2020年军队职称英语综合类A级完形填空习题一

　　The American Family

　　In the American family the husband and wife usually share important decision making. When the children are old enough, they take part__1__.

　　Foreigners are often surprised by the permissiveness of American parents. The old rule that "children should be seen and not heard" is rarely__2__, and children are often allowed to do what they wish without strict parental__3__. The father seldom expects his children to obey him__4__ question, and children are encouraged to be independent__5__ an early age. Some people believe that American parents carry this freedom__6__ far. Others think that a strong father image would not__7__ the American values of equality and independence. Because Americans emphasize the importance of independence, young people are expected to __8__ their parental families by the time they have__9__ their late teens or early twenties.__10__, not to do so is often regarded as a failure, a kind of weak dependence.

　　This pattern of independence often results in serious__11__ for the aging parents of a small family. The average American is expected to live __12__ the age of 70. The job-retirement age is __13__ 65. The children have left home, married, and __!4__ their own households. At least 20 percent of all people over 65 do not have enough retirement incomes.__15__ the major problem of many elderly couples is not economic. They feel useless and lonely with neither an occupation nor a close family group.

　　1.A) either B) though C) as well D) also

　　2.A) discussed B) followed C) seen D) heard

　　3. A) control B) support C) agreement D) criticism

　　4. A) for B) on C) without D) in

　　5. A) in B) at C) on D) for

　　6. A) too B) almost C) nearly D) quite

　　7. A) fit B) meet C) suit D) satisfy

　　8. A) break up B) break into C) break through D) break away from

　　9.A) reached B) come C) arrived D) D) developed

　　10.A) In truth B) In name C) Indeed D) In a word

　　11.A) questions B) problems C) matters D) affairs

　　12.A) on B) up C) from D) beyond

　　13.A) only B) usually C) sometimes D) seldom

　　14.A) set forth B) set aside C) set up D) set down

　　15.A) But B) Therefore C) In contrast D) On the other hand

　　key: CBACB ACDAC BDBCA

　　Racial Prejudice

　　In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violence has been taken for granted as a means of solving differences; and this is not even questioned. There are countries ___1___ the white man imposes his rule by brute force; there are countries where the black man protests by __2__ fire to cities and by looting and pillaging. Important people on both sides, who would in other respects appear to be __3__ men, get up and calmly argue __4__ violence- --as if it were a legitimate solution, like any other. What is really frightening, what really fills you __5__ despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch, we have made no actual progress __6__. We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our instincts remain basically unchanged. The whole of the __7__ history of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence, has taught us absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that violence never __8__ a problem but makes it more acute. The sheer horror, the bloodshed and the suffering __9__ nothing. No solution ever comes to light the morning after when we dismally contemplate the smoking ruins and wonder __10_ hit us.

　　The truly reasonable men who know where the solutions __11__ are finding it harder and harder to get a hearing. They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted by their own __12__ because they advocate such apparently outrageous things __13__ law enforcement. If half the energy that goes into violent acts were __14__, if our efforts were directed at cleaning up the slums and ghettos, at improving living-standards and providing education and employment __15__ all, we would have gone a long way to arriving at a solution.

　　EXERCISE:

　　1. A) where B) that C) which D) who

　　2. A) giving B) catching C) setting D) letting

　　3. A) reasonable B) reasonably C) reasonless D) reason

　　4. A) for the sake of B) for fear of C) in case of D) in favor of

　　5. A) for B) with C) by D ) up

　　6. A) at all B) after all C) at last D) in the end

　　7. A) record B) recording C) recorded D) records

　　8. A) keeps B) deals C) answers D) solves

　　9. A) meant B) mean C) is meaning D) are meaning

　　10. A) what B) that C) / D) which

　　11. A) lay B) lays C) lie D) lies

　　12. A) kind B) way C) right D) rule

　　13. A) like B) so C) that D) as

　　14. A) put to use good B0 put to good use C0 put good to use D) good put to use

　　15. A) by B) at C) for D) with

　　KEY:A C A D B A C D B A C A D B C