五、完形填空強化練習(xí)

    Passage 1

    If you were to begin a new job tomorrow, you would bring with you some basic strengths and weaknesses.Success or ___1___ in your work would depend, to a great extent, ___2___ your ability to use your strengths and weaknesses to the best advantage. ___3___ the utmost importance is your attitude. A person who begins a job convinced that he isn going to like it or is certain that he is going to ail is exhibiting a weakness which can only hinder his success. On the other hand, a person who is secure ___4___ his belief that he is probably as capable of doing the work as anyone else and who is willing to make a cheerful attempt ___5___ it possesses a certain strength of purpose. The chances are that he will do well.

    Having the prerequisite skills for a particular job is strength. Lacking those skills is obviously a weakness. A book keeper who can add or a carpenter who can cut a straight line with a saw ___6___ hopeless cases.

     This book has been designed to help you capitalize ___7___ the strength and overcome the weakness that you bring to the job of learning. But in order to measure your development, you must first take stock of where you stand now. ___8___ we get further along in the book, wel be dealing in some detail with specific processes for developing and strengthening ___9___ skills. However, to begin with, you should pause to examine your present strengths and weaknesses in three areas that are critical to yoursuccess or failure in school: your ___10___ , your reading and communicationskills, and your study habits.

    1. A. improvement B. victory C. failure D. achievement

    2. A. in B. on C. of D. to

    3. A. Out of B. Of C. To D. Into

    4. A. onto B. on C. off D. in

    5. A. near B. on C. by D. at

    6. A. being B. been C. are D. is

    7. A. except B. but C. for D. on

    8. A. as B. till C. over D. out

    9. A. learnt B. learned C. learning D. learn

    10. A. intelligence B. work C. attitude D. weakness

    1.【答案】C

    【解析】本句的意思是：“成功或失敗在很大程度上取決于你是否能揚長避短。”improvement改進；victory勝利；achievement成果，成就。這三個詞都不合題意，只有C.failure“失敗”最合適。

    2.【答案】B

    【解析】on與前面的depend構(gòu)成本句謂語。

    3.【答案】B

    【解析】of與名詞連用,表示具有某種性質(zhì),狀態(tài)，做表語。置于句首，表示強調(diào)。來源：www.examda.com正常語序為：Your attitude is of the utmost importance.

    4.【答案】D

    【解析】in one磗 belief相信。其它選項都不能與belief搭配。

    5.【答案】D

    【解析】attempt用做名詞，后接介詞at，意為“試圖，努力”；如果后面接介詞on，表示攻擊的意思。其他兩項都不能與attempt搭配。

    6.【答案】D

    【解析】本句主語是A book keeper or carpenter … 。根據(jù)主謂一致原則，其謂語應(yīng)當(dāng)用單數(shù)is，而不是復(fù)數(shù)are, being, been都是分詞，應(yīng)該排除。

    7.【答案】D

    【解析】on與前面的capitalize搭配，表示“利用”。做不定式help的補語。其它選項不能與capitalize搭配。

    8.【答案】A

    【解析】本句的意思是：“隨著更深入的閱讀”，從語法角度，此處應(yīng)填關(guān)聯(lián)詞。四個選項中，只有as能用做關(guān)聯(lián)詞。

    9.【答案】C

    【解析】根據(jù)上下文，這里應(yīng)當(dāng)指“學(xué)習(xí)技能”。

    10.【答案】C

    【解析】本句對全文進行總結(jié)概括，與文章的開頭相呼應(yīng)，Of the utmost importance is your attitude故選attitude。

   Passage 2

    For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation.To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, inter-office communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In ___1___ a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend quickly can mean the difference between success and failure.Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are ___2___ readers. Most of us develop poor reading habits at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency ___3___ in the actual stuff of language itself --- words.Taken individually, words have little meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. ___4___ , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to reread words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over ___5___ you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading.Another habit which slows down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as one reads.

    To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an ___6___ , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate ___7___ the reader finds comfortable, in order to “stretch” him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, making word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible. At first ___8___ is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but your comprehension will improve. Many people have found ___9___ reading skill drastically improved after some training. Take Charlce Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute before the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can ___10___ a lot more reading material in a short period of time.

    1. A.applying B. doing C. offering D. getting

    2. A.good B. curious C. poor D. urgent

    3. A.lies B. combines C .touches Dinvolves

    4. A.Fortunately B. In fact C. Logically D. Unfortunately

    5. A.what B. which C. that D. if

    6. A.accelerator B. actor C. amplifier D. observer

    7. A.then B. as C. beyondD. than

    8. A.meaning B. comprehension C. gistD. regression

    9. A.our B.your C. their D. such a

    10. A.master B. go over C. present D. get through

    1.【答案】D

    【解析】本句意思是“誰如果想謀得一份差事”。applying需加for,意思是“申請”；B.doing做；C.offering提供此三項均不符題意，　只有D.getting(獲得)適合。

    2.【答案】C

    【解析】英語中，閱讀速度快的人稱為good reader，反之，就是poor reader。根據(jù)上下文的內(nèi)容，多數(shù)人都屬于poor reader，因此選poor(差的)。其它選項不妥。

    3.【答案】A

    【解析】此處說的是“主要的困難在于語言的自身要素，即單詞”。combines聯(lián)合；touches接觸；involves包括，這三項的詞義與原文不符。而lies與in構(gòu)成搭配，意為“在于”。

    4.【答案】D

    【解析】此句意為“作者對未受過閱讀訓(xùn)練的人的不良習(xí)慣感到遺憾”。Fortunately幸運地；In fact事實上；Logically合乎邏輯地,均不妥。Unfortunately(不幸地)合乎句義。

    5.【答案】A

    【解析】此處所填的詞既是look back over的賓語，又是you have just read的賓語，只有what能充當(dāng)這種雙重成分。

    6.【答案】A

    【解析】此句意為“訓(xùn)練快速閱讀所使用的工具必然與提高閱讀速度有關(guān)”，因此選accelerator (快讀器)。actor演員；amplifier放大器；observer觀察者。

    7.【答案】D

    【解析】前面的faster決定了應(yīng)當(dāng)選than，構(gòu)成比較級。

    8.【答案】B

    【解析】這里的意思是“速讀最初會影響理解”，所以選comprehension(理解力)。meaning意義，意思，指詞或詞組表示的意義；gist大意，要旨regression回顧

    9.【答案】C

    【解析】本句中的主語是第三人稱復(fù)數(shù)，物主代詞必然是their。

    10.【答案】D

    【解析】此處意為：在較短時間內(nèi)，讀完眾多的材料。master掌握；go over復(fù)習(xí)；present呈現(xiàn)，展現(xiàn)；此三項均不妥；只有g(shù)et through (讀完)最恰當(dāng)。