The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.
     As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lesson in living.” She said that I must always be _________ of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some _________, unable to go to school, were more _________ and even more intelligent than _________ professors. She encouraged me to _________ carefully to what country people _________ mother wit. When salesmen are doing well, there is _________ upon them to begin doing better, for _________ they may start doing worse. 

     When they are doing _________, they are doing terribly. When a salesman lands a large order or _________ in an important new account, _________ elation is brief, for there is danger he might lose that large order or important new account to a salesman _________ a competing company the next time around. The American dream promised older people that if they _________ hard enough all their lives, things would _________ well for them. Today’s elderly were brought up to _________ in pride, self-reliance and independence. Many _________ tough, determined individuals _________ manage to survive against adversity. But even the tough ones reach a _________ where help should be available to them. 

     Another solitary man was fishing further along the canal, _________ Arthur knew that they would leave each other _________ peace, would not even call _________ greetings. No one bothered _________: you were a hunter, a dreamer, your own _________, away from it all for a few hours on any day that the _________ did not throw down its rain.

A. people         B. fear                     C. his                  D. worked          E. boss 

F educated      G. intolerant         H. brings            I. believe            J. in

K. but                L. weather             M. are                  N. point              O. listen 

P pressure       Q. out                     R. who                  S. you                 T. turn out 

U. from            V. called                W. poorly            X. college

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.
     Women have an average life _________ of seven years longer than men and tend to marry men older than themselves; so two-thirds (six million) of all older women are widows. _________ widowed they do not have the same social prerogatives as older men to _________ and marry those who are younger. _________ , they are likely to end up alone—an ironic _________ of events when one remembers that most of them were raised from childhood to consider _________ the only acceptable state. 

     The sheriff follows the county attorney _________ the other room. Then Mrs. Hale rises, hands _________ together, _________ intensely at Mrs. Peters, whose eyes make a slow turn, finally _________ Mrs. Hale’s. A moment Mrs. Hale holds her, then her own eyes _________ the way to where the box is concealed. _________ Mrs. Peters throws back quilt pieces and tries to put the box in the bag she is wearing. 

     A company that delivers value _________ customer intimacy builds _________ with customers like those between good neighbors. Customer-intimate companies don’t deliver what the market wants _________ what a specific customer wants. The customer-intimate company _________ a business of knowing the people it sells to and the products and services they need. It continually _________ its products and services and does so at _________ prices. 

     Childhood’s _________ never asks to be proved (all conclusions are absolute). I didn’t question why Mrs. Flowers had _________ me out for attention, nor did it _________ me that Momma might have asked her to give me a little talking to. All I _________ was that she had made tea cookies for me and read to me from her _________ book. It was _________ to prove that she liked me.

A. via B. reasonable C. enough D. cared about
E. logic F. occur to G. tailors H. bonds
I. but J. makes K. singled L. into
M. expectancy N. turn O. date P tight
Q. meeting R. As a result S. When T. point
U. Suddenly V. favorite W. marriage X. looking

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks， followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences.

     The run must have tuned Bonnie up. When they got back ____1__ _, as soon as he lowered her into the crib, she began to       2       and wave her arms. He didn't want to play with her. He tossed some       3       and a rattle into the crib and walked into the       4      , where he turned on the       5       water and began to comb his hair. 

     But some years ago, I married a girl whose mother is an       6       cook of the kind called "old-fashioned". This gifted woman's daughter (my wife) was       7       her mother's venerable skills. She still buys       8       products from the neighbors and, in so far as possible, she uses the same materials her mother and grandmother did-to prepare meals that are       9      . They are just as good as I       10       them from my courtship.
     Not surprisingly, Watts, too, was in the       11       of painful discussion about the riots. It was beginning to look as       12       the deepest impact of the riots was       13       the people of Watts themselves. Old attitudes about the community were in       14      . There were no explanations that seemed complete. No one knew for sure       15       it all began.
     Most of the work that most people have to do is not in itself       16      , but even such work has       17       great advantages. To begin with, it       18       a good many hours of the day without the need of deciding what one shall do. Most people,       19       they are left free to fill their own time according to their own choice, are at a       20       to think of anything sufficiently pleasant to be worth doing.
     It was mid-June, 1972, the Chicago Amphitheater was       21       sweltering, rocking. Onstage, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones was       22       "Midnight Rambler". Critic Don Heckman was there when the song       23      , "Jagger," he said, "grabs a half-gallon       24       of water and runs along the front platform, sprinkling its contents over the first few rows of sweltering listeners. They       25       to follow him, eager to be touched by a few baptismal drops.
A. blocks              B. throes                    C. upheaval                  D. superior                      E. fills
F. interesting        G. home                    H. on                             I. dairy                             J. loss
K. packed             L. recall                     M. shout                        N. singing                       O. ended 

