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Silence is unnatural to a man. He begins life with a cry and     1     it in stillness. In between he does all he can to make a     2     in the world, and he     3     silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful     4      he is introduced to another person,and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he will regard himself as a     5     , a worthless person, and will be full of envy of the most empty-headed chatterbox (話多的人). He knows that ninety-nine percent of human     6     means no more than the Buzz of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to     7     that he is a man and not a waxwork (蠟像).  

    The     8     of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to     9     the buzzing  sound. There are, it must be     10      , different qualities of buzzes; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito (蚊子).       11     at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzes,       12      ,are pleasant to the ear, and some of them are pleasant even to the mind. He would be a ( n)     13     man if he waited until he had a wise     14     to take part in the buzz with his neighbors .  

    Those who     15     to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation     16     learning anything new. Some of them are     17     if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people’s     18     ,though they have     19     to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time, they just prove themselves to be ​    20     conversationalists.  

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【回答】

B  D  A  C  D

B  B  B  C  D

A  A  C  B  D

A  C  D  A  C

解析：1. B【解題思路】根據空前的"begins life with a cry and"和空後的 stillness可推知，人生開始於啼哭,結束於沉寂。

2. D【解題思路】根據下文中的"If he is introduced of the most empty-headed chatterbox (話多的人）"可知，他盡力製造聲音。

3. A 【解題思路】根據"In between he does all he can to make a 2 in the world"以及下文中的"fearful"的提示可知，他害怕沉以 A項正確：

4. C【解題思路】根據上下文可知，甚至他（與他人）的交談也在試圖阻止可怕的沉默。

5. D【解題思路】由空後的a worthless person可知，如果在自己被介紹給他人時遇到了許多談話的中斷，那麼他就認為自己是個 失敗者，是一個無用的人。

6. B【~解題路】他知道人心絕大部分的談話都空洞無物，像蒼蠅的嗡嗡聲，但他還是急於加人他們並且急於*他是一個人而 不是一個蠟像。根據上文講人們製造聲音來打破沉默以及下文 多處提到的conversation可知此處指談話。

7. B【解題思路】參見上題解析。故B項符合語境。

8. B【解題思路】人們談話大部分不是為了交流想法，而是為了把談論繼續下去。故選B項，aim"目標，目的，意圖"。

9. C【解題思路】參見上題解析。show up"露面"；make up"虛構；keep up "保持，持續，繼續下去"；hold up"支撐"。

10. D【解題思路】人們必須承認，嘈雜聲有不同的特點。recognise"認識，認出"；realize"意識到"；expect"預計，期待"；admit"承 認D項符合語境

11. A【解題思路】嘈雜聲雖然令人厭煩，但在宴會上，一個人寧可做一個像蚊子那般不斷髮出嘈雜聲的人也不願意沉默。前後 兩句為轉折關係，故用But。

12. A【解題思路】根據"are pleasant to the ear"可知，幸運的是，這些嗡嗡的嘈雜聲大多還是令人愉快的，所以A項符合語境。

13. C【解題思路】如果一個人直到有了一個合理恰當的想法才加入談話，那他就會顯得愚蠢。

14.【解題思路】參見上題解析。故B項符合語境。

15. D 【解題思路】根據"not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk"可知，此處指那些不喜歡以天氣作為談話開端的人。

16. A【解題思路】大家都知道很多聊天沒有實際內容，所以很少有人抱着學新東西的目的去聊天。in the hope of "懷着……的 希望"，符合語境。

17. C【解題思路】一些人只要獲准給其他人的耳朵製造聲音就滿足了。nervous"神經緊張的"；disappointed"失望的，沮喪的"； satisfied"滿意的，滿足的"；cautious"謹慎的，小心的"。

18. D【解題思路】參見上題解析。D項符合語境。

19. A【解題思路】他們在談話中除了談一些生活瑣事以外，沒有什麼可以告訴他人的。故選A。

20. C【解題思路】在晚上結束的時候，他們長時間的談話空洞無物，只*了自己是成功的健談者。

知識點：科普環保類

題型：完型填空