四、六级选词填空练习
竞争上岗-人与人之间的关爱
1.
One in five US workers regularly
attends after-work drinks with co-workers, where
the most
common 36 range from bad-mouthing
（说…的坏话） another worker to kissing a colleague
and drinking too much, according to a study
37 on Tuesday.
Most workers attend so-called
happy hours to 38 with colleagues, although 15
percent go
to hear the latest office gossip
and 13 percent go because they feel obliged, said
the survey
conducted for , on online job site.
As to what happens when the after-work drinks
flow, 16 percent reported bad-mouthing a
colleague, 10 percent shared a secret about a
colleague, 8 percent kissed a colleague and 8
percent
said they drank too much and acted
39 . 5 percent said they had shared a secret
about the
company, and 4 percent 40 to
singing karaoke.
While 21 percent of those
who attend say happy hours are good for 41 ,
85 percent
said attending had not helped them
get 42 to someone higher up or get a better
position.
An equal number of men and women
said they attend happy hours with co-workers, with
younger workers aged 25 to 34 most likely and
workers over 55 least 43 to attend.
Overall, 21 percent of workers attend happy
hours with co-workers and, of those, 44 a
quarter go at least once a month.
The
survey was 45 online by Harris Interactive on
behalf of CareerBuilder, com among
6,987 full-
time employees.
A) bond B)
acknowledged C) nearly D)
specially
E) anywhere F) mishaps
G) obligated H) likely
I)
conducted J) idly K)
unprofessionally L) networking
M)
released N) confessed O)
researched
KEY: F M A K N L E H C I
2.
If it were only necessary to
decide whether to teach elementary science to
everyone on a mass
basis or to find the gifted
few and take them as far as they can go, our task
would be fairly simple.
The public school 36
, however, has no such choice, for the job must be
47 on at the
same time. Because we depend so
38 upon science and technology for our progress,
we
must produce 39 in many fields. Because
we live in a democratic nation, whose citizens
make the policies for the nation, large
numbers of us must be educated to understand, to
support,
and when necessary, to 40 the
work of experts. The public school must educate
both
producers and users of scientific
services.
In education, there should be a good
balance among the branches of knowledge that
contribute to effective thinking and wise
judgment. Such balance is 41 by too much
emphasis on any one field. This question of
balance involves not only the relation of the
natural
sciences, the social sciences, and the
arts but also relative 42 among the natural
sciences
themselves.
Similarly, we must
have a balance between current and 43
knowledge. The attention of
the public is 44
drawn to new possibilities in scientific fields
and the discovery of new
knowledge; these
should not be allowed to turn our attention away
from the sound, 45
materials that form the
basis of courses for beginners.
A)
awarded B) heavily C) classical
D) display
E) established
F) system G) involved H)
defeated
I) continually
J) specially K) emphases L)
establishment
M) specialists
N) carried O) judge
KEY: F N B M O H K C I E
3.
Years ago, doctors often said that pain was a
normal part of life. In particular, when older
patients 36 of pain, they were told it was
a natural part of aging and they would have to
learn to live with it.
Times have
changed. Today, we take pain 37 . indeed, pain
is now considered the fifth
vital, as
important as blood pressure, temperature,
breathing rate and pulse in 38 a person‟s
well-being. We know that chronic （慢性的） pain
can disrupt （扰乱的） a person‟s life, causing
problems that 39 from missed work to
depression. That[s why a growing number of
hospitals
now depend upon physicians who 40
in pain medicine. Not only do we evaluate the
cause of
the pain, which can help us treat the
pain better, but we also help provide
comprehensive therapy
for depression and other
psychological and social 41 related to chronic
pain. Such
comprehensive therapy often 42
the work of social workers, psychiatrists （心理医生）
and
psychologists, as well as specialists in
pain medicine.
This modern 43 for pain
management has led to a wealth of innovative
treatments which
are more effective and with
fewer side effects than ever before. Decades ago,
there were only a
44 number of drugs
available, and many of them caused 45 side
effects in older people,
including dizziness
and fatigue. This created a double-edged sword:
the medications helped
relieve the pain but
caused other problems that could be worse than the
pain itself.
A) result B)
involves C) significant D) range
E) relieved F) issues G)
seriously H) magnificent
I)
determining J) limited K) gravely
L) complained
M) respect N)
prompting O) specialize
KEY;L
G I D O F B M J C
4
As war
spreads to many corners of the globe, children
sadly have been drawn into the center
of
conflicts. In Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Colombia,
however, groups of children have been taking
part in peace education __47__. The children,
after learning to resolve conflicts, took on the
__48__ of peacemakers. The Children's Movement
for Peace in Colombia was even nominated
(提名)
for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998. groups of
children __49__ as peacemakers studied
human
rights and poverty issues in Colombia, eventually
forming a group with five other schools
in
Bogota known as The Schools of Peace.
