暑假补课高二英语尖子考试试题.doc

广东省浪潮培训学校2012年暑假补课 高二英语尖子考试试题 第二部分：语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分） 第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Most of you graduating today will be employees all your working life, working for somebody else and for a paycheck. And so will most, 21 not all, of the thousands of other young Americans graduating this year in all the other schools and colleges across the country. Ours has become a society of employees. A hundred years or so ago only one 22 every five Americans at work was employed, i.e. , worked for somebody else. Today only 20% of Americans are not employed but working for themselves. And while fifty years ago “being employed” meant 23 as a factory laborer or as a farmhand, the employee of today is increasingly a middle-class person with a substantial formal education, holding a professional or management job requiring 24 and technical skills. 25 , two things have characterized American society during these last fifty years: the middle and upper classes have become employees; and middle-class and 26 employees have been the fastest growing groups in our working population-growing so fast that the industrial worker, the 27 child of the industrial Revolution, has been losing the importance despite the expansion of industrial production. This is one of the most profound social changes any country has undergone. It is, however, a perhaps even greater change for the individual young man about to start. Whatever he does, in all likelihood, he will do it as an employee; wherever he aims, he will have to try to reach it 28 being an employee. As an employee you work with and through other people. This means that your success as an employee will 29 on your ability to communicate with people and to present your own thoughts and ideas to them 30 they will both understand what you are thinking about and be persuaded. The letter, the report or memorandum, the ten-minute spoken “presentation” to a