2008考研英语全题型高分强化教程(10)

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Globalization-is it holy crap?

Globalization can somehow be defined（1）____harmonization, homogenization or integration of the countries and（2）____.  Functionally, it can be seen as a process of gradually（3）____ interaction and integration of economies and societies around the world.  The growing economic interdependence is the most crucial （4）____ force of globalization.  In the first（5）____, it is the economic dimension of globalization which（6）____both scholars' and（7）____attention.  Transnational corporations (TNCs) and large financial institutions in the mature and developed industrial economies （8）____a proactive role（9）____ devising and creating global networks in economic and financial areas.  However, sociologist, anthropologist and historian state that the non-economic dimension is（10）____equally important.  For example, Alexander the Great did not only militarily conquer Persia（11）____introduced western （12）____, philosophy and scientific technology（13）____ the east.（14）____he noticed that what he thought the barbarian east had a more complex governing system even than his own.  Today, though most popular definitions of globalization are still focusing more（15）____ the economic dimension; the non-economic dimension gets more and more attention in almost every society of the world.  There are tons of studies（16）____ this topic.  Yet, globalization as a phenomenon, in reality, is still in its （17）____. 

According to <Harvey, a well-known scholar, Globalization is the manifestation of the changing experience of time and space, in which（18）____economic and social processes has experientially（19）____the globe, so that distance and time no longer appear（20）____ major constraints on the organization of human activities. 

Giddens, another scholar argues that "Globalization is the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa."

1.[A]as         [B]to be          [C]like        [D]of

2. [A]economy   [B]economics     [C]economic   [D]economies

3. [A]revolving   [B]evolving      [C]resolving    [D]solving

4. [A]enhancing   [B]moving       [C]driving     [D]motivating

5. [A]case       [B]place          [C]area       [D]space

6. [A]catches    [B]influences      [C]has        [D]draws

7. [A]practitioners'  [B]practicers'   [C]practists'    [D]practicalists'

8. [A]took       [B]had          [C]played      [D]occupied

9. [A]in         [B]on           [C]within      [D]into

10. [A]to be     [B]as            [C]/           [D]being

11. [A]but also    [B]also         [C]and        [D]and also

12. [A]thinking   [B]thoughts      [C]ideology    [D]theories

13. [A]to        [B]into          [C]for         [D]towards

14. [A]Surprisedly  [B]Surprised    [C]Surprisingly  [D]Surprising

15. [A]on        [B]in            [C]at          [D]of

16. [A]about      [B]of           [C]in          [D]at

17. [A]childhood   [B]teenage      [C]teens       [D]infancy

18. [A]speeding    [B]speedy      [C]speedy up    [D]speeding up

19. [A]shrank      [B]shrunk      [C]shrinked     [D]been shrunk

20. [A]as         [B]being        [C]to be        [D]as to be