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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_____.
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.
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. could have later made
B. should have
made later
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
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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
___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.
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
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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
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economy<
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imp
lications.
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 long tail businesses
--
ones that combine many
niche markets,
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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4
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online
pharmacies, eBay vendors,
and other businesses that
did not exist before the Internet.
The
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）
demise
of snail mail in the
age of instant electronic communication has been
predicted at
least as often as the coming of the paperless
office. But the 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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1
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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
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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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2
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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 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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4
）
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 so
now there
is a museum in
Florida which displays hundreds of the objects
which were salvaged from the
Atocha.
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5
）
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
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they
all live happily ever after, right?
Well, not exactly. Archaeologists
object to the fact that with commercial salvaging
operations like
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Fisher's, the objects are sold and
dispersed and UNESCO are worried about protecting
our
underwater heritage
from what it describes as
“
p
illaging
”
.
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6
）
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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7
）
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.
”
41. In Para.4,
the phrase
“
hit the
jackpot
”
means
______according to the text.
A. discovered the jackpot.
B.
found the treasure
C. broke one of the objects
D. ran a salvaging
operation
42. It can be
concluded from Paras. 5 and 6 that _________.
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