P. when                Q. taught                   R. certain                       S. how                             T. bathroom 

U. jug                   V.hot                          W. though                     X. expert                         Y.surge

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.
     Actually, I enjoy my work when the ____1___ are large and urgent and somewhat_____2___ and will come to the attention of many people. I get scared, and am unable to sleep at night, but I usually_____3_______at my best under this stimulating kind of pressure and enjoy my job the most. I handle all of these important ____4______ myself, and I rejoice with _____5_____ pride and vanity in the compliments I receive when I do them well. But ____6______ such peaks of challenge and elation there is monotony and despair.
     Our anger goes beyond the simple policy matters. It goes ____7_____the fact that all the things we were told about Vietnam we found_____8_____ when we got there. We found that ___9____ often American men were_____10_______ in those rice paddies from______11_____ of support from our so-called allies. We saw at first hand the money—your taxes—_____12_____ by a corrupt dictatorial regime.
     The fact is that although network television still _____13_____ too little time to the vita service of informing the _____14_____, it does a better job in that little time_____15_____the nation's press as a whole. And when I speak of the nation's press as a whole, I am _____16______ speaking of the five or six splendid newspapers—and the_____17______great newspaper—which sere the world as models of _______18______ public information.
     Another solitary man was fishing further along the canal, but Arthur knew that they would____19_____each other in peace, would not even _____20______ out greetings. No one bothered you: you were a hunter, a _____21______, your own boss, away from _____22____ all for a few hours on any day that the weather did not ______23______ down its rain. Like the _____24_____ in the army who said it was marvelous the things you thought about as you sat on the lavatory.
A.tremendous         B.assignments                C.into                D.dying             E.squandered

F.frightening           G.between                      H.not                 I.call                  J. corporal 

K.it                           L.untrue                          M.want              N.too                O. public 

P. responsible         Q.throw                           R.dreamer         S.leave              T.than
U.perform               V.projects                        W.allots            X.one

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your answer sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.
● We parked the car, Elgie came over and ______ himself in the back seat of the car. A police car moved slowly to the corner where we were ______ and the patrolmen looked at the three of us ______ and we pretended not to ______. The patrol car ______ down the empty street and I turned ______ toward Elgie. 

● She ______ to me because she was like people I had never met ______. Like women in English novels who walked the moors with their ______ dogs racing at a ______ distance. Like the women who sat in front of roaring ______, drinking tea ______ from silver trays. 

● Actually, I enjoy my work when the ______ are large and ______ and somewhat frightening and will ______ the attention of many people. I get scared, and am unable to ______ at night, but I usually ______ at my best under this stimulating kind of ______ and enjoy my job the most. 

● And Americans ought to note that, ______ things may seem to be ______ apart, arts and the humane scholarship are ______ here. I’m not suggesting that writers and artists have the task of finding a ______ to the American ______, but they can at least clarify its ______ and show how it relates to the human condition in general.

A. inched     B. perform     C. assignments      D. personally
E. appealed  F. however   G. nature                 H. come to
I. fireplaces   J. intently     K. parked                 L. settled
M. respectful N. loyal       O. notice                 P. cautiously
Q. pressure    R. mess      S. flourishing            T. sleep
U. incessantly  V. solution  W. urgent              X. falling

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences. One word or expression for each blank only.
     “It was the best of times and the worst of time…” Her voice _________ in and curved down through and _________ the words. She was nearly singing. I wanted to look at the pages. Were they the same that I had read? Or were there notes, music lined on the pages, as in a _________ book? Her sounds began_________ gently. I knew from listening to a thousand preachers that she was nearing the end of her reading, and I hadn’t really heard, heard to understand, a _________ word. 

     Watching the float so intently made him sleepy: he had been with Doreen _________ two the night before. They spoke of getting married in three months, by which time, Arthur said, they would have collected a good _________ of money, nearly a hundred and fifty pounds, not counting income-tax rebate, which will probably _________ it up to a couple of hundred. So they would be sitting pretty, Doreen replied, because Mrs. Creatton had already _________ to let them stay with her for as long as they like, _________ half the rent. 

     Work therefore is _________, first and foremost as a preventive of boredom, for the boredom that a man feels when he is doing necessary though_________ work is as nothing in _________ with the boredom that he feels when he has nothing to do with his days. _________ this advantage of work another is associated, _________ that it makes holidays much more delicious when they come. 

