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大学英语四级考试
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选
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专项训练
Unit One
Directions:
In this passage
there are 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.
Questions 1 to 10 are based on the
following passage.
Looking
back on years of living in a working-class home in
the North of England, I should say that a good
living room
must ___11
three principal
things: homeliness, warmth and plenty of good
food. The living-room is the
warm
heart of
the family and
___12
often slightly stuffy to a middle-class
visitor. It is not a social centre but a family
center; little
entertaining goes on
there
or in
the
front room, if there ___13
to be one; you do not
entertain in anything approaching
the
middle-class __14
The
wife's social life outside her
15
family is
found over the washing-line, at the little shop on
the
corner, visiting relatives at
a
moderate ___16
occasionally, and perhaps
now and again
a visit with
her husband to his pub
or
club. Apart from these two places, he has just his
work and his football matches. They will have,
each of them, friends at
all these
places, who may well not know what the inside of
their house is like, having never
as
the old
17
phrase has it.
The family hearth is
18
for the family itself, and
those who are
us
___19
be
passed at that hearth. Just staying in is still
one of the most common leisure-time
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A. happens
B.
professions
C.
sense
D.
nevertheless
E. fashioned
F.
distance
G.
immediate
H.
usually
I. occupations
J.
preserved
K.
imitate
L.
provide
M. therefore
N
reserved
O.
contribute
Unit Two
Passage
2
Flying over a desert area
in an airplane, two scientists looked down with
trained eyes at trees and bushes. After an
hour's___11___ one of the scientists
wrote in his book,
metal.
flying over a mountain region, sent
a____ 13
to other
scientists on the ground,
ground, four
scientists reported,
scientist sent
back by radio one word,
None of the
scientists had X-ray eyes
:
they had no ___14
powers for
looking down below the earth's surface.
They were ___15 ___ putting to use one
of the newest methods of
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minerals in the
ground
—
using trees and
plants as ___17___ that certain
minerals may lie beneath the ground on which the
trees and plants are growing.
This newest method of searching for
minerals is
18
on
the fact that minerals deep in the earth may
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the
kind of
bushes and trees that grow on the surface.
At Watson Bar Creek, a brook six
thousand feet high in the mountains of British
Columbia, Canada, a mineral search
group gathered bags of tree seeds.
Boxes were filled with small branches from the
trees. Roots were dug and put into boxes.
Each bag and box was
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marked. In a scientific
laboratory the parts of the forest trees were
burned to ashes and
tested. Each small
part was examined to learn whether there were
minerals in it.
A.
signs
B.
sufficiently
C.
locating
D.
affect
E.
merely
F.
magic
G.
hints
H.
carefully
I.
finding
J.
message
K.
flight
L.
probable
M.
revealing
N.
based
O.
information
Unit Three
Passage 2
America's most
famous woman is the Goddess of Liberty, i. e. the
Statue of
Liberty. It was
first
thought
of
in
1865 by
Edouard de Laboulaye and designed by another
Frenchman, Frederic Bartoldi. They wanted to
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liberty and
friendship.
It was hoped
that the monument would be completed by 1876 when
America
12
its
centennial. Fund raising
and the
13
of
the statue in France went slowly. It was 1885 when
the 214 crates containing the statue reached New
York.
Americans were
initially
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for
they had not raised the money to pay for the
erection of the base.
Fund
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