第二节:完型填空 (共20小题,每小题1.5分,满分30 分)

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从21--40各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出能填入空格中的最佳答案,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

The cultures of the East and the West really distinguish(区别)each other a lot. This is because the culture systems are two separate systems____21___.

   The origin of the eastern cultures is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are gestated(孕育) by ___22___. In China, the mother river is the Yellow River___23___ the Indian one is the Hindu River. These two cultures were ___24___ for several thousand years and formed their own styles. Then in Tang Dynasty of China, the Chinese culture___25___ went overseas to Japan, ___26___ into the Japanese society and ___27___ the Japanese culture nowadays. Though a bit different from the Chinese one, it ___28___ to the same system.

When the two mother rivers gave ___29___ to the eastern culture, another famous culture was brought up on the Mesopotamian Plain--- the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the cultures of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. And these two are well- known as the ___30___ of the European culture. ___31___ the Chinese culture, the European one also ___32___waters. When the colonists of England ___33___down in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn’t ___34___ from the European one a lot.

At the same time, the ___35___ of the language systems adds to the cultural differences. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic languages while the Western languages are ___36___ based on the Latin system, for example, the one I ‘m using to write this paper.

Other factors like human race difference ___37___ as well. However, ____38___ the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West, the two cultures seldom ___39__ until recent centuries.___40___ they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference (干扰) from the other.

21. A. above all                  B. on the whole        C. in all                                 D. first of all

22. A. mountains               B. plains                     C. lakes                 D. rivers

23. A. since             B. when           C. while                  D. as

24. A. developed         B. improved               C. created               D. protected

25. A. suddenly         B. quietly                    C. gradually          D. naturally

26. A. mixed              B. flowed          C. moved                    D. forced

27. A. expanded       B. enriched         C. influenced         D. shaped

28. A. comes              B. belongs       C. amounts             D. adds

29. A. birth                          B. way              C. root               D. origin

30. A. characteristics   B. sign            C. base                      D. content

31. As                       B. Unlike             C. With                 D. Like

32. A. passed                   B. spread          C. crossed           D. formed

33. A. fell                B. went           C. broke             D. settled

34. A. separate        B. grow         C. move               D. distinguish

35. A. difference        B. use                   C. appearance        D. change

36. A. properly            B. partly               C. simply              D. mostly

37. A. include            B. counts        C. depends           D. worked

38. A. in terms of      B. due to          C. as to                D. in case of

39. A. help                B. connect       C. communicate         D. meet

40. A. But                B. Because        C. So                             D. Yet

 

完形填空
     As the train approached the seaside town where I was going to spend my holidays, I went into the
corridor to __1_ my legs. I stayed there a short while, breathing in the fresh sea air and __2_ a few
words with one of the passengers, whom I had met earlier on the __3_.
     When I turned to go back to __4__, I happened to glance into the compartment (车厢) next to mine.
Sitting there was a man who many years before had been my neighbour. He was a great __5__, I
remembered; it used to take hours to __6__ him once he began a conversation. I was not at all __7__
when he went to live in another part of London. We had not met since then, __8__ did I wish to meet
him now, when __9__ was about to begin.
     Luckily at that moment he was  10    busy talking to the man opposite him to catch sight of me. I
slipped back into my compartment, took down my two suitcases and carried them to the far end of the
corridor so as to be ready to   11   the train as soon as it stopped. The moment the train came to a halt
(停止), I called a porter, who in no time at all had carried my luggage out of the station and   12   me a
taxi. As I drove towards my small hotel on the outskirts of the town, I breathed a deep sigh of relief at
my   13  . There was little chance that I should    14   my boring exneighbour again.
     When I reached the hotel, I went    15   to my room and rested there until it was time for dinner. Then
 I went down to the dining room and   16    a drink. I had barely raised the glass to my lips   17   an all
too familiar voice greeted me. I had not escaped from the tiresome neighbour  18   ! He grasped me
warmly by the hand and insisted that we   19   a table in the dinningroom. "This is a pleasant  20  ," he
said. "I never expected to see you again after  all these years."
(     )1.A. reach              
(     )2.A. exchanging          
(     )3.A. fruit stand        
(     )4.A. the station        
(     )5.A. talker              
(     )6.A. get rid of          
(     )7.A. happy              
(     )8.A. so                  
(     )9.A. holiday            
(     )10.A. very              
(     )11.A. get on            
(     )12.A. found              
(     )13.A. good luck          
(     )14.A. lose in touch with
(     )15.A. carelessly        
(     )16.A. ordered            
(     )17.A. while              
(     )18.A. above all          
(     )19.A. spare              
(     )20.A. surprise          
B. extend            
B. changing          
B. department store  
B. my seat            
B. poet              
B. take care of      
B. afraid            
B. no                
B. school day        
B. too                
B. stay on            
B. gave              
B. nice choice        
B. run into          
B. aimlessly          
B. requested          
B. before            
B. after all          
B. rent              
B. interview          
C. stretch        
C. talking through
C. bus stop        
C. the waiting room
C. speaker        
C. get away from  
C. sorry          
C. not            
C. work day        
C. so              
C. catch          
C. offered        
C. narrow escape  
C. knock down      
C. idly            
C. fetched        
C. when            
C. first of all    
C. reserve        
C. appointment    
D. loosen                
D. talking about        
D. station platform      
D. the office            
D. hero                  
D. pay attention to      
D. content              
D. nor                  
D. conversation          
D. much                  
D. get off              
D. bought                
D. bad fortune          
D. catch up with        
D. straight              
D. asked                
D. after                
D. in all                
D. share                
D. party                

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