2016年12月英语四级选词填空真题及答案.doc

2016

年

12

月英语 四级选词填空真题及答案

第一套

PART

Ⅲ

Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)

Section A

Directions: 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 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 any of the words in the bank more than once.

Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there are

“

male

”

and

“

female

”

brains,bel ieving 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 brain

And 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 gender

‐

based 29 ,many different types of brain

can

’

t always be distinguished by gender.

While the

“

average

”

m ale and

“

average

”< /p>

female brains were

30different, you couldn

’

t tell it by looking at individual brain

scans. Only a small 31of people had

“

all-male

”

or

“

all- female

”

characteristics.

Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientis t(

神经科学家

)

，

< br>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.

“

There

’

s a mountain of evidence 34 the importance of sex

influences at all levels 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 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 any of the words in the bank more than once.

It’s 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 (

肥胖症

) and other diseases,

researchers have now quantified just ho w

（

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 developing 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 knitting, 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< /p>

）

them.

Even so, the authors admit that they didn

’

t 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) outcomes

H) passively I) previously J) resume K) suffered L) surfing M) term N) terminals

O) twisting

参考答案解析

：

36. passively

解析：

sitting passively

被动坐着

从词性判断，

36

题应该选一个副词来修饰

sitting

这个动名词，而备选项中只有两个副词，

一个是

passively

被动地，一个是

previously< /p>

之前，再根据语义逻辑，坐着那看电视的行为

应该是一种被动行为 ，而不存在前后之分。

37. harmful

解析：

quantified just how harmful being a couch potato

量化长时间看电视的严重危害

通过分析

how (

) being a couch potato can be

这句话的句子成分，得出

how

这个 副词之后

应该接一个形容词，符合词性条件的备选项，一个是

e ffective

有效的，一个是

harmful

害的。根据语义逻辑，长时间看电视是有害的，故选

harmful

。

38. previously

解析：

previously published studies

之前公布的研究

38

题空格处应该填一个副词来修饰

published

这 个词，参考

36

题的解析，备选项中现在只

剩下一个副词就是

previously

，刚好填入此处。

39. surfing

解析：

spent channel surfing

，直接翻译为在频道冲浪，意译为看电视。这里的

channel

频

道指代

television