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【題目】C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.

Anxiety is the appropriate emotion when the personal terror – of a volcano, an arrow, a stab(刺傷) in the back and other disasters, all directed against one’s self – d【1】.

The kind of world that produces anxiety is actually a world of relative s【2】, a world in which no one feels that he himself is facing sudden death. The anxiety exists as an uneasy state of mind, in which one has a feeling that something unspecified(不具體的) and indeterminable may go wrong. If the world seems to be going well, this produces anxiety – for good times may end. If the world is going badly – it may get w【3】. Anxiety tends to be without f【4】; the anxious person doesn’t know whether to blame himself or other people. He isn’t sure whether it is the current year of the administration or a change in climate or the atom bomb that is to blame for this undefined sense of unease.

It is clear that we have developed a society which depends on having the right amount of anxiety to make it work. W【5】 we agree that too much anxiety is harmful to mental health, we have come to rely on anxiety to push us into seeing a doctor about a symptom which may indicate cancer, into checking up on that old life insurance policy which may have out-of-date terms in it, into having a conference with our child’s teacher even though his report card looks all right.

People who are anxious enough keep their car insurance up, have the brakes checked, don’t take a drink when they have to drive. People who are too anxious either r【6】 to go into cars – and so complicate the ordinary course of life – or drive so tensely and carefully that they help avoid accidents. People who aren’t anxious enough take their c【7】, which increases the terrible accidents of the roads.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】disappears

【2】safety

【3】worse

【4】focus

【5】while

【6】refuse

【7】chance

【解析】

文章介紹了人類焦慮的來源、焦慮的表現(xiàn)，以及焦慮患者生活中的各種影響。

【1】句意：焦慮是迫在眉睫的個(gè)人恐懼——一切直接針對(duì)人身的災(zāi)禍，如火山爆發(fā)、箭、術(shù)士的符咒、背后捅一刀——消失后才出現(xiàn)的一種相宜的情緒。

根據(jù)課文，焦慮應(yīng)該是針對(duì)人身的災(zāi)禍消失后才出現(xiàn)。disappear消失，結(jié)合句子主語emotion，故答案為disappears。

【2】句意：產(chǎn)生焦慮的世界實(shí)際上是一個(gè)相對(duì)安全的世界。

根據(jù)后面的句子“a world in which no one feels that he himself is facing sudden death.” 一個(gè)沒有人覺得自己面臨突然死亡的世界�？赏茰y(cè)前面說的這個(gè)世界應(yīng)該是相對(duì)安全的世界。故答案為safety。

【3】句意：如果世界變得糟糕——情況可能會(huì)變得更糟。

根據(jù)“If the world seems to be going well, this produces anxiety – for good times may end.”如果世界似乎進(jìn)展順利，這就會(huì)產(chǎn)生焦慮——因?yàn)槊篮玫臅r(shí)光可能會(huì)結(jié)束。接著說“If the world is going badly……”如果世界變得更糟……。可推知，焦慮情緒可能會(huì)變得更糟糕。get worse變得更糟。故答案為worse。

【4】句意：焦慮往往沒有固定性。

根據(jù)后文“the anxious person doesn’t know whether to blame himself or other people.”焦慮的人不知道是該責(zé)備自己還是責(zé)備別人。說明焦慮往往沒有固定性。focus焦點(diǎn)。故答案為focus。

【5】句意：雖然我們同意太多的焦慮對(duì)心理健康有害。

根據(jù)后句“we have come to rely on anxiety to push us into seeing a doctor ……into checking up on that old life insurance policy ……into having a conference with our child’s teacher even though his report card looks all right.” “但我們已經(jīng)開始依賴焦慮來促使我們?nèi)タ瘁t(yī)生……檢查舊的人壽保險(xiǎn)政策……甚至與孩子的老師開一個(gè)會(huì)議，盡管他的成績(jī)單看起來還不錯(cuò)�！笨芍�，焦慮會(huì)促使我們?nèi)プ鲆恍┦虑�，和前句有轉(zhuǎn)折的關(guān)系。while盡管。故答案為while。

【6】句意：那些過于焦慮的人要么拒絕開車——這讓日常生活變得如此復(fù)雜。

根據(jù)“or drive so tensely and carefully that they help avoid accidents” “要么開車過于緊張和小心，以至于有助于避免事故。”根據(jù)“either…or…”可推測(cè)出前面的句子是說，焦慮的人要么就拒絕開車。故答案為refuse。

【7】句意：不夠焦慮的人會(huì)冒險(xiǎn)，這增加了道路上可怕的事故。

根據(jù)take one’s chance冒險(xiǎn)，碰運(yùn)氣。故答案為chance。