2014年職稱英語(yǔ)(綜合類(lèi))完形填空考前練習(xí)四

　　A Country’s Standard of Living

　　The "standard of living" of any country means the average person’s share of the goods and services the country produces. A country’s standard of living, ____1____, depends first and _____2____ on its capacity to produce wealth. "Wealth" in this sense is not money, for we do not live on money ______3_____ on things that money can buy: "goods" such as food and clothing, and "services" such as transport and "entertainment"1.

　　A country’s capacity to produce wealth depends upon many factors, most of ____4___ have an effect on one another. Wealth depends _____5_____ a great extent upon a country’s natural resources. Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have fertile soil and a favorable climate; other regions possess none of them.

　　Next to natural resources ____6____ the ability to turn them to use. China is perhaps as well-off ____7_____ the USA in natural resources, but suffered for many years from civil and external was, and _____8_____ this and other reasons was _____9____ to develop her resources. Sound and stable political conditions, and ____10____ from foreign invasions, enable a country to develop its natural resources peacefully and steadily, and to produce more wealth than another country equally well favoured by nature but less well ordered2.

　　A country’s standard of living does not only depend upon the wealth that is produced and consumed ______11_____ its own borders, but also upon what is directly produced through international trade. _____12______, Britain’s wealth in foodstuffs and other agricultural products would be much less if she had to depend only on ____13____ grown at home. Trade makes it possible for her surplus manufactured goods to be traded abroad for the agricultural products that would _____14_____ be lacking. A country’s wealth is, therefore, much influenced by its manufacturing capacity, _____15____ that other countries can be found ready to accept its manufactures.

　　1. A. however B. furthermore C. similarly D. therefore

　　2. A. primary B. all C. foremost D. mainly

　　3. A. or B. but C. nor D. besides

　　4. A. these B. that C. what D. which

　　5. A. at B. to C. by D. with

　　6. A. came B. coming C. comes D. come

　　7. A. to B. like C. by D. as

　　8. A. because B. for C. of D. by

　　9. A. uneasy B. incapable C. impossible D. unable

　　10. A. prevention B. freedom C. liberation D. liberty

　　11. A. at B. by C. within D. on

　　12. A. In short B. For example C. As a result D. On the other hand

　　13. A. which B. what C. that D. those

　　14. A. otherwise B. certainly C. however D. therefore

　　15. A. depended B. supposed C. based D. provided

　　【參考答案及解析】

　　1.C [解析]call on號(hào)召，拜訪;get on進(jìn)展;take on穿上，承擔(dān)。根據(jù)前文和空格句，"任何國(guó)家的'生活標(biāo)準(zhǔn)'都是指人均享有的這個(gè)國(guó)家生產(chǎn)的商品和服務(wù)。因此一個(gè)國(guó)家的生活標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，首先依賴于它能生產(chǎn)財(cái)富的能力"，空格與其后面介詞on構(gòu)成depencl on短語(yǔ)，符合語(yǔ)意和搭配習(xí)慣。因此C是答案。

　　2.A [解析]空格所在句子說(shuō)"財(cái)富在這里不是指金錢(qián)"。in this sense是"在這里的意義"，因此A是答案。相關(guān)短語(yǔ)in some sense指在某種意義上;在某種程度上。

　　3.B [解析]distribute分配，分布;contain包含，包括。空格所在句子說(shuō)"一個(gè)國(guó)家生產(chǎn)財(cái)富的能力依賴許多因素"，空格處需要一個(gè)動(dòng)詞，只有答案produce為生產(chǎn)之意，因此B為答案。

　　4.D [解析]空格處需要一個(gè)定語(yǔ)從句的引導(dǎo)詞，因此只能在that和which之間選擇。因?yàn)榭崭袂俺霈F(xiàn)了介詞of，因此排除that，只能選which。

　　5.B [解析]空格所在句子說(shuō)"財(cái)富在很大程度上依賴一個(gè)國(guó)家的自然資源"。to agreat extent在很大程度上。因此B為答案。

　　6.B [解析]eontriIrote貢獻(xiàn)，attract吸引?？崭袼诰渥?另外一些區(qū)域卻一個(gè)也沒(méi)有"，只有答案possess指擁有。

　　7.C [解析]空格所在句子說(shuō)"除了自然資源就屬利用自然資源的能力了"。空格處是動(dòng)詞，只有答案turn符合語(yǔ)意。因此C是答案。

　　8.D [解析]借助空格所在的語(yǔ)意"但遭受多年內(nèi)部和外部的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)"，判斷空格處需要 一個(gè)能與suffer搭配的介詞。suffer from構(gòu)成固定搭配。因此答案為D。

　　9.A [解析]空格所在句子說(shuō)"以及這樣或那樣的原因不能開(kāi)發(fā)它本身的資源"。根 據(jù)上下文判斷空格處的語(yǔ)意為"原因"，因此判斷A為答案。

　　10.A [解析]freedom自由，免除;liheration解放，釋放;prevention阻礙，妨礙;govern ment政府。空格所在的句子說(shuō)"健全而穩(wěn)定的政治條件和免受外國(guó)的侵略，使一個(gè)國(guó)家能夠 和平穩(wěn)定地開(kāi)發(fā)它的自然資源"。因此freedom為答案。

　　11.A [解析]空格所在的句子說(shuō)"并且比另外同樣受到大自然青睞但社會(huì)相對(duì)無(wú)序的國(guó)家生產(chǎn)更多的財(cái)富"。判斷空格處為"財(cái)富"，因此選A。

　　12.D [解析]provide提供，create創(chuàng)造?？崭袼诘木渥诱撌龅?一個(gè)國(guó)家的生活水平不只依賴于自己國(guó)內(nèi)生產(chǎn)和消耗的財(cái)富"。判斷空格處為"消耗"，因此D是答案。

　　13.C [解析]organization組織，機(jī)構(gòu)，團(tuán)體;resoirce資源;labor勞動(dòng)?？崭袼诘木渥诱f(shuō)"英國(guó)的食品和農(nóng)產(chǎn)品會(huì)很少"。判斷空格處為"產(chǎn)品"，因此選C。

　　14.B [解析]空格處是關(guān)系代詞，引導(dǎo)定語(yǔ)從句，在定語(yǔ)從句中作主語(yǔ)，因此B是答案。

　　15.D [解析]based基于，realized已實(shí)現(xiàn)，supposed假定的。空格所在的句子說(shuō)"因此，一個(gè)國(guó)家的財(cái)富更多受它的制造能力的影響，假如能夠發(fā)現(xiàn)其他國(guó)家準(zhǔn)備好要接受其產(chǎn)品的話"，判斷需要表示條件的引導(dǎo)詞，只有provided符合。

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