专四模拟试题完型篇附答案详解
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷60(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷60(题后含答案及解析)题型有: 3. CLOZEPART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.Malaria is world’s second most common disease causing over【C1】______infections and one million deaths every year.【C2】______it is one of those diseases which is beginning to increase as it develops resistance【C3】______treatments. Even in the UK, where malaria has been effectively【C4】______more than 2,000 people are infected as they return from trips abroad and the numbers are rising. 【C5】______the fact that malaria has been around for so long, surprisingly【C6】______is known about how to【C7】______or prevent it. Mosquitoes,【C8】______are the carriers of the disease, are attracted to heat, moisture and carbon dioxide but how they sought【C9】______this mixture to repeatedly select one individual for attention over【C10】______is not understood. The fight against malaria often seems to focus on the work of medical researchers. But【C11】______is low because malaria is a third world condition and【C12】______troubles the rich, industrialized countries.【C13】______malaria is a disease of【C14】______The richer countries have managed to eradicate malaria by extending agriculture and having proper drainage【C15】______mosquitoes cannot breed. In China, making use of 【C16】______impregnated netting around beds reduced infection【C17】______from over 1 million per year to around 65,000. But the search for medical cures goes on. Some researchers still have high hopes for DNA【C18】______vaccines which worked well in trials【C19】______mice. Others are not so confident and expect a wait of 【C20】______another 15 years before any significant development.1.【C1】A.500 millionB.500 millionsC.500 million ofD.500 millions of正确答案:A解析:语法辨析题。
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷110(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷110(题后含答案及解析)题型有: 3. CLOZEPART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.Students have become obsessed with building impressive CVs. But isn’t there more to life(1)_____ laying the foundations for your future(2)_____? This preoccupation with CV-building is(3)_____ the pressure on people in today’s society to be conspicuously(4)_____. You have only to turn on the TV to be(5)_____ that a lot of people have achieved far more than you at a younger age. This creates a feeling of(6)_____ to do something extraordinary as quickly as possible—or(7)_____ to find a way of(8)_____ yourself as extraordinary. Almost like a business, we are managing our time and effort to develop a brand(9)_____ we present to the world. One(10)_____ is our Face-book page: we constantly sift through pictures and information, deciding what to share and what to (11)______. When it comes to our CVs, we are (12)_____ having experiences that we can list as “achievements”. In today’s jobs market, the message is clear: good grades are no longer enough. We need an impressive list of extracurricular activities that (13)_____ us from all the other smart and motivated students: we need some(14)_____ work-experience; we need to volunteer; we should have done some work for a charity or(15)_____ our time to some impressive hobbies.(16)______, we need to prove to our future employers that we are unique, and a perfect fit for the job they’re(17)_____. A CV doesn’t really say anything about the authentic person(18)_____ it because the entire thing is carefully constructed around the expectations of future employers.(19)_____ we all like to pretend we did those volunteering jobs or unpaid internships because we loved them, many of us were trying to(20)_____ our chances of getting a good job.1.(1)A.thanB.thatC.asD.with正确答案:A解析:考查(not)more...than“(没有)比……更”短语的用法。
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷150(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷150(题后含答案及解析)题型有: 3. CLOZEPART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.In America alone, tipping is now a $16 billion-a-year industry. A recent poll showed that 40% of Americans (1)______ the practice. Tips should not exist. So(2)______ do they? The conventional wisdom is that tips both (3)______ the efforts of good service and reduce uncomfortable feelings of inequality.