The
classroom __50__ opportunities for children to
replace angry, violent behaviors with __51__,
peaceful ones. It is in the classroom that
caring and respect for each person empowers
children to
take a step __52__toward becoming
peacemakers. Fortunately, educators have access to
many
online resources that are __53__ useful
when helping children along the path to peace. The
Young
Peacemakers Club, started in 1992,
provides a Website with resources for teachers and
__54__ on
starting a Kindness Campaign. The
World Centers of Compassion for Children
International call
attention to children's
rights and how to help the __55__ of war. Starting
a Peacemakers' Club is a
praiseworthy venture
for a class and one that could spread to other
classrooms and ideally affect
the culture of
the __56__ school.
A) victims B)
technology C) role D)
respectively
E) projects F)
offers G) information H) images
I) forward J) especially
K) entire L) cooperative
M)
comprehensive N) assuming O) acting
KEY: 47-51. E. projects C. role
O. acting F. offers L. cooperative
52-56. I.
forward J. especially G. information A. victims K.
entire.
5.
Some years ago I was
offered a writing assignment that would require
three months of travel
through Europe. I had
been abroad a couple of times, but I could hardly
-47- to know my way
around the continent.
Moreover, my knowledge of foreign languages was
-48- to a little college
French.
I
hesitated. How would I, unable to speak the
language, -49- unfamiliar with local geography or
transportation systems, set up-50- and do
research? It seemed impossible, and with
considerable-51-I sat down to write a letter
begging off. Halfway through, a thought ran
through
my mind: you can't learn if you don't
try. So I accepted the assignment.
There were
some bad-52-. But by the time I had finished the
trip I was an experienced traveler.
And ever
since. I have never hesitated to head for even the
most remote of places. Without
guides or
even-53- bookings. Confident that somehow I will
manage.
The point is that the new, the
different, is almost by definition -54- . but each
time you try
something. You learn. And as the
learning plies up. The world opens to you.
I've learned to ski at 40, and flown up the
Rhine river in a -55-. And I know I'll go to doing
such
things. It's not because I'm braver or
more daring than others. I'm not. But I'll accept
anxiety as
another name for challenge and I
believe I can-56-wonders.
A. accomplish
B. advanced C. balloon D. claim
E. constantly F. declare
G. interviews H. limited
I.
manufacture J. moments K. news
L. reduced
M. regret N. scary O. totally
KEY:
47. D) claim 48. H) limited
49. O) totally 50. G) interviews 51. M)
regret
52. J) moments 53. B) advanced 54.
N) scary 55. C) balloon 56. A) accomplish
6.
A bookless life is an
incomplete life. Books influence the depth and
breadth of life. They meet
the
natural______47_____for freedom, for expression,
for creativity and beauty of life. Learners,
therefore, must have books, and the right type
of book, for the satisfaction of their need.
Readers
turn______48____ to books because
their curiosity concerning all manners of things,
their
eagerness to share in the experiences of
others and their need to ____49_____ from their
own
limited environment lead them to find in
books food for the mind and the spirit. Through
their
reading they find a deeper significance
to life as books acquaint them with life in the
world as it
was and it is now. They are
presented with a __50_____ of human experiences
and come to ___51
___ other ways of thought
and living. And while ____52____ their own
relationships and
responses to life , the
readers often find that the ___53 __ in their
stories are going through similar
adjustments,
which help to clarify and give significance to
their own.
Books provide ___54A_____ material
for readers' imagination to grow. Imagination is a
valuable
quality and a motivating power, and
stimulates achievement. While enriching their
imagination,
books __55 ____their outlook,
develop a fact-finding attitude and train them to
use leisure
___56___. The social and
educational significance of the readers' books
cannot be overestimated
in an academic
library.
A. abundant B.
characters C. communicating D.
completely
E. derive F. desire
G. diversity H. escape
I.
establishing J. narrow K. naturally
L. personnel
M. properly N.
respect O. widen
KEY:
47.
F) derive 48. K) naturally 49. H) escape
50. G) diversity 51. N) respect
52. I)
establishing 53. B) characters 54. A) abundant
55. O) widen 56. M) Properly
Passage
1
Women with low literacy suffer
disproportionately more than men, encountering
more 36
in finding a well-paying job and
being twice as likely to end up in the group of
lowest wage
earners, a study released on
Wednesday said.
Analysis by the Institute for
Women‟s Police Research (IWPR) found women at all
levels of
37 tend to earn less than men, but
it‟s at the lowest literacy levels that the wage
gap between
genders in most striking.
Women with low literacy are twice as 38 as
men at the same skill level to be among the
lowest earners, bringing in $$300 a week or
less, the report said.
“Because women start
off so low in terms of wages, having higher
literacy and more skills
really 39 a big
difference,” said Kevin Miller, a 40 research
associate at IWPR and
co-author of the study.
Women need to go 41 in their training and
education level to earn the same as men, Miller
said.
