全国大学生英语竞赛A、B类完形填空题库一

全国大学生英语竞赛A、B类完形填空题库一 [问答题]1.Given the choice between spending an evening with friends and taking exdiva time（江南博哥）for his schoolwork, Andy Klise admits he would probably opt for the latter.It's not that he doesn't like to have fun; it's just that his desire to excel academically drives his decision-making process.　　A 2001 graduate of Wooster High School and now a senior biology (1) m____ at The College of Wooster, Klise acknowledges that he may someday have second thoughts about his decision to limit the time he has spent (2)____ (social), but for now, he is comfordiv (3)____ the choices he has made.“If things had not worked out as well as they have, I would have had some regrets,” says Klise, (4)____ was a Phi Beta Kappa inductee as a junior.“But spending the exdiva time studying has been w ell worth the (5)____ (invest).I realized early on that to be successful, I had to make certain (6) sa____.”　　As for the origin of his intense motivation, Klise notes that it has been part of his makeup for as long as he can remember.“I've always been goal (7)____,” he says.“This internal drive has caused me to give my all in pretty much everything I do.”　　Klise credits Wooster's nationally recognized Independent Study (I.S.) program with preparing him for his next step in life; a research position with the National Institute of Health (NIH).“I am hoping that my I.S.experience will help me (8) l____ a research position with NIH,” says Klise.“The yearlong program gives students a chance to work with some of the nation's (9)____(lead) scientists while making the (10) div____ from undergraduate to graduate studies or a career in the medical field.” 参考答案： 1.major　从前文的biology可知此处填major。biology major生物专业学生。　　2.socializing　句意：限制他花在社交活动方面的时间。　　3.with　be comfortable with对…感到舒适。　　4.who　从下文可知此处是非限制性定语从句，修饰Klise，所以填who。　　5.investment　句意：但是把业余时间花费在学习上却很值得投入。investment投资，投入。　　6.sacrifices　句意：我得做出些牺牲。sacrifice牺牲，放弃。　　7.oriented　oriented导向的，通常作后缀，构成复合形容词。goal oriented以目标为导向的。　　8.land　land（经激烈竞争）获得。land a research position with NIH获得在NIH的研究机会。　　9.leading　leading scientists最主要的科学家。　　10.transition　根据后面from undergraduate to graduate可知此处是transition。transition过渡。 [问答题]2.Most British couples, whether religious or not, have a church wedding, which combines the religious rite with the legal condivact.Wedding arrangement for inviting and entertaining guests at a wedding are usually the (1)____ (responsible) of the bride's family.In most cases it is mainly friends and (2) re____ of both families who are invited, but when the bride's father is a person with (3) pr____ social standing or a businessman of some kind, the wedding reception may provide a useful occasion for establishing social (4) co____ with those people whose goodwill may be of great advantage to him and his family.It is however, the bride's mother who has the job of sending out the formal printed (5)____ (invite) cards.　　In the case of church wedding, the vicar of each parish in which the bride and bridegroom live is normally informed about a month in (6)____ of the ceremony so that an announcement of the coming wedding can be made in church on each of three Sundays before it takes place.Often up to a hundred or more people attend the religious service and the church and the bride usually wears the (7)____(divadition) long white dress and veil, while her (8) br____, who are often children, wear long dresses in adivivactive colours.The wedding ceremony resembles a Christian sevice during which the bride and bridegroom make promises to each other, according to which, whatever unforeseen difficulties they may encounter, they will remain (9) l____ to each other until they die.The wedding ceremony may also happen in the case of a civil wedding in a register office but is probably less usual and more purely (10) l____. 参考答案： 1.responsibility　由前面的定冠词the以及后面的of可知此处需填的是名词形式。　　2.relations / relatives　在大多数情况下婚礼上请的都是双方的亲朋好友。　　3.prominent　prominent显著的，突出的。　　4.connections　social connection社交关系，社会联系。　　5.invitation　invitation card请柬。　　6.advance　in advance of提前。　　7.traditional　此处需用tradition的形容词形式修饰后面的名词dress and veil。　　8.bridesmaids　婚礼中新娘会有自己的伴娘。　　9.loyal　在婚礼仪式上，新娘新郎要宣誓，无论今后遇到什么困难都要忠诚于对方，直到永远。　　10.legal　文章第一句话提到教堂婚礼是宗教仪式和法律契约的结合，而此处在结婚登记处举行的婚礼就只有纯粹的法律意义了。 [问答题]3.In the early 1950s the researchers who produced the first clad glass optical fibers were not thinking of using them for communications.(1) H____, fiber optics was already a well-established commercial technology when the famous paper by Kao and Hockham, (2)____(claim) the use of low-loss optical fibers for communication, appeared in 1966.　　The first low-loss silica fiber was described in (3)____ which appeared in October of 1970.The date of this publication is sometimes (4)____(cite) as the beginning of the era of fiber communication.Although this development did receive (5)____(consider) attention in the research community at the time, it was far from inevidiv that a major indusdivy would evolve.　　The technological barriers appea