2012年职称英语考试模拟通关训练营32

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　　训练要求：阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案，涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
2 n3 H' ^3 K8 `$ |' o( H$ X　　Racial Prejudice
& d0 F1 \7 v1 Y/ {( r　　In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violence has been taken for granted as a means of solving differences; and this is not even questioned. There are countries________(1) the white man imposes his rule by brute(粗暴的) force; there are countries where the black man protests by________(2) fire to cities and by looting and pillaging(抢劫). Important people on both sides, who would appear to be reasonable men, get up and calmly argue in________(3) of violence as if it were a legitimate(合法的) solution, ________(4) any other. What is really frightening, what really________(5) you with despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch(关键时刻) , we have made no actual________(6) at all. We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our instincts remain basically unchanged. The whole of the recorded________(7) of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence, has taught us absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that________(8) never solves a problem but makes it more acute. The shear horror, the bloodshed and the suffering________(9) nothing. No solution ever comes to________(10) the morning after when we dismally(阴郁的) contemplate the smoking ruins and wonder what his us.
2 f# k2 h- B) i9 ]+ ]6 V　　The truly reasonable men who________(11) where the solutions lie are finding it harder and harder to get a hearing. They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted________(12) their own kind because they advocate such apparently outrageous things as law enforcement. If half the energy that goes into________(13) acts were put to good use, if our efforts were directed at ________(14) up the slums and ghettos(贫民窟), at improving living-standards and providing education and employment for all, we would not have gone a long way to________(15) at a solution.
9 |" e- n5 m5 B　　1. A  where            B  what           C  why              D  when
　　2. A  fighting            B  retuning          C  catching           D  setting
　　3. A  spite             B  memory        C  need             D  favor
) X" U: W. [  h; u　　4. A  to               B  through         C  like              D  as
　　5. A  fills              B  puts             C  forces            D  sets
　　6. A  progress            B  decision         C  point            D  sense
　　7. A  system             B  history         C  roll            D  gather
　　8. A  argument           B  violence          C  talk           D  research
　　9. A  deal             B  have            C  mean            D  want
　　10. A  light              B  life             C  end           D  mind
$ x- W7 w8 r0 J) T　　11. A  suggest          B  demand          C  consider           D  know
　　12. A  by             B  for            C  with             D  of
　　13. A  final             B  lawful            C  violent            D  symbolic
　　14. A  looking            B  taking         C  getting          D  cleaning
　　15. A  meeting           B  laughing        C  starting           D  arriving
　　参考答案：ADDCA　ABBCA　DACDD