(4)______ according to new research from Cornell University, tipping(5)______ serves any useful functions. The paper analyses data from 2,547 groups dining at 20 different restaurants. The(6)______ between larger tips and better service was very(7)______: only a tiny part of the(8)______ in the size of the tip had anything to do with the quality of service. Customers who rated a meal as “excellent”still tipped(9)______ between 8% and 37% of the meal price. Tipping is better explained by culture than by economics. In America, the custom(10)______ institutionalized: it is regarded as part of the(11)______ cost of a service. In a New York restaurant, failing to tip at least 15% could well mean(12)______ from the waiter. Hairdressers can expect to get 15-20%, the man who(13)______ your groceries $2. In Europe, tipping is less common; in many restaurants, discretionary tipping is being(14)______ by a standard service charge. In many Asian countries, tipping has never really (15)______ at all. How to(16)______ for these national differences? According to Michael Lynn, the Cornell paper’s coauthor, countries in which people are more extrovert, sociable or neurotic tend to tip more. Tipping relieves(17)______ about being served by strangers. And, says Mr. Lynn, “in America, where people are(18)______ and expressive, tipping is about social approval. If you tip badly people think less of you. “ Icelanders,(19)______, do not usually tip —a measure of their(20)______, no doubt.1.(1)A.alarmB.likeC.despiseD.hate正确答案:D解析:语义线索题。
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷240(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷240(题后含答案及解析)题型有:1.5 pounds. At least half the subjects【C7】______ their height, and nearly 20 percent changed their age. Despite the frequency of lies, volunteers proved【C8】______ at catching them. Fortunately, Toma and the team’s research opens up the possibility of a software that could【C9】______ lies for you, though Internet dating participants should be careful what they wish for—nearly everyone in the study lied in some【C10】______way.31.【C1】正确答案:I解析:此处填入形容词修饰mate。
网恋的对象可能成为mate“伴侣”,因此选potential“潜在的”。
知识模块:完形填空32.【C2】正确答案:A解析:此处填入find的宾语补足语。
根据常识可知,约会的时候,情侣之间是面对面坐着的,across“(位置)在另一边”符合语义,此处意为“你发现自己坐在他/她的对面,与之共享烛光晚餐。
”知识模块:完形填空33.【C3】正确答案:C解析:此空填入形容词修饰后面的名词heights。
研究人员将四家婚恋网站上的78名征友者的资料进行比较(compared…to…),比较的应是个人实际情况和网上个人介绍资料(profile)的差别,词库中的actual“实际的”符合语义。
知识模块:完形填空34.【C4】正确答案:L解析:此空填入形容词作表语。
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷42(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷42(题后含答案及解析)题型有: 3. CLOZEPART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.Britain is facing a【C1】______rise in its rat population【C2】______growing numbers of people leave fast food scraps in the street, an environment group warned. Keep Britain Tidy said the rodents were【C3】______their traditional haunts underground and were roaming the streets, enticed【C4】______discarded remnants of burgers, pizzas and crisps. “The rat population is【C5】______the rise and soon it’ll be as common to see a rodent on our street【C6】______it is to see a dog or a cat,” said group Director, Sue Nelson. The practice of dumping fast food litter and scraps on the street【C7】______in the trash—with young men the worst offenders—was behind the rise.【C8】______to the National Rodent Survey in 2001, Britain’s rat population has grown by nearly one quarter【C9】______1998 and is now【C10】______at 60 million, two million more than the【C11】______population. On【C12】______a rat can give 【C13】______every 24~28 days and just a single pair of rats can【C14】______a colony of 2,000 a year. Around 200 Britons a year【C15】______Weil’s Disease—an infection which can【C16】______kidney or liver【C17】______and eventually【C18】______and which is carried in rat’s urine. To【C19】______the issue, Keep Britain Tidy launched a cinema【C20】______entitled “How close do you want them to get?”The ad culminates in a shocking image of a young woman sleeping in a bed of rats—echoing the nightmare scenario from James Herbert’s classic horror tale The Rats, in which mutant rodents begin to prey on humans.1.【C1】A.highB.sharpC.steepD.slight正确答案:B解析:固定搭配题A,C均不可与rise搭配。
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷52(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷52(题后含答案及解析)题型有: 3. CLOZEPART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.Most of us spend our lives seeking the natural world. To this【C1】______we go fishing, sit in the garden, drink outside rather than inside the pub, live in the【C2】______or go to the seaside. It is my profound belief that not only【C3】______we all need nature, but we all seek nature,【C4】______we know we are doing so or not. But despite this, our children are growing up【C5】______I spent my boyhood【C6】______trees on Streatham Common, South London. These days, children are robbed 【C7】______these ancient freedoms, due to problems like crime, traffic and the loss of the open【C8】______ A study in Sweden indicated that kindergarten children who could play in a natural environment had less【C9】______and greater physical ability than children used only【C10】______a normal playground. A U.S. study suggested that when a school gave children【C11】______to a natural environment, academic levels were raised across the entire school. Another study found that children play【C12】______in a natural environment. In playgrounds, children create a hierarchy (等级)【C13】______on physical abilities, with the tough ones taking the 【C14】______But when a grassy area was planted with bushes, the children got much【C15】______ into fantasy play, and the social hierarchy was now on【C16】______and creativity. But children are frequently discouraged【C17】______involvement with natural spaces, for health and safety reasons, for【C18】______that they might get dirty or that they might cause damage. So, instead, the damage is【C19】______to the children themselves: not to their bodies but to their 【C20】______1.【C1】A.reasonB.advantageC.endD.purpose正确答案:C解析:固定搭配题。
