重庆2020年部队职称英语理工类考试考前冲刺练习完形填空

　　Shopping for Clothes

　　Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in __1__. He knows what he wants,and his __2__ is to find it and buy it. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock,the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes,with hardly any chat and to everyone‘s __3__.

　　For a man,slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants. In that __4__ the salesman tries to sell the customer something else - he offers the nearest to the article required. Good salesman brings out such a substitute with __5__： "I know this jacket is not the style you want,sir,but would you like to try it for size. It __6__ to be the colour you mentioned." Few men have __7__ with this treatment,and the usual response is： "This is the right colour and may be the right size,but I should be __8__ my time and yours by trying it on."

　　For a woman,buying clothes is always done in the __9__ way. Her shopping is not often __10__ on need. She has never fully decided what she wants,and she is only "having a look round". She is always open to persuasion,willing to try __11__ any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that __12__ thinks suits her. Most women have an excellent sense of value and are always on the look-out for the unexpected __13__. Faced with a roomful of dresses,a woman nay easily spend an hour going from one rail to another __14__ selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a tiresome process,but apparently a(n) __15__one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.

　　EXERCISE：

　　1. A) detail B) advance C) hurry D) full

　　2. A) objective B) need C) dream D) reason

　　3. A) sadness B) amusement C) surprise D) satisfaction

　　4. A) time B) event C) case D) situation

　　5. A) care B) skill C) attention D) interest

　　6. A) happens B) is C) changes D) comes

　　7. A) experience B) is C) interest D) patience

　　8. A) losing B) wasting C) spending D) giving

　　9. A) same B) similar C) opposite D) clever

　　10. A) relied B) done C) related D) based

　　11. A) on B) with C) by D) people

　　12. A) nobody B) someone C) surprise D) everyone

　　13. A) deal B) bargain C) surprise D) people

　　14. A) before B) after C) as D) by

　　15. A) exhausting B) boring C) enjoyable D) graceful

　　Key： BADCBADBCDADBAC

　　The central problem of economics is to satisfy the people's and nation's wants.

　　The problem we are faced with is that our resources,here identified as money,are __1__. The only way we can resolve our problem is to make choices. After looking at our resources,we must examine our list of __2__ and identify the things we need immediately,those we can postpone,and __3__ we cannot afford. As individuals,we face the central problem involved in economics-deciding just how to allocate our limited our limited resources to provide __4__ with the greatest satisfaction of our wants.

　　Nations face the same problem. As a country's population ___5__,the need for more goods and services grows correspondingly. Resources necessary to production may increase,but there __6__ are enough resources to satisfy the total desires of a nation. Whether the budget meeting is taking place in the family living room,in the conference room of the corporation __7__ of directors,or in the chamber of the House of Representatives in Washington,the basic problem still exists. We need to find __8__ of allocating limited resources in order to satisfy unlimited wants.

　　A short time ago economists divided goods into two categories,free and economic. The former,like air and water,were in __9__ abundance that economists had no concern for them. After all,economics is the __10__ of scarcity and what to do about it. Today many of these "free goods" are __11__ very expensive to use. Pollution has made clean air and water expensive for producers' extra costs,and __12__ taxpayers who pay for the government's involvement in cleaning the environment.

　　In the 1990s,almost all goods are __13__. Only by effort and money __14__ obtained in the form people wish.

　　Meeting needs of people and the demands from resource available __15__ the basic activity of production. In trying to meet unlimited wants from limited economic goods,production leads to new problems in economics.

　　EXERCISE：

　　1. A) limited B) unlimited C) scarcity D) abundant

　　2. A) want B) problem C) wants D) resources

　　3. A) those B) some C) others D) many

　　4. A) them B) themselves C) ourselves D) ours

　　5. A) expand B) extends C) grows D) increase

　　6. A) always B) sometimes C) often D) never

　　7. A) management B) function C) board D) group

　　8. A) people B) economists C ) way D) methods

　　9. A) so B) great C) such D) such an

　　10. A) form B) study C) means D) source

　　11. A) practically B) in practice C)in reality D) practicably

　　12. A) the B) / C) for D) with

　　13. A) plentiful B) scarce C) abundant D) in full supply

　　14. A) they can be B) can they be C) they must be D) must they be

　　15. A) are led to B) leads C) lead to D) leads to

　　KEY：

　　A C A C C D C D C B C C B B D