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英语专四真题及答案
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. RegardingB. Whatever.C. In so far asD. 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. whereinB. on whichC. but whenD. then
13. Ms Ennab is one of the first Palestinian ______C____ with seven years’ racing
experience.
”
A. woman driversB. women driverC. women driversD. 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 referenceB. present event for tentativeness
C. present event for uncertaintyD. past event for politeness
15. “If I were you, Iwouldn’t wait to propose to her.” The subjunctive mood in
the sentence is used to ____D______.
A. alleviate hostilityB. express unfavorable feelings
C. indicate uncertaintyD. 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 obligationBdisappointmentC future in the pastD. 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 madeB. should have made later
C. might make laterD. would later make
18. Some Martian rock structures look strikingly like structures on Earth that are
known ___C___by microbes.
A. having been createdB. being createdC. to have been createdD. 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 beenB. should be … had been
C. could be … wereD. might have been… were
20. You must fire __C____ incompetent assistant of yours
A. theB. anC. thatD. 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. charactersB. characteristicsC. charismaD 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. assureB. insureC. reassureD. ensure
23. The daisy-like flowers of chamomile have been used for centuries to
___B____anxiety and insomnia.
A. declineB. relieveC quenchD suppress
24. Despite concern about the disappearance of the album in popular music, 2014
delivered a great crop of album ___C_______.
A. publicationsB appearancesC. releasesD. presentations
25. The party’s reduced vote in the general election was___C______of lack of
support for its policies.
A. revealingB. confirmingC. indicativeD. evident
26. He closed his eyes and held the two versions of La Mappa to his mind’s __B______
to analyze their differences.
A. visionB eyeC. viewD. sight
27. Twelve pupils were killed and five ___A_____injured after gunmen attacked the
school during lunchtime.
A. criticallyB. enormouslyC. greatlyD. hard
28. A 15-year-old girl has been arrested ___C_____ accusations of using Instagram
to anonymously threaten her high-school.
A. overB. withC. onD. for
29. It was reported that a 73-year-old man died on an Etihad flight __D______to
Germany from Abu Dhabi.
A. boundedB. bindedC. boundaryD. 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. unchangeablyB. invariablyC. unalterablyD. immovably
IV. 完形填空：
A. alwaysB. barelyC. demiseD. emergenceE. gainedF. implicationsG. leaf
H. lostI. naturallyJ. objectK. oneL. onlineM. risingN. singleO.
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-economy31）
implications. What will it mean for video stores like Blockbuster, which has, in
fact, started a similarservice?
What will itmean 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（34）online pharmacies, eBay
vendors, A and other businesses that did not exist before the Internet.
The（35）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（36）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 in 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
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Passage one
（1）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.
（2）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.
（3）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 alltime, 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!
（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
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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.
（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 - 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”.
（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.
（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
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42. It c
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