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Section B (18分)
Directions: For each blank in the
following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B, C and D. Fill in
each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Growing up on a remote Michigan farm. Henry Ford, the founder of
the Ford Motor Company, knew little of farming. Like most pioneer farmers, his
father, William, hoped that his eldest son would join him on the farm，enable it to expand, and eventually take it 36 . But Henry proved a 37 . He hated farm work and did
everything he could to 38 it . It was not that he was lazy. 39
from it！ Give him a mechanical job to do， from mending the hinges (绞链)of a gate to
sharpening tools, and he would set to work eagerly. It was the daily life of
the farm, with its repetitive tasks, 40 frustrated him.
Henry was
excited by the development in technology that could free farmers like his
father from wasteful and boring toil. But these developments, in Henry’s
boyhood, had touched farming 41 at all and farmers went on doing
things in the way they had always done. So Henry 42 his attention elsewhere. When he was
twelve he became almost obsessively interested in clocks and watches. Soon he
was repairing them for friends, working at a bench he built in his bedroom.
In 1876, Henry suffered a serious 43 .His mother died in childbirth.
There was now no reason for him to stay on the farm， and he resolved to get away as soon as he could. Three years later,
he took a job as a mechanic in Detroit.
44 this time steam engines had joined
clocks and watches as objects of Henry’s fascination. Making and installing
them was the business of the Detroit
workshop that he joined at the age of sixteen.
A chance meeting with an old co-worker led to a job for
Henry as an engineer at the Edison Detroit Electricity Company. 45 Henry quickly learned the ropes of his
new job, his interest in fuel engines had come to dominate(占主要地位)his life.
Henry
learned 46 a slow, painstaking business it
was to build an engine by hand from scratch. Every piece of every component had
to be fashioned individually, checked and rechecked, and tested. 47 the burden, Henry joined
forces with another mechanic。 Even so, it was two
years before they had succeeded in building a working car. Henry called it the
“Quadricycle”.