     On the edge of a small cape that marked the side of the bay away from the promontory was a loose _________ of rocks. Above them, some boys were _________ off their clothes. They came running, naked, down to the rocks. The English boy swam _________ them, and kept his distance at a stone’s _________. They were of that coast, all of them burned smooth _________ brown, and speaking a language he did not understand. To be with them, of them, was a craving that filled his whole body. 

     I don't know what the European figures are. Much smaller _________. Europe is poor, and a face can cost as much in _________ as a Rolls-Royce. The most that the _________ of European women can do is just to wash and hope for the best. Perhaps the soap will produce its loudly advertised _________; perhaps it will transform them into the likeness of those _________ creatures who smile so rosily and creamily, so peachily and pearlily, from every hoarding.

A. desirable   B. majority     C. until   D. scatter        E. over   F. stripping
G. amount     H. cascading   I. undoubtedly   J. uninteresting    K. slid
L. namely      M. effects        N. bump       O. dark        P. comparison   

Q. ravishing R. single            S. throw        T. offered    U. paying    

V. towards  W. upkeep        X. With           Y. hymn

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.
     What a bundle of contradictions is a man! Surely, humor is the_____1____ grace of us, for without it we should die ____2______ vexation. With me, nothing illustrates the contrariness of things ____3_____than the matter of sleep.If, for example, my____4_____is to write an essay, and I have before me ink and pens and several___5____of virgin paper, you may depend upon it that before I have gone very far I_____6____an overpowering desire for sleep, no matter what time of the day it is.
     The senior partner studied the resume for the hundredth time and ___7___found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y. Mcdeere, at least not on paper. He had the_____8____,the ambition, the good looks. And he was ___9______; with his background, he had to be. He was married, and ___10__ was mandatory. The firm also _11____heavily on divorce, as well as womanizing and drinking. Drug testing was in the contract.He had a degree in accounting and wanted to be a tax lawyer, which was of course a _____12_____ with a tax firm.
     Imitations also came into the cheese____13____. There are American ____14____ of most of the celebrated European cheeses, mass-produced and ____15____by far than the imports.They would ___16_____European food-lovers to gag and ___17_____—but generally, the imitation are all that’s ___18____in the supermarkets. People buy them and eat them.
     I suspected at the time and now ___19____ that the riots were perhaps the most significant, massive ____20____ taken by Northern Negroes. It was a watershed in the ghetto's ___21______ Before the riots, the reach or the Negro movement in America seemed _____22_____ the province of small civil rights____23______.Now Watts,and places like Watts, were redefining the ____24_____ of black men in their city's life.
A.realize      B. history       C.role       D.action       E. leadership       F.within
G. saving     H.feel             I. of          J. intention   K.sheets               L. better
M.guffaw    N. business    O. cause   P. available   Q. cheaper          R. duplications
S.again        T. requirement    U.that     V.hungry      W.brains      X. frowned

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences.

     Between Elvis and Alice, rock critics say, a _______ of rock stars have helped our society define its beliefs and _______ . Bob Dylan touched a _______ of disaffection. He spoke of _______ rights, nuclear fallout, and loneliness. He spoke of change and of the _______ of an older generation. “Something's happening here,” he sang. “You don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?” 

     On her way home she usually bought a slice of honey-cake at the baker's. It washer Sunday _______. Sometimes there was an almond in her slice, sometimes _______. It made a great _______. If there was an almond it was like carrying home a tiny present-a surprise-something _______ might very well not have been there. She hurried on the almond Sundays and struck the match for the kettle in quite a _______ way. 

     The satisfaction of _______ time and of affording some outlet, however modest, for ambition, belongs to most work, and is sufficient to make even a man whose work is dull _______ on the average than a man who has no work _______ all. But when work is interesting, it is _______ of giving satisfaction of a far higher order than mere relief _______ tedium. The kinds of work in which there is some interest may be arranged in a hierarchy. 

     Problems large and small confront the elderly. They are easy targets for crime in the _______ and in their homes. Because of loneliness, confusion, hearing and visual difficulties they are prime _______ of dishonest door-to-door salesmen and fraudulent advertising, and buy defective hearing aids, dance lessons, useless "Medicare insurance supplements", and quack health remedies. Persons crippled by arthritis or strokes are yelled at by _______ bus drivers for their slowness in climbing on and _______ buses. Traffic lights turn _______ before they can get across the street. 

