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1、For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. （10 points）If a farmer wishes to succeed, he must try to keep a wide gap bet

2、ween his consumption and his production. He must store a large quantity of grain 1 consuming all his grain immediately. He can continue to support himself and his family 2 he produces a surplus. He must use this surplus in three ways: as seed for sowing, as an insurance 3 the unpredictable effects o

3、f bad weather and as a commodity which he must sell in order to 4 old agricultural implements and obtain chemical fertilizers to 5 the soil. He may also need money to construct irrigation 6 and improve his farm in other ways. If no surplus is available, a farmer cannot be 7 . He must either sell som

4、e of his property or 8 extra funds in the form of loans. Naturally he will try to borrow money at a low 9 of interest, but loans of this kind are not 10 obtainable. 139 words1.A other than B as well as C instead of D more than2.A only ifB much asC long beforeD ever since3.A forB againstC ofD towards

5、4.A replaceB purchaseC supplementD dispose5.A enhanceB mixC feedD raise6.A vesselsB routesC pathsD channels7.A self-confident B self-sufficientC self-satisfied Dself-restrained8.A searchB saveC offerD seek 9.A proportionB percentageC rateD ratio10.A genuinelyB obviouslyC presumablyD frequentlyPart R

6、eading ComprehensionDirections:Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question there are four answers marked A, B, C and D. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each of the questions. Then mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the correspon

7、ding letter in the brackets with a pencil. （40 points）Passage 1A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may become a driving force. When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a marke

8、t eight times larger than any competitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the worlds best; its workers the most skilled. （11）America and Americans were prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies the war had destroyed.It was ine

9、vitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominance proved painful. By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness. Some huge American industries, such as consumer ele

10、ctronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition. By 1987 there was only one American television maker left, Zenith. （Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Koreas LG Electronics in July.） （12）Foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market. Americas m

11、achine-tool industry was on the ropes. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty.All of this caused a crisis of confidence. Americans stopped taking prosperity for gra

12、nted. They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that their incomes would therefore shortly begin to fall as well. The mid-1980s brought one inquiry after another into the causes of Americas industrial decline. Their sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnin

13、gs about the growing competition from overseas.How things have changed! In 1995 the United States can look back on five years of solid growth while Japan has been struggling. （14）Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle. Sel

14、f-doubt has yielded to blind pride. “American industry has changed its structure, has gone on a diet, has learnt to be more quick-witted,” according to Richard Cavanaugh, executive dean of Harvards Kennedy School of Government. “It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businesses are

15、improving their productivity,” says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think-tank in Washington, DC. And William Sahlman of the Harvard Business School believes that people will look back on this period as “a golden age of business management in the United States.”429 words11. The U.S. achieved its predominance after World War II because.A it had made painstaking efforts towards this goal B its domestic market was eight times larger than beforeC the w