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷128(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷128(题后含答案及解析)题型有: 3. CLOZEPART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.A land free from destruction, plus wealth, natural resources, and labor supply—all these were important(1)_____ in helping England to become the center for the Industrial Revolution.(2)_____ they were not enough. Something(3)_____ was needed to start the industrial process. That “something special” was men—(4)_____ individuals who could invent machines, find new(5)_____ of power, and establish business organizations to reshape society. The men who(6)_____ the machines of the Industrial Revolution(7)_____ from many backgrounds and many occupations. Many of them were (8)_____ inventors than scientists. A man who is a (9)_____ scientist is primarily interested in doing his research(10)_____. He is not necessarily working(11)_____ that his findings can be used. An inventor or one interested in applied science is(12)_____ trying to make something that has a concrete(13)_____. He may try to solve a problem by using the theories(14)_____ science or by experimenting through trial and error. Regardless of his method, he is working to obtain a(15)_____ result: the construction of a harvesting machine, the burning of a light bulb, or one of(16)_____ other objectives. Most of the people who(17)_____ the machines of the Industrial Revolution were inventors, not trained scientists. A few were both scientists and inventors. Even those who had(18)_____ or no training in science might not have made their inventions(19)_____ a groundwork had not been laid by scientists years(20)_____.1.(1)A.casesB.reasonsC.factorsD.situations正确答案:C解析:土地没有被破坏、财富、自然资源和劳力资源,这些都是有助于英国成为工业革命中心的“因素”(factor),而不是“理由”(reason)、“案例”(case)或“情境”(situation),故选C。
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷1(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷1(题后含答案及解析)题型有: 3. CLOZEPART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.The smallest words in our vocabulary often reveal the most about us, including honesty and thinking style. Stop and think about your most recent conversation, email or text【C1】______. Perhaps you think you said something about dinner plans, domestic【C2】______or work. And you probably did. But you said much more. The precise words you used【C3】______more about you than you can imagine. Hidden inside language are small, stealthy words that can reveal much about your personality, thinking style, emotional【C4】______and connections with others. These words【C5】______ less than 0.1 percent of your vocabulary but make up more than half of the words commonly used. Your brain is not wired to notice them【C6】______if you pay close attention, you will start to see their【C7】______ power. My interest【C8】______these words came about almost accidentally. In the early 1980s, I stumbled on a finding that【C9】______me. People who reported not having a heartbreaking experience and who kept the experience a secret had far more health problems than people who talked【C10】______. Why would keeping a secret be so 【C11】______? If you asked people to write about their secrets, would their health 【C12】______? The answer, I soon discovered, was yes. As part of this work, we 【C13】______ a computer program to analyse the language people used when they wrote about traumas. We made【C14】______ discoveries using this tool, such as the value of using words associated with positive emotions. However, our most【C15】______discovery was not about the content of people’s writing but the【C16】______. In particular, we found that the use of pronouns—I, me, we, she, they【C17】______enormously. The more people changed from using first-person【C18】______ pronouns(I, me, my)to【C19】______other pronouns(we, you, she, they)from one piece of writing to the next, the better their health became. Their word use【C20】______ their psychological state.1.【C1】A.contentB.messageC.informationD.style正确答案:B解析:名词辨析题。
