语法填空语篇练习.docx

1、语法填空语篇练习语法填空之二：状语从句 2014-9-18Passage 1If you know exactly what you want, the best route to a job is to get specialized training. A recent survey shows that companies like graduates in such fields as business and health care who can go to work immediately with very little on-the-job training.Thats es

2、pecially true of 1_(boom) fields that are challenging for workers. At Cornells School of Hotel Administration, for example, bachelors degree graduates get an average of four or five job offers with salaries 2_(range) from the high teens to the low 20s and plenty of chances for rapid advancement. Lar

3、ge companies, especially, like a background of formal education 3_(couple) with work experience.4_ in the long run, too much specialization doesnt pay off. Business, which has been flooded with MBAs, no longer considers the degree an automatic stamp of approval. The MBA may open doors and command a

4、higher salary initially, but the impact of a degree washes out 5_ five years .As further evidence of the erosion(销蚀) of corporate (公司的) faith in specialized degrees, Michigan States Scheetz cites a pattern in corporate hiring practices.6_ companies tend to take on specialists as new hires, they ofte

5、n seek out generalists for middle and upper-level management. “They want someone who isnt constrained (限制)” by nuts and bolts to look at “the big picture.” says Scheetz.This sounds suspiciously like a formal statement that you approve of the liberal-arts graduate. Time and again labor-market analyst

6、s mention a need 7_ talents that liberal-arts majors are assumed to have: writing and communication skills, organizational skills, open-mindedness and adaptability, and the ability to analyze and solve problems. David Birch claims he does not hire anybody with an MBA or an engineering degree. “I hir

7、e only liberal-arts people 8_ they have a less-than-canned way of doing things,” says Birch. “Liberal-arts means an academically thorough and strict program that includes literature, history, mathematics, economics, science, human behavior-plus a computer course or two. With that under your belt, yo

8、u can feel free to specialize. A liberal-arts degree coupled with an MBA or some other technical training is a very good combination in the marketplace,” says Scheetz.Passage 2 The biggest safety threat 1_(face) airlines today may not be a terrorist with a gun, 2_ the man with the portable computer

9、in business class. In the last 15 years, pilots have reported well over 100 incidents that could have been caused by electromagnetic interference (电磁干扰). The source of this interference remains unconfirmed) but increasingly, experts are pointing the blame at portable electronic devices 3_ _ portable

10、 computers, radio and cassette players and mobile telephones. RTCA, an organization which advises the aviation(航空) industry, has recommended that all airline ban such devises from being used during "critical" stages of flights. Some experts have gone further, 4_(call)for a total ban during

11、 all flight. Currently, rules on using these devices are left up to individual airline. And 5_ some airlines prohibit passengers from using such equipment during take-off and landing, most are reluctant to place a total ban, 6_(give) that many passengers want to work during flights. The difficulty i

12、s predicting how electromagnetic fields might affect an aircrafts computers. Experts know that portable devices give out radiation which affects those wavelengths which aircraft use for navigation and communication. But, 7_they have not been able to reproduce these effects in a laboratory, they have

13、 no way of knowing 8_ the interference might be dangerous or not. The fact that aircraft may be damaged by interference raises the risk that terrorists may use radio systems 9_ _ _ damage navigation equipment. As worrying, though, is the passenger who cant hear the instructions to turn off his radio

14、 because the musics too loud.Passage 3Blind imitation（模仿）is self-destructionTo those who do not recognize their unique worth, imitation appears attractive; to those who know their strength, imitation is unacceptableIn the early stages of skill or character development, imitation is helpful1_ I first

15、 learned to cook, I used recipes （菜谱）and turned out some tasty dishesBut soon I grew bored1_ follow someone elses way of cooking when I could create my own? Imitating role models is like using training wheels on a childs bicycle; they help you get going, 3_ once you find your own balance, you fly fa

