单选题 Many of today's college students are suffering from a form of shock. Lisa is a good example of a student in shock. She is an attractive, intelligent twenty-year-old college     26    at a state university. Now, only three years later, Lisa is miserable. She has     27    her major four times and is forced to hold down two part-time jobs in order to pay her tuition. She suffers from sleeping and eating disorders and has no     28    friend. Sometimes she burst out crying for no     29    reason.
    What is happening to Lisa happens to millions of college students each year. As a result, roughly one-quarter of the student population at any time will suffer from     30    of depression. Half of them will experience depression intense enough to call for     31    help. But many of them     32    the idea because they don't want people to think there's something wrong with them.
    There are two reasons today's college students are suffering more than in earlier generations. First is a weakening family support     33    . Today, with high divorce rate, the traditional family is not always available for support. Another problem is     34    pressure. In the last decade, tuition cost rose about sixty-six percent at public colleges and ninety percent at private schools. Most students,     35    , must work at least part-time. It can be depressing to students to be faced with the added tuition costs.
    A. apparent                          I. intimate
    B. automatic                        J. junior
    C. consequently                      K. professional
    D. consistently                      L. recalled
    E. decline                          M. structure
    F. delightful                        N. switched
    G. finance                          O. symptom
    H. financial
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【正确答案】J
【答案解析】分析句子结构可知,此句缺少表语中心词,因此空格处应填入一个名词。根据空格前的college和下一句中的three years later可知,丽莎是大三学生,junior作名词时可表示“大学三年级学生”,故J为正确答案。
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【正确答案】N
【答案解析】根据句子结构可知,所填词应为动词,且为过去分词形式。本句句意为“她四次______专业,而且被迫做两份兼职工作,以便支付学费”,备选动词中switched“转变,转换”可与major搭配,表示“换专业”,符合句意,故N为正确答案。
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【正确答案】I
【答案解析】根据句子结构可知,空格处应填入一个形容词,修饰friend。句中提到“她正遭受睡眠和饮食紊乱的痛苦”,由此推测这里指她没有亲密的朋友,intimate意为“亲密的,私人的”,故I为正确答案。
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【正确答案】A
【答案解析】根据句子结构可知,所填词应为一个形容词,修饰reason。根据上文提到的丽莎的状态可以推测出,她经常莫名地哭泣,for no apparent reason意为“莫名地,无明显原因地”,故A为正确答案。
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【正确答案】O
【答案解析】由句子结构可知,空格处应填入一个名词,作suffer的宾语。空格所在句句意为“任何时候都有大约四分之一的学生患有抑郁的______”,在备选名词中,symptom“症状”符合句意,故O为正确答案。
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【正确答案】K
【答案解析】根据句子结构可知,空格处应填入一个形容词,修饰help。根据前文提到的depression intense enough可知,他们的精神抑郁已经相当严重,因此需要获得专业人士的帮助,professional意为“职业的,专业的”,故K为正确答案。
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【正确答案】E
【答案解析】根据句子结构可知,空格处应填入一个动词。由句首的But和后面的they don't want people to think...可知,他们拒绝这个主意,即前面提到的寻求专业人士的帮助,decline意为“拒绝”,故E为正确答案。
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【正确答案】M
【答案解析】由句子结构可知,所填词应为名词。本句句意为“首先是不断削弱的家庭支撑______”,备选名词中只有structure“结构,构造”符合此处句意,故M为正确答案。
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【正确答案】H
【答案解析】根据句子结构可知,所填词应为形容词。根据后文提到的tuition cost rose可以推测出,学生的学费压力很大,financial“财政的,经济的”符合句意,故H为正确答案。
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【正确答案】C
【答案解析】根据句子结构可知,空格处应填入一个副词。空格前面的内容提到学费上涨很多,空格后面又讲到很多学生至少必须兼职打工,这两句之间是一种因果关系,consequently“所以,因此”符合题意,故C为正确答案。