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【题目】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

You cannot maintain rising standards of living in a flattening world when you are up 【1】 competitors who are getting 【2】 their fundamentals (基本法则) right but also their intangibles (无形价值). China does not just want to get rich. It wants to get powerful. China doesn’t just want to learn how to make General Motors (GM) cars. It wants to be GM and put GM out of business. Anyone 【3】 doubts that should spend time with young Chinese.

Said Luis Rubio, president of Mexico’s Center of Research for Development, “The more self-confidence you have, the more it decreases your mythologies (神话，错误的观点) and complexes. 【4】 of the great things about Mexico in the early 1990s was that Mexicans saw that they could do it, they could make it.” A lot of that self-confidence, though, 【5】lose) in Mexico in recent years, because the government stopped reforming. “A lack of self-confidence leads a country 【6】 (keep) chewing on the past,” added Rubio. “A lack of self-confidence [in Mexico] means that everyone in the country thinks the U. S. is going to take Mexico to the cleaners.” That is why North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was so important for Mexico’s self-confidence. “【7】 NAFTA accomplished was to get Mexicans to think forward and outward 【8】 inward and backward. [But] NAFTA was seen [by its architects] as an end more than a beginning. It was seen as the conclusion of a process of political and economic reforms. ” “Unfortunately,” he added, “Mexico did not have a strategy for a going forward.”

Will Rogers said it a long time ago: “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over 【9】 you just sit there. ” The 【10】 (flat) the world gets, that will happen. Mexico got itself on the right track with reform wholesale, but then, for a lot of tangible and intangible reasons, it just sat there and reform retail stopped. The more Mexico just sits there, The more it is going to get run over. And it won’t be alone.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】against

【2】not only

【3】who

【4】One

【5】has been lost

【6】to keep

【7】What

【8】instead of

【9】if

【10】flatter

【解析】

本文是一篇说明文，介绍了世界的扁平化形势下的墨西哥的经济的现状和出路。

【1】考查固定短语。句意：当你面对的竞争对手不仅掌握了正确的基础知识，而且还掌握了无形资产时，你不可能在一个扁平化的世界里维持不断提高的生活水平。be up against表示“面对”，故填against。

【2】考查固定搭配。句意同上，根据句意以及下文的but also可知此处使用固定搭配not only… but also… 表示“不但……而且……”，故填not only。

【3】考查定语从句。句意：任何怀疑这一点的人都应该花时间和中国年轻人在一起。此处为定语从句，先行词是Anyone，指人，关系词在从句中做主语，故填who。

【4】考查代词。句意：20世纪90年代初，墨西哥的一件大事就是墨西哥人看到他们能做到。空后的was表明主语为单数，one of表示“……之一”，故填One。

【5】考查时态语态。句意：然而，许多自信在最近几年在墨西哥已经消失了。self-confidence与lose之间是被动关系，再结合时间状语“in recent years”可知用现在完成时的被动语态，故填has been lost。

【6】考查不定式。句意：缺乏自信导致一个国家不停地追忆过去。lead sb to do表示“使某人做某事”，故填to keep。

【7】考查主语从句。句意：北美自由贸易协定所完成的让墨西哥人向前和向外思考，而不是向内和向后思考。此处为主语从句，从句中的accomplished缺少宾语，故填What。

【8】考查介词短语。句意同上，根据句意可知此处表示“而不是”，故填instead of。

【9】考查条件状语从句。句意：即使你在正确的轨道上，如果你只是坐在那里，你也会被碾过。

根据句意可知此处表示一种条件，表示“如果”，故填if。

【10】考查形容词比较级。句意：世界越扁平化，这种情况就会发生。此处有一个隐晦的比较意义，表示“比以前更扁平”，应该用形容词比较级形式，故填flatter。.