Many a young person tells explain that
me he wants to be a writer.
I always __1__ such people, but I also
there’sa big difference between \"being
a writer\" and writing. In most cases these
’
individuals are dreaming of __2__ and fame, notthe long hours alone at a typewriter. \"Youve got to want to write,\" I say to them, \"not want to be a writer.\"The reality is that writing is a __3__, private and poor-paying
affair.
For every writer
kissed by fortune there arethousands
to become
more whose longing is never __4__. When I a freelancewriter
left a 20-year career in the US. Coast Guard
（自由撰稿人）, I had no __5__ at all. What I did have was a friend who found
’t even matter that it was __6__and had
me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn
no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and feltlike a __7__ writer.After a year or so, however, I still hadn
’t gotten a break and began to __8__ myself. It was so hard
to sell a storythat __9__ made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasnputting
’t going to be one ofthose people who die wondering, what if? I would keeo
though it meant living
with __10__and fear of failure.
This
my dream to the test----even
is the Shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream learn to live there.
A) barely B) genuine C) rewarded D) doubt E) lonely F) poverty G) persuade H) prospects I) uncertainty J)impossibly K) encourage L)awarded M) alone N)wealth O)cold 【答案】
1.选K）。此处应填动词的原形。可选项有
doubt, persuade, encourage，但由always推知，作者
doubt和persuade而选encourage.
是在鼓励那些想要成为作家的人，而不是怀疑也不是说服，故排除
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2.选N）。由空格后的与第二段中The reality 故排除prospects
fame可知，此处应填名词。可选项有prospects和wealth，但由dreaming of
is…poor-paying可推知，那些想当作家的人梦想的是金钱和名誉，而不是前途，
而选wealth.
private，poor-paying
一起修饰affair.
选项中有lonely
和alone，能
3.选E）。此处应填形容词，修饰affair
的只有lonely，alone表示“孤独的”时，通常作表语，故排除alone而选lonely.
4.选C）。此处应填动词的被动形式。可选项有rewarded和awarded，前者可表示“（为所希望的举
rewarded符合题意而排除
awarded.
动得到的）回报”，后者作动词时表示“颁发，授予”，故只有
5.选H）。此处应填名词。“当我辞别了我在美国海岸警卫队有任何……可言”，可选项有
20年工作成为一个自由撰稿人时，没
prospects和wealth，但wealth一般指抽象意义上的“金钱”，因此排除
wealth而选prospects“前途”。
6.选O）。it指代的是apartment building只有cold能说明公寓的条件差，故选择
O）cold.
，从had no bathroom
可知这个公寓条件很差，选项中
7.选B）。“我马上买了一台旧的手动打字机，感觉自己就好像是一个……的作家”，由前面提到的to become a freelance writer正的”符合题意。
8.选D）。由空格前的由still hadn't gotten a break择是否正确，故
doubt符合文意。
made，故此处应填副词。可选项有
barely
和impossibly，因
to可知，此处应填动词的原形。可选项有
doubt，persuade，encourage，但
可推知，此处作者是想成为一个真正的作家，故选项中只有
genuine“真
“在写作上还没有任何进展”，所以此处应理解为他开始怀疑自己的选
9.选A）。that从句结构完整，后面有that引导的从句是对impossibly
story的解释，再由
hard一词可推知，此处应填的副词应表达肯定的意思，故排除
而选barely“仅仅，刚刚”。
and可知，此处应填名词。由
fear of failure
可知，所填词应表示不好的
10.选I）。由空格后的境遇，可选项有的贫困，故选
poverty和uncertaintyuncertainty.
；又由fear可推知，此处强调的是生活的变化无常，而不是生活
Americans are proud of their variety and individualty, yet they love and respect few things
more than a uniform. Why are uniforms so __1__ in the United States?
Among the arguments for uniforms, one of the first is that in the eyes of most people they look more __2__ than civilian
（百姓的）clothes.
