1、精選優質文檔-傾情為你奉上2016年12月英語四級選詞填空真題及答案第一套PART Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select oneword for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully

2、 before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Many men and women have long bought into the idea th

3、at there are“male”and“female”brains,believing that explains just about every difference between the sexes.A new study 26 that belief, questioning whether brains really can be distinguished by gender.In the study, Tel Aviv University researchers 27 for sex differences throughout the entire human brai

4、nAnd what did they find? Not much. Rather than offer evidence for 28 brains as “male” or“female”,research shows that brains fall into a wide range , with most people falling right in the middle.Daphna Joel ,who led the study, said her research found that while there are some genderbased 29 ,many dif

5、ferent types of brain cant always be distinguished by gender.While the “average”male and“average”female brains were 30different, you couldnt tell it by looking at individual brain scans. Only a small 31of people had “all-male”or“all-female”characteristics.Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist(神經科

6、學家)，said the study is an important addition to a growing body of research questioning 32 beliefs about gender and brain function. But he cautioned against concluding from this study that all brains are the same, 33 of gender.“Theres a mountain of evidence 34 the importance of sex influences at all l

7、evels of brain function ,”he told The Seattle Times.If anything, he said, the study 35that gender plays a very important role in the brain“even when we are not clear exactly how.”Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from

8、a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use

9、any of the words in the bank more than once. Its our guilty pleasure: Watching TV is the most common everyday activity, after work and sleep, in many parts of the world. Americans view five hours of TV each day, and while we know that spending so much time sitting （36）can lead to obesity (肥胖癥) and o

10、ther diseases, researchers have now quantified just how（37） being a couch potato can be.In an analysis of data from eight large （38） published studies, a Harvard-led group reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that for every two hours per day spent channel （39）, the risk of dev

11、eloping Type 2 diabetes(糖尿病) rose 20% over 8.5 years, the risk of heart disease increased 15% over a （40）, and the odds of dying prematurely （41） 13% during a seven-year follow-up. All of these （42） are linked to a lack of physical exercise. But compared with other sedentary(久坐的) activities, like kn

12、itting, viewing TV may be especially （43） at promoting unhealthy habits. For one, the sheer number of hours we pass watching TV dwarfs the time we spend on anything else. And other studies have found that watching ads for beer and popcorn may make you more likely to （44）them.Even so, the authors adm

13、it that they didnt compare different sedentary activities to （45） whether TV watching was linked to a greater risk of diabetes, heart disease or early death compared with, say, reading.A) climbed B) consume C) decade D) determine E) effective F) harmful G) outcomesH) passively I) previously J) resum

14、e K) suffered L) surfing M) term N) terminals O) twisting參考答案解析：36. passively 解析：sitting passively 被動坐著從詞性判斷，36題應該選一個副詞來修飾sitting這個動名詞，而備選項中只有兩個副詞，一個是passively被動地，一個是previously之前，再根據語義邏輯，坐著那看電視的行為應該是一種被動行為，而不存在前后之分。37. harmful 解析：quantified just how harmful being a couch potato 量化長時間看電視的嚴重危害通過分析how

15、( ) being a couch potato can be 這句話的句子成分，得出how 這個副詞之后應該接一個形容詞，符合詞性條件的備選項，一個是effective 有效的，一個是harmful有害的。根據語義邏輯，長時間看電視是有害的，故選harmful。38. previously 解析： previously published studies 之前公布的研究38題空格處應該填一個副詞來修飾published這個詞，參考36題的解析，備選項中現在只剩下一個副詞就是previously，剛好填入此處。39. surfing 解析：spent channel surfing ，直接翻譯

16、為在頻道沖浪，意譯為看電視。這里的channel頻道指代television電視；而“surfing沖浪”指代“watching看”，我們經常看到上網常用surfing一詞，這里運用了仿詞，將“上網沖浪”的surfing借過來用來指“看電視“。以上可以理解為英語中的委婉表達。40. decade 解析：increased 15% over a decade 10年增加了15% 。40題后面出現了一個詞并列連詞and，說明本句存在并列關系。通讀此句，40題在over之后應該填一個表示時間的名詞，這樣才能和前文over 8.5.years 與后文during a seven-year follow

17、 up 形成并列，備選項中只有decade符合條件。41. climbed 解析：the odds climbed 13% 幾率增加了13% 。解析同40題，根據and所指向的并列關系，前文說某一種風險增加了20%，某一種風險的增加了15%，此處空格也應該填一個表示上升的動詞，備選項只有climbed，爬升。42. outcomes 解析：all of these outcomes 所有這些后果。 此題填outcomes，是對前文各種疾病風險的概括。43. effective 解析：be especially effective at promoting unhealthy habits 更容

18、易形成不健康的習慣。be effective at doing 有效做某事。這里是諷刺用法，用來強調看電視更容易形成不健康的習慣。44. consume 解析：make you more likely to consume them 使你更有可能吃他們，這里注意them指前文出現的beer啤酒和popcorn爆米花，又能表示喝啤酒，又能表示吃爆米花的詞只有consume。consume消費，也只吃喝（東西）。45. determine 解析：通過句法分析，本句應該填寫動詞原形，放在to 不定式符號之后。備選項中有3個動詞原形，其中consume已經填在了44題，在剩下的resume恢復和det

19、ermine決定之間，根據語義，應選擇determine。Reading is thought to be a kind of conversation between the reader and the text. The reader puts questions, as it were, to the text and gets answers. In the light of these he puts _1_ questions, and so on.For most of the time this “conversation” goes on below the level o

20、f consciousness. At times, however, we become _2_ of it. This is usually when we are running into difficulties, when mismatch is occurring between _3_ and meaning. When successful matching is being experienced, our question of the text continues at the unconscious level.Different people _4_ with the

21、 text differently. Some stay very close to the words on the page, others take off imaginatively from the words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing and examining. The former represents a kind of comprehension which is _5_ in the text. The latter represents _6_ levels of comprehension. The balance b

22、etween these is important, especially for advanced readers.There is another conversation which from our point of view is _7_ important, and that is to do not with what is read but with how it is read. We call this a “process” conversation as _8_ to a “content” conversation. It is concerned not with

23、meaning but with the _9_ we employ in reading. If we are an advanced reader our ability to hold a process conversation with a text is usually pretty well _10_. Not so our ability to hold a content conversation.A opposedB converseC equallyD writtenE developedF strategiesG comparedH awakeI higherJ exp

24、ectationsK dealL absolutelyM awareN betterOfurther參考答案：1. O2. M3. J4. B5. D6. I7. C8. A9. F10.EDirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage throu

25、gh carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.The method for making beer has changed o

26、ver time. Hops (啤酒花), for example, which give many a modern beer its bitter flavor, are a 26 recent addition to the beverage. This was mentioned in reference to brewing in the ninth century. Now, researchers have found a 27 ingredient in residue (殘留物) from 5000-year-old beer brewing equipment. While excavating two pits at a site in the central plains of China, scie