填空题 Cloze (15 minutes) Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE with a single line through the centre. In the United States, the first day nursery, was opened in 1854. Nurseries were established in various areas during the __61__ half of the 19th century; most of __62__ were charitable. Both in Europe and in the U.S., the day nursery movement received great __63__ during the First World War, when __64__ of manpower caused the industrial employment of unprecedented (前所未有) numbers of women. In some European countries nurseries were established __65__ in munitions (军火) plants, under direct government sponsorship. __66__ the number of nurseries in the U.S. also rose __67__, this rise was accomplished without government aid of any kind. During the years following the First World War, __68__, federal, State, and local governments gradually began to exercise a measure of control __69__ the day nurseries, chiefly by __70__ them and by. The __71__ of the Second World War was quickly followed by an increase in the number of day nurseries in almost all countries, as women were __72__ called up on to replace men in the factories. On this __73__ the U.S. government immediately came to the support of the nursery schools, __74__ $6,000,000 in July, 1942, for a nursery school program for the children of working mothers. Many States and local communities __75__ this Federal aid. By the end of the war, in August, 1945, more than 100,000 children were being cared __76__ in daycare centers receiving Federal __77__. Soon afterward, the Federal government __78__ cut down its expenditures for this purpose and later __79__ them, causing a sharp drop in the number of nursery schools in operation. However, the expectation that most employed mothers would leave their __80__ at the end of the war was only partly fulfilled. 61. A) latter B) late C) other D) first（B） 62. A) those B) them C) whose D) imitation（B） 63. A) impetus B) input C) imitation D) initiative（A） 64. A) sources B) abundance C) shortage D) reduction（C） 65. A) hardly B) entirely C) only D) even（D） 66. A) Because B) As C) Since D) Although（D） 67. A) unanimously B) sharply C) predominantly D) militantly（B） 68. A) therefore B) consequently C) however D) moreover（C） 69. A) over B) in C) at D) about（B） 70. A) formulating B) labeling C) patenting D) licensing（A） 71. A) outset B) outbreak C) breakthrough D) breakdown（B） 72. A) again B) thus C) repeatedly D) yet（A） 73. A) circumstance B) occasion C) case D) situation（B） 74. A) regulating B) summoning C) allocating D) transferring（C） 75. A) expanded B) facilitated C) supplemented D) compensated（C） 76. A) by B) after C) of D) for（D） 77. A) pensions B) subsidies C) revenues D) budgets（B） 78. A) prevalently B) furiously C) statistically D) drastically（D） 79. A) abolished B) diminished C) jeopardized D) precluded（A） 80. A) nurseries B) homes C) jobs D) children（C）