课程代码:00600
Part one:
I. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks followed by a list of words and expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.(0.5 point for each.12 points)
1.At the same time, my generation was discovering that reforming the world is a little like ____1____ a military campaign in the Apennines, as soon as you ____2____ one mountain range, another one ____3____ just ahead. As the big problems of the thirties were brought under some kind of ____4____ control, new problems took their place—the ____5____ problems of an affluent society, of racial justice, of keeping our cities from becoming ____6____,of coping with war in unfamiliar guises.
2.The trouble with television is that it discourages ____7____.Almost anything interesting and rewarding in life requires some constructive, consistently ____8____ effort. The dullest, the least ____9____ of us can achieve things that seem ____10____ to those who never concentrate on anything. But television encourages us to apply no effort. It sells us instant ____11____.It diverts us only to divert, to make the time pass without ____12____.
3.When a salesman ____13____ a large order or brings in an important new account, his ____14____ is brief, for there is danger he might lose that large order or important new account to a salesman from a ____15____ company the next time ____16____.It might even be canceled before it is ____17____,in which case no one is certain if anything was gained or lost. So there is crisis and ____18____ even in their triumphs.
4.When white men first __19__ contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they __20__ them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to pumpkin pie.These,however,___21___ we may regret it, most savages receive with indifference. What they really ___22___ among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor, which enables them, for the first time in their lives, to have the ___23___,for a few ___24___ moments, that it is better to be alive than dead.
A. around B. gratification C. capture D. illusion E. uninhabitable
F. fighting G. looms H. rough I. miraculous J. competing
K. brief L. elation M. offer N. much as O. applied
P. unprecedented Q. effect R. alarm S. pain T. gifted
U. lands V. value W. concentration X. filled
II. There are 15 sentences with a blank in each, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.(1 point for each,15 points)
1.When he heard about the air crash, he felt ________ for his sister’s safety.
2.The newly-launched satellite is expected to obtain data on solar radiation, sky brightness and other important _______.
3.She has been in America for five years, still she can’t ____ the life there.
4.______,a lot of television usurps one of the most precious of all human gifts, the ability to focus your attention yourself, rather than just passively surrender it.
5.They tried hard to find a solution to the problem, but their efforts were ________.
6.They managed to trace his whereabouts ________ checking on his credit card expenditures.
7.After they moved into the new house, the old couple paid a lot of attention to its ________.
8.He got up early in the morning and walked on to the balcony and ________ the fresh air.
9.The sweet words of the little girl ________ him into believing that what she said was true.
10.I don’t know, ________,I don’t care.
11.Chain groceries shut out the independent stores and “standardization” became a ________ means of cutting cost.
12.The bus came to a(an) ________ stop, and some passengers lost their balance.
13.He stood in the dark,________ in his pocket for the key.
14.You could not ignore the bait for ever,________ it meant trouble.
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