People have become conditioned
to __3__ superior
quality from a man who wears a uniform. The television repairman who wears a uniform tends to __4__ more trust than one who appears in civilian
clothes.
Faith in the __5__ of a garage mechanic
is increased by a uniform. What an easier way is there for a nurse, a policeman, a barber, or a waiter to __6__ professional identitymany __7__ benefits.
（身份）than to step out of uniform? Uniforms also have
They save on laundry bills.
They are often more
They save on other clothes.
comfortable and more durable than civilian clothes.
Primary among the arguments against uniforms is their lack of variety and the consequent
loss of __8__ experienced by people who must wear them. Though there are many types of uniforms,
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the wearer of any particular type is generally stuck with it, without __9__, until retirement. When people look alike, they tend to think, speak, and act __10__, on the job at least.
[A]skill [B]popular [C]get [D]change [E]similarly [F]professional [G]character [H]individuality [I]inspire [J]differently [K]expect [L]practical [M]recall [N]lose [O]ordinary ANSWERS：
1.选B）。从文章的第一句
they love and respect few thins more than a uniform
“他们又无比
热爱和崇尚制服”，说明了制服在美国很受欢迎。“职业的”、practical
“实用的”和
因此选项B）popular符合原文意思。选项中的professional
ordinary“普通的，平常的”都不符合第一段的意思。
clothes
可知，此处要填的形容词意思与“职业的”和
civilian
civilian
civilian
2.选F）。此处应填形容词。从more…than civilian 相对，说明制服的特点。选项中的形容词中只有确。而pratical
“实用的”和
professional相对的，故F）正
ordinary“平常的”意思都不能和对应，故排除。
look more
3.选K）。由be conditioned “看起来更……”和后面的望（得到）”的单词，只有
to do sth.“习惯于”可知，此处应填动词原形。从前面的
tend to“倾向于”可知，这段要说明的是人们的主观印象，应填入表示“期K）expect符合原文语气。选项中
get“得到”与上下文的语气不符合。
4.选I）。此处应填动词原形。从原文中“人们习惯……从穿制服的人那儿得到优质服务。”可知，人们更信任穿制服的人，即制服能使人产生信任感。选项中的动词原形中只有章。
inspire
“使产生”符合文
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5.选A）。此处应填名词。前面两句表达了人们对穿制服的人更加信任的意思，那么对于mechanic“汽车修理工”来说，人们信任的是它的技术，而不是人品，故选项中只有意思。
6.选N）。此处应填动词。
...step out of uniform
A）skill
garage 符合原文
“脱掉制服”是对护士、警察等来说是……职业
N）lose.
身份的很简单的方式。脱下制服就是失去了职业身份，由此可以推知此处应填
7.选L）。此处应填形容词，说明制服的其他有点。从下文“……节省购买其他衣服的开销，节省洗衣费用，比便服更舒适也更耐穿”可知，制服除了增加信任感还有实际的优点。选项中的的”和ordinary“平常的”，很明显
L）pratical
符合原文意思。
pratical
“实用
8.选H）。此处应填名词。文章手段就说“美国人为自己的多元化和个性化感到高傲无比，然而他们又无比热爱和崇尚制服”，其中包含制服使他们失去自己的个性的意思，那么联系第一段，此处指出的制服的缺点即为失去个性，故选项character
H）individuality
正确。individuality
强调与他人特点的区别，而
指的是个人特定的内在本质。
9.选D）。此处应填名词。前面说制服让人失去了个性，虽然有很多种制服，但穿上制服的人直至退休都是那件制服，所有是没有变化的，故此处应填
10.选E）。此处应填副词，修饰动词词和alike
意思相近。选项种副词有
change，故D）正确。
…，说明此处填的与alike
意思相
act.前面指出...look alike, they tend to
和differently
，很明显，E）similarly
similarly
近，故选E）。
What is it about Americans and food? We love to eat, but we feel 1 about it afterward. We say we want only the
best, but we strangely enjoy junk food. We're 2
with health and weight loss
（矛
but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity盾情结）lies in our history. but went in vain. The first
The first
（肥胖）. Perhaps the 3 to this ambivalence
Europeans came to this continent
searching for new spices
cash crop（经济作物）wasn't eaten but smoked. Then there was Prohibition,
intended to prohibit drinking but actually encouraging more 4 ways of doing it.
