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1、20212021 年英语专业四级模拟试题年英语专业四级模拟试题PART CLOZE(15 MIN)32、根据以下资料，32-51 回答：Decide which of the choices given below would bestcomplete the passage if inserted it,the correspondingblanksMark the best choice for each blank on Answer SheetTwoAlthough most people return from package holidaysreasonably atisfied,

2、this is not always the 31 Take,forinstance,the nightmare experience of a Frenchman who went on32 to CololnbiaThe hotel in the small Caribbean port wasoverbookedThe holidaymaker was 33 round the streets,looking for a(n)34 and breakfast place,when he was arrestedfor vagrancyHe was 35 where he told the

3、 magistrate thatit was the hotels 36 The magistrate was the hotel-ownersbrother,and he charged theTourist 37 making falseaccusation and sent him to prison for eight daysBy the timeof his 38,hit return flight had leftHe had insufficientfunds to buy a return ticket,39 he went to the Post Officeto end

4、a telegraph to his home in Montpellier,asking formoneyHe was 40 before he could send it,This time hewas charged with illegal 41 It was explained that,havingmissed his return 42 he could no longer be classified as atouristHe now needed a work 43,he didnt have oneHe wasfined$500 for this 44,and a furt

5、her$500 when he againblamed the hotel for overbooking His 45 was cont seatedbecause e couldnt pay the finesHe hitch hiked to Bogota46 the consulate finally arranged to send him homeAll things 47,I would prefer to plan my holidayindependently 48 my view,its safer to“do ityourself”And the advantages o

6、f planning your holiday yourself are49 If it is well-planned,an independentholiday canusually be good 50 for money请在第(31)处选择准确答案_AoccurrenceBsituationCstateDcase33、请在第(32)处选择准确答案_ApackageBholidayCfestivalDcelebration34、请在第(33)处选择准确答案_AstrollingBsaunteringCwanderingDpatrolling35、请在第(34)处选择准确答案_Aaccom

7、modationBhotelCbedDlodging36、请在第(35)处选择准确答案_Ataken to courtBbrought to the police stationCtaken to the reform schoolDsent to prison37、请在第(36)处选择准确答案_AfaultBblameCdutyDresponsibility38、请在第(37)处选择准确答案_AwithBofCforDto39、请在第(38)处选择准确答案_AfreedomBdischargeCreleaseDliberty40、请在第(39)处选择准确答案_AandBthoughCbutD

8、so41、请在第(40)处选择准确答案_AfinedBrearrestedCarrestedDpunished42、请在第(41)处选择准确答案_AcitizenshipBnaturalizationCmigrationDimmigration43、请在第(42)处选择准确答案_AtripBticketCflightDjourney44、请在第(43)处选择准确答案_ApermitBallowanceCpermissionDlicense45、请在第(44)处选择准确答案_AcrimeBoffenceCfaultDerror46、请在第(45)处选择准确答案_AluggageBbelongin

9、gCthingDmoney47、请在第(46)处选择准确答案_AwhenBafterCwhereDwhile48、请在第(47)处选择准确答案_AconsideredBincludedCthoughtDknown49、请在第(48)处选择准确答案_AToBInCByDWith50、请在第(49)处选择准确答案_AconsiderableBthinkableCconsiderateDimaginable51、请在第(50)处选择准确答案_AbargainBbuyCsaleDvaluePART GRAMMAR&VOCABULARY(15 MIN)52、When I try to understan

10、d _that prevents somany Americans from being as one might expect,it seems to methat there are two causesAwhat it doesBwhat it isCwhy it doesDwhy it is53、_can be seen from the comparison of thesefigures,the principle involves the active participation ofthe patient in the modification of his condition

11、AAsBWhatCThatDIt54、I am sure he is up to the job _ he would give hismind to itAif onlyBin caseCuntilDunless55、We told you that he would come tonight,_Adidnt weBdid weCwould heDwouldnt he56、The Social Security Retirement Program is made up oftwo mast founds,_could go penniless by next yearAthe larger

12、 oneBthe largest oneCthe larger of whichDthe largest of which57、Its reported that by the end of the month the outputof cement in the factory _about 10%Awill have risenBhas risenCwill be risingDhas been rising58、George wasnt in class todayProfessor Brown excusedhim _Aof attendingBfrom attendingCto at

13、tendDattending59、It is said that with more forests _ huge quantitiesof good earth are being washed awayAbeing destroyedBdestroyedCdestroyingDto destroy60、A safety analysis_ the target as a potentialdanger Unfortunately,it was never doneAwould identifyBwill identifyCwould have identifiedDwill have id

14、entified61、Jean doesnt want to work fight away because shethinks that if she _ a job she probably wouldnt be able tosee her friends very oftenAhas to getBhad gotCwere to getDcould have got62、John DRockefeller _ owned 90 percent of allAm,dean oil refineriesAas still a young manBwhile still a young ma

