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【題目】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

You cannot maintain rising standards of living in a flattening world when you are up 【1】 competitors who are getting 【2】 their fundamentals (基本法則) right but also their intangibles (無形價值). China does not just want to get rich. It wants to get powerful. China doesn’t just want to learn how to make General Motors (GM) cars. It wants to be GM and put GM out of business. Anyone 【3】 doubts that should spend time with young Chinese.

Said Luis Rubio, president of Mexico’s Center of Research for Development, “The more self-confidence you have, the more it decreases your mythologies (神話，錯誤的觀點(diǎn)) and complexes. 【4】 of the great things about Mexico in the early 1990s was that Mexicans saw that they could do it, they could make it.” A lot of that self-confidence, though, 【5】lose) in Mexico in recent years, because the government stopped reforming. “A lack of self-confidence leads a country 【6】 (keep) chewing on the past,” added Rubio. “A lack of self-confidence [in Mexico] means that everyone in the country thinks the U. S. is going to take Mexico to the cleaners.” That is why North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was so important for Mexico’s self-confidence. “【7】 NAFTA accomplished was to get Mexicans to think forward and outward 【8】 inward and backward. [But] NAFTA was seen [by its architects] as an end more than a beginning. It was seen as the conclusion of a process of political and economic reforms. ” “Unfortunately,” he added, “Mexico did not have a strategy for a going forward.”

Will Rogers said it a long time ago: “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over 【9】 you just sit there. ” The 【10】 (flat) the world gets, that will happen. Mexico got itself on the right track with reform wholesale, but then, for a lot of tangible and intangible reasons, it just sat there and reform retail stopped. The more Mexico just sits there, The more it is going to get run over. And it won’t be alone.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】against

【2】not only

【3】who

【4】One

【5】has been lost

【6】to keep

【7】What

【8】instead of

【9】if

【10】flatter

【解析】

本文是一篇說明文，介紹了世界的扁平化形勢下的墨西哥的經(jīng)濟(jì)的現(xiàn)狀和出路。

【1】考查固定短語。句意：當(dāng)你面對的競爭對手不僅掌握了正確的基礎(chǔ)知識，而且還掌握了無形資產(chǎn)時，你不可能在一個扁平化的世界里維持不斷提高的生活水平。be up against表示“面對”，故填against。

【2】考查固定搭配。句意同上，根據(jù)句意以及下文的but also可知此處使用固定搭配not only… but also… 表示“不但……而且……”，故填not only。

【3】考查定語從句。句意：任何懷疑這一點(diǎn)的人都應(yīng)該花時間和中國年輕人在一起。此處為定語從句，先行詞是Anyone，指人，關(guān)系詞在從句中做主語，故填who。

【4】考查代詞。句意：20世紀(jì)90年代初，墨西哥的一件大事就是墨西哥人看到他們能做到�？蘸蟮�was表明主語為單數(shù)，one of表示“……之一”，故填One。

【5】考查時態(tài)語態(tài)。句意：然而，許多自信在最近幾年在墨西哥已經(jīng)消失了。self-confidence與lose之間是被動關(guān)系，再結(jié)合時間狀語“in recent years”可知用現(xiàn)在完成時的被動語態(tài)，故填has been lost。

【6】考查不定式。句意：缺乏自信導(dǎo)致一個國家不停地追憶過去。lead sb to do表示“使某人做某事”，故填to keep。

【7】考查主語從句。句意：北美自由貿(mào)易協(xié)定所完成的讓墨西哥人向前和向外思考，而不是向內(nèi)和向后思考。此處為主語從句，從句中的accomplished缺少賓語，故填What。

【8】考查介詞短語。句意同上，根據(jù)句意可知此處表示“而不是”，故填instead of。

【9】考查條件狀語從句。句意：即使你在正確的軌道上，如果你只是坐在那里，你也會被碾過。

根據(jù)句意可知此處表示一種條件，表示“如果”，故填if。

【10】考查形容詞比較級。句意：世界越扁平化，這種情況就會發(fā)生。此處有一個隱晦的比較意義，表示“比以前更扁平”，應(yīng)該用形容詞比較級形式，故填flatter。.