第二节  完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

请阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D中），选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。

My parents passed away ten years ago and I miss them terribly. But I know they are with me every day in what they taught me and in the __36__ they gave me. Every morning my father’s message to me was: Remember that __37__ you walk out of this door, you carry responsibility, the good name of this family, the hopes and dreams of your mom and dad. My mother often urged me to __38__ the high standards she set for me.

When I was in high school, I played in a rock band with friends in my class. We were devoted and practiced constantly. We moved past the guys-in-a-garage stage and __39__ to be pretty good, doing getting-paid gigs (演奏会) most weekends, which made me __40__. At that time, though part of me was __41__ up in that band, another part of me was the oldest son in the Clark family, __42__ of my origin and a dedicated student busy applying to colleges. Without even telling my parents, I applied to Harvard. I didn’t think I had much chance of getting in, __43__ I wanted to try. So I was riding around being Mr Cool Rock Musician half of the time, and the other half I was focused on family and __44__ goals. I was running on parallel __45__.

When the group won a city wide Battle of the Bands, things heated up. My band mates had stars in their eyes —— we might be able to make it big. However, I began to feel __46__. I realized I was on quite different tracks: I __47__ was becoming two people, __48__ identities back and forth depending on who I was with. I had to make an option. As I considered my __49__, my parents’ words were right there, helping me to see that my dreams weren’t about signing a record deal, letting my hair grow, and living in a tour bus. So I __50__ out. My bandmasters were __51__. They thought I was crazy to withdraw __52__ the peak of real success. But however successful that band got, I knew it wasn’t in line with my __53__, with my feeling of what I was __54__ to do, with who I was —— it simply wasn’t me.

In that instant and in many others throughout my life, my parent’s advice has helped me recenter and __55__. I could remember who I was —— the hopes and dreams I carried.

36. A. property                            B. advice                              C. guide                               D. aid

37. A. when                                  B. before                             C. while                                D. since

38. A. come up with                   B. stand up to                    C. live up to                         D. keep pace with

39. A. got                                      B. failed                               C. hoped                              D. attempted

40. A. lost                                     B. disappointed                 C. confused                         D. thrilled

41. A. wrapped                           B. centred                           C. spent                               D. offered

42. A. scared                               B. proud                               C. guilty                               D. ashamed

43. A. if                                          B. unless                              C. until                                 D. yet

44. A. economic                          B. political                           C. academic                        D. literary

45. A. tracks                                B. ways                                C. processes                       D. directions

46. A. confident                          B. optimistic                       C. cheerful                          D. uncomfortable

47. A. exactly                               B. actually                           C. eventually                      D. fortunately

48. A. switching                          B. acting                              C. discovering                    D. seeking

49. A. conditions                         B. choices                            C. competence                            D. health

50. A. gave                                   B. looked                             C. called                               D. dropped

51. A. disturbed                          B. cool                                  C. shocked                          D. tolerant

52. A. in                                         B. to                                               C. by                                     D. at

53. A. goals                                  B. interests                         C. personality                     D. consideration

54. A. meant                                B. demanded                      C. forced                              D. aimed

55. A. recall                                  B. refocus                            C. rebuild                             D. reunite

 

A very important world problem－in fact, I am inclined(倾向) to say it is the most important of all the great world problems which face us at the present time－is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on land and on land resources.

It is not so much the actual population of the world but its rate of increase which is important. It works out to be about 1.6 percent per annual net increase. In terms of numbers this means something like forty to fifty－five million additional people every year. Canada has a population of twenty million－rather less than six month's climb in world population. There are ten million people in Australia. So, it takes the world less than three months to add to itself a population. Let us take our own crowded country－England and Wales: forty－five to fifty million people－just about a year's supply.

By this time tomorrow, and every day, there will be added to the earth about 120,000 extra people－just about the population of the city of York.

