Directions: In this passage there are ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.
Looking back on years of living in a working-class home in the North of England, I should say that a good living room must 11. three principal things: homeliness, warmth and plenty of good food. The living-room is the warm heart of the family and 12. often slightly stuffy to a middle-class visitor. It is not a social centre but a family center; little entertaining goes on there or in the front room, if there 13. to be one; you do not entertain in anything approaching the middle-class 14. The wifes social life outside her 15. family is found over the washing-line, at the little shop on the corner, visiting relatives at a moderate 16. occasionally, and perhaps now and again a visit with her husband to his pub or club. Apart from these two places, he has just his work and his football matches. They will have, each of them, friends at all these places, who may well not know what the inside of their house is like, having never stepped across the threshold, as the old 17. phrase has it. The family hearth is 18. for the family itself, and those who are something to us and who look in for a talk or just to sit. Much of the free time of a man and his wife will 19. be passed at that hearth. Just staying in is still one of the most common leisure-time 20. .
A. happens B. professions C. sense D. nevertheless
E. fashioned F. distance G. immediate H. usually
I. occupations J. preserved K. imitate L. provide
M. therefore N. reserved O. contribute
参考答案:11. L 12. M 13. A 14. C 15. G 16. F 17. E 18. N 19. H 20. I
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