大学英语四级选词填空练习附详细答案.docx

There is a popular belief amongparents that schools are no longer interested inspelling.No school I have taught in has ever_____ spelling or considered it unimportantas a basic skill.There are,however , vastly different ideas about how to teach it, or howmuch_____ it must be given over general language development and writing ability. Theproblem is , how to encourage a child

to express himself freely and _____ in writing without holding him back with the complexities of spelling?If spelling become the only focal point of his teacher ’s interest, clearly a __4__child will be likely to“play safe”. He will tend to write only words within his spelling range,choosing to avoid __5__ language. That ’s why teachers often __6__ the early use

ofdictionaries and pay attention to content rather than technical ability.I was once shocked to read on the bottom of a sensitive piece of writing abouta personal experience：“ This work is__7__ !There are far too many spelling errors andyour writing is illegible(难以辨认的). ” It may have been a sharP__8__ of the pupil’stechnical abilities in writing, but it was also

a sad reflection on the teacher who had omittedto read the essay,which__9__ some beautiful expressions of the child’s deePfeelings.The teacher was not wrong to draw attention to the errors, but if his priorities had centredon

the child’s ideas, an expression of his disappointment with the

presentation would havegiven the pupil more __10__ to seek improvement.

A)priority B)criticism C)contained D)clearlyE)adventurous F

）discourage G)motivation H)terribleI)ignored J)difficult

K)encourage L)expressedM)confidently N)bright O)motive L)expressed

Answers:

1.I ）。由句中的 has 可知，此填去式，且表达的含

和后面的consider ?unimportant相近，故排除contained和expressed而ignored 。

2.A）。此填名，但能与后面over构成固定搭配的名只有

priority，故排除了criticism和motivation。

3. M). 由空格前面的 and 可知，此填副和来理解，在没有拼写困的情况下，怎鼓励学生自由且

freely 并列。从句意??地表达自己，

中只有confidently“自信地“符合意。

4.N ）。很明里填形容，中terrible，difficult 事物名something，只有adventurous和bright可用来形容（ child ) ，再由后面的 play safe “不冒”，可排除 adventurous而

后接somebody bright。

5.E）。由前一句中的be likely to“play safe”和空格前的avoid 可以推知，此所填的意思与play safe表达的意思相反，故中只有adventurous符合意。

6.K）。很明此填的一般在，可有encourage和persuade。由That ’s why 知本句与前一句构成因果关系，而前一句的是学生

往往会用他拼写范内的写文章，从而避免用那些不会的，故由此可推

知此句理解老鼓励学生用字典，因此排除persuade而encourage 。

7.H）。此填形容。由空格后面的too many spelling errors和

illegible可知，篇文章是写的很糟，而不是很理解。故排除difficult而terrible。

8. B ）。此填名。由后半句中 a sad reflection on the teacher

可知，前半句是在指学生，故中只有criticism符合意。

9.C）。此填去式，本句中由which引的从句是essay的解，剩余中contained和expressed，根据句意，文章??儿童内心感

受的一些好的表达，故只有contained符合意。

10.G ）。此填名。根据句意，如果老更注重学生思想的表达的

，会学生更大的力去求提高；故排除motive“ 机，原因”而motivation。

As is known to all, the organization and management of wages and salaries

are very complex. Generally speaking, the Accounts Department is __1__ for calculations of pay,while the Personnel Department is interested in discussions with the employees about pay.

If a firm wants to__2__ a new wage and salary structure,it is essential that the firm should decide on a __3__ of job evaluation and ways of measuring the performance of its employees. In order to be __4__,that new pay structure will need agreement between Trade Unions and employers. In job evaluation,

all of the requirements of each job are defined in a detailed job description. Each of thsoe requirements is given a value, usually in "points",which are __5__ together to give a total value for the job. For middle and higher

management, a special method is used to evaluate managers on their knowledge

of the job, their responsibility,and their __6__ to solve problems. Because of the difficulty in measuring management work, however, job grades for

managers are often decided without __7__ to an evaluation system based on

points.

