【专项训练】填“坑”游戏——完形填空专项训练
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专项训练一
Part III Cloze (10 marks)
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word. Choose the correct word in one of the following three ways: according to the context, by using the correct form of the given word, or by using the given letter(s) of the word. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.
Research by U.S. and Canadian scientists suggest that the brains of men and women differ structurally in ways that may explain differences in mental ability. Men’s brains are larger than women’s, (46) （ ） (principal) because men are larger in all respects. But the isthmus of the corpus callosum, (47) （ ） links the right and left halves of the brain, is generally larger in women than in men, according to a number of different studies (48) （ ） (report) to the New York Academy of Sciences.
Since these fibres represent the main highway within the brain, the researchers believe it may explain why, on (49) （ ）, women have a superior ability with words to men and why girls are less often dyslexic than boys. Some researchers believe the physical difference may also explain why men are generally better at tasks (50) inv（ ） spatial relationships, such as engineering and reading maps. Speculating even further, the sexing of brains (an infant science) may account for the fact that there have been more women poets and (51) （ ） (novel) than female painters and sculptors.
Such research has been discouraged by feminists for a long time. They fear that it might be used to justify male-female differences which they (52) mai（ ） are result of unfair social attitudes and conditioning. Scientists admit that the physical differences between male and female brains may have a less important effect (53) （ ） education and experience.
But at a recent meeting of the New York Academy, the largest claims for a physically significant difference between the sexes, other than the obvious and well-researched ones, were made by women. Sandra Witelson, a Canadian neuropsychologist, said the differences in size already mentioned may be “just the tip of the (54) ice（ ） ... The physical structure of men’s and women’s brains may be far more different than we suspect.” But men were (55) （ ） (doubt) about the importance of the finding that women had a larger isthmus in their corpus callosum. A male scientist said, “In the brain, bigger doesn’t always mean better.”
Keys：
46. principally
47. which
48. reported
49. average
50. involving
51. novelists
52. maintain
53. than
54. iceberg
55. doubtful
专项训练二
Part III Cloze (10 marks)
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word. Choose the correct word in one of the following three ways: according to the context, by using the correct form of the given word, or by using the given letter(s) of the word. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.
A considerable amount of medical research is aimed at identifying risk factors for disease. The rationale (46) be（ ） this work is that where people are informed of their risk, they will happily change their behavior to (47) low（ ） that risk. Although this is certainly a reasonable assumption, it turns (48) （ ） that things are not quite that simple and straightforward. First of all, health is not necessarily a top priority in everyone’s life and, for these people, changing behavior in the interests of health may interfere (49) （ ） other, more important matters. Second, the benefits to be derived from such (50) ch（ ） rarely are immediate or obvious. Usually, improvements in health take place over long periods of time and are quite subtle. (51) （ ）, we are all so bombarded with information about the thousands of health hazards to which we are exposed to most of us “tune out” much of this information. This latter issue is compounded by the (52) fac（ ） that much of new information to which we are exposed through the media is exaggerated and, as often as not, is contradicted later by even “newer”information. For these and other reasons, simply knowing about a risk does not necessarily ensure that people would (53) （ ） (take) appropriate steps to change it.
Even when people want to change their (54) （ ）, this is not easy to do. For example, the overwhelming majority of smokers in this country want to quit, but make great effort very few are able to do so. Most smokers (55) （ ） (acknowledge), at some level, that health hazards associated with smoking and most wish that there were a simple and painless way to stop. And the number of people who want to lose weight is very large, but few of these people are able to do it and even none are able to maintain such weight losses.
Keys：
46. behind
47. lower
48. out
49. with
50. changes
51. Meanwhile
52. fact
53. take
54. behavior
55. acknowledge
专项训练三
Part III Cloze (10 marks)
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word. Choose the correct word in one of the following three ways: according to the context, by using the correct form of the given word, or by using the given letter(s) of the word. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.
Celebrities and the media have a distinctly ‘love-hate’ relationship and, whilst they recognize their mutual dependency, striking a balance between their 46. res（ ） interests is an on-going challenge for both groups.
In the worlds of sport, entertainment and politics, celebrities depend on the press, social media, photographers and radio and television to raise their public profile, and afford them the visibility essential to success in their highly 47. （ ） (compete) professions. For example, top-class sports celebrities rely on income from commercial sponsorship to pay for 48. （ ） (expense) coaching, fitness and training facilities. In the entertainment business, glamorous award ceremonies and opening nights of much-anticipated films not only 49. pro（ ） the cast with what is undoubtedly an enjoyable and well-deserved celebration of their success, but also an opportunity for valuable exposure to their fans as well as to influential figures in their own 50. ind（ ）.
At the same time, sales revenues from advertising and audience ratings are boosted by stories about famous figures, which range from casual gossip to carefully researched information, 51. dep（ ） on their purpose and target audience.
The 52. con（ ） between these apparently compatible interests lies in deciding how much access the media should have to the daily lives of the famous and the amount of privacy any individual should be entitled to.
This clash has been intensified in the first two decades of the 21st century by recent developments in communications and digital science. There can be little doubt that the 53. （ ） (drama) expansion of online social media has made it possible to spread rumours, true or false, instantly across the globe. This has significantly increased the power of the press to enhance or damage the reputation of any public figure. Due to advances in high-tech photographic equipment, it has become easier than ever for photojournalists to intrude on the private lives of well-known personalities without their knowledge or agreement. This has led, on many occasions, 54. （ ） legal battles between the media and celebrities to determine whether newspapers should be entitled to publish images of high-profile personalities taken when they are not appearing in public. Another example of how the press has used dubious methods to obtain information about famous personalities is phone hacking, or listening in to private phone calls, which has also
55. res（ ） in a number of court cases.
Keys:
46. respective
47. competitive
48. expensive
49. provide
50. industry
51. depending
52. conflict
53. dramatic
54. to
55. resulted
专项训练四
Part III Cloze (10 marks)
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word. Choose the correct word in one of the following three ways: according to the context, by using the correct form of the given word, or by using the given letter(s) of the word. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.
Everybody makes language mistakes, whether it is in their own language or a foreign language. Sometimes instead of the word that they wanted to say, a speaker uses a similar-sounding word. This is called a malapropism, (46) （ ） the French phrase mal à propos, which means “inappropriate”. Malapropisms occur in everyday conversations, on the radio, in speeches and presentations. In some cases the word sounds strange. However, mistakes (47) （ ） a civil serpent instead of a civil servant can be very funny, particularly when they are said by a well-known person in a particular (48) cont（ ）. Sports commen-tators and politicians seem to produce the funniest malapropisms. (49) For（ ） U.S. president George W. Bush, for example, made so many malapropisms and other (50) （ ） (linguist) errors that these mistakes became known as “Bushisms”. His classic slips of the (51) ton（ ） included nuclear power pants instead of nuclear power plants.
Speakers do not only use the wrong word, they often mispronounce words too. This can be because somebody does not know the (52) （ ） (pronounce) of an unusual word—for example, words that are more common in (53) wri（ ） language. However, a speaker can also mispronounce a word (54) （ ） mixing up the sounds in words. This is called a spoonerism. Mixing up sounds often creates nonsense words—for example, wook out the lindow instead of look out the window, but it can also create a funny change in meaning, such as a lack of pies instead of a pack of lies. Many people use spoonerisms
(55) （ ） (accident) when they are nervous or speak too quickly, but comedians use them deliberately as a comic play on words.
Keys:
46. from
47. like
48.
context
49. Former
50. linguistic
51. tongue
52. pronunciation
53. written
54. by
55. accidentally
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