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷50(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷50(题后含答案及解析)题型有: 3. CLOZEPART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.There was a time in my life when people asked【C1】______for stories about what it’s like to work in a field【C2】______by men. I was never very good at telling those stories because【C3】______I never found them interesting.【C4】______I do find interesting is the origin of the universe and the nature of black holes. At 19,【C5】______I began studying astrophysics, it did not【C6】______me in the least to be the only woman in the classroom. But while【C7】______my Ph.D. at MIT and then as a post-doctor doing space research, the【C8】______started to trouble me. My every achievement—jobs, research papers,【C9】______—was viewed through the lens of gender politics.【C10】______were my failures. Then one day a few years ago, out of my mouth【C11】______a sentence that would eventually become my reply【C12】______any and all of these: I don’t talk about that anymore. It 【C13】______me 10 years to get back the confidence I had at 19 and to realize that I didn’t want to【C14】______with gender issues. Today I research and teach at Barnard, a women’s college in New York City. Recently, someone asked me how many【C15】______the 45 students in my class were women. You cannot imagine my satisfaction at being able to answer, 45.I know some of my students worry how they will【C16】______their scientific research and a desire【C17】______children. And I don’t dismiss those concerns. Instead, I have given them this: the visual of their physics professor heavily pregnant doing physics experiments. And【C18】______they have given me the image of 45 women【C19】______by a love of science. And that’s a sight 【C20】______talking about.1.【C1】A.continuallyB.continuouslyC.constantlyD.unceasingly正确答案:C解析:副词辨析题。
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷124(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷124(题后含答案及解析)题型有: 3. CLOZEPART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.People thinking about the origin of language for the first time usually arrive at the conclusion that it developed(1)_____ as a system of grunts, hisses and cries and(2)_____ a very simple affair in the beginning.(3)_____, when we observe the language behaviour of(4)_____ we regard as primitive cultures, we find it(5)_____ complicated. It was believed that an Eskimo must have at the tip of his tongue a vocabulary of more than 10,000 words (6)_____ to get along reasonably well, much larger than the(7)_____ vocabulary of an average businessman who speaks English.(8)_____, these Eskimo words are far more highly inflected(词尾变化的) than(9)_____ of any of the well-known European languages, for a(10)_____ noun can be spoken or written in(11)_____ hundred different forms, each (12)_____ a precise meaning different from (13)_____ of any other. The forms of the verbs are even more(14)______. The Eskimo language is, (15)_____, one of the most difficult in the world to learn,(16)_____ the result that almost no traders or explorers have(17)______ tried to learn it. (18)______, there has grown up, in communication between Eskimos and whites, a jargon(19)_____ to the pidgin English used in Old China, with a vocabulary of from 300 to 600 uninflected words. Most of them are derived from Eskimo but some are derived from English, Danish, Spanish, Hawaiian and other languages. It is this jargon that is usually(20)_____ by travellers as “the Eskimo language”.1.(1)A.graduallyB.actuallyC.habituallyD.mystically正确答案:A解析:空格后填入副词修饰developed,表示语言如何发展。
专四模拟试题(完型篇)附答案详细讲解
A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide--the division of the world into theinfo(information) rich and the info poor. And that __1__ does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less __2__ then, however, were the new, positive __3__ that work against the digital divide. __4__,there are reasons to be __5__.There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more __6__, it is in the interest of business to universalize access-after all, the more people online, the more potential __7__ there are. More and more __8__, afraid their countries will be left __9__, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be __10__ together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will __11__ rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for __12__ world poverty that we’ve ever had.Of course, the use of the Internet isn’t the only way to __13__ poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has __14__ potential.To __15__ advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices __16__ respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is a/an __17__ of their sovereignty might well study the history of __18__ (the basic structural foundations of a society) in the United States. When the United States built its industrial infrastructure, it didn’t have the capital to do so. And that is __19__ America’s Second Wave infrastructure-__20__ roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on-were built with foreign investment.__1. A) divide B) information C) world D) lecture__2. A) obscure B) visible C) invisible D) indistinct__3. A) forces B) obstacles C) events D) surprises__4. A) Seriously B) Entirely C) Actually D) Continuously __5. A) negative B) optimistic C) pleasant D) disappointed __6. A) developed B) centralized C) realized D) commercialized__7. A) users B) producers C) customers D) citizens__8. A) enterprises B) governments C) officials D) customers __9. A) away B) for C) aside D) behind__10. A) netted B) worked C) put D) organized__11. A) decrease B) narrow C) neglect D) low__12. A) containing B) preventing C) keeping D) combating __13. A) win B) detail C) defeat D) fear__14. A) enormous B) countless C) numerical D) big__15. A) bring B) keep C) hold D) take__16. A) at B) with C) of D) for__17. A) offence B) investment C) invasion D) insult__18. A) construction B) facility C) infrastructure D) institution__19. A) why B) where C) when D) how__20. A) concerning B) concluding C) according D) including 参考答案:1.A 由文中第一行的digital divide得出答案。