In attempting to design a pay system, the Personnel Department should

__8__ the value of each job with these in the job market. __9__, payment

for a job should vary with any differences in the way that the job is performed. Where it is simple to measure the work done, as in the works done with hands, monetary encouragement schemes are often chosen, for __10__ workers, where measurement is difficult, methods of additional payments are employed.

[A]compare

[B]responsible

[C]useful

[D]added

[E]find

[F]reference

[G]indirect

[H]method

[I]successful

[J]combined

[K]Necessarily

[L]capacity

[M]ability

[N]Basically

[O]adopt

Answers:

1. 选 B 此处应填形容词。原文意思为“会计部门...计算报酬”，选项中的形

容词responsible“负责任的”，useful“有用的”，indirect“间接的”，successful“成功的”，其中indirect不能与for连用，排除；剩余几项中只有B）responsible意义符合原句，其他均不符合，故排除。

2.选 O 此处应填动词原形。本文主题就是采用一种新的工资和薪水制度时需要

注意的问题，选项中的动词原形有 compare “比较”， find “找到”， adopt “采

纳”，分别带入原文，只有 adopt 最符合原文意思，故选 O).

3. 选H 此处应填名词。从原文看，and连接并列结构，所以要填的词应与and 后面的ways 意思一致，选项中的名词只有mathod = ways，故选H）method。

4.选 I 此处应填形容词。上文说新的工资制度需要一套决定工作评估和衡量雇

员表现的方法，说的是制度“是否有用”的问题。这句说的时新的工资制度执行过

程中的问题，劳资双方先期达成一致是薪酬制度成功的必要条件。形容词useful 和successful ， I ） seccessful 更符合原文意思。

5. 选 D 此处应填动词。这个动词的宾语是point “分值”，把分值...起来to give a total value"得出总分值"，选项中有added 和 combined，前者指“把 ...

相加”，后者意为“把 ... 结合在一起”，原文指将分值相加得出总分，故 D）added最符合文意。

6.选 M 此处应填名词。首先 solve problem “解决问题”是经理们应具备的能

力，选项中的capacity与ability都可以表示“能力”；前者强调的是理解的能

力和接受事物的能力，而后者强调实际应用的能力，故不难判断解决问题的能力应

该用 M） ability。

7. 选 F 此处应填名词。前半句指出“因为管理工作很难评估，经理的工作得分

不需要参照基于分值的评估系统决定。”without reference to 为固定搭配，意思

是“与 ...无关”。故选F）reference 。

8. 选 A 此处应填动词原形。原句中出现了the value of each job“每种工作

的价值”和these in the job market“工作市场上的（工作价值）”，说明人事

部门通过比较两种价值来计算工资制度。选项中只有compare 表示“比较”，所以A）正确。

9.选 K 此处应填副词，修饰整句话。“报酬要随工作表现各方面的不同而有所

改变”，选项中 Necessarily “必须地”与 Basically “基本地”为副词，分别带

入原文，“报酬...的变化是必须的”更符合上下文意思，故排除N), 选 K) 。

10. 选G 此处应填形容词。前文中提到一种情况即simple to measure the work done" 易于评估的工作 " ，通常用现金奖励办法；而 ...measurement is difficult“难于评估的”，说明这些工作人员的工作不像手工工作那么直接，因

而是间接的，故选项中只有G）indirect符合原句的意思。

Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always __1__ such

people, but I also explain that there ’sa big difference between "being a writer"

and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of __2__

and fame, notthe long hours alone at a typewriter. "You’ve got to want to

write,"I say to them,"not want to be a writer."The reality is that writing

is a __3__, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by

fortune there arethousands more whose longing is never __4__. When I left

a 20-year career in the US. Coast Guard to become a freelancewriter(自由撰稿人 ), I had no __5__ at all. What I did have was a friend who found me

my room in a New York ap artment building. It didn’t even matter that it

was __6__and had no bathroom.I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and feltlike a __7__ writer.After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t gotten a break and began to__8__ myself. It was so hard to sell a storythat __9__ made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about

it for years. I wasn’t going to be one ofthose people who die wondering,

what if? I would keeo putting my dream to the test----even though it meant

living with__10__and fear of failure.This is the Shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream learn to live there.A) barely B) genuine C) rewarded

