[填空题]Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
During the past ten years (26) attention has been given to "telling it like it is". My impression is that this devotion to (27) one’s mind has more often led to hurt feelings and ruined relationships than (28) great joy.
I think we generally agree that never expressing real feelings and (29) all less-than-lovely thoughts about each other always leads to constructive communication. It’s a great (30) to allow ourselves to admit our human weaknesses and pursue more honest relationships with others. (31) we need to keep a balance between telling it all and telling nothing.
Recently I received a letter from a mother who had been (32) by her son to attend a weekend meeting with him. Under
A. A．preventing
B．withholding
C．to prevent
D．to withhold

[填空题]Part 3
Questions 19-25
·Read the following passage and answer questions 19-25.
·For questions 19-25, choose the correct answer A, B, C and D.
·Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.
While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states, at least UN is getting people off welfare, lt’s estimated that more than two million have left the roles since 1994.
In the past four years, welfare in rolls in Athens country has been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than $6 an hour. The result: The Athens country poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent—twice the national average.
For advocates for the poor, that’s an indication that much more needs to be done.
"More people are getting jobs, but it’s not making their lives any better," says Kathy Lairn, a policy analyst at the center in budget and policy pr
A. A．the poor used to rely on government aid
B．the poverty rate was lower
C．the average worker was paid higher wages
D．average living standards were higher

[填空题]Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and decide which answer bestfits each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
The "standard of living" of any country means the (26) person’s share of the goods and services which the country produces. A country’s standard of living, therefore depends (27) and foremost on its capacity to produce wealth. "Wealth" in this (28) is not money, for we do not live on money (29) on things that money can buy: "goods" such as food and clothing, and "services" such as (30) and "entertainment".
A country’s capacity to produce wealth depends upon many factors, most of which have an effect (31) one another. Wealth depends (32) a great extent upon a country’s natural resources. Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have a (33) soil
A. A．except
B．but
C．neither
D．besides