Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

　　Small communities, with their distinctive character-where life is stable and intensely human-are disappearing. Some have _____ (27) from the face of the earth, others are dying slowly, but all have _____ (28) changes as they have come into contact with an _____ (29) machine civilization. The merging of diverse peoples into a common mass has produced tension among members of the minorities and the majority alike.

　　The Old Order Amish, who arrived on American shores in colonial times, have _____ (30) in the modem world in distinctive, small communities. They have resisted the homogenization _____ (31) more successfully than others. In planting and harvest time one can see their bearded men working the fields with horses and their women hanging out the laundry in neat rows to dry. Many American people have seen Amish families, with the men wearing broad-brimmed black hats and the women in long dresses, in railway or bus _____ (32). Although the Amish have lived with _____ (33) America for over two and a half centuries, they have moderated its influence on their personal lives, their families, communities, and their values.

　　The Amish are often _____ (34) by other Americans to be relics of the past who live a simple, inflexible life dedicated to inconvenient out-dated customs. They are seen as abandoning both modern _____ (35) and the American dream of success and progress. But most people have no quarrel with the Amish for doing things the old-fashioned way. Their conscientious objection was tolerated in wartime, for after all, they are good farmers who _____ (36) the virtues of work and thrift.

　　【選項】

　　A.accessing

　　B.conveniences

　　C.destined

　　D.expanding

　　E.industrialized

　　F.perceived

　　G.practice

　　H.process

　　I.progress

　　J.respective

　　K.survived

　　L.terminals

　　M.undergone

　　N.universal

　　O.vanished

　　27.

　　【答案】O

　　【解析】此處應填入謂語動詞，由空格前的have可知需填入動詞的過去分詞。前一句講到小社群正在消失，本句對此作進一步說明，在語義上與前一句為順承關系，也應表示這些社群逐漸衰亡之勢。故填入與disappearing近義的vanished"突然不見;消失"，表明其中一些社群已經消失了。

　　28.

　　【答案】M

　　【解析】根據空格前的have和空格后的名詞changes，判斷此處應填入及物動詞的過去分詞�？崭袼�在的這個分句講 到上述社群在接觸機械文明后都發生了變化，all指代前面說的"小社群"。此處可以與changes搭配的謂語動詞只有undergone"經歷，經受;遭受"。

　　29.

　　【答案】D

　　【解析】空格位于an和machine civilization之間，故應填入以元音開頭的分詞、形容詞或名詞作machine civilization的定語。Expanding"擴大的;增加的"符合此處語境，社會的發展正是以機械化為主要特征的現代文明的逐步擴張的過程，伴隨著小社群文明的逐步消失。

　　30.

　　【答案】H

　　【解析】空格所在句缺謂語動詞，根據空格前的have和空格后的in，判斷應填入不及物動詞的過去分詞。本句講到早在殖民時期到達美國的老派阿米什人在現代社會中的狀況。下一句講他們在抵制同質化方面比起其他族群更成功。survived"活下來;幸存"填入后符合上下文語義，表明他們在現代社會中得以幸存。

　　31.

　　【答案】L

　　【解析】空格前的the homogenization和后面的比較級more successfully than others(作狀語)表明此處應填入名詞作賓語。下文描述了阿米什人不同于現代人的一些方面，可見阿米什人并沒有在現代化進程中被改變、被同化，在很多方面依然保有自身的特點。process"過程，進程"填入后符合此處語義邏輯。

　　32.

　　【答案】L

　　【解析】空格所在的介詞短語作狀語，railway or bus這個并列結構作空格處的修飾成分，因此空格處應填入名詞。

　　本句講到很多美國人都會見到過阿米什人的家庭，空格所在的短句表明在哪里見過。此處符合語義邏輯的 是terminals"集散站;終點站"。

　　33.

　　【答案】E

　　【解析】空格在謂語live with和America之間，故應填入修飾America的形容詞或分詞。盡管阿米什人在美國生活了 長達兩個半世紀以上，但他們的個人生活、家庭、社群和價值觀并沒有受到太大的影響。與原生態的阿米什人相比，美國無疑是現代化社會的典型代表，industrialized "工業化的"符合語境。

　　34.

　　【答案】F

　　【解析】

　　35.

　　【答案】B

　　【解析】

　　36.

　　【答案】G

　　【解析】根據空格前的引導詞who和先行詞good farmers可知，此處應填入動詞，作定語從句的謂語。practice"實踐;遵照(教義、觀念等)行事"與賓語the virtues"美德"搭配合理，指他們踐行著勤儉的美德。

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