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圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 2.2 篇章选词填空（Passage 51～Passage 70）
Directions: Choose one appropriate word from the following list to fill in each of the blanks in the passage below. Change the word form where necessary. Remember the list contains some extra words that may not be used in filling in any of the blanks. ◆文学传记类
Passage 51 题材：文学传记类 字数：231 possessions distinguished invite layout eventual horizon grief discouraged earnest queer weary creatively positive flame means The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed (1) for God to rescue him, and every day he scanned the (2) for help, but none seemed approaching.
Exhausted, he (3) managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements, and to store his few (4) . But then one day, after searching for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in (5) , the smoke rolling up to the sky.
The worst had happened；everything was lost.
He was stunned with (6) and anger. “God, how could you do this to me!” he cried.
Early the next day, however, he was awakened by the sound of a ship that was
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www.100xuexi.com 圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 approaching the island. It had come to rescue him. “How did you know I was here?” asked the (7) man of his rescuers. “We saw your smoke signal,” they replied.
It is easy to get (8) when things are going bad.
But we shouldn’t lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of pain and suffering. Remember, next time your little hut is burning to the ground it just may be a smoke signal that (9) the grace of God.
For all the negative things we have to say to ourselves. God has a (10) answer for it.
参考答案及解析 1. earnestly
(该处应填入副词修饰动词prayed。表明人们祈祷时的态度，在所给词中，earnest的副词形式earnestly符合要求，意为“认真地”。) 2. horizon
(该处应填入能与scanned（扫视）搭配的名词，由此可确定horizon一词正确，scanned the horizon意为“环视地平线”。) 3. eventually
(该处应填入副词修饰managed。由前面提到的exhausted，幸存者只能是最终好不容易才建成小屋，所以用eventual的副词形式eventually。) 4. possessions
(该处应填入可数名词的复数形式。在所给定词中，符合词性、词形要求并能和store搭配的只有possessions，意为“财物”。)
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圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 (该处应填入能与介词in搭配的名词。由空白处的smoke可知应用flame的正确形式，因为有火才有烟。表示着火应为“in flames”。) 6. grief
(该处应填入与anger并列的名词，而且应该表达一种消极情绪。在所给定词中，可以确定grief合乎要求。) 7. weary
(该处应填入表示幸存者的状态的形容词。他从海难中逃生，在小岛上艰辛度日，最后小屋又被烧毁，那么此时他应该处于一种疲惫不堪的状态，所以可以确定weary一词正确，意为“劳累的、疲惫的”。) 8. distinguished
(该处应填入作get表语的形容词。由下一段的lose heart可以知道该处的单词应该带有“泄气”的意思，所以可以确定discouraged为正确选项。) 9. invites
(该处应填入及物动词的第三人称单数形式。由该句句首的is burning（正在燃烧），表示动作，可知用invite的单三形式，意为“邀请，请求”。) 10. positive
(该处应填入能修饰answer的形容词。这段话说明了这个故事的意义，从整篇文章的意思可以知道此处需要表达积极意义的单词，与前面的negative相对，故选择positive。)
◆商业经济类
Passage 52 题材：商业经
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www.100xuexi.com 济类 字数：273 圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 announce trend performed temporary permanent virtual technical employ exposure originally soar significance secure discouraged loss Last year’s economy in the United States should have won the Oscar for best picture. Growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 percent profits (1) up exports flourished and inflation stayed around 3 percent for the third year. So why did so many Americans give the picture only a B rating? The answer is jobs. The macroeconomic situation was good, but the microeconomic numbers were not. Yes, 3 million new jobs were there, but not enough of them were (2) , good jobs paying enough to support a family.
Job insecurity was serious. Even as they (3) higher sales and profits, corporations acted as if they were operating at a (4) , cutting 516,069 jobs in l994 alone, almost as many as in the bad year of 1991. Yes, unemployment went down. But over l million workers were so (5) that they left the labor force. More than 6 million who wanted full time work were only partially (6) and another large group was sheltered behind self-employment. We lost a million good manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 1995, continuing the (7) that has reduced the blue-collar work force from about 30 percent in the l950s to about half that today.
White-collar workers found out they were no longer (8) . In l995, for the first time, they were let go in numbers
(9) equal to those for blue-collar workers. Many turn to (10) work—with lower
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参考答案及解析 1. soared
(该处应填入能与up搭配的动词过去分词。从后文讲的经济形势良好可确定填入的单词应带有积极意义，因此可确定给定词中的soar正确，意为“激增”。) 2. permanent
(该处应填入与good并列的形容词。由good可知此处填入的单词应带有积极意义，给定词中符合要求的有secure和，但secure的用法不对，它只能作表语，故选定permanent一词，意为“稳定的”。) 3. announced
(该处应填入动词的过去式。这句话讲的是即使公司取得良好收益却表现得好像遭受了损失一样，由此可确定给定词中的announced正确。) 4. loss
(该处应填入能与at搭配的单数名词。由第三题的分析可知，给定词中的loss正确，at a loss意为“损失”。) 5. discouraged
(该处应填入形容词。本句讲的是一百多万上班族离职的原因。他们应该是感到泄气才离开工作岗位的，因此可确定给定词中的discouraged一词正确。) 6. employed
(该处应填入动词的过去分词。由空白处前的partially和句末的self-employment可知此处讲的是就业的形式，由此确定employed为本题答案。)
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