2017年度英语专四真命题及答案解析

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2017

年英语专业四级真题及答案

III.

语言知识：

11. ___B_____ combination of techniques authors use, all stories---from the briefest

anecdotes to the longest novels ----have a plot.

A. Regarding

B. Whatever.

C. In so far as

D. No matter

12.

She

followed

the

receptionist

down

a

luxurious

corridor

to

a

closed

door,

____B______ the women gave a quick knock before opening it..

A. wherein

B. on which

C. but when

D. then

13. Ms Ennab is one of the first Palestinian ______C____ with seven years

’

racing

experience.

A. woman drivers

B. women driver

C. women drivers

D. woman driver

14.

“

I wondered if I could have a word with you.

”

The past tense in the sentence

refers to a __B___.

A. past event for exact time reference

B. present event for tentativeness

C. present event for uncertainty

D. past event for politeness

15.

“

If I were you, I wouldn

’

t wait to propose to her.

”

The subjunctive mood in the

sentence is used to ____D______.

A. alleviate hostility

B. express unfavorable feelings

C. indicate uncertainty

D. make a suggestion

16.

“

It

’

s a shame that the city official should have gone back on his word.

”

The

modal auxiliary SHOULD express __B_____.

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A obligation

B

disappointment

C future in the past

D. tentativeness

17. Timothy Ray Brown, the first man cured of HIV, initially opted against the stem

cell transplantation that _____D______ history.

A. could have later made

B. should have made later

C. might make later

D. would later make

18. Some Martian rock structures look strikingly like structures on Earth that are

known ___C___by microbes.

A.

having

been

created

B.

being

created

C.

to

have

been

created

D.

to

be

created

19. At that moment, with the crowd watching me, I was not afraid in the ordinary

sense, as ______ if I ____A_______alone.

A. would have been

…

had been

B. should be

…

had been

C. could be

…

were

D. might have been

…

were

20. You must fire __C____ incompetent assistant of yours

A. the

B. an

C. that

D. whichever

21.

Some

narratives

seem

more

like

plays,

heavy

with

dialogue

by

which

writers

allow their __A___to reveal themselves.

A. characters

B. characteristics

C. charisma

D characterizations

22. If you intend to melt the snow for drinking water, you can ___D_____ extra purity

by running it through a coffee filter.

A. assure

B. insure

C. reassure

D. ensure

23.

The

daisy- like

flowers

of

chamomile

have

been

used

for

centuries

to

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___B____anxiety and insomnia.

A. decline

B. relieve

C quench

D suppress

24. Despite concern about the disappearance of the album in popular music, 2014

delivered a great crop of album ___C_______.

A. publications

B appearances

C. releases

D. presentations

25.

The

party

’

s

reduced

vote

in

the

general

election

was

___C______of

lack

of

support for its policies.

A. revealing

B. confirming

C. indicative

D. evident

26.

He

closed

his

eyes

and

held

the

two

versions

of

La

Mappa

to

his

mind

’

s

__B______ to analyze their differences.

A. vision

B eye

C. view

D. sight

27. Twelve pupils were killed and five ___A_____injured after gunmen attacked the

school during lunchtime.

A. critically

B. enormously

C. greatly

D. hard

28. A 15-year-old girl has been arrested ___C_____ accusations of using Instagram to

anonymously threaten her high- school.

A. over

B. with

C. on

D. for

29.

It

was

reported

that

a

73-year- old

man

died

on

an

Etihad

flight

__D______to

Germany from Abu Dhabi.

A. bounded

B. binded

C. boundary

D. bound

30. It

’

s ____B_____ the case in the region; a story always sounds clear enough at a

distanced, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

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A. unchangeably

B. invariably

C. unalterably

D. immovably

IV.

完形填空：

A. always

B. barely

C. demise

D. emergence

E. gained

F. implications

G. leaf

H. lost

I. naturally

J. object

K. one

L. online

M. rising

N. single

O. value

MILLIONS of people now rent their movies the Netflix way. They fill out a wish

list from the 50,000 titles on the company's Web site and receive the first few DVD's

in

the

mail;

when

they mail

each

one

back,

the

next

one

on

the

list

is

sent.

The

Netflix model has been exhaustively analyzed for its disruptive, new-econ omy

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implications.

What will it mean for video stores like Blockbuster, which has, in fact,

started a similar service? What will it mean for movie studios and theaters? What

does it show about

like those for Dutch movies or classic musicals, into a

(32)single

large audience? But

one other major implication has

(33)barely

been mentioned: what this and similar

Internet-based businesses mean for that stalwart of the old economy, the United

States Postal Service.

