英语专业四级完型填空题

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英语专业四级完型填空题

Cloze -- Passage 1

Academy Award nominees who go home empty-handed may not have a shiny Oscar to show off, but they may turn out to be the bigger winners in the game of life.

According to a study published in British Medical Journal on December 21, Oscar-winning screenwriters are more successful, more productive, and more ____1____ than losing nominees;

however, they die sooner by about four years.

Because success is usually linked to better health, his is the first ____2____ever that success is not associated with improved ____3____, says Donald Redelmeier, lead author of the

study.

Researchers ____4____down information about every person who was ever nominated for an

Oscar since the awards were first handed out 73 years ago.

To explain the ____5____findings, he offers two theories. The first is the work-to-death hypothesis.

According to Redelmeier, screenwriters are more ____6____to lead unhealthy lifestyles, meaning they smoke more, exercise less, and work a lot of late-night hours, which translates into not enough sleep.

Screenwriters don't have a boss to report to, which brings into ____7____Redelmeier's

second explanation, the party-hearty hypothesis.

When you become a successful screenwriter, you gain status without daily accountability,

and as a ____8____your success may lead you to more alcohol, more parties, and more obesity,

he says.

Redelmeier hopes his study will ____9____how important it is to lead a healthy lifestyle.

The bottom line, he says, is that greater success may ____10____lead to worse health if

people fail to look after themselves.

A) longevity B) flourish C) apt

D) sometimes E) tracked F) respected

G) account H) miracle I) occupation

J) puzzling K) stress L) consequence

M) internal N) fairly O) restrained

Cloze -- Passage 2

Many people wonder why some men want to live on the moon. It is ____1____ not the

kind of place where most men would choose to live. But man has always moved to new areas. Some scientists hope that continued work will be done on the moon. Many experiments

will be done there more ____2____. Some large ____3____are very easy to do in a place

without air. Matter can be heated to very high temperatures without ____4____change when it is in such a place. Air, dust, and clouds cannot ____5____man's view of space from the moon.

The very high or very low temperatures and low gravity on the moon will be used for many experiments. One very important use of the moon will be to ____6____spaceship.

Man might be able to learn much about his own body by living on the moon. He would be living in a habitat that he made for himself. Man would be in control of the ____7____of life in

which he lives. ____8____could be removed from the air in this community.

Gravity is the one thing that would not be under man's control. Some scientists believe the

low gravity of the moon would be ____9____for man. The heart would not have to work so hard.

The body would need less energy to move than it does on the earth. However, the human body might change during long stays on the moon. Much exercise would probably be needed to keep the body in good ____10____.

A) community B) condition C) launch

D) insight E) chemical F) mysterious

G) experiments H) probably I) healthful

J) easily K) extend L) render

M) promptly N) block O) bacteria

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Cloze -- Passage 3

Each artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. He hopes the public

will listen and understand –he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him. What visual artist like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to ____1____,

because painters translate their experience into shapes and colors, not ____2____. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors, out of the ____3____billions possible, is

exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their works we should never have noticed these ____4____shapes and colors, or have felt the ____5____which they

brought to the artist.

Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in

____6____and at rest; their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at,