PART II CLOZE
Decide which of the choices given below would correctly complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the correct choice for each blank on your answer sheet.
Early Tudor England was to a large extent self-sufficient. Practically all the necessities of life food, clothing, fuel and housingwere produced from native resources by native effort, and it was to (26)_____ these primary needs that the great mass of the population labored (27)______ its daily tasks. Production was for the most part organized in innumerable small units. In the country the farm, the hamlet and the village lived on (28)____ they could grow or make for themselves, and(29) _____ the sale of any surplus in the local market town,(30) ____ in the towns craftsmen applied themselves to their one-man business, making the boots and shoes, the caps and the cloaks, the (31)____ and harness of townsmen and countrymen(32)____. Once a week town and country would meet to make(33) ___ at a market which came(34) ___ realizing the medieval idea of direct contact between producer and(35) _____. This was the traditional economy, which was hardly altered for some centuries, and which set the(36) _____ of work and the standard of life of perhaps nice out of(37) ____ ten English men and women. The work was long and (38)____, and the standard of life achieved was almost (39)___ low. Most Englishmen lied by a diet which was often (40)____ and always monotonous, wore coarse and ill-fitting clothes which harbored dirt undermine, and lived in holes whose squalor would affront the modern slum dweller.
26. A) settle B) answer C) satisfy D) fill
27. A) at B) in C) on D) with
28. A) which B) what C) whether D) where
29. A) with B) by C) on D) for
30. A) although B) while C) nevertheless D) when
31. A) machines B) apparatus C) equipment D) implement
32. A) similar B) skin C) like D) alike
33. A) exchange B) bargain C) dealing D) ride
34. A) close at B) adjacent to C) near to D) near-by
35. A) consumer B) buyer C) user D) shopper
36. A) model B) form C) pattern D) method
37. A) every B) each C) the D) other
38. A) cruel B) hard C) ruthless D) severe
39. A) unimaginatively B) unimaginably C) imaginarily D) unimaginedly
40. A) weak B) little C) meagre D) sparse
Stared him in the face?
Tooth and nail?
Blind spot?
New Year’s resolution
Overcoming idioms as stumbling block
Looking over your shoulder?
Twist their arms?
Gone like hot cakes?
Dropping the ball?
不要积累后悔
启动野兽模式
High and dry?
女人和高跟鞋
Taking their feet off the pedal?
Low-hanging fruit?
Loan shark rate?
Meeting them half way?
It’s yours to lose
In the same boat?
Turn the tables?
Save the day?
Mean street, mean city?
Right of way?
男士皮鞋大家族
Push the envelope
Cheating death?
IDK、TTYL、LMAO是什么意思?
Slash and burn?
Spanner in the works?
Till the coast is clear?
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