Americans' pride and faith of their economic system, 【B1】______ that it provides opportunities for all citizens to have good lives, are 【B2】______ by the 【B3】______ that poverty persists in many parts of country. Government anti-poverty efforts have made some progress but have not eradicated the problem.【B4】______, periods of strong economic growth, which bring more jobs and higher wages, have【B5】______poverty but have not【B6】______it entirely. The federal government 【B7】______ poverty line as a minimum 【B8】______ of income 【B9】______ for basic maintenance of a family or four. This amount may fluctuated【B10】______the cost of living and the location of the family. In 1998, a family of four with an annual income below $ 16,530 was classified【B11】______living in poverty. The percentage of people living below poverty line dropped from 22.4 percent in 1959 to 11.4 percent in 1978. But【B12】______, it has fluctuated in a fairly narrow range. In 1998, it stood at 12.7 percent. 【B13】______, the overall figures mask much more severe pockets of poverty. In 1998, more than one-quarter of all African-Americans lived in poverty; though【B14】______high, that figure did represent an improvement from 1979 when 31 percentage of blacks were officially classified as poor. There are【B15】______estimations on the accuracy of official poverty figures. Some analysts have suggested that the official poverty figures【B16】______the real【B17】______of poverty because they measure only cash income and exclude certain government assistance programs such as Food Stamps. Others point out, however, that these programs【B18】______cover all of a family's food or health care needs.【B19】______others point out that people at the poverty line sometimes receive cash income from【B20】______work and in the underground sector of economy which is never recorded in official statistics.
单选题
【B1】
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析:考查动词辨析。空格前“Americans’pride and faith of their economic system”说明了美国人对其经济制度的骄傲与信仰,因此B.believing“相信”最能符合语境。support意为“支持”;admit意为“承认”;doubt意为“怀疑”,均不符合题意。
单选题
【B2】
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】解析:考查动词辨析。空格前在阐述“Americans’pride and faith of their economic system”说明了美国人对其经济制度的骄傲与信仰,空格后提及“that poverty persists in many parts of country”,说明贫困在这个国家许多地方都存在,前后为矛盾关系。rejected“被拒绝,被推翻”,代入句中,表示美国人对其经济制度的骄傲与信仰被这个国家无所不在的贫困现象推翻了,符合语境,因此答案为C.rejected。backed“被支持”;sustained“被保持”;retarded“被延迟”,均不符合题意。
【答案解析】解析:考查动词辨析。根据语境可知,空格处所填动词应和空前“have made some progress”的意义保持一致,因此首先可以排除added“增加”和aggravated“使加重”。abolished意为“消除,废除”,显然不成立,故答案为C.reduced,意为“减少”。
单选题
【B6】
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析:考查动词辨析。根据语境可知,空格处所填动词应和上文“have not eradicated the problem”的意义保持一致。A.eliminated意为“消除,消灭”,最符合前文所述意义,为正确答案。decreased“减少”;converted“转变,转换”;lessened“减少,减轻”,均不符合题意。
【答案解析】解析:考查语义理解与词组辨析。from now on意为“从现在开始”;then意为“那时”;since then意为“从那时起”;long before意为“很久以前”,空格处所在句子用的是现在完成时态,故C.since then为正确答案。
单选题
【B13】
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析:考查逻辑关系。空格上面一段主要突出了贫困县以下的人口比例下降的现象。空格后的一段却又说明了“总体数字掩盖了严重贫困的问题”。因此上下文为转折关系,故答案为A.On the contrary“相反地”。On the other hand“从另一方面来说”,表并列;Even if“即使”,表让步;What is more“另外,而且”,表递进,均不符合题意。