     Our research shows that no company can succeed today by trying to be all things to all people. It must _______ find the unique value that it alone can deliver to a chosen market. We have _______ three distinct value disciplines, so called because _______ discipline produces a different kind of customer value . Choosing one discipline to master does not mean that a company _______ the other two, only that it picks a dimension of value on which to stake its market reputation over the long _______.

A. abandons         B. at               C. attitudes           D. bewilderment            E. capable
F. civil                  G. dashing      H. difference         I. each                             J. from
K. happier             L. identified  M. impatient        N. instead                       O. killing
P. nerve                Q. not             R. number            S. off                                T. red
U. streets              V. term          W．that                X. treat                            Y. victims

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.

     She ____1_____to me because she was like people I had never met ______2_____. Like women in English novels who ____3______the moors(whatever they were) with their loyal dogs racing at a respectful______4_____. Like the women who sat in front of roaring_____5______,drinking tea incessantly from silver trays full of scones and crumpets. Women who walked over the"heath"and read morocco-bound books and had two last names _____6_____ by a hyphen. It would be safe to say that she made me proud to be Negro, just by being herself.
     Homes and restaurants do what they can with this____7_______—which my mother-in-law would_____8_____ on the spot. I have long thought that the_____9_____ blindfold test for cigarettes should be applied to city ______10_______. For I am sure that if you ____11______them blindfolded, you couldn't tell the beans from the ______12______, the turnips from the squash. 

     Chavel was filled with a huge and ____13______ joy. It seemed to him that already he was____14_____ —twenty nine men to draw and only two marked papers left. The_____15_____ had suddenly grown in his favor from ten to one to fourteen to one: the greengrocer had drawn a slip and _____16______ carelessly and without pleasure that he was safe. Indeed from the first draw any mark of pleasure was_____17______: one couldn’t mock the condemned one by any___18______of relief.
     Red Indians, while they were still______19_____ by white men, would smoke then pipes, not calmly as we do, but ______20______, inhaling so deeply that they sank into a ________. And when excitement by means of nicotine failed, a patriotic orator would stir them ______21______ to attack a neighboring tribe, which would give them all the____________that we (according to our temperament)derive from a horse _____22_____ or a General Election.
A.taboo      B.faint                   C. shameful     D. orgiastically      E. saved              F.race
G.up           H.peas                   I. sign               J. famed                 K. fireplaces       L. indicated
M. stuff      N. personally       O. chances       P. enjoyment         Q distance         R. vegetables 

S.discard   T.divided               U. unaffected   V. pureed              W.walked           X.appealed

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences.

     The child was fairly eating me up with her cold, steady eyes, and no expression on her face whatever. She did not move and seemed, inwardly, ______ ; an unusually attractive little thing, and as strong as a heifer in_____. But her face was flushed, she was breathing ______ , and I realized that she had a high fever. She had magnificent______hair, in profusion. One of those picture children often reproduced in_______leaflets and the photogravure sections of the Sunday papers.
     It is still women—about three million volunteers—who do most of this work in the American political world. The best any of_______can hope for is the honor of being district or county vice-chairman, a kind of separate-but-equal position with which a woman is________for years of faithful envelope stuffing and card-party________. In such a job, she gets a number of free trips to state and_______national meetings and conventions, where her_______is supposed to be to vote the way her male chairman votes.
     The value of art-snobbery to living artists is considerable. True, most art-snobs________only the works of the dead; for an Old Master is both a________investment and a holier culture-symbol than a______master. But some art-snobs are also modernity-snobs. There are_______of them, with the few eccentrics who like works of art for their own________, to provide living artists with the means of subsistence.
     Without thinking, we are making an important confession about ourselves as a nation. We are________quality—even, to some extent, the quality of people. The “best” is becoming too________for us. We are suckling_________on machine-made mediocrity. It is bad for our souls, our minds, and our digestion. It is the________our wiser and calmer forebears________, not people, but hogs: as much as possible and as fast as possible, with no standard of quality.
     There is a difference between my schooling and the wisdom of the street corner. I________the life of a black man in Watts is larger than a federal________program. If there is no future for the black ghetto, the future of all Negroes is_________. What affects it, affects me, for I am a_______of the ghetto. When they do it to Watts, they do it to me, too. I’ll never escape from the ghetto. I have_______my all on its future. Watts is my home.
A. good B. staked C. rapidly D. organizing E. living
F. enough G. safer H. ourselves I. fed J. diminished
K. child L. appearance M. them N. sometimes O. sake
P. abandoning Q. poverty R. rewarded S. blonde T. collect
U. advertising V. quiet W. way X. know Y. role

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks， followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences.

