试题题干
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