完形填空分类练习七_真题-无答案

完形填空分类练习七
(总分80,考试时间90分钟)
Passage 1
In the 1960s medical researchers Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe developed a checklist of stressful events. They appreciated the (1) point that any major change can be stressful. (2) events like "serious illness of a family member" were high (3) but so were some positive life-changing events like marriage. When you (4) the Holmes-Rahe test you must remember that the score does not (5) how you deal with stress—it only shows how much you have to deal with. And we now know that the way you (6) these events dramatically affects your (7) of staying healthy.
By the early 1970s hundreds of similar studies had (8) Holmes and Rahe. And millions of Americans who work and live (9) stress worried over the reports. Somehow the research got (10) to a memorable message. Women's magazines ran (11) like "Stress causes illness". "If you want to stay physically and mentally healthy", the articles said, "avoid stressful events".
But such (12) advice is impossible to follow. Even (13) stressful events are dangerous, many—like the death of a loved one—are impossible to (14) . Moreover, any warning to avoid all stressful events is a prescription for staying away from opportunities as well as (15) . Since any change can be stressful, a person who wanted to be completely (16) stress would never marry, have a child, take a new job or move.
The notion that all stress makes you sick also (17) a lot of what we know about people. It assumes we're all vulnerable and (18) in the face of adversity. But what about human (19) and creativity? **e through periods of stress with more physical and mental vigor than they had before. We also know that a long time without change or challenge can (20) to boredom and physical and mental strain.
1.
A. disputed
B. acute
C. tricky
D. deliberative
2.
A. Indifferent
B. Negative
C. Positive
D. Medicate
3.
A. onto the list
B. at the list
C. in the list
D. on the list
4.
A. take
B. make
C. do
D. manage
5.
A. affect
B. reflect
C. meditate
D. afflict
6.
A. regulate
B. describe
C. handle
D. deal
7.
A. abilities
B. chances
C. conditions
D. minds
8.
A. followed
B. traced
C. obeyed
D. trailed
9.
A. beneath
B. with
C. below
D. under
10.
A. shock down
B. boiled down
C. drunk down
D. start down
11.
A. lines
B. heads
C. headlines
D. words
12.
A. simplistic
B. complicated
C. silly
D. dull
13.
A. still
B. so
C. although
D. if
14.
A. escape
B. avoid
C. face
D. confront
15.
A. trouble
B. danger
C. worries
D. discomfort
16.
A. discharge of
B. release out
C. free of
D. liberate of
17.
A. ignore
B. ignores
C. ignored
D. is ignoring
18.
A. gentle
B. docile
C. passive
D. yielding
19.
A. initiative
B. self-motion
C. thought
D. automatism
20.
A. direct
B. link
C. lead
D. result
Passage 2
More and more residences, businesses, and even govermnent agencies are using telephone answering machines to take messages or give information or (1) . Sometimes these machines give (2) instructions, or play messages that are difficult to understand. If you make telephone calls, you need to be ready to respond when you get a (3) .
The **mon machine is the (4) used in residence. If you call a home (5) there is a telephone answering machine (6) you will hear several rings and then a recorded message that (7) says something like this: "Hello, we can't come to the (8) right now. If you want us to call you back, please leave your name and number after the beep." Then you will hear a "beep," (9) is a brief, high-pitched (10) . After the beep, you can say who you are, whom you want to speak to, and what number the person should call to (11) you, or you can leave a (12) . Some telephone answering machines record for only 20 or 30 seconds after the beep, (13) you must respond quickly. Some large businesses and government agencies are using telephone answering machines to provide information on (14) about which they receive a large volume of (15) . Generally speaking, using these systems (16) you to have a touchtone phone. The voice on the machine will tell you to (17) a certain button on your telephone if you want information on Topic A, another button for Topic B, and so on. You listen (18) you hear the topic you want to learn about, and then you push the (19) button. Immediately after making your (20) , you will hear a recorded message on the topic.
1.
A. order
B. command
C. direction
D. instructions
2.
A. disturbing
B. annoying
C. confusing
D. surprising
3.
A. repairing
B. recovering
C. retelling
D. recording
4.
A. type
B. kind
C. sort
D. character
5.
A. which
B. where
C. that
D. when
6.
A. in hand
B. in detail
C. in operation
D. in dispute
7.
A. impossibly
B. hardly
C. always
D. usually
8.
A. place
B. phone
C. home
D. room
9.
A. that
B. who
C. what
D. which
10.
A. tune
B. noise
C. voice
D. tone
11.
A. catch
B. tell
C. reach
D. meet
12.
A. note
B. record
C. message
D. speech
13.
A. so
B. therefore
C. although
D. thus
14.
A. topics
B. things
C. arguments
D. concerns
15.
A. questions
B. inquiries
C. problems
D. complaints
16.
A. commands
B. requires
C. asks
D. requests
17.
A. push
B. pull
C. drag
D. throw
18.
A. when
B. after
C. until
D. before
19.
A. correct
B. wrong
C. random
D. appropriate
20.
