泽熙美文Cloze Test
A Great Friendship
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776. Could it have been any other year? They worked together starting then to further American Revolution and later to shape the new scheme of government. From the work sprang a friendship perhaps incomparable in intimacy and the trustfulness of collaboration and induration. It lasted 50 years. It included pleasure and utility but over and above them, there were 1 purpose, a common end and an enduring 2 on both sides. Four and a half months before he died, when he was 3 , debt-ridden, and worried about his impoverished 4 , Jefferson wrote to his longtime friend. His words and Madison’s reply that 5 us that friends are friends until death. They also remind us that 6 a friendship has a bearing on things larger than the friendship 7 , for has there ever been a friendship of greater 8 consequence than this one?
“The friendship which has subsisted between us now half a century, the 9 of our political principles and pursuits have been 10 of constant happiness to me through that long 11 . It’s also been a great solace to me to believe that you’re 12 in vindicating to posterity the course that we’ve 13 for preserving to them, in all their purity, their 14 of self-government, which we had assisted in acquiring for them. 15 ever the earth has beheld a system of administration 16 with a single and steadfast eye to the general 17 and happiness of those committed to it, one which, 18 by truth, can never known reproach, it is that 19 our lives have been devoted.
To myself you have been a pillar of 20 throughout life. Take care of me when dead and be assured that I should leave with you my last affections.” A week later Madison replied—”You cannot look back to the long period of our private friendship and political harmony with more affecting recollections than I do. If they are a source of pleasure to you, what aren’t they not to be to me? We cannot be deprived of the happy consciousness of the pure devotion to the public good with which we discharge the trust committed to us and I indulge a confidence that sufficient evidence will find in its way to another generation to ensure, after we are gone, whatever of justice may be withheld whilst we are here.”
1.
A.obvious
B.definite
C.shared
D.common
正确答案：C
2.
A.goodness
B.feeling
C.passion
D.friendship
正确答案：A
3.
A.suffering
B.being tortured
C.ailing
D.being down
正确答案：C
4.
A.family
B.neibourhood
C.community
D.life
正确答案：A
5.
A.satisfy
B.remind
C.combine
D.bind
正确答案：B
6.
A.most of the time
B.all the time
C.at no time
D.sometimes
正确答案：D
7.
A.alone
B.itself
C.on its own part
D.on its own accord
正确答案：B
8.
A.affectionate
B.social
C.public
D.emotional
正确答案：C
9.
A.friendship
B.harmony
C.affection
D.sensation
正确答案：B
10.
A.the roots
B.the base
C.sources
D.basis
正确答案：C
11.
A.period
B.span
C.time
D.past
正确答案：A
12.
A.taken
B.committed
C.engrossed
D.engaged
正确答案：D
13.
A.pursued
B.hunted
C.longed for
D.been desirous of
正确答案：A
14.
A.luck
B.acid understanding
C.common goal
D.blessings
正确答案：D
15.
A.If
B.whether
C.what
D.which
正确答案：A
16.
A.bound
B.conducted
C.carried
D.preferred
