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考研英语完型填空全真模拟题(八)
passage 8 Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. (10 points)
At least 50 percent of the world's scientific literature is in languages which more than half the world's scientists cannot read. That is to say, the greater part of 41 is published is incomprehensible, without 42 , to most of those who might 43 benefit from it. The total 44 output of new materials is estimated to be between one and two million separate pieces, so that the amount of new literature which is readable only after language barriers have been surmounted is probably 45 over half a million texts a year.
Language barriers 46 all scientists, but they are much more formidable for some than for others. For example, a Spanish scientist who cannot read any language except his own is separated from more than nine tenths of the world's current scientific literature, while an Englishman knowing no foreign language is barred from only about one third. English is in 47 the most commonly used language in scientific publications. 48 suggest that it probably 49 for between one half and two thirds of the total, 50 considerable variations from subject to subject. 41. A) what B) that
C) which D) everything
42. A) interpretation B) translation
C) suggestion D) agreement
43. A) or B) otherwise
C) contrariwise D) likewise
44. A) global B) natural
C) annual D) whole
45. A) so B) very
C) well D) much
46. A) face B) meet
C) state D) hold
47. A) fact B) matter
C) evidence D) data
48. A) Judgements B) Studies
C) Estimates D) Expectations
49. A) explains B) stands
C) speaks D) accounts
50. A) against B) with
C) for D) between
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