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷100(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷100(题后含答案及解析)题型有: 3. CLOZEPART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.What does the hamburger say about our modern food economy? A lot, actually. Over the past several years Waldo Jaquith intended to make a hamburger from scratch, to no avail. “Further (1)_____ revealed that it’s quite impractical—(2)_____ impossible—to make a hamburger from scratch,” he writes. “Tomatoes are in season in the late summer. Lettuce is in season in spring and fall. Large mammals are(3)_____ in early winter. The process of making(4)_____ burger would take nearly a year and would inherently involve omitting some core hamburger(5)_____.”That the hamburger—our delicious and comforting everyman food—didn’t(6)_____ 100 years ago is a greasy, shiny example of all that is both right (7)_____ wrong with our modern food economy. (8)_____fertilizers, genetically modified crops, concentrated farming operations and global overnight shipping, much of the world was lifted out of starvation(9)_____ it could finally grow(10)_____ quantities of food with decreasing labor(11)_____. But these same advances(12)_____ allow food to be grown out of(13)_____ and in all corners of the globe contribute to a whole host of environmental(14)_____. The “industrialization of food,”as author Paul Roberts puts it, is an endless cycle driven by very small price(15)_____ that force food processors to(16)_____ more advanced techniques to produce even more food(17)_____ lower prices. This system will only be aggravated as food demand(18)_____. Recently David Tilman and Jason Hill of the University of Minnesota released a study(19)_____ that global food demand could double by 2050. It’s(20)_____ that our current, impractical food economy can sustain that demand.1.(1)A.reflectionB.calculationC.inquiryD.search正确答案:A解析:上文提到Waldo Jaquith从零开始做汉堡.但徒劳无功。
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷3(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷3(题后含答案及解析)题型有: 3. CLOZEPART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.At least some of the weather extremes being seen around the world are consequences of human-induced climate change and can be expected to worsen in coming decades. It is particularly likely that greenhouse gas emissions【C1】______ to human activity have already【C2】______ more record-high temperatures and fewer record lows,【C3】______to more extremes of rainfall and to greater coastal flooding. 【C4】______ inland flooding is getting worse because of human influence is 【C5】______. Nor can any firm conclusion be【C6】______ at this point about the human influence on hurricanes, typhoons, hail storms or tornadoes. The findings were 【C7】______in Kampala, Uganda, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a high-profile United Nations body【C8】______to review and report periodically【C9】______ developments in climate research. The group won the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007【C10】______later became a target of【C11】______ related to minor factual errors in a large report that it had issued that year. It has tightened its procedures【C12】______ preventing future errors. Indeed, the delegates meeting in Kampala【C13】______ scientifically cautious positions in some areas. For instance, some researchers have presented 【C14】______ suggesting that hurricanes are growing more【C15】______because of climate change, but the report sided with a group of experts who say that such a claim is premature. 【C16】______, certain types of weather extremes will grow more numerous and more intense as human-induced global warming【C17】______in coming decades. Even as such extremes are projected to increase, human【C18】______ to them is increasing as well. Rising populations and 【C19】______ decisions about land use, like【C20】______ coastal development, are putting more and more people in harm’s way.1.【C1】A.connectedB.concerningC.regardingD.related正确答案:D解析:固定搭配题。
专四模拟试题(完型篇)附答案详解
