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Electricity is such a part of
our everyday lives and so much taken for granted
nowadays 1 ___ we rarely think twice
when we switch on the light or turn on
the TV set. At night, roads are brightly lit,
enabling people and 2 ___ to move freely.
Neon lighting used in advertising has
become part of the 3 ___ of every modern city. In
the home, many 4 ___ devices are
powered by electricity. 5 ___ when we
turn off the bedside lamp and are 6 ___ asleep,
electricity is working for us, 7 ___ our
refrigerators, heating our water, or
keeping our rooms air-conditioned. Every day,
trains, buses and subways take us to and
from work. We rarely 8 ___ to consider
why or how they run
——
9 ___
something goes wrong.
In the summer of 1959,
something 10 ___ go wrong with the power-plant
that provided New York with electricity.
For
a great many hours, life
came almost to a 11 ___. Trains refused to move
and the people in them sat in the dark, 12 ___ to
do
anything; lifts stopped working, so
that 13 ___ you were lucky enough not to be 14.
___ between two floors, you had the
unpleasant task of finding your way
down 15 ___ of stairs. Famous streets like
Broadway and Fifth Avenue in a(n) 16
___
became as gloomy and uninviting 17 ___
the most remote back streets. People were afraid
to leave their houses, ___ 18.
although the police had been ordered to
19 ___ in case of emergency, they were just as
confused and 20 ___ as anybody else.
B. thus
2. B.
truck
3.A.
appearance
4.A.
money-saving
5.A.
Only
C.
as
C. traffic
D. so
D.
pedestrians
C.
distinction
B.
character
D.
surface
B. time-
saving
C. Even
C. energy-saving D. labour-
saving
D.
Frequently
D.
quickly
B. Rarely
6.A.
fast
B.
quite
C. closely
7. A. moving B. starting C.
repairing D. driving
8.A.
trouble B.
bother
9.A.
when
B.
if
C.
hesitate D. remember
D.
after
C.
until
10.A.
did
B.
would
C. could D.
Should
11.A.
pause B. terminal C. breakdown D.
standstill
12.A.
incompetent
B.
powerless
C. hesitant D.
helpless
13.
gh B. when C. as D. even if
14.
d B. placed
C. positioned
D.
locked
15.A. steps B.
levels C. flights D. floors
16.A.
time
B.
instant C. point D. minute
17.A.
like
B.
than C. for D. as
18.A.
for
B. and C. but D. or
19.A. stand aside B. stand down
C. stand by
D.
stand in
20.A. aimless B.
helpless C. unfocused D. undecided
What do you look for in a potential
date? Sincerity? Good looks? Character?
Conversational ability? Asked to
____1____
such
qualities, most people put physical attractiveness
near the ____2____ of the list. Of course.
Intelligent people are not
greatly
concerned ____3____ such super?cial qualities as
good ____4____; they know that
“
beauty is onl
____5____.
”
At
leastthey know that
’
s how
they ____6____ feel.
This intuition ____7____
looks matt er little may be another example of
our ____8____ real in?uences upon us, for there
are
many
research studies ____9____ that appearance greatly
determines initial attraction.
Some
researchers have matched students ____10____ blind
dates to see what qualities led to liking.
Immediately after the
dating, and again three months later,
the students ____11____ their dates and speculated
about ____12____ they felt as they
did. Men more than women
____13____ their date
’
s physical attractiveness was
,
the
date
s
physical attractiveness actually
predicted the women
’
s attraction ____15____ their dates
more than men.
In another study, Elaine Hatfield
____16____ 752 university freshmen for a dance
party.
For each person, the
researchers secured a variety of ____17____ and
aptitude (
能力
) test scores,
but then actually matched
the couples ____18____ . The couples
evaluated their dates after the party. How well
did the personality and aptitude tests
predict attraction? Not well at
all.____19____ the researchers could see, only one
thing ____20____ : how
physically
attractive the person was.
The more attractive a woman, the more he liked her
and wanted to date her again.
1.
A. list
B. select
C. rank
D.
arrange
2.A. top
B. middle C. bottom
D. front
3.A.
to
B. at
C. in
D.
with
4.A. look
B.
looks
C. looking D.
lookings
5.A. deep B.
thick
C. shallow D.
thin
6.A. have to
B. ought to C. must
D. should
7.A. as
B. what
C.
which
D that
8.A. accepting B. admitting
C. refusing
D. denying
9.A.
indicate
B. to
indicate
C.
indicating
D.
indicated
10.
A. to
B.
on
C. at
D. in
11.
A. evaluated
B.
predicted C. contacted
D.
communicated
12.
A. what
B.
how
C. why
D. that
13.
A.
believed
B.
suspected
C. con?
rmed
D. argued
14.
A. to the
contrary
B. in addition C.
in spite of that
D.
similarly
15.
A. at
B.
in
C. with
D. to
16.
A.
recruited
B.
enrolled
C.
matched
D. dated
17.
A. personality
B.
appearance
C.
achievements
D.
individuality
18.
A. interactively B. randomly
C. precisely
D. systematically
19.
A. As long as
B. So much so that C. To the extent that D. So
far as
20.
A. predicted
B.
mattered
C. valued D.
determined
’
文：
该
Cloze
来自
1984
年考研英语真题英译汉的一篇短
Electricity is such a part of our
everyday lives and so
much taken for
granted nowadays that we rarely think twice
when we switch on the light or turn on
the radio. At night,
roads are brightly
lit, enabling people and traffic to move
freely. Neon lighting used in
advertising has become part of
the
character of every modern city. In the home, many
labor-saving devices are powered by
electricity. Even when
we turn off the
bedside lamp and are fast asleep, electricity
is working for us, driving our
refrigerators, heating our water,
or
keeping our rooms air-conditioned. Every day,
trains,
trolley-buses, and trams take
us to and from work. We
rarely bother
to consider why or how they run---until
something goes wrong.
In the summer of 1959,
something did go wrong with the
power-
plant that provides New York with electricity. For
a
great many hours, life came to a
standstill. Trains refused to
move and
the people in them sat in the dark, powerless to
do anything; lifts stopped working, so
that even if you were
lucky enough not
to be trapped between two floors, you had
the unpleasant task of finding your way
down hundreds of
flights of stairs.
Famous streets like Broadway and Fifth
Avenue in an instant became as gloomy
and
uninviting as the most
remote back streets. People were
afraid
to leave their houses, for although the police had
been ordered to stand by in case of
emergency, they were
just as confused
and helpless as anyone else.
Meanwhile, similar disorder
prevailed in the home. New
York can be
stifling in the summer and this year was no
exception. Cool, air-conditioned
apartments became
furnaces. Food went
bad in refrigerators. Cakes and joints
of meat remained uncooked in cooling
ovens. People sat
impatient and
frightened in the dark as if an unseen enemy
had landed from Mars. One of the
strange things that
occurred during the
power-cut was that some fifty blind
people lead many sighted workers home.
When the lights
came on again, hardly a
person in the city can have turned
on a
switch without reflecting how great a servant he
had at
his fingertips.
PART III CLOZE
31.
[D]
句意为：
电是日常生活的一部分，
如今，我们已经习以为常，
以至于开灯或开电视时很少仔细考虑电的问题。
so
?
that
?是固定搭配，意思是“如此??以至于??”，故答案为
[D]
。
32.
[C]
句意为：晚上灯光照亮的马路使人们自由通行，使交通
畅通无阻。
traffic
意为“交通”；
pedestrian
意为
“
行人
”
，与空格前的
people
词义重复
;
car
和
truck
都指具体的车辆类型，含义过于狭窄。综合考虑，此处应填
入
traffic
。
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