大学生英语竞赛A类完形填空专项强化真题试卷10
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By cutting out the middle man and booking your own flights, you can save up to 40 per cent of the cost of a holiday. If you compare this to the price of a hotel stay, the【66】(save) can be even more impressive.
In some of the most exclusive holiday resorts among the Mediterranean, hotels ch【67】a fortune. Yet for【68】to 50 per cent less you can often get tons more space and your own private pad with the opportunity to cook up a storm and save cash on exp【69】hotel meals.
You have to be careful, th【70】.
There have been horror stories ov【71】the years of people booking villas direct with owners, only to lose everything to phony companies or con artists.
If you do choose to go direct, I would recommend【72】(book) with one of the big listing sites on the Internet【73】as Holiday-rentals. co. uk.
1.
savings
解析：本段提到如果不要中间人直接订机票可以为度假节省40%的开支。和住酒店的开销相比，能够节省的钱更为可观。savings节省的钱，储蓄。
2.
charge
解析：此处指酒店要价很高。以ch开头，选用charge要价，收费。
3.
up
解析：up to多达，直到，接近于。为固定用法。
4.
expensive
解析：前文提到酒店消费昂贵。此处是指可以在这种昂贵的酒店省钱。
5.
though
解析：然而，你必须小心。though可是，然而，不过。
6.
over
解析：over the years多年来，历年。为固定说法。
7.
booking
解析：recommend后面跟名词或者动名词。
8.
such
解析：such as例如，诸如。
9.
properties
解析：注意下文出现owner一词，表示业主，可以帮助推断此处是房产的意思。property除可以表示财产之外，还指房地产、不动产。
10.
if
解析：如果发生了最坏的事情。if表示假设。
11.
exist
解析：别墅或者业主根本不存在。exist存在，出现。
12.
favourite
解析：favourite destination最向往的目的地。
13.
compared
解析：comparison对应的动词为compare。同时参考本段第一句话got所表示的时态，用一般过去时。
14.
Both
解析：hotel和villa rentals这两者都…。both表示两者都…。
15.
peak
解析：peak season旺季，为固定说法。
I wish my memory worked differently. 1 d like to be able to conjure up an accurate image of my【46】____(conscious) from, say, 25 years ago. You know what 25 years means? No cellphones, no e-mail, no Internet, no social networking (except with an actual drink in hand) , and only the most primitive of personal computers. What I want to answer is a single【47】______: Was I as addicted to the future than as I seem to be now? I ask this because ! really enjoy a new update to my operating system, like the one I【48】down______ from Apple earlier this week. I find it【49】______ (surprise) pleasing when one of my iPhone applications requests an update too. Every day I await, with anticipation, a long list of email messages that could arrive at any second, and there are several people I\’ m really eager to get a text message【50】______. Those, too, could come at any time. Soon—even now—I could find my feed-list in Google Reader delightfully stuffed with newness, I am not a Twitterer, hut I understand the dismay the Twitter world must have felt during its service【51】______ (disrupt) last week.
When I think back 25 years, there just wasn\’t that much to be waiting【52】______. The phone might ring—and if you left home, you had to leave without it. The mail would come, and so mig
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