     This strategy also has ancient antecedents. Ever since civilization began, certain ____1___ have tried to run away from it in hopes of finding a simpler, more ____2___, and more peaceful life. Unlike the dropouts, they are not ____3___. They are willing to support themselves and to ____4___ something to the general community, but they simply don’t like the environment of civilization; that is, the city, with all its ____5___ and tension. 
     I had the lonely child’s habit of ____6___ stories and holding conversations with ____7___ persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and ___8___. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing ____9___ facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my ____10___ in everyday life. 
     Only two people shared her “special” seat: a fine old man in a velvet coat, his hands ____11____ over a huge carved walking-stick, and a big old woman, sitting ___12____, with a roll of knitting on her embroidered apron. They did not speak. This was ___13____, for Miss Brill always looked forward ____14____ the conversation. She had become really quite ____15____, she thought, at listening as though she didn’t listen, at sitting in other people’s lives just for a minute while they talked round her. 
     Our research shows that no company can succeed today by trying to be all things to all people. It must instead find the ____16____ value that it alone can deliver to a chosen market. We have identified three distinct value ___17____, so called because each discipline produces a different kind of ____18___ value. Choosing one discipline to master does not mean that a company ___19____ the other two, only that it picks a dimension of value on which to ____20___ its market reputation over the long term. 
     The value of snobbery in general, its humanistic “point”, consists in its power to ____21____ activity. A society with plenty of snobberies is like a dog with plenty of ____22____: it is not likely to become comatose. Every snobbery demands of its devotees ____23____ efforts, a succession of sacrifices. The society-snob must be perpetually lion-hunting; the modernity-snob can never rest ___24___ trying to be up-to-date. Swiss doctors and the Best that has been thought or said must be the daily and nightly preoccupation of all the snobs respectively of ___25___ and culture.

A.making up B.unique C.upright D.customer E.ugliness
F.disciplines G. imaginary H.parasites I.to J.stake
K.fleas L.clasped M.disease N.disappointing O.failure
P.individuals Q.expert R.undervalued S.contribute T.abandons
U.unceasing V.pastoral W.from X.stimulate Y.unpleasant 

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences. 

        Today’s heroes — some of them, anyway — tell us they enjoy their ______.“ And I  ______  to myself at the men and the ladies. Who never  ______ of us billion-dollar babies.” The ______  “culture hero” who  ______  that is Alice Cooper.   

        If I said that being black is a greater ______ than being a woman, probably no one would ______ me. Why? Because “we all know” there is ______ against black people in America. That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still ______ nearly all men—and, I am afraid, most women—as ______ .

        There is, however, another ______ possessed by the best work, which is even more important as a ______ of happiness than is the exercise of ______ . This is the element of constructiveness. In some work, though by no ______ in most, something is built up which remains as a ______ when the work is completed.

        My own state of mind, when I left Watts eight years ago to take up the ______ year at Whittier College, was ______ . It was to me less of a ______ ; it was the stepping off point of an Odyssey that was to take me through Whittier College and Oxford University, to Yale Law School, and back to Watts. I had ______ then, as now, to make Watts my ______ . 

       Well, it’s a good life and a good ______ , all said and ______ , if you don’t ______ , and if you know that the big wide world hasn’t ______ from you yet, no, not by a long way, though it won’t be long now. The float bobbed more violently than before and, with a ______ on his face, he began to wind in the reel.

A. handicap       B. element             C. weaken           D. means                 E. heard
F. question        G. freshman           H. home              I. strikes                   J. done
K. source           L. different             M. conceived      N. particular           O. grin
P skill                 Q. laughed              R. prejudice      S. monument        T. sings
U. rewards         V. departure           W. intended       X. world                  Y. bizarre

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and blacken the corresponding letter 

     When his time came to draw there were ______ three slips left, and it appeared to Chavel a ______ injustice that there were so few choices left for him. He drew one out of the ______ and then feeling certain that this one had been ______ on him by his companions and contained the ______ cross he threw it back and snatched another. 

     Mitch crossed his ______. Money, that is the big question, particularly ______ it compared to his other offers. But, he ______ like all the other firms they had to shadowbox around the issue until things got ______ and it was apparent they had discussed everything in the world ______ money. So hit them with a soft question. 

     Even now, though she was over nineteen, she sometimes felt herself ______ danger of her father's violence. She knew it was ______ that had given her the the palpitations. When they were growing up, he had never gone for her, ______ he used to go for Harry and Ernest because she was a girl; but latterly he had begun to ______ her and say what he would do to her only for her ______ mother's sake. 

