Direction
In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank follwing the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making choices. Each choie in the bank is identificated by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answere Sheet2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions
The typical pre-industrial family not only had a good many children, but numerous other dependents as well---grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousions.
Such "extended" families were suited for survival in slow paced __1__ societies. But such families are hard to __2__. They are strialism demanded masses of workers ready and able to move off the land in pursuit of jobs, and to move again whenever necessary. Thus the extended family __3__ shed its excess weight and the so-called "nuclear" family emerged---a stripped-down, portable family unit __4__ only of parents and a small set of children. This new style family, far more __5__ than the traditional extended family, became the standard model in all the industrial counties. Super-industrialism, however, the next stage of eco-technological development, __6__ even higher mobility. Thus we may expect many among the people of the future to carry the streamlinling process, a stePfurther by remaining children, cutting the family down to its more __7__ components, aman and a woman. Two people, perhaps with matched careers, will prove more efficient at navigating through education and social status, through job changes and geographic relocations, than teh ordinarily child-cluttered
family.A __8__ may be the postponement of children, rather than childlessness.
Men and women today are often torn in __9__ between a commitment to career and a commitment to children. In the future, many __10__ will sidestePthis problem by deferring the entire task of raising children until after retirement.
A)transplant
B)solution
C)gadually
D)transport
E)elemental
F)conflict
G)continually
H)mobile
I)couples
J)agricultural
k)including
L)compromise
M)requires
N)primary
O)consisting
參考答案
1. J 2. A 3. C 4.O 5. H
6. M 7. E 8. L 9. F 10. I
【技巧分析】
充分利用詞庫中的.近義詞或反義詞
(若詞庫中出現一對近義或反義詞，其中一個必定是干擾項.反義詞考查學生對文章語境色彩的辨析，只要辨析考點單詞是積極還是消極意義，就不難排除.近義詞考查考生對詞彙搭配用法的掌握，需要學生牢記近義詞的各種用法及搭配。)
Sample：
A) gravely B) respect C) limited
D) specialize E) seriously F) promoting
G) involves H) relieved I) significant
J) magnificent K) range L) issues
M) result N) determining O) complicated
Today, we take pain______.
(此處應用副詞做狀語，考查近義詞辨析 sth. seriously為固定搭配)
