专业四级考前恶补:阅读完型(十一)TEM考试

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  PART Ⅰ [15 MIN.]

  Decide which of the choices given below would correctly complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the correct choice for each blank on your ANSWER SHEET.

  We all know that a magician does not really depend on “magic” to perform his tricks, but on his ability to act at great speed. ___ 1___, this does not prevent us from enjoying watching a magician ___ 2___ rabbits from a hat. ___ 3___ the greatest magician of all time was Harry Houdini who died in 1926. Houdini mastered the art of ___ 4___. He could free himself from the tightest knots or the most complicated locks in seconds. ___ 5___ no one really knows how he did this, there is no doubt ___ 6___ he had made a close study of every type of lock ever invented. He liked to carry a small steel needlelike tool strapped to his leg and he used this in place of a key. Houdini once asked the Chicago police to lock him in prison. They ___ 7 ___ him in chains and locked him up, but he freed himself___ 8 ____ an instant. The police ___ 9___ him of having used a tool and locked him up again. This time he wore no clothes and there were chains round his neck, waist, wrists, and legs. but he again escaped in a few minutes. Houdini had probably hidden his “needle” in a wax like ___ 10 ____ and 0dropped it on the floor in the passage. ___ 11___ he went past, he stepped on it so that it stuck to the bottom of his foot. His most famous escape, however, was ___ 12___ astonishing. He was heavily chained up and enclosed in an empty wooden chest, the lid of ___ 13 ____ was nailed down. The ___ 14___ was 0dropped into the sea in New York harbor. In one minute Houdini had swum to the surface. When the chest was___ 15___, it was opened and the chains were found inside.

1. A. Generally B. However C. Possibly D. Likewise

2. A. to produce B. who producesC. produce D. how to produce

3. A. Out of the question B. ThoughC. Probably D. Undoubted 

4. A. escaping B. locking C. opening D. 0dropping

5. A. Surprisingly B. Obviously C. Perhaps D. Although

6. A. if B. whether C. as to D. that

7. A. involved B. closed C. connected D. bound

8. A. at B. by C. in D. for

9. A. rid B. charged C. accused D. deprived

10. A. candle B. mud C. something D. substance

11. A. As B. Usually C. Maybe D. Then

12. A. overall B. all but C. no longer D. altogether

13. A. it B. which C. that D. him

14. A. chest B. body C. lid D. chain

15. A. brought up B. sunk C. broken apart D. snapped

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