大学英语四六级考试_完型填空(cloze)专项训练

完型填空模拟练习

Exercise 1

The man who brings my milk used to knock for his money for the week’s milk while I was eating breakfast on Saturday morning.

1lately he has been arriving before I get up. Staff 2mean that four men are sharing five rounds. So he has to start 3. Delivering milk to people’s homes is scarcely good business, especially when the consumer may have a choice of two or three firms 4 a single road. 5my local difficulties, however, labor troubles are not as acute as a few years ago. There are enough men prepared to make an early morning stake 6an open-air job 7 a fair measure of freedom. 8

they did stop calling, women should find 9hard work to collect all the milk they need 10self-service stores. Dairies 11that stopping deliveries in the United States resulted in falling sales.

Marketing ideas have included introducing extra lines, 12dairy products, 13 the milkmen can carry to increase turnover. Already they have taken over many rounds given up by bakeries. One dairyman said: “It won’t be long 14the milkman delivers more bread than milk.” Some milkmen deliver potatoes, 15it seems as though diversification will be limited only 16the size of the vans.

So the milkman is likely to remain a familiar 17, and the dairy products he sells 18

change very much in this decade. Flavored milk is popular on the Continent. In Britain those who like it buy plain milk and add their own flavoring.19the returnable bottle continues to be used. As long as it has a reasonable life-----30 to 40 trips are usual-----the cost of collection and cleaning is 20.

1. A) Soon B) Just C) After D) When

2. A) storage B) lack C) short D) shortages

3. A) early B) earliest C) earlier D) more early

4. A) serving B) deserving C) reserving D) preserving

5. A) In spite of B) in case of C) Because of D) With

6. A) for the reason of B) for the sake of C) in order for D) as for

7. A) with B) for C) in D) to

8. A) If B) Though C) As D) Because

9. A) that B) it C) this D) X

10. A) from B) for C) into D) through

11. A) noticed B) are aware C) get to know D) understand

12. A) except for B) for example C) in addition to D) such as

13. A) for which B) in which C) of which D) which

14. A) that B) when C) after D) before

15. A) and B) for C)so D) however

16. A) for B) by C) in D) with

17. A) figure B) number C) staff D) rate

18. A) are unlikely to B) are likely to C) are surely to D) are likely not to

19. A) So B) For C) Even D) As

20. A) worthy B) worthwhile C) worthless D) worth

Exercise 2

A land free from destruction, plus wealth, natural resources, and labor supply ——all these were important 1in helping England to become the center for the Industrial Revolution. 2they were not enough. Something 3 was needed to start the industrial process. That “something special” was men4individuals who could invent machines, find new5of power, and establish business organizations to reshape society.

The men who6the machines of the Industrial Revolution 7from many backgrounds and many occupations. Many of them were8inventors than scientists. A man who is a 9scientist is primarily interested in doing his research 10. He is not necessarily working 11that his findings can be used.

An inventor of one interested in applied science is 12trying to make something that has a concrete 13. He may try to solve a problem by singing the theories 14 science or experimenting through trial and error. Regardless of his method, he is working to obtain a 15result: the construction of a harvesting machine, the burning of a light bulb, or one of 16other objectives.

Most of people who 17the machines of the Industrial Revolution were inventors, not trained scientists. A few were both scientists and inventors. Even those who had 18or no training in science might not have made their inventions 19 a groundwork had not been laid by scientists years20.

1. A) cases B) reasons C) factors D) situations

2. A) But B) And C) Besides D) Even

3. A) else B) near C) extra D) similar

4. A) generating B) effective C) motivating D) creative

5. A) origins B) sources C) bases D) discoveries

6. A) employed B) created C) operated D) controlled

7. A) came B) arrived C) stemmed D) appeared

8. A) less B) better C) more D) worse

9. A) genuine B) practical C) pure D) clever

10. A) happily B) occasionally C) reluctantly D) accurately

11. A) now B) and C) all D) so

12. A) seldom B) sometimes C) usually D) never

13. A) plan B) use C) idea D) means

14. A) of B) with C) to D) as

15. A) single B) sole C) specialized D) specific

16. A) few B) those C) many D) all

17. A) proposed B) developed C) supplied D) offered

18. A) little B) much C) some D) any

19. A) as B) if C) because D) while

20. A) ago B) past C) ahead D)before