D) doubtE)lonely F)poverty G)persuade H)prospectsI)uncertainty J)impossibly K) encourage L)awardedM) alone N)wealth O)cold

Answers:1. 选 K) 。此处应填动词的原形。可选项有doubt, persuade,encourage,但由 always 推知，作者是在鼓励那些想要成为作家的人，而不是怀疑也不是说服，

故排除 doubt 和 persuade 而选 encourage 。

2.选 N)。由空格后的 fame 可知，此处应填名词。可选项有 prospects 和 wealth ，但由 dreaming of与第二段中The reality is... poor-paying可推知，那些想当

作家的人梦想的是金钱和名誉，而不是前途，故排除prospects而选wealth。

3. 选E)。此处应填形容词，private, poor-paying一起修饰affair。选项中有lonely和alone,能修饰affair的只有lonely,alone表示“孤独的”时，通常

作表语，故排除alone而选lonely。

4. 选C)。此处应填动词的被动形式。可选项有rewarded和awarded,前者可表示“（为所希望的举动得到的）回报”，后者作动词时表示“颁发，授予”，故只

有rewarded 符合题意而排除 awarded。

5. 选H)。此处应填名词。“当我辞别了我在美国海岸警卫队20 年工作成为一个自由撰稿人时，没有任何......可言”，可选项有prospects和wealth，但wealth 一般指抽象意义上的“金钱”，因此排除wealth而选prospects“前途”。

6. 选O)。 it指代的是apartment building，从had no bathroom可知这个公寓条件很差，选项中只有cold能说明公寓的条件差，故选择O)cold。

7. 选B) 。“我马上买了一台旧的手动打字机，感觉自己就好像是一个......

的作家”，由前面提到的to become a freelance writer可推知，此处作者是想

成为一个真正的作家，故选项中只有genuine “真正的”符合题意。

8.选 D) 。由空格前的 to 可知，此处应填动词的原形。可选项有doubt,persuade,encourage,但由still hadn’t gotten a break"在写作上还没有任何进展”，所以此处应理解为他开始怀疑自己的选择是否正确，故doubt符合文意。

9.选 A) 。that 从句结构完整，后面有 made，故此处应填副词。可选项有 barely 和impossibly ，因 that 引导的从句是对 story 的解释，再由 hard 一词可推知，此

处应填的副词应表达肯定的意思，故排除 impossibly而选barely“仅仅，刚刚”。

10. 选 I) 。由空格后的 and 可知，此处应填名词。由fear of failure可知，所填词应表示不好的境遇，可选项有poverty 和 uncertainty;又由 fear 可推知，此处强调的是生活的变化无常，而不是生活的贫困，故选uncertainty。

Britainis not just one country and one people;even if some of its inhabitants think so. Britain is, in fact, a nation which can be divided

into several __1__ parts, each part being an individual country with its

own language,character and cultural__2__. Thus Scotland,Northern Ireland and Wales do not claim to __3__ to "England" because their inhabitants are

not __4__ "English". They are Scottish, Irish or Welsh and many of them prefer to speak their own native tongue, which in turn is __5__ to the others.

These cultural minorities(少数民族 ) have been Britain’s original inhabitants. In varying degrees they have managed to __6__ their national characteristics, and their particular customs and way of life. This is

probably even more ture of the __7__ areas where traditional ife has not

been so affected by the__8__ of industrialism as the border areas have been. The Celtic races are said to be more emotional by nature than the English.

An Irish temper is legendary. The Scots could rather __9__ about their

reputation for excessive thrift and prefer to be remembered for their folk

songs and dances, while the Welsh are famous for their singing. The Celtic

__10__ as a whole produces humorous writers and artists, such as the Irish

Bernard Shaw, the Scottish Robert Burns, and the Welsh Dylan Thomas, to

mention but a few.

