超星 - Unit 5 选词填空 - 查题吧

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Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Write the correct LETTER (填写单词的字母序号) for each blank. You may NOT use any of the words in the bank more than once.The detective story is probably the most respectable (at any rate in the narrow sense of the word) of the crime novel. Its creation is often the relaxation of university dons,(1) ___economists, scientists or even poets. Fatalities may occur more frequently and(2) _ than might be expected in polite society, but the world in which they happen, the village, seaside(3) _, college or studio, is familiar to us, if not from our own experience, at least in the newspaper or the lives of friends. The characters, though normally realized(4) _, are as recognizably human and consistent as our less intimate associates. A story set in a more remote environment, African jungle, or Australian bush, ancient China or gas-lit London,(5) _ to our interest in geography or history, and most detective story writers are conscientious in providing a reasonably authentic background. The(6) _, carefully-assembled plot,(7) _ by the modem intellectual critics and creators of significant novels, has found refuge in the murder mystery, with its sprinkling of clues, its spicing with apparent impossibilities, all with appropriate solutions and explanations at the end. With the guilt of(8) _ from Real Life, we secretly revel in the unmasking of evil by a vaguely super-human sleuth (侦探), who sees through and dispels the cloud of suspicion which has(9) _ so unjustly over the innocent. Therefore, with its common interest in lawbreaking but its immense range of subject matter and widely varying methods of treatment, the detective story could make a legitimate claim to be regarded as a separate branch of literature, or, at least, as a(10) ___ offshoot of the traditional novel.A. superficiallyB. appealsC. mysteriouslyD. despisedE. distinctF. elaborateG. literaryH. hoveredI. escapismJ. resortK. radicallyL. underestimateM. confidentialN. formulaO. indication

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absorbrestartingtrashresourcestrapped1) A lot of small problems can be solved by _____ your computer.2) There is _ everywhere on the ground, and the whole place smells terrible.3) Plants _ carbon dioxide from the air.4) There’s no way out! We’re _ in this wood!5) The area is rich in such _______ as mineral water hot springs.

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Banked Cloze（只填写正确答案序号）Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Water is life. We depend on it to keep us and the (1)___healthy. Nonetheless, many people take water as a natural resource for granted. Today, the situation has changed. As the population of the world increases, and with it the demand for water, there is growing concern that our water supplies will not be as (2) _ as we think. Eighty countries now have water shortages and 2 billion people lack access to clean water. One billion people lack enough water to simply meet their basic needs.While nearly 70 percent of the world is covered by water, only 2.5 percent of it is fresh. This tiny amount of fresh water available on the planet has remained fairly constant over time and is (3)_unevenly around the world. The growth of the world population, therefore, (4)_competition for a clean supply of water every year. Worse still, humans are not efficient users. According to the United Nations, water use has grown at more than twice the (5)_of population increase in the last century. The reality is that an increasing number of regions are (6)_with water scarcity. By 2025, two-thirds of the world’s population may face water shortages.An adequate and (7)_water supply is essential to the future of every country. To increase and conserve supplies of fresh water, many countries have been working at technological (8)_, one of which is in the process of desalination. New filtration systems have been developed to (9) _traditional heating methods. Thus the expected (10)___can be achieved: lower costs.

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