考研综合英语必练选词填空(C篇)

Fill in the each blank with the words given in the box. Chang the word form if necessary. Each word can be used only once. Mark your answer on your ANSWER SHEET. (15*1=15 points)

Most people hate rock music. (1) __________ I am not an unreasonable or biased person by nature, two vivid and striking (2) __________ experiences of rock music during the past two weeks have persuaded me that it has become a (3) __________ for those of us with enough common sense to see its(4) __________ dangers to point them out. My first experience--perhaps a minor one, (5) __________ highly symptomatic--was the realization that if I spoke to my teenage son when he was listening to rock music (6) __________ headphones, he replied in an unnaturally loud voice, as if there was something wrong with his hearing. The second occurred when I went with him to a "concert" and witnessed for myself (7) __________ these affairs are like. Till I went to the concert, I had always (8) __________ the "live and let live" attitude that rock music was simply not my (9) __________ but that other people had every right to enjoy it if it was theirs.

But what I saw and heard (10) __________ me that we are allowing something very powerful to take (11) __________ of the younger generation. In the first place, I noticed a collective madness, brought about by the noise level. But secondly, and far more dangerously, I observed that after a time everyone was carried (12) __________ by the noise, and gave up his/her individuality. By the end I was in the middle of a faceless crowd who clapped and (13) __________ and jumped around like monkeys. It was the most degrading human (14) __________ I have ever had the misfortune to witness, and I seriously believe that in time to come our present younger generation would thank us if we managed to (15) __________ a stop to it now.

14. spectacle, spectacle除有“眼镜，景象”之义外，还有“受人嘲笑的人(或物)”的意思，符

合旬意。

15. put, 作者认为如果我们能……，年轻一代一定会感谢我们的。put a stop to“制止”。