Section A Directions:In this
section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select
one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following
the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each
choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding
letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following
passage. Kitchen duties may have traditionally been
viewed as women’s work, but not at the White House. Until now: Cristeta
Comerford has been named executive chef (厨师). After an
(47) six-month search, first lady Laura Bush announced
Sunday that Comerford was chosen from hundreds of (48) to
head the executive kitchen. A naturalized US citizen from the Philippines, she
will be the first woman and first (49) to hold the post. The
42-year-old Comerford has been an assistant chef at the White House for 10
years. She worked under former executive chef Walter Scheib Ⅲ, who (50)
in February. Scheib said Sunday that Comerford was
(51) the best assistant he had in his 30-year career and is
a wonderful choice to take over. He said she is a great cook with an artistic
eye and a calm manner that can (52) the pressure cooker
(高压锅) in the White House kitchen. Comerford has a bachelor’s
degree in Food Technology from the University of the Philippines. She has worked
at Le Ciel in Vienna, Austria and at restaurants in two Washington
hotels. While being executive chef at the White House is
honorable, the job also can be (53) . Comerford will be in
charge of everything from state dinners for world leaders to dessert for the
commander in chief, his family and guests. The head chef is (54)
for designing and executing menus for state dinners, social events,
holiday functions, receptions and official luncheons (午宴) (55)
by the president and first lady. The job pays (56)
$80000-- $100000 a year. A) responsible
B) minority C) challenge
D) extensive E) approximately
F) undoubtedly G) identical
H) handle I) resigned
J) convince
K) applicants L) exhausting M)
skillfully N) regained
O) hosted