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考博英语模拟试题Part Ⅰ Cloze (0. 5 x 20 = 10 % )Directions：In this part you are asked to choose the best word for each blank in the passage. Write your answers on the answer sheet.After yuppies and dinkies, a new creature from ad land stalks the block. The NYLON, an acronym linking New York and London, is a refinement of those more familiar categories such as jet-setters and cosmocrats (cosmopolitan aristocrats---do keep up). Marketing professionals have noted that 1 the demise of Concorde, a new class of high-earner increasingly 2 his or her time shuttling 3 the twin capitals of globalization. And NYLONS prefer their home comforts4tap in both cities. Despite the impressive 5 of air miles, they are not adventurous people.As 6 from Tom Wolfes Masters of the Universe of the 1980s NYLONS have done more than well 7 the long boom and new economy of the last ten years. They are DJs, chefs, games designers, Internet entrepreneurs, fashionistas, publishers and even a(n) 8 band of journalists and writers. They are self-con-sciously trendy and some are even able to 9 houses in both cities. Others will put up 10 a house in one, and a view 11 a room in the 12 .Of course, their horizons do 13 beyond just New York and London. For many, Los Angeles is an important shopping mall.More significantly for ad land, NYLONS provide some useful marketing savings. Campaigns no longer have to differ very much in the two cities, 14 NYLONS bring them ever closer together. The restaurants are the same, with Nobu now in London and Conran in New York. Many plays 15 in both cities at the same time, and DJs shuttle between the two, 16 the same garage to the same people in17 clubs. Time Out and Wallpaper are the magazines of 18 All this is fine for NYLONS. But not so much 19 for everybody else watching Notting Hill turn 20 a pale imitation of Greenwich Village1. A. regardless of B. even though C. although D. despite2. A. uses B. spends