2000年专业英语四级考试试题

2000年专业英语四级考试试题

Part ⅤGRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY ［15 MIN.］

There are twenty-five sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.

41. Acute hearing helps most animals sense the approach of thunderstorm s long before people___.

A. do

B. hear

C. do them

D. hearing it

42. This is an illness that can result in total blindness ___ left untreated.

A. after

B. if

C. since

D.unless

43. The central provinces have floods in some years, and ___.

A. drought in others

B. droughts are others

C. while other droughts

D. others in drought

44. Do help yourself to some fruit,___ you?

A. can’t

B. don’t

C. wouldn’t

D. won’t

44．答案：D

【参考译文】吃点水果，好吗?

【试题分析】本题为语法题，考查对附加疑问句的掌握。

【详细解答】本句是一个由“祈使句+附加疑问”构成的附加疑问句，这种附加疑问部分通常用won’t you表示一种征询意见的语气，因此答案选D。

45. There___ nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an e nd half an hour earlier.

A. to be

B. to have been

C. being

D. be

46. My mother can’t get ___ because she has rheumatism (风湿病).

A. about

B. on

C. through

D. in

47. I was very much put ___ by Mark’s rude behavior; it really annoyed me.

A. over

B. off

C. up

D. by

47．答案：B

【参考译文】我对马克的粗鲁举止很反感，他太让我气恼了。

【试题分析】本题为动词短语词义辨析题。

【详细解答】put over表示“使被理解，传达……的意义，(尤指用欺骗手段)做成”等；put off 表示“推迟；关掉；消除使厌恶”等；put up表示“抬起，把……拿出来出售(拍卖等)，张贴，提出(请愿、建议、问题等)”；put by表示“继续，储存，抛弃，回避”等。根据句意，选项B 为正确答案。

48. You ___ Jim anything about it. It was none of his business.

A. needn’t have told

B. needn’t tell

C. mustn’t have told

D. mustn’t tell

49. All of us would have enjoyed the party much more if there___ quite such a crowd of people there.

A. weren’t

B. hasn’t been

C. hadn’t been

D. w ouldn’t be

50. Firms that use computers have found that the number of staff ___ quality control can be substantially reduced.

A. whose

B. as

C. what

D. that

51. ___ at in this way, the present economic situation doesn’t seem so glo omy.

A. Looking

B. Looked

C. Having looked

D. To look

52. Many people are ___ to insect bites, and some even have to go to hospital.

A. insensitive

B. allergic

C. sensible

D. infected

53. When you’re driving on a motorway, you must obey the signs telling you to get into the right ___.

A.way

B.track

C.road

ne

54. The motorist had to ___to avoid knocking the old woman down in the middle of the road.

A. swerve

B. twist

C. depart

D. swing

55. In winter drivers have trouble stopping their cars from ___ on icy roads.

A. skating

B. skidding

C. sliding

D. slipping

56. This project would ___ a huge increase in defense spending.

A. result

B. assure

C. entail

D. accomplish

57. The chances of a repetition of these unfortunate events are ___ indeed.

A. distant

B. slim

C. unlikely

D. narrow

58. We should make a clear ___ between ’competent’ and ’proficient’ for the purposes of our discussion.

A. separation

B. division

C. distinction

D. diffe rence

59. In the present economic ___ we can make even greater progress than previously.

A. air

B. mood

C. area

D. climate

60. Rite of Passage is a good novel by any standards;___, it shoul d rank high on any list of science fiction.

A. consistently

B. consequently

C. invariably

D. fortunately

61. The diversity of tropical plants in the region represents a seeming ly___ source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.

A. exploited

B. controversial

C. inexhaustible

D. remarkable

62. While he was in Beijing, he spent all his time ___ some import ant museums and buildings.

A. visiting

B. traveling

C. watching

D. touring

63. You must let me have the annual report without ___ by ten o’cl ock tom orrow morning.

A. failure

B. hesitation

C. trouble

D. fail

64. As the director can’t come to the reception, I’m representing the c ompany

A. on his account

B. on his behalf

C. for his part

D. in his interest

65. Dreams are___ in themselves, but when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.

A. uninformative

B. startling

C. harmless

D. uncontrollable

41．答案：A

【参考译文】敏锐的听觉使多数动物能远在人之前感觉到雷雨的来临。

【试题分析】本题为语法题，考句子成份的省略与替代。

【详细解答】“Acute hearing helps”是主句和before引导的从句具有相同的主语和谓语，从句中省略了该相同部分，用助动词do代替了与主句重复的信息“sense the approach of thunderstorms．”故答案为选项A。

42．答案：B

【参考译文】这种病如果不加以治疗，患者会完全失明。

【试题分析】本题为语法题，考查连词的用法。

【详细解答】after和since都是引导时间状语从句，since还可作“因为”讲，引导原因状语从句。if“如果”和unless“除非”都可以引导条件状语从句。但if后接过去分词短语，省略的