大学生英语竞赛D类完形填空专项强化真题试卷6
完形填空
Jobs in the 21st Century
What will our world be like in 2050? Will families be smaller? Will people change jobs and careers frequently? Will there be more elderly people?
Around the world, people are living longer and staying【C1】______(healthy). People in 【C2】______(economical)rich societies are having fewer children. For example, in the United States in 1980, people over age 65 made up only 11. 3 percent of the total【C3】______ In 2050 they will make up over 22 percent. In the 1950s the【C4】av______families had 4. 8 children. Now the average family has less【C5】t______one child.
The aging population in the U. S. is going to【C6】af______ the job market a great deal. Health and【C7】______(entertain)industries will need many more workers to provide services for older Americans. Jobs in education, 【C8】es______ adult education, will be increasing, too, as these older Americans are probably going to go back to school again and【C9】______.
With fewer children, who will fill the jobs of the future? Will job competition decrease, while competition for workers increases? That will depend a great deal【C10】______ immigration, especially if U. S. citizens have fewer children.
1.【C1】
healthier
解析：(该空之前的and连接两个并列成分，因此该空应填人healthy的比较级形式，与前面的longer相对应。)
2.【C2】
economically
解析：(此处所填词修饰形容词rich，因此应当用economical的副词形式economically，指“经济发达的社会”。)
3.【C3】
population
解析：(该句指“在1980年，美国65岁以上的人只占到总人口的11．3％”，因此此处应填人population(人口)。)
4.【C4】
average
解析：(根据下句提到的“the average family”，可知该空应填average，指“在20世纪50年代，平均每个家庭有4．8个孩子”。)
5.【C5】
than
解析：(由该空前的比较级形式less，可知此处应填入连词than，该句指“如今，平均每个家庭有不到一个孩子”。)
6.【C6】
affect
解析：(根据上下文，可知该句指“美国的老龄化人口将对就业市场产生重大影响”，结合开头两个字母，可知该空应填入affect。)
7.【C7】
entertainment
解析：(该空由and连接与health为并列，因此应填人entertain的名词形式entertainment，指“卫生和娱乐行业”。)
8.【C8】
especially
解析：(此处指“教育行业，尤其是成人教育行业的工作也会增多”。especially尤其地，特别是。)
9.【C9】
again
解析：(该空所在分句给出教育行业的工作会增多的原因，即“越来越多的老年人很可能会不断返回学校”。again and again为固定搭配，指“再三地，反复地”。)
10.【C10】
on
解析：(该句指“在很大程度上，那将会依赖于移民……”，其中that指的是该段提到的一系列问题。depend on为固定搭配，意为“依赖；随……而定”。)
The Global Economy
Of all the sciences, only two are subjects that have a direct and【C1】______(notice)effect on our lives every day. One is meteorology, the study of【C2】wea______, Heat, cold, sun and rain affect us in many ways—in the kind【C3】______clothing we wear, for example, and the types of activities we do outdoors. Economics is the【C4】ot______science that affects the daily life of all of us. Each time we spend money, or it is spent on us, we are【C5】______(contribute)to the economic life of our country, and in fact, of the world.
Most people haves basic understanding of the weather, 【C6】b______how many people feel comfortable with the subject of economics? Often, economics seems to be a【C7】mys______subject. Newspapers and television use terminology that can sound【C8】______a foreign language. They speak of the gross【C9】______(nation)product, the balance of payments, the cost of living, interest, productivity, stocks and bonds, and so forth.
In some ways, economics is like an enormou
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