多余的英文专四模拟试题(完型篇)附答案详解

2021年1月20日发(作者：见面会)
A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital
divide--the division of the world into the info(information) rich and the info
poor. And that __1__ does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this
looming danger twenty years ago. What was less __2__ then, however,
were the new, positive __3__ that work against the digital divide.
__4__,there are reasons to be __5__.



There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow.
As the Internet becomes more and more __6__, it is in the interest of
business to universalize access- after all, the more people online, the more
potential __7__ there are. More and more __8__, afraid their countries will
be left __9__, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or
two, one to two billion people on the planet will be __10__ together. As a
result, I now believe the digital divide will __11__ rather than widen in the
years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be
the most powerful tool for __12__
world poverty that we’ve ever had.



Of course, the use of the Internet isn’t the only way to __13__ poverty.
And the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has __14__ potential.



To __15__ advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get
over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices __16__ respect to foreign
investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is a/an __17__ of
their sovereignty might well study the history of __18__ (the basic
structural foundations of a society) in the United States. When the United
States built its industrial infrastructure, it didn’t have the capital to do so.
And that is __19__ America’s Second Wave infrastructure
-__20__ roads,
harbors, highways, ports and so on-were built with foreign investment.





__1. A) divide B) information C) world D) lecture



__2. A) obscure B) visible C) invisible D) indistinct



__3. A) forces B) obstacles C) events D) surprises



__4. A) Seriously B) Entirely C) