2015年职称英语考试真题答案(综合类A级)

　　第6部分：完形填空(第51-555题，每题1分，共15分)

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　　The Beginning of American Literature

　　America has always been a land of beginnings. After Europeans "discovered" America

　　n the fifteenth century, the mysterious New World became for many people a genuine -- (51) of a new life, an escape from poverty and persecution, a chance to --as a nation, America begins with that hope. _ (52) again. We can say that, as (53) , however, does American literature begin? _ (54). Long before the first American literature begins with American colonists arrived, native Americans—— (55) here. Each tribe's literature was tightly woven into the fabric of daily life and _ (56) the unmistakably American experience of lining with the land. Another kind of experience, one filled with fear and excitement,____ (57) its expression in the reports that Columbus and other explorers _ (58) home. In addition, the _ (59) of the people who lived and died in the New England wilderness _ (60) unforgettable tales of hard and sometimes heartbreaking experiences of those early years.

　　Experience, then, is the _ (61) to early American literature. The New World provided a great variety of experiences, and _ _ (62) experiences demanded a wide variety of expressions by an even wider variety of early American writers.

　　These writers____ (63) John Smith, who spent only two-and-a-half years on the American continent. They included Jonathan Edwards and William Byrd, who thought of themselves_ _ (64) British subjects, never suspecting a revolution that would _ 65a United States of America with a literature of its own. American Indians, explorers, Puritan (清教徒) ministers, frontier wives, plantation owners – they are all the creators of the first American literature.

　　51 A article B hope C-concern D respect

　　52 A rise B discover C fall D start

　　53 A Which B What - C When D Why

　　54 A experiences B dreams C calls D efforts

　　55 A arrived B lived C left D fled

　　56 A provided B offered C reflected D gained

　　57 A found B caught C observed D changed

　　58 A abandoned B went C built D sent

　　59 A journeys B journals C belongings D deaths

　　60 A tell B read C write D hear

　　61 A point B beginning C key D reference

　　62 A these B both C all D other

　　63 A studied B exposed C described D included

　　64 A towards B as C like D with

　　65 A praise B give C create D treat