Communication
People can improve the quality of their lives （life）and their relationships with good communication skills. But, if one person cannot send the right message to another, there may be an 41____（argue）. Because of problems in communication, 42____ （marry）may get into trouble. What about the business world? If communication 43____ （go）wrong, there can be all kinds of problems, from loss of sales to the 44____ （fail） of companies.
So what is 45____ （effect） communication? You may wonder. To put it 46____ （simple）, it means that a receiver gets the exact message from the sender. In other 47____ （word）, if you tell someone your phone number and they get it correctly, you have 48____ （succeed）. If, however, you give your phone number but the other person 49____（get）it wrong, then there is a problem. It can be the sender's fault or the receiver's fault. Or maybe both. Such type of wrong 50____（understand）is called barrier in communication.
【正确答案】：41. argument 42. marriage 43. goes 44. failure 45. effective
46. simply 47. words 48. succeeded 49. gets 50. understanding
【题目解析】：41. an后面接名词，故填arguement。42. marry是动词，不能直接作主语，根据句意这里应该是说由于沟通上的问题，婚姻可能会陷入困境，故填marriage。43. if引导的条件状语从句，从句要用一般现在时，communication是不可数名词，谓语动词要用单数，故填goes。44. the修饰名词，故填failure。45. 形容词修饰名词，故填effective。46. to put it simply简单地说47. in other words换句话说48. have+过去分词构成现在完成时49. the other person另一个人，作主语时，谓语动词要用单数，故填gets。50. 形容词修饰名词，故填understanding。