The 42 was based on 2009
National Assessment of Adult Literacy surveys, the
most
recent data 43 and focused on reading
skills, not writing and numeric literacy. That
data was
44 from a nationally
representative sample of 19,714 people aged 16 and
older, living in
households or prisons.
Data showed about one-third of American adults
have low literacy levels, and more than 36
percent of men and 33 percent of women fall
into that 45 , the institute said.
A)
pattern D) difficulties G) positions J)
independent M) likely
B) senior E)
category H) available K) literacy
N) further
C) longer F) collected I)
conducted L) analysis O) makes
KEY: DKMOB NLHFE
Passage
2
Cancer is the world‟s top “economic killer”
as well as its likely leading cause of death.
Cancer
costs more in 36 and lost life than
AIDS, malaria, the flu and other diseases that
spread
person-to-person. Chronic diseases
including cancer, heart disease and diabetes 37
for more
than 60 percent of deaths worldwide
but less than 3 percent of public and private 38
for
global health, said Rachel Nugent of the
Center for Global Development, a Washington-based
policy research group. Money shouldn‟t be
taken away from fighting diseases that 39
person-to-person, but the amount 40 to
cancer is way out of whack (重击)with the impact it
has, said Otis Brawley, the cancer society‟s
chief medical officer.
Cancer‟s economic toll
(损耗)was$$895 billion in 2008-equivalent to 1.5
percent of the
world‟s gross 41 product,
the reports says. That‟s in terms of disability
and years of life
lost-not the cost of
treating the disease, which wasn‟t addressed in
the report. Many groups have
been pushing for
more attention to non-infectious causes of death,
and the United Nations General
Assembly has
set a meeting on this a year from now. some policy
experts are 42 it to the
global initiative
that led to big increases in spending on AIDS
nearly a decade ago. “This needs to
be
discussed at the UN- how we are going to deal with
this rising burden of 43 disease”,
said
Dr. Andreas Ullrich, medical officer for cancer
control at WHO.
Researchers used the World
Health Organization‟s death and disability
reports, and economic
data from the World
Bank. They 44 disability-adjusted life years,
which reflect the impact a
disease has on how
long and how 45 people live.
A)
productively D) spread G) calculated J)
chronic M) doubtful
B) supplying E)
account H) devoted K) comparing N) clumsily
C) shifting F) funding I) productivity
L) domestic O) disability
Key: I E F D
H L K J G A
Passage 3
Nearly a third of women are the main
breadwinners in their household in Britain,
according
to a major survey.
Researchers
said that in many relationships it was no longer
assumed that the man would
bring in the bigger
income, 36 in a time of widespread
redundancies （裁员）.
In a 37 shift in
attitudes, four out of ten women said that the
career of whichever
partner had the highest
income would take 38 in the relationship.
In one in ten families, a house husband looks
after the children and does the 39 while
their female partner works full time.
Ten
percent of women admitted this role 40 had put
strains on their relationship and
some said it
had even led to them 41 company.
The Women
and Work Survey 2010, commissioned (受……委托) by
Grazia magazine,
found that almost half of
full-time mothers 42 not earning their own
money.
And two thirds of the mothers among the
2,000 women in the survey said they wanted to
keep working in some way after having
children.
A 43 higher number of those with
children under three said they would prefer to
work- preferably part-time –rather than stay
at home.
Victoria Harper of Grazia said,
“Women are getting good jobs when they graduate,
and
working up the career 44 faster than
they have ever done.”
This means that there
has to be more 45 between the roles of men and
women in a
relationship and when they have
children.
A) precedence D) slightly G)
plan J) parting M) disliked
B)
connection E) ladder H) reversal K)
opposite N) fluidity
KEY: I O A L H J
M D E N
C) prospect F) favored
I) especially L) chores O) significant
Passage 4
Women in 2011 made
no significant gains in winning more top US
business jobs, according to a
study, but the
head of the study said women are poised to make
36 in the year ahead.
The number of women
who were board directors, corporate officers or
top earners at Fortune 500
companies remained
37 unchanged, said the study by Catalyst, a
nonprofit group that 38
opportunities for
women in business.
The percentage of companies
with women on the board of directors was 15.1
percent this year,
compared with 14.8 percent
in 2010, Catalyst said.
Also, the percentage
of corporate officer positions 39 by women was
15.7 percent in 2011
and 15.4 percent in 2010,
it said. The percentage of top earners in 2011 who
were women was 6.2
percent, compared to 6.7
percent in 2010, it said.
The research on the
Fortune 500 companies was 40 on data as of
March 31, 2011. The slight
changes in the
numbers are not considered 41 significant,
Catalyst said.
Nevertheless, given the changes
in U.S. politics, the future for women in business
looks more
42 , said Ilene Lang, president
and chief executive 43 of Catalyst.
“Overall we‟re 44 to see change next
year,” Lang said. “When we look at shareholders,
decision makers, the general public, they‟re
looking for change.”
