完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Perhaps you’ve attended some parties. But like New York，where a party or dinner often __
36__ business with pleasure, a Washington party is a __
37__ part of the business of politics, the business of making __
38__ connections.
Some Washington parties have a __
39__ aura (气氛) about them, depending on who gives them and who is there, but most parties are open-house __
40__ in fact, with the hosts not knowing most of the __
41__ who are there.
I went to a few of these parties __
42__ I wanted to see the inside of some of the Washington mansions (公馆) I had __
43__ so much about. Almost every time during the evening some man would come close to talk with me __
44__, we didn’t know each other at all. Such a __
45__ exchange clearly proves “a gathering of friends” __
46__ Washington party standards. You don’t even need an __
47__ to attend many Washington parties. You just have to know about them. No Washington hostess would __
48__ her servants to ask you who you were. Most of the bigger parties, those with 300 or 400 guests, __
49__ to impress somebody, and Washingtonians __
50__.
Most members of the Congress ,for example, __
51__ middle-class backgrounds in smaller communities __
52__ the country. They are dazzled (眼花缭乱的) by __
53__. They are dazzled by big names. They are ready to help Washington __
54__ hostesses. They go along with them because they are good friends or they don’t notice that they __
55__ or they don’t care if they are.
小题1:.
| A．follows | B．connects | C．mixes | D．goes |
小题2:.
| A．daily | B．necessary | C．chief | D．cheap |
小题3:.
| A．still | B．cruel | C．mental | D．important |
| 小题4: | | A．social | B．nervous | C．terrible | D．simple |
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| 小题5: | | A．events | B．affairs | C．conferences | D．games |
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| 小题6: | | A．guests | B．customers | C．guards | D．guides |
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| 小题7: | | A．so that | B．in order that | C．as if | D．because |
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| 小题8: | | A．found | B．noticed | C．heard | D．wrote |
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| 小题9: | | A．since | B．though | C．when | D．whether |
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| 小题10: | | A．common | B．strict | C．public | D．special |
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| 小题11: | | A．including | B．comparing with | C．according to | D．depending on |
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| 小题12: | | A．invitation | B．envelope | C．instrument | D．acceptance |
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| 小题13: | | A．refuse | B．allow | C．agree | D．warn |
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| 小题14: | | A．are given | B．give | C．are supplied | D．supply |
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| 小题15: | | A．easily forget | B．hardly remember | C．easily impress | D．are easily impressed |
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| 小题16: | | A．hear from | B．write to | C．come from | D．call out |
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| 小题17: | | A．over | B．below | C．between | D．across |
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| 小题18: | | A．money | B．equal | C．freedom | D．discussion |
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| 小题19: | | A．strange | B．famous | C．poor | D．stupid |
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| 小题20: | | A．are using | B．are being used | C．are obeying | D．are being obeyed |
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