Question

完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A, B, C, D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

If you ever have a chance to go to Finland, you’ll probably be surprised to find how “foolish” the Finnish people are.

Take the taxi drivers for example．You can go ___ ___ on a journey, tell the driver to ______ you at any place, say that you have some business to ___ ___, and that you will pay the taxi driver later. He will agree without any ______ but just accept your words in good ______.

The dining rooms in all big hotels not only serve their ______, but also provide food for outside ______．Hotel guests have their meals free , so they _____ go to the free dining rooms to have their meals, and the ______ they would do to show their good faith is to wave their registration card to the waiter．With such ______ check, you can easily use any old registration card to take a couple of friends to wine and dine free of ______.

Finnish workers are paid by the hour．If you work in Finland and have ______ the boss on the hourly rate, then you just say how many hours you have worked and you’ll be paid ______.

With so many loop holes in every day life, surely Finland must be a good country to those who ______ to take “petty advantages”．But the ______ thing is, all the taxi passengers always come back to pay their _____ after they have attended to their business; not a ______ outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms; workers always give the exact hours they have ______．．．As the Finns always act on good faith and always have a (an) ______ of “right is right” and “wrong is wrong” in every thing they do, so to live in such a society has turned everyone into a real “gentleman”.

What we regarded as “foolish” is ______ the Finnish people’s way of life．

1.A. somewhere B. anywhere C. sometime D. anytime

2.A. stop B. pass C. drop D. pick

3.A. attend to B. take care C. take up D. appeal to

4.A. guarantee B. anxiety C. passenger D. money

5.A. smile B. place C. seat D. faith

6.A. meals B. visitors C. guests D. cards

7.A. waiters B. diners C. drivers D. workers

8.A. naturally B. respectively C. secretly D. contently

9.A. best B. worst C. most D. least

10.A. strict B. complete C. troublesome D. loose

11.A. registration B. care C. charge D. noise

12.A. paid for B. debated with C. talked about D. agreed with

13.A. accordingly B. reluctantly C. separately D. automatically

14.A. hesitate B. hate C. love D. refuse

15.A. strange B. confusing C. complex D. imaginative

16.A. business B. trip C. fine D. fare

17.A. single B. faithful C. familiar D. usual

18.A. worked on B. put in C. spent on D. run out

19.A. religion B. law C. idiom D. attitude

20.A. eventually B. accidentally C. actually D. temporarily

Answer 1