泽熙美文Cloze Test
The president appeals to labor and management to hold down wages and prices, but says not a word about any controls to be imposed by the Government.
The business and financial community has been given 1 that interest rates will soon be lowered, and that this particularly will 2 money available for more activity in new housing. Nobody in the Administration, however, is 3 specifically just when the high interest rates will 4 down.
Paul W. McCracken, Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, in a press conference on March 17, said that he does not 5 the country is running into a 6 .
Arthur Burns, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has been 7 that the 8 money policy will have to be relaxed in order to prepare the 9 for a decline in interest rates.
It is apparent, 10 , that uncertainty 11 even in Government circles, and that experimentalism 12 a reliance on past experience in 13 with wages and prices has been reason why the nation has been drifting into a depression.
Evidently there will be no effort to impose wage and price controls 14 the political consequences are feared. So the 15 are that the Administration will try a new 16 to manage what it considers a slowdown by 17 just a little more inflation. This is a risky way to handle an economy which has a 18 national product of more than $950 billion.
Anyway, officials hope that their corrective measures will stop the slowdown in business and that the economy soon will 19 itself. So, in effect, the soft-spoken 20 of Government today is: “Recession, please go away!”
1.
A.shock
B.hope
C.consent
D.esteem
正确答案：B
[解析] “希望”。根据原文意思：“商家和财政局对利率将很快下跌存有希望……”而且，根据篇章的一致性原则，该词与本文最后一段中的hope形成照应。而A选项“震惊；震动”，C选项“赞同；答应”，D选项“尊敬”均不符合题意。
2.
A.change
B.set
C.turn
D.make
正确答案：D
[解析] 本题考句型结构。“make…available使……有效，而A选项“改变”，B选项“安排”，C选项“翻转”均不符合题意，无法构成句型的搭配。
3.
A.justifying
B.gesturing
C.predicting
D.estimating
正确答案：C
[解析] “预测”。该词与文章第一段中的says一词形成一种呼应，根据文章的一致性原则，应选C选项而且predict表达的是某种准确的预测，与副词specifically形成连贯性。而A选项“证明……有理”，B选项“做手势”，D选项“估计”均不符合题意。
4.
A.break
B.come
C.take
D.pull
正确答案：B
[解析] “降低，下降”。本题根据篇章主题一致性的原则，该搭配与文中第一段的hold down和下文的decline一词形成一种呼应。而A选项break down“毁坏；衰弱”，C选项take down“拆除；记下”，D选项pull down“拉下”均不符合题意。
5.
A.believe
B.approve
C.confide
D.assure
正确答案：A
[解析] 原文意思即Paul W. McCracken在新闻发布会上陈述自己的观点。所以只有A选项用于陈述观点。而B选项“批准”，C选项“托付”，D选项“使确信”均不符合题意。
6.
A.provision
B.recession
C.constitution
D.demonstration
正确答案：B
[解析] “不景气；经济萧条”。根据文章主题一致性的原则，该词与下文的depression形成一种呼应。而A选项“供应”，C选项“体制”，D选项“示威”均不符合题意。
7.
A.claiming
B.hinting
C.cautioning
D.observing
正确答案：B
[解析] “暗示”。根据文中意思和文章一致性原则来考虑，该词与原文第一句中的say一词构成照应，它表示“未直接说明”的意思。而A选项“宣称”，C选项“小心；谨慎；告诫”，D选项“提到；遵守；奉行”均不符合题意。
8.
A.binding
B.valid
C.intense
D.tight
正确答案：D
[解析] “紧张的”。根据原文意思：“货币紧张政策将有所缓解，为了……”。该词与本句中的relaxed一词形成对比。而A选项“粘合的”，B选项“有效的；合理的；有根据的”，C选项“强烈的；热烈的；热情的”均不符合题意。
9.
A.route
B.way
C.span
D.quest
正确答案：B
[解析] “方法；途径”。本题考查词的搭配。文章意思指“利率降低的方式”。而A选项“路线；路程”，C选项“跨度；跨距”，D选项“探求”均不符合题意。其中D选项有“in quest of寻找”的意思。
10.
A.moreover
B.then
C.however
D.therefore
正确答案：C
[解析] “然而”。根据上下文的逻辑关系，该句有转折的意思。C选项作连词时用于句中有转折的意思。而A选项“而且”，B选项“因此；然后”，D选项“因此”均不符合题意。
11.
A.prevails
B.scrambles
C.fosters
D.intrudes
正确答案：A
[解析] 下文中“the political consequences are feared(人们担心所造成的政治后果)”，所以整个政界充满了骚动和不安，根据上下文的呼应，应该填入“prevail(流行，弥漫)”构成一致性。而B选项“攀登；爬行”，C选项“培养；培育”，D选项“强行闯入”均不符合题意。
12.
A.better than
B.other than
