2014届高考英语二轮专题复习精选：完形填空69.docVIP

2014届高考英语二轮专题复习精选：完形填空 1. Directions: For each blank in the following passages there are four words and phrases marked A,B,C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. German Prime Minister Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his 51 and diplomatic talent, but his contributions to the society include many of today’s social insurance programs. During the middle of the 19th century, Germany, 52 other European nations, 53 an unusual outbreak of workplace deaths and accidents as a result of growing 54 . 55 in part by Christian sympathy for the helpless as well as a practical political impulse to get the 56 of the socialist labor movement, Bismarck 57 the world’s first worker’s compensation law in 1884. By 1908, the United States was the 58 industrial nation in the world that lacked workers’ compensation insurance. American’s injured workers could seek 59 in a court of law, but they still faced a number of tough legal barriers. 60 , employees had to prove that their injuries directly 61 employer’s lack of care and they themselves were ignorant about potential danger in the workplace. The first state workers’ compensation law in this country passed in 1911, and the program soon 62 throughout the nation. After World War II, benefit payments to American workers did not 63 the cost of living. In fact, real benefit levels were lower in the 1970s than they were in the 1940s, and in most states the maximum benefit was below the poverty level for a family of four. In 1970, President Richard Nixon set up a national 64 to study the problems workers’ compensation. Two years later, the committee issued 19 key recommendations, 65 one that called for increasing compensation benefit levels to 100 percent of the states’ average weekly wages. 【小题1】A. artistic B. literary C. military D. economic 【小题2】A. along with B. other than C. apart from D. rather than 【小题3】A.