考博英语-完型填空(二)
(总分30, 做题时间90分钟)
Passage 1
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choo the best answer for each blank .
A gray-haired woman walks carefully (1) a windswept field. She holds a Yshaped tree branch in front of her, one fork of the Y in each hand and the free end, (2) straight ahead. Suddenly she (3) . Then she goes no further. Something ems to be pulling the free end of the branch downward so that it points (4) the earth. "This is it!" shouts the woman, and beckons to the driver of a well-digging machine waiting at the roadside. Soon, excavating thirty feet (5) , the well-digger strikes water.
How can this woman know where there is (6) underground? She is a dowr-one who b
elieves that a forked stick or similar instrument will move (7) when the person holding it is standing above underground water, oil, or certain metal ores.
Is dowsing (8) ? It has been (9) around the world for centuries. Though many scoff at it as mere superstition, it has an impressive record of (10) . In Europe, it is **mon in England. German tin miners brought dowsing to Cornwall, England, almost 400 years ago, and some Cornish miners (11) dow today.
Eyewitness reports em to (12) the dowr's claims. Recently in Plymouth, England, repair workers were able to locate the entire length of a winding underground gas main by dowsing, using a "branch" (13) copper wires. A British army major, O. A. Pogson, was named official water diviner (dowr) in India. He (14) water at 128 of 130 sites. Later, back in England, he water-dowd for years with over ninety percent (15) . Dowrs found much of the water that irrigates the once-arid California farmlands. An Australian woman, Evelyn Penro, has been able to divine many valuable oil deposits.
Some scientists (16) that dowsing is just a matter of luck or of the dowr's knowledge of geology (dowrs may recognize land features that usually occur over water or ore de
posits ). Other (17) feel that they posss extra-nsory perception (ESP). Still others say that dowrs, like some animals, are unusually (18) to certain radiations from the earth. Who are right—the (19) or their critics? One way to find out is to get yourlf a forked tree branch and start (20) .
1.
A. across B. cross
C. besides D. at
A B C D
2.
A. pointed B. to point
C. pointing D. points
A B C D
3.
A. objects B. surrenders
C. collaps D. interrupts
A B C D
4.
A. inward B. toward
C. outward D. backward
A B C D
5.
A. down B. up
C. along D. with
A B C D
6.
A. something B. fire
C. salt D. water
A B C D
7.
A. at ea
B. in short
C. by itlf
D. on its own
A B C D
8.
A. likely B. possible
C. able D. perhaps
A B C D
9.
A. practid B. rved
C. planted D. required
A B C D
10.
A. failure B. defeat
C. defen D. success
A B C D
11.
A. yet B. but
C. still D. or
A B C D
12.
A. deny
B. support
C. ignore
D. misunderstand
A B C D
13.
A. made of B. made tip
C. made out D. made by
A B C D
14.
A. boiled B. polluted
C. located D. drank
A B C D
15.
A. mistake B. degree
C. dependence D. accuracy
A B C D
16.
A. open B. speak
C. claim D. keep
A B C D
17.
A. experts
B. relatives
C. citizens
D. performers
A B C D
18.
A. happy B. nsitive
C. sharp D. sad
A B C D
19.
A. scientists
B. mesngers
C. dowrs
D. women
A B C D
20.
A. dancing B. jumping
C. getting D. walking
A B C D
Passage 2
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choo the best answer for each blank .
It looks like a great big cigar, (1) it is really a dangerous saltwater fish called barracuda. This (2) fish has a narrow body which grows to be from four to six feet long. However it may reach ten feet in (3) ! The barracuda looks very much (4) the pike, a freshwater fish.
Although the barracuda is not related (5) the pike, it is like that freshwater fish in being a fearless fighter. The barracuda has a large mouth and strong jaws that hold knifelike (6) . When attacking or defending (7) the barracuda moves like lightning. It usually feeds on other fish. But it has been known to (8) swimmers. No wonder it is called "the tiger of the a" !
The barracuda is usually found in warm, tropical as or (9) . The most dangerous kind, the great barracuda, is found off the (10) of Florida, Bermuda, and the West Indies. (11) caught for food live in the warm waters off the coast of California and Australia.
To (12) its enemies, the barracuda can camouflage itlf. It does this by taking on the color of its (13) . Its back changes from light brownish green (14) deep blue, its sides sparkle with silvery tones, and its belly is chalky white. The barracuda's tail and fins may
be greenish yellow or gray.
Bright eyes flash as it roams the (15) . When it rests on the sandy ocean floor, it becomes ahnost (16) as long as it stays quite still. Even when it prowls around a coral reef, it is difficult to spot, even in (17) water. People who (18) for sport try to excite the barracuda to move by tying a long, white rag behind their moving boat. However, they are often (19) . But they never give up trying to trick "the (20) of the a\
