第五部分　补全短文

　　考查目标：该部分内容考查应试者把握作者思路，掌握文章结构的能力。
　　解题技巧：
　　主题词（名词、动词、形容词、副词）
　　代词（the/that/this/these/those/such修饰的名词必然在空格之前直接或间接出现过；he/his/she/her/they所代指的人必须明确有所指）
　　数字、序数词
　　时态变化、时间关系
　　前后句的转折、归纳、因果、举例关系及文章展开顺序、展开层次（选项或空格前后的句子中first second third之类的序数词及also, moreover, furthermore, in addition等）
　　与空格前后句相关联的词
　　引号句（文章直接引用说话人原话的方式为 “…….”，says he “ …….” ）
　　固定的搭配形式

　　 Farmers' Markets （C）

　　Charlotte Hollins knows she faces a battle. The 23-year-old British farmer and her 21-year-old brother Ben are fighting to save the farm from developers that their father worked on since he was 14.（1）
　　"You don't often get a day off. Supermarkets put a lot of pressure on farmers to keep prices down. With fewer people working on farms it can be isolating," she said. "There is a high rate of suicide and farming will never make you rich!"
　　Oliver Robinson, 25, grew up on a farm in Yorkshire.（2）"I'm sure dad hoped I'd stay," he said. "I guess it's a nice, straightforward life, but it doesn't appeal. For young, ambitious people, farm life would be a hard world." For Robinson, farming doesn't offer much "in terms of money or lifestyle." Hollins agrees that economics stops people from pursuing farming rewards: "providing for a vital human need, while working outdoors with nature.” 　　

　　Farming is a big political issue in the UK.（3）The 2001 foot and mouth crisis closed thousands of farms, stopped meat exports, and raised public consciousness of troubles in UK farming.
　　Jamie Oliver's 2005 campaign to get children to eat healthily also highlighted the issue. This national concern spells（带来）hope for farmers competing with powerful supermarkets.（4）
　　"I started going to Farmers' Markets in direct defiance（蔑视）of the big supermarkets.（5）It's terrible, "said Londoner Michael Samson.
　　A.But he never considered staying on his father and grandfather's land.
　　B.While most people buy food from the big supermarkets, hundreds of independent Farmers' Markets are becoming popular.
　　C.While confident they will succeed, she lists farming's many challenges:
　　D.Young people prefer to live in cities.
　　E.I seriously objected to the super-sizing of everything-what exactly DO they put on our apples to make them so big and red?
　　F."Buy British" campaigns urge（鼓励）consumers not to buy cheaper imported foods.
　　【答疑编号20105101：针对该题提问】
　　答案：CAFBE

A Heroic Woman （B）

　　The whole of the United States cheered its latest hero, Ashley Smith, with the Federal Bureau of investigation saying it was planning to give a big reward to her for having a brave heart and wise mind.
　　（1）She was moving into her apartment in Atlanta, Georgia early on the morning of March 12,when a man followed her to her door and put a gun to her side." I started walking to my door, and I felt really, really afraid," she said in a TV interview last week. The man was Brian Nichols,33.He was suspected of killing three people at an Atlanta courthouse（法院）on March 11 and later of killing a federal agent.（2）
　　Nichols tied Smith up with tape, but released her after she repeatedly begged him not to take her life. "I told him if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn't have a mummy," she said. In order to calm the man down, she read to him from "The Purpose-Driven Life", a best-selling religious book. He asked her to repeat a paragraph "about what you thought your purpose in life was-what talents were you given."（3）
　　"I basically just talked to him and tried to gain his trust," Smith said.
　　Smith said she asked Nichols why he chose her. "He said he thought I was an angel sent from God, and we were Christian sister and brother," she said. "And that he was lost, and that God led him to me to tell him that he had hurt a lot of people."（4）She said Nichols was surprised when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched television coverage（报道）of the police hunt for him. "I cannot believe that's me," Nichols told the woman. Then, Nichols asked Smith what she thought he should do. She said, "I think you should turn yourself in. If you don't, lots more people are going to get hurt." 　　

　　Eventually, he let her go.（5）A US$60,000 reward had been posted for Nichols' capture. Authorities said they did not yet know if Smith would be eligible（有资格的）for that money.
　　A.The local police were searching for him.
　　B.Smith is a 26-year-old single mother with a daughter.
　　C.Smith tried very hard to kill Nichols.
　　D.She even cooked breakfast for the man before he allowed her to leave.
　　E.And the two of them discussed this topic.
　　F.Then she called the police.
　　【答疑编号20105201：针对该题提问】
　　答案：BAEDF

American Dreams （A）

　　There is a common response to America among foreign writers: the US is a land of extremes where the best of things are just as easily found as the worst. This is a cliche（陈词滥调）.
　　In the land of black and white, people should not be too surprised to find some of the biggest gaps between the rich and the poor in the world. But the American Dream offers a way out to everyone.（1）No class system or government stands in the way.
　　Sadly, this old argument is no longer true. Over the past few decades there has been a fundamental shift in the structure of the American economy.
　　The gap between the rich and the poor has widened and widened.（2）
　　Over the past 25 years the median US family income has gone up 18 per cent. For the top 1 per cent, however, it has gone up 200 per cent. Twenty-five years ago the top fifth of Americans had an average income 6.7 times that of the bottom fifth.（3）
　　Inequalities have grown worse in different regions. In California, incomes for lower class families have fallen by 4 per cent since 1969.（4）This has led to an economy hugely in favor of a small group of very rich Americans. The wealthiest 1 per cent of households now control a third of the national wealth. There are now 37 million Americans living in poverty. At 12.7 per cent of the population, it is the highest percentage in the developed world.
　　Yet the tax burden on America's rich is falling, not growing.（5）There was an economic theory holding that the rich spending more would benefit everyone as a whole. But clearly that theory has not worked in reality.
　　A.Nobody is poor in the US.
　　B.The top 0.01 per cent of households has seen its tax bite fall by a full 25 percentage points since 1980.
　　C.For upper class families they have risen 41 per cent.
　　D.Now it is 9.8 times.
　　E.As it does so, the possibility to cross that gap gets smaller and smaller.
　　F.All one has to do is to work hard and climb the ladder towards the top.
　　【答疑编号20105202：针对该题提问】
　　答案：FEDCB
　　特点：
　　1.文章体裁多样，题材以综合类文章为主；
　　2.没有专业区分；
　　3.同一级别的测试文章为同一篇文章；
　　4.测试文章不在教材范围内；
　　5.C级比A、B级稍难，更加强调文章的连贯性和逻辑性；
　　6.空格所填答案判断多与空格前一句有关。
　　应对：
　　阅读选项，从长的选项入手，寻找适合的空格位置；
　　分析选项：寻找与空格所在段落主题相同的词；寻找与空格前后句子相吻合的词（特别注意空格前句的主语提示词）；
　　其它判断不出的选项，可在其它较长选项中任选一未使用过的字母填入；
　　干扰选项的特点：句子简短、内容空泛、偏离主题、矛盾明显、语气绝对；
　　两项相同时，周围重复的词越多越可能是答案。