大学英语四级选词填空题库教学教材

大学英语四级选词填

空题库

第一单元：

A. purposes

B. secure

C. however

D. convince

E. project

F. failure

G. unfamiliar

H. furthermore

I. community

J. appreciate

K. expert L. appropriate M. conveyed N. engaged O. assure

To be a successful speaker, it is essential for you to know why you are speaking and what you wish to accomplish by your speech. The four most common 1____A___ of speech are to inform, to convince, to move to action, and to entertain. Do you, like a teacher or a/an 2____K___ in a field, wish to make your ideas clear to people

3____G___ with your subject? Or, like a debater, wish to convince the judges or the audience? Or, like a fund raiser for a naturalist foundation, wish to 4____B___ donations or collect cash? Or like a comedian or an after-dinner speaker, wish to entertain? The language and tone that you use must be 5____L___ for you purpose, for your audience, and for the occasion. A speech to the graduating class will have quite different language, tone, and manner of presentation, for example, from information 6___M____ to a group of your friends.7____H___, no matter how talented the speaker is, a talk without adequate preparation is usually a 8____F___. To speak without preparing is to shoot without taking aim. Decide what your aim or objective is; then state it in a complete topic sentence such as “My purpose is to

9___D___ the class that cats as well as dogs should require licenses in our

10___I____.” Make sure that your subject is definite and not too broad. Then you

should write an outline before adding details to it.

1. They are busy, often stressed out, and don’t like to wait and they eat, talk, walk, and

drive fast.

2. If you recognize yourself, you should remember to slow down and take more time for everything.

3. They might seem unfriendly and difficult to get along with.

4. Someone who is a sweetheart, a team player, or a people person may have a Type B personality.

5. People with Type A personality work hard to succeed and to get what they want.

6. As the opposite of Type A personality, the Type B personality is easygoing, patient, and friendly.

7. We should learn to live in the present and stop worrying about the future.

8. People with Type B personality are able to relax and have fun and they live a more balanced life.

5-1-3-6-8-4

1. 许多人认为国际旅游对经济发展有积极作用。(produce … effect on)

Many people believe that international tourism produce positive effects on economic growth

2. 高年级学生可以与新生一起分享他们的经历：如何克服遇到的困难，如何适应新的环境。(adjust …to)

The senior and junior students could share their own experience about how to overcome the difficulty they have ever met, how to adjust to the new environment with the new students.

3. 该是有关当局采取适当的措施来解决交通问题的时候了(It is time …, concerned, take steps)

It is time the authorities concerned took proper steps to solve the traffic problems.

4. 现在，越来越多的人认识到法制教育的重要性。(be aware that …, be of … ) Today an increasing number of people have been aware that law education is of great importance.

5. 应该鼓励年轻人和他们的同龄人交往，发展他们的交际能力。 (communicate with… )

Young people should be encouraged to communicate with their peers and develop their interpersonal skills.

第二单元：

A. raising

B. risk

C. physiologically

D. effect

E. mentally

F. distinct

G. average

H. constant

I. adds

J. pregnant

K. educating L. suppress M. nerves N. relative O. adapts

Mothers who have complained through the centuries that their sons will be the death of them may be right — a study published in the journal Science shows having boys shortens a woman’s life span. Each son takes a(n) 1___G__ of 34 weeks off a woman’s life span, evolutionary biologist Samuli Helle and colleagues at the University of