yochi英语四级选词填空真题及答案.doc.doc

2021年1月19日发(作者：great怎么读)
2016
年
12
月英语四级选词填空真题及答案

第一套

PART
Ⅲ
Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks.
You are required to select oneword for each blank from a list of
choices given in a word bank following the 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.
Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there are
“
male”
and
“
female
”
brains,believing that explains just about every
difference between the sexes.A new study 26 that belief, questioning
whether brains really can be distinguished by gender.
In the study, Tel Aviv University researchers 27 for sex
differences throughout the entire human brain
And what did they find? Not much. Rather than offer evidence for
28 brains as
“
male
”
or
“
female
”
,research shows that brains fall
into a wide range , with most people falling right in the middle.
Daphna Joel ,who led the study, said her research found that
while there are some gender
‐
based 29 ,many different types of brain
can
’
t always be distinguished by gender.
While the
“
average
”
male and
“
average
”
female brains were
30different, you couldn
’
t tell it by looking at individual brain
scans. Only a small 31of people had
“
all- male
”
or
“
all- female
”
characteristics.
Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist(
神经科学家
)
，
said the
study is an important addition to a growing body of research
questioning 32 beliefs about gender and brain function. But he
cautioned against concluding from this study that all brains are the
same, 33 of gender.
“
There
’
s a mountain of evidence 34 the importance of sex
influences at all levels of brain function ,
”
he told The Seattle
Times.
If anything, he said, the study 35that gender plays a very
important role in the brain
—“
even when we are not clear exactly
how.
”


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.



It’s our guilty pleasure: Watching TV is the most common everyday activity, after work and
sleep, in many parts of the world. Americans view five hours of TV each day, and while we know
that spending so much time sitting
（
36
）
can lead to obesity (
肥胖症
) and other diseases,
researchers have now quantified just how
（
37
）

being a couch potato can be.


In an analysis of data from eight large
（
38
）

published studies, a Harvard-led group
reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that for every two hours per day
spent channel
（
39
）
, the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes(
糖尿病
) rose 20% over 8.5 years,
the risk of heart disease increased 15% over a
（
40
）
, and the odds of dying prematurely
（
41
）

13% during a seven-year follow-up. All of these
（
42
）

are linked to a lack of physical exercise.
But compared with other sedentary(
久坐的
) activities, like knitting, viewing TV may be
especially
（
43
）

at promoting unhealthy habits. For one, the sheer number of hours we pass
watching TV dwarfs the time we spend on anything else. And other studies have found that
watching ads for beer and popcorn may make you more likely to
（
44
）
them.


Even so, the authors admit that they didn
’
t compare different sedentary activities to
（
45
）

whether TV watching was linked to a greater risk of diabetes, heart disease or early death
compared with, say, reading.
A) climbed

B) consume C) decade D) determine E) effective F) harmful G) outcomes
H) passively I) previously J) resume K) suffered L) surfing M) term N) terminals




O) twisting
参考答案解析
：

36. passively

解析：
sitting passively
被动坐着

从词性判断，
36
题应该选一个副 词来修饰
sitting
这个动名词，而备选项中只有两个副词，
一个是
pa ssively
被动地，一个是
previously
之前，再根据语义逻辑，坐着那 看电视的行为
应该是一种被动行为，而不存在前后之分。

37. harmful

解析：
quantified just how harmful being a couch potato
量化长时间看电视的严重危害

通过分析
how (
) being a couch potato can be
这句话的句子成分，得出
how
这个副词之后
应该接一个形容词，符合词性条件的备选项，一个是
effective
有效的，一个是
harmful
有
害的。根据语义逻辑，长时间看电视是有害 的，故选
harmful
。

38. previously

解析：

previously published studies
之前公布的研究

38
题空格处应该填一个副词来修饰
publis hed
这个词，参考
36
题的解析，备选项中现在只
剩下一个副词就是
previously
，刚好填入此处。

39. surfing

解析：
spent channel surfing
，直接翻译为在频道冲浪，意 译为看电视。这里的
channel
频
道指代
television
电视；而
“surfing
冲浪
”
指代
“watchin
g
看
”
，我们经常看到上网常用
surfing
一词，这里运用了仿词 ，将
“
上网冲浪
”
的
surfing
借过来用来指
“
看电视
“
。以上可以理解为
英语中的委婉表达。

40. decade

解析：
increased 15% over a decade
10
年增加了
15%
。
40
题后面出现了一个词并列连词
and
，说明本句存在并列关系。通读此句，
40
题在
over之后应该填一个表示时间的名词，
这样才能和前文
over
与后文
during a seven-year follow up
形成并列，备选项中只