电大网考英语B四、完形填空

第四部分完形填空
passage 1
The population problem may be the ___1___ one of the world today. The world’s population is growing ___2__ . Two thousand years ago, there were only 250 million people ___3___ the earth. Four hundred years ago, the number was __4__ 500 million. But at the beginning of the __5__ century, the world’s population was about 1700 million. In 1970, this number was 3600 million. In 1990, the number was five billion. A __6__ report says that the world population will __7__ six billion by the end of the 20th century. This is just ten __8__ after it __9__ five billion. People say that by the year 2010, __10__ may be seven billion.
1. A. great B. greater C. greatest D. greating
2. A. faster and faster B. fast and fast C. fastest and fastest D. faster and fast
3. A. in B. on C. at D. for
4. A. close B. more C. almost D. over
5. A. twenty B. twelve C. twentieth D.
twelfth
6. A. USA B. UN C. PRC D. PLA
7. A. past B. pass C. passed D. passes
8. A. weeks B. months C. seasons D. years
9. A. get B. gets C. reached D. reach
10. A. this B. its C. one D. it
key：CABDC BBDCD
passage 2
You may think there is only sand in the desert of the world, but it is
not true. In the desert, as we know, there is a little __1__ and it is not __2__ for most plants. Still we can see some plants live in the desert. There is __3__in some places in the deserts. We call these places oases(绿洲). In th oases, there are villages and towns. People grow all kinds of vegetables a nd rice in the fields there. People __4__ live outside the oases. They have camels, sheep and other animals. These animals live __5__ the desert plants for their food and do not need any water. The animals are useful to the desert people in many ways. They eat the __6__ and drink the milk of animals. They __7__ the camels for carrying water, food and something else.
The people of the desert have to keep __8__from place to place. They must always look __9__ grass or desert plants for their animals. When there is no more food for their animals, they move to another place. The desert people are __10__. Every one in the desert likes to help the people in trouble and give them food and water.
1. A. rain B. rains C. wind D. winds
2. A. good B. good enough C. enough good D.
enough
3. A. earth B. plants C. wood D. water
4. A. also B. too C. either D. still
5. A. on B. with C. of D. by
6. A. meal B. meat C. body D. food
7. A. let B. make C. drive D.
use
8. A. walking B. carrying C. moving D. going
9. A. up B. for C. after D. at
10. A. carefully B. careful C. friendly D. friend
key：ADBAA BDCBC
passage 3
Time is money,”　but I think time is __1__ Someone says,”　
important than money. Why? Because when money is spent, we can get it back. Howevere, when time is __2__, it’ll never __3__. That is
__4__ we must not waste time. It goes without saying that the __5__is usually limited. Ever a second is very important. We should make full use of our time to __6__ useful.
But it is a pity that there are a lot of people who do not know the
importance of the time. They spent their limited time smoking, drinking and __7__. They do not know that wasting time means wasting part of their own __8__.
In a word, we should save time. We shouldn’t __9__ today’s work for tomorrow. Remember we have no time to __10__.
1. A. much B. less C. much less D. even more
2. A. cost B. bought C. gone D. finished
3. A. return B. carry C. take D. bring
4. A. what B. that C. because D. why
5. A. money B. time C. day D. food
6. A. nothing B. something C. anything D. everything
7. A. reading B. writing C. playing D. working
8. A. time B. food C. money D. life
9. A. stop B. leave C. let D. give
10. A. lose B. save C. spend D. take
key：DCADB BCDBA
passage 4
Everyone likes gifts. Some little kids think they don’t get __1__. Some old people think they get too __2__ gifts. Different people like different __3__ gifts.
Some presents are never too small. A little child may give his mother a leaf __4__ a tree. It is enough __5__ her very happy.
