【正文】 e could afford to buy the same time people on the Continent were being more and more fond of then tea had been drunk without milk in it, but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without she was such a great lady her friends thought they must copy everything she did, so they also drank their tea with milk in this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o clock stopped her gettinga sinking feelingas she called invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so, teatime was of the following is true of the introduction of tea into Britain?A)The Britons got expensive tea from )Tea reached Britain from )The Britons were the first people in Europe who drank )It was not until the 17th century that the Britons had passage mainly )the history of tea drinking in BritainB)how tea became a popular drink in BritainC)how the Britons got the habit of drinking teaD)how teatime was born 可銳教育官網(wǎng) became a popular drink in )in eighteenth centuryB)in sixteenth centuryC)in seventeenth centuryD)in the late seventeenth century in Europe began to drink tea with milk )it tasted like milkB)it tasted more pleasantC)it became a popular drinkD)Madame de Sevinge was such a lady with great social influence that people tried to copy the way she drank tea may infer from the passage that the habit of drinking tea in Britain was mostly due to the influence )a famous French ladyB)the ancient ChineseC)the upper social classD)people in Holland答案： 第二篇：2018年可銳考研英語完形填空模擬題可銳教育官網(wǎng)2018年可銳考研英語完形填空模擬題（一）Text1．Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with one suitable the beginning, water has furnished man with a source of food and a highway to travel first civilisations arose____________(1)water was a dominant element in the environment, a challenge__________(2)man’s Egyptians invented the 365___________(3)calendar in response___________(4)the Nile’s annual Babylonians, who were among ___________(5)most famous lawmakers___________(6)antiquity, devised edicts regulating water inspired the Chinese___________(7)build a 1,000 mile canal, a plex system___________(8), after nearly 2,500 years, ___________(9)still partly in use and still mands the awe of the ancients never found plete solutions ____________(10)their water Hwang Ho, or Yellow River, is also known___________(11)“China’s Sorrow”。這是語言學(xué)家們普遍認(rèn)同的定義。換言之，人們用一定的音和語言形式去象征地表達(dá)和交流事物。表示自己決定自己的對象。5.[標(biāo)準(zhǔn)答案] [C]After[考點(diǎn)分析] 上下文語義[選項(xiàng)分析]根據(jù)下文“______a spouse has been selected, each family investigates the other??”知道，只有對象選擇好后，父母才會去調(diào)查研究對方的背景。8． [標(biāo)準(zhǔn)答案] [C]recite [考點(diǎn)分析] 上下文語義及動詞詞義辨析 [選項(xiàng)分析]空格處需要填一個(gè)動詞，和后面的prayers of blessing所搭配，C選項(xiàng)recite 為背誦的意思，與所給短語搭配最為合理，譯為“為祈禱者做祈?！薄?4．[標(biāo)準(zhǔn)答案] [D]obtain [考點(diǎn)分析] 上下文語義及動詞詞義辨析 [選項(xiàng)分析] Divorce is legal and relatively easy to __14__, but not ， 。結(jié)合選項(xiàng)A whenever“無論何地；任何（地方）=any place where(定從)”。18.[標(biāo)準(zhǔn)答案] [B]divided [考點(diǎn)分析] 上下文語義及動詞義辨析[選項(xiàng)分析] ?and jointlyacquired property is __18__ invested投資.[B]divided平分 [C] donated 捐贈[D]withdrawn撤出，提取。and is trying to instil a valuesbased culture, in which employees can be trusted to do theright thing because they know what the firm stands ，沃爾瑪正嘗試逐漸培養(yǎng)一種以價(jià)值觀為基礎(chǔ)的公司文化，在這種文化中，員工了解公司的主張，所以能夠得到公司的信任，去做他們認(rèn)為正確的事情。The largest category, 54%, saw their employer s culture as topdown, but with skilledleadership, lots of rules and a mix of carrots and sticks, which Mr Seidman calls ，即有54%的人認(rèn)為其公司文化自上而下型的，但公司的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)也有技巧可言，只是規(guī)則繁多并存在軟硬兼施的手段，塞德曼先生稱這種為 知情服從型。Tragiically, the study found that bosses often believe their own guff, even if theirunderlings do ，研究還發(fā)現(xiàn)老板們時(shí)常對自己瞎掰的那一套信以為真，即便員工們不以為然。Find a way to battle the bulge and a huge profit might be ，說必定就此大賺一筆。This is not for lack of 。Some patients have had bands removed because they slipped or proved ，因?yàn)槭鴰Т蚧蛘邲]有效果。The FDA rejected Vivus s Qnexa in 2010 over concerns for the safety of pregnant women andthe quickening of patients heart ，因?yàn)閾?dān)心該藥對孕婦的安全造成傷害，擔(dān)心該藥會加快患者的心率。On November 29th America s Federal Trade Commission announced that it hadreached a draft settlement with the giant social network over allegations that it hadmisled people about its use of their personal 、濫用用戶個(gè)人信息的控訴初步達(dá)成解決方案。Announcing the agreement, the FTC said it had found a number of cases where Facebook hadmade claims that were unfair and deceptive, and violated federal ，F(xiàn)TC說發(fā)現(xiàn)有好幾回臉譜的聲明都是 不公平，虛假并觸犯聯(lián)邦法 的，F(xiàn)or instance, it passed on personally identifiable information to advertisers, even though itsaid it would not do ，它把用戶身份信息透露給廣告商，但是嘴上卻聲稱不會做此類事情。Among other things, the pany will now have to seek consumers approval before itchanges the way it shares their it has agreed to an independent privacy auditevery two years for the next 20 ，在改變用戶信息共享方式前，它還必須征詢用戶的同意，并且它也同意在未來二十年里每兩年進(jìn)行一次獨(dú)立的隱私審核。二．Drugmakers Cliffhanger制藥企業(yè) 懸念Big Pharma struggles to protect its blockbusters as they lose patent protection大型制藥企業(yè)艱難保護(hù)著專利失效的 重磅炸彈 藥物FOR some years the big drugmakers have been dreading an approaching patent cliff —aslump in sales as the patents on their most popular pills expire or are struck down by legalchallenges, with few new potential blockbusters to take their ，大型制藥企業(yè)一直擔(dān)心 專利懸崖 出現(xiàn)——最暢銷藥品的專利到期或?qū)＠蛟V訟而中止，而市場上鮮有新的 重磅炸彈 藥物，這時(shí)企業(yè)的銷售額將會銳減。More important, researchbased drug firms are using a variety of tactics to make the patentcliff slope more ，以研發(fā)為基礎(chǔ)的制藥公司正使用各種方法緩沖 專利懸崖 效應(yīng)。According to BernsteinResearch, under the deal between the two drugmakers Pfizer willreceive about 70% of Watson s revenues from its approved copy of ，在此交易期間，華生公司獲得立普妥的仿制權(quán)，輝瑞將獲得華生公司年收入的70%。Others fear that Pfizer s tactics may drive up costs for the employers who sponsor healthplans, thanks to the plexities of copayment sc