[A]incomprehensible

[B]temper

[C]remote

[D]separate

[E]understandable

[F]forget

[G]generally

[H]temperament

[I]preserve

[J]strictly

[K]traditional

[L]reserve

[M]growth

[N]apply

[O]belong

Answers:

1. 选 D 此处应填形容词，修饰名词 parts 。文章首句即提出观点Britain is not just one country and one people“英国不只是一个国家和一个民族”，又从后

文的 invided into, each part以及Individual country可知英国被分成几个分

离的部分，选项中只有separate表达了这个意思，故D）正确。

2. 选 K 此处应填名词。选项中有四个词temper, temperament, traditions和

growth, 语言等是一个民族的文化传统，故这里应该填K）traditions，其他几个名词不符合上下文。

3. 选 O 此处应填动词原形。前文中说明英国被分成独立的几部分，各自保存自己的文化传统；后文中 because...说明苏格兰、北爱尔兰以及威尔士的居民不承认

自己是“ English ”，说明他们并不承认自己属于“England”，故这里应该选择O）belong 。apply 也可以和 to 连用，但 apply to 表示“将 ...应用于”，不符合上下

文意思。

4. 选 J 此处应填形容词或副词。选项中的副词有generally和strictly，文中要表达的意思是因为这几个部分都有自己的语言和文化传统，所以严格来说，他

们不是“English ”，但他们都属于E nglish。故J ） strictly符合文意。generally “一般地，大体地”放在原文意义上不够严谨。三个形容词不能使语义

通顺。

5. 选 A 从前文中 prefer to speak their own native tongue即苏格兰语、苏

格兰语和威尔士语，那么这些语言对the others（见注释1）来说是陌生的，听不

懂的。那么就不难从选项中的incomprehensible和understandable中选择前者，

故A）incomprehensible “不能理解的”正确。

6.选 I 由 manageto 结构可知此处要填的是动词原形。选项中的动词原形还有forget，preserve和 reserve。从下文中traditional life has not been so affected,可知他们成功地保存了自己的传统，排除forget； reserve和 presserve都有“保存”的意思，前者指存留起来以派别的用场，后者指想办法保持原样，强调抵制破

坏因素，故I ） preserve符合文意。

7. 选 C 此处应填形容词。从后文where traditional life has not been so

affected by the ... of industrialis"人们的传统生活受工业化...的影响没有那么大的地方" 可以推知，这些地方是比较偏远的地方，选项中的C）remote“偏僻的，遥远的”符合上下文意思。

8. 选 Mborder area “边界地区”的工业化发展的比remote area要快，所以此处要填的词是表示上升、增长的词，表示工业化的发展，选项M）growth “增长，发展”符合上下文意思。

9.选 Fwould rather 和 prefer 意思相同，后面是宁愿让人记住他们的好的东西：

民歌，舞蹈等。前面说的是过分节俭的坏名声，所以填入动词的意思应该与

remember 意思相反，选项中的F） forget符合上下文意思。

10. 选 H 此处应填名词。选项中的名词还有temper 和 temperament 。前者指脾气，指情绪上的主要特征，后者指特征、气质，尤指带感******彩的个性和在社交上的个性。这里指的是整个凯尔特民族的特征，故H）temperament 正确。

The first modern Olympic Gameswas held in Athens（雅典 )in1896and only twelve nations participated.Besides the host nationman participants were tourists who __1__ to be in Greece atthe time. Though the whole affair was __2__ and

the standardwas not high,the old principle of amateur sport was kept up.Since then the games had been held every four yearsexcept during the__3__ of the two World War. This was __4__ adeparture from the old Olympic spirit when wars had to stoPandmake way for the games.The games have grown enormously in scale and __5__performances have now reached unprecedented heights.Unfortunately the same cannot be said about their__6__ standard.Instead of Olympia,the modern games are now held in

differentcities all over the world.Inevitably politics and commercialismget involvedas countries vie each other for(为......而互相竞争 ) the __7__ to hold the games because of the politicalprestige and

commercial profit to be __8__ out of them. Inthe 11 th games held in Berlin

in 1936, Hitler who had newlycome to __9__ in Germany tried to use the

occasion for hisNazi propaganda. F or the first time t he Olympic flame wasbrought all the way from Olympia to the games site in relays,a marathon

journey now often taking months to __10__.A) honour B) accomplish C) had

D)moralE) arrive F) occured G) end H) power I) happened J) definitely K)

