In the early days of the United States, loyalty to one’s state often took precedence over loyalty to one’s country.

Directions：In this part,there is a passage with 15 blanks.For each blank there are 4 choices marked A,B,C,and D.Choose the best answerfor each blank and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

A presentation has two important components：what you say and 56 you deliver it.The term delivery covers a wide 57 of features of speaking and eye contact is one of them.

The appropriate use of eye contact 58 from one culture to another.In some cultures，women are 59 to lower their eyes in most communication 60 ；

in others，younger people must keep their eyes lowered when addressing older people. 61 ，in the United States， 62 you are addressing an individual，a small group ofpeople，or a larger audience，you are expected to look at them.You do not have to stare 63 and continuously； 64 ，it is appropriate when：speaking to one person to 65 occasionally.In a small group you should look around at the different members of the group.66 when addressing a larger audience，you should try to make eye contact with different people around the room.It is importaiat to look at the 67 audience，not just the people in the center of the room, 68 you will probably have to turn your head and／or your body in order to make proper eye contact with people 69 at the sides of the room.If you look at the floor or the ceiling， you will give the impression that you are not interested in your audience.A speaker establishes friendly relationship with the audience：mainly 70 eye contact，and good relationship is essential to the success of any speech

56_________

.A.why

B.whom

C.how

D.where

A presentation has two important components: what you say and 【B1】______ you deliver it. The term delivery covers a wide 【B2】______ of features of speaking and eye contact is one of them.

The appropriate use of eye contact 【B3】______ from one culture to another. In some cultures, women are 【B4】______ to lower their eyes in most communication 【B5】______ ; in others, younger people must keep their eyes lowered when addressing older people. 【B6】______ , in the United States, 【B7】______ you are addressing an individual, a small group of people, or a larger audience, you are expected to look at them. You do not have to stare 【B8】______ and continuously; 【B9】______ , it is appropriate when speaking to one person to 【B10】______ occasionally. In a small group you should look around at the different members of the group. 【B11】______ when addressing a larger audience, you should try to make eye contact with different people around the room. It is important to look at the 【B12】______ Audience, not just the people in the center of the room, 【B13】______ you will probably have to turn your head and/or your body in order to make proper eye contact with people 【B14】______ at the sides of the room. If you look at the floor or the ceiling, you will give the impression that you are not interested in your audience. A speaker establishes friendly relationship with the audience mainly 【B15】______ eye contact, and good relationship is essential to the success of any speech.

【B1】______

A．why

B．whom

C．how

D．where

Formal economic forecasting is usually based on a (1)_____ theory as to how the economy works. Some theories are complicated, and their application requires an elaborate (2)_____ of cause and effect. Others are relatively simple, (3)_____ most developments in the economy to one or two basic factors. Many economists, for example, believe that changes in the supply of money (4)_____ the rate of growth of general business activity. Others (5)_____ a central role to investment in new facilities—housing, industrial plants, highways, and so forth. In the United States, where consumers (6)_____ such a large share of economic activity, some economy believe that consumer decisions to (7)_____ or save provide the principal (8)_____ to the future course of the entire economy. Obviously the theory that a forecaster applies is of (9)_____ importance to the forecasting process; it (10)_____ his line of investigation, the statistics he will regard as most important, and many of the techniques he will apply.

Although economic theory may determine the general (11)_____ of a forecast, judgment also often plays an important role. A forecaster may decide that the circumstances of the moment are (12)_____ and that a forecast produced by the (13)_____ statistical methods should be modified to take account of special current circumstances. This is particularly necessary when some event outside the Usual run of economic activity has an a (14)_____ economic effect. For example, forecasts of 1987 economic activity in the United States were more accurate when the analyst correctly foresaw that the exchange value of the dollar would (15)_____ sharply during the year that consumer spending would slacken, and that (16)_____ rates would rise only moderately. None of these conclusions followed (17)_____ purely economic analysis; they all required judgment as to future decisions (18)_____, an economist may decide to adjust an economic forecast that was made by traditional methods to take account of other unique (19)_____; he may, for example, decide that consumers will (20)_____ their spending patterns because of special circumstances such as rising price of imports or fear of threatened shortages.

A．specific

B．peculiar

C．unique

D．unified

What is the meaning of "For the United States, the big news won' t be an abundance of new faces" in Line 1 of Paragraph 3 ?

A．People in the US won't be surprised at any new faces.

B．There won' t be any news in the eye of the US people.

C．People in the US will become known to one another.

D．There won't be a large growth in the US population.