【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.

It’s never easy to admit the mistakes you make, but doing so is an important step toward moving forward.

National Geographic magazine recently published an article with the title “For decades, our coverage was racist. To rise above our past, we【1】 acknowledge it.” It was written by the magazine’s editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg, the first woman and first Jewish person 【2】(hold) the position. National Geographic has acknowledged that its coverage of black and minority ethnic people in America and the wider world had been historically racist, frequently promoting caricatures (諷刺畫(huà)) of the “noble savage (野蠻人)” and barely 【3】 (feature) the US’s minority ethnic population.

According to Goldberg, the 130-year-old publication’s April issue “explores how race defines, separates, and unites us”. In honor of 50 years since the killing of Martin Luther King,【4】 is known for fighting racial inequality in the US, the issue is devoted to race.

The population republished a number of examples of historical racism in its coverage. One 1916 article about Australia included a photo of two Indigenous Australians with the caption: “South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank 【5】 (low) in intelligence of all human beings.”

To review its previous coverage of race, Goldberg asked University of Virginia John Edwin Mason to look back at the magazine’s text, choice of subjects, and photograph of people of color from the US and abroad. “Until the 1970s, National Geographic all but ignored people of color who lived in the United States, rarely acknowledging【6】 beyond laborers or domestic workers,” Goldberg wrote about Mason’s findings. “Meanwhile, it pictured ‘natives’ elsewhere 【7】 exotics, famously and frequently unclothed, happy hunters, noble savages.”

Mason also found that the magazine often ran photos of “uncivilized” natives【8】 (amaze) by “civilized” Western technology.

In recent years, however, the magazine has improved. For example, in a 2015 project, National Geographic gave cameras to young people in the Caribbean country of Haiti and asked them to shoot pictures of their everyday lives.

“The coverage wasn’t right before 【9】 it was told from a white American point of view, and I think it speaks to exactly 【10】 we needed a diversity of storytellers,” Goldberg told the Associated Press.

【答案】

【1】must

【2】to hold

【3】not featuring

【4】who

【5】the lowest

【6】those

【7】as

【8】amazed

【9】in that

【10】everyone

【解析】

這是一篇說(shuō)明文。承認(rèn)自己所犯的錯(cuò)誤從來(lái)都不是一件容易的事，但是這樣做是向前邁進(jìn)的重要一步�！秶�(guó)家地理》雜志最近發(fā)表了一篇題為《幾十年來(lái)，我們的報(bào)道都是種族主義的》的文章。要超越我們的過(guò)去，我們必須承認(rèn)它。并介紹了《國(guó)家地理》雜志中具體的關(guān)于種族主義的事例。

【1】考查情態(tài)動(dòng)詞。句意：要超越我們的過(guò)去，我們必須承認(rèn)它。根據(jù)空格后面為動(dòng)詞原形，因此推測(cè)出此處應(yīng)填情態(tài)動(dòng)詞，再觀察上下文的語(yǔ)氣強(qiáng)烈，前面to rise引導(dǎo)出的目的狀語(yǔ)也表明此處填must為最佳。故填must。

【2】考查非謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞。句意：這篇文章是由該雜志主編蘇珊·戈德堡撰寫(xiě)的，她是擔(dān)任該職位的第一位女性和第一位猶太人。因空格前兩個(gè)序數(shù)詞first可推測(cè)出需要to do不定式修飾，因此填to hold。

【3】考查固定用法。句意：《國(guó)家地理》承認(rèn)，它對(duì)美國(guó)乃至全世界黑人和少數(shù)族裔的報(bào)道在歷史上一直帶有種族主義色彩，經(jīng)常宣傳對(duì)“高貴的野蠻人”的漫畫(huà)，幾乎不涉及美國(guó)的少數(shù)族裔人口。根據(jù)上文frequently以及barely, 可見(jiàn)此處還應(yīng)有一個(gè)not 否定詞，雙重否定來(lái)表示肯定，因此填not featuring。

【4】考查定語(yǔ)從句連接詞。句意：為了紀(jì)念馬丁·路德·金被殺50周年，這個(gè)問(wèn)題的主題是種族。馬丁·路德·金以反對(duì)美國(guó)的種族不平等而聞名。本句為定語(yǔ)從句修飾先行詞Martin Luther King，且先行詞在從句中做主語(yǔ)，指人，因此填who。

【5】考查形容詞最高級(jí)。句意：1916年的一篇關(guān)于澳大利亞的文章中有兩名澳大利亞土著人的照片，并配以文字說(shuō)明:“南澳大利亞黑人:這些野人的智商在所有人類(lèi)中最低。”根據(jù)下文of all human beings,可知上文是批評(píng)對(duì)本土澳洲人的歧視，因此填low的最高級(jí)，the lowest。

【6】考查代詞。句意：“直到20世紀(jì)70年代，《國(guó)家地理》雜志幾乎都忽略了生活在美國(guó)的有色人種，除了勞工和家庭傭工之外，很少承認(rèn)其他人種，”戈德堡在談到梅森的發(fā)現(xiàn)時(shí)寫(xiě)道。此處指代上文中提到的laborers 和 workers之外的有色人種，且為復(fù)數(shù)，因此填those。

【7】考查固定短語(yǔ)。句意：“與此同時(shí)，它把其他地方的‘原住民’描繪成異類(lèi)，他們以經(jīng)常赤身裸體、快樂(lè)的獵人和高貴的野蠻人而聞名。”固定短語(yǔ)picture...as...“把……描繪成……”，因此填as。

【8】考查非謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞。句意：梅森還發(fā)現(xiàn)，該雜志經(jīng)�？�“未開(kāi)化”的當(dāng)?shù)厝吮?/span>“開(kāi)化”的西方科技震驚的照片。amaze在句中做非謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞與邏輯主語(yǔ)natives構(gòu)成被動(dòng)，因此填過(guò)去分詞amazed。

【9】考查短語(yǔ)。句意：戈德堡在接受美聯(lián)社采訪(fǎng)時(shí)表示:“之前的報(bào)道是不正確的，因?yàn)樗菑拿绹?guó)白人的角度來(lái)講述的，我認(rèn)為它準(zhǔn)確地反映了我們需要多樣化的故事講述者的每一個(gè)人。”空格前后為因果關(guān)系，因此填in that。

【10】考查代詞。句意同上。speak to后應(yīng)跟一個(gè)對(duì)象，表示“每一個(gè)人”，因此最佳答案是everyone。

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