单选题 Directions:
For each blank in the following passage, choose the best answer from the choices given below. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.
Educational attitudes in a country may be a {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}by which its basic cultural values are reflected. To take the American higher education {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}example, university classrooms share certain identical features though they {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}from course to course in some aspects. Any student, {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}their ethnic and social background, is not only allowed but also encouraged to have chances for active participation in class. {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}, teachers often expect independent learning {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}their students. It will be most appreciated if a student can {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}the initiative and complete the assignment without too much {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}upon his or her instructors. These two {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}features in American university classrooms actually manifest the basic American values, especially self-reliance and {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}of opportunity.
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  • A. methods
  • B. mean
  • C. means
  • D. measure
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] B.mean作为名词,意思是“中间”“平均(数值)”;D.measure度量;以上两个词的词意都不能用在这里。A.methods“方法”,意思接近,但有冠词a methods明显错误。只能用C。
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  • A. as an
  • B. for an
  • C. as
  • D. the
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 是动词搭配要求,即take…as…“拿美国的高等教育作为例子”。B和D不能用,C as前无冠词an也不对。
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  • A. vary
  • B. defer
  • C. differs
  • D. diversified
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 是动词搭配要求,即vary from...to...各课程之间有“变化”。B.defer“推迟”;D.diversify“使……变化”,与from…to不搭配;C.differs,用在though they differs中,语法错误。
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  • A. without regard of
  • B. with regard to
  • C. regardless of
  • D. regardless to
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] regardless of“不管,不顾”。句子的前半部分意思是:“任何学生,不管他的种族和社会背景如何……”,如选择A、B、D三个词组,它们的词义不适用。
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  • A. However
  • B. Moreover
  • C. Whereas
  • D. Otherwise
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] More over“此外”。正好用来连接前后两个句子并有进一步说明的意思,起了衔接的作用。
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  • A. with
  • B. of
  • C. for
  • D. to
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 用“of”是指学生们的independent learning。
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  • A. do
  • B. make
  • C. take
  • D. play
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] take the initiative是一种习惯用语,表示具有“主动性”,这里正好需要这种词义,play与initiative不搭配,如用do,其搭配形式是in doing something or do something on one's own initiative主动地做某事。
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  • A. independence
  • B. help
  • C. guidance
  • D. dependence
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 后边有介词upon,正好与其搭配,内容上看,需要表示有“依赖性”的词,不难看出,B和C意义、结构都不对,A虽然搭配对,词义不适用。
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  • A. common
  • B. similar
  • C. different
  • D. alike
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] common,“美国大学课堂中的这两个共同的特点实际上……”,其他的词义都不能用。
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  • A. unity
  • B. equality
  • C. in equality
  • D. variety
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] equality of opportunity“机会均等”。A.unity“统一,完整”。C.inequality“不等,变动”。D.variety“各种各样”。显然,这些词的意义都无法用在这里。