Question

Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

“Melting pot” means a place where people from many different ethnic groups or cultures form a united society. The idea comes from 1. (heat) metals in a container. When they melt, the metals unite and become  2. new and stronger. This term has been used to describe the United States as a nation created from people who came here from many different countries.

A Frenchman who was living in America expressed the idea more than 200 years ago. J. Hector de Crevecoeur 3. (publish) a book called Letters From an American Farmer in 1782. He wrote that America had people from many different countries. He said that they would become a new people 4. work would one day change the world.

For many years, Americans generally accept the idea 5. their country is a melting pot. They welcome immigrants from many nations. Yet some of those immigrants criticize the melting pot idea. They feel they are forced to lose their culture and language 6. (accept) in America. Other people also criticize the idea. They say the aim of the melting pot is to make different cultures disappear into the one 7. (represent) the largest group.

New groups of immigrants from Asia and Latin America are changing the United States today. Some are resisting learning American culture and language. Reports say some Americans fear that the nation is separating into many groups that have no 8. (share) purpose. Others say the melting pot is no longer changing the nation’s immigrants, but the immigrants are changing America.

Some experts who study immigration say they now compare American society 9. a salad bowl. A salad is made of many different foods. They each keep their own taste 10.being part of a successful product. In this way, cultural groups keep their customs and language and are still part of American society.

Answer

1.heating

2.something

3.published

4.whose

5.of

6.to be accepted

7.representing

8.shared

9.to

10.while/when

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。文章说明了美国社会现在像沙拉碗，使不同的文化和语言保持了特色的同时，也获得了认可。

1.

考查动名词。句意：此概念源自把各种金属放到冶炼容器里一起加热这一工序。come from意为“来自于”，from是介词，后接名词或动名词。此处动名词heating作come from的宾语。故填heating。

2.

考查代词。句意：当这些金属熔化时，它们就会混合在一起变成更加坚硬的新物体。此处用不定代词something指代更加坚硬的新物体，作become的宾语，形容词修饰something作定语时应后置，符合题意。故填something。

3.

考查时态。句意：J. Hector de Crevecoeur于1782年出版了一本名为《美国农民来信》的书。由上下文可知，书是过去出版的，该句描述的是过去的事情，故该句应用一般过去时态。故填published。

4.

考查定语从句关系词。句意：他说，他们将成为一个新的民族，他们的工作总有一天会改变世界。分析句子可知，句中先行词为people，“whose+名词”表示谁的，在从句中作主语，意为这个民族的工作。故填whose。

5.

考查介词。句意：多年来，美国人普遍的接受了他们的国家是一个大熔炉的思想。短语the idea of…意为……的想法。故填of。

6.

考查非谓语动词。句意：他们觉得为了被美国所接受，他们被迫失去了自己的文化和语言。分析句子结构可知，他们被迫失去自己的文化和语言，是为了被美国接受，此处用动词不定式表目的。主语“they”和“accept”之间是动宾关系，他们被美国接受，应用不定式的被动形式。故填to be accepted。

7.

考查非谓语动词。句意：他们说，大熔炉的目的是让不同的文化消失，成为代表最大群体的文化。“represent the largest group”是定语，修饰the one，the one和represent之间是主动关系，故用现在分词作定语。故填representing。

8.

考查形容词。句意：报道称，一些美国人担心国家正在分裂成许多没有共同目标的群体。purpose为名词，应由share的形容词形式shared来修饰，意为共同的目标。故填shared。

9.

考查介词。句意：一些研究移民的专家说，他们现在把美国社会比作沙拉碗。短语compare…to…把……比作……，是固定搭配。故填to。

10.

考查while/when引导的时间状语从句。句意：它们在成为成功产品的一部分的同时，也保持着自己的口味。分析句子可知，此处应为“当成为一部分的同时，保持口味。”应用连词while/when，引导时间状语从句，意为“当……时候，和……同时”，“They each keep their own taste while/when (they are) being part of a successful product.”此处从句和主句主语一致，动词为be，可以省略。故填while或者when。