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1、完形填空(二)及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、完形填空(总题数：4，分数：100.00)I wish my memory worked differently. Id like to be able to conjure up an accurate image of my (1) (conscious) from, say, 25 years ago. You know what 25 years means? No cellphones, no e-mail, no Internet, no social networking (except with an ac

2、tual drink in hand), and only the most primitive of personal computers. What I want to answer is a single (2) : Was I as addicted to the future than as I seem to be now?I ask this because I really enjoy a new update to my operating system, like the one I (3) down from Apple earlier this week. I find

3、 it (4) ( surprise) pleasing when one of my iPhone applications requests an update too. Every day I await, with anticipation, a long list of email messages that could arrive at any second, and there are several people Im really eager to get a text message (5) . Those, too, could come at any time. So

4、on-even now-I could find my feed-list in Google Reader delightfully stuffed with newness. I am not a Twitterer, but I understand the dismay the Twitter world must have felt during its service (6) (disrupt) last week.When I think back 25 years, there just wasnt that much to be waiting (7) . The phone

5、 might ring-and if you left home, you had to leave without it. The mail would come, and so might UPS or Federal Express. Someone might stop by on the spur of the moment. A fax perhaps? That was about it.Ive always looked forward to the mail coming. I dont know why, and now where the mail comes const

6、antly, cease (8) , a world where I find myself dismayed by the slowdown in blog feeds over the weekend. I consider myself a moderate user of personal electronics. I almost never wear earbuds, and yet this constant foretaste of the future, this hunger for the next electronic blip, feels to me like a

7、full-blown (9) ( addict).Which is why Id like a clearer picture of my old self. Was I a little more serene 25 years ago? Was there a little more silence inside my head? A little less (10) (expect)? Or was I leaning headlong into the future even then?（分数：25.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1

8、:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_By cutting out the middle man and booking your own flights, you can save up to 40 per cent of the cost of a holiday. If you compare this to the price of a hotel stay, the (1) ( save) can be even more impressive.（分数：37.50）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_

9、填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_Many people make com (1) about their working environment. Those in open-plan offices often dislike the noise and especially the lack of privacy. Making telephone calls where con (2) information is discussed is almost impossible and it may also

10、be difficult to concentrate when the person sitting next to you is on the phone. However, the division of the workspace into smaller offices can lead to a feeling of isolation. An alternative approach is needed to so (3) these problems. Why not allow people to choose to work in dif (4) places accord

11、ing to what they are doing-a coffee bar or meeting room for social and noisy activities, or a small room for quiet work? The idea of individual desks would disappear in this system and be rep (5) by a different approach to using space.（分数：12.50）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_The Independent on S

12、undays (1) (industry) editor, David Bowen, collects air-line sick-bags. He started about 10 years ago when he used to travel (2) (extensive), but now the (3) (collect) has its own momentum. “I get sent several bags a month,“he says. “All my friends know that I collect these things, and they mention

13、it to their friends. Then when any of them go on flights, they stare ahead of them for hours on end and (4) (soon) or later remember to pick one up. “He now has about 400 bags (5) (cover) about 200 airlines: they are displayed all over the walls of his house. He asks people to pick up a couple so th

14、at he has one to swap although, he says, “There is a slightly (6) (limit) market: my only real trading partner is a German who I met in Jordan eight years ago. “The bags, Bowen says, say a lot about the country of orison. Far Eastern ones tend to be lavish and exotic. Germanic ones are severely (7)

15、(practice), eastern European ones reflect “the (8) ( short) of decent paper“.Bowen is keen to hear from anyone who wants to join the bag (9) (barter) system. The hobby is not sufficiently developed to have monetary value (10) (attach) to it, but the swap system should work well. “Mind you, if someon

16、e came up with a pre-War bag, possibly from Imperial Airways, I would very seriously think about letting them have several pounds for it, maybe even an Air Afrique one, too. /（分数：25.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_完形填空(二)答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、完形填空(总题数：4

