完形填空部分我们从小到大参加的考试中几乎都有这种题型，所以大家应该并不陌生。但处在职称英语考试的试卷中又稍稍显得不同。大家不能完全照搬其他考试中完形填空答题的经验，要在平时的练习中积累经验，锻炼感觉。完形填空要做到联系上下文，不可胡乱猜测!

下面的短文有15处空白，请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1个最佳选项。

The Beginning of American Literature

American has always been a land of beginnings. After Europeans “discovered” America in the fifteenth century, the mysterious New World became for many people a genuine (51) of a new life,an escape from poverty and persecution, a chance to (52) again. We can say that, as nation, America begins with that hope. (53)，however，does American literature begin? American literature begins with American (54). Long before the first colonists arrived, native

Americans (55) here. Each tribe*s literature was tightly woven into the fabric of daily life and (56) the unmistakably American experience of lining with the land. Another kind of experience, one filled with fear and excitement, (57) its expression in the reports that Columbus and other explorers (58) home. In addition, the (59) of the people who lived and died in the New England wilderness (60) unforgettable tales of hard end sometimes heartbreaking experiences of those early years.

Experience, then, is the (61) to early American literature. The New World provided a great variety of experiences, and (62) experiences demanded a wide variety of expressions by an even wider variety of early American writers. These writers (63) John Smith, who spent only two-and-a-half year: on the American, continent. They included Jonathan Edwards and William Byrd, who thought of themselves (64) British subjects，never suspecting a revolution that would (65) a United States of America with a literature of its own. American Indians，explorers, Puritan ministers, frontier wives, plantation owner 一 they are all the creators of the first American literature.

51 A article B hope C-concern D respect

52 A rise B discover C fall D start

53 A Which B What - C When D Why

54 A experiences B dreams C calls D efforts

55 A arrived B lived C left D fled

56 A provided B offered C reflected D gained

57 A found B caught C observed D changed

58 A abandoned B went C built D sent

59 A journeys B journals C belongings D deaths

60 A tell B read C write D hear

61 A point B beginning C key D reference

62 A these B both C all D other

63 A studied B exposed C described D included

64 A towards B as C like D with

65 A praise B give C create D treat

52 D53 B54 C55 A

56 C57 D58 C59 A60 B

61 D62 B63 A64 C65 A

练习了15年职称英语的真题，你是不是对于这种题型有了更加深入的了解。如果没有请继续练习，如果有就说明你已经在向胜利进军。不要害怕失败，失败是每个人都会经历的。但如果不从失败中总结经验，那么你将一直失败。对于每一种英语题型，要拿出十二万分的耐心，你对它们什么样，它们回报你的就是什么。切记，明天在你自己的手中!