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1、10 out of 15Part II. Careful ReadingDirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the

2、 bank is identified by a letter. Please fill in the blanks numbered from 1 to 10 with the corresponding letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Passage 1Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we may take the friendship for 1_, we often dont clearly unde

3、rstand how to make friends. While we get on well with a number of people, we are usually friends with only a very fewfor example, the 2_ among students is about six per person. In all the cases of friendly relationships, two people like one another and enjoy being together, but beyond that, the _3_

4、of intimacy between them and the reasons for their shared interest 4_ enormously. As we get to know people, we take into 5_ things like age, face, economic condition, social position, and intelligence. Although these factors are not of prime importance, it is more difficult to get on with people whe

5、n there is a marked difference in age and background.Some friendly relationships can be kept on argument and discussion, but it is usual for close friends to have 6_ ideas and beliefs, to have attitudes and interests in 7_they often talk about “being on the same wavelength.” It generally takes time

6、to reach this point. And the more intimately involved people become, the more they 8_ on one another. People want to do friends favors and hate to break a promise. Equally, friends have to learn to put up with annoying habits and to 9_ differences of opinion.In contrast with marriage, there are no f

7、riendship ceremonies to strengthen the association between two people. But the supporting and understanding of each other that results from shared experiences and emotions does seem to create a powerful bond, which can overcome differences in background, and break down 10_ of age, class or race.A. r

8、ely I. similarB. account J. varyC. degree K. differentD. point L. bearE. tolerate M. grantedF. variable N. troubleG. common O. barriersH. averagePassage 2Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) is a registered charity (慈善团体) dedicated to assisting development in the worlds poor countries. It is a direct re

9、sponse to a(an) 1_ need. Each year about 450 volunteers are sent to work on 2_ in 36 developing countries. Each volunteer goes overseas in 3_ to a specific appeal from a developing country. Over the past 23 years more than 20000 volunteers have worked 4_ with VSO. Together they have 5_ over 30000 ma

10、n-years to development.But VSO volunteers gain as well as give. They gain responsibility, experience and a personal viewpoint on development. Above all, VSO is _6_I_ that the Third World needs. For this reason the Third World countries themselves pay almost half the cost of each VSO volunteer.When V

11、SO was established over 20 years ago, the first volunteers were school-leavers. However, increasingly the demand was for skilled and professional people. Today, all VSO volunteers are skilled and/or 7_ peopleteachers and doctors, mechanics and electricians, accountants and civil engineers. Why do th

12、ey volunteer? To make a _8_ contribution, to take on extra responsibility, to 9_ overseas work experience, to work within a communityoften for all these reasons. The task of VSO is to match these specialists with particular vacancies, 10_ to them by overseas countries, then they prepare the voluntee

13、r to work in a very different environment. A) response I) aid B) content J) contributed C) gain K) projects D) notified L) budges E) development M) definitely F) urgent N) qualified G) abroad O) personal H) explicit Passage 3Today many people are starving to death. There is a shortage of food and th

14、e 1_ food is too expensive for hungry people to buy. Therefore, they go without food, or each day have only one or two small meals lacking the necessary vitamins to_2_ good health.Recently, a man who wanted to understand the 3_ of such people conducted an experiment. He only ate one meal a day for a

15、 month but continued to work as he 4 _ did.During the first five days he was hungry at his 5_ meal times, but after he had drunk a glass of water his hunger went away. In the evening, when he ate his one meal, he ate quickly and _6_ a large amount. During the next few days, although he was not hungr

16、y during the day, he quickly noticed every food shop, and the _7_ of food caught his attention. During the third and fourth weeks, he had hungry pains and lacked physical strength.This experiment changed his attitude about some things. Having a cup of tea was not just a 8_, it also gave him strength

17、. He more frequently noticed _9_ people and people who threw away leftover food. But most important, he could now 10_ in a small way with the starving people of the world.A) Regular I) maintain B) sympathize J) overweight C) frequently K) comprise D) conditions L) normally E) smell M) disposal F) co

18、nsumed N) fatigue G) depressed O) pastime H) available Passage 4The term “flexible working” has become familiar to any company, regardless of size, that needs to look at how individual jobs are structured. The thinking behind this is not only the _1_ that this approach has 2_ cost benefits, but also

19、 the recognition that it can lead to more inventive and _3_ workforce.One company with a long history of flexible working is Remploy, the UKs largest employer of 4_ disabled people. Remploy has a UK 5_ of more than 11000 employees in 89 factories working in various sectors of the economy including t

20、extiles, furniture and manufacturing services.Training and development programmes are a key aspect of Remploys 6_ policy, and each hourly-paid employee has an individual training and action plan. Throughout the company, there is also an 7_ that progression, and the opportunity to progress, is a moti

21、vating factor. In the Manufacturing Services Group, for example, the policy is to train as many employees as possible in two of core businesses. Once they have achieved this, the employees are promoted.In addition, Remploy has _8_ to changing markets in recent years by changing products in over a th

22、ird of its factories. This has _9_ the company to remain _10_ and keep the workforce in full-time employment. On these occasions, Remploys flexible approach has enabled employees to be fully retrained whilst continuing to work.A) contented I) disorder B) awareness J) responded C) presentation K) com

23、petitive D) enabled L) workforce E) radical M) employmentF) respectively N) realization G) severely O) potential H) expanded Passage 5If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of your brain are not getting

24、 enough 1_and as a result, we are aging unnecessarily soon.Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why _2_ healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and _3_ at a relatively early age, and how the process of aging could be slowed down. With a team of colleagu

25、es at a Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and varying 4_.The findings show in general terms that 5_ of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns. Those least at risk, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers, 6_ by univ

26、ersity professors and doctors. White collar workers doing 7_ _ work in government offices are, however, as likely to have contracting brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assistant are doing better.Matsuzawas findings show that thinking can prevent the brain from shrinking. Blood must circ

27、ulate _8_ in the head to supply the fresh oxygen the brain cells need. “The best way to maintain good blood 9_ is through using the brain,” he says, “think hard and 10_ in conversation. Dont rely on pocket calculators.”A) circulation I) reason B) routine J) otherwise C) presumably K) sufficient D) e

28、xercise L) engage E) properly M) vague F) followed N) occupations G) possessions O) interpreted H) shrinking Passage 6 Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do especially in a tight job market. Bob Crossley, a human-resources-expert, notices this in the job applications that come

29、_1_ his desk everyday. “Some candidates dont bother to spell the companys name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I _2_ 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. Perfectioni

30、sts struggle over little things at the _3_ of something larger they work toward. “To keep from losing the forest for the trees,” says Charles Garfield, _4_ professor at the University of California, “we must constantly ask ourselves how the details were working on fit into the larger picture. If the

31、y dont, we should _5_ them and move to something else.”Garfield compares this process to his work at NASA. “The Apollo moon launch was slightly off course 90 percent of the time,” says Garfield. “But a successful landing was still _6_ because we knew the exact coordinates of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as _7_.” Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the importance of every task we _8_.Too often we believe what _9_ for others success is some special secret or a lucky break. But rarely is suc