第一节（共15小题；每题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A cliché is a phrase that has been used so many times that it comes out of the mouth or the computer without stirring up a wave in the mind of the speaker, the typist, the listener or the reader. The word was part of the technical term of the French printing trade in the 19th century, the name for a plate used in the printing process, and it is still used with that meaning in English and other languages. By the middle of the same century, the word was being used in French, shortly followed by English, as a simile (比喻) for 41 used expressions.
Clichés can be 42 according to whether they were originally idioms, similes and proverbs, expressions from trades or 43 phrases.
Many idioms have been so universally overused that they have been 44 — phrases like far and wide, by leaps and bounds or safe and sound. Our second category could be similes and proverbs that now fall off the 45 with little meaning, similes like as cool as a cucumber, which 46 around 400 years.
A large category is 47 from the terms of trades and professions, sports and games, and other national concerns. Many are 48 clichés, as is fitting for the British, as an island nation, with examples like to leave a sinking ship, to know the ropes, to stick to one’s guns.
Our last broad category of cliché might be phrases which were 49 when they were first coined, but have become ineffective through constant use. When a football manager, asked how he felt about the 50 of his team, said that he was as sick as a parrot. Since then, it has been so overused that it has lost its 51 . To explore every avenue and to leave no stone unturned are two political clichés of this class. No politician with any sensitivity for language could use either of those phrases 52 , yet you hear them still, all the time.
No doubt we could specify the classes of clichés into further subdivisions until the cows come home. But there is no need to. We all agree that clichés are to be 53 by careful writers and speakers at all times, don’t we? Well, actually, no, not I. Life, and language, are so full of clichés that silence will hold the position if you 54 us the use of cliché. So many millions of people have spoken and written clichés so 55 that it is almost impossible to find ideas and phrases that have not been used many times before.
41．A．occasionally B．frequently C．technically D．grammatically
42．A．confirmed B．quoted C．inferred D．classified
43．A．invented B．customized C．recognized D．underlined
44．A．highlighted B．tailored C．weakened D．enriched
45．A．nose B．eyes C．lips D．forehead
46．A．dates back B．catches on C．takes shape D．gives out
47．A．detected B．drawn C．excluded D．initiated
48．A．remote B．temperate C．urban D．oceanic
49．A．boring B．striking C．entertaining D．annoying
50．A．expense B．punishment C．defeat D．age
51．A．origin B．shine C．statue D．humour
52．A．seriously B．fluently C．flexibly D．properly
53．A．adjusted B．adapted C．adopted D．avoided
54．A．deny B．allow C．forbid D．promise
55．A．casually B．decently C．reluctantly D．ceaselessly
完形填空：
BDACC ABDBC BADAD
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A cliché is a phrase that has been used so many times that it comes out of the mouth or the computer without stirring up a wave in the mind of the speaker, the typist, the listener or the reader. The word was part of the technical term of the French printing trade in the 19th century, the name for a plate used in the printing process, and it is still used with that meaning in English and other languages. By the middle of the same century, the word was being used in French, shortly followed by English, as a simile (比喻) for 41 used expressions.
Clichés can be 42 according to whether they were originally idioms, similes and proverbs, expressions from trades or 43 phrases.
Many idioms have been so universally overused that they have been 44 — phrases like far and wide, by leaps and bounds or safe and sound. Our second category could be similes and proverbs that now fall off the 45 with little meaning, similes like as cool as a cucumber, which 46 around 400 years.
A large category is 47 from the terms of trades and professions, sports and games, and other national concerns. Many are 48 clichés, as is fitting for the British, as an island nation, with examples like to leave a sinking ship, to know the ropes, to stick to one’s guns.
Our last broad category of cliché might be phrases which were 49 when they were first coined, but have become ineffective through constant use. When a football manager, asked how he felt about the 50 of his team, said that he was as sick as a parrot. Since then, it has been so overused that it has lost its 51 . To explore every avenue and to leave no stone unturned are two political clichés of this class. No politician with any sensitivity for language could use either of those phrases 52 , yet you hear them still, all the time.
No doubt we could specify the classes of clichés into further subdivisions until the cows come home. But there is no need to. We all agree that clichés are to be 53 by careful writers and speakers at all times, don’t we? Well, actually, no, not I. Life, and language, are so full of clichés that silence will hold the position if you 54 us the use of cliché. So many millions of people have spoken and written clichés so 55 that it is almost impossible to find ideas and phrases that have not been used many times before.
41．A．occasionally B．frequently C．technically D．grammatically
42．A．confirmed B．quoted C．inferred D．classified
43．A．invented B．customized C．recognized D．underlined
44．A．highlighted B．tailored C．weakened D．enriched
45．A．nose B．eyes C．lips D．forehead
46．A．dates back B．catches on C．takes shape D．gives out
47．A．detected B．drawn C．excluded D．initiated
48．A．remote B．temperate C．urban D．oceanic
49．A．boring B．striking C．entertaining D．annoying
50．A．expense B．punishment C．defeat D．age
51．A．origin B．shine C．statue D．humour
52．A．seriously B．fluently C．flexibly D．properly
53．A．adjusted B．adapted C．adopted D．avoided
54．A．deny B．allow C．forbid D．promise
55．A．casually B．decently C．reluctantly D．ceaselessly
完形填空：
BDACC ABDBC BADAD
