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第二部分：语言知识与运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节：完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。

If you wear socks on your ears, you won’t be punished. Crossing a street against a red light is another matter — it’s against the law. Laws are __21________ rules made by governments. They keep peace and create order. __22_______ people break laws, their governments punish them. Long ago, people lived only in small tribal groups. They lived together, followed the same __23_______, and worshipped the same gods. There were no formal laws. __24_______, people were guided by their customs, morals, and religion.

Over time, cities began to form. Laws became more formal and were written down in legal codes. In about 1750 BC, the king of Babylon __25_______ one of the first legal codes, the Code of Hammurabi. It listed certain crimes and told how they should be punished. The ancient Romans helped shape our modern view of law. In the 600s BC, citizens of Rome wrote down all of their basic laws on twelve bronze tablets. The Romans declared that no citizen, __26_______ the ruler, was above the law. Modern law codes are rooted in the Roman system. Such law codes are statutory, meaning they are created and changed by legislatures, not by courts.

Another system of law __27_______ later in England. Before the 12th century AD., each part of England had its own rules and customs. From the 12th century onward, England became a single nation. The courts of the land made sure people __28_______ a common set of customs—the English common law.

Unlike the Roman system of law, the common law was never written down in one place. Instead, the courts made decisions about the law __29_______ earlier court decisions. Those decisions are called examples. Each case must be decided in the same way as earlier cases. But if a case has some new aspects, the decision made will set a new example. That way, courts gradually change the law __30_______ society changes.

21.   A. police                      B. political                          C. official                     D. officer

22.   A. Unless                            B. Until                               C. Though                    D. When

23.   A. laws                        B. traditions                         C. action                      D. principles

24.   A. Instead                     B. Including                        C. Besides                    D. Moreover

25.   A. imagined                  B. assumed                          C. created                     D. supposed

26.   A. except for                B. not even                          C. in addition to            D. besides

27.   A. took effect               B. made up                          C. got over                   D. picked up

28.   A. formed                    B. provided                         C. presented                  D. followed

29.   A. set about                  B. based on                          C. came to                    D. taken over

30.   A. before                      B. after                               C. despite                            D. as

Answer 1

21-25 CDBAC  26-30 BADBD