2015年在职硕士考试联考英语模拟练习(7)

　　For each blank in the following passage, choose the best answer from the choices given below. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.

　　In the United States, the first day nursery was opened in 1854. Nurseries were established in various areas during the first half of the 19th century, most of __31__ were charitable. Both in Europe and in the U. S., the day-nursery movement received great encouragement during the First World War, when __32__ of manpower caused the industrial employment of unprecedented numbers of women. The number of nurseries in the U. S. rose __33__ , which was accomplished without any government aid. During the years following the First World War, __34__ , Federal State, and local governments gradually began to exercise a measure of control __35__ the day nurseries. The __36__ of the Second World War was quickly followed by an increase in the number of day nurseries in almost all countries, as women were again called upon to replace men in the factories. On this __37__ the U.S. government immediately came to the support of the nursery schools, allocating $ 6,000,000 in July, 1942, for a nursery-school program for the children of working mothers. By the end of the war, more than 100,000 children were being cared __38__ in day-care centers receiving Federal __39__ . Soon afterward, the Federal government drastically cut down its expenditures for this purpose and later abolished them, causing a sharp drop in the number of nursery schools in operation. However, the expectation that most employed mothers would leave their __40__ at the end of the war was only partly fulfilled.

　　31. [A] those [B] them [C] what [D] which

　　32. [A] sources [B] abundance [C] shortage [D] excess

　　33. [A] highly [B] sharply [C] predominantly [D] militantly

　　34. [A] therefore [B] consequently [C] however [D] moreover

　　35. [A] over [B] in [C] at [D] about

　　36. [A] end [B] outbreak [C] breakthrough [D] breakdown

　　37. [A] circumstance [B] occasion [C] case [D] situation

　　38. [A] by [B] after [C] of [D] for

　　39. [A] pensions [B] subsidies [C] revenues [D] budgets

　　40. [A] nurseries [B] homes [C] jobs [D] children

　　答案：ABAAD　CBABC

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