“What they‟re basically
saying is, „Don‟t give us 45 of the status quo
(现状). Get new ideas
in there, get some fresh
faces,‟” she said.
A) officer D)
positions G) businesslike J) strides
M) confused
B) changes E) more H)
surveying K) promotes N) held
C)
based F) promising I) essentially L)
statistically O) expecting
KEY:
JIKNC LFAOE
Passage 5
The
secret to happiness is keeping busy, research has
found. keeping the mind 36 with
tasks- no
matter how meaningless- staves off (赶走) negative
emotions, the study found.
However, the bad
news is that humans seem hard-wired (天生的) to be
lazy in order to save
energy, according to
Professor Christopher Hsee, a behavioral scientist
at Chicago University.
In a study 98 students
were asked to complete two surveys. After they had
completed the first
they were made to wait 15
minutes to receive the next one. They were given a
choice of either
handing in the first 37
nearby or at a more distant location they had to
walk to. Whichever
option they chose, they
received a chocolate bar. Two-thirds of (68 per
cent) chose the lazy
38 . those who had
taken the walk reported feeling happier than those
who had stayed
39 .
Prof Hsee 40
keeping busy helped keep people happy. He said the
findings, reported in
the journal
Psychological Science, had policy 41 .
“Governments may increase the
happiness of
idle citizens by having them build bridges that
are 42 useless,” he proposed. at
the
individual level, he advised, “get up and do
something. Anything. Even if there really is no
point to what you are doing, you will feel
better for it.” He 43 , “Incidentally,
thinking
deeply or engaging in self-refection
44 as keeping busy, too. You do not need to be
running
around- you just need to be 45 ,
either physically or mentally.”
A) study
D) option G) increased J) solutions
M) counts
B) added E) engaged H)
implications K) occupied N) put
C)
thought F) especially I) survey L)
concluded O) actually
KEY: K I D
N L H O B M E
Passage 6 星火 Test
5
Attention to detail is something everyone
can and should do —especially in a tight job
market. Bob Crossley, a human-resource expert
notices this in the job application that comes
across his desk every day. “It‟s 1 how many
candidates cancel themselves,” he says.
“Resumes arrive with stains. Some candidates
don‟t 2 to spell the company‟s name
correctly. Once I see a mistake, I 3 the
candidate,” Crossley concludes. “If they cannot
take
care of these details, why should we
trust them with a job?”
Can we pay too much
attention to details? Absolutely. Perfectionists
struggle over little things
at the cost of
something larger they work toward. “To keep from
losing the forest for the trees,”
says Charles
Garfield, professor at the University of
California, San Francisco, “we must 4 ask
ourselves how the details we‟re working on fit
into the large picture.”
Garfield 5 this
process to his work as a computer scientist at
NASA. “The Apollo II moon
6 was slightly
off-course 90 percent of the time,” says Garfield.
“But a successful landing was
still likely
because we knew the 7 coordinates of our goal.
This allowed us to make 8 as
necessary.”
Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the
significance of the every task we
9 .
Often we believe what accounts for other‟s
success is some special secret or a lucky break.
But rarely is success so 10 . Again and
again, we see that by doing little things within
our
grasp well, large reward follow.
A . adjustments F. compares
K . administration
B . comprises
G . dominant L . bother
C
. probably H . eliminate M
. mysterious
D . undertake I .
abolish N . precise
E .
amazing J. launch O .
constantly
KEY: E L H O F J N A D M
Passage 7 王长喜
The State Board of
Regents will consider letting alternative teacher
training programs certify
teachers, expanding
the role that for decades has been 36 performed
by education schools.
The proposal is one of
several 37 to improve teacher quality and
recruitment that the
board will consider in
Albany on Monday. Another would change the 38
for teacher
certification, like having more
difficult content exams and classroom
demonstrations.
The possible expansion of
certification would further redefine the 39
path to becoming a
teacher in the state.
While New York has had some 40
certification programs in place for years, like
Teach
for America and New York City Teaching
Fellows, students are still required to take
classes at
education schools during the
summer, nights and weekends to earn a teaching
certificate.
But critics have often 41
education schools of not doing enough to prepare
graduates for
the classroom. In a speech at
Teachers College at Columbia University last
month, Education
Secretary Ame Duncan said
that schools should focus more on hands-on
classroom work, 42
to medical
residencies
（住院医生实习期）
that aspiring doctors
must complete.
Dr. Steiner said that if the
Regents 43 the changes, he expected it would
strengthen New
York State‟s application for
Race to the Top, a federal grant program that will
44 some states
for taking on education
improvement initiatives.
Robert L. Hughes,
chief executive of New York Visions for Public
Schools, which helps train
educators at New
York City schools, has long been critical of
education schools. He said the plan
had the
chance to 45 a “revolution”.
A accused
E familiar I executively M
exclusively
B reward F provoke
J similar N requirements
C alternative
G traditional K approved O complex
D recommendations H guidelines L
informed
Key: M D N GC A J K B F
1.
