Unit 2 The Olympic Games Using language课时作业

Ⅰ.完形填空

　　Silence is unnatural to a man. He begins life with a cry and __1__ it in stillness. In between he does all he can to make a __2__ in the world, and he __3__ silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful __4__. If he is introduced to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he will regard himself as a __5__， a worthless person, and will be full of envy of the most empty­headed chatterbox (话多的人). He knows that ninety­nine percent of human __6__ means no more than the buzz of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to __7__ that he is a man and not a waxwork (蜡像)．

　　The aim of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to __8__ the buzzing sound. There are, it must be __9__， different qualities of buzzes; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito (蚊子)．__10__ at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzes，__11__，are pleasant to the ear, and some of them are pleasant even to the mind. He would be a(n) __12__ man if he waited until he had a wise __13__ to take part in the buzz with his neighbors.

　　Those who __14__ to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation __15__ learning anything new. Some of them are __16__ if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's __17__， though they have __18__ to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during __19__ they have said nothing meaningful for a long time, they just prove themselves to be __20__ conversationalists.

　　语篇解读：本文主要介绍了人们在日常生活中聊天的目的。在聊天的过程中，人们并不是交流所有的观点，而且绝大多数的聊天是没有意义的。

　　1．A.discusses　　　　　　 B．ends

　　C．leads D．faces

　　解析：选B　根据空格前的"begins life with a cry and"和空格后的stillness可推知，人生开始于啼哭，结束于沉寂。

　　2．A.word B．scream

　　C．living D．noise

　　解析：选D　根据下文中的"If he is introduced to ... envy of the most empty­headed chatterbox(话多的人)．"可知，他尽力制造声音。

3．A.fears B．appreciates