泽熙美文Ⅰ Cloze Test
Directions: In the following passage, there are 20 blanks representing the words that are missing from the contexts. You are to read the passage through before providing the missing word of each blank without looking at the Answer. Then, compare your Answers with the Answers provided and learn from the possible “differences”.
Visitors to Britain may find the best place to sample local culture is in a traditional pub. But these friendly hostelries can be minefields of potential gaffes for the uninitiated.
An anthropologist and a team of researchers have 1 some of the arcane rituals of British pubs—starting with the 2 of getting a drink. Most pubs have no waiters—you 3 to go to the bar to buy drinks. A group of Italian youths 4 for 45 minutes before they realized they would have to 5 for their own. This may sound inconvenient, but there is a 6 purpose.
Pub culture is designed to 7 sociability in a society known for its reserve. Standing at the 8 for service allows you to chat with others 9 to be served. The bar counter is possibly the only 10 in the British Isles in which friendly conversation with 11 is considered entirely appropriate and really quite normal 12 . “If you haven’t been to a pub, you 13 been to Britain.” This tip can be found in a 14 , Passport to the Pub: The Tourists’ Guide to Pub Etiquette, a 15 code of conduct for those wanting to sample “a central part of 16 life and culture”. The trouble is that if you do not 17 the local rules, the experience may fall flat. For 18 , if you are in a big group, it is best if only one 19 two people go to buy the drinks. Nothing irritates the 20 customers and bar staff more than a gang of strangers blocking all access to the bar while they chat and dither about what to order.
1.
正确答案：
unveiled
从全句来看，诸如found, discovered和unveiled都说得通，但第三个词更贴近该句的语境。
2.
正确答案：
difficulty
本文一直谈的主题就是difficulty，所以此空一般不会填错。
3.
正确答案：
have
从上文提到的difficulty来判断，这里应该是表示“不得不”之概念的have to。
4.
正确答案：
waited
跟随名词之后的有三种可能：一是介词，二是动词的过去分词，三是现在分词。根据空后的45 minutes基本可判断出该空应为waiting。
5.
正确答案：
fetch
这里填fetch或get均可。
6.
正确答案：
hidden
此空丢掉的明显是形容词，而常用来修饰purpose的形容词有三个：一是obvious，二是hidden，三是some。
7.
正确答案：
promote
此空是个动宾搭配问题：用于socialbility之前的动词有三个选择：一是promote，二是strengthen，三是enhance。但从定义的角度看，promote更为准确。
8.
正确答案：
bar
bar是该文的主题词。
9.
正确答案：
waiting
空后的to be served表明此空丢掉的是waiting。
10.
正确答案：
site
根据该空的语境，site是唯一的选择。
11.
正确答案：
strangers
按常理，跟随conversation with的或是friends或是strangers，该句的上下文分明暗示谈话的对象是strangers。
12.
正确答案：
behavior
和normal或abnormal常搭配的一般是behavior。
13.
正确答案：
haven’t
从句法角度(if one hasn’t… one hasn’t…)来判断，确定此空答案一般不会出错。
14.
正确答案：
booklet
根据此空之后的句子，该空应为booklet。
15.
正确答案：
customers
这里能和code搭配的也只能是customers或clients。
16.
正确答案：
British
British也是该文的主题词之一。
17.
正确答案：
follow
该空有两个选择：一是follow，二是observe。
18.
正确答案：
example
根据空后的内容，这里丢掉的无疑是example。
19.
正确答案：
or
one or two是个常见的搭配。
20.
正确答案：
regular
根据全文的语境，这里丢掉的无疑是与new相对的regular。
World Water Shortage
A new study warns that about thirty percent of the world’s people may not have enough water by the year 2025.
A private American organization called 21 Action International did the new study. It says 22 than three-hundred-thirty-five-million people 23 enough water now. The people live in twenty-eight 24 . Most of the countries are in Africa or the 25 East.
P-A-I researcher Robert Engelman says 26 the year 2025, about three-thousand-million people 27 lack water.
