四级选词填空专项训练

Reading Comprehension (Banked Cloze)

How does a kid go from good student and model citizen to corporate (集团的) criminal? My example might lend a few clues. I was in the chess club and got very good grades. I was, however, sometimes getting in trouble with the law. I received my first ticket for breaking a traffic law when I was sixteen, the same year I got a (27)___________ to drive. My dad paid my fine. Of course, most people would just (28)___________ off a speeding ticket. Later, I got into a bigger mess when I was caught stealing a pack of gum from a local grocer. My parents were (29)___________ and I went to court. Unfortunately, for me, the judge gave me nothing more than a slap on the wrist. The (30)___________ never even showed up on my official record. I wish now that I had been (31)___________ more severely and learned a lesson. Instead, I just learned to (32)___________ the system and made sure I didn’t get caught again. That is until this year. This year I was caught (33)___________ corporate bribery and fraud. I didn’t even know investigators were observing my (34)___________. I had become unbelievably bold and careless. I didn’t believe that they actually (35)___________ people for business crimes. Recently, corporate crimes have become very (36)___________ with the public. This was a bad time to get caught.

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One of the hardest jobs in entertainment is the life of the “stand-up comic”or stage comedian (喜剧演员). With a microphone and very simple objects to (57)__________ them, they stand before an audience telling jokes, making sounds and commenting on society. Being (58)__________ for laughter and claps of approval, they will try almost anything. They will try to shock their audience with (59)__________ language. They will push the (60)__________ of the current political climate with jokes about Congress and the President. In clumsy haste, they will fall over a chair or off the stage. But, it is exceedingly difficult to figure out the (61)__________ for laughter. It is not the joke that (62)__________ the audience’s approval, but the delivery of that joke and the character of the comedian. Some get lucky for a while by behaving in a way that has never been seen before. Some catch a brief glimpse of fame by going against the public’s sense of what is (63)__________ subject matter.

Few, however, learn how to (64)__________ a performance that demands the

intelligence and wit of their audience. These few do so not by simply startling their audience’s sense of what is decent and good, but by (65)__________ their audience to feel and see things in a new way. A real comic (66)__________ creates not only laughter but also thought. That is real entertainment for the public.

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2010 真题Banked Cloze：

When we think of green buildings, we tend to think of new ones – the kind of high-tech, solar-paneled masterpieces that make the covers of architecture magazines. But the U.S. has more than 100 million existing homes, and it would be __47__ wasteful to tear them all down and __48__ them with greener versions. An enormous amount of energy and resources went into the construction of those houses. And it would take an average of 65 years for the __49__ carbon emissions from a new energy-efficient home to make up for the resources lost by destroying an old one. So in the broadest __50__, the greenest home is the one that has already been built. But at the same time, nearly half of U. S. carbon emissions come from heating, cooling and __51__ our homes, offices and other buildings. "You can't deal with climate change without dealing with existing buildings," says Richard Moe, the president of the National Trust.

With some __52__, the oldest homes tend to be the least energy-efficient. Houses built before 1939 use about 50% more energy per square foot than those built after 2000, mainly due to the tiny cracks and gaps that __53__ over time and let in more outside air.

Fortunately, there are a __54__ number of relatively simple changes that can green older homes, from __55__ ones like Lincoln's Cottage to your own postwar home. And efficiency upgrades (升级) can save more than just the earth; they can help __56__ property owners from rising power costs.