A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digitaldivide--the division of the world into the info(information) rich and the info poor. And that __1__ does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less __2__ then, however, were the new, positive __3__ that work against the digital divide. __4__,there are reasons to be __5__.There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more __6__, it is in the interest of business to universalize access-after all, the more people online, the more potential __7__ there are. More and more __8__, afraid their countries will be left __9__, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be __10__ together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will __11__ rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for __12__ world poverty that we’ve ever had.Of course, the use of the Internet isn’t the only way to __13__ poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has __14__ potential.To __15__ advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices __16__ respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is a/an __17__ of their sovereignty might well study the history of __18__ (the basic structural foundations of a society) in the United States. When the United States built its industrial infrastructure, it didn’t have the capital to do so. And that is__19__ America’s Second Wave infrastructure-__20__ roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on-were built with foreign investment.__1. A) divide B) information C) world D) lecture__2. A) obscure B) visible C) invisible D) indistinct__3. A) forces B) obstacles C) events D) surprises__4. A) Seriously B) Entirely C) Actually D) Continuously__5. A) negative B) optimistic C) pleasant D) disappointed__6. A) developed B) centralized C) realized D) commercialized__7. A) users B) producers C) customers D) citizens__8. A) enterprises B) governments C) officials D) customers__9. A) away B) for C) aside D) behind__10. A) netted B) worked C) put D) organized__11. A) decrease B) narrow C) neglect D) low__12. A) containing B) preventing C) keeping D) combating__13. A) win B) detail C) defeat D) fear__14. A) enormous B) countless C) numerical D) big__15. A) bring B) keep C) hold D) take__16. A) at B) with C) of D) for__17. A) offence B) investment C) invasion D) insult__18. A) construction B) facility C) infrastructure D) institution__19. A) why B) where C) when D) how__20. A) concerning B) concluding C) according D) including参考答案:1.A 由文中第一行的digital divide得出答案。
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷144(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷144(题后含答案及解析)题型有: 3. CLOZEPART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.New Year’s resolutions are those special little promises you(1)_____ to be less like yourself and more like other, better people. They’re an invaluable opportunity to(2)_____ your habits and behaviors in ways that make you a more(3)______ person to be around. The more(4)_____ you are about your resolution, the better your chance of(5)_____ it. Don’t just say, “I want to lose weight.”(6)_____, say, “My goal is to lose 20 pounds in the next two months. I’m going to(7)_____ to being at the gym every morning at 7 am. and eat healthy and nutritious(8)_____.”The best way to(9)_____ yourself of your goals and to get support from family, friends, and even coworkers, is to write them out and post them in a(n)(10)_____ place. There’s a big difference between thinking and(11)_____ seeing the words. If you decide to(12)this year, try replacing it with something else to balance out the (13)______. If you stop drinking soda,(14)______, replace it with becoming more likely to spend time sitting. You deserve it. You loved soda. Getting out of debt is a big one these days, the problem is figuring out(15)_____. You’ve(16)_____ cut back on food expenses, medical expenses, your kids’ expenses. At this(17)______, you may be forced to take a closer look at the horses you’re betting on. Unplugging from technology to reconnect with family and friends is a great resolution, just remember to take it(18)_____. Don’t attempt direct eye contact right away. Be(19)_____ for a great deal of confusion and anxiety(20)_____.1.(1)A.makeB.keepC.completeD.break正确答案:A解析:本句解释“新年愿望”:摆脱自己,更像优秀的人。
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷108(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷108(题后含答案及解析)题型有: 3. CLOZEPART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.“You need an apartment alone even if it’s over a garage,” declared Helen Gurley Brown in her 1962 bestseller “Sex and the Single Girl”. To Brown, solo living afforded the(1)_____ to cultivate the self, furnish the mind and work late, and so on. Young women(2)_____ enjoy their best years without a(n)(3)_____, she advised, as this not only(4)_____ the foundation for stronger marriages (5)______ gave them a lifestyle to fall back on (6)_____they found themselves alone again. (7)_____ at the time, Brown’s counsel seems sensible now. Certainly both(8)_____ have taken it to heart, marrying later, divorcing(9)_____ and living alone in larger numbers than ever before. (10)_____ little is known about the wider social (11)_____ of this unprecedented boom, writes Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist at New York University. His new book “Going Solo” offers a(12)_____ look at the lures and perils of living alone. Mr. Klinenberg(13)_____ those who see the rise of solo living as yet another(14)_____ of the decline of civic society.