One in five US workers
regularly attends after-work drinks with co-
workers, where the most
common 36 range
from bad-mouthing （说…的坏话） another worker to
kissing a colleague
and drinking too much,
according to a study 37 on Tuesday.
Most
workers attend so-called happy hours to 38 with
colleagues, although 15 percent go
to hear the
latest office gossip and 13 percent go because
they feel obliged, said the survey
conducted
for , on online job site.
As to what happens
when the after-work drinks flow, 16 percent
reported bad-mouthing a
colleague, 10 percent
shared a secret about a colleague, 8 percent
kissed a colleague and 8 percent
said they
drank too much and acted 39 . 5 percent said
they had shared a secret about the
company,
and 4 percent 40 to singing karaoke.
While 21 percent of those who attend say happy
hours are good for 41 , 85 percent
said
attending had not helped them get 42 to
someone higher up or get a better position.
An equal number of men and women said they
attend happy hours with co-workers, with
younger workers aged 25 to 34 most likely and
workers over 55 least 43 to attend.
Overall, 21 percent of workers attend happy
hours with co-workers and, of those, 44 a
quarter go at least once a month.
The
survey was 45 online by Harris Interactive on
behalf of CareerBuilder, com among
6,987 full-
time employees.
A) bond B)
acknowledged C) nearly D)
specially
E) anywhere F) mishaps
G) obligated H) likely
I)
conducted J) idly K)
unprofessionally L) networking
M)
released N) confessed O)
researched
KEY: F M A K N L E H C I
2.
If it were only necessary to
decide whether to teach elementary science to
everyone on a mass
basis or to find the gifted
few and take them as far as they can go, our task
would be fairly simple.
The public school 36
, however, has no such choice, for the job must be
47 on at the
same time. Because we depend so
38 upon science and technology for our progress,
we
must produce 39 in many fields. Because
we live in a democratic nation, whose citizens
make the policies for the nation, large
numbers of us must be educated to understand, to
support,
and when necessary, to 40 the
work of experts. The public school must educate
both
producers and users of scientific
services.
In education, there should be a good
balance among the branches of knowledge that
contribute to effective thinking and wise
judgment. Such balance is 41 by too much
emphasis on any one field. This question of
balance involves not only the relation of the
natural
sciences, the social sciences, and the
arts but also relative 42 among the natural
sciences
themselves.
Similarly, we must
have a balance between current and 43
knowledge. The attention of
the public is 44
drawn to new possibilities in scientific fields
and the discovery of new
knowledge; these
should not be allowed to turn our attention away
from the sound, 45
materials that form the
basis of courses for beginners.
A)
awarded B) heavily C) classical
D) display
E) established
F) system G) involved H)
defeated
I) continually
J) specially K) emphases L)
establishment
M) specialists
N) carried O) judge
KEY: F N B M O H K C I E
3.
Years ago, doctors often said that pain was a
normal part of life. In particular, when older
patients 36 of pain, they were told it was
a natural part of aging and they would have to
learn to live with it.
Times have
changed. Today, we take pain 37 . indeed, pain
is now considered the fifth
vital, as
important as blood pressure, temperature,
breathing rate and pulse in 38 a person‟s
well-being. We know that chronic （慢性的） pain
can disrupt （扰乱的） a person‟s life, causing
problems that 39 from missed work to
depression. That[s why a growing number of
hospitals
now depend upon physicians who 40
in pain medicine. Not only do we evaluate the
cause of
the pain, which can help us treat the
pain better, but we also help provide
comprehensive therapy
for depression and other
psychological and social 41 related to chronic
pain. Such
comprehensive therapy often 42
the work of social workers, psychiatrists （心理医生）
and
psychologists, as well as specialists in
pain medicine.
This modern 43 for pain
management has led to a wealth of innovative
treatments which
are more effective and with
fewer side effects than ever before. Decades ago,
there were only a
44 number of drugs
available, and many of them caused 45 side
effects in older people,
including dizziness
and fatigue. This created a double-edged sword:
the medications helped
relieve the pain but
caused other problems that could be worse than the
pain itself.
A) result B)
involves C) significant D) range
E) relieved F) issues G)
seriously H) magnificent
I)
determining J) limited K) gravely
L) complained
M) respect N)
prompting O) specialize
KEY;L
G I D O F B M J C
4
As war
spreads to many corners of the globe, children
sadly have been drawn into the center
of
conflicts. In Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Colombia,
however, groups of children have been taking
part in peace education __47__. The children,
after learning to resolve conflicts, took on the
__48__ of peacemakers. The Children's Movement
for Peace in Colombia was even nominated
(提名)
for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998. groups of
children __49__ as peacemakers studied
human
rights and poverty issues in Colombia, eventually
forming a group with five other schools
in
Bogota known as The Schools of Peace.
