7_专四语法模拟题

专四语法模拟题

1. Space exploration promises to open up many new territories for human settlement, as well as _____the harvest of mineral resources.

A. leads to

B. to lead to

C. leading to

D. lead to

2. Someday, solar power collected by satellites ____the earth may give us all the energy we need for an expanding civilization.

A. circled

B. to circle

C. circling

D. circles

3. In this experiment, they are wakened several times during the night, and asked to report what they _______.

A. had just been dreaming

B. are just dreaming

C. have just been dreaming

D. had just dreamt

4. Her terror was so great ______somewhere to escape, she would have run for her life.

A. only if

B. that there had only been

C. that had there only been

D. if there were only

5. Some women ________a good salary in a job instead of staying home, but they decided not to work for the sake of the family.

A. must make

B. should have made

C. would make

D. could have made

6. A light with no more power than _______by an ordinary electric light bulb becomes intensely strong as it is concentrated to a pinpoint-sized beam.

A. as is produced

B. that produced

C. that is produced

D. produced

7. For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travelers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it, let alone _____what lay beneath the surface.

A. asking

B. ask

C. to ask

D. be asked

8. Even if they are on sale, these refrigerators are equal in price to, if not more expensive than, _____ at the other store.

A. anyone

B. the others

C. that

D. the ones

9. The atmosphere is as much a part of the earth as ___its soil and the water of its lakes, rivers and oceans.

A. are

B. is

C. do

D. has

10. From now on, when anyone in our ranks who has done some useful work dies, ______soldier or cook, we should have a funeral ceremony and a memorial meeting in his honor.

A. no matter he is

B. whether he has been

C. be he

D. whether be he

11. In 1921 Einstein won the Nobel Prize, and was honored in Germany until the rise of Nazism _____he was driven from Germany because he was a Jew.

A. then

B. and

C. when

D. before

12. Physics is the present-day equivalent of _____used to be called natural philosophy from which most of present-day science arose.

A. that

B. all

C. which

D. what

13. _____ the population of working age increased by 1 million between 1981 and 1986, today it is barely growing.

A. Whereas

B. Even if

C. After

D. Now that

14. By the first decade of the 21st century, international commercial traffic

_____vastly beyond today’s levels.

A. will be expected to extend

B. will have been expected to extend

C. is expected to be extended

D. is expected to have extended

15. His features were agreeable; his body, _____slight of build, had something of athletic outline.

A. somehow

B. as

C. though

D. somewhat

16. We advocate ______the economic, cultural and religious traditions of all national minorities.

A. to respect

B. to be respected

C. respecting

D. having respected

17. There are two horses at the ends of a rope ____with all their might in opposite directions.

A. pulling

B. pull

C. pulled

D. to pull

18. Today the Tennessee Valley is one of the richest areas in the world. But if things _____as they were it would now be a desert.

A. had left

B. were left

C. had been left

D. had been leaving

19. After twenty years abroad, William came back only ____ how his hometown was damaged in an earthquake.

A. to find out

B. finding out

C. to have found out

D. to be finding out

20. Relaxation,______ fresh air, pure water and clean food, is essential to a sound mind and healthy body.

A. much less than

B. no less than

C. no more than

D. any less than

21. It is far better to do well a bit of work which is well ___a large fortune.

A. worthy to be done than have

B. worth doing than to have

C. worthwhile to do than have

D. worthy of doing than have

22. Understanding the cultural habit of another nation, especially _____containing as many different subcultures as the United States, is a complex task.

A. one

B. the one

C. that

D. such

23. Whether or not the next plan will yield any positive results ____to be seen.