A. selection
B. solution
C. experiment
D. decision
Passage 3
An unidentified wit once said, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Snore, and you sleep alone." Yet snoring is far from a laughing (1) as those unfortunates with good (2) , who are rightly subjected (3) the sounds of the snoring disorder, will testify.
It has been estimated that one of eight Americans snores; this means that there are (4) 21 million people—women as well as men—who render a(an) (5) sound when they are asleep. And assuming that each snorer (6) the sleep of at least one other person, it (7) follows that there are 21 million unhappy listeners. (8) a sleeping person breathes, either in or out, several (9) in his nose and throat (10) the snoring. The sounds, (11) the soft palate and other soft structures of the throat, are caused by vibratory (12) to inflowing and out flowing air.
When the soft tissues of the mouth and **e (13) to the lining of the throat, the vibrations that (14) are caused by the position of the tongue. In (15) , the noise made by snoring can be (16) to the noise when (17) flutter a flag on a pole. The frequency of the vibrations (18) on the size, density, and elasticity of the affected tissues and (19) the force of the air flow. Although it is usually the process of inhaling or exhaling through the mouth that cause snoring, short **e from the nose of an open-mouthed sleeper. In all fairness to snorers, however, it should be (20) that snoring is an involuntary action which stops as the offender is awakened.
1.
A. substance
B. problem
C. material
D. matter
2.
A. hearing
B. listening
C. feeling
D. sleeping
3.
A. at
B. for
C. as
D. to
4.
A. merely
B. definitely
C. exactly
D. approximately
5.
A. peaceful
B. unpleasant
C. desirable
D. offensive
6.
A. irritate
B. reconcile
C. disturbs
D. adjusts
7.
A. reasonably
B. certainly
C. obviously
D. temporarily
8.
A. While
B. Whether
C. Provided
D. Though
9.
A. persons
B. structures
C. materials
D. noises
10.
A. start
B. enlarge
C. stimulate
D. generate
11.
A. coming to
B. coming of
C. coming from
D. coming into
12.
A. responses
B. replies
C. answers
D. movements
13.
A. down
B. close
C. up
D. far
14.
A. occurs
B. occuring
C. occured
D. occur
15.
A. sense
B. sour
C. short
D. word
16.
A. considered
B. measured
C. matches
D. compared
17.
A. people
B. breezes
C. snow
D. rain
18.
A. depends
B. clings
C. changes
D. credits
19.
A. between
B. below
C. in
D. on
20.
A. opened
B. emphasized
C. illustrated
D. specified
Passage 4
An important new industry, oil refining, grew after the Civil War. (1) oil, or petroleum, a dark, thick ooze from the earth had been known for hundreds of years, (2) little use had ever (3) it. In the 1850's, Samuel M. Kier, a manufacturer in western Pennsylvania, began (4) the oil and refining it into kerosene. Refining, (5) smelting, is a (6) of removing impurities from a raw material.
Kerosene was used to light lamps. It was a cheap (7) for whale oil, which was becoming (8) to get. Soon there was a large (9) for kerosene. People began to search for new (10) of petroleum.
The first oil well was drilled by E. L. Drake, a retired railroad conductor. In 1859 he began drilling in Titusville, Pennsylvania. The (11) venture of drilling seemed so (12) and foolish that onlookers called it "Drake's Folly". But (13) he had drilled down about 70 feet (21 meters), Drake (14) oil. His well began to (15) 20 barrels of crude oil a day.
News of Drake's (16) brought oil prospectors to the (17) . By the early 1860's these wildcatters were drilling for "black gold" all over western Pennsylvania. The boom (18) the California gold rush of 1848 in its excitement and Wild West atmosphere. And it brought far more wealth to the prospectors than any gold rush.
Petroleum could be refined into many products. For some years kerosene continued to be the (19) one. It was sold in groocery stores and door-to-door. In the 1880's and 1890's refiners learned how to make other petroleum products such as waxes and lubricating oils. Petroleum was not (20) used to make gasoline or heating oil
1.
A. Raw
B. Original
C. Crude
D. Coarse
2.
A. but
B. because
C. and
D. if
3.
A. been made at
B. been made in
C. been made from
D. been made of
4.
A. gathering
B. collecting
C. augmenting
D. saturating
5.
A. like
B. as
C. or
D. with
6.
A. procedure
B. process
C. proceeding
D. progress
7.
A. replace
B. supplement
C. surplus
D. substitute
8.
A. higher
B. cheaper
C. cleaner
D. harder
9.
A. need
B. demand
C. request
D. necessity
10.
A. supplies
B. offers
C. origins
D. traces
11.
A. all
B. complete
C. whole
D. total
12.
A. fantastic
B. gorgeous
C. empirical
D. impractical
13.
A. when
B. while
C. before
D. as
14.
A. touched
B. obtained
C. struck
D. reached
15.
A. produce
B. yield
C. assemble
D. provide
16.
A. failure
B. advance
C. venture
D. success
17.
A. scene
B. scenery
C. sight
D. view
18.
A. competed
B. rivaled
C. encountered
D. acquainted
19.
A. principle
B. fundamental
C. important
D. principal
20.
A. meanwhile
B. now
C. then
D. latter。