Part V Cloze (15 minutes)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B),C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
For too many young people today, citizenship is an abstract concept, not a part of their daily lives. By calling on our 67 to help their neighbors, school-based community service teaches an important 68 that being an American 69 both rights and responsibilities. It's at least as important a(n) 70 as mathematics or physics, maybe more.
It's a myth, pure and simple, that supporting a mandatory" (义务性的) community service requirement automatically means 71 individual rights. On the contrary, it can be a 72 sign that schools are 73 service and citizenship seriously. My organization 74 to no one in the passionate defense of cherished American 75 and freedom, whether it's freedom of speech, religion, reproductive rights or civil rights. We also 76 just as strongly, however, that the spirit of community 77 the freedom we enjoy.
School-based programs can and should be designed to 78 that community spirit, while carefully safeguarding First Amendment protections.
To 79 both goals, they must have clear 80 purposes and components. A wide range of service 81 must be provided so that young people aren't forced to participate in activities that make them uncomfortable. This is 82 common sense.
The idea of service is 83 new or startling(令人吃惊的). Just look at the warm and overwhelming response 84 disasters like Hurricane Andrew. There's nothing 85 with trying to impart the 86 ethic of helping others to a new generation.
67. A) citizens
B) teachers
C) youth
D) family
68. A) idea
B) reason
C) example
D) lesson
69. A) requires
B) involves
C) demands
D) consists
70. A) achievement
B) replacement
C) requirement
D) advancement
71. A) surrendering
B) suspending
C) surveying
D) surviving
72. A) marked
C) affirmative
B) positive
D) negative
73. A) taking
B) viewing
C) seeing
D) thinking
74. A) agrees
B) fails
C) turns
D) yields
75. A) responsibilities
B) duties
C) fights
D) opinions
76. A) suspect
B) believe
C) assume
D) state
77. A) sustains
B) supplements
C) summons
D) suggests
78. A) formulate
B) forge
C) foster
D) forbid
79. A) include
B) meet
C) acquire
D) arrive
80. A) supervisory
B) instructive
C) tutorial
D) educational
81.A) forms
B) options
C) tools
D) titles
82. A) very
B) specially
C) plain
D) particularly
83. A) anything
B) everything
C) nothing
D) something
84. A) for
B) about
C) by
D) to
85. A) right
B) wrong
C) difficult
D) easy
86. A) valuable
B) value-free
C) valueless
D) useful