2013佳鑫诺英语教材--选词填空40篇 - 图文

G. mature O. contemporary H. hostility

Keys: 1. D 2. L 3. K 4. H 5. J 6. N 7. A 8. B 9. E 10. G Passage 12

Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank given below. Each choice in the Word Bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words more than once.

Every sport has its great legends: soccer has Pele, and basketball has Michael Jordan. Is there one 1 whom people consider to be the best ever? Many would say that person is boxer Muhammad Ali, known to his many fans as \greatest\

At the age of twelve, he began boxing; by the time he reached high school, he was a successful 2 boxer. After winning six state and two national boxing championships, he 3 in the 1960 Olympics, where he won a gold medal. After the Olympics, his success as a boxer continued.

The man who called himself \ 4 , though. After winning his Olympic gold 5 , he returned home to the United States. He was not 6 to stay in certain hotels or eat in certain restaurants because of the color of his skin. Ali was 7 with racism in the U.S., so he threw his Olympic medal into a river.

Ali surprised the world in 1966 not with his boxing skills, but with his strong 8 belief as a Muslim. He 9 with the U.S. War in Vietnam and refused to join the military, which all young men in the U.S. had to do at the time if ordered to do so. As a result, Ali's heavyweight title was taken away, and he faced great troubles with the law. After some time, Ali won wide support from the public and from his country's leaders, who said that they admired him for acting according to his strong, moral 10 . No other sporting legend has done so much.

Word Bank

A. compted I. challenges

B. matched J. conscience(道德心，良心) C. allowed K. conviction(信念，信仰) D. disagreed L. athlete E. disturbed M. amateur F. disgusted N. religious G. medal O. mysterious H. model

Keys: 1. L 2. M 3. A 4. I 5. G 6. C 7. F 8. N 9. D 10. K Passage 13

Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank given below. Each choice in the Word Bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words more than once.

A wedding is celebrated with some kind of ceremony almost everywhere in the

world. The ceremony is different among different nations and different 1 . But whatever form a marriage ceremony might take, it serves the important purpose of 2 to the community that a man and a woman have been joined in marriage. The wedding ceremony in the West may be a religious one 3 by a clergyman, or a civil official, such as a mayor or a judge. Or it may be a couple's declaration before witnesses of their 4 to marry. Some young people nowadays choose their own marriage ceremony.

Many of the customs 5 with wedding ceremonies developed from wedding customs of the earliest times and came from many lands. The wearing of a bridal veil(面纱) may have come from a superstition 6 back to early Greek and Roman times. The veil is also believed to have been worn as a (n) 7 of the bride's status. She would wear it to show that she was 8 and pure.

The wedding ring is the most widely used symbol of marriage today, as it has been for centuries. The word \the old English word \means \

During Anglo-Saxon times a (n) 9 to marry was made certain when the bridegroom-to-be gave his sweetheart a ring. The ring, a circle with no beginning or end, was 10 a symbol of eternity（永恒）. The third finger of the left hand was chosen as the ring finger because of the mistaken belief that a vein（静脉， 血管） or nerve runs from that finger to the heart. Word Bank

A. promise I. accomplished B. commitment J. associated C. religions K. reflected D. indication L. considered E. purpose M. announcing F. intention N. revealing

G. innocent O. dating H. performed

Keys :1. C 2. M 3. H 4. F 5. J 6. O 7. D 8. G 9. A 10. L

Passage 14

Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank given below. Each choice in the Word Bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words more than once.

One of the more important communicative tasks may confront a traveler. That is the 1 of when a speaker has said \respondent has refused or 2 what the speaker has demanded, solicited（恳求）, or offered. Equally, one needs to 3 the appropriate manner in which to respond in the negative when offered, solicited, or demanded something. It is 4 that it is sometimes difficult to recognize a refusal in one's mother tongue where the answer might be unclear. However, in many 5 the meaning can be made clear. This is

possible if one knows how to read the 6 signals.

A first task for the visitor abroad is to discover which forms are used to 7 this function. If we compare form and function across cultures, it soon becomes clear that one form may be used to mean different things in another culture than in one's own. For example, in Turkish \is 8 by moving one's head backwards while rolling one's eyes upwards. However, to an American this movement is 9 to the signal used for saying \nothing to do with affirmation or negation. In part of India, rolling the head slowly from side to side means something like \from culture to culture, form and function may not 10 . If a foreigner wants to communicate appropriately, he must develop the competence of sending and receiving \

Word Bank

A. acquire I. signaled B. obtain J. recognition C. fulfill K. conflicts D. compare L. encounters E. match M. close F. denied N. available G. granted O. appropriate H. admitted

Keys : 1. J 2. F 3. A 4. G 5. L 6. O 7. C 8. I 9. M 10. E

Passage 15

Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank given below. Each choice in the Word Bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words more than once.

Job seekers are discovering that smoking can endanger their careers. Newspaper classified advertisements frequently 1 that employers are looking for \ 2 for the job at Vanguard Electronic Tool in Redmond, Washington, is \answer is yes, the 3 is over. That is perfectly legal. On the other hand, federal laws 4 an employer to discriminate（有差别对待） on the basis of race, sex, religion, or marital（婚姻的） status.

Many smokers may secretly welcome the company's 5 against smoking, says Robert Rosner, executive director of the Seattle-based Smoking Policy Institute, a consulting firm that advises companies on how to make smoking policies. \most smokers want to 6 .\ 7 the new company's campaign as an incentive(奖励) to give up tobacco once and for all. At Rhode Island's newspaper Daily News, it was the smokers who all voted to 8 smoking from the workplace.

More and more companies have 9 restrictions on smoking. These companies are attempting to help employees 10 the habit. BMC Software, a Texas company that prohibits smoking on the job, has sent employees to anti-smoking

sessions. The five sessions cost employees $30, but if they stay off cigarettes for four months, the money will be refunded（归还）. Word Bank

A. specify I. appointment B. define J. campaign C. quit K. applied D. retire L. claimed E. kick M. carried out F. ban N. taken in G. forbid O. embrace H. interview

Keys: 1. A 2. K 3. H 4. G 5. J 6. C 7. O 8. F 9. M 10. E

Passage 16

Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank given below. Each choice in the Word Bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words more than once.

Some of the more obvious forms of nonverbal communication are gestures.

Although we may think of them as mainly hand and arm movements, gestures can be 1 by other parts of the body as well. Emblems(象征，标志) are one type of movements.

Emblems do not need speech to communicate 2 . Putting the tip of an index（食指） finger on the tip of a thumb up with the remaining fingers pointing up and 3 out is an example of an emblem. This recognized sign for \or \does not need any 4 word to identify it.

Emblems not only serve the 5 role in nonverbal communication but they also have direct translation. For example, a thumb-up sign means \hand behind the ear means %up or a hand cupped behind our ear 6 we are sending a nonverbal message to someone. These messages are 7 sent and we must take responsibility for them. Nonverbal messages that have direct translation and exact meaning, which are 8 at a specific receiver, and consciously sent, are emblems.

Emblems are also different across cultures. In the United States, 9 your index finger at your temple(太阳穴) with the thumb upright means \in the head\In Japan, an emblem describing 10 is pushing a closed fist near your stomach to describe the plunge（刺进） of a knife in your vital organs. Word Bank

A. pointing I. conference B. indicating J. unless

C. substituting K. communicated D. accompanying L. informed E. spreading M. directed F. extending N. consciously