     Her hair brushed his lips as she minced in, then ______ away, to the end of his arm; he could feel her toes ______ into the carpet. He flipped his own hair back from his eyes. The ______ ate through his skin and mixed with the nerves and ______ veins; he seemed to be great again, and all the other kids were around them, in a ring, ______ time. 

     Fast reaction times are an advantage when dealing with the ______. Vistakon's managers, for example, responded ______ when competitors challenged the safety of the lenses. They ______ data combating the charges, via Federal Express, to ______ 17,000 eye-care professionals. Vistakon's speedy response engendered ______ in the marketplace.

A、penciled  B、small  C、legs D、dead E、willed F、some G、swung H、only

I、that J、threaten K、but  L、unknown M、clapping N、dig O、knew P、goodwill

Q、like R、shoe S、how T、distributed U、quickly     V、music W、awkward X、in 

Y、monstrous

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks， followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences.

     West Germany, by contrast, will not be able to _______ any form of euthanasia for a long time to come. Opposition is _______ fierce, because of the shadow of the past. Countries _______ an uninterrupted recent libertarian tradition have less to fear from setting some _______ rules for voluntary euthanasia. By _______ to discuss it, they usher in something worse. 

     We watched while pride allowed unimportant battles to be _______ into the most important stands of the war—because we couldn’t _______ and we couldn’t retreat and because it didn’t matter how many American _______ were provided to prove that point. Now we are told that we have to _______ quietly while the American lives are lost so that we can exercise the _______ arrogance of Vietnamizing the Vietnamese. 

     Newspapers have two great advantages _______ television. They can be used by men as barriers _______ their wives. It is still the only effective screen against the morning features of the loved one, and, as such, performs a unique human _______. The second advantage is that you can’t line a _______ pail with a television set—it’s usually the other way _______. 

     It is only lately that I have found how much science of genetics is _______. Agronomists and the like have taken to _______ all sorts of vegetables and fruits—changing their  _______nature. This sounds wonderful and often is _______. For the scientists have not as a rule taken any _______ whatsoever in the taste of the things they’ve tampered with! 

     My own lack of shame in the rioting then taking place in America _______ me. In one sense, I was the _______ of the ghetto child who through hard work and initiative was  _______himself toward a better life. I was the _______ , the exception. It was my life that was held up to Watts youth to _______.

A pulling     B involved     C lose             D incredible     E against

F around     G refusing     H too                I watch             J garbage

K over          L emulate      M archetype   N insane          O interest 

P limited      Q legalize      R with             S escalate         T bodies

U service     V surprised    W example    X breeding        Y original

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter. One word or expression for each blank only.  

        These conclusions​​         ​ me as reasonable, at least from their point of view. The ​         question for the arriving generation is not ​         our society is imperfect, but how to deal with it. For all its harshness and ​        . It is the only world we've got. Choosing a ​         to cope with it, then, is the first decision young adults have to make, and usually the most important decision of their lifetime.

        The trouble with television is that it discourages ​        . Almost anything interesting and ​         in life requires some constructive, ​         applied effort. The dullest, the least gifted of us can ​         things that seem miraculous to those who never concentrate on anything. But television encourages us to apply no ​        . It sells us instant gratification. It diverts us only to divert, to make the time pass without pain.
        I believe that over a period of  ​         newspapers have become a habit rather than a         . They have held their franchise so long that change has ​        ​ inadmissible. I do not know, in fact, of any medium that has changed as ​         in the last twenty years as the daily press. And this resistance to change is the end of growth—which, in ​        , marks the end of usefulness. 

        Old age is neither inherently miserable          inherently sublime—like every stage of life it has problems, joys, fears and         . The process of aging and ​         death must ultimately be accepted as the natural progression of the life cycle, the old          their prescribed life spans and making way ​         the young.
        Homes and restaurants do what they can with this stuff —         my mother-in-law would          on the spot. I have long thought that the famed ​        ​​​​​​ test for cigarettes should be ​         to city vegetables. For I am sure that if you pureed them blindfolded, you couldn't tell the ​         from the peas, the turnips from the squash. 

A.consistently     B. nor                 C. applied                D. rewarding         E. for
F. irrationality     G. little              H. which                   I. strike                   J. decades
K. effort                 L. potentials    M. concentration   N. discard             O. strategy
P. eventual           Q. relevant       R. function              S. turn                    T. blindfold 

U. beans                V. become        W. achieve              X. completing      Y. whether 

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences.