__6__ is different in different coutries. In Japan, p eople sometimes give special gifts. But they are not __7__. Later, the same gift may be given to someone else. Many people have enough things and don’t want too many gifts themselves. In Canada, many people will not give big gifts to someone else. They will pay for a park bench or a tree to help __8__ a person. In the USA, some people ask their families and friends to give money to charity rather than __9__ them gifts. In Sweden, doing something for someone is the best gift. People don’t need to spend too much money. Instead, __10__ a meal is enough. 1. A. gifts enough B. enough gift C. enough gifts D.
gift enough
2. A. many B. much C. a lot D. lot of
3. A. a kind of B. kind of C. kinds of D. a kind
4. A. from B. in C. of D. to
5. A. making B. to make C. made D. make
6. A. Give gifts B. Giving a gift C. Gift giving D. A gift giving
7. A. open B. opening C. is opened D. opened
8. A. remembering B. to remember C. remember D.
remembered
9. A. buy B. buying C. to buy D. to buying
10. A. making B. to make C. make D. made key：CACAB CDCCA
passage 5
Kate and Sandy are American students. They __1__ sisters. They live __2__ now. Kate is __3__ than Sandy. She likes living in town very much. Kate thinks living in town is __4__ than __5__ in the country. There are more parks, shops and cinemas in town than in the country. She especially likes the lights in town. She thinks the lights __6__are more beautiful than the stars. She likes to read and reads __7__ than Sandy. Often Kate reads until very late at night. Sandy likes the country__8__. She thinks the country life is quiet. There is less noise and fewer cars. She likes to visit her aunt Peggy. She often helps her aunt __9__ her work. Sandy likes to run. She runs faster than Kate. In the coutry Sandy can run longer than in town. She also thinks running in the country __10__ the most exciting thing to do.
1. A. am B. is C. are D. was
2. A. in the town B. in town C. in the country D. in
country
3. A. old B. older C. more old D. more older
4. A. interesting B. more interesting C. beautiful
D. more beautiful
5. A. live B. living C. to live D. is living
6. A. at night B. at the night C. in night D. in the night
7. A. quickly B. more quickly C. quicklier D. most quickly
8. A. good B. well C. better D. best
9. A. for B. at C. to D. with
10. A. am B. is C. are D. were key：CBBBB ABCDB
passage 6
Mr Brown and his wife had a small bar(酒吧) near a railway station. The bar didn’t close __1__ midnight because people came t o drink while they were __2__ for trains. So the business was good.
At two o’clock one morning, a man was __3__ sitting at the table in
the bar. He was __4__ Mr Brown’s young wife wanted to go to __5__. She looked __6__ the bar several times, but the man kept sleeping. Then at last she went to her __7__ and said to hime, “ You have tried to wake that man several times, and he isn’t drinking __8__. Why haven’t you sent him away? It’s too __9__.”
“Oh, no, I don’t want to send him away,” he answered __10__ a smile. “You know, each time I woke him up, he gave five pounds. Then he went to sleep again.”
1. A. until B. while C. as D. when
2. A. getting B. looking C. asking D. waiting
3. A. only B. still C. just D. also
4. A. drinking B. talking C. sleeping D. thinking
5. A. home B. school C. bed D. work
6. A. in B. at C. for D. around
7. A. room B. bed C. either D. husband
8. A. anything B. either C. everything D. too
9. A. cold B. dark C. late D. early
10. A. by B. in C. with D. for
key：ADBCC DDACC
passage 7
Everyone has hobbies. A hobby __1__ be almost anything a person likes to do in his spare time. People who take __2__ hobbies are hobbyists. They paint pictures, sing pop songs, __3__ music instruments and __4__ stamps or other things. They grow flowers, go fishing and hunting. They climb __5__, swim, skate and play games. People today have __6__ time than ever for hobbies. In early times, people were __7__ busy making a living to have hobbies. Nowadays machines have taken the __8__ of many workers. More people retire at an earlier age. They have hobbies __9__ these activities offer them enjoyment, __10__, knowledge, and relaxation.