Physical L) informalM) interruption N) especially O) irregular

ANSWERS :

1.选 I 空格中要填词为 who 引导的定语从句中的谓语动词，可知此处应填动

词的过去式。可选项有had, occurred和 happened, 首先空格所在的who 引导的定语从句修饰的是tourists“游客”， happened to be in Greece“碰巧在希腊”是符合这样的语境的，而had to“不得不”和occur to表示“想起，想到”都不能使句意通顺。

2. 选L and 引导两个意思相近的并列结构，由 the standard was not high “标

准不高”可知，此处要填的是和not high语气一致的形容词，再由前两句可知，参赛的国家很少并且有很多很多游客参加了比赛，这说明这次比赛没有那么正式，

选项中只有informal符合题意。选项irregular则一般表示“（形状）不规则的，（安排）无规律的”，与句意不符，故排除。

3.选 M 从句中的 except 可知在两次世界大战中没有比赛，说明的是奥运会因

战争而中断。选项中有end 和 interruption可表示停止，end“终断”，表示某事中断后不再继续， interruption“中断”，表示某事中断后仍然继续，故选择

interruption。

4.选 J 本句主系表结构完整，由此可知，此处应填副词，修饰整个句子。选

项中有 definitely和especially，从句意来理解，这......违背了古老的奥林匹

克精神，将 definitely“显然地”带入原文，符合原文的意思；而especially“特别地”表示强调，而此处表示的则是通过比较后得出结果，故排除especially。

5.选 K 奥林匹克比赛中的两个最重要的方面就是竞技水平和运动精神，由

grown enormously in scale可知，现在参加奥林匹克运动会规模渐大，运动员逐

渐增多，因此应理解为体育竞技水平达到了前所未有的高度，因此应选physical。

6. 选D此处应填形容词。由Unfortunately和because of the political

prestige and commercial profit可推出，不幸的是各国竞争举办奥运的目的是为

了政治威望与利益，可见此处说明的是与体育成绩相对应的运动会的道德水准没有

得到相应的提高，选项中只有moral 符合题意。

7. 选 A此处应填名词。各国争夺举办奥运会，to hold the games是一种实

力象征，也是一种荣耀。选项中有honour 和 power 可选， power 一般指“（个人或团体所掌握或获得的）职权”，故排除power 而选 honour“荣幸”。

8.选 C 此处应填动词的被动形式，这里考查的是动词 have 的一个搭配用法即

have something out of something “从 ......中得到......”，故这里选这C）had,表示“举办奥运会带来的政治威望和商业利润。”

9. 选 H cme to power是固定搭配，意为“（开始）掌权，上台”。

10. 选 B此处应填动词的原形。可选项有accomplish,arrive和end,arrive

一般指“到达（某地）”，end 强调的是“ （使某事）结束”，因此都不能与j ourney 搭配，故排除 arrive和 end 而选 accomplish “完成”。

Nowadays, is it possible to tell a person’s class just by looking at him? Physical details __1__ tell us about health, diet and type of work done.

