短文完成专项训练（一）evidently at times of likeA. look (1) _____a foolB. (2) ____to a significant degreeC. the way it would (3) ____ physical dangerWhy is stage fright so universal when it does not pose a physical threat?Our self-confidence and self-esteem are threatened, (4) ____. No normal person wants to (5) ____.Consequently, a speaking situation does involve threat, not physical but psychological. The brain instructs the body to react exactly (6) ____. In essence, the brain tells the body, " Get ready to fight off the danger or to run away from it".（二）far selling largelyA. it is (7) ____too soonB. so reports of sales are (8) _____inaccurateC. (9) ____everything from computer gear to income tax preparation serviceThe Internet offers, among other things, "an electronic mall" with scores of retailers, (10)____. As with anything on the Internet, it is highly decentralized, with no one authority keeping track of transactions, (11) ____. But many of the reports are discouraging.But (12)____ to sound the death knell(丧钟)for electronic retailing. One reason, say analysts and service providers, is that consumers are only beginning to understand the possibilities of the new technology.（三）as fast as outscoring them less and less concentrate onA. he stumbles (13) ____B. who were reading almost three times (14) ____the other childrenC. still (15) ____on accuracy, comprehension and vocabularyD. so he can (16) ____the meaning of the textA child learns to read by sounding out the letters and decoding the words. With practice, (17) ____, reading by the phrase. With automaticity, he does not have to think about decoding the words, (18) ____.It can begin as early as first grade. In a recent study of children in Illinois schools, Alan Rossman of Northwest University found automatic readers in the first grade (19) ____ and scoring twice as high on comprehension tests. At fifth grade, the automatic readers were reading twice as fast as the others, and (20) ____.（四）to scope withA. a large population gives more (1) ____forB. (2) ____feed a large populationC. could be obtained (3) _____a small populationThe advantages and disadvantages of a large population have long been a subject of discussion among economists. It has been argued that the supply of good land is limited. (4)____, inferior land must be cultivated and the good land worked intensively. Thus, each person produces less and this means a lower average income than (5) ____. Other economists have argued that (6) ____specialization and the development of facilities such as ports, roads and railways, which are not likely to be built unless there is a big demand to justify them.（五）likely conclusive susceptibleA. is not (7) ____aboutB. also were (8) ____to alcoholismC. was more (9) ____to take upThis evidence in itself (10) ____anything. After all, it may be the constant exposure and easy access to alcohol that cause the children of alcoholics to become alcoholics themselves. But there is more evidence. The study found that children bore to alcoholic parents but raised bynon-drinking foster parents (11) _____. This group of offspring (12) ____drinking than youngsters who were born of and raised by non-drinking parents.（六）What we need all the credit in the home of the childA. to the healthy development (13) ____B. (14) ____, rather, isC. to analyze men's place (15) ____D. should not receive (16) ____---not all the blameIt is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of "Momism"---but we don't want to exchange it for a "neo-Popism". (17) ____the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women (18) ____. We have almost given up saying that a woman's place is in the home. We are beginning, however, (19) ____and no insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant (20) ____.(七)those much ratherA.most of us perform it (1) ____effortlesslyB.(2) ____of social interaction consists ofC.This means that we fit our actions to (3) ____The statuses we assume often vary with the people we encounter, and change throughout life. Most of us can, at very high speed, assume the statuses that various situations require. (4)____identifying and selecting among appropriate statuses and allowing other people to assume their statuses in relation to us. (5) ____of other people based on a constant mental process of appraisal and interpretation. Although some of us find the task more difficult than others, (6) ____.(八)over only completelyA.wanting (7) ____to sleepB.cleaned out all her closets (8) _____C.becoming so (9) ____energizedSome people seem to lose all their energy and drive, (10) ____. Others react in exactly the opposite way, (11) ____that they can’t find enough activity to burn off their excess energy. Forinstance, one woman said she (12) ____and was ready to go next door to start on her neighbor’s. Both these extremes, however, eventually level off. The symptoms may be intense for two or three days, but within 10 to 14 days after quitting, most subside. The truth is that after people quit smoking, they have more energy; they generally will need less sleep, and feel better about themselves.(九)in family shelters on a regular basis cast off less thanA.who have been (13) ____their homesB. a third of whom do not attend school (14) _____C.that (15) _____half of them attend school regularlyD.because they do not stay (16) ____The number of homeless Americans ranges from 350,000 to three million. Likewise, estimates of the number of homeless school children vary radically. A. U.S Department of Education report, based on state estimates, states that there are 220,000 homeless school-aged children, about (17) ____. But the National Coalition for the Homeless estimates that there are at least two times as many homeless children , and (18) _____.One part of the homeless population that is particularly difficult to count consists of the “throwaway” youths (19) ____. The Elementary School Center in New York City estimates that there are 1.5 million of them, many of whom are not counted as children (20) ____ and tend to live by themselves on the streets.。