填空题
The appeal of the world of work is first its freedom. The child is compelled to go to school; he is under the 1 of authority. Even what he 2 to school may be decided for him. As he grows up,he sees 3 it is to be free 4 school and to be able to choose his job and change it if he doesn''t like it,to have money in his pocket and 5 to come and go as he wishes in the world. The boys and girls, a year or two older than he is, whom he has long observed, revisit school utterly 6 and apparently mature. Suddenly masters and mistresses seem 7 out of date as his parents and the authority of school a 8 thing. At the moment the adult world may appear so much more real than the school world 9 the hunger to enter it cannot be appeased by exercises in school books, or talk of 10 examinations necessary for entry into professions or the more attractive occupations. This may not be the wisest 11 but it is a necessary part of growing up, for everyone must come sooner or later to the 12 of saying" Really, I''ve had enough of being taught; I must do a proper job. "Some youths, maturing rapidly because of outside influences,come to this decision 13 than they ought. Yet in a way this is not a bad frame of mind to be in 14 leaving school. At work, the young man makes one of the first great acceptances of life-he accepts the 15 of the material or the process he is working with. The job must be done in accord with some rigid process he cannot 16 . He sees the point of it and in doing so comes to 17 with life. Nothing done in school 18 its will in quite the same way;if it is wet games can be cancelled;if the math master is ill one can 19 with something else. But even the boy delivering papers, like the driver taking out his bus, discovers that one cannot 20 because there is snow on the ground, or the foreman is irritable, or he himself is in a bad mood that morning.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】这4个词都与手有关，但只有under the thumb of sb．/sb．''s thumb是惯用短语，意为under the influence or control of sb．(在……的影响或支配之下)，故thumb是惟一选择。若表示“在某人手下工作”，用work under sb．即可。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】carries，bears和brings都有“携带”之意，只有wear：have on the body(穿着)与它们不同，为当选之词。
【答案解析】句中的come to与point搭配，形成惯用短语come to the point，意为reach a certain stage(达到某个时期/阶段)，符合句意。 verge(边缘)的惯用短语有on the verge of(接近于)，bring sb．to the verge of(使某人濒于)；phase(阶段；状态)构成的短语有in phase(相同的/地)，out of phase(非同时协调的/地)；sense(感觉；意识)的短语有come to one''s senses(苏醒过来)，make sense(讲得通；有意义)，make sense of(弄懂……的意思)等。
【答案解析】分析句子结构可知，此处所需之介词应与其后的leaving搭配。我们知道， by doing sth．意为“通过做某事；以做……的方法”；at doing sth．意为“在做某事方面”；for doing sth．意为“适于做某事；为做某事”；on doing sth．意为“在做某事后立即”。依照句意逻辑，自然要选D。空白前的frame of mind意为“心情；精神状态”，to be in是其定语。
【答案解析】这是词义辨析题。discipline：纪律；restraint：抑制，约束；principle：原理，原则；regulation：规章，规则。鉴于空白后有of the material or process he is working with (他工作所用物料或工序的……)，我们只有选discipline，因为它的意思是training； the result of training(训练；训练结果，即纪律，戒律)。由此可见，参阅词汇的英语释义是非常重要的。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】此处所需动词的宾语是rigid process(严格的工序)，故revise(修订/正)和 offend(冒犯)不适用。shift意为change position or direction；transfer(改变位置或方向，转移)；alter意为cause to become different(改变，更改)。只有后者符合句意。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】这是一个与come to组成的惯用短语：come to terms with sth．意为accept； become resigned to sth．(接受；容忍；屈服)，例如：come to terms with a difficult situation(逆来顺受)。 deal可用于make/do a deal with(与……做交易；和……妥协)；touch可用于keep in/lose touch with(与……保持失去联系)，get in touch with(与……取得联系)； array可用于an array of(一系列；大量)。
【答案解析】空白后有with，表明此处所需之短语动词是一个3词动词。 go over(仔细检查)和cut in(抢挡；插嘴)与with无固定搭配；get on with：continue with(继续)；come up with：think of，have an idea of(提出)。根据句意，应选B。意思是：如果数学老师生病了，你可继续学别的功课。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】这4个短语动词中间的it指主语所应做之事。put sth．off：postpone(延期，推迟)；get sth．over(with)：reach the end of sth．unpleasant(结束不愉快的事)，get sth．over(to sb．)：cause sb．to understand sth．(使某人了解某事)；pull sth. up：bring or come to a stop(〈使〉停止)；make sth．out：manage to see or read(看/读出)。 由此可知，A项最合句意。此句否定词在主句中，否定的却是because从句：他(指送报男童等)不能因为地上有雪，或因为工头脾气暴躁，还是因为他自己当天早上心情不好而推迟干活。