The
classroom __50__ opportunities for children to
replace angry, violent behaviors with __51__,
peaceful ones. It is in the classroom that
caring and respect for each person empowers
children to
take a step __52__toward becoming
peacemakers. Fortunately, educators have access to
many
online resources that are __53__ useful
when helping children along the path to peace. The
Young
Peacemakers Club, started in 1992,
provides a Website with resources for teachers and
__54__ on
starting a Kindness Campaign. The
World Centers of Compassion for Children
International call
attention to children's
rights and how to help the __55__ of war. Starting
a Peacemakers' Club is a
praiseworthy venture
for a class and one that could spread to other
classrooms and ideally affect
the culture of
the __56__ school.
A) victims B)
technology C) role D)
respectively
E) projects F)
offers G) information H) images
I) forward J) especially
K) entire L) cooperative
M)
comprehensive N) assuming O) acting
KEY: 47-51. E. projects C. role
O. acting F. offers L. cooperative
52-56. I.
forward J. especially G. information A. victims K.
entire.
5.
Some years ago I was
offered a writing assignment that would require
three months of travel
through Europe. I had
been abroad a couple of times, but I could hardly
-47- to know my way
around the continent.
Moreover, my knowledge of foreign languages was
-48- to a little college
French.
I
hesitated. How would I, unable to speak the
language, -49- unfamiliar with local geography or
transportation systems, set up-50- and do
research? It seemed impossible, and with
considerable-51-I sat down to write a letter
begging off. Halfway through, a thought ran
through
my mind: you can't learn if you don't
try. So I accepted the assignment.
There were
some bad-52-. But by the time I had finished the
trip I was an experienced traveler.
And ever
since. I have never hesitated to head for even the
most remote of places. Without
guides or
even-53- bookings. Confident that somehow I will
manage.
The point is that the new, the
different, is almost by definition -54- . but each
time you try
something. You learn. And as the
learning plies up. The world opens to you.
I've learned to ski at 40, and flown up the
Rhine river in a -55-. And I know I'll go to doing
such
things. It's not because I'm braver or
more daring than others. I'm not. But I'll accept
anxiety as
another name for challenge and I
believe I can-56-wonders.
A. accomplish
B. advanced C. balloon D. claim
E. constantly F. declare
G. interviews H. limited
I.
manufacture J. moments K. news
L. reduced
M. regret N. scary O. totally
KEY:
47. D) claim 48. H) limited
49. O) totally 50. G) interviews 51. M)
regret
52. J) moments 53. B) advanced 54.
N) scary 55. C) balloon 56. A) accomplish
6.
A bookless life is an
incomplete life. Books influence the depth and
breadth of life. They meet
the
natural______47_____for freedom, for expression,
for creativity and beauty of life. Learners,
therefore, must have books, and the right type
of book, for the satisfaction of their need.
Readers
turn______48____ to books because
their curiosity concerning all manners of things,
their
eagerness to share in the experiences of
others and their need to ____49_____ from their
own
limited environment lead them to find in
books food for the mind and the spirit. Through
their
reading they find a deeper significance
to life as books acquaint them with life in the
world as it
was and it is now. They are
presented with a __50_____ of human experiences
and come to ___51
___ other ways of thought
and living. And while ____52____ their own
relationships and
responses to life , the
readers often find that the ___53 __ in their
stories are going through similar
adjustments,
which help to clarify and give significance to
their own.
Books provide ___54A_____ material
for readers' imagination to grow. Imagination is a
valuable
quality and a motivating power, and
stimulates achievement. While enriching their
imagination,
books __55 ____their outlook,
develop a fact-finding attitude and train them to
use leisure
___56___. The social and
educational significance of the readers' books
cannot be overestimated
in an academic
library.
A. abundant B.
characters C. communicating D.
completely
E. derive F. desire
G. diversity H. escape
I.
establishing J. narrow K. naturally
L. personnel
M. properly N.
respect O. widen
KEY:
47.
F) derive 48. K) naturally 49. H) escape
50. G) diversity 51. N) respect
52. I)
establishing 53. B) characters 54. A) abundant
55. O) widen 56. M) Properly
Passage
1
Women with low literacy suffer
disproportionately more than men, encountering
more 36
in finding a well-paying job and
being twice as likely to end up in the group of
lowest wage
earners, a study released on
Wednesday said.
Analysis by the Institute for
Women‟s Police Research (IWPR) found women at all
levels of
37 tend to earn less than men, but
it‟s at the lowest literacy levels that the wage
gap between
genders in most striking.
Women with low literacy are twice as 38 as
men at the same skill level to be among the
lowest earners, bringing in $$300 a week or
less, the report said.
“Because women start
off so low in terms of wages, having higher
literacy and more skills
really 39 a big
difference,” said Kevin Miller, a 40 research
associate at IWPR and
co-author of the study.
Women need to go 41 in their training and
education level to earn the same as men, Miller
said.