The immigrant experience, “real Americans
too, has been one of inharmony. Do as Romans do means eating what
—pizza, say, or hot
” eat, but our nation's food has come to be 5 by imports
dogs. And some of the country's most treasured cooking comes from people who arrived here in shackles.
Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food has been a medium for the nation's defining
struggles,
whether at the Boston Tea Party or the sit
ins at southern lunch counters.
It is integral to our concepts of health and even morality whether one refrains from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat for political.
But strong opinions have not brought 7 . Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become 8 of our foods, especially
The 9 in food is still
as we learn more about what they contain.
It's
no coincidence,
then,
prosperous in the American consciousness.
that the first Thanksgiving holds the American imagination in such bondagewe eat—and how we 10 it with friends, family, and strangerscommunity today.
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—that help define America as a
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A. answer I. creative B. result J. belief C. share K. suspicious D. guilty L. certainty E. constant M. obsessed F. defined N. identify G. vanish O. ideals H. adapted 【答案及详解】1.D feel可以确定选项为
是一个系动词，可以判断此处应填入一个形容词，通过上下文意思，以及后面介词D项guilty
，短语feel guilty about sth.
about，
“对……感到有愧”。全句的意思为“我们
很爱吃，但是往往在吃完之后又有负罪感”。
2.M be obsessed with
为固定搭配，原意为“被……附上
/缠住/迷住心窍”，放在本句表示“十分
重视”。全句的意思为“我们很关心健康和减肥，但肥胖却又空前地在蔓延”。
3.A 本句缺一个名词作主语，并且根据和介词
to的搭配，可以推断出正确选项
answer.
4.I 本句根据more和ways可以判断出需要填入一个形容词构成比较级，止酗酒的禁酒令，却激发了更多新奇的方法来酗酒”，可以确定
5.F 本题较难。根据美国人吃的食物”，下文通过所诠释了”，因此可以确定
根据上下文，表示“旨在禁
I为正确选项。
be 和by 确定应填入一个过去分词。再根据上下文，上文表示“应该吃典型的
but 转折，表示实际上“美国的食物已经被诸如比萨和热狗这样的舶来品F为正确选项。
religious reasons
来推断此处填政治结果。
bring的短语，这样本句所缺的为一名词，做
bring
6.B 政治结果，可根据宗教原因
7.L 由于横线后面没有宾语，可以确定不是形成
的宾语。根据下文解释，“美国人对他们所吃的食物的态度是矛盾的”，可以推出本句意义为“坚定的观点也不是确定不变的”。因此可以确定
L为正确选项。
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8.K 系动词become后应填入一个形容词，和后面介词of形成短语be/become suspicious of“对……感到怀疑”。
9.J 本句缺一个名词作主语，并且根据和介词in sth.
“相信……”。
with 搭配，确定选项为
share, share sth. with sb.
，
in的搭配，可以推断出正确选项
belief
，(have) belief
10.C 本句是一般现在时，缺一个动词，且和“与某人分享某事”。
As is known to all,
the organization
and management of wages and salaries are very complex.
Generally speaking, the Accounts Department is __1__ for calculations Department is interested in discussions with the employees about pay.
If a firm wants to __2__ a new wage and salary structure,
of pay, while the Personnel
it is essential that the firm should
decide on a __3__ of job evaluation and ways of measuring the performance of its employees. In order to be __4__, that new pay structure In job evaluation,
will need agreement between Trade Unions and employers.
job description.
all of the requirements of each job are defined in a detailed
Each of thsoe requirements is given a value, usually in \"points\give a total value for the job. For middle and higher management, a special method is used to evaluate managers on
their knowledge
of the job, their responsibility, and their
__6__ to solve
problems. Because of the difficulty in measuring management work, however, job grades for managers
are often decided without __7__ to an evaluation system based on points.
