THE old Rack space headquarters was stuffed to the gills. In 2007 the company, which offers (1)and web-hosting services, had more than 1,000 employees in downtown San Antonio. People were crammed at(2)tables in the hallway. They often had to go to a different building or(3)the lifts to talk to people in other departments.
Still, when Graham Weston, the company's co-founder and chairman, suggested that they (4)a shopping mall, staff were(5)The mall was vacant. Its site, the encircled suburb of Wind crest, was slightly grotty, not least(6)the huge dead mall right off the highway.
Building a campus from scratch, however, would have taken several years at least. Anyway. The place was cheap. “Nobody wants a mall anymore." says John Engates, the chief technology officer. Except Rack space, and others like it, who have come to see a(7) mall as a blank canvas? In 2008 it opened its new headquarters, and won a prize for community economic development. Now it has more than 3,000 workers on site, with plans to hire hundreds(8)by the end of the year.
Plenty of enclosed malls are, of course,(9)thriving. And after several abstemious years, shoppers are(10).In February, according to the Commerce Department, retail sales were 1.1% higher than they had been in January-higher than (11), and a welcome sign of recovery.
But many American malls had(12)before the recession started, and the country's nascent recovery is not likely to(13)them. America's retail sector is probably overbuilt; in the fourth quarter of 2011,according to the National Association of Realtors, its(14)rate was 16.9%. Mass are vulnerable to systemic shocks; if an "anchor" stores closes, or if vacancies linger, other vendors quickly suffer. And(15)the malls that were built in the heyday of the genre are starting to look shop soiled. The new fashion is for mixed-use developments, or the outdoor malls that are designed to look like a friendly downtown shopping district. In some cities, people are returning to actual downtown shopping districts, as new urbanists always dreamed they would.
问题1选项
A.cloud-computing
B.cloud-computed
C.cloud-compute
D.cloud computer
问题2选项
A.unfolding
B.fold
C.folding
D.folding
问题3选项
A.shuttle around
B.go up
C.go around
D.shuttle
问题4选项
A.go into
B.move into
C.take into
D.walk into
问题5选项
A.happy
B.skeptical
C.sad
D.depressed
问题6选项
A.due to
B.because
C.because of
D.as
问题7选项
A.dead
B.dirty
C.great
D.shopping
问题8选项
A.fewer
B.more
C.les
D.little
问题9选项
A.till
B.even
C.still
D.yet
问题10选项
A.shrinking
B.reducing
C.dropping down
D.perking up
问题11选项
A.expectation
B.imagined
C.imagination
D.expected
问题12选项
A.become trouble
B.troubles
C.run into trouble
D.arouse troubles
问题13选项
A.find
B.revive
C.save
D.help
问题14选项
A.vacancy
B.vacant
C.reserved
D.hooked
问题15选项
A.few of
B.many of
C.much of
D.little of
第1题:A
第2题:D
第3题:A
第4题:B
第5题:B
第6题:C
第7题:A
第8题:B
第9题:C
第10题:D
第11题:D
第12题:C
第13题:B
第14题:A
第15题:B
1.考查词义辨析。And连接空格和“web-hosting services网络托管服务”, 因此此处应该表示“云计算”。故选A项。
2.考查词义辨析。根据“crammed塞满的”和空格处所修饰的名词“tables桌子”可知,此处表示“折叠桌”。
3.考查短语辨析。shuttle around 穿梭;go up 上升;go around走访;shuttle频繁往来,往返运送。前文谈及地方拥挤,他们需要跑到另一栋楼,而且根据后面的“lift电梯”可知A符合句意。
4.考查短语辨析。该处句意为:建议他们搬进商场。Go into 进入,从事;move into 搬进;take into 无此搭配; walk into 走进。故选B项。
5.考查形容词辨析。happy 快乐的,高兴的;skeptical 怀疑的;sad 悲哀的,难过的;depressed 抑郁的,沮丧的。此处表示“当公司的创建人之一兼主席Graham Weston表示他们要搬到一家购物中心时,员工们都还持怀疑态度”,故选B项。
6.考查短语辨析。空格前后是直接的因果关系,而且空格后是名词性结构,因此选C项。
7.考查形容词辨析。前文谈及到“空置的商城”,以及根据后文“as a blank canvas作为一块空白的画布”可知,此处应该选A项“dead死去的;无感觉的;呆板的” 修饰“mall商城”,因此A项正确。
8.考查形容词辨析。根据前后可知此处句意为:现在,该公司有3000多名员工,计划年底前再招聘数百名员工。
9.考查副词辨析。此处句意为:当然,还是有为数众多的封闭式商场生意依然兴盛。故选C。
10.考查动词/动词短语辨析。选项均为对应动词或短语的现在分词形式。根据前半句“And after several abstemious years经历了几年节制消费”,可知,后半句与其形成对比关系,故只有D项“perk活跃起来,回暖”符合句意。
11.考查动词辨析。该处句意为:据美国商务部的数据,2月份的零售额同
比1月份增加了 1.1%——比预期高,是可喜的复苏迹象。此处填入动词expect的过去分词形式表被动。
12.考查短语辨析。该处句意为:但是许多美国人开办的购物中心在经济衰退期来临前就已陷入困境。run into trouble 陷入困境。故选C项。
13.考查动词辨析。空格所在句由并列连词and引导,根据前半句的关键词“recession萧条”可知,后半句应该填入“复兴”,即此句表示“国家初 期复苏势头不可能得到复苏”。因此B项正确。
14.考查形容词辨析。前面句意为:美国的零售业很可能建设过度了,因此推测该处表示“空置率”。故选A。
15.考查短语辨析。空格处修饰的名词是“the malls商场”,这是可数名词的复数形式,因此,C和D项排除。前文谈及“购物中心容易遭受系统冲击带来的影响……, 其余的商家也很快遭殃”,以及该句表示“还有许多类似在繁荣时期建立的购物中心开始变得陈旧起来”。因此,B项符合句意。