Section A
Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select out one word for each blank from a lot of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Small communities, with their distinctive character—where life is stable and intensely human—are disappearing. Some have __26____ from the face of the earth, others are dying slowly, but all have ___27___ changes as they have come into contact with an ___28___ machine civilization. The merging of diverse peoples into a common mass has produced tension among members of the minorities and the majority alike.
The Old Order Amish, who arrived on American shores in colonial times, have ___29___ in the modern world in distinctive, small communities. They have resisted the homogenization ___30___ more successfully than others. In planting and harvest times one can see their bearded men working the fields with horses and their women hanging out the laundry in neat rows to dry. Many American people have seen Amish families with the men wearing broad-brimmed black hats and the women in long dresses. In railway or bus ___31___.Although the Amish have lived with ___32___ America for over two and a half centuries. They have moderated its influence on their personal lives, their families, communities, and their values.
The Amish are often ___33___ by other Americans to be relics of the past who live a simple, inflexible life dedicated to inconvenient out-dated customs. They are seen as abandoning both modem ___34___ and the American dream of success and progress, But most people have no quarrel with the Amish for doing things the old-fashioned way. Their conscientious objection was tolerated in wartime. For after all. They are good farmers who ___35___ the virtues of work and thrift.
A)accessing I)progress
B)conveniences J)respective
C)destined K)survived
D)expanding L)terminals
E)industrialized M)undergone
F)perceived N)universal
G)practice O)vanished
H)process
参考答案
Section A
26. [O] vanished
27. [M] undergone
28. [D] expanding
29. [K] survived
30. [H] process
31. [L] terminals
32. [E] industrialized
33. [F] perceived
34. [B] conveniences
35. [G] practice
选词填空
26.G hypotheses 假设
填名词，根据后面两个名词可知，这里一定填复数名词，即“好的科学基于假设、实验和方法论。”
27. C convincing 令人信服的
填形容词，“好的科学需要令人信服的理解、明确的解释和清晰的展示”
填形容词，意思与后文clear，consise为同义词。“好的科学需要令人信服的理解、明确的解释、简明的陈述”
28. A arena 舞台
填名词，“科学家愿意踏入公共的舞台(公众的视野)”。
29.B contextual
填形容词，与understandable并列，语义相同，即“语言是公众能根据上下文能理解的”
30.I incorporate 合并
填动词原形，to support… and to incorporate knowledges into…,incorporate into动词固定搭配。“把知识融入我们的公共交流中”
31.D devoted 奉献
填动词过去式。devote to固定搭配。“把17%的花费投入到研究和发展中”。
32.N reaping 获得
填现在分词。reaping decades of economic growth,“获得几十年的经济增长”。
33.E digits 位数
填名词。single digits个位数。“这个数字下降到个位数”。
34.M pride
填动词原形。pride一词多性，这里考察动词用法：pride oneself on sth，以某人为自豪。“我们不仅以研究为自豪，也为对世界的进步做出的贡献而自豪”。
35. F hasten
填动词原形。“为了促进科学从实验室到市场的发展”
