仔细阅读选词填空

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Section A Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.

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 C hildren’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 School 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 Y oung 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) acting F) especially K) projects

B) assuming G) forward L) respectively

C) comprehensive H) images M) role

D) cooperative I) information N) technology

E) entire J) offers O) victims

第一步：略读全文，确定中心

本文第一句指出As war spreads to many corners of the globe, children sadly have been drawn into the center of conflicts. 这正是文章的主题句。

第二步：阅读选项，词性分类

动词acting，assuming，offers；

名词images，information，projects，role，technology，victims

形容词comprehensive，cooperative，entire

副词especially，forward，respectively

第三步：瞻前顾后，灵活选择

大部分空缺都可以根据前后语法关系确定词性，如第47题，根据该空格后下文内容，可推断出需要填入名词projects “参加和平教育项目”；第48题，空格位于定冠词the之后，可判断此处缺少名词，took on担当战争调解人的角色，确定填入role；第50题，前后都是名词，可以判断需要填入谓语动词，且第三人称单数，只有offers符合要求；第53题修饰形容词useful，肯定需要副词，从三个副词中选一个，难度大大降低；第56题，空格位于定冠词the之后，名词school之前，可以判断此处缺少形容词作定语。

第四步：复核检查，确定结果

Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.

Some years ago I was offered a writing assignment that would require three month of travel t hough Europe’s had been aboard a couple of times, but I could hardly _____to know my way around the continent. Moreover, my knowledge of foreign languages was ______ to a little college French.

I hesitated. How would I, unable to speak the language, ______ unfamiliar with local geography or transportation systems, set up _______ and do research? It seemed impossible, and with considerable ______. I sat down to write a letter begging off. Halfway through, thought ran through my mind: you can't learn if you don't try. So I accepted the assignment.

There were some bad _______. 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 _______ bookings, confident that somehow I will manage.

The point is that the new, the different, is almost by definition _____. But ach time you try something, you learn, and as the learning piles up, the world opens to you.

I’ve learned to ski at 40, and flown up the Rhine River in a ______. And I know I’ll go on doing such things. It’s not because I’m braver or more daring than others. I’m not, but

2008.12

Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.

A bookless life is an incomplete life. Books influence the depth and breath 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 54 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