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【完形填空】Cloze: A Workshop by the River
Yang Mei worked in a small prosthetics workshop on the fifth floor of an old building in Zhongxian, a town (1) the Yangtze River.
For eleven years she had bound carbon fibre to titanium by hand, (2) on a technique she learned from an old German manual.
The workshop had no computerised measurement and no proper ventilation system, so the air was often thick (3) fine dust.
When the ventilation fan broke down one Tuesday afternoon, Yang felt her patience (4) at last.
She called her old coach, Deng Wei, who ran a clinic in Wuhan and had a habit of (5) every emergency into a lesson.
Deng told her that the broken machine was only a symptom and that her whole procedure was overdue (6) a change.
He offered her a place in a training programme in Chengdu, but it came with a (7): 60,000 yuan, four months unpaid, and a promise to return and train five apprentices.
Yang did not answer for three days because her mother's monthly medical (8) took 3,200 yuan from her savings.
On the fourth day she took the train west, and the programme nearly (9) her.
She was the oldest in a cohort of nineteen, and most of the others were quick with software and could complete a scan-to-mould pathway in ninety minutes.
By week ten, however, she had produced a socket that a patient could wear for fourteen hours without a single pressure sore, which was (10) in the clinic's files.
Choices
(1) A. through B. along C. across D. beyond
(2) A. depending B. relying C. insisting D. counting
(3) A. with B. of C. by D. from
(4) A. use up B. run out C. give out D. wear off
(5) A. turning B. making C. getting D. taking
(6) A. for B. in C. to D. with
(7) A. price B. cost C. tariff D. fee
(8) A. expense B. expenditure C. cost D. charge
(9) A. destroyed B. broke C. harmed D. damaged
(10) A. rarities B. rare C. rarity D. rarely