Section A Reading in the Context
Read the following passage with ten missing words．Learn to guess the meanings of them from the context and then select one word for each blank from the list of choices given in a word bank following the passage．Each word can be used only once．
Smog crisis is trying the limits of Chinese people’s patience．Chinese people have traditionally cherished the virtue of eating bitter，or the ability to____1___hardships without complaint．As a sign of their tenacity（坚韧）to achieve a worthy goal despite extreme difficulties，the Chinese character for____2__is a knife suspended over a heart．
But breathing smoggy air has upset even the toughest of the tough among them as it is becoming part of their daily life．The nation that has seen____3___economic prosperity was involved in a collective____4__over the smothering smog，which has caused great damage in Beijing and its neighboring provinces in northern China in recent years，swept across more than 100 central and eastern cities early this month．
The smog and filthy air forced the closure of schools and a____5___on private cars．Residents anxiously waited for strong winds to blow away the particulate matter（微粒物质），____6__as they were of doctors’warnings that the suffocating（令人窒息的）smog could cause respiratory（呼吸道的）diseases．
Even in the current luxury of blue skies，people fear smog will strike any time again and are worried about the nation’s____7__of a coherent and feasible strategy to____8__its invasion．
After Beijing recorded record levels of air pollution in January during last winter，worrying that heavy pollution would strike the capital again this winter，the government has ordered the city and its surrounding areas to halt production and reduce outputs to curb（抑制）CO2 __9__in severe situations．
Although smog continues to cover large parts of the country with even greater____10__，people support government measures and positively call for more methods to improve the situation．
