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Directions; In this section, there are 10 passages. For each passage, there are 10 blanks. You are required 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. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Passage 1
Our first deep companionship is found in family relationships. If we are __1__, we bond to a parent (if we are even more fortunate, we bond to both parents) and siblings (兄妹). We may also have the opportunity to find loving relationships with family outside our __2__ one—with an uncle or aunt, __3__, and cousins.
As deeply loving as any of these bonds may be, however, they generally do not __4__ loneliness as effectively as marriage and __5__ do, because most family relationships are time-bound. When we become adults, most of us spend much __6__ time with our parents, grandparents, uncles, and aunts than we did as __7__. Indeed, the nature of the child-parent relationship is such that if it is healthy, we do not spend as much time with our parents when we grow up. Family relationships are limited by __8__ for another reason — as we get older, our older relatives begin to die.
Of course, neither of these reasons __9__ to siblings, and many people do develop ongoing loving relationships with a sibling. This is not the rule, however. Brothers and sisters have not been known for the closeness of their relationships — even when they love each other.
If we start out life with loving family relationships, our chances for happiness are incalculably increased. It is almost impossible to overstate the importance of those __10__ . But as we get older, other relationships usually provide greater opportunities for intimacy because they are not time-bound, and these are relationships with peers.
A) grandparents I) fortunate
B) children J) wants
C) immediate K) sticks
D) ease L) applies
E) less M) friendship
F) more N) refers
G) time O) bonds
H) unfortunate
Passage 2
One of the advantages of living in UK is that one is permitted to say what he thinks. __1__ or in public, one may criticize the Queen, the Government, or anything else. In some cities there are even special places where people come to __2__ to speeches on all kinds of questions. In London, people gather in Hyde Park, where speakers __3 __them on various topics. No one attempts to stop such speakers. We feel that if their ideas are __4__ then they deserve to be heard. If the ideas are bad, no one will pay much __5__ to them anyway.
Not long ago one of these speakers was delivering an __6__ speech in Hyde Park. He was criticizing the members of the government in strong terms.
“They are __7__ for all our troubles,” he said. “What we should do is burn down the House of Commons and Buckingham Palace.” A large __8__. of people had gathered and had begun to block traffic. At that moment a policeman __9__ along and said;
“All right, gentlemen! Let’s open a path for the __10__ . All those in favor of burning down the House of Commons, move to the right. All those in favor of burning down Buckingham Palace, move to the left. Now move aside, one way or the other.” One by one the listeners walked away, and soon the speaker was left alone.
A) hear I) Overtly
B) listen J) Privately
C) address K) good
D) moved L) emotional
E) attention M) traffic
F) road N) bad
G) crowd O) came
H) responsible
Passage 3
When Bob Smith was invited to an international conference on tropical disease, he was delighted. The conference was to __1__ place in Geneva and Bob thought it would be a good opportunity to take Susan on a short journey. They decided that they would go to Paris for a week before Bob traveled on to Geneva for the __2__. Susan would then __3__ home.
Bob and Susan __4__ an enjoyable week touring Paris. They did a lot of walking and at the end of the week they were very tired. Bob went with Susan to the __5__ and saw her on a plane to London. While he was waiting for his plane to Geneva, a mist began to form. __6__, his plane took off. As soon as he sank into his seat, Bob fell fast asleep.
Unfortunately, as the plane flew to Geneva, the mist changed into __7__ fog. It was __8__ to land in Geneva because of the fog. When this news was given to the passengers, Bob was still in fast sleep. He did not wake up until the plane landed back in Paris. Still very __9__, he hurried through the airport lounge and found a taxi. He asked the driver to take him to the Geneva International Hotel. The surprised driver looked at Bob as if he were mad. He asked Bob if he was __10__ he wanted a taxi. Bob said he did, since he felt too tired to walk.
A) paid I) sure
B) return J) take
C) spent K) thick
D) conference L) thin
E) Eventually M) sleepy
F) Hence N) relaxed
G) airport O) impossible
H) possible
Passage 4
Old Lucy was a very strange woman. The fine house in which she had lived overlooked a lovely valley. But she hardly ever went out. Though a servant looked after her, her only real __1__ were two cats. For years she had __2__ to see any of her relations as she felt that all they were interested in was her money.