Every day, some two million Netflix envelopes come and go as first-class mail.

They are joined by millions of other shipments from

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onlin e

pharmacies, eBay

vendors, and other businesses that did not exist before the Internet.

The

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）

demise

of

has been predicted at least as often as the coming of the paperless office. But the

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consumption of paper keeps

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rising

. It has roughly doubled since 1980. On

average, an American household receives twice as many pieces of mail a day as it

did in the 1970's.

The

harmful

side

of

the

Internet's

impact

is

obvious

but

statistically

less

important than many would guess. People

(37) naturally

write fewer letters when

they

can

send

e-mail

messages.

To

(38)

leaf

through

a

box

of

old

paper

correspondence is to know what has been

_(39) lost i

n this shift: the pretty stamps,

the varying look and feel of handwritten and typed correspondence, the tangible

(40) object

that was once in the sender's hands.

V. Reading comprehension

Section A

Passage one

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When I was a young girl living in Ireland, I was always pleased when it rained,

because that meant I could go treasure hunting. What

’

s the connection between a

wet day and a search for buried treasure? Well, it

’

s quite simple. Ireland, as some of

you may already know, is the home of Leprechauns

–

little men who possess magic

powers and, perhaps more interestingly, pots of gold.

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Now, although Leprechauns are interesting characters, I have to admit that I

was

more

intrigued

by

the

stories

of

their

treasure

hoard.

This

,

as

all

of

Ireland

knows, they hide at the end of the rainbow. Leprechauns can be fearsome folk but if

you can discover the end of the rainbow, they have to unwillingly surrender their

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gold to you. So whenever it rained, I would look up in the sky and follow the curve

of the rainbow to see where it ended. I never did unearth any treasure, but I did

spend many happy, showery days dreaming of what I could do with the fortune if I

found it.

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3

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As

I

got

older,

and

started

working,

rainy

days

came

to

be

just

another

nuisance and my childhood dreams of finding treasure faded. But for some people

the dream of striking it lucky never fades, and for a fortunate few, the dream even

comes true! Such is the case of Mel Fisher. His dream of finding treasure also began

in

childhood,

while

reading

the

great

literature

classics

“

Treasure

Island

”

and

“

Moby

Dick

”

.

However,

unlike

myself,

he

chased

his

dream

and

in

the

end

managed to become one of the most famous professional treasure hunters of all

time, and for good reason. In 1985, he fished up the priceless cargo of the sunken

Spanish ship Atocha, which netted him an incredible $$400 million dollars!

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After the ship sank in 1622 off the coast of Florida, its murky waters became a

treasure trove of precious stones, gold bars and silver coins known as

“

pieces of

eight

”

. The aptly-named Fisher, who ran a commercial salvaging operation, had

been trying to locate the underwater treasure for over 16 years when he finally

hit

the jackpot!

His dreams had come true but finding and keeping the treasure wasn

’

t all plain sailing. After battling with hostile conditions at sea, Fisher then had to

battle in the courts. In fact, the State of Florida took Fisher to court over ownership

of the find and the Federal government soon followed suit. After more than 200

hearings, Fisher agreed to donate 20% of his yearly findings for public display, and

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so now there is a museum in Florida which displays hundreds of the objects which

were salvaged from the Atocha.

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This true story seems like a modern-day fairytale: a man pursues his dream

through adversity and in the end, he triumphs over the difficulties

- they all live

happily

ever

after,

right?

Well,

not

exactly.

Archaeologists

object

to

the

fact

that

with

commercial

salvaging

operations

like

Fisher

’

s,

the

objects

are

sold

and

dispersed and UNESCO are worried about protecting our underwater heritage from

what it describes as

“

pillaging

”

.

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The

counter-argument

is

that

in

professional,

well-run

operations

such

as

Fisher

’

s,

each

piece

is

accurately

and

minutely

recorded

and

that

it

is

this

information

which

is

more

important

than

the

actual

object,

and

that

such

operations

help

increase

our

wealth

of

archaeological

knowledge.

Indeed,

as

in

Fisher

’

s

case,

they

make

history

more

accessible

to

people

through

museum

donations and information on web sites.

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The distinction of whether these treasure hunters are salvaging or pillaging

our underwater heritage may not be clear, but what is clear is that treasure hunting

is not just innocent child

’

s play anymore but profitable big business. I have learnt

that the end of the rainbow is beyond my reach, but in consolation, with just a click

of the mouse, I too can have a share in the riches that the Atocha has revealed. As

Friedrich

Nietzsche

so

wisely

said:

“

Our

treasure

lies

in

the

beehive

of

our

knowledge.

”