Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)

Section A

Directions：In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Trust is fundamental to life.If you can't trust anything,life becomes intolerable. You can't have relationships without trust, let alone good ones.

In the workplace, too, trust is _ 26 _. An organization without trust will be full of fear and 27_. If you work for a boss who doesn't trust their employees to do things right,you’ll have a 28 time.They'll be checking up on you all the time,correcting”mistakes”and 29 reminding you to do this or that. Colleagues who don't trust one another will need to spend more time 30 their backs than doing any useful work.

Organizations are always trying to cut costs. Think of all the additional tasks caused by lack of trust. Audit(审计)departments only exist because of it. Companies keep large volumes of 31 because they don’t trust their suppliers, their contractors or their customers. probably more than half of all administrative work is only there because of an ever-existing sense that “you can’t trust anyone these days.” If even a small part of such valueless work could be_32__, the savings would run into millions of dollars.

All this is extra work we 33 onto ourselves because we don't trust people—the checking, following through,doing things ourselves because we don't believe others will do them 34 —or at all. If we took all that away, how much extra time would we suddenly find in our life? How much of our work_35__ would disappear?

A) constantlyI) proprely

B) credibleJ) records

C)essential

K) removed

D)exploring

L) stacks

E) gather

M) suspicion

F) loadN) tracked

G) miserable

O) watching

H)pressure

答案解析：

26. 根据“Trust is fundamental to life.”以及“An organization without trust will be...”可知，信任在工作场所也是必不可少的，essential“必不可少的”符合语境，所以选C。

27. 根据“An organization without trust will be full of fear and...”可知，此处与“fear”并列，应是一种负面情绪，suspicion“怀疑”符合语境，表示没有信任的组织会充满恐惧和怀疑，所以选M。

28. 根据“If you work for a boss who doesn't trust their employees to do things right”可知，为不信任员工的老板工作，日子会很不好过，miserable“痛苦的，悲惨的”符合语境，所以选G。

29. 根据“They'll be checking up on you all the time, correcting ‘mistakes’ and...reminding you to do this or that.”可知，此处表示他们会不断地提醒你做这做那，constantly“不断地”符合语境，所以选A。

30. 根据“Colleagues who don't trust one another will need to spend more time...their backs than doing any useful work.”可知，不信任彼此的同事会花更多时间互相提防，watch one's back“提防某人，留意背后”符合语境，所以选O。

31. 根据“Companies keep large volumes of...because they don’t trust their suppliers, their contractors or their customers.”可知，公司因为不信任供应商、承包商或客户，所以会保存大量记录，records“记录”符合语境，所以选J。

32. 根据“If even a small part of such valueless work could be...”以及“the savings would run into millions of dollars.”可知，此处表示如果这些无价值的工作中的一小部分能被去除，remove“去除”符合语境，所以选K。

33. 根据“All this is extra work we...onto ourselves because we don't trust people”可知，这些都是我们因为不信任别人而给自己增加的额外工作，load...onto...“把……强加给……”符合语境，所以选F。

34. 根据“doing things ourselves because we don't believe others will do them...—or at all.”可知，我们自己做事情是因为我们不相信别人会做好，properly“正确地，恰当地”符合语境，所以选I。

35. 根据“How much of our work...would disappear?”以及前文提到的因为不信任而产生的各种额外工作可知，此处表示我们的工作压力会有多少消失，pressure“压力”符合语境，所以选H。