15、nCa young man howeverDin spite of a young man63、This law _ the number of accidents caused bychildren running across she road when they get off the busAintending to reduceBis intended to reduceCin ended reducingDintends reducing64、_ about the bookkeepers honesty,the companyasked him to resignAThere b

16、e some questionsBThere are some questionsCThere have been some questionsDthere being some questions65、He often sat in a small bar drinking considerablymore than_Ahe was in good healthBwas good for his healthChis good health wasDhis health was good66、He claims to be an expert in astronomy,but in actu

17、alfact he is quite ignorant on the subject_ he knowsabout it is out of date and inaccurateAWhat littleBSo muchCHow muchDSo little67、Though _ rich,he was better off than at anyother period in his lifeAby any meansBby some meansCby all meansDby no means68、When any non-human organ is transplanted into

18、apersor the body immed ately recognizes it as _AnovelBremoteCdistantDforeign69、When travelling,you are advised to take travelerschecks,which provide a secure _ to carrying yourmoney in cashAsubstituteBselectionCpreferenceDalternative70、He always did well at school _ having to do part-time jobs every

19、 now and thenAin spite ofBregardless ofCon account ofDin case of71、MsGreen has been living in town for only one year,yet she seems to be _ with everyone who comes to the storeAacceptedBadmittedCadmiredDacquainted72、The government has provided the capital library withheavy_ to keep it one of the larg

20、est in the worldAsubscriptionsBtipsCsubsidiesDbonuses73、I didnt say anything like that at allYou arepurposely_ my ideas to prove your pointArevisingBcontradictingCdistortingDdistracting74、Researchers discovered that plants infected with avirus give off a gas that_ disease resistance inneighboring pl

21、antsAcontractsBactivatesCmaintainsDprescribe75、Fuel scarcities and price increases _ automobiledesigners to shale down the largest models and to developcompletely new lines of small cars and trucksApersuadedBpromptedCimposedDenlightened76、He spoke so _ that even his opponents were wonover by his arg

22、umentsAbluntlyBdeterminedlyCemphaticallyDconvincingly77、The Eskimo is perhaps one of the most trusting andconsiderate of allIndians but seems to be_ the welfareof his animalsAcritical aboutBindignant atCindifferent toDsubject to78、Dozens of scientific groups all over the world havebeen_ the goal of

23、a practical and economic way to usesunlight to split water moleculesApursuingBchasingCreachingDwinning79、She gave _ directions about the way the rugshE aid be cleanedAexplicitBbriskCtransientDopaque80、It is up to the Government to tackle the airpollution problem and _ measures in line with thecounci

24、ls suggestionsAset aboutBwork outCfill upDbring over81、Frances _ of nuclear testing in the SouthPacific last month triggered political debates and massdemonstrationsAassumptionBconsumptionCpresumptionDresumptionPART READING COMPREHENSION(25 MIN)82、根据以下资料，回答 82-101 题：What accounts for the great outbu

25、rst of major inventionsin early America-breakthroughs such as the telegraph,thesteamboat and the weaving machine?Among the many shaping factors,I would single out thecountrys excellent elementary schools;a labor force thatwelcomed the new technology;the practice of giving premiumsto inventors;and ab

26、ove all the American genius for nonverbal,spatial thinking about things technologicalWhy mention the elementary schools?Because thanks tothese schools our early mechanics,specially in the NewEngland and Middle Atlantic states,were generally literateand at horn,in arithmetic and in some aspects of ge

27、ometryand trigonometryAcute foreign observers related American adaptiveness andinventiveness to this educational advantage As a member ofa British commission visiting here in 1853 reported,With amind prepared by thorough school discipline,the American boydevelops rapidly into the skilled workmanA fu

28、rther stimulus to invention came from the premiumsystem,which preceded our patent system and for years ranparallel with itThis approach,originated abroad,offeredinventors medals,cash prizes and other incentivesIn theUnited States,multitudes of premiums for new devices wereawarded at country fairs an

29、d at the industrial fairs in majorcitiesAmericans flocked to these fairs to admire the newmachines and thus to renew their faith in the beneficence oftechnological advanceGiven this optimistic approach to technologicalinnovation,American workers took readily to that specialkind of nonverbal thinking

30、 required in mechanicaltechnologyAs Eugene Ferguson has pointed out,Atechnologist thinks about objects that cannot be reduced tounambiguous verbal descriptions;they are dealt with in hismind by a visual,nonverbal processThe designer and theinventorare able to assemble and manipulate in theirminds de

31、vices that as yet do not existThis nonverbal spatial thinking can be just as creativeas painting and writingRobert Fulton once wrote,Themechanic should sit down among levers,screws,wedges,wheels,etclike a poet among the letters of the alphabet,considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts,in whi

32、ch anew arrangement transmits a new ideaWhen all these shaping forces-schools,open attitudes,the premium system,a genius for spatial thinking-interactedwith one another on the rich USmainland,they producedthat American characteristic,emulationToday that wordimplies mere imitationBut in earlier times

