說反常，後面再說突然出事，兩句同向。
作答線索在前一句 It is a usual sunny afternoon in the village of Midwich, England.（這是英國米德維奇村一個平常的晴朗午後），以及本句後半的轉折連接詞 but。前面既然寫「平常」，這一句就必須順著寫「和平常沒兩樣」，後面那個 but（突然全村人畜失去意識）才有東西可轉；若這一句就已經寫反常，前後同向，but 的句意連結不通。整句是 not 加上 unlike，兩個否定相疊回到肯定——與村裡任何一個下午並無不同。看到 not 後面接 un-、in-、im- 開頭的字，先把兩個否定消掉再讀一遍，語意方向立刻清楚：not uncommon（並不罕見，其實相當常見）、not unheard of（並非沒聽過）。這種說法比直接講 like 更含蓄，小說開場很常見。
dislike 是動詞，前面已有 seems；alike 只能放動詞或名詞之後（The twins look alike.），不能後接 any afternoon。
not unlike（與…並無不同）、not uncommon（並不罕見）、not unusual（並不稀奇）、be alike（相像）、dislike（討厭）。
It is a usual sunny afternoon in the village of Midwich, England. It seems not 21 any afternoon in the village, but all of a sudden, people and animals lose consciousness. 22 they awake, all of the women of child-bearing age have become pregnant.
This is an episode from a 1960 science fiction story. The women in the story 23 birth to children that have the same appearance. They all have blond hair and "strange eyes." 24 the children grow, they run around the village in a pack, wearing identical clothing and hairstyles, staring at everyone impolitely. 25 one child learns is also known by the others instantly. Villagers begin to 26 their belief that the children all have "one mind."
In this story, the children are produced by some unexplained force from outer space. But this story written 40 years ago 27 predicted the arrival of a recent method of genetic engineering—cloning. Cloning is the genetic process of producing copies of an individual. Will the genetic copies of a human really have "one mind" as 28 in this story? This situation is so strange to us that we do not know what will 29 of it. Faced with this new situation, people have 30 to find out how to deal with it.