专四模拟试题附参考答案9.docx

1、专四模拟试题附参考答案9PART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your ANSWER SHEET.More and more residences, businesses, and even government agencies are using telephone answerin

2、g machines to take messages or give information or instructions. Sometimes these machines give (31) _ instructions, or play messages that are difficult to understand. If you (32) _ telephone calls, you need to be ready to respond when you get a (33) _.The most common machine is the (34) _ used in re

3、sidence. If you call a home (35) _ there is a telephone answering machine (36) _ you will hear several rings and then a recorded message that (37) _ says something like this: Hello,. We cant come to the (38) _ right now. If you want us to call you back, please leave your name and number after the be

4、ep. Then you will hear a beep, (39) _ is a brief, high-pitched (40) _. After the beep, you can say who you are, whom you want to speak to, and what number the person should call to (41) _ you, or you can leave a (42) _. Some telephone answering machines record for only 20 or 30 seconds after the bee

5、p, (43) _ you must respond quickly. Some large businesses and government agencies are using telephone answering machines to provide information on (44) _ about which they receive a large volume of (45) _. Generally specking, using these systems (46) _ you to have a touchtone phone. The voice on the

6、machine will tell you to (47) _ a certain button on you telephone if you want information on Topic A, another button for Topic B, and so on. You listen (48) _ you hear the topic you want to learn about, and then you push the (49) _ button. Immediately after making your (50) _, you will hear a record

7、ed message on the topic.31. A. disturbing B. annoyi8ng C. confusing D. surprising32. A. take B. make C. answer D. receive33. A. repairing B. recovering C. retelling D. recording34. A. type B. kind C. sort D. character35. A. which B. where C. that D. when36. A. in hand B. in detail C. in operation D.

8、 in dispute37. A. impossibly B. hardly C. always D. usually38. A. place B. phone C. home D. room39. A. that B. who C. what D. which40. A. tune B. noise C. voice D. tone41. A. catch B. tell C. reach D. meet42. A. note B. record C. message D. speech43. A. so B. therefore C. although D. thus44. A. topi

9、cs B. things C. arguments D. concerns45. A. questions B. inquiries C. problems D. complaints46. A. commands B. requires C. asks D. requests47. A. push B. pull C. drag D. throw48. A. when B. after C. until D. before49. A. correct B. wrong C. random D. appropriate50. A. selection B. solution C. experi

10、ment D. decisionPART IV GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY (15 MIN)There are thirty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases phrase marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or that best completes the sentence.Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.51. The fact that during the

11、first week the takings of the circus _ not enough to cover the purchase of fodder for the animals frustrated all of us.A. being B. is C. was D. were52. Fruit pickers are paid at the _ of 4.00 an hour.A. rate B. scale C. sum D. value53. Fumes from the exhaust of an automobile are _.A. notorious B. an

12、xious C. noxious D. delicious54. George wasnt in class today, Professor Brown excused him _.A. from attending B. of attending C. to attend D. attending55. Class will _ at a high temperature and will be in a liquid condition.A. dissolve B. disappear C. melt D. evaporate56. After several days investig

13、ation, the police found out one clue that voices were heard _ for help from some very distant place that night.A. to call B. called C. calling D. call57. I _ to the theatre with you to watch that movie but I was too busy at my paper at that time.A. would go B. went C. was to have gone D. was to go58

14、. He appeared _ with our teams performance.A. satisfying B. to be satisfying C. to satisfy D. satisfied59. Sarah is the only one of all the students of this high school who _ by Peking University.A. are admitted B. was admitted C. were admitted D. is admitted60. More than once, I believe everybody e

15、lse in our company would agree with me, _ him to make such promises but he never made it actually.A. we heard B. we have heard C. have we heard D. and have heard61. After _ appeared to be an endless waiting, it was her turn to be examined.A. that B. where C. which D. what62. It is only when you over

16、come all difficulties and reach your goal _ fully aware that the way to success is not paved with flowers.A. do you become B. then you become C. that you become D. have you become63. The chief reason for the spreading of the disease isnt so much a fall in living conditions _ a rise in it.A. as B. li

17、ke C. than D. but64. Hamlet _ his fathers death on his uncle.A. reversed B. reverted C. revenged D. revealed65. He _ tennis every day since he _ sixteen.A. has played. is B. played. has been C. was playing.has been D. has been playing.was66. He delivered _ orders for a Chinese restaurant for the who

18、le summer vacation so as to earn enough money for his tuition.A. takeoff B. takeover C. takeup D. takeout67. He does not _ as a teacher of English as his pronunciation is terrible.A. equal B. match C. qualify D. fit68. He finished _ in the 1,500-meter run.A. champion B. championship C. first D. No.

19、one69. He has been asked to account _ his absence.A. for B. on C. of D. about70. He has failed me so many times that I no longer place any _ on what he promises.A. faith B. belief C. credit D. reliance71. He is _ the run from the police.A. in B. off C. on D. after72. He is an artist with seemingly u

20、nlimited _.A. creativity B. creature C. creation D. creative73. He believed that the greatest of his _ was that hed never had a college education.A. grieves B. misfortunes C. disasters D. sorrows74. He knows the rules but does not know how to _ it.A. control B. direct C. apply D. run75. He made a _

21、inspection of the doors and the windows before leaving.A. slowly B. leisurely C. carefully D. seriously76. Ten days before, the Captains word was that every sailor, old or young, _ by that new rules and regulations.A. abide B. abode C. abiding D. was to abide77. He made such a _ contribution to the

22、university that they are naming one of the new building after him.A. genuine B. minimum C. modest D. generous78. He must have had an accident, or he _ then.A. would have been here B. had to be hereC. should be here D. would be here79. Every man and every woman kidnapped three days ago in South Afric

23、a _ to being set free and to walking out of that room so eagerly now that they start shouting.A. looking forward B. look forward C. looked forward D. looks forward80. He often sat in a small bar drinking considerably more than _.A. he was in good health B. his health was goodC. his good health was D

24、. was good for his healthPART V READING COMPREHENSION (25 MIN)In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer.Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.TEXT AI

25、t is possible for students to obtain advanced degree in English while knowing little or nothing about traditional scholarly methods. The consequences of this neglect of traditional scholarship are particularly unfortunate for the study of women writers. If the canon-the list of authors whose works a

26、re most widely taught-is ever to include more women, scholars must be well trained in historical scholarship and textual editing. Scholars who do not know how to read early manuscripts, locate rare books, establish a sequence of editions, and so on are lacking crucial tools for revising the canon.To

27、 address such concerns, an experimental version of the traditional scholarly methods course was designed to raise students consciousness about the usefulness of traditional learning for any modern critic or theorist. To minimize the artificial aspects of the conventional course, the usual procedure

28、of assigning a large number of small problems drawn from the entire range of historical periods was abandoned, though this procedure has the obvious advantage of at least superficially familiarizing students with; a wide range of reference sources. Instead students were engaged in a collective effor

29、t to do original work on a neglected eighteenth century writer, Elizabeth Griffith, to give them an authentic experience of literary scholarship and to inspire them to take responsibility for the quality of their own work.Griffiths work presented a number of advantages for this particular pedagogica

30、l purpose. First, the body of extant scholarship on Griffith was so tiny that it could be all read in a day, thus students spent little time and effort mastering the literature and had a clear field for their own discoveries. Griffiths play-The Platonic Wife exists in three visions, enough to provide illustrations of editorial issues but not too many for beginning students to manage. In addition, because Griffith was successful in the eighteenth century, as her continued productivity and favorable reviews demonstrate, her exclusion from the canon and virtual disappearance fro