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1、银行校园招聘考试英语部分专项训练（六）Section Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. A recent poll indicated that half the teenagers in the United States believe that communication between them and their parents is_1_an
2、d further that one of the prime causes of this gap is _2_listening behavior. As a(an)_3_ in point, one parent believed that her daughter had a severe_4_problem. She was so _5_that she took her to an audiologist to have her ear tested. The audiologist carefully tested both ears and reported back to t
3、he parent:“Theres nothing wrong with her hearing. Shes just _6_you out.”A leading cause of the _7_divorce rate (more than half of all marriages end in divorce) is the failure of husbands and wives to _8_effectively. They dont listen to each other. Neither person_9_to the actual message sent by the o
4、ther.In _10_fashion, political scientists report that a growing number of people believe that their elected and _11_officials are out of_12_with the constituents they are supposedly _13_. Why? Because they dont believe that they listen to them. In fact, it seems that sometimes our politicians dont e
5、ven listen to themselves. The following is a true story: At a national_14_conference held in Albuquerque some years ago, then Senator Joseph Montoya was_15_a copy of a press release by a press aide shortly before he got up before the audience to_16_ a speech. When he rose to speak,_17_the horror of
6、the press aide and the_18_of his audience, Montoya began reading the press release, not his speech. He began, “For immediate release. Senator Joseph M. Montoya, Democrat of New Mexico, last night told the National.” Montoya read the entire six-page release,_19_ with the statement that he “was repeat
7、edly _20_by applause.”1.A scarceB littleC rareD poor2.A malignantB deficientC ineffectiveD feeble 3.A caseB exampleC lessonD suggestion4.A audioB auralC hearingD listening5.A believingB convincedC assuredD doubtless6.A turning B tuning C tucking D tugging7.A risingB arisingC raisingD arousing 8.A ex
8、changeB interchangeC encounterD interact9.A relatesB refersC respondsD resorts10.A likeB alikeC likelyD likewise11.A nominatedB selectedC appointedD supported12.A connectionB reachC associationD touch13.A leadingB representingCdelegatingD supporting 14.A legislative B legitimate C legalized D libera
9、l15.A distributedB awardedC handedD submitted16.A presentB publishC deliverD pursue17.A to B with C for D on18.A joyB enjoymentC amusementD delight19.A concludeB to concludeC concludingD concluded20.A disruptedB interferedC interruptedD stoppedSection Reading ComprehensionDirections:Read the followi
10、ng four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. Text 1As a young bond trader, Buttonwood was given two pieces of advice, trading rules of thumb, if you will: that bad economic news is good news for bond markets and that every utteran
11、ce dropping from the lips of Paul Volcker, the then chairman of the Federal Reserve, and the man who restored the central banks credibility by stomping on runaway inflation, should be respected than Popes orders. Todays traders are, of course, a more sophisticated bunch. But the advice still seems g
12、ood, apart from two slight drawbacks. The first is that the well-chosen utterances from the present chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, is of more than passing difficulty. The second is that, of late, good news for the economy has not seemed to upset bond investors all that much. For al
13、l the cheer that has crackled down the wires, the yield on ten-year bondswhich you would expect to rise on good economic newsis now, at 4.2%, only two-fifths of a percentage point higher than it was at the start of the year. Pretty much unmoved, in other words.Yet the news from the economic front ha
14、s been better by far than anyone could have expected. On Tuesday November 25th, revised numbers showed that Americas economy grew by an annual 8.2% in the third quarter, a full percentage point more than originally thought, driven by the ever-spendthrift American consumer and, for once, corporate in
15、vestment. Just about every other piece of information coming out from special sources shows the same strength. New houses are still being built at a fair clip. Exports are rising, for all the protectionist crying. Even employment, in what had been mocked as a jobless recovery, increased by 125,000 or thereabouts in September and October. Rising corpo