In attempting to design a pay system, the Personnel Department should __8__ the value of
each job with these in the job market. __9__, payment for a job should vary with any differences in the way that the job is performed. Where it is simple to measure the work done, as in the
works done with hands, monetary encouragement schemes are often chosen, for __10__ workers, where measurement is difficult, methods of additional payments are employed.
[A]compare [B]responsible [C]useful [D]added [E]find [F]reference [G]indirect [H]method [I]successful [J]combined [K]Necessarily
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1.选B）。此处应填形容词。原文意思为“会计部门……计算报酬”，选项中的形容词“负责任的”，useful“有用的”，indirect与for连用，排除；剩余几项中只有
“间接的”，successful
“成功的”，其中
responsibleindirect
不能
B）responsible意义符合原句，其他均不符合，故排除。
2.选O）。此处应填动词原形。本文主题就是采用一种新的工资和薪水制度时需要注意的问题，选项中的动词原形有文意思，故选
compare“比较”，find“找到”，adopt“采纳”，分别带入原文，只有O）。
and连接并列结构，所以要填的词应与
and后面的ways意思一
adopt最符合原
3.选H）。此处应填名词。从原文看，致，选项中的名词只有
mathod = ways，故选H）method.
4.选I）。此处应填形容词。上文说新的工资制度需要一套决定工作评估和衡量雇员表现的方法，说的是制度“是否有用”的问题。这句说的时新的工资制度执行过程中的问题，劳资双方先期达成一致是薪酬制度成功的必要条件。形容词
useful和 successful
，I）seccessful
更符合原文意思。
to give a total value
5.选D）。此处应填动词。这个动词的宾语是“得出总分值”，选项中有
point“分值”，把分值……起来
added和combined，前者指“把……相加”，后者意为“把……结合在一起”，
D）added最符合文意。
选项中的capacity
原文指将分值相加得出总分，故
6.选M）。此处应填名词。首先solve problem“解决问题”是经理们应具备的能力，与ability
都可以表示“能力”；前者强调的是理解的能力和接受事物的能力，而后者强调实际应用的能
M）ability.
力，故不难判断解决问题的能力应该用
7.选F）。此处应填名词。前半句指出“因为管理工作很难评估，经理的工作得分不需要参照基于分值的评估系统决定。”
without reference to
为固定搭配，意思是“与……无关”。故选
F）reference.
these in
8.选A）。此处应填动词原形。原句中出现了the job market
the value of each job“每种工作的价值”和
“工作市场上的（工作价值）”，说明人事部门通过比较两种价值来计算工资制度。选项
A）正确。
中只有compare表示“比较”，所以
9.选K）。此处应填副词，修饰整句话。“报酬要随工作表现各方面的不同而有所改变”，选项中Necessarily
“必须地”与Basically
“基本地”为副词，分别带入原文，“报酬……的变化是必须的”更
符合上下文意思，故排除N），选K）。
simple to measure the work done
“易于评
10.选G）。此处应填形容词。前文中提到一种情况即估的工作”，通常用现金奖励办法；而
...measurement is difficult“难于评估的”，说明这些工作人G）indirect
符合原句的意思。
员的工作不像手工工作那么直接，因而是间接的，故选项中只有
Videoconferencing
is nothing more than a television
set or PC monitor with a camera Through
the videocenferencing, not only your voice but also your face, the surroundings and any other
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graphic and phisical __1__ can be captured and transmitted through the communication system with the technology involved is very __2__
Services Digital
Network),
or without wires. Of course, when you go into the details, and the subject matter littered
with jargon. Such as ISDN (Integrated
POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) or the __3__ behind bandwidth, latency and isochrony which are used to explain how videoconferencing and the more interaction works.Good people communication is __4__ in any business,
it is that your __5__ will
be the right
you can achieve, the more likely
ones. Videoconferencing not
only allows
you to speak to people in different locations, but also
note __6__ expressions and gestures that let you know what the other person is really thinking. Meetings are made more __7__ by sharing documents and computer applications that a simple telephone cannot __8__.__9__,
organizations are discovering the competitive advantages and the
power of videoconferencing. With advances in performance, economical pricing, the ability to __10__ essential meeting tools and connectivity to global telephone networks and standardized videoconferencing
protocols,
videoconferencing
is now a practical
reality
for any organization.
