从题型难度上来分析，选词填空一向存在难度大，得分低的状况，本次考试依然如此。

因此在课上我们建议把该题型放在最后去解决。这类题型最困难的部分往往在于一开始选填单词词性的界定，另外一点就是考生所剩无几的答题时间。

选词填空解题的核心在于：划分词性。这一步做得好的话，事半功倍；做不好的话，事倍功半。

划分词性后，应该采用“先易后难，逐个击破”的策略，具体而言副词和形容词一般比较少，因此先从这两类单词突破。

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这篇选词填空主要围绕了当前比较普遍的熬夜，或者说睡眠不足为话题展开，且文章中并提及通过实验证实睡眠被剥夺而造成的危害，并指出安眠药并不一定是比较有效的治疗手段。

As it is, sleep is so undervalued that getting by on fewer hours hasbecome a badge o? Plus, we live in a culture that 36 to the late–nighter, from 24-hourgrocery store toshopping site that never close. It’sno surprise, then, that more than half of American adults get the 7 to 9 hoursof shut-eye every night as 37 by sleep experts.

Whether or not we can catch up on sleep – on the weekend, say- is ahotly 38among sleep researchers. The latest evidence suggests thatwhile it isn’t 39 , it might ? when Liu, the UCLA sleep researcher andprofessor of medicine, brought 40sleep-rest people into the lab for aweekend of sleep during which they lagged about 10 hours per night. ? showed41 in the ability of insulin(胰岛素) to process blood sugar. That suggests ?upsleep may undo some but not all of the damage that sleep 42  causes, which is encouraging ? given howmany adults don’t get the hours they need each night. Still, Liu isn’t 43 to end the habit of sleeping lessand making up for it later.

Sleeping pills, while helpful for some, are not 44 aneffective remedy either. “A sleeping pill will 45 one area of the brain,but there’s never going to be a perfect sleeping pill, because you couldn’treally replicate （复制）the differentchemicals moving in and out of different parts ? the brain to go through thedifferent stages of sleep,” says Dr. Nancy Collop, director of the University Sleep Center.

A) alternatively                   I)    negotiated

B) caters                           J)    pierce

C) chronically                     K)    presumption

D) debated                       L)    ready

E)  deprivation                  M)    recommended

F) ideal                            N)    surpasses

G) improvements              O)    target

H) necessarily

以下是参考答案：

36. B caters

37. M recommended

38. D debated

39. F ideal

40. C chronically

41. G improvements

42. E deprivation

43. L ready

44. H necessarily

45. O target

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According to a report from the Harvard School of Public Health, many everyday products, including some bug sprays and cleaning fluids, could lead to an increased risk of brain and behavioral disorders in children.….

本篇选词填空围绕健康和科学。文中指出日用品中很多化学成分可能会引起儿童大脑和行为紊乱，虽然很难对其立法保护，但是建议采取谨慎态度，尽力避免儿童接触这些化学物质。

　　从题目设置来看，对于名词的考查最多，这就需要考生熟知facility，correlation，advocate等词一词多义和一词多性的情况。另外，permanent，vulnerable均为六级高频词汇，考生需要在平时多注重常考词汇的积累

以下是参考答案：

36. O vulnerable

37. J permanent

38. A advocates

39. N tighten

40. K restricted

41. E facilities

42. G investigating

43. M statistical

44. C correlation

45. D exercise

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It seems to be a law in the technology industry that leading companies eventually lost their positions, often quickly and brutally. Mobile phone champion Nokia

以下是参考答案：:

36. E. exception

37. O. worldwide

38. N. transmitting

39. L. shrank

40. A. assumed

41. F. fault

42. H. notably

43. I. previous

44. C. desperate

45. D. deterioration