(15)_____ marriage is no longer the ticket to adulthood, a desire to live alone is perfectly(16)______, he writes. Young adults view it as a rite of passage, a period of personal growth before possibly(17)_____. Its cultural acceptance has helped to(18)_____ women from bad marriages and oppressive families,(19)_____ them a space to return to civic life. And as elderly adults live longer than ever before, often without a partner, many hope to stay(20)_____ for as long as possible.1.(1)A.reasonB.spaceC.timeD.tranquility正确答案:B解析:独自居住可以培养自我、陶冶心灵、熬夜工作,这属于独居提供的空间上的自由,故选space。
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷120(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷120(题后含答案及解析)题型有: 3. CLOZEPART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.Most people have no idea of the hard work and worry that go into the collecting of those fascinating birds and animals that they pay to see in the zoo. One of the questions that is always asked of me is(1)_____ I become an animal collector in the first(2)______. The answer is that I have always been interested in animals and zoos. According to my parents, the first word I was able to say with any(3)_____ was not the conventional “mamma”or “daddy”,(4)_____the word “zoo”, which I would(5)_____ over and over again with a shrill(6)_____ until someone, in order to(7)_____ me up, would take me to the zoo. When I(8)_____ a little older, we lived in Greece and I had a great (9)_____ of pets, ranging from owls to seahorses, and I spent all my spare time(10)_____ the countryside in search of fresh specimens to(11)_____ to my collection of pets.(12)_____ on I went for a year to the City Zoo, as a student(13)______, to get experience of the large animals, such as lions, bears, bison and ostriches,(14)_____ were not easy to keep at home. When I left, I(15)_____ had enough money of my own to be able to(16)_____ my first trip and I have been going(17)_____ ever since then. Though a collectors’ job is not an easy one and is full of(18)_____, it is certainly a job which will appeal(19)_____ all those who love animals and(20)_____.1.(1)A.howB.whereC.whenD.whether正确答案:A解析:根据下一句“答案是从小就喜欢动物和动物园”,由此推断问题是“作者是怎样成为动物收藏家的”,故选A。
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷162(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷162(题后含答案及解析)题型有: 3. CLOZEPART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.Of all the goals of the education reform movement, none is more difficult than developing an objective method to assess teachers. Studies show that over time, test scores do not provide a【C1】______ means of separating good from bad instructors. Test scores are an【C2】______ indicator of quality because too many factors outside of the teachers’ control can influence student【C3】______ from year to year—or even from classroom to classroom during the same year. Often, more than half of those teachers【C4】______ as the poorest performers one year will be judged average or above average the next, and the results are【C5】______ as bad for teachers with【C6】______ classes during the same year. 【C7】______, there’s a far more direct approach: measuring the amount of【C8】______ a teacher spends delivering relevant instruction—【C9】______, how much teaching a teacher actually gets done in a school day. This is hardly a new【C10】______. Thirty years ago two studies using this approach found that some teachers were able to deliver【C11】______ 14 more weeks a year of relevant instruction than their less efficient【C12】______. There was no【C13】______ to their success: it was obvious that the efficient teachers 【C14】______ strictly to the curriculum, maintained stern discipline and【C15】______ non-instructional activities, like【C16】______ unessential classroom business when they【C17】______ focused on the curriculum. And both studies found that the teachers who【C18】______ more were also the teachers who【C19】______ students who performed well on【C20】______ tests.1.【C1】A.persistentB.consistentC.continuousD.useful正确答案:B解析:词义辨析题。
