专题限时训练(四) 说明文型完形填空(限时：每篇 15 分钟)ABody language is the quiet, secret and most powerful language of all! It speaks _1_ than words. According to specialists, our bodies send out more _2_ than we realize. In fact, nonverbal (非言语) communication takes up about 50% of what we really _3_. And body language is particularly _4_ when we attempt to communicate across cultures. Indeed, what is called body language is so much a part of us that its actually often unnoticed. And misunderstandings occur as a result of it. _5_ ，different societies treat the distance between people differently. Northern Europeans usually do not like having _6_ contact (接触) even with friends, and certainly not with _7_. People from Latin American countries, on the other hand, touch each other quite a lot. Therefore, its possible that in _8_ , it may look like a Latino is _9_ a Norwegian all over the room. The Latino, trying to express friendship, will keep moving _10_. The Norwegian, very probably seeing this as pushiness, will keep _11_ which the Latino will in return regard as coldness.Clearly, a great deal is going on when people _12_. And only a part of it is in the words themselves. And when parties are from _13_ cultures, theres a strong possibility of _14_. But whatever the situation, the best advice is to obey the Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be _15_来源:学,科,网 Z,X,X,K1A.straighter BlouderCharder Dfurther2A.sounds BinvitationsCfeelings Dmessages3A.hope BreceiveCdiscover Dmean4A.immediate BmisleadingCimportant Ddifficult5A.For example BThusCHowever DIn short6A.eye BverbalCbodily Dtelephone7A.strangers BrelativesCneighbours Denemies8A.trouble Bconversation来源:中国教育出版网 zzstep.comCsilence Dexperiment9A.disturbing BhelpingCguiding Dfollowing10A.closer BfasterCfarther Dslower11A.stepping forward Bgoing onCbacking away Dcoming out12A.talk BtravelClaugh Dthink13A.different BEuropeanCLatino Drich14A.curiosity BexcitementCmisunderstanding Dnervousness15A.noticed BtreatedCrespected DpleasedBUK households are cutting back on spending at the fastest rate since 1980. This is _1_ to the worst economic slowdown in three decades.Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed _2_ spending fell by 1.2% in the first three months of the year. People spent less on housing, household goods and services, _3_ those who went on holiday abroad also spent _4_ less.来源:学.科.网Consumers tightened their belts in the face of job losses, pay _5_ or freezes and sharply reduced city bonuses. The figures _6_ employees compensation(补偿金) falling by 1.1% in the quarter, the largest fall _7_ records began in 1955. Wages and salaries declined, with lower bonus payments in the financial sector than normal, while _8_ also fell.The data was _9_ as part of the ONSs latest assessment of the UK economy, which _10_ that gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 1.9% in the first quarter, its sharpest decline since 1979. GDP stood 4.1% _11_ than a year ago, the biggest annual fall since 1980.来源:中#国教#育出#版网“The breakdown of firstquarter GDP gives a pretty _12_ picture of weakness right across the _13_ in the early months of this year，” said Jonathan Loynes of Capital Economics.“With key parts like household spending and investment set to fall considerably further in _14_ to the weakness in the housing market, the labour market and bank lending, we _15_ unconvinced that recentgreen shoots will translate into a return to decent growth next year.”1. Asubmitting BresortingCcontributing Dextending2A.personnel Bconsumer来源:学#科#网Cfolk Dclient3. Awhile BalthoughCbecause Dbut4. Ainstantly BsimultaneouslyCsignificantly Dactively5. Adives BpausesChalts Dcuts6. Acalculated BaccumulatedCexpressed Dshowed7. Asince BwhenCas Duntil8. Acompetition BemploymentCachievement Dattraction9. Areleased BrelievedCrelated Drelaxed来源:中国教育出版网10. Apromoted BjustifiedCconfirmed Dadvocated来源:学科网 ZXXK11. Apoorer BslimmerCweaker Dlower12. Aamazing BdepressingCsurprising Dpuzzling13. Aeconomy BfinanceCbusiness Dcommerce14. Aopposition BresponseCregard Dcontrast15. Aremain BproveCfeel DmaintainCFor many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work, they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a neverending flood of words. In _1_ a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend _2_ can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are _3_ readers. Most of us develop poor reading _4_ at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency _5_ in the actual stuff of language itselfwords. Taken individual