Here I am not talking about birth rate. This is net increase. To give you some idea of birth rate, look at the seconds hand of your watch. Every second three babies are born somewhere in the world. Another baby! You cannot speak quickly enough to keep pace with the birth rate.

This enormous increase of population will create immense problems. By 2020 unless something desperate happens, there will be as many as seven billion people on the surface of the earth! So this is a problem which you are going to see in your lifetime.

1. According to the author, ________ is the most important in the world at the present time.

A. the quality of the increasing population

B. the actual population of the world

C. the rapidly increasing pressure of population

D. farming land is reducing at great speed

2. From the passage we know that the author is a(n) ________.

A. Canadian      B. Australian

C. American      D. Englishman

3. It takes ________ for the world to have a population of Australia.

A. about three months

B. about six months

C. one year

D. more than four months

4. According to the passage ________ babies are born on the earth per hour.

A. 180         B. 3 million

C. 120,000      D. 10,800

5. The author mentions the different populations of several countries in order to ________.

A. show how small those countries are

B. show how thickly those countries are populated

C. emphasize the low increase of the world population

D. emphasize the high rate of increase of world population

I enjoy my job in research because I have to ______ all the latest developments.

A. keep in touch with       B. keep pace with      

C. keep away from           D. keep down with

 

When next year’s crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall, they will be joined by a new face: Andrew Hamilton, the 55-year-old provost (教务长) of Yale, who will become Oxford’s vice-chancellor –– a position equal to university president in America.

Hamilton isn’t the only educator crossing the Atlantic. Schools in France, Egypt, Singapore, etc. have also recently made top-level hires from abroad. Yet the talent flow isn’t universal. High-level personnel (人员) tend to head in only one direction: Outward from America.

The chief reason is that American schools don’t tend to seriously consider looking abroad. For example, when the board of the University of Colorado searched for a new president, it wanted a leader familiar with the state government, a major source of the university’s budget. “We didn’t do any global consideration,” says Patricia Hayes, the board’s chair. The board finally picked Bruce Benson, a 69-year-old Colorado businessman and political activist who is likely to do well in the main task of modern university presidents: fund-raising. Fund-raising is a particularly American thing, since U.S. schools rely heavily on donations. The fund-raising ability is largely a product of experience and necessity.

Many European universities, meanwhile, are still mostly dependent on government funding. But government support has failed to keep pace with rising student numbers. The decline in government support has made fund-raising an increasingly necessary ability among administrators (管理人员), and has made hiring committees hungry for Americans.

In the past few years, well-known schools around the world have joined the trend. In 2011, when Cambridge University appointed Alison Richard, another former Yale provost, as its vice-chancellor, the university publicly stressed that in her previous job she had overseen (监督) “ a major strengthening of Yale’s financial position” .

Of course, fund-raising isn’t the only skill outsiders offer. The globalization of education means more universities will be seeking heads with international experience of some kind to promote international programs and attract a global student body. Foreigners can offer a fresh perspective (视角) on established practices.

1.What is the current trend in higher education discussed in the text?

A．Institutions worldwide are hiring administrators from the U.S.

B．More international students are being admitted to American universities.

C．University presidents are paying more attention to fund-raising.

D．A lot of activists are being hired as administrators.

2.What do we learn about European universities from the text?

A．The tuition they charge has been rising considerably.

B．They are strengthening their position by globalization.

C．Their operation is under strict government control.

D．Most of their money comes from the government.

3.In what way do top-level administrators from abroad contribute to university development?

A．They can improve the university’s image.

B．They will bring with them more international personnel.

C．They will view a lot of things from a new angle.

D．They can set up new academic subjects.

4.Which of the following would make the best title of the text?

A．High Education Globalization

B．Global Headhunting in Higher Education

C．Global Higher Education Cooperation

D．Universal Higher Education Development

 

278. The road constant improvements can’t keep pace with the increasing ____ .

A．trucks

B．private cars

C．buses

D．Traffic