The 42 was based on 2009
National Assessment of Adult Literacy surveys, the
most
recent data 43 and focused on reading
skills, not writing and numeric literacy. That
data was
44 from a nationally
representative sample of 19,714 people aged 16 and
older, living in
households or prisons.
Data showed about one-third of American adults
have low literacy levels, and more than 36
percent of men and 33 percent of women fall
into that 45 , the institute said.
A)
pattern D) difficulties G) positions J)
independent M) likely
B) senior E)
category H) available K) literacy
N) further
C) longer F) collected I)
conducted L) analysis O) makes
KEY: DKMOB NLHFE
Passage
2
Cancer is the world‟s top “economic killer”
as well as its likely leading cause of death.
Cancer
costs more in 36 and lost life than
AIDS, malaria, the flu and other diseases that
spread
person-to-person. Chronic diseases
including cancer, heart disease and diabetes 37
for more
than 60 percent of deaths worldwide
but less than 3 percent of public and private 38
for
global health, said Rachel Nugent of the
Center for Global Development, a Washington-based
policy research group. Money shouldn‟t be
taken away from fighting diseases that 39
person-to-person, but the amount 40 to
cancer is way out of whack (重击)with the impact it
has, said Otis Brawley, the cancer society‟s
chief medical officer.
Cancer‟s economic toll
(损耗)was$$895 billion in 2008-equivalent to 1.5
percent of the
world‟s gross 41 product,
the reports says. That‟s in terms of disability
and years of life
lost-not the cost of
treating the disease, which wasn‟t addressed in
the report. Many groups have
been pushing for
more attention to non-infectious causes of death,
and the United Nations General
Assembly has
set a meeting on this a year from now. some policy
experts are 42 it to the
global initiative
that led to big increases in spending on AIDS
nearly a decade ago. “This needs to
be
discussed at the UN- how we are going to deal with
this rising burden of 43 disease”,
said
Dr. Andreas Ullrich, medical officer for cancer
control at WHO.
Researchers used the World
Health Organization‟s death and disability
reports, and economic
data from the World
Bank. They 44 disability-adjusted life years,
which reflect the impact a
disease has on how
long and how 45 people live.
A)
productively D) spread G) calculated J)
chronic M) doubtful
B) supplying E)
account H) devoted K) comparing N) clumsily
C) shifting F) funding I) productivity
L) domestic O) disability
Key: I E F D
H L K J G A
Passage 3
Nearly a third of women are the main
breadwinners in their household in Britain,
according
to a major survey.
Researchers
said that in many relationships it was no longer
assumed that the man would
bring in the bigger
income, 36 in a time of widespread
redundancies （裁员）.
In a 37 shift in
attitudes, four out of ten women said that the
career of whichever
partner had the highest
income would take 38 in the relationship.
In one in ten families, a house husband looks
after the children and does the 39 while
their female partner works full time.
Ten
percent of women admitted this role 40 had put
strains on their relationship and
some said it
had even led to them 41 company.
The Women
and Work Survey 2010, commissioned (受……委托) by
Grazia magazine,
found that almost half of
full-time mothers 42 not earning their own
money.
And two thirds of the mothers among the
2,000 women in the survey said they wanted to
keep working in some way after having
children.
A 43 higher number of those with
children under three said they would prefer to
work- preferably part-time –rather than stay
at home.
Victoria Harper of Grazia said,
“Women are getting good jobs when they graduate,
and
working up the career 44 faster than
they have ever done.”
This means that there
has to be more 45 between the roles of men and
women in a
relationship and when they have
children.
A) precedence D) slightly G)
plan J) parting M) disliked
B)
connection E) ladder H) reversal K)
opposite N) fluidity
KEY: I O A L H J
M D E N
C) prospect F) favored
I) especially L) chores O) significant
Passage 4
Women in 2011 made
no significant gains in winning more top US
business jobs, according to a
study, but the
head of the study said women are poised to make
36 in the year ahead.
The number of women
who were board directors, corporate officers or
top earners at Fortune 500
companies remained
37 unchanged, said the study by Catalyst, a
nonprofit group that 38
opportunities for
women in business.
The percentage of companies
with women on the board of directors was 15.1
percent this year,
compared with 14.8 percent
in 2010, Catalyst said.
Also, the percentage
of corporate officer positions 39 by women was
15.7 percent in 2011
and 15.4 percent in 2010,
it said. The percentage of top earners in 2011 who
were women was 6.2
percent, compared to 6.7
percent in 2010, it said.
The research on the
Fortune 500 companies was 40 on data as of
March 31, 2011. The slight
changes in the
numbers are not considered 41 significant,
Catalyst said.
Nevertheless, given the changes
in U.S. politics, the future for women in business
looks more
42 , said Ilene Lang, president
and chief executive 43 of Catalyst.
“Overall we‟re 44 to see change next
year,” Lang said. “When we look at shareholders,
decision makers, the general public, they‟re
looking for change.”
