But this story written 40 years ago 27 predicted the arrival of a recent method of genetic engineering—cloning.
答案：(C) somehow
語意「這個40年前寫的故事不知怎麼地預測了……」，somehow（不知怎麼地）符合這種意外巧合的語氣；sometimes（有時候，這裡不是頻率）、anyway（無論如何）、anyhow（不管怎樣）都不合。
四個選項兩兩形似，some- 對 any-、-times 對 -how 與 -way，眼睛掃過去很容易混。更常見的是另一種混淆：把 somehow 讀成「有點、略微」——那是 somewhat，兩個字只差幾個字母，意思完全不同。somehow 是「不知怎麼地」，somewhat 才是「略微」。
四個選項都是副詞，可見這一格考的是語氣。先把句意抓出來：But this story written 40 years ago ___ predicted the arrival of a recent method of genetic engineering—cloning（但這個四十年前寫成的故事，竟然預言了複製這項晚近的基因工程技術）。句首的 But 已經定調——前面講的是科幻小說裡的外星力量，這裡話鋒一轉講到真實世界的技術，語氣裡帶著「說不上是為什麼，但它就是說中了」的意外感。somehow 正是這個意思：以某種說不清楚的方式、不知怎麼地。這一題的鑑別度 49，分開的是有沒有讀出這個意外的語氣。
sometimes（有時候）：頻率副詞，表示一件事有時發生、有時不發生；而「預言了複製技術」是一次性的事實，不可能有時預言有時不預言。anyway、anyhow（無論如何、反正）：這兩個意思幾乎相同，依「兩個同義選項必定同時錯」這一招，四選一只能有一個答案，還沒細想就可以把它們一起砍掉（同一招見 95 年第 29 題的 hardly 與 rarely）。真要說它們錯在哪：這兩個字用來把前面提過的顧慮擱到一邊（It might rain, but we are going anyway. 可能會下雨，但我們還是要去。），而本句前面沒有需要被擱置的顧慮。
somehow or other（不知怎麼地）、somewhat（略微、有點，注意與 somehow 不同）、in some way（以某種方式）、predict the arrival of（預言……的到來）、genetic engineering（基因工程）、a method of（……的方法）。
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.