①On her way home she usually bought a ___1___ of honey-cake at the baker’s. It was her Sunday ___2___. Sometimes there was an almond in her slice, sometimes not. It made a great ___3___. If there was an almond it was like carrying home a tiny present — a surprise — something that ___4___ very well not have been there. She hurried on the almond Sundays and struck the ___5___ for the kettle in quite a dashing way.
②Our anger goes beyond the simple policy matters. It goes into the fact that all the things we were ___6___ about Vietnam we found untrue when we got ___7___. We found that too often American men were ___8___ in those rice paddies from want of support ___9___ our so-called allies. We saw first hand the money - your taxes — squandered by a ___10___ dictatorial regime. We saw that Agnew had a one-sided idea of who was kept free by the flag, as blacks provided the highest percentage of casualties.
③So long as such disharmonies continue to exist, so long as there is good ___11___ for sullen boredom, so long as human beings ___12___ themselves to be possessed and hagridden by monomaniacal ___13___, the cult of beauty is destined to being ineffectual. Successful in ___14___ the appearance of youth, or realizing or stimulating the symptoms of ___15___, the campaign inspired by this cult remains fundamentally a failure.
④The new intellectual climate in Watts was hard-wrought. It was rich ___16___ to support even a communist bookstore. Writers, poets, artists ___17___. I was handed full manuscripts of ___18___ books by indigenous writers and asked to criticize ___19___. I have not seen during eight years of college life as ___20___ personal journals kept and sketches written as in Watts since the 1965 riots. A new, rough wisdom of the street comer was emerging.
⑤At last, with the Vietnam War, Americans are beginning to realize that they are ___21___ to original sin as much as Europeans are. Some things - the massive crime figures, for ___22___ — can now be explained only in ___23___ of absolute evil. America is no longer Europe's daughter ___24___ her rich stepmother; she is Europe’s sister. The agony that America is ___25___ is not to be associated with breakdown as much as with the parturition of self-knowledge. 

A. treat B. there C. corrupt D. enough E. them F. terms 

G. undergoing H. reason I. slice J. match K. health 

L. prolonging M. might N. dying O.unpublished 

P. many Q. subject R. difference S. told T. flourished 

U. from V. instance W. vices X. allow Y. nor 

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.
     When I was graduating from college, my generation also found the world in a ___1___ . The economic machinery had broken ___2___ almost everywhere：In this country nearly a quarter of the ___3___was out of work. A major war seemed all ___4___  likely. As a college newspaper editor at that time, I protested against this___5___as vehemently as student activists are protesting today.  
     I wonder if this blandness of our diet doesn’t explain ___6___ so many of us are overweight and even dangerously so. When things had flavor, we knew what we were eating all the ___7___— and it satisfied us. A ___8___of my mother-in-law’s wild strawberry jam will entirely satisfy your jam desire. But, of the ___9___ tinned or glass-packed strawberry jam, you need half a cupful to get the ___10___ of what you're eating.  
     Literacy may not be an inalienable human right, but it is ___11___that the highly literate Founding Fathers might not have found unreasonable or even___12___ . We are not only not attaining it ___13___ a nation, statistically speaking, but we are falling further and further ___14___ of attaining it. And, while I would not be so simplistic as to suggest that television is the cause, I believe it ___15___ and is an influence.  
     To share a bedroom with one of these fellows is to lose one’s ___16___ in human nature, for, even after the ___17___ eventful day, there is no comparing notes with them, no midnight confidence, no casting ___18___ the balance of the day’s pleasure and pain. They sink, ___19___ once, into stupid, heavy slumber, leaving you to your own ___20___ devices. And they all snore abominably! 
     Downtown, she ___21___ her car in a garage. Everything was getting ready for this moment. She did not carry the flowers in her ___22___ but she carried them in her heart. Now she was going to find out ___23___ it was death or life. Either ___24___ could tolerate. It did not ___25___ to her that the newsreel might not be there.

​​The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.

     Many doctors working on the battlefield of terminal suffering think that only squeamishness demands a _________ difference between passive and active euthanasia on request. Their _________ for killing goes like this: one of a doctor’s _________ is to prevent suffering; sometimes that is all there is left for him to do, and killing is the only way to do it. There is nothing new in this view. When Hippocrates _________ his oath for doctors, which explicitly rules _________ active killing, most other Greek doctors and thinkers disagreed with his _________. 

     The women’s magazines are about one third _________ to clothes, one third to mild comment _________ sex, and the _________ third to recipes and pictures of handsome salads, desserts, and main _________. “Institutes” exist to experiment and tell housewives how to cook attractive meals and how to turn leftovers into _________ of art. The food thus pictured looks _________ famous paintings of still life. The only trouble is it’s tasteless. 

