单选题
Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each numbered blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
Besides active foreign enterprises and a {{U}}(51) {{/U}} number of private employers, a consequential new development was the development of employment in state-owned enterprises (Guanying or Guanshang). Started by some {{U}}(52) {{/U}} Qing officials, the Yangwupai, in the late nineteenth century, sizable state-owned enterprises developed primarily {{U}}(53) {{/U}} enhancing China's national defense. Famous industrial giants of today's China such as the shipyards in Shanghai and heavy industries in cities like Wuhan, Nanjing, and Chongqing were built by the Qing or the Republic government. Some of them later began to {{U}}(54) {{/U}} considerable private investments. After World WarⅡ, this type of state-owned employment became very important. Labor in those enterprises consisted basically {{U}}(55) {{/U}} two tiers: a largely market-oriented allocation of blue-collar and some white-collar workers, and a mostly state allocation of most of the white-collar workers including managerial and technical personnel. The latter was a distorted labor market that featured strong {{U}}(56) {{/U}} considerations in allocating and managing labor. Personal and kinship connections, the so-called " petticoat influence", and political {{U}}(57) {{/U}} were the norm for this type of labor allocation pattern. In a way, it was midway between a rather crude market-oriented labor allocation pattern and the centuries-old, warm, family-based traditional labor allocation. It covered a very small but important portion of the Chinese labor force, and thus {{U}}(58) {{/U}} our attention. Later, it apparently provided the historical precedent {{U}}(59) {{/U}} the PRC government to allocate its administrative and technical cadres, even its entire industrial labor force, {{U}}(60) {{/U}} state employees.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试动词的原形、过去时、过去分词和现在分词四种形态的语法意义辨析。正文中的number需要有一前置修饰词，例如形容词或者非谓语动词，而且含主动语态的意义。符合条件的只有growing。grow(动词原形)意为“生长”；grown(过去分词)意为“长大的，被培育的”；grew(过去式)意为“生长过”。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试复合形容词的构词方法，此处涉及名词加过去分词的模式。reform-minded意为“具有改革思想的”；reform-mind是两个名词的组合，组合之后仍然是一个名词；reformed-mind等于汉语的偏正结构，其主体仍然是名词，不是贴切的修饰语；reforming-mind类似汉语的动宾词组，非贴切的修饰语。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试介词和名词的搭配。for the purpose of(介词短语)意为“为了……目的”。in、by、with均不与the purpose of搭配。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试近义词辨析。absorb意为“吸收”；melt意为“融化”；receive意为“接收”；attain意为“获取”。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试动词与介词的搭配。consist of意为“由……组成”。on和as均不与consist搭配。in可以与consist搭配，意为“在于”，但与题意不符。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试形容词economic的前后缀的用法。noneconomic意为“非经济的”；noneconomical意为“不节约的”；ineconomic中前缀不正确；ineconomical中前缀不正确，上下文也不贴切。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试近形词和同源词。favoritism意为“偏爱”；flavor意为“滋味”，以相近的词形来干扰；flavoring意为“调味品”，以相近的词形来干扰；favored意为“受到优待的”，是favoring的同源词。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试近义词辨析。deserves意为“值得”；pays意为“支付”；puts意为“摆放”；devotes意为“投入于”。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试介词辨析，for意为“为了……”；to意为“给……”；in意为“进到……”；on意为“关于……”
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试介词、副词的一词多义与近义词的辨析。as意为“像……”，但是此处意为“作为”；like意为“像……”；same意为“同样”；being意为“存在”。