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选词填空单项训练
BANKED CLOZE
Directions
: In this section,
there is a passage with ten blanks. You are
requested to select one word for each blank
from
a
list
of
choices given
in
a
word
bank following the
passage.
Read the
passage through
carefully
before
making your choices. Each choice in the
bank is identified by a letter
more
than once.
Questions 47 to 56 are based
on the following passage.
. Please mark
the corresponding letter for
each item
on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the
centre. You may not use any of the words in the
bank
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Once
the
world
embraced the
automobile,
the
days
of
depending
on
horses,
bicycles,
ferries,
and
trains
quickly slipped into
the past. People were __47__ with the speed of the
automobile but they were
also enjoying
the personal freedom that the
automobile gave them. Owning a car gave people the
freedom to go anyplace a road
__48__.
This
allowed
people
to
and at
their
own
__49__. This
independence gave the car
a
popular
edge over
buses
and
trains.
The
popularity
of
the
automobile
made
it
the
__50__
of
the
transportation
system.
The
automobile changed our
lives when it created a giant industry that
offered more and more jobs. The automobile
made it possible for people to live in
areas __51__ from their work place. This caused
cities to grow and made
suburban
living
more
convenient.
Of
course, with
more
places to
go,
more
__52__
roads
had
to
be
built.
The
automobile caused a __53__ effect. Jobs
increased, industries grew, new industries
developed, and cities appeared.
Today
the
automobile
industry
continues
to
offer
many
__54__.
Jobs
are
plentiful
in
this
industry
and
improvements continue to be made to the
automobile with new technologies.
We
have come a long way from that first __55__
carriage because of the cooperative efforts of
many people
in
the
last century.
It will
be
interesting
to
see what
the
future
holds
for
the
automobile.
We
have
already seen
signs of the
use of solar energy in this area. As long as man
has a brain, the future of the automobile
is __56__.
A) backbone
B) infinite
C) further
D) background
E) led
F) enjoyed
G) horseless
H) developing
I)
opportunities
J) snowball
K)
definite
L) developed
M)
farther
N) impressed
O) pace
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2
）
A
college
education
is
an
investment
in
the
future.
But
it
can
be
a
47
one. The
College
Board
48
that the costs at a four-year public
college in the United States increased 10% this
past school year.
than
the
13%
increase
the
year
before,
but
still
much
higher
than
the
inflation
universities still
cost a lot less than private ones.
Financial
aid
often
helps.
But
financial
experts
child is Still very young.
All fifty states and the District of
Columbia
52
of the programs.
Every state has its own rules
does not change the law.
5-29 plans include investment accounts
that increase or decrease in value with the
investments they contain.
Families must
decide how
55
they want to
put money into stocks, or other investments.
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Another kind of 5-
29 plan lets parents begin to pay for
their child
to pay for an education at
a public college or university in the family's
home state.
A) aggressively
B) estimates
C) offer
D) automatically
E) rate
F) consumes
G) costly
H) decline
I) advise
J) capable
K) free
L) majority
M) advance
N) governing
O) general
2
That was less
49
Public
colleges
and
50
parents to
start college
savings
plans
when
their
51
what are called 5-29 plans. These plans
are named after
the part of the federal
tax law that created them in 1996. States use
private investment companies to operate the
53
5-29 plans. Some of the
plans are
54
of state taxes.
And all are
not
required
to
pay federal
taxes. However,
the
government could
start
to
tax withdrawals
in
2011
if
Congress
child starts
college. This kind of savings program is called a
prepaid tuition plan. The money goes into an
account
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There
is
progress
toward
a possible
treatment
for
lung
diseases such
as SARS
(severe
acute
respiratory
syndrome).
Researchers have
learned more
about
how
the SARS
virus works:
it
47
with
a system
in
the
48
to
an
body
that
uses enzymes
(
酶
)
to
control
blood
pressure and
fluid
balance.
Scientists
say
the
virus
enzyme
known as ACE-two. The virus blocks the enzyme,
permitting fluid to enter the lungs.
A
team
from
Europe
and
Asia
reported
the
The discovery could lead
to a new
The first
52
49
in
Nature
Medicine.
Doctor
Josef
Penninger
of
the
50
writer of the report.
Institute of Molecular
Biotechnology
in the
Austrian
Academy of Sciences
was the
failure. These include avian
flu (
禽流感
) and
influenza in humans.
of SARS were
discovered in Guangdong province, in southern
China, in November of
53
as
a worldwide threat until March of 2003. The
disease spread to 26 countries, most
2002. SARS was not
51
of treating not just SARS but also
other diseases that can cause lung
of
them in the Asia-Pacific area. An estimated 8, 000
people had SARS. More than 770 of them died, or
about
10% , a
54
high rate.
The
World
Health
Organization
warned
people
not
to
travel
to
55
areas. The
56
hurt
international
travel and business. The WHO says the
disease stopped spreading by July of 2003. As a
result of SARS, the health
agency got
new powers to act before a government officially
announces a crisis.
A) means
B) alternative
C ) attaches
D) crisis
E) cases
F) associates
G) major
H) awful
I) relatively
J) findings
K)
optimistically
L) identified
M) interferes
N) distributed
O) affected
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4
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To call something
“
marginal
”
means it
is not very good. Farmers have their
own way to
land: It is the last to be
planted under good conditions, and has the
Low
50
or where a
hillside might rise too steeply.
There
are uses for marginal land, however. Most often it
is used as grassland.
51
for
grazing (
吃草
) animals like
cattle, sheep and goats.
Grasses
provide excellent
Grass seed can be
bought from a foreign supplier or
47
marginal
48
to be
avoided under poor conditions.
49
soil is not the only reason land could
be considered marginal. It might be in an area
where rainfall is
52
grasses
can be used. However,
using
marginal
land
for
grazing
is
not
a simple
issue.
There is
a
53
of
overgrazing. Cattle can
damage the crops by eating down to the roots.
Also, the weight of the animals crushes the
soil and can make it too hard for
growing. A(n)
land.
Another
use for marginal land
is for tree
crops. Studies have
Another tree is the
poplar (
白杨
),
found in many parts of the world.
Failure
to
take
the
care
needed
to
protect
marginal
lands
can
make
a
bad situation
worse.
But
good
planning can
56
a
marginal resource into a highly productive one.
F) define
G) adequate
H) transform
I) discouraging
J ) quality
K) native
L) revealed
M) prejudice
N) hazard
O) recovered
3
54
way to reduce
the harm is to move animals from one field
to
another. This method
is
known
as
rotational
grazing
(
循环放牧
) which
is
extremely
important
for
marginal
55
that the white pine and loblolly pine
(
火炬松
)
are two
kinds
of
trees that grow
well
on
such
land.
They
grow
fast
and
provide
good
quality
wood.
A)
feed
B) priority
C)
transplant
D) effective
E)
limited