In this she was __ 3__. After her death, the few relations she had, __4__ at the house to hear Lucy’s lawyer read her will. They were all sure that Lucy had left a great __5__ and they each demanded a share. This led to __6__ arguments. In particular, they quarreled about the house. Lucy’s nephew felt that it should go to him, as he was one of the few people who used to visit his old aunt before she _
_7__ herself off from her relations. Lucy’s cousin objected to this and there was an angry scene in the living room while they waited for the __8__ to arrive. When the lawyer entered, the nephew said jokingly that his aunt had probably left hundreds of debts.
Their lawyer did not even smile at this and asked them all to sit down. He began to read the __9__ in
A solemn voice. Lucy had indeed been __10__ rich. But she had left her whole of her fortune to her two cats!
A) fortune I) right
B) will J) refused
C) companions K) lawyer
D) eventually L) violent
E) immensely M) cut
F) pleased N) angrily
6) gathered O) wrong
H) swarmed
Passage 5
In recent years, more and more foreigners are involved in the teaching programs of the United States. Both the advantages and the disadvantages of using faculty (“教师”的总称) from foreign countries in teaching positions have to be __1__, of course. It can be said that foreigners make the faculty member from __2 __an asset (财富) also create problems of adjustment both for the university and for the individual.
The foreign research scholar usually isolates himself in the laboratory as a __3__ of protection. However, what he needs is to be fitted with a highly organized university system quite __4__ from that at home. He is faced in his daily work with differences in philosophy, arrangements of courses and methods of __5__. Both the visiting professor and his students __6__ background in each other’s cultures. Some concept of what is already in the minds of American students is __7__ by foreign professor. While helping him to __8__ himself to his new environment, the university members also make certain adjustments in order to take full advantage of what the newcomer can offer. It isn’t always known how to make __9__ use of foreign faculty, especially at smaller colleges. Teaching is thought to be a __10__ where further study is called for. The findings of such a study will be a value to colleges and universities with foreign faculty.
A) different I) field
B) lack J) teaching
C) considered K) thing
D) same L) adapt
E) abroad M) full
F) know N) required
G) means O) adopted
H) shortage
H) shortage
Passage 6
The elephant is the only animal in the world with a trunk. It uses its trunk in many __1__. It pulls leaves off trees with its trunk and then puts them into its mouth. It can also use its trunk to __2__ up trees when it wants to make a path through the jungle. It also uses its trunk to drink __3__. The trunk can __4__ a lot of water, as an elephant needs to drink more than three hundred pints of water every day.
When an elephant is angry, its tusk can be very __5__. It can attack people. The tusks of an elephant are really its front teeth. People pay a lot of money for the ivory of an elephant’s tusks. Men have __6__ elephants for their tusks. The ivory from the tusks is made into many beautiful things.
It has been easy for men to __7__ elephants in Asia. They use elephants to carry heavy things for long __8__.
Many people say that the kings of Siam used to give white elephants to people who they did not like. These white elephants are sacred and they could not be made to work. They could not be killed nor __9__ away. A person who has a white elephant had to pay a lot of money to keep it properly. After certain period of time, he usually becomes very __10__ . Nowadays people in England call a useless thing “a white elephant”.
A) hold I) poor
B) water J) pull
C) places K) hunted
D) ways L) push
B) educate M) distances
F) train N) given
G) dangerous O) hit
H) safe
Passage 7
Nature has a perfect system for recycling water. Water is used again and again. It falls as rain. Then it goes one of three places. It might seep __1__ through the soil as it soaks through into the natural reservoirs underground. It might __2__ into the air by evaporating quickly. It might run off into streams to rivers and to the oceans.
There is a problem with this recycling system. It is a balance that can be easily upset by people. Nature’s __3__ system can work well only if people work with the system—not against it. Some ways that people interfere with nature are __4__ to understand. Dirty sewage water from homes and factories must not __5__ with thinking water. People would get __6__ from drinking dirty water.
There are other ways that people __7__ nature. Some of these ways are not so easy to understand. For example, a marshy bog may not be good for everything, but it serves an important purpose. The soft, wet soil of a bog allows water to __8__ the underground reservoirs. What happens to the balance of nature if the bog is filled in? Many housing development projects have been built where __9__ once were. The __10__ of the houses are likely to have problems. They are likely to water, to flood in rainy seasons. Huge storm sewers are built to carry away with the water from wet areas. These huge pipes prevent wet basements in the houses of the community.
A)mix I) marshes
B) reach J) easy
C) disappear K) hinder
D) join L) basements
E) greatly M) benefit
F) slowly N) recycling
G) sick O) water
H) quality
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Passage 8
At the bottom of the world lies a mighty continent still wrapped in the Ice Age and, until recent times, unknown to man. It is a great land mass crisscrossed by mou