1. A. can B. must C. has to D. /
2. A. on B. up C. in D. off
3. A. play B. take C. grow D. smell
4. A. buy B. sell C. collect D. use
5. A. trees B. mountains C. the wall D. down
6. A. much B. more C. less D. little
7. A. very B. so C. too D. such
8. A. place B. job C. time D. room
9. A. so B. because C. with D. if
10. A. friendship B. money C. books D. feeling key：ABACB BCABA
passage 8
We live in a computer age. P eople __1__ scientists, t eachers, w riters and even students use computers to do all kinds of work. But more than 30 years ago, __2__ couldn’t do much. They were very big and expensive. Very __3__people were interested in them and knew how
to use them. Today computers are smaller and __4__. But they can do a lot of work, many people like to use them. Some people __5__ have them at home.
Computers become very important because we can work __6__ than people and make fewer mistakes. Computers can __7__ people do a lot of work. Writers now use computers to __8__. Teachers use them to help teachign. Students use them to __9__. Computers can also remember what you __10__ them. Computers are very useful and helpful. They are our friends. Do you want to have a computer?
1. A. like B. as C. and D. with
2. A. students B. scientists C. teachers D. computers
3. A. few B. a few C. little D. a little
4. A. cheap B. cheaper C. more expensive D. expensive
5. A. even B. still C. already D. yet
6. A. fast B. faster C. slow D. slower
7. A. help B. make C. stop D. use
8. A. wirte B. play C. study D. learn
9. A. sing B. study C. dance D. watch
10. A. put in B. put on C. put into D. put up
key：ADABA BAABC
passage 9
This is my timetable. I study at No.3 Middle School of Dongfang. From Monday to Friday I get up __1__ 6:30 a.m. I have __2__ at 7:00 and then I go to school. I __3__ to be late. Our classes __4__ at 8:30 a.m. we have four classes in the moring. I often have lunch at __5__ with my classmates.
__6__ the afternoon, we have two classes. Classes are over at 3:30, and I get home at 4:00. But sometimes I don’t __7__ school so early because I play basketball on the playground. Then I __8__ home at 5:00. I have supper at about 6:00. After supper I do __9__. I often watch TV, but sometimes I __10__ to do some reading and the story books are very interesting. I usually go to bed at about 10:00 p.m.
1. A. in B. on C. at D. for
2. A. supper B. lunch C. breakfast D. dinner
3. A. am not B. don’t like C. am like D.
does n’t like
4. A. is B. start C. starts D. begins
5. A. home B. school C. park D.
shop
6. A. At B. On C. In D. After
7. A. go B. come C. leave D. stay
8. A. arrive at B. come to C. get to D.
go
9. A. a homework B. my homework C. my homeworks D. many homework
10. A. like B. look C. have D. go
key：CCBBB CCDBA
passage 10
William J.Sidis, was b orn in 1898. __1__ father was an American psychiatrist. At the age of six months, William __2__ the English alphabet: he could read and write when he was two. When he was eight years __3__, young Sidis had completed both elementary and high school. At the age of nine, William entered Havard University.
As a __4__ at Harvard, Sidis displayed phenomenal knowledge in
the field of mathematics, __5__ amazing his professors. He graduated with honors __6__ the age of 16 and became a full professor of mathematics at the university at 19.
__7__ story of William J. Sidis unfortunately, does not end happily. The promise __8__ his early years was never fulfilled. At the age of 26, he was found operating an adding machine __9__ a store in New York.
This brilliant ex-genius died a lonely death in 1943 in a hotel room __10__ New York.
1. A. His B. My C. Her D. Their
2. A. spoke B. say C. saw D. knew
3. A. old B. big C. elder D. young
4. A. student B. teacher C. painter D. singer
5. A. but B. often C. are D. out
6. A. at B. in C. on D. or
7. A. A B. The C. Of D. They
8. A. of B. in C. or D. for
9. A. in B. on C. out D. inside
10. A. at B. on C. by D. in
key：ADAAB ABBAD。