2015年完形填空文章待翻译_英语考试_外语学习_教育专区.docx

完形填空文章_综合类_C级第一篇 A Life with Birds【有鸟陪伴的生活】For nearly 17 years David Cope has worked as one of the Tower of Londons Yeoman Warders, _1_ known to tourists as Beefeaters. David, 64, lives in a three-bedroomed flat right at the _2_ of the Byward Tower, one of the gatehouses. “_3_ our bedroom we have a marvellous view of Tower Bridge and the Thames. ”says David. The Tower of London is famous _4_its ravens, the large black birds which have lived there for over three centuries. David was immediately fascinated by the birds and when he was _5_ the post of Raven Master eight years ago he had no _6_ in accepting it. “The birds have now become my life and Im always _7_ of the fact that I am _8_ a tradition. The legend says that if the ravens leave the Tower, England will fall to enemies, and its my job to _9_ sure this doesnt happen!”David _10_about four hours a day to the care of the ravens. He has grown to love them and the _11_ that he lives right next to them is ideal. “I can _12_ a close eye on them all the time, and not just when Im working.” _13_, Davids wife Mo was not _14_ on the idea of life in the Tower, but she too will be sad to leave when he retires next year. “When we look out of our windows we see history _15_ around us, and we are taking it in and storing it up for our future memories. ”第二篇 A Lucky Break【幸福的骨折】Actor Antonio Banderas is used to breaking bones, and it always seems to happen when hes _1_ sport. In the film Play it to the Bone he _2_ the part of a middleweight boxer alongside Woody Harrelson. _3_ the making of the film Harrelson _4_complaining that the fight _5_ werent very convincing, so one day he suggested that he and Banderas should have a fight for real. The Spanish actor wasnt _6_ on the idea at first, but he was _7_ persuaded by his co-star to put on his gloves and climb into the boxing ring. However, when he realized how seriously his _8_ was taking it all, he began to regret his decision to fight. And then in the third round, Harrelson hit Banderas _9_ hard in the face that he actually broke his nose. His wife, actress Melanie Griffith, was furious that he had been playing “silly macho games”. “She was right”, confesses Banderas, “and I was a fool to _10_ a risk like that in the middle of a movie. ”He was _11_ of the time he broke his leg during a football match in his native Malaga. He had always _12_ of becoming a soccer star, of performing in front of a big crowd, but doctors told him his playing days were probably over. “Thats when I decided to take _13_ acting; I saw it as _14_ way of performing, and achieving recognition. What happened to me on that football _15_ was, you might say, my first lucky break. ”第三篇 Global Warming 【全球变暖】Few people now question the reality of global warming and its effects on the worlds climate. Many scientists _1_ the blame for recent natural disasters on the increase _2_the worlds temperatures and are convinced that, more than _3_ before, the Earth is at _4_ from the forces of the wind, rain and sun. _5_ to them, global warming is making extreme weather events, _6_ as hurricanes and droughts, even more _7_ and causing sea levels all around the world to _8_. Environmental groups are putting _9_ on governments to take action to reduce the _10_ of carbon dioxide which is given _11_ by factories and power plants, thus attacking the problem at its source. They are in _12_ of more money being spent on research into solar, wind and wave energy devices, which could then replace existing power _13_. Some scientists, _14_, believe that even if we stopped releasing carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere tomorrow, we would have to wait _15_hundred years to notice the results. Global warming, it seems, is here to stay. 第四篇 A Success Story【一个成功的故事】At 19, Ben Way is already a millionaire, and one of a growing number of teenagers who have _1_their fortune through the Internet. _2_makes Bens story all the more remarkable is that he is dyslexic, and was _3_by teachers at his junior school that he would never be able to read or write _4_. “I wanted to prove them _5_”, says Ben, creator and director of Waysearch, a net search engine which can be used to find goods in online shopping malls. When he was eight, his local authorities _6_him with a PC to help with school work. Although he was _7_to read the manuals, he had a natural ability with the computer, and _8_by his father, he soon began _9_people 10 an hour for his knowledge and skills. At the age of 15 he _10_up his own computer consultancy, Quad Computer, which he ran from his bedroom, and two years later he left school to _11_all his time to business. “By this time the company had grown and I needed to take on a _12_of employees to help me”, says Ben. “That enabled me to start _13_business with bigger companies. ” It was his ability to consistently _14_difficult challenges that led him to win the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the same year that he formed Waysearch, and he has recently signed a deal _15_ 25 million with a private investment company, which will finance his search engine.第五篇 Traffic in Our Cities 【城市的交通】The volume of traffic in many cities in the world today continues to expand. This causes many problems, including serious air pollution, lengthy delays, and the greater risk _1_accidents. Clearly, something must be done, but it is often difficult to _2_people to change their habits and leave their cars at home. One possible _3_ is to make it more expensive for people to use their cars by _4_charges for parking and _5_tougher fines for anyone who _6_the law. In addition, drivers could be required to pay for using particular routes at different times of the day. This system, _7_as “road pricing”, is already being introduced in a _8_of cities, using a special electronic card _9_ to the windscreen of the car. Another way of _10_with the problem is to provide cheap parking on the _11_of the city, and strictly control the number of vehicles allowed into the centre. Drivers and their passengers then use a special bus service for the _12_ stage of their journey. Of course, the most important _13_ is to provide good public transport. However, to get people to _14_ the comfort of their cars, public transport must be felt to be reliable, convenient and comfortable, with fares _15_at an acceptable level. 