A) fortunately B) effective C) images D) articulate E) facial F) manage G) decisions H) connect I) advanced J) integrate K) progressive L) concepts M)pictures N) increasingly O) important 【答案】
1.选C）。空格中要填的是名词，从后面的...can be captured and transmitted
可以选出选项中
images和pictures，pictures指“画面，图片”，一般指静态的情景；而文中的意思表达的是实时的电视会议，画面应该是动态的，
images可以表示动态的形象，画面，故
C）images正确。
2.选I）。这里应填形容词，修饰the technology.
选项中的advanced，progressive，important
可以用来修饰
the technology，注释1说明了the technology
中包含了很多行业术语，是很深奥的，排
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除important；而progressive“上进的，进步的”，强调寻求更好的，并非人人都能接受的含义”，根据上下文
I）advanced更符合题意。
advanced“领先的，有高深的，
3.选L）。首先判断这里应填名词，再根据注释有explain“解释，说明”可以退出，选项中的名词中
2种“用于解释视频会议工作原理的……”，原文中concepts最符合题意。故选
L）。
4.选O）。此处应填形容词。这个分句后面说交流越多，你越可能成为正确的那一个，说明交流很重要，与本土的视频会议——一种交流的工具主题一致，这里应该填
5.选G）。由空格后的ones可知，这里应填名词的复数形式。more likely
…be the right ones
important.
前面提到the more interaction
…, the
“得到的交互信息越多，你的……就更有可能正确的”。人们通过电视
“概
会议谈判协商，了解得信息越多，自己的判断，决策才会更正确。故这里应填G）decisions.concepts念”是打扰项，这里和概念无关。
6.选E）。此处应填形容词。由上文in different
locations
Videoconferencing not only allows you to speak to people
...expressions
“视频会议不仅可以让你与不同地方的人说话”，and gestures
that let you know what the other person is really thinking.的真实想法”，很明显修饰
expressions
的应该是facial
“…表情和姿态，从而让你知道他们
，意思是“面部表情”。
7.选B）。此处要填形容词，与more构成形容词比较级结构。从后文by sharing documents and computer application
“通过共享文档和计算机应用，会议能更加……”，这里电话会议的优势，也是其目的，即
B）effective.K
）progressive
“进步的”并不是电话会议要达到的目的，故排除。
articulate
，manage，integrate
，connect，由
提高效率，故这里应填
8.选F）。此处应填动词原形。选项中的动词原形有
原文可知，电视会议可以“共享文档和应用计算机”，而电话是不能做到的，以推断这里填的词表示“做到，实现”的词，故只有
manage“设法，达成”符合文意。
fortunately
和increasinglyincreasingly
两个副词，本文全文都而不是fortunately
“幸运
9.选N）。可以推断此处应填副词，选项中有在说随着技术的发达，地”。
电视电话会议越来越受欢迎，所以应该是
10.选J）。此处应填动词原型，宾语是各种重要的会议工具。选项中还有和connect三个位动词原形。其中
aiticulate
articulate，integrate
作“接合”意思讲的时候指的是单独的事物由关节连接，
integrate
强调的是各种事物结合，形成一个整体。
connect“连接”表示将分离的东西连接在一起，而integrate
正确，故选J）。
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