     One of the greatest and most _________ criticisms of television has been that in _________ to the largest audience possible, it neglects minority audiences and minority tastes. This is still _________ true. But there is, perhaps, one program a day and many, of course, on Sunday which an intelligent man or woman can enjoy and _________ interest from. In my trips east or west or north or south, I pick up the _________ paper to find this enjoyment or interest— _________ vain. 

     American individualism, on the _________ of it an admirable philosophy, wishes to manifest itself in independence of the community. You don’t share things in _________ ; you have your own things. A family’s strength is signalized by its possessions. Herein lies a _________. For the desire for possessions must eventually mean dependence on possessions. Freedom is slavery. Once let the _________ instinct burgeon, and there are ruggedly individual forces _________ too ready to make it come to full and monstrous _________. New appetites are invented; what to the European are bizarre luxuries become, to the American, plain necessities.

A．acquisitive    B．appealing    C．argument    D．ban
E．blossom        F．common     G．courses        H．dedicated
I．derive             J．duties           K．face               L．firm
M．formulated  N．in                O．justified        P．largely
Q．like              R．local             S．on                   T．only
U．other           V．out               W．paradox        X．works

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences. 

        One of the best current examples of what Horowitz is talking ______ is John Denver. His most ______ songs—“Sunshine on My Shoulders”, “Rocky Mountain High”, and “Country Road”— ______ the musical drive and power of ______ rock, while the lyrics celebrate the simple ______ of“the good old days”.
        It is all symbolized in my mind by the hugely successful art ______ that television has made ______ to the culture, the 30-second commercial: the tiny drama of the ______    housewife who finds happiness  ______  choosing the right toothpaste. When before in human history has so much humanity ______ surrendered so much of its leisure to one toy, one mass diversion?
        They had no   ______ of comparison and assumed that this was a  ______ of his class, just as a traveler stepping off the liner at a foreign  ______ for luncheon sums up a nation’s character forever in the  ______ businessman who happens to  ______ the table with him.
        Each week, for example, a record of the sales results of the ______  week for each sales office and for Sales Department as a   ______ for each division of the company is kept and ______  to the sales results for the  ______ week of the year ______ .
        But by and large the news reports and commentaries on CBS and NBC and ABC make every ______ to present viewers with more than one  ______ of an issue, either by letting ______ spokesmen have their ______ or by outlining the positions held by both major parties on the subject  ______.

A．folk               B．means        C．form                    D．combine              E．before
F．preceding     G．joys             H．in                        I．corresponding     J．central
K．compared     L．share           M．characteristic   N．notable               O．opposing
P．effort             Q．collectively R．about                 S．involved              T．port
U．say                V．aspect         W．whole                X．earnest               Y．wily

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks， followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences.

     ①Between Elvis and Alice, rock critics say, a number of rock stars have helped our society          its beliefs and attitudes. Bob Dylan touched a          of disaffection. He spoke of         rights, nuclear fallout, and loneliness. He spoke of change and of the bewilderment of an         generation. “Something’s         here,” he sang. “You don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?”

     ②The figures are photocopied and distributed throughout the company to all the people and departments whose work is related to selling. The result of this photocopying and distributing is that there is almost continuous public          and discussion         ​ the company of how well or          the salesmen in each sales office of each         ​ of the company are doing at any         ​ time. 

     ③We do not need a Freudian to tell us that this disharmony is often of a sexual nature. So long as such disharmonies          to exist, so long as there is good reason for sullen          , so long as human beings allow          to be possessed and          by monomaniacal          , the cult of beauty is destined to be ineffectual.

     ④She stood among the          crowd in the station at the North Wall. He held her hand and she          that he was speaking to her, saying something about the passage over and over again. The station was full of soldiers with brown          . Through the wide doors of the sheds she caught a          of the black mass of the boat, lying in beside the quay wall, with          portholes. She answered nothing.

     ⑤Discussing the question, some time ago, with an old friend, she gave me her never-failing          for sleeplessness, which was to         herself performing some          action over and over again, until, her mind becoming         with the monotony of life, sleep drew the         . 

A. continue          B. trivial           C. scrutiny        D. nerve            E. disgusted
F. glimpse            G. civil             H. remedy         I. poorly            J. vices 

K. throughout      L. knew            M. define          N. boredom      O. given 

P. imagine          Q. happening    R. hagridden     S. swaying        T. baggages 

U. illuminated     V. division        W. themselves  X. older            Y. curtain