17、，分数：100.00)I wish my memory worked differently. Id like to be able to conjure up an accurate image of my (1) (conscious) from, say, 25 years ago. You know what 25 years means? No cellphones, no e-mail, no Internet, no social networking (except with an actual drink in hand), and only the most primiti

18、ve of personal computers. What I want to answer is a single (2) : Was I as addicted to the future than as I seem to be now?I ask this because I really enjoy a new update to my operating system, like the one I (3) down from Apple earlier this week. I find it (4) ( surprise) pleasing when one of my iP

19、hone applications requests an update too. Every day I await, with anticipation, a long list of email messages that could arrive at any second, and there are several people Im really eager to get a text message (5) . Those, too, could come at any time. Soon-even now-I could find my feed-list in Googl

20、e Reader delightfully stuffed with newness. I am not a Twitterer, but I understand the dismay the Twitter world must have felt during its service (6) (disrupt) last week.When I think back 25 years, there just wasnt that much to be waiting (7) . The phone might ring-and if you left home, you had to l

21、eave without it. The mail would come, and so might UPS or Federal Express. Someone might stop by on the spur of the moment. A fax perhaps? That was about it.Ive always looked forward to the mail coming. I dont know why, and now where the mail comes constantly, cease (8) , a world where I find myself

22、 dismayed by the slowdown in blog feeds over the weekend. I consider myself a moderate user of personal electronics. I almost never wear earbuds, and yet this constant foretaste of the future, this hunger for the next electronic blip, feels to me like a full-blown (9) ( addict).Which is why Id like

23、a clearer picture of my old self. Was I a little more serene 25 years ago? Was there a little more silence inside my head? A little less (10) (expect)? Or was I leaning headlong into the future even then?（分数：25.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：consciousness）解析：解析 本题考查词类转换由空缺处前的物主代词可知，此处须用 conscious的名词形式 consciousne

24、ss，意为“意识，知觉”。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：question）解析：解析 根据考查语义逻辑。“回答问题”的对应表达“answer a question”符合文意。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：downloaded）解析：解析 常用动词从苹果(商店)下载操作系统。“下载”对应的英文单词为“download”。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：surprisingly）解析：解析 词性转化修饰形容词 pleasing，须用 surprise的副词形式。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：from）解析：解析 定语从句和介词搭配本句为省略引导词的定语从句。get a message from sb. 意为

25、“从某人处收到信息”。介词用 from。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：disruption）解析：解析 词性转化本空须用 disrupt的名词形式。service disruption 意为“服务中断期间”。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：for）解析：解析 介词搭配等待(wait)某人或某种现象，搭配介词为 for。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：ceaselessly）解析：解析 词类转换本空须填入和 constantly含义相近的词，故用 cease加否定后缀的副词形式 ceaselessly。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：addiction）解析：解析 词性变化本空前面受形容词 full-blow

26、n修饰，故须用 addict的名词形式 addiction。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：expectation）解析：解析 词性变化结合前面的句式，本空须用 expect的名词形式 expectation。By cutting out the middle man and booking your own flights, you can save up to 40 per cent of the cost of a holiday. If you compare this to the price of a hotel stay, the (1) ( save) can be even mo

27、re impressive.（分数：37.50）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：savings）解析：解析 词类转化根据空缺处之前的定冠词可知，此处应填 save的名词形式。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：charge）解析：解析 本处缺少谓语，主语为复数形式，须填动词原形“charge(收费)”。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：up）解析：解析 短语 up to意为“高达，多达”，为固定用法。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：expensive）解析：解析 根据前面的动词 save(节省)可知，此处指的是酒店花费昂贵。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：though）解析：解析 though 在这里为副词，意为“还是

28、，不过”，一般用在句尾。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：over）解析：解析 介词短语 over the years意为“多年来”，为常用表达。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：booking）解析：解析 recommend 后接名词或动名词，此处应填动名词形式。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：such）解析：解析 固定表达 such as表示举例。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：properties）解析：解析 property 或 real property意指“物业”，为地产业常见术语。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：if）解析：解析 根据语义，这里是表示一种假设。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：exist）解析

