F. blurs G. formidable H? contributes I. motivated J. attributes K fades L. flexible M. nurtured N. precisely O frustration Directions: For each of the fpllowins incomplete sentences, there are four choices marked A, B, C. and D? You should choose the best answer ana mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line tnrough the center. 72. Though the long-term _________ cannot be predicted, the project has been approved by the committee.
A. affect B. effort C. effect D. afford
73. Petrol is refined from the _____ oil we take out of the ground?
A. fresh B. original C. rude D. crude
74. Many people lost th&r jobs during the business A. despair B? decrease C? desperation D? depression
75. Operations which left patients ______ and in
need of long periods of recovery time now
leave them feeling relaxed and comfortable. A. exhausted B. abandoned C? injured D? deserted
76? Only a few people have ____ to the fuD facts of the incident
A? access B? resort C? contact D. path 77? The lawyer advised him to drop the
Part III Vocabulary and Structure (15%)
_________________________________________ ，
since he stands little chance to win.
A. event B. incident C. case D. affair
78. He _____ to his customers and halved the price.
A. leakedB. drew C. quoted D. yielded
79. He didift have time to read the report word for word: he just _______ it.
A. skimmed B. observed C. overlooked D? glanced
80. Though he was born and brought up in America, he can speak _______ Chinese.
A. smooth B. fluent C. fluid D. flowing
81. The doctor told Perky that too much to the sun is bad for the skin.
A? exposure B. extension C. exhibition D. expansion
82. Housewives who do not go out to work often feel they are not working to their full ________ ?
A. capacity B. strength C. length
D. possibility
83. We welcome rain, but a(an) _________ large amount of rainfall will cause floods.
A. extensively B. extremely C? specially D? constantly
84.1 used to smoke _______ but I gave it up three years ago.
A. seriously B. heavily C? badly
D. severely
85. In Britain people _______ four million tons of potatoes every yean
A. exhaust B? consume C. dispose
D. swallow
86. Though _____ in a big city, Peter always prefers to paint the primitive scenes of country life.
A. grown B. tended C. raised D. cultivated
Part IV Cloze (20%)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C. and D. You should choose the ONE that best jits into the passage? Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre?
More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and 87 ? As Skolinick notes, Americans are a marrying people： 88 to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. 89 , after a decline in the early 1970s，the 90 of marriage in the United States is now 91 ? Even the divorce rate needs to be taken in this promarriage context: some 80 percent of 92 individuals remarry. 93 marriage remains by far the preferred way of
life for the vast majority of people in our remarry.
What has changed more than marriage is the
nuclear family. Twenty-five years ago, the 94 American family consisted of a husband, a wife， and two or three children, 95 . there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any childre n? And there are many
marriages where at 96 some of the children are from the wife's 97 marriage, or the husband's， or both? Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the 98 marriage; _____________ 99 they are shared between the two former parents?
Thus，one can find every type of family arrangement. There are marriages 100 children; marriages with children from only the 101 marriage; marriages with 102 \一 time ”
u
children from the present marriage and part 一 time ” children from former marriages ? It is not all that 103 for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! These are 104 changes from the traditional nuclear family. 105 even so, even in the midst of all this， 106 one constant： most Americans spend most of their adult lives married ?
B. thriving C? 87. A? surviving
booming D? existing B. regular C? relative
8& A. general D. essential
89. A. Therefore
B. Nevertheless C.
However D.
Moreover
90. A. gap B. length C. rate
D. interval
91? A? improving B? increasing C ? raising
92. A. divorced 93. A. Again 94. A. typical 95. A. Before 96. A. least 97. A. primitive 9& A. last 99. A. usually 100. A. with 101. A. late 102. A. affection 103. A. usual
D? decreasing
B. separated C?
isolated D. broken
B. Whereas C?
Then B? conservative CD. Thus
?
traditional D? fashionable
B. Then C. So
D. Now
B. most C. best
D. worst
B? prior C. previous
B. later C. latter
D? preliminary
D. former
B? sometimesC?
rarely
B. except C?
without D. besides
B. past C?
present D. future
B? happiness C?
loves
B? unusual C?
大学英语读写译(4)期末测试题及答案2
