Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D at the end of the passage. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
About 40 percent of Americans think of themselves as shy, while only 20 percent say they have never suffered from shyness at some point in their lives. Shyness occurs when a person’s apprehensions are so great that they [41] his making an expected, or desired social response. [42] of shyness can be as minor as [43] to make eye contact when speaking to someone, [44] as major as avoiding conversations whenever possible.
“Shy people tend to be too [45] with themselves,” said Jonathan Cheek, a psychologist, who is one of those at the forefront of current research on the topic. “[46], for a smooth conversation, you need to pay attention to the other person’s cues--[47] he is saying and doing. But the shy person is full of [48] about how he seems to the other person, and so he often [49] cues he should pick up. The result is an awkward lag in the conversation. Shy people need to stop focusing on [50] and switch their attention to the other person.”
[51], shy people by and large have [52] social abilities than they think they do. [53] Dr. Cheek videotaped shy people talking to [54], and then had raters evaluate how socially skilled the people were, he found that, in the [55] of other people, the shy group had few [56] problems. But when he asked the shy people themselves [57] they had done, they were unanimous in saying that they had been social flops.
“Shy people are their own [58] critics,” Dr. Cheek said. [59], he added, shy people feel they are being judged more [60] than they actually are, and overestimate how obvious their social anxiety is to others.
41．A. inhibit
B. keep
C. motivate
D. prevent
42．A. Highlights
B. Incidences
C. Signa
D. Symptoms
43．A. acting
B. failing
C. responding
D. succeeding
44．A. but
B. nor
C. not
D. or
45．A. absorbedB. engaged
C. indulged
D. preoccupied
46．A. For example
B. However
C. Instead
D. Then
47．A. how
B. that
C. what
D. which
48．A. emotions
B. feelings
C. indifferences
D. worries
49．A. catches
B. follows
C. misses
D. picks up
50．A. others
B. shyness
C. the conversation
D. themselves
51．A. However
B. Therefore
C. Similarly
D. On the contrary
52．A. as good
B. better
C. best
D. worse
53．A. As
B. When C. While
D. Since
54．A. friends
B. others
C. strangers
D. themselves
55．A. eyes
B. case
C. name
D. terms
56．A. oblivious
B. oblique
C. obvious
D. obscure
57．A. how
B. however
C. what
D. whatever
58．A. best
B. fair
C. justice
D. worst
59．A. In particular
B. In contrast
C. In general
D. In Comparison
60．A. negatively
B. objectively
C. positively
D. subjectively
【答案与解析】

41．
A句意：一个人会害羞是因为他过于忧虑以至于未能做出期待中的回应。inhibit后可直接跟名词，表示抑制 ……。prevent和keep与from连用，prevent/keep sb. from doing sth.阻止某人做某事。motivate不符合句意。

42． Dsymptom意为 “症状，病症”，在文中的意思是“害羞的症状就是……”。

43． B句意：害羞的人不能在与别人交谈时与别人进行眼神交流。fail todo sth.不能做某事。

44．
Dor表示一种选择关系，根据上句...can be as minoras...， “可能小到……”，又根据后面的...as majoras...， “可能大到……”。

45．
D句意：害羞的人趋于对他们自己过分关注。preoccupied使全神贯注；使入神。其他三项都只能与介词in搭配。

46．
A因为前面提出一个观点，害羞的人往往过分关注自己，这里便举例证明这个观点。

47．
Ccues意为 “（言词、行为之）暗示，提示 ”。后面一句是用来解释说明cues的，应选What he is saying and doing.他在说什么话和做着什么动作。