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷130(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷130(题后含答案及解析)题型有: 3. CLOZEPART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.One summer night, on my way home from work I decided to see a movie. I knew the theatre would be air-conditioned and I couldn’t face my(1)_____ apartment. Sitting in the theatre I had to look through the (2)_____ between the two tall heads in front of me. I had to keep changing the(3)_____ every time she leaned over to talk to him,(4)_____ he leaned over to kiss her. Why do Americans display such(5)_____ in a public place? I thought the movie would be good for my English, but(6)_____ it turned out, it was an Italian movie.(7)_____ about an hour I decided to give up on the movie and(8)_____ on my popcorn. I’ve never understood why they give you so much popcorn! It tasted pretty good,(9)______. After a while I heard(10)_____ more of the romantic-sounding Italians. I just heard the(11)_____ of the popcorn crunching between my teeth. My thought started to(12)_____. I remembered when I was in South Korea, I(13)_____ to watch Kojak on TV frequently. He spoke perfect Korean —I was really amazed. He seemed like a good friend to me, (14)_____ I saw him again in New York speaking (15)_____ English instead of perfect Korean. He didn’t even have a Korean accent and I(16)_____ like I had been betrayed. When our family moved to the United States six years ago, none of us spoke any English.(17)_____ we had begun to learn a few words, my mother suggested that we all should speak English at home. Everyone agreed, but our house became very(18)_____ and we all seemed to avoid each other. We sat at the dinner table in silence, preferring that to(19)_____ in a difficult language. Mother tried to say something in English but it (20)_____out all wrong and we all burst into laughter and decided to forget it! We’ve been speaking Korean at home ever since.1.(1)A.warmB.hotC.heatedD.cool正确答案:B解析:根据上文提到的“夏天”、“空调”,“不能面对”等可推断他的公寓十分热,故选B。
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Agreatdealofattentionisbeingpaidtodaytotheso-calleddigitaldiv ide--thedivisionoftheworldintotheinfo(information)richandthei nfopoor.Andthat__1__doesexisttoday.MywifeandIlecturedaboutthi sloomingdangertwentyyearsago.Whatwasless__2__then,however,wer ethenew,positive__3__thatworkagainstthedigitaldivide.__4__,th erearereasonstobe__5__.Therearetechnologicalreasonstohopethedigitaldividewillnarrow. AstheInternetbecomesmoreandmore__6__,itisintheinterestofbusin esstouniversalizeaccess-afterall,themorepeopleonline,themorep otential__7__thereare.Moreandmore__8__,afraidtheircountrieswi llbeleft__9__,wanttospreadInternetaccess.Withinthenextdecadeo rtwo,onetotwobillionpeopleontheplanetwillbe__10__together.Asa result,Inowbelievethedigitaldividewill__11__ratherthanwidenin theyearsahead.AndthatisverygoodnewsbecausetheInternetmaywellb ethemostpowerfultoolfor__12__worldpovertythatwe’veeverhad.Ofcourse,theuseoftheInternetisn’ttheonlywayto__13__poverty.A ndtheInternetisnottheonlytoolwehave.Butithas__14__potential.To__15__advantageofthistool,somepoorcountrieswillhavetogetove rtheiroutdatedanti-colonialprejudices__16__respecttoforeigninvestment.Countriesthatstillthinkforeigninvestmentisa/an__17__ oftheirsovereigntymightwellstudythehistoryof__18__(thebasicst ructuralfoundationsofasociety)intheUnited States.WhentheUnited Statesbuiltitsindustrialinfrastructure,itdidn’thavethecapita ltodoso.Andthatis__19__America’sSecondWaveinfrastructure-__2 0__roads,harbors,highways,portsandsoon-werebuiltwithforeignin vestment.__1.A)divideB)informationC)worldD)lecture__2.A)obscureB)visibleC)invisibleD)indistinct__3.A)forcesB)obstaclesC)eventsD)surprises__4.A)SeriouslyB)EntirelyC)ActuallyD)Continuously__5.A)negativeB)optimisticC)pleasantD)disappointed__6.A)developedB)centralizedC)realizedD)commercialized__7.A)usersB)producersC)customersD)citizens__8.A)enterprisesB)governmentsC)officialsD)customers__9.A)awayB)forC)asideD)behind__10.A)nettedB)workedC)putD)organized__11.A)decreaseB)narrowC)neglectD)low__12.A)containingB)preventingC)keepingD)combating__13.A)winB)detailC)defeatD)fear__14.A)enormousB)countlessC)numericalD)big__15.A)bringB)keepC)holdD)take__16.A)atB)withC)ofD)for__17.A)offenceB)investmentC)invasionD)insult__18.A)constructionB)facilityC)infrastructureD)institution __19.A)whyB)whereC)whenD)how__20.A)concerningB)concludingC)accordingD)including参考答案:1.A由文中第一行的digitaldivide得出答案。
2.Bobscure模糊的,不清楚的;visible看得见的,明显的;invisible看不见的;indistinct不清楚的,模糊的。
空格前的less 已有否定意义3.Aforce力量,武力;obstacle障碍;event事件;surprise惊奇,诧异。
句意:现在有新的、乐观的力量来对抗数字鸿沟。
4.Cseriously认真地;entirely完全的;actually实际上;continuously连续地。
5.Bnegative消极的;optimistic乐观的;pleasant令人愉快的;disappointed令人失望的。
前文说有积极的力量在对抗数字鸿沟的不利因素,因此,实际上我们有理由保持乐观的态度。
6.Ddevelop发展;centralize集中;realize认识到;commercialize使商业化,由下文“网络有利于商业途径的普及”,可知此处表述的意思是网络越来越商业化。
intheinterestof...为了...的利益7.Cuser使用者;producer生产者;customer消费者;citizen公民。
句意:越多的人上网就有越多的潜在消费者。
8.Benterprise企业,事业;government政府;official官员;句意:越来越多的政府害怕他们的国家...9.Dleavebehind留下,超过与leave相关的短语:leaveaside把某事搁置一边leaveout省去,遗漏,不考虑leaveoff停止,不再穿10.A网络把人们联系在一起,选netted11.Bdecrease减少,narrow变窄;neglect忽视,疏忽;low降低句意:因此,我现在认为数字鸿沟是在变窄而不是在拓宽12.Dcontain包含,容纳;prevent防止,阻止;keep保留,保持;combat战斗,搏斗13.Cwin赢得;detail详述,细说;defeat击败,战胜;fear畏惧。
14.Aenormous巨大的;countless无数的;numerical数字的。
potential作名词为不可数,不能用countless修饰,big一般表示尺寸、数字、范围上的大。
15.Dtakeadvantageof利用16.Bwithrespectto关于,至于with也可换成in.表示关于的还有withregardto,concerning等。
17.Coffence冒犯;investment投资;invasion入侵;insult侮辱onstruction建筑;facility设备;infrastructure基础设施;institution公共机构,制度。
从后文中出现的infrastructure 可以轻易得到答案。
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