英语四级完形填空passage one.ppt

Passage one Passage one On July 7, 2005, London became the victim of a terrorist bombing, Britain’s worst 1 since World War Ⅱ. Four bombs 2 in three subway stations and on one double-decker bus during the morning rush hour, killing 52 and 3 more than 700. A group calling itself the Secret Organization of al-Qaeda in Europe 4 responsibility. A week later, on July 21, terrorists 5 another attack on the transit system, 6 the bombs failed to explode. The following day, London police shot and killed a Brazilian electrician on a subway train in what they said was a case of mistaken identity. It was 7 revealed that the 27-year-old had exhibited none of the 8 behavior attributed 9 him by the police. A leaked document by a top British government official warned Prim Minister Blair more than a year before the bombings that Britain’s engagement 10 Iraq was fueling Islamic extremism and the perception that the country was a “crusader state”, but Blair has 11 denied such a link, contending that the bombings were the result of an “evil ideology” that had taken 12 before the Iraq war. Blair, who was narrowly 13 to a third term as the country’s prime minister in May, proposed legislation that would toughen the country’s antiterrorism 14 . These include deporting individuals and 15 organizations that “foment, justify, or glorify terrorist violence”, and giving the police new powers to arrest terrorism 16 . Blair 17 his first major political defeat 18 prime minister in November, 19 his proposal that terrorist suspects could be held without charge for up to 90 days was 20 . 1. C。语篇和词汇辨析题。这句话的意思是“这是英国自二战以来遭受的最严重的袭击”，attack“攻击，进攻”，所以应选C。offense“进攻”，但它与句子主语应是主动关系，然而在这句话中英国是被袭击国，所以不能选此项。 2. B。词汇辨析题。这句话的意思是“四个炸弹分别在三个地铁站和一辆双层公共汽车上爆炸”，应选择表示“爆炸”的词。explode“爆炸”，所以选B。blow“使充气，爆炸，吹大”，它作“爆炸”解时修饰汽车轮胎之类的名词；burst out“大呼，惊叫，冲出，突然发作”，不符合题意；erupt“（尤指火山）爆发，剧烈活动”，不能用来修饰炸弹。 3. A。词汇辨析题。这