29、：解析 此处应填动词原形 exist。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：favourite）解析：解析 根据生活常识可知，地中海是著名的度假胜地，是大家都喜爱的，故填 favourite。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：compared）解析：解析 此处应填 comparison的动词形式，注意应为过去时态。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：Both）解析：解析 根据首字母提示和后面出现的两个概念，故填 both。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：peak）解析：解析 常用表达 peak season意为“旺季”。Many people make com (1) about their working enviro

30、nment. Those in open-plan offices often dislike the noise and especially the lack of privacy. Making telephone calls where con (2) information is discussed is almost impossible and it may also be difficult to concentrate when the person sitting next to you is on the phone. However, the division of t

31、he workspace into smaller offices can lead to a feeling of isolation. An alternative approach is needed to so (3) these problems. Why not allow people to choose to work in dif (4) places according to what they are doing-a coffee bar or meeting room for social and noisy activities, or a small room fo

32、r quiet work? The idea of individual desks would disappear in this system and be rep (5) by a different approach to using space.（分数：12.50）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：complaints）解析：解析 根据文章内容和给出的前三个单词，可以推知答案为 complaints(抱怨，不满)。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：confidential）解析：解析 confidential information 意为“机密信息”。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：solve）解析

33、：解析 solve problems 为常见的动宾搭配，意为“解决问题”。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：different）解析：解析 本句中出现有“选择(choose)”一词，再根据给出的前三个字母，不难推知答案。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：replaced）解析：解析 参照连词 and之前的动词 disappear(消失)，在根据给出的前三个字母，不难得出答案。The Independent on Sundays (1) (industry) editor, David Bowen, collects air-line sick-bags. He started about 10 years

34、 ago when he used to travel (2) (extensive), but now the (3) (collect) has its own momentum. “I get sent several bags a month,“he says. “All my friends know that I collect these things, and they mention it to their friends. Then when any of them go on flights, they stare ahead of them for hours on e

35、nd and (4) (soon) or later remember to pick one up. “He now has about 400 bags (5) (cover) about 200 airlines: they are displayed all over the walls of his house. He asks people to pick up a couple so that he has one to swap although, he says, “There is a slightly (6) (limit) market: my only real tr

36、ading partner is a German who I met in Jordan eight years ago. “The bags, Bowen says, say a lot about the country of orison. Far Eastern ones tend to be lavish and exotic. Germanic ones are severely (7) (practice), eastern European ones reflect “the (8) ( short) of decent paper“.Bowen is keen to hea

37、r from anyone who wants to join the bag (9) (barter) system. The hobby is not sufficiently developed to have monetary value (10) (attach) to it, but the swap system should work well. “Mind you, if someone came up with a pre-War bag, possibly from Imperial Airways, I would very seriously think about

38、letting them have several pounds for it, maybe even an Air Afrique one, too. /（分数：25.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：industrial）解析：解析 此处修饰名词 editor，应填 industry的形容词形式 industrial。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：extensively）解析：解析 此处限制动词 travel，应填 extensive的副词形式 extensively。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：collection）解析：解析 根据空缺之前的定冠词可知，此处应填入 collect的名词形式

39、 collection。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：sooner）解析：解析 固定搭配 sooner or later意为“迟早，早晚”。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：covering）解析：解析 本句中成分齐全，故应填现在分词形式，作 bags的定语。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：limited）解析：解析 根据空缺之前的副词和之后的名词可知，此处应填 limit的形容词形式。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：practical）解析：解析 此处需作表语，而且空缺之前有一个副词 severely，故此处应填 practice的形容词形式。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：shortage）解析：解析 根据空缺之前的定冠词可知，此处应填 short的名词形式。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：bartering）解析：解析 根据空缺之前的动词 join和定冠词，可知此处应填 barter的现在分词形式，作 system的定语。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：attached）解析：解析 根据语义和语态可知，此处应填 attach过去分词形式，作 monetary value的后置定语。