《综合英语四》模拟试卷二

《综合英语四》模拟试卷二

考试形式：闭卷考试时间：120分钟

I.Multiple Choice (20%)

Directions: Each problem below consists of a sentence in which one word or phrase is omitted. Four words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), (D), are given beneath the sentence. You are to choose the ONE word or phrase that will best complete the sentence. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the problem and mark your answer.

1 Heat often ____ pain.

A. gleams

B. blinks

C. alleviates

D. quivers

2 In California alone there are about half a million ____ laborers from Mexico to

pick grapes in every fall.

A. transient

B. transferable

C. unworthy

D. unacceptable

3 The market ____ of the last few weeks have shaken the world.

A. situations

B. magnanimities

C. consanguinities

D. convulsions

4 The _____ Earth, as one might say, beat like the heart of Man

A. variable

B. antiquated

C. hierarchical

D. laud

5 I gave my assent ____ the plan.

A. for

B. to

C. with

D. on

6 The air is ____ by a smell of smoking.

A. pervaded

B. exhorted

C. glued

D. inversed

7 Bill failed to ____ the scene as it was described, even though it was not a hard

job,.

A. uprear

B. scuffle

C. gape

D. visualize

8 The dean insisted that this violence be just a family matter beyond the

school's____.

A. institution

B. constitution C jurisdiction. D. jurisprudence

9 Don't be so ____ ; I'm not telling you what I've promised not to say.

A. inquisitive

B. ineligible

C. explicable

D. unwieldy

10 They want to sit apart and ____ or something, and the plot is concerned at their

lack of public spirit.

A. disclaim

B. brood

C. confess

D. illumine

11 All of them claim ____ dignity as individuals.

A. unintelligible

B. unavailable

C. unalienable

D. unobservable

12 The principal did not understand why they put up ____ resistance to his

proposal.

A. lumpy

B. lucid

C. lubricate

D. stout

13 Don’t you recognize this is a ____ punishment?

A. pretended

B. inestimable

C. sufferable

D. tyranny

14 In our own day, gross ____ upon the liberty of private life were a common

phenomenon.

A. appropriations

B. dissolutions

C. desolations

D. usurpations

15 Tess felt ____ to object her father’s decision.

A. jerked

B. stranded

C. contained

D. constrained

16 In private, I gave them my ____ opinion.

A. candid

B. open

C. kindred

D. undistinguished

17 Before the other consultants could muster a ____ response, Townsend glanced

at his watch and said that he had to get back to the conference room for the evening presentation.

A. coherent

B. doctorate

C. deductible

D. rumple

18 Subconsciously perhaps, she rallied by convincing herself that with gentle and

persistent prodding of her students' minds she could extract from them substance for good essays and ____ for her belief in their capacity to think.

A. anthropology

B. crotch

C. sustenance

D. finale

19 The municipal government ____ to improve the quality of life in the inner city.

A. petitioned

B. dissolved

C. endeavored

D. conjured

20 There is not the least ____ of truth in his account of what happened.

A. palpitate

B. sinister look

C. avalanche

D. element

II. Proofreading and error Correction (10%)

Directions: In this part, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Copy the mistakes and put the corrections on the answer sheet. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank on the answer sheet. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧)