C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words （在短文的空格处填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）： （14分）
(A)
Whether it is “women and children first” or “every man for himlf” in a shipwreck may depend on how long it takes the ship to sink, rearchers said recently．
When the Lusitania was torpedoed (用鱼雷袭击) by a German ship in 1915, it sank in 18 minutes and the m__1__ of the survivors were young men and women who responded immediately to their powerful survival instincts．
But when the Titanic struck an iceberg in 1912, it t__2__ three hours to go down, allowing ti
me for more civilized behavior to take control--and the majority of the survivors were women, children and people with young children．
Economist Benno Torgler of the Queensland University of Technology in Australia and his colleagues studied the two sinkings in order to explore the economic theory that people generally behave in a “rational” and lfish manner. The two tragedies provided a “natural experiment” for testing the idea, becau the pasngers on the two ships were quite similar in t__3__ of gender and wealth．
The major difference was how long it took the ships to sink. They suggested that when people have l__4__ time to react, instincts may rule闺蜜生日祝福. When more time is available, social influences play a bigger role. But psychologists noted that many factors other than following social norms (社会规范)could come into play in a disaster, including an evolutionary urge to save the species, attachments that are formed between individuals during the event and the leadership of authority figures．
The extent of altruism（利他主义）and how it occurs “is a very controversial issue,” said
Anthony R. Mawson, a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He thinks the dominant respon was attachment behavior．
Psychologist Daniel Kruger of the University of Michigan, US thinks that the answer lies less in social norms and m笔友英语__5__ in our evolutionary heritage. Human beings have a deep instinct to prerve our kind, he said, and that means “people are more likely to s__6__ tho who have higher reproductive value, namely the young and women in child-bearing years”．
Kruger also stresd the importance of leadership during a disaster, noting that the Titanic’s captain appeared to have g__7__ control than the Lusitania’s．
【答案及解析】
1.majority/most
在收到袭击后，沉船的“大部分”生还者为年轻人。
2.took
泰坦尼克号在撞击冰山后，花了三个小时下沉。take three hours
3.terms
in terms of，在…方面。这里指两船在人员性别和财富等级方面都很相似。
4.little
与后文“more time”相呼应。这里指沉船用时的多与少之间的差异。
学校大门对联5.more
和前文的less相呼应。意为答案不在于社会规范，而是更多得在于人类发展的传承。
6.save
人们更倾向于去“拯救”那些生殖能力更高的人群。
7.greater
从后文的than可以发现这里是个形容词的比较级。根据句意不难推断答案是greater。
【词汇聚焦】
1. shipwreck n. 海难
2. survival instinct n. 生存本能
3. iceberg面积最大的大学 n. 冰山
4.芋头红烧肉 rational adj. 合理的
5. reproductive adj. 生殖的
【长难句解析】
1.But psychologists noted that many factors other than following social norms could come into play in a disaster, including an evolutionary urge to save the species, attachments that are formed between individuals during the event and the leadership of authority figures．
解析：
这里句子主语是psychologists，谓语是noted。后面则是一个结构相对复杂的宾语从句。从句主干是many factors could come into play in a disaster，即许多因素也在灾难中起着作用。这就是心理学家注意到的事情。后面则是补充说明这些因素包括了an evolutionary urge to save the species，即“拯救人类的进化型欲望”，以及一些attachments（附加产物）。这些附加产物是在事件中的个人和权威人士之间形成的。
【出题方向】
本文是相对来说是学生比较不熟悉的人文类题材。由于是比较生僻的灾难心理学话题，必然会不太贴近学生的日常生活。文章也会有一些比较专业的术语。这就要学生具备通过上
下文来推测专业术语的大概含义的能力，并能在有生词的环境下依然可以顺利解题。事实上本篇首字母的出题倾向于在前后文有线索的推断题。学生只要稍加思考，还是可以顺利解题的。
(B)
Employers in some unlikely places say they're having trouble filling jobs. Factory managers in HoChi Minh city report many of their $62-a-month workers went home for the Tet (越南春节) holiday in February and never c___1___百感交集的近义词 back. In Bulgaria, computer experts are in such demand that they can't be bothered to answer the want ads of a Los Angeles movie studio. And in Peoria, Caterpillar Inc. is struggling to train enough rvice technicians. The problem in each ca: not e___2___樱花诗 people who are both able and willing to do the work for the posted pay. "We've got a global problem and it's going to continue to get wor," says Stephen Hitch, a human resources manager at Caterpillar.
A global labor shortage, already being felt by some employers, appears to have worned in recent m___3___. That's in spite of widely publicized layoffs, including Citigr
oup's plans to dismiss as many as 15,000 staff. In fact, U. S. unemployment remains low—just 4.5% in February---and even companies in countries with higher jobless rates are feeling under great pressure. "It's not just a U. phenomenon,” says Jeffery , CEO of Manpower Inc., the staffing agency. On March 29, Manpower was to relea the results of a survey of nearly 37,000 employers in 27 countries. The study found that 41% of them are having trouble h___4___ people they need.
What's going on here? With global growth running at a strong 5% a year since 2004, the strategies that companies d___5___ to hold down labor costs—including offshoring (境外生产) work to low-wage countries—are running out of gas far sooner than many expected. The emingly盲人英语
