2016考研英语完型填空迅速提分练习题（十）

Things in the henhouse changed practically overnight when McDonald’s announced in 1999 that it would no longer buy eggs from producers who didn’t meet its guidelines for care of chickens. Those guidelines included limiting the 1 of birds that could be kept in one 2 and prohibiting beak removal, 3 trimming just the tips.

Once McDonald’s had 4　the way in issuing animal care guidelines for the company’s suppliers, many other giants of the fast-food industry rapidly followed 5　, including Burger King, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Wendy’s, A and W and KFC. Now, the American Meat Institute has 6 welfare guidelines and audit 7 for cattle, pigs, and chickens. And the European Union, representing our foreign customers, is also 8 in with, among other things, legislation banning. 9 use of crates to house pregnant sows, 10 in 2013.

Questions about animal care 11 with the explosive growth in large-scale livestock farms, 12 spurred customers to complain about animals being treated as “factory parts”. That spurred ARS and the livestock industry to take a proactive approach to addressing animal　13　issues, making sure that guidelines are based on facts 14 through scientific research. The goal is to share research findings with the retail food industry and others so that the livestock industry can improve its 15 guidelines.

Ten years ago, to 16 these concerns, ARS started a research program on livestock behavior and stress. The scientists involved were tasked with finding out whether modern farming practices were 17 stressing animals. And if so, could scientific methods be developed to measure this stress so that 18 could be evaluated objectively rather than subjectively?

A decade later, the 19 answer is “yes” to both questions, Many had expected the answer to be “no” on both counts, but science works independently 20 people’s opinions.

1. A. amountB. number C. figureD. sum

2. A. cageB. caveC. caseD. cart

3. A. but forB. except forC. aside fromD. away from

4. A. pavedB. changedC. ledD. opened

5. A. suitB. stepC. setD. super

6. A. adaptedB. adopted C. approvedD. accepted

7. A. bookletsB. pamphletsC. brochuresD. checklists

8. A. measuringB. weighingC. consideringD. thinking

9. A. prolongedB. proceededC. programmedD. progressed

10. A. efficientB. effectiveC. effusiveD. elective

11. A. raisedB. roseC. aroseD. pose

12. A. who B. whatC. whichD. how

13. A. health B. lifeC. wealthD welfare

14. A. decidedB. determinedC. provedD. tested

15. A. voluntaryB. revolutionaryC. preliminaryD. necessary

16. A. expressB. addressC. suppress D. compress

17. A. unduly B. unequallyC. unfortunatelyD. unfavorably

18. A. performancesB. programsC. problems D. practices

19. A. sequentialB. initialC. essentialD. financial

20. A. ofB. onC. byD. with

1.【答案】B

【解析】amount指不可数名词的“数量”，number指可数名词的“数目”，figure指一个“数字”，sum多指钱的“数量”。这里指家禽数目，是可数名词，因此答案是B。

2.【答案】A

【解析】cage意为“笼子”，是和文中的bird搭配唯一恰当的词，cave“洞穴”，case“箱子”和cart“人力车”都不可和bird搭配使句意通畅，所以选A。

3.【答案】B

【解析】but for是“若非，要不是”，except for是“除了，只是”，aside from是“除…以外”，away from是“离开”。原文的意思是供应商除了可以对鸟喙尖部稍加修剪外禁止去掉鸟喙。只有except for符合句子意思，因此B是正确答案。

4.【答案】C

【解析】pave the way是“为…作准备”，change the way是“改变…方式、方法”，lead the way是“为…之先，首先倡导”，open则不能和the way搭配。根据上下文可知麦当劳公司在家禽饲养方面率先作出明确规定，其后诸多快餐巨头纷纷效仿，因此答案是C。

5.【答案】A

【解析】“效仿，模仿”在英语里的固定短语是follow suit，所以选A。

6.【答案】B

【解析】adapt是“适应”，adopt是“采纳”，approve是“同意”，accept是“接受，同意”。首先排除adpat，而approve和accept意思相近，属于干扰选项，所以答案是B。提醒大家准确记忆adapt和adopt的拼写及用法，这两个词在词汇测试方面的出现频率相当高。

7.【答案】D

【解析】本题我们可以采用排除法。A、B、C三个选项都是“小册子”的意思，不能同时成为正确答案，只能选D，checklist的意思是“(核对用的)一览表(尤指完整的清单)”。

8.【答案】B

【解析】weigh in with是固定短语，意为“(在讨论等中)有把握地提出”。Consider，think和measure都不能和in with搭配，所以答案是B。