33、 it meant afriendly but competitive striving for fame and excellenceAccording to the author,the great outburst of majorinventions in early America was in a large part due toAa special way of thinkingBenthusiastic workersCthe attractive premium systemDelementary school83、Which of the following statem

34、ents about earlyAmerican mechanics is TRUE?AThey had received privileged home trainingBThey contributed to disciplined school managementCThey are the result of technological developmentDThey benefited a lot from their mathematical knowledge84、According to the passage,the premium system _Awas an Amer

35、ican inventionBappeared before the patent systemCis as important as the patent systemDis supported by the federal government85、A technologist can be compared to an artist becausethey both_Ause various instrumentsBabandon verbal descriptionCarc experts in special thinkingDare winners of awards86、The

36、best title for this passage might be_AInventive MindBEffective SchoolingCWays of ThinkingDTechnological Advance87、根据以下资料，回答 87-106 题：If winning is everything,British anthropologists havesome advice：Wear redTheir survey of four sports atthe2004 Olympic Games in Athens shows competitors were morelikel

37、y to win their contests if they wore red uniforms or redbody armor Across a range of sports,we find that wearingred is consistently associated with a higher probability ofwinning,report Russell AHill and Robert ABarton of theUniversity of Durham in EnglandTheir findings are inThursdays issue of the

38、journal NatureRed coloration is associated with aggression in manyanimalsOften it is sexually selected so that scarletmarkings signal male dominanceJust think of the red stripeson the scowling face of the male Mandrill,Africas largestmonkey speciesBut red is not exclusively a male traitItsthe female

39、 black widow spider that is venomous sand displaysa menacing red dot on her abdomenSimilarly,the colors effect also may subconsciouslyintimidate opponents in athletic contests,especially whenthe athletes are equal in skill and strength,the researcherssuggestIn their survey,the anthropologists analyz

40、ed theresults of four combat sports at the summer games：boxing,tae kwon do,Greco-Roman wrestling and freestylewrestlingIn those events,the athletes were randomlyassigned red protective gear and other sportswearAthleteswearing red gear won more often in 16 of 21 rounds ofcompetition in all four event

41、sThe effect was the sameregardless of weight classes,too：19 of 29 classes hadmore red winners,and only four rounds had more blue winners,The red effect also might come into play in teamsportsThe anthropologists made a preliminary analysis ofthe Euro 2004 international soccer tournament,in which team

42、swore jerseys of different colors in different matchesTheyfound that five teams scored more goals and won more oftenwhen they wore shirts that were predominantly red,as opposedto blue or white jerseysScientists dont precisely know how wearing red mightgive athletes an advantageBut the color delivers

43、 implicitmessages of vigor and dangerWhen people get angry,theirfaces turn redIts also a reason why stop signs are redSoare most FerrarisRed color is associated with all of the followingEXCEPT_Acontrolling power of male MandrillsBgreater chances of winning in sportsCmenacing characteristics of femal

44、e back widow spidersDhigher speed of automobiles88、The word intimidate in Paragraph 3 is similar inmeaning to_AthreatenBimitateCdistractDconfuse89、Which of the following statements about red effect insports is TRUE?AIt works for athletic contest onlyBIt varies from different weight classesCIt exists

45、 in team sportsDIt is not so obvious in other sports as in soccer90、Scientists are sure that the color redAencourages athletes to winBis a signal of vigorCis superior to the color blueDdelivers messages,f mental advantage91、根据以下资料，回答 91-110 题：When Gina Garro and Brian Duplisea adopted 4-month-oldAnd

46、res from Colombia last month(they also have a 6-year-olddaughter),they were determined to take time off from work tocare for himThough Garros$40,000salary will cover theirmortgage,the couple will have to freeze their retirementaccounts,and pray that nothing goes wrong with the carIttakes away from y

47、ou your cushion and your security,saysGarroThings will be tightThe 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act was supposed tohelp families like Garros,offering a safety net toemployees who want to take time off to nurture newborns,tendto their own major illnesses or care for sickrelatives But while the law g

48、uarantees that workers wontlose their jobs,it doesnt cover their paychecksOne surveylast year showed that while 24 million Americans had takenleaves since 1999,27 million more wanted to,but couldntafford itThat may change soonIn response to increasingdemand from voters,at least 25 states are now exp

49、loring newways to offer paid leaveOne possibility：tapping statedisability fundsA handful of states-New York,New Jersey,California,Rhode Island and Hawaii-already dip intodisability money to offer partial pay for women on maternityleaveBut that doesnt help dads or people caring forelderly parentsNew

50、Jersey and New York may soon expanddisability programs to cover leave for fathers and othercaretakersThirteen states,including Arizona,Illinois andFlorida,have proposed using unemployment fund to pay forleaveMassachusetts has been especially creativeWhen thestates acting governor,Jane Swift,gave bir