Will the genetic copies of a human really have “one mind” as 28 in this story?
答案：(B) described
過去分詞 described，被動語意「如故事中所描述的那樣」（as described in this story，省略主詞的分詞構句，等同 as it is described）；describes／describe（限定動詞，不合這個省略結構）、describing（現在分詞，語意方向錯誤，應該是「被描述」不是「正在描述」）都不合。
as 後面只跟著一個字，你會覺得「少了東西」——連接詞後面不是應該接一個完整的子句嗎？於是很想補一個看起來完整的 describes 進去。答對率四成八、鑑別度只有 35，連高分群考生也大量失手，原因就在這裡：對「連接詞後面要接子句」這條規則越堅持的人，越容易把正確答案排掉。這一格考的正好是那條規則的例外——省略。
四個選項都是 describe 的不同形態，可見這一格考的是形態。先看空格前後：as ___ in this story，前面是 as，後面是介系詞片語，中間沒有主詞。沒有主詞就不可能填限定動詞，所以 describes 與 describe 先出局，它們都需要一個主詞來搭配。剩下 described 與 describing，靠方向來分：被描述的是「複製體擁有同一個心思」這個情況，它是被寫進故事裡的，不是它在描述別人，所以要用表被動的過去分詞 described。真正的結構是 as it is described in this story，as 後面把主詞 it 與 be 動詞 is 一起省掉了，只留下過去分詞。這種省略你其實見過，掛鉤是 While (he was) walking home（他走路回家的時候），連接詞後面的主詞與 be 動詞一起省略。把它還原出來讀一次就能自己驗算：Will the genetic copies of a human really have “one mind” as it is described in this story?（人類的基因複製體真的會像這個故事裡所描述的那樣，擁有「同一個心思」嗎？）。
describes、describe：限定動詞，需要主詞，而 as 後面沒有主詞可用。describing：現在分詞表主動，方向錯了——故事裡被描述的對象是這個情況，不是這個情況在描述什麼。
as described（如所描述）、as mentioned above（如前所述）、as shown in（如……所示）、as expected（不出所料）、as required（依規定）、as follows（如下）。
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.