2008年考研英语完形填空试题练习
Exercises
Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A), B), C) or D) on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
Part 1
Industrial safety does not just happen. Companies __1__ low accident rates plan their safety programs, work hard to organize them, and continue working to keep them __2__ and active. When the work is well done, a __3__ of accident-free operations is established __4__ time lost due to injuries is kept at a minimum.
Successful safety programs may __5__ greatly in the emphasis placed on certain aspects of the program. Some place great emphasis on mechanical guarding. Others stress safe work practices by __6__ rules or regulations. __7__ others depend on an emotional appeal to the worker. But, there are certain basic ideas that must be used in every program if maximum results are to be obtained.
There can be no question about the value of a safety program. From a financial standpoint alone, safety __8__. The fewer the injury __9__, the better the workman’s insurance rate. This may mean the difference between operating at __10__ or at a loss.
1. A) at B) in C) on D) with
2. A) alive B) vivid C) mobile D) diverse
3. A) regulation B) climate C) circumstance D) requirement
4. A) where B) how C) what D) unless
5. A) alter B) differ C) shift D) distinguish
6. A) constituting B) aggravating C) observing D) justifying
7. A) Some B) Many C) Even D) Still
8. A) comes off B) turns up C) pays off D) holds up
9. A) claims B) reports C) declarations D) proclamations
10.A) an advantage B) a benefit C) an interest D) a profit
Part 2 (2001)
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases ___31___ the trial of Rosemary West.
In a significant ___32___ of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a ___33___ bill that will propose making payments to witnesses ___34___ and will strictly control the amount of ___35___ that can be given to a case ___36___ a trial begins.
In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he ___37___ with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not ___38___ sufficient control.
___39___ of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a ___40___ of media protest when he said the ___41___ of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges ___42___ to Parliament.
The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which ___43___ the European Convention on Human Rights legally ___44___ in Britain, laid down that everybody was ___45___ to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.
"Press freedoms will be in safe hands ___46___ our British judges," he said.
Witness payments became an ___47___ after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were ___48___ to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised ___49___ witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to ___50___ guilty verdicts.
31. A) as to B) for instance C) in particular D) such as
32. A) tightening B) intensifying C) focusing D) fastening
33. A) sketch B) rough C) preliminary D) draft
34. A) illogical B) illegal C) improbable D) improper
35. A) publicity B) penalty C) popularity D) peculiarity
36. A) since B) if C) before D) as
37. A) sided B) shared C) complied D) agreed
38. A) present B) offer C) manifest D) indicate
39. A) Release B) Publication C) Printing D) Exposure
40. A) storm B) rage C) flare D) flash
41. A) translation B) interpretatio
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