作者：王振祥
Many of the world's pollution problems have been caused by the crowding of large groups of people into cities. Supply for the __1__ of the people leads to__2__ pollution by industry. If the __3__ increase in human population __4__ at the present rate, there may be much greater harm. Some scientists speak of the __5__ in number of people as "population pollution".
About 2000 years ago, the world__6__ was probably about 250 million. __7__ reached a billion in 1850. By 1930 the population was two billion. It is __8__ three and a half billion. It is __9__ to double by the year 2000. If the population continues to grow at the same __10__, __11__ would be 25 billion people in the world a hundred years from now.
Man has been using the earth's__12__ more and more rapidly over the years. Some of them are almost __13__. Now many people believe that man's greatest__14__ is how to control the growth of his population. The __15__ in the world will not support the human population, in time to come, if the __16__ rate of increase continues. __17__ there is overcrowding in the __18__ and hunger in some countries. Can man's rate of increase continue? Many people believe that human survival (幸存者) in the future__19__ on the answer __20__ the question.
1. A. needs B. satisfies C. service D. lacks
2. A. farther B. less C. further D. better
3. A. harmful B. small C. slow D. rapid
4. A. stops B. continues C. slows down D. speeds up
5. A. increase B. reduce C. quality D. quantity
6. A. people B. situation C. population D. land
7. A. They B. You C. We D. It
8. A. now B. in the past C. in the future D. then
9. A. hoped B. expected C. wished D. looked forward to
10. A. place B. time C. rate D. result
11. A. it B. there C. they D. that
12. A. coal B. oil C. mines D. resources
13. A. missed B. rich C. gone D. enough
14. A. problem B. power C. plan D. idea
15. A. food B. electricity C. energy D. materials
16. A. past B. present C. future D. slow
17. A. Already B. Yet C. Still D. Often
18. A. villages B. mountains C. cities D. farms
19. A. grows B. lives C. keeps D. depends
20. A. in B. of C. to D. with
[答案与解析]
1. A。供应人们必需品,应选needs。2. C。导致进一步或更大程度的污染,应选further。3. D。从后文increase和present rate来看应选速度。4. B 5. A。根据本文重点词"人口增长"的重复,重述应选increase。6. C 7. D。根据上下文的指代关系此处应用It。8. A。这一节主要讲过去的人口状况、现在的人口状况以及未来的情况。所以,应选now。9. B。根据意义选择词汇,"预计在2000年人口要翻倍",应选expected。10. C。根据上文的at the present rate,本题应选rate。11. B。此处为there be句型。 12. D。人类一直在使用地球的资源,而不仅仅是石油和煤,应选resources。13. C 14. A。根据下文"怎样控制人口的增长"应选problem,因为这的确是最大难题。15. D。不仅仅是食物、电和能源而且还有许多东西不能满足人口的增长,应该选materials。16. B 17. A 18. C 19. D。depend on意为"依靠、依赖"。20. C。to表示所属关系,常与answer, entrance等名词连用。
完型填空练与析
作者：常明
Every Chinese-language textbook starts out with the standard phrases for greeting people; but as an American, I always found myself __1__ to speak freely when it came to seeing guests off at the door. Just a good-bye would not do, yet that was all I had ever learned from the __2__ books. So I would smile and nod, bowing like a Japanese and searching madly for words that would __3__ over the visitor's leaving and make them feel they would be __4__ to come again. In my unease, I often hid behind the skirts of my Chinese husband's kindness.
Then finally, listening to others, I began to pick up the phrases that __5__ relationships and sent people off not only successfully but also skillfully.
__6__ for the Chinese includes a lot of necessary habitual practice. Although as a __7__ , I'm not expected to observe or even know all the rules, I've had to learn the expressions of politeness and __8__ at a leave-taking.
The Chinese feel they __9__ see a guest off to the farthest possible point-down the flight of stairs to the street below or perhaps all the way to the __10__ bus stop. I've sometimes waited half an hour or more for my husband to return from seeing a guest off, __11__ he's gone to the bus stop and waited for the __12__ bus to arrive.
That's very well, but when I'm the guest being seen off, my protests are always __13__. My hostess or host, or both, insists on __14__ me down the stairs and well on my way, with my repeating the "Don't __15__ to see me off at the every landing". If I try to go fast to __16__ them from following, they are simply out to the discomfort of having to run after me. Better to accept the inevitable (不可避免的事).
Besides, that's going against Chinese __17__ , because haste (doing things quickly) is to be avoided. What do you say when you __18__ someone? Not "Farewell or Godspeed (祝福)", __19__"Go slowly". To the Chinese it means "Take care" or "Watch your __20__ ", or some such caution(谨慎), but translated literally (字面上地) it means "Go slowly".
1. A. easy B. difficult C. unable D. effective
2. A. useful B. terrible C. priceless D. proper
3. A. smooth B. talk C. calm D. take
4. A. content B. ready C. welcome D. eager
5. A. speeded B. broke C. destroyed D. eased
6. A. Parting B. Leaving C. Separating D. Interviewing
7. A. wife B. guest C. hostess D. foreigner
8. A. protest B. refuse C. explain D. state
9. A. can B. will C. may D. must
10. A. farthest B. nearest C. easiest D. shortest
11. A. although B. unless C. if D. since
12. A. fastest B. first C. next D. last
13. A. effective B. unnecessary C. useless D. troublesome
14. A. leading B. seeing C. inviting D. pushing
15. A. trouble B. have C. decide D. walk
16. A. protect B. keep C. discourage D. dismiss
17. A. rule B. custom C. design D. opinion
18. A. meet with B. talk with C. part from D. call on
19. A. and B. or C. but D. even
20. A. foot B. health C. shoe D. step
【答案与解析】
1. C。该空逻辑主语为myself,因此不能填difficult,不是我难说,而是我不会说。2. B 3. A 4. C 5. D。 ease relationships的意思是"润滑人际关系"。6. A。parting意为"分手,告别"。 7. D 8. A。该空表婉言拒绝客人送行,应填protest,第13空前面的protests是一个验证。9. D 10. B 11. D 。since表原因。12. C 13. C 14. B。 本文主题就是围绕给朋友送行展开的。15. A。Don't trouble to do sth. 意为"不必麻烦去做某事"。16. B。keep sb. doing sth. 意为"阻止某人做某事"。 17. B 18. C。part from sb. 意为"与某人分手"。19. C。not...but..."不是......而是......"。20. D。watch one's step意为"留心脚下;谨慎小心"。