2010年 12 月英语四级考试真题
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
What determines the kind of person you are What factors make you more or less bold, intelligent, or able to read a map All of these are influenced by the interaction of your genesa nd the environment in which you were 47 . The study of how genes and environment interact to influence 48 activity is known as behavioral genetics. Behavioral genetics has made important4 9 to the biological revolution, providing information about the extent to which biology influences mind, brain and behavior.
Any research that suggests that 50 to perform certain behaviors are based in biology is controversial. Who wants to be told that there are limitations to what you can 51 based on something that is beyond your control, such as your genes It is easy to accept that genes control physical characteristics such as sex, race and ey color. But can genes also determine whether people will get divorced, how 52 they are, or what career they are likely to choose A concern of psychological scientists is the 53 to which all of these characteristics are influenced by nature and nurture(养育), by genetic makeup and the environment. Increasingly, science 54 that genes lay the
groundwork for many human traits. From this perspective, people are born 55 like undeveloped photographs: The image is already captured, but the way it 56 appears can vary based on the development process. However, the basic picture is there from the beginning.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答
A]
abilities achieve appeal
I ] extent J] indicates K ] proceeds
B] C]
D ] complaints E ] contributions F] displayed G] essentially H ] eventually
[ L] psychological [ M] raised
N] smart O] standard
答案 Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in depth)
47. M) raised
48. L) psychological 49. E) contributions 50. A) abilities
51. B) achieve
52. N) smart 53. I) extent 54. J) indicates
55. G) essentially 56. H) eventually
2010年 6月英语四级考试真题
Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
Section A
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.
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
When we think of green buildings, we tend to think of new ones – the kind of high-tech, solar-paneled masterpieces that make the covers of architecture magazines. But the U.S. has more than 100 million existing homes, and it would be __47__ wasteful to tear them all down and __48__ them with greener versions. An enormous amount of energy and resources went into the construction of those houses. And it would take an average of 65 years for the __49__ carbon emissions from a new energy-efficient home to make up for the
resources lost by destroying an old one. So in the broadest __50__, the greenest home is the one that has already been built. But at the same time, nearly half of U. S. carbon emissions come from heating, cooling and __51__ our homes, offices and other buildings. \says Richard Moe, the president of the National Trust.
With some __52__, the oldest homes tend to be the least energy-efficient. Houses built before 1939 use about 50% more energy per square foot than those built after 2000, mainly due to the tiny cracks and gaps that __53__ over time and let in more outside air.
Fortunately, there are a __54__ number of relatively simple changes that can green older homes, from
__55__ ones like Lincoln's Cottage to your own postwar home. And efficiency upgrades (升级) can save more than just the earth; they can help __56__ property owners from rising power costs.
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A) accommodations B) clumsy C) doubtful F) E) expand historic G) incredibly J) I) protect reduced K) replace M) shifted
N) supplying O) vast
D) exceptions H) powering L) sense
答案 Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in depth)
47. G incredibly 48. K replace 49. J reduced 50. L sense 51. H powering 52. D exceptions 53. E expand 54. O vast 55. F historic 56. I protect
2009年 12 月大学英语四级考试真题及答案
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
In families with two working parents, fathers may have more impact on a ch'ilds language development than mothers, a new study suggests.
Researchers 47 92 families form 11 child care centers before their children were a year old, interviewing each to establish income, level of education and child care arrangements. Overailtl ,w as a group of well-class families,
with married parents both living in the home.
When the children were 2, researchers videotaped them at home in free-play sessions with both parents, 48 a of their speech. The study will appear in the November issue of The Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.The scientists measured the 49 number of utteranc话e 语( ) of the parents, the number of different words they used, the complexity of their sentences and other 50 of their speech. On average, fathers spoke less than mothers did, but they did not differ in the length of utterances or proportion of questions asked.
Finally, the researchers5 1 the children's speech at age 3, using a standardizedl anguaget est. The only predictors of high scores on the test were the moth'ers level of education, the 52 of child care and the number of different words the father used.
The researchers are 53 why the fath'ers speech, and not the mothe'r s, had an effect.
“It's well 54 that the mothe'r s language does have an impa”ct,said Nadya Pancsofar, the lead author of
the study. It could be that the high-functioning mothers in the study had 55 had a strong influence on their child'resn speech development, Ms. Pancsfaor said, “ or it may be that mothers are 56 in a way we didn study. ”
注意：此部分试题在答题卡 1 上。
A) already E) contributing I) quoted M) unconscious
B) analyzed F) describing J) recording N) unsure
C) aspects D) characters
G) established H) quality K) recruited L) total O) yet
答案 Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in depth)
47.【快速解题】动词辨义题
K【火眼金睛】本句缺少谓语，根据句中 before 引导的时间状语从句中的过去时态，可以断定谓语 动词
应使用过去时。根据句意，备选动词中 recruited 符合题意。此外备选词中 analyzed是强干扰项，但 其实并不合适，因为“研究者们分析了 92 个家庭??，并且逐一询问了他们的收入、受教育状况、孩子 的照顾情况。”其中“分析”与“逐一询问”在逻辑意义上不符。
(完整版)大学英语四级选词填空专项训练
