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.
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