考研英语完型填空全真模拟题(一)
Passage 1 Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In the 21 he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and there are few things 22 he stands in more fear than of the 23 of noise. Even his conversation is 24 a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful silence. If he is introduced to a fellow mortal and a number of 25 occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of 26 of the emptiest-headed chatterbox. He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means 27 the buzzing of a fly, but he longs to join in the buzz and to prove that he is man and not a wax-work 28 . The object of conversation is not, 29 the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to 30 the buzzing sound. Most buzzing, 31 , is agreeable to the ear, and some of it is agreeable even to the 32 . He would be a foolish man, however, 33 waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors. Those who 34 the weather as a conversational opening seem to be 35 of the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation 36 the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are 37 if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears, though they have nothing to tell them 38 they have seen a new play. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing at immense 39 , they justly 40 themselves on their success as conversationalists.
21.
| [A] intervention
| [B] interval
| [C] eclipse
| [D] meantime
| 22.
| [A] of which
| [B] in which
| [C] with which
| [D] by which
| 23.
| [A] presence
| [B] abundance
| [C] existence
| [D] absence
| 24.
| [A] in great measure
| [B] in brief
| [C] all in all
| [D] at least
| 25.
| [A] hesitations
| [B] delays
| [C] interruptions
| [D] pauses
| 26.
| [A] admiration
| [B]envy
| [C] amazement
| [D] revenge
| 27.
| [A] more than
| [B] no less than
| [C] rather than
| [D] no more than
| 28.
| [A] character
| [B] figure
| [C] role
| [D] personality
| 29.
| [A] for
| [B] in
| [C] at
| [D] on
| 30.
| [A] carry out
| [B] pick up
| [C]speed up
| [D] keep up
| 31.
| [A] particularly
| [B] unfortunately
| [C] fortunately.
| [D] utterly
| 32.
| [A] mind
| [B] mentality
| [C] intelligence
| [D] wit
| 33.
| [A] who
| [B] when
| [C] if
| [D] which
| 34.
| [A] dispose
| [B] dispatch
| [C] dismiss
| [D] despise
| 35.
| [A] ignorant
| [B] negligible
| [C] obscure
| [D] inconspicuous
| 36.
| [A] at
| [B] against
| [C] with
| [D] in
| 37.
| [A]disgusted
| [B] content
| [C] disgraced
| [D] discouraged
| 38.
| [A] in that
| [B] so that
| [C] such that
| [D] except that
| 39.
| [A] length
| [B] expanse
| [C] stretch
| [D] span
| 40.
| [A] prey
| [B] model
| [C] respect
| [D] pride
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