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.

　　【选项】

　　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】此处应填入谓语动词，由空格前的have可知需填入动词的过去分词。前一句讲到小社群正在消失，本句对此作进一步说明，在语义上与前一句为顺承关系，也应表示这些社群逐渐衰亡之势。故填入与disappearing近义的vanished"突然不见;消失"，表明其中一些社群已经消失了。

　　28.

　　【答案】M

　　【解析】根据空格前的have和空格后的名词changes，判断此处应填入及物动词的过去分词。空格所在的这个分句讲 到上述社群在接触机械文明后都发生了变化，all指代前面说的"小社群"。此处可以与changes搭配的谓语动词只有undergone"经历，经受;遭受"。

　　29.

　　【答案】D

　　【解析】空格位于an和machine civilization之间，故应填入以元音开头的分词、形容词或名词作machine civilization的定语。Expanding"扩大的;增加的"符合此处语境，社会的发展正是以机械化为主要特征的现代文明的逐步扩张的过程，伴随着小社群文明的逐步消失。

　　30.

　　【答案】H

　　【解析】空格所在句缺谓语动词，根据空格前的have和空格后的in，判断应填入不及物动词的过去分词。本句讲到早在殖民时期到达美国的老派阿米什人在现代社会中的状况。下一句讲他们在抵制同质化方面比起其他族群更成功。survived"活下来;幸存"填入后符合上下文语义，表明他们在现代社会中得以幸存。

　　31.

　　【答案】L

　　【解析】空格前的the homogenization和后面的比较级more successfully than others(作状语)表明此处应填入名词作宾语。下文描述了阿米什人不同于现代人的一些方面，可见阿米什人并没有在现代化进程中被改变、被同化，在很多方面依然保有自身的特点。process"过程，进程"填入后符合此处语义逻辑。

　　32.

　　【答案】L

　　【解析】空格所在的介词短语作状语，railway or bus这个并列结构作空格处的修饰成分，因此空格处应填入名词。

　　本句讲到很多美国人都会见到过阿米什人的家庭，空格所在的短句表明在哪里见过。此处符合语义逻辑的 是terminals"集散站;终点站"。

　　33.

　　【答案】E

　　【解析】空格在谓语live with和America之间，故应填入修饰America的形容词或分词。尽管阿米什人在美国生活了 长达两个半世纪以上，但他们的个人生活、家庭、社群和价值观并没有受到太大的影响。与原生态的阿米什人相比，美国无疑是现代化社会的典型代表，industrialized "工业化的"符合语境。

　　34.

　　【答案】F

　　【解析】

　　35.

　　【答案】B

　　【解析】

　　36.

　　【答案】G

　　【解析】根据空格前的引导词who和先行词good farmers可知，此处应填入动词，作定语从句的谓语。practice"实践;遵照(教义、观念等)行事"与宾语the virtues"美德"搭配合理，指他们践行着勤俭的美德。

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