2012年職稱英語考試訓(xùn)練營第43期

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訓(xùn)練要求:閱讀下面的短文,文中有15處空白,每處空白給出4個選項,請根據(jù)短文的內(nèi)容從4個選項中選擇1個答案,涂在答題卡相應(yīng)的位置上。
    Racial Prejudice
    In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violence has been taken for granted as a means of solving differences; and this is not even questioned. There are countries________(1) the white man imposes his rule by brute(粗暴的) force; there are countries where the black man protests by________(2) fire to cities and by looting and pillaging(搶劫). Important people on both sides, who would appear to be reasonable men, get up and calmly argue in________(3) of violence as if it were a legitimate(合法的) solution, ________(4) any other. What is really frightening, what really________(5) you with despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch(關(guān)鍵時刻) , we have made no actual________(6) at all. We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our instincts remain basically unchanged. The whole of the recorded________(7) of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence, has taught us absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that________(8) never solves a problem but makes it more acute. The shear horror, the bloodshed and the suffering________(9) nothing. No solution ever comes to________(10) the morning after when we dismally(陰郁的) contemplate the smoking ruins and wonder what his us.
    The truly reasonable men who________(11) where the solutions lie are finding it harder and harder to get a hearing. They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted________(12) their own kind because they advocate such apparently outrageous things as law enforcement. If half the energy that goes into________(13) acts were put to good use, if our efforts were directed at ________(14) up the slums and ghettos(貧民窟), at improving living-standards and providing education and employment for all, we would not have gone a long way to________(15) at a solution.
    1. A where B what C why D when
    2. A fighting B retuning C catching D setting
    3. A spite B memory C need D favor
    4. A to B through C like D as
    5. A fills B puts C forces D sets
    6. A progress B decision C point D sense
    7. A system B history C roll D gather
    8. A argument B violence C talk D research
    9. A deal B have C mean D want
    10. A light B life C end D mind
    11. A suggest B demand C consider D know
    12. A by B for C with D of
    13. A final B lawful C violent D symbolic
    14. A looking B taking C getting D cleaning
    15. A meeting B laughing C starting D arriving
    參考答案:ADDCA ABBCA DACDD