2018 届上海市各大名校高三英语试题汇编：完型填空One【2018 届上海市西南位育高三英语上学期 10 月试题】III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B,C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Many people think that listening is a passive business. It is just the ___41___one. Listeningwell is an active exercise of our attention and hard work. It is because they do not realize this, orbecause they are not __42____to do the work, that most people do not listen well.Listening well also requires total ____43____upon someone else. An essential part oflistening well is the rule known as ‘bracketing’. Bracketing includes the temporary giving up or___44___your own prejudices and desires, to experience as far as possible someone else’s worldfrom the inside, stepping into his or her shoes. ____45____, since listening well involvesbracketing, it also involves a temporary ____46____ of the other person. Sensing this acceptance,the speaker will seem quite willing to____47____up the inner part of his or her mind to thelistener. True communication is under way and the energy required for listening well is so greatthat it can be _____48____ only by the will to extend oneself for mutual growth.Most of the time we____49____ this energy. Even though we may feel in our businessdealings or social relationships that we are listening well, what we are usually doing is listening_____50____. Often we have a prepared list in mind and wonder, as we listen, how we canachieve certain_____51_____ results to get the conversation over as quickly as possible orredirected in ways more satisfactory to us. Many of us are fa...
