四级练习(选词填空、仔细阅读、完形填空)_08级.doc

第三章 Directions; In this section, there are 10 passages. For each passage, there are 10 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. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Passage 1 Our first deep companionship is found in family relationships. If we are __1__, we bond to a parent (if we are even more fortunate, we bond to both parents) and siblings (兄妹). We may also have the opportunity to find loving relationships with family outside our __2__ one—with an uncle or aunt, __3__, and cousins. As deeply loving as any of these bonds may be, however, they generally do not __4__ loneliness as effectively as marriage and __5__ do, because most family relationships are time-bound. When we become adults, most of us spend much __6__ time with our parents, grandparents, uncles, and aunts than we did as __7__. Indeed, the nature of the child-parent relationship is such that if it is healthy, we do not spend as much time with our parents when we grow up. Family relationships are limited by __8__ for another reason — as we get older, our older relatives begin to die. Of course, neither of these reasons __9__ to siblings, and many people do develop ongoing loving relationships with a sibling. This is not the rule, however. Brothers and sisters have not been known for the closeness of their relationships — even when they love each other. If we start out life with loving family relationships, our chances for happiness are incalculably increased. It is almost impossible to overstate the importance of those __10__ . But as we get older, other relationships usually provide greater opportunities for intimacy because they are not time-bound, and these are relationships with peers. Passage 2 One of the advantages of living i