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标题: 专业英语四级考试完型填空专项训练 [打印本页]

作者: 幽幽草    时间: 2007-10-8 16:49     标题: 专业英语四级考试完型填空专项训练

We all know that a magician does not really depend on “magic” to perform his tricks, but on his ability to act at great speed. ___ 1,this does not prevent us from enjoying watching a magician ___ 2 rabbits from a hat. ___ 3the greatest magician of all time was Harry Houdini who died in 1926. Houdini mastered the art of ___ 4. He could free himself from the tightest knots or the most complicated locks in seconds. ___ 5 no one really knows how he did this, there is no doubt ___ 6 he had made a close study of every type of lock ever invented. He liked to carry a small steel needle like tool strapped to his leg and he used this in place of a key. Houdini once asked the Chicago police to lock him in prison. They ___ 7 him in chains and locked him up, but he freed himself___8 an instant.  
The police ___ 9 him of having used a tool and locked him up again. This time he wore no clothes and there were chains round his neck, waist, wrists, and legs; but he again escaped in a few minutes. Houdini had probably hidden his "needle" in a waxlike ___ 10 and dropped it on the floor in the passage.  
   ___ 11 he went past, he stepped on it so that it stuck to the bottom of his foot. His most famous escape, however, was ___ 12 astonishing. He was heavily chained up and enclosed in an empty wooden chest, the lid of ___ 13 was nailed down. The ___ 14 was dropped into the sea in New York harbor. In one minute Houdini had swum to the surface. When the chest was___ 15, it was opened and the chains were found inside.   
1. A. Generally      B. However     C. Possibly    D. Likewise     
2. A. to produce      B. who produces   C. produce              D. how to produce     
3. A. Out of the question  B. Though    C. Probably      D. Undoubted      
4. A. escaping       B. locking      C. opening    D. dropping     
5. A. Surprisingly     B. Obviously    C. Perhaps       D. Although     
6. A. if          B. whether     C. as to     D. that     
7. A. involved           B. closed      C. connected     D. bound     
8. A. at         B. by        C. in      D. for     
9. A. rid           B. charged      C. accused      D. deprived     
10. A. candle            B. mud       C. something   D. substance     
11. A. As        B. Usually      C. Maybe      D. Then     
12. A. overall       B. all but       C. no longer     D. altogether     
13. A. it         B. which       C. that     D. him     
14. A. chest       B. body         C. lid      D. chain     
15. A. brought up     B. sunk       C. broken apart D. snapped




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