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考研英语完型填空全真模拟题(一)

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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