“What they‟re basically
saying is, „Don‟t give us 45 of the status quo
(现状). Get new ideas
in there, get some fresh
faces,‟” she said.
A) officer D)
positions G) businesslike J) strides
M) confused
B) changes E) more H)
surveying K) promotes N) held
C)
based F) promising I) essentially L)
statistically O) expecting
KEY:
JIKNC LFAOE
Passage 5
The
secret to happiness is keeping busy, research has
found. keeping the mind 36 with
tasks- no
matter how meaningless- staves off (赶走) negative
emotions, the study found.
However, the bad
news is that humans seem hard-wired (天生的) to be
lazy in order to save
energy, according to
Professor Christopher Hsee, a behavioral scientist
at Chicago University.
In a study 98 students
were asked to complete two surveys. After they had
completed the first
they were made to wait 15
minutes to receive the next one. They were given a
choice of either
handing in the first 37
nearby or at a more distant location they had to
walk to. Whichever
option they chose, they
received a chocolate bar. Two-thirds of (68 per
cent) chose the lazy
38 . those who had
taken the walk reported feeling happier than those
who had stayed
39 .
Prof Hsee 40
keeping busy helped keep people happy. He said the
findings, reported in
the journal
Psychological Science, had policy 41 .
“Governments may increase the
happiness of
idle citizens by having them build bridges that
are 42 useless,” he proposed. at
the
individual level, he advised, “get up and do
something. Anything. Even if there really is no
point to what you are doing, you will feel
better for it.” He 43 , “Incidentally,
thinking
deeply or engaging in self-refection
44 as keeping busy, too. You do not need to be
running
around- you just need to be 45 ,
either physically or mentally.”
A) study
D) option G) increased J) solutions
M) counts
B) added E) engaged H)
implications K) occupied N) put
C)
thought F) especially I) survey L)
concluded O) actually
KEY: K I D
N L H O B M E
Passage 6 星火 Test
5
Attention to detail is something everyone
can and should do —especially in a tight job
market. Bob Crossley, a human-resource expert
notices this in the job application that comes
across his desk every day. “It‟s 1 how many
candidates cancel themselves,” he says.
“Resumes arrive with stains. Some candidates
don‟t 2 to spell the company‟s name
correctly. Once I see a mistake, I 3 the
candidate,” Crossley concludes. “If they cannot
take
care of these details, why should we
trust them with a job?”
Can we pay too much
attention to details? Absolutely. Perfectionists
struggle over little things
at the cost of
something larger they work toward. “To keep from
losing the forest for the trees,”
says Charles
Garfield, professor at the University of
California, San Francisco, “we must 4 ask
ourselves how the details we‟re working on fit
into the large picture.”
Garfield 5 this
process to his work as a computer scientist at
NASA. “The Apollo II moon
6 was slightly
off-course 90 percent of the time,” says Garfield.
“But a successful landing was
still likely
because we knew the 7 coordinates of our goal.
This allowed us to make 8 as
necessary.”
Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the
significance of the every task we
9 .
Often we believe what accounts for other‟s
success is some special secret or a lucky break.
But rarely is success so 10 . Again and
again, we see that by doing little things within
our
grasp well, large reward follow.
A . adjustments F. compares
K . administration
B . comprises
G . dominant L . bother
C
. probably H . eliminate M
. mysterious
D . undertake I .
abolish N . precise
E .
amazing J. launch O .
constantly
KEY: E L H O F J N A D M
Passage 7 王长喜
The State Board of
Regents will consider letting alternative teacher
training programs certify
teachers, expanding
the role that for decades has been 36 performed
by education schools.
The proposal is one of
several 37 to improve teacher quality and
recruitment that the
board will consider in
Albany on Monday. Another would change the 38
for teacher
certification, like having more
difficult content exams and classroom
demonstrations.
The possible expansion of
certification would further redefine the 39
path to becoming a
teacher in the state.
While New York has had some 40
certification programs in place for years, like
Teach
for America and New York City Teaching
Fellows, students are still required to take
classes at
education schools during the
summer, nights and weekends to earn a teaching
certificate.
But critics have often 41
education schools of not doing enough to prepare
graduates for
the classroom. In a speech at
Teachers College at Columbia University last
month, Education
Secretary Ame Duncan said
that schools should focus more on hands-on
classroom work, 42
to medical
residencies
（住院医生实习期）
that aspiring doctors
must complete.
Dr. Steiner said that if the
Regents 43 the changes, he expected it would
strengthen New
York State‟s application for
Race to the Top, a federal grant program that will
44 some states
for taking on education
improvement initiatives.
Robert L. Hughes,
chief executive of New York Visions for Public
Schools, which helps train
educators at New
York City schools, has long been critical of
education schools. He said the plan
had the
chance to 45 a “revolution”.
A accused
E familiar I executively M
exclusively
B reward F provoke
J similar N requirements
C alternative
G traditional K approved O complex
D recommendations H guidelines L
informed
Key: M D N GC A J K B F