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专业英语四级（完形填空）模拟试卷108

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题型有： 3. CLOZE

PART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the

following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the

passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.

“You need an apartment alone even if it’s over a garage,” declared Helen

Gurley Brown in her 1962 bestseller “Sex and the Single Girl”. To Brown, solo living

afforded the(1)_____ to cultivate the self, furnish the mind and work late, and so on.

Young women(2)_____ enjoy their best years without a(n)(3)_____, she advised, as

this not only(4)_____ the foundation for stronger marriages (5)______ gave them a

lifestyle to fall back on (6)_____they found themselves alone again. (7)_____ at

the time, Brown’s counsel seems sensible now. Certainly both(8)_____ have taken it

to heart, marrying later, divorcing(9)_____ and living alone in larger numbers than

ever before. (10)_____ little is known about the wider social (11)_____ of this

unprecedented boom, writes Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist at New York University.

His new book “Going Solo” offers a(12)_____ look at the lures and perils of living

alone. Mr. Klinenberg(13)_____ those who see the rise of solo living as yet

another(14)_____ of the decline of civic society.(15)_____ marriage is no longer the

ticket to adulthood, a desire to live alone is perfectly(16)______, he writes. Young

adults view it as a rite of passage, a period of personal growth before

possibly(17)_____. Its cultural acceptance has helped to(18)_____ women from bad

marriages and oppressive families,(19)_____ them a space to return to civic life. And

as elderly adults live longer than ever before, often without a partner, many hope to

stay(20)_____ for as long as possible.

1． (1)

A．reason

B．space

C．time

D．tranquility

正确答案：B

解析：独自居住可以培养自我、陶冶心灵、熬夜工作，这属于独居提供的空间上的自由，故选space。tranquility“安静，平静”。 知识模块：完形

2． (2)

A．are to

B．might

C．should