单选题Directions: Read the following text. Choose
the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on theANSWER SHEET. Sitting around a
restaurant table, six workers discuss the progress of their labour action. Five
of them are women, {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}are most of their
several hundred {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}who have been
occupying the toy factory since mid-April. They have been sleeping on floors,
braving rats and mosquitoes, to stop the owner {{U}} {{U}} 3
{{/U}} {{/U}}down the factory without giving them fair {{U}} {{U}}
4 {{/U}} {{/U}}. Those at the table are all migrants from the
countryside. A couple are tearful. All are angry and determined not to {{U}}
{{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}. In Guangdong province, where
nearly 30% of China's exports are made, women usually far outnumber men on
labour-intensive production lines {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}}
{{/U}}those at the toy factory in the city of Shenzhen, next to Hong Kong.
{{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}women are {{U}} {{U}} 8
{{/U}} {{/U}}for their supposed docility (温顺，顺从), nimble (灵活的) fingers and
attention to detail. {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}}
{{/U}}in recent years Guangdong's workforce has changed. The supply of cheap
unskilled labour, once seemingly {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}},
has started to dry up. Factory bosses are {{U}} {{U}} 11
{{/U}} {{/U}}all but begging their female workers to {{U}} {{U}}
12 {{/U}} {{/U}}. At the same time the women who have migrated to the
factory towns have become better-educated and more aware of their {{U}}
{{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}. In labour-intensive factories, stereotypes
of female passivity (被动) are beginning to break down. {{U}}
{{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}the past three decades the migration of tens
of millions of women from the countryside to factories in Guangdong and other
coastal provinces has helped to {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}the
worldview of an especially downtrodden (受压迫的) sector of Chinese society.
Conditions in the factories have often been harsh—{{U}} {{U}} 16
{{/U}} {{/U}}safety, illegally long working hours, cramped accommodation, few
{{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}and little leave. Leslie Chang, an
American journalist, spent three years {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}}
{{/U}}on women workers in Dongguan, a city near Shenzhen. In her 2008 book
"Factory Girls" Ms. Chang wrote that, {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}}
{{/U}}men, the women she encountered were "more motivated to {{U}} {{U}}
20 {{/U}} {{/U}}themselves and more likely to value migration for its
life-changing possibilities."
【答案解析】[解析] A．give way“让步”；B．give out分发；C．take away“带走”；D．take up“占据”。All are angry and determined not to ______.(所有人都很愤怒并决定绝不______。)显然，分发、带走、占据都不能填入背景当中，答案为A，意思为“所有人都很愤怒并决定绝不让步”。
单选题
A.because of
B.lead to
C.such as
D.due to
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题选项A．because of和D．due to都表示“因为，由于”，两个词组同义，故可以排除。而B“导致”，强调因果关系；C“比如”，强调举例关系。上文提到的是Guangdong province(广东省)，而该空后文出现in the city of Shenzhen(深圳)，深圳和广东是因果关系还是举例关系?从一个省份中提到一个城市，显然是举例关系，答案为C．such as。
单选题
A.urban
B.rural
C.old
D.young
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] C、D两项比较容易排除。因为工厂雇佣女工并未强调年长或年轻，而文章也未体现任何关于年龄的词。A．urban“城市的”；B．rural“农村的”。文章第一段提到：Those at the table are all migrants from the countryside.而第四段提到：...the migration of tens of millions of women from the countryside to factories in Guangdong and other coastal provinces...两次提到了countryside(农村)一词，可见这些女工都是来自农村，所以B．rural是正确的。
【答案解析】[解析] ...become better-educated and more aware of their ______.本句有and这一提示并列的词，该空必然和上文有密切关系。该句说：受过更好的教育，并且对于自身______更有意识。A“工作”；B“生活”；C“权利”；D“权力”。文章开始就描述了女工讨薪的场景，此处提到女工对于自己的什么更有意识，自然A“工作”、B“生活”两个选项比较容易排除。应该是C项right“权利”。而D项power一般指的是领导等等的权力，应该区分开。
单选题
A.Over
B.On
C.Among
D.At
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查的是介词的搭配。选项的干扰性也不大。一般来讲：at，on，in，during，over，from...to等等这些词都可以和时间搭配。其中比较容易排除的是among，意为“在…之间”，强调的是一种方位或空间，与时间关系不大。而at一般搭配比较小的时间，如at this moment；at five o'clock；on相对应at时间稍微长些，如on Monday；on Sunday morning；而in一般搭配的时间范围比较广也比较长，如in this week；in May；in summer；in 1980等等。而over一般则表示的时间也比较长，如over the past decades在过去十年；over time长期以来。本题答案为A．over。如果选项有in，也可以考虑，但是和decade一词搭配，over是最佳答案。
单选题
A.exchange
B.change
C.challenge
D.charge
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 原词复现。上文提到过change一词，此处再次复现了。原文背景：has helped to ______ the worldview.帮助______世界观，A“交换”；B“改变”；C“挑战”；D“指控”。单从汉语搭配上来看，显然是改变世界观。故B为答案。
单选题
A.good
B.sound
C.tough
D.poor
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】
单选题
A.works
B.studies
C.dates
D.breaks
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 该题简单。我们应该看懂这个背景句：few ______ and little leave，由于and一词提示同义替换，故上下文出现few=little ______=leave。而leave在此处不是“离开”的意思，根据文章背景，其意思为“请假”。而A、B两项的“工作、学习”显然与其无关，故排除。C项dates表示“日期”或者“约会”，约会与请假也不是很接近。D项break的意思为“休息”，请假自然是为了休息，故D为答案。
单选题
A.experimenting
B.operating
C.reporting
D.working
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 上文提到Leslie Chang, an American journalist, spent three years ______，也就是Leslie Chang这个人她是个记者，记者自然而然是report(报道)新闻的，故C为答案。
单选题
A.compared with
B.combined with
C.concentrated on
D.consisted of
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] ______ men, the women she encountered were "more motivated...本题不难。根据more motivated一词，我们知道，既然有比较级，此处是将男女进行比较，故A．compared with是最佳答案。
单选题
A.protect
B.improve
C.resist
D.dismiss
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 文章背景：to ______ themselves and more likely to value migration for its life-changing possibilities.”背景中又出现了and一词，说明上下文是并列，意思相近。后文提到的life-changing possibilities(改变一生的机会)，还提到value(重视，看重)，这些词都是比较好的，因此在20空中，不可能选择C或D，这两个词均为否定词。而这些女性既然是想要改变生活，自然是提高自己，而不是保护自己，故B．improve为答案。