完形填空Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.How men first learned to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain 【A1】______ to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, 【A2】______ they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed【A3】______ certain signs, called letters, which could be written to represent those sounds, and which could be 【A4】______. Those sounds, whether spoken, or written in letters, we call words.The power of words, then, lies in their 【A5】______—the things they bring up before our minds. Words become 【A6】______ with meaning for us by experience;【A7】______ the longer we live, the more certain words 【A8】______ to us the happy and sad events of our past: and the more we【A9】______, the more the number of words that mean something to us 【A10】______.

完形填空Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In 【A1】_____ a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend 【A2】_____ can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are【A3】_____ readers. Most of us develop poor reading 【A4】_____ at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency 【A5】_____ in the actual stuff of language itself-words. Taken individually, words have 【A6】_____ meaning until they are strung together into phrased, sentences and paragraphs. 【A7】_____, however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to 【A8】_____ words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over 【A9】_____ you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which 【A10】_____ down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as 【A11】_____ reads.To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an【A12】_____, which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate 【A13】_____ the reader finds comfortable, in order to “stretch” him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, 【A14】_____ word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible. At first 【A15】_____ is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, 【A16】_____ your comprehension will improve. Many people have found 【A17】_____ reading skill drastically improved after some training. 【A18】_____ Charlce Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute 【A19】_____ the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can 【A20】_____ a lot more reading material in a short period of time.

完形填空Anew science and engineering first degree 【A1】______ at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology （MIT） is helping prepare students to become leaders 【A2】______of imaging and directing change in local, national, and global communities.Three years ago, MIT worked with Leadership, Inc. to【A3】______the institute-based Leader Shape Institute. Program leaders-call it a serious and creative【A4】______to todays basic challenges to develop students and engineers who are prepared to Tead with integrity both in technological【A5】______and in society. Central to the effort is helping students to learn to listen to society as it articulates （表达）its need for change.For the past three summers, the Leader Shape Institute has【A6】______120 MIT science and engineering students witha thorough six-day experience featuring highly interactive teaching and learning methodologies【A7】______the program, students develop skills in problem identification and problem solving, professional morals, decision-making, dealing with uncertainty, wcxking within a【A8】______community, and relationship communication. Most discussions and activities take place in assigned small “groups” which provide supportive, safe environments that promote learning and develop new skills and【A9】______. Each participant creates and individual plan of action called a “vision” which is a main【A10】______of the Leader Shape curriculum. Each vision must be designed to bring positive change to the institute community, and it must be carried out during the following school year.

完形填空Geography is the study of the relationship between people and the land

完形填空Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.Organized volunteering and work experience has long been a vital companion to university degree courses. Usually it is left to 【A1】______ to deduce the potential from a list of extracurricular adventures on a graduate’s resume, 【A2】______ now the University of Bristol has launched an award to formalize the achievements of students who 【A3】______ time to activities outside their courses. Bristol PLUS aims to boost students in an increasingly 【A4】______ job market by helping them acquire work and life skills alongside 【A5】______ qualifications.“Our students are a pretty active bunch, but we found that they didn’t 【A6】______ appreciate the value of what they did 【A7】______ the lecture hall,” says Jeff Goodman, director of careers and employability at the university. “Employers are much more 【A8】______ than they used to be. They used to look for 【A9】______ and saw it as part of their job to extract the value of an applicant’s skills. Now they want students to be able to explain why those skills are 【A10】______ to the job.”Students who sign 【A11】______—for the award will be expected to complete 50 hours of work experience or 【A12】______ work, attend four workshops on employ-ability skills, take part in an intensive skills-related activity 【A13】______, crucially, write a summary of the skills they have gained. 【A14】______ efforts will gain an Outstanding Achievement Award. Those who 【A15】______ best on the sports field can take the Sporting Plus Award which fosters employer-friendly sports accomplishments.The experience does not have to be 【A16】______ organized. “We’re not just interested in easily identifiable skills,” says Goodman. “【A17】______, one student took the lead in dealing with a difficult landlord and so 【A18】______ negotiation skills. We try to make the experience relevant to individual lives.”Goodman hopes the 【A19】______ will enable active students to fill in any gaps in their experience and encourage their less-active 【A20】______ to take up activities outside their academic area of work.

完形填空When I entered Berkeley, I hoped to earn a scholarship

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