完形填空文章_综合类_B级 第六篇 Teaching and Learning【教与学】 Many teachers believe that the responsibilities for learning lie with1 the student. If a long reading assignment is given, instructors expect student to be familiar with the _1_ in the reading even if they do not discuss it in class or take an examination. The _2_ student is considered to be one who is motivated to learn for the sake of _3_, not the one interested only in getting high grades. Sometimes homework is returned _4_brief written comments but without a grade. Even if a grade is not given, the student is _5_for learning the material assigned. When research is _63_, the professor expects the student to take it actively and to complete it with _7_guidance. It is the students responsibility to find books, magazines, and articles in the library. Professors do not have the time to explain _8_a university library works; they expect students _9_ graduate students to exhaust the reference _10_in the library. Professors will help students who need it, but _11_ that their students should not be _12_dependent on them. In the United States professors have many other duties _13_teaching, such as administrative or research work. Therefore, the time that a professor can spend with a student outside of class is _14_. If a student has problems with classroom work, the student should either _15_ a professor during office hours3 or make an appointment.第七篇 The Difference between Man and Computer 【人与电脑的区别】What makes people different from computer programs? What is the missing element that our theories dont yet _1_ for? The answer is simple: People read newspaper stories for a reason: to learn more about _2_ they are interested in. Computers, on the other hand, dont. In fact, computers dont _3_ have interests; there is nothing in particular that they are trying to find out when they read. If a computer _4_ is to be a model of story understanding, it should also read for a “purpose”. Of course, people have several goals that do not make _5_ to attribute to computers. One might read a restaurant guide _6_ order to satisfy hunger or entertainment goals, or to _7_a good place to go for a business lunch. Computers do not get hungry, and computers do not have business lunches. However, these physiological and social goals give _8_ to several intellectual or cognitive goals. A goal to satisfy hunger gives rise to goals to find _9_ about the name of a restaurant which _10_ the desired type of food, how expensive the restaurant is, the location of the restaurant, etc. These are goals to _11_ information or knowledge, what we are calling _12_ goals. These goals can be held by computers too; a computer _13_“want” to find out the location of a restaurant, and read a guide in order to do so _14_ the same way as a person might. While such a goal would not _15_ out of hunger in the case of the computer, it might well arise out of the “goal” to learn more about restaurants. 第八篇 Look on The Bright Side 【看光明的一面】Do you ever wish you were more optimistic, someone who always _1_ to be successful? Having someone around who always _2_ the worst isnt really a lot of _3_. We all know someone who sees a single cloud on a sunny day and says, “It looks _4_rain. ” But if you catch yourself thinking such things, its important to do something _5_it. You can change your view of life, _6_ to psychologists. It only takes a little effort, and youll find life more rewarding as a _7_ . Optimism, they say, is partly about self-respect and confidence, but its also a more positive way of looking at life and all it has to _8_. Optimists are more _9_ to start new projects and are generally more prepared to take risks. Upbringing is obviously very important in forming your _10_to the world. Some people are brought up to _11_ too much on others and grow up forever blaming other people when anything _12_ wrong. Most optimists, on the _13_ hand, have been brought up not to _14_ failure as the end of the world they just _15_with their lives. 第九篇 The First Bicycle【第一辆自行车】The history of the bicycle goes back more than 200 years. In 1791, Count de Sivrac _1_ onlookers in a park in Paris as he showed off his two-wheeled invention, a machine called the celerifer. It was basically an _2_ version of a childrens toy which had been in _3_ for many years. Sivracs “celerifer” had a wooden frame, made in the _4_ of a horse, which was mounted on a wheel at either end1. To ride it, you sat on a small seat, just like a modem bicycle, and pushed _5_ against the _6_ with your legs there were no pedals. It was impossible to steer a celerifer and it had no brakes, but despite these problems the invention very much _7_ to the fashionable young men of Paris. Soon they were _8_ races up and down the streets. Minor _9_ were common as riders attempted a final burst of _10_. Controlling the machine was difficult, as the only way to change _11_ was to pull up the front of the “celerifer” and _12_ it round while the front wheel was _13_ in the air. “Celerifers” were not popular for long, however, as the _14_ of no springs, no steering and rough roads made riding them very uncomfortable. Even so, the wooden celerifer was the _15_of the modem bicycle. 第十篇 Working Mothers 【职业母亲】Carefully conducted researches that have followed the children of working mothers have not been able to show any long-term problems, compared with children whose mothers stayed at home. My personal