16、ster and farther without relying on themIn daily life, imitation can hurt us if we subconsciously（下意识地）hold poor role modelsIf, as a child, you observed people whose lives were bad, you may have accepted their fear and pain as normal and gone on to follow what they did4_ you do not make strong choic

17、es for yourself, you will get the results of the weak choices of othersIn the field of entertainment, our culture glorifies celebritiesThose stars look great on screenBut when they step off screen, their personal lives may be disastrousIf you are going to follow someone, focus on their talent, not t

18、heir bad character 5_ unacceptable behaviors6_(bless) is the person willing to act on their sudden desire to create something uniqueThink of the movies, books, teachers, and friends that have affected you most deeplyThey touched you because their creations were motivated by inspiration, not desperat

19、ionThe world is changed not 7_ those who do what has been done before them, but by those who do what has been done inside themCreative people have an endless resource of ideasThe problem a creator faces is not running out of material; it is what to do with the material knocking at the door of imagin

20、ationStudy your role models, accept the gifts they have given, 8_ leave behind what does not serveThen you can say, “I stand on the shoulders of my ancestors tragedies and declare victory, and know that they are cheering me onPassage 4With the possible exception of equal rights, perhaps the most con

21、troversial issue across theUnited Statestoday is the death penalty. Many argue that it is an effective deterrent (威慑) to murder, 1_others maintain there is no convincing evidence that the death penalty reduces murders.The principal argument advanced by those opposed to the death penalty, basically,

22、is that it is cruel and inhuman punishment, 2_ is the mark of a brutal society, and finally that it is of questionable effectiveness as a deterrent to crime anyway.In our opinion, the death penalty is a necessary evil. Throughout recorded history there have always been those extreme individuals in e

23、very society who were capable of terribly violent crimes such as murder. But some are more extreme than others.For example, it is one thing to take the life of another in a fit of blind rage, 3_ quite another to coldly plot and carry out the murder of one or more people in the style of a butcher. Th

24、us, murder, like all other crimes, is a matter of relative degree. 4_ it could be argued with some conviction that the criminal in the first instance should be merely isolated from society, such should not be the fate of the latter type murderer. The value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crim

25、e may be open to debate. But the 5_(overwhelm) majority of citizens believe that the death penalty protects them. Their belief is reinforced by evidence which shows that the death penalty deters murder. For example, from 1954 to 1963, 6_ the death penalty was consistently imposed in California, the

26、murder rate remained between three and four murders for each 100,000 population. 7_ 1964 the death penalty has been imposed only once, and the murder rate has risen to 10.4 murders for each 100,000 population. The sharp climb in the states murder rate, which began when executions stopped, is no coin

27、cidence. It is convincing evidence that the death penalty does deter many murderers. 8_ the bill reestablishing the death penalty is vetoed, innocent people will be murderedsome whose lives may have been saved if the death penalty were in effect. This is literally a life or death matter. The lives o

28、f thousands of innocent people must be protected.Passage 5Children whose minds wander might have sharper brains, research suggests.A study _1_ (find) that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more “working memory”, 2_(give) them the ability to hold a lot of information in their heads a

29、nd manipulate it mentally.Children at school need this type of memory on a daily basis for a variety of tasks, such as 3_(follow) teachers instructions or remembering dictated sentences.During the study, volunteers were asked to perform one of two simple tasks during 4_ researchers checked to ask if

30、 the participants minds were wandering.At the end, participants measured their working memory capacity by their ability to remember a series of letters interspersed with simple maths questions.Daniel Levinson, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in theUnited States, said that those

31、 with higher working memory capacity 5_(report) “more mind wandering during these simple tasks”, _6_ their performance did not suffer.The results, published online in the journal Psychological Science, appear to confirm previous research that found working memory allows humans to juggle multiple tho

32、ughts simultaneously.Dr Jonathan Smallwood, of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science in Leipzig,Germany, said: “_7_ this study seems to suggest is that, 8_circumstances for the task arent very difficult, people who have additional working memory resources deploy them to think a