单选题 {{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Read the following text. Choose the best
word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, and D on ANSWERSHEET 1.
What does the future hold for the
problem of housing? A good {{U}}(1) {{/U}} depends, of course, on the
meaning of" future". If one is thinking in {{U}}(2) {{/U}} of science
fiction and the space age {{U}}(3) {{/U}} at least possible to assume
that man will have solved such trivial and earthly problems as housing. Writers
of science fiction have {{U}}(4) {{/U}} the suggestion that men will
live in great comfort, with every {{U}}(5) {{/U}} device to make life
smooth, healthy and easy, {{U}}(6) {{/U}} not happy. But they have not
said what his house will be made of. The problems of the next
generation or two can more readily be imagined. Scientists have already pointed
out that {{U}}(7) {{/U}} something is done either to restrict the
world's rapid growth in population or to discover and develop new sources of
food (or both), millions of people will be dying of starvation or, {{U}}(8)
{{/U}}, suffering from under feeding before this {{U}}(9) {{/U}} is
out. But nobody has worked out any plan for housing these growing populations.
Admittedly the worse situations will occur in the {{U}}(10) {{/U}} parts
of the world, where housing can be of light structure, or in backward areas
where standards are {{U}}(11) {{/U}} low. But even the minimum shelter
requires materials of {{U}}(12) {{/U}} kind, and in the crowded, bulging
towns the low-standard" housing" of flattened petrol mans and dirty canvas is
far more wasteful {{U}}(13) {{/U}} ground space than can be
tolerated. Since the war, Hong Kong has suffered the kind of
crisis which is likely to {{U}}(14) {{/U}} in many other places during
the next generation. {{U}}(15) {{/U}} millions of refugees arrived to
{{U}}(16) {{/U}} the already growing population and emergency steps had
to be taken to prevent squalor and disease and the {{U}}(17) {{/U}} of
crime. Hong Kong is only one small part of what will certainly become a vast
problem and not {{U}}(18) {{/U}} a housing problem, because when
population grows at this rate there are {{U}}(19) {{/U}} problems of
education, transport, water supply and so on. Not every area may have the same
resources as Hong Kong to {{U}}(20) {{/U}} and the search for quicker
and cheaper methods of construction must never
cease.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】名词辨析与搭配题。本句要回答首句对未来住房提出的问题，transaction(交易，买卖)，definition (定义)与assumption(假定，设想)都不合文意。a good deal为固定词组，意为“大量，很多”，符合题意。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】固定搭配题。本题考查词组搭配。in terms of意为“根据，在……方面，”think in terms of science fiction and the space age即“从科幻小说和太空时代的角度考虑”，符合文意。其余选项常用搭配为；in reference to“谈到”；with respect to“关于”；in consequence of“由于”。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】语法知识题。本题考常见句型。possible一词作表语时常用it作形式主语，而把逻辑主语的动词不定式放在后面；is at least possible to assume即“至少可以设想……”，是正确选择，用人称代词表达“能够”，可以“做某事”要用can do，be able to do等句型。
【答案解析】上下文理解题。教育、交通、以及供水等问题都伴随着人口问题而产生，accompanying是accompany的现在分词，意为“随之而来的”，符合文意。associating是associate(使有联系，与交往)的现在分词，表达“有关的，相关的”要用其过去分词associated。escorting“护卫，护送，陪同”；attaching是attach的现在分词，意为“附上，使隶属，使相关”，作定语时常用过去分词形式，如：a hospital attached to a medical college“医学院附属医院”。