完形填空Movie makers feared for a while that they might be put out of business by television

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

完形填空An important factor of leadership is attraction. This does not mean attractiveness in the ordinary sense, for that is a born quality 【A1】 _____ our control. The leader has, nevertheless, to be a magnet; a central figure towards whom people are 【A2】_____. Magnetism in that sense depends, first of all, 【A3】 _____ being seen.There is a type of authority which can be【A4】_____ from behind closed doors, but that is not leadership. 【A5】_____ there is movement and action, the true leaders is in the forefront and may seem, indeed, to be everywhere at once. He has to become a legend; the 【A6】_____ for anecdotes, whether true or【A7】_____, character. One of the simplest devices is to be absent 【A8】 _____ the occasion when the leader might be【A9】_____ to be there, enough in itself to start a rumor about the vital business【A10】_____ has detained him. To 【A11】_____ up for this, he can appear when least expected, giving rise to another story about the interest he can display【A12】_____ things which other folks might【A13】_____ as trivial.With this gift for【A14】_____ curiosity the leader always combines a reluctance to talk about himself. His interest is【A15】_____ in other people he questions them and encourages them to talk and then remembers all 【A16】_____ is relevant. He never leaves a party 【A17】_____ he has mentally filed a minimum dossier（档案） on 【A18】_____ present, ensuring that he knows 【A19】_____ to say when he meets them again. He is not artificially extrovert but he would usually rather listen 【A20】_____ talk. Others realize gradually that his importance needs no proof.

完形填空Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle viewed laughter as “a bodily exercise precious to health.” But 【B1】 _____ some claims to the contrary, laughing probably has little influence on physical fitness. Laughter does 【B2】_____ short-term changes in the function of the heart and its blood vessels, 【B3】_____ heart rate and oxygen consumption. But because hard laughter is difficult to 【B4】_____, a good laugh is unlikely to have 【B5】_____ benefits the way, say, walking or jogging does.【B6】_____, instead of straining muscles to build them, as exercise does, laughter apparently accomplishes the 【B7】_____. Studies dating back to the 1930’s indicate that laughter 【B8】_____ muscles, decreasing muscle tone for up to 45 minutes after the laugh dies down. Such bodily reaction might conceivably help 【B9】_____ the effects of psychological stress. Anyway, the act of laughing probably does produce other types of 【B10】_____ feedback, that improve an individual’s emotional state.【B11】 _____ one classical theory of emotion, our feelings are partially rooted 【B12】_____ physical reactions. It was argued at the end of the 19 th century that humans do not cry 【B13】_____ they are sad but they become sad when the tears begin to flow. Although sadness also【B14】_____ tears, evidence suggests that emotions can flow 【B15】_____ muscular responses. In an experiment published in 1988, social psychologist Fritz Strack of the University of würzburg in Germany asked volunteers to 【B16】_____ a pen either with their teeth-thereby creating an artificial smile—or with their lips, which would produce a(n) 【B17】_____ expression. Those forced to exercise their smiling muscles 【B18】_____ more exuberantly to funny cartons than did those whose mouths were contracted in a frown,【B19】_____ that expressions may influence emotions rather than just the other way around. 【B20】_____, the physical act of laughter could improve mood.

完形填空In Cambodia, the choice of a spouse is a complex one for the young male. It may involve not only his parents and his friends, 【A1】_____ those of the young woman, but also a matchmaker. A young man can【A2】_____ a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to【A3】_____ the marriage negotiations, or the young man’s parents may take the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection. 【A4】_____, a girl may veto the spouse her parents have chosen.【A5】_____ a spouse has been selected, each family investigates the other to make sure its child is marrying 【A6】_____ a good family.The traditional wedding is a long and colorful affair. Formerly it lasted three days, 【A7】_____ 1980s it more commonly lasted a day and a half. Buddhist priests offer a short sermon and 【A8】_____ prayers of blessing. Parts of the ceremony involve ritual hair cutting, 【A9】_____ cotton threads soaked in holy water around the bride’s and groom’s wrists, and【A10】_____ a candle around a circle of happily married and respected couples to bless the 【A11】_____. Newlyweds traditionally move in with the wife’s parents and may【A12】_____ with them up to a year, 【A13】_____ they can build a new house nearby. Divorce is legal and easy to【A14】_____, but not common. Divorced persons are【A15】_____ with some disapproval. Each spouse retains【A16】_____ property he or she【A17】_____ into the marriage, and jointly- acquired property is【A18】_____ equally. Divorced persons may remarry, but a gender prejudice【A19】_____ up. The divorced male doesnt have a waiting period before he can remarry【A20】 _____ the woman must wait ten months.