A hundred years ago the working class very often lookd unhealthy,small and were either too thin or too fat.The upper classes were often__2__, sporting types who were used to a good diet and looked healthy. Today living and

working conditions have improved, and such __3__ would no longer be so

true.The clothes people choose to wear, however, do provide information

about their __4__. The most obvious way in which is for the amount of money

spent on them. Expensive clothes look expensive and show their wearer had

money. Clothes can provide other __5__ as well. The upper classes __6__ to

be less interested in fashion and wear good quality clothes in non-bright

colours, made of natural material like wool,leather or cotton.Lower working class people often choose clothes in bright colours,made of man-made material.A sociological explanation for this would be that color and interest are mssing from their lives, and therefore any opportunity to

introduce this is __7__.Clothes are __8__ at a price within most people’s reach. New clothes make the wearer feel good, and show some __9__ of wealth to the outside world.Today some new fashions are started by the lower working class people who want to look __10__ and feel important. They want people

to look at them.A) available B) background C) different D) tallE) totally

F) taken G) descriptions H) degreeI) clues J) alone K) appear L) considerM)

full N) hobby O)fetched

ANSWER:1选. J) 。此处应填副词。可选项有totally和alone，由前一句中just可推出，外表上的细节仅仅能告诉我们这个人的健康状况，平时的营养状况以及他所

从事的工作而不能看出他所处的阶级，故排除totally而选alone“惟一”。

2.选 D)。此处应填形容词。因此此句和前一句是在将以前的工人阶级和上层

阶级的身体状况进行对比，故此处应填与small “矮的”意思相反的词，选项中只有 tall符合题意。而full“丰满的”不能用来修饰sporting types,故排除。

3.选 G)。此处应填名词。现在的生活和工作条件改善了，情况已经不同了。而

such 指代的是上文中对一百年以前工人阶级和上层阶级的身体状况的身体状况的

描述，故 descriptions“描述”符合题意。

4.选 B)。此处应填名词。根据句意“衣服可以提供... 方面的信息”，选项中

有background 和 hobby，选 background“人的背景，社会阶层”，符合文章主题。

5. 选 I) 。由 as well 可知，此处应填名词且与本段首句中的informaiton的意

思相近，选项中只有clues “线索”符合题意。

6. 选K)。此处应填动词的原形。选项中有appear和consider,appear可直接

接不定式；而consider带不定式的复合结构，用于主动语态时，consider后面得接宾语，故选appear 。7选F) 。这句中this指代bright colour，句子主干是any opportunity is...。可选项有taken和fetched,take“ 抓住” 则可以与opportunity搭配，但fetch“拿来”不能与opportunity构成动宾搭配，故排除

fetched而选taken。

8. 选 A) 。此处应填形容词。句子意思是“衣服的价钱......，大多数人都买得起。”选项中只有available“可以接受的”符合题意。

9. 选 H)。此处应填名词。由 a price within most people’s reach可推出，此处新衣服向外界显示的是穿衣者的富裕程度，故选择degree “程度”。

10. 选 C)。此处应填形容词。由new fashions和feel important可推出工人阶级想通过穿衣来改变他们，而选项中只有different“与众不同的”符合此意，

故选择 C) 。

The typical pre-industrial family not only had a good many children, but

numerous other dependents as well---grandparents,uncles,aunts and cousions. Such "extended" families were suited for survival in slow paced

__1__ societies. But such families are hard to __2__. They are immobile.

Industrialism demanded masses of workers ready and able to move off the land in pursuit of jobs, and to move again whenever necessary.Thus the extended family __3__ shed its excess weight and the so-called "nuclear" family

emerged---a stripped-down, portable family unit __4__ only of parents and

a small set of children. This new style family, far more __5__ than the

traditional extended family,became the standard model in all the industrial counties.Super-industrialism,however,the next stage of eco-technological development, __6__ even higher mobility. Thus we may

expect many amongthe people of the future to carry the streamlinling process, a stePfurther by remaining children, cutting the family down to its more

__7__ components, amanand a woman. Two people, perhaps with matched careers, will prove more efficient at navigating through education and social status, through job changes and geographic relocations,than teh ordinarily child-cluttered family.A __8__ may be the postponement of children, rather

than childlessness. Men and women today are often torn in __9__ between a commitment to career and a commitment to children.In the future,many __10__ will sidestePthis problem by deferring the entire task of raising children

until after retirement.A)transplant B)solution C)gadually D)transportE)elemental F)conflict G)continually H)mobileI)couples J)agricultural )including L)compromiseM)requires N)primary O)consisting