48．
D句意：害羞的人过分担心自己在他人眼中的形象，因此往往没有察觉到别人言语或行为上的暗示。因此用worries一词。

49．C句意参考上题解析。miss错过，未听到，未见到，未察觉。

50．
D前面提到，害羞的人是趋于关注“自己”的，因此，此处应用themselves。

51．
A根据后一句，害羞的人的社交能力往往比他们自己想的要强，与前文谈害羞的人的缺点相比，可知这里有一个转折语气。四个选项中只有however能表示转折。

52．
B句意：害羞的人的社交能力比他们所认为的要强。

53．
B句意：当Cheek博士拍摄害羞的人与他人谈话的情景时，发现 ……。

54．
C前面说到社交能力，所以此处用strangers最为恰当。

55．Ain
the eyes of sb.意为 “在某人看来”。



56． Cobvious明显的。oblivious未注意的，未察觉的。oblique倾斜的；拐弯抹角的。obscure晦涩难懂的。

57．
A研究者问了别人对害羞者行为的评价后，又问他们自己觉得自己表现怎么样。因此选用how。

58．
D根据前文，害羞者总是觉得自己表现不好，因此选用worst，句意为：害羞的人是对他们自己评价最差的人。

59．Cin
general总体上来说。in particular尤其是。in contrast相对比而言。in comparison相比较而言。

60． A句意：害羞的人趋于对自己有过于否定的评价。negatively消极地，否定地。


Part III. Reading Comprehension [60 points; 30 minutes]
Section A: Multiple-Choice Questions [30 points; 10 minutes]
Directions: In this section there are two reading passages, with each passage followed by FIVE multiple-choice questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose ONE answer that best answers the question or completes the statement. Then write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
Passage ONE
The proposal of a single six-year term for the President of the United States has been around for a long time. High-minded people have urged it from the beginning of the Republic. The Constitutional Convention turned it down in 1787, and recurrent efforts to put it in the Constitution have regularly failed in the two centuries since. Quite right: it is a terrible idea for a number of reasons, among them is that it is at war with the philosophy of democracy.
The basic argument for the one-term, six-year presidency is that the quest for reelection is at the heart of our problems with self-government. The desire for reelection, it is claimed, drives Presidents to do things they would not otherwise do. It leads them to make easy promises and to postpone hard decisions. A single six-year term would liberate Presidents from the pressures and temptations of politics. Instead of worrying about reelection, they would be free to do only what was best for the country.
The argument is superficially attractive. But when you think about it, it is profoundly antidemocratic in its implications. It assumes Presidents know better than anyone else what is best for the country and that the people are so wrongheaded and ignorant that Presidents should be encouraged to disregard their wishes. It assumes that the less responsive a President is to popular desires and needs, the better President he or she will be. It assumes that the democratic process is the obstacle to wise decisions.
The theory of American democracy is quite the opposite. It is that the give-and-take of the democratic process is the best source of wise decisions. It is that the President’s duty is not to ignore and override the popular concerns but to acknowledge and heed them. It is that the President’s accountability to the popular will is the best guarantee that he or she will do a good job.
The one-term limitation, as Gouvemeur Morris, final draftsman of the Constitution, persuaded the convention, would “destroy the great motive to good behavior,” which is the hope of reelection. A President, said Oliver Ellsworth, another Founding Father, “should be reelected if his Conduct prove worthy of it. And he will be more likely to render himself worthy of it if he be rewardable with it.”
The ban on reelection has other perverse consequences. Forbidding a President to run again, Gouvemeur Morris said, is “as much as to say that we should give him the benefit of experience, and then deprive ourselves of use of it.” George Washington stoutly opposed the idea. “I can see no propriety,” he wrote, “in precluding ourselves from the service of any man, who on some great emergency shall be deemed universally most capable of serving the public.”
A single six-year term would release Presidents from the test of submitting their records to the voters. It would be an impeachment of the democratic process itself. The Founding Fathers were everlastingly right when they turned down this well-intentioned but ill-considered proposal 200 years ago.
61． The main idea of the passage is that United States Presidents should _____.

A. have wide political experience
B. serve for a term of less than six years
C. be allowed to be reelected
D. serve for a term of more than six years

62．
According to the author, which of the following statements is the main argument for a one-term, six-year presidency?