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.Music produces profound and lasting changes in the brain. Schools should add music classes, not cut them. Nearly 20 years ago, a small study advanced the 【A1】______ that listening to Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major could boost mental functioning. It was not long 【A2】______ trademarked “Mozart effect” products began to appeal to anxious parents aiming to put toddlers 【A3】______ the fast track to prestigious universities like Harvard and Yale. Georgia’s governor even 【A4】______ giving every newborn there a classical CD or cassette.The 【A5】______ for Mozart therapy turned out to be weak, perhaps nonexistent, although the 【A6】______ study never claimed anything more than a temporary and limited effect. In recent years, 【A7】______, scientists have examined the benefits of a concerted 【A8】______ to study and practice music, as 【A9】______ to playing a Mozart CD or a computer-based “brain fitness” game 【A10】______ in a while.Advanced monitoring 【A11】______ have enabled scientists to see what happens【A12】______ your head when you listen to your mother and actually practice the violin for an hour every afternoon. And they have found that music 【A13】______ can produce profound and lasting changes that 【A14】______ the general ability to learn. These results should【A15】______ public officials that music classes are not a mere decoration, ripe for discarding in the budget crises that constantly【A16】______ public schools.Studies have shown that 【A17】______ instrument training from an early age can help the brain to【A18】______ sounds better, making it easier to stay focused when absorbing other subjects, from literature to mathematics. The musically adept are better able to 【A19】______ on a biology lesson despite the noise in the classroom 【A20】______, a few years later, to finish a call with a client when a colleague in the next office starts screaming a subordinate. They can attend to several things at once in the mental scratch pad called working memory, an essential skill in this era of multitasking

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完形填空Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has just struck

完形填空Ifs an annual back-to-school routine for parents. One morning you wave your child goodbye, and that【A11】______evening youre burning the late-night oil in sympathy. In the race to improve educational standards, 【A12】______are throwing the books at kids.【A13】______elementary school students are complaining of homework 【A14】______. Whats a well-meaning parent to go?As hard as【A15】______may be, sit back and chill, experts advise. Though youve got to get them to do it,【A16】______helping too much, or even examining【A17】______too carefully, you may keep them【A18】______doing it by themselves. I wouldnt advise a parent to check every 【A19】______assignment,says psychologist John Rosemond, author of Ending the Tough Homework. Theres a【A20】______of. appreciation for trial and error. Let your children【A21】______the grade they deserve.Many experts believe parents should gently look over the work of younger children and ask them to rethink their【A22】______But you dont want them to feel it has to be 【A23】______， she says.Thafs not to say parents should【A24】______homework first, they should monitor how much homework their kids【A25】______Thirty minutes a day in the early elementary years and an hour in【A26】______four; five, and six is standard, says Rosemond. For junior-high students it should be【A27】______more than an hour and a half, and two for high-school students. If your child【A28】______has more homewwk than this, you may want to check【A29】______other parents and then talk to the teacher about【A30】______assignments.

完形填空Directions: Please fill in blanks 66 to 80 of the following passage. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Psychology researchers have found that the best way to make an important decision always involves the utilization of a decision worksheet. Psychologists compare people’s 【B1】 _____ decisions to theoretical ideal decisions to see how similar they are 【B2】_____ each other. 【B3】_____ of the worksheet procedure believe that it will yield optimal, 【B4】_____, the best decisions. Although there are several【B5】_____ on the exact format of worksheets, they are all 【B6】_____ in their essential aspects. Worksheets require defining the problem in a concise way and then listing all possible【B7】_____ to the problem. Next, the relevant considerations to be 【B8】_____ by each decision are listed, and the relative importance of each consideration is determined. Each consideration is assigned a numerical value to【B9】_____ its relative importance. After being mathematically calculated by 【B10】_____ these values together, the alternative with the highest number of points is the best decision.Since most important problems are multifaceted, there are several alternatives to choose from. One【B11】 _____ of a paper decision-making procedure is that it【B12】_____ people to deal with more variables than their minds can remember. On the average, people can keep about seven ideas in their mind【B13】_____.A decision-making worksheet begins from a succinct statement of the problem that also helps to narrow it. It is important to understand the distinction between long-range and【B14】_____ goals because long-range goals often involve a different decision from short-range ones. A realistic example for many college students is the question “What will I do after graduation?” A graduate might【B15】_____ a position that offers specialized training or travel abroad for a year. Focusing on long-range goals, a graduating student might revise the question above to “What will I do after graduation that will lead to a successful career?”

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