大学英语四级完形填空练习·有解析

Manners nowadays in big cities like London are practically non-existent. It is ___1___ for a big, strong schoolboy to push an elderly woman aside in the rush for the last remaining seat in the train or bus, much ___2___ stand up and offer his seat to her.

This questions of giving up seats in public transport is much ___3___ about by young men, who say that, ___4___ women have claimed equality, they no longer should be treated with courtesy and that those who go out to work should ___5___ their turn in the rush hour like anyone else. Women have never claimed to be ___6___ as strong as men. Even if it is not agreed, however, that young men should ___7___ up for younger women, the fact remains that ___8___ should be shown to the old, the sick and the disabled. Are we really so ___9___ to all ideals of unselfishness that we can sit there calmly reading the paper or a book, saying to ourselves “First come, first served,” ___10___ a grey-haired woman, a mother with a young child stands? Yet this is all to be often seen.

Older people, ___11___ from a day’s work, are not as noble as before, either—far from it. Many an argument or a quarrel ___12___ as they push and pull each other to get on buses and trains. One can’t speak ___13___ of this, of course, but one does feel there is just a little more exercise.

If cities are to remain ___14___ places to live in at all, however, it seems important, not only that communications in ___15___ should be improved, but also that communication between human beings should be ___16___ smooth and polite. All over cities, it seems that people are too tired and too rushed to be ___17___. Shop assistants won’t bother to ___18___, taxi-drivers shout at each other as they drive dangerously round corners, bus conductors pull the bell before their ___19___ have had time to get on or off the bus, and so on and so on. It seems to us that it is ___20___ the young and strong to do their small part to stop such deterioration(恶化).

1. A. nothing                B. unusual                  C. joyful                     D. kind

2. A. more                   B. less                        C. higher                    D. lighter

3. A. cared                   B. looked                    C. argued                   D. moved

4. A. though                 B. if                           C. before                    D. since

5. A. make                   B. take                        C. improve                 D. draw

6. A. mentally               B. publicly                   C. physically              D. practically

7. A. stand                   B. look                        C. line                        D. rise

8. A. honor                  B. gift                          C. unity                     D. courtesy

9. A. lost                     B. used                        C. puzzled                  D. opened

10. A. after                  B. while                       C. as                         D. for

11. A. relaxed               B. thirsty                     C. tired                      D. lowered

12. A. dies down          B. brings on                 C. makes up               D. breaks out

13. A. truly                  B. favorably                 C. secretly                  D. bitterly

14. A. noisy                 B. practical                  C. pleasant                  D. ill-smelling

15. A. transport            B. water                      C. family                    D. right

16. A. seized                B. shaken                     C. thrown                  D. kept

17. A. polite                 B. rude                         C. free                      D. pretty

18. A. sleep                  B. help                         C. hide                      D. recover

19. A. parents               B. companions              C. passengers            D. listeners

20. A. ahead of             B. far from                   C. out of                   D. up to

[1] [2] 下一页