ANSWER:

1.选 J）。此处应填形容词，修饰名次 societies 。文章第一句就说 The typical pre- industrial family...“ 工业化之前的典型家庭模式......” ，即“extended" family存在于工业化之前的社会，即agricultural society。故J）正确。选项中的primary ”最初的，原始的“不符合原文意思。

2.选A）。由be hard to do sth.可知，此处应填动词原形。They are immobile “这样的家庭很难流动”，这说明这样的家庭are hard to...，选项中由transplant 和 transport两个动词原形，前者指的是“迁居，迁移”，后者指的是

运输，不难推断前者符合原文意思，故A）transplant正确。 3.选C）。因为这句话的句子结构完整，固此处应填副词。选项中的副词有gradually和continually,

原文中 ...and the so-called "nuclear" family emerged.所谓的“核心家庭”便

出现了“， emerge 的意思是“浮现 " ，强调经过一个过程后出现的。由此可以判断，这句话坏死说明核心家庭从无到有逐渐出现，而不是连续不断地出现，故选择

C)gradually>

4.选O）。该句可拆分理解，即 a family unit...of parents and a smell set of children "一个家庭单元......父母和不多的孩子“，由此可以推出这里要填

的词是表示”包含，由......组成“的。选项中的including和consisting均可以表示此意，但由原文中的of可排除including,consist of为固定刺诸，故O）为正确答案。

5.选 H）。从原文中的 more...than 可知，此处应填形容词，构成形容词的比

较级结构。由第一段最后一句可知the traditional extended family是immobile,

那么新型的家庭模式比旧的因该是更有流动性，故应选H） mobile，说明新型的家

庭模式的优点。

6.选M）。此处应填动词，作这句话的谓语。Super-industria lism“( 更发达的 ) 超级工业化”......更具流动性的家庭。可推知空格处应填表示“需要，需求”的词。 requires表示出自一种迫切的需要而提出的要求，很明显选择M)requires。

7.选E）。此处应填形容词，用来修饰名词components。文中说明家庭被减缩

到最 ......的成员，即由男人和女人组成，男人和女人是一个家庭最基本的成员。

选项中的E）elemental“基本的，本质的”，而N）primary“主要的，最早的”，

原文强调的是男人和女人是一个家庭最basic 的组成部分，故 E）更符合原文意思。

8. 选 l ）。此处应填名词。上段说两人家庭的优点，本句中提到rather than childlessness“而不是不要孩子”，说明晚要孩子是解决工作和孩子的折中的办

法，故选项中的L）compromise“妥协，折中”符合文意。而solution虽然也表示

解决办法，但不能表达夫妇们无可奈何的心情，故排除。

9. 选 F）。上题中已提到工作和要孩子之间存在矛盾即conflict，根据上下文意思，这个题相对容易。

10.选 I ）。这段一直在说一个家庭里男人和女人因为工作和要孩子的事情发生

争吵，那么将来要解决这个问题的仍然是家庭中的夫妻两人，故这里应填I ）couples 。

As the pace of life continues to increase, we are fast losing the art of

relaxation. But relaxation is __1__ for a healthy mind and body.

Stress is a natural part of everyday life and there is no way to __2__

it.In fact,it is not the bad thing as it is often supposed to be. A certain amount of stress is vital to provide motivation and give purpose to life.

It is only when the stress gets out of __3__ that it can lead to poor

performance and ill health.

The amount of stress a person can withstand depends very much on the individual.Some peoplw are not afraid of stress, and such__4__ are obviously prime material for managerial responsibilities.Others lose heart at the first sight of __5__ difficulties.Whenexposed to stress,in whatever form, we react both physically and __6__. In fact we make choice between

"flight or fight" and in more __7__ days the choices made the difference

between life or death.The crises we meet today are unlikely to be so extreme, but however little the stress, it involves the same __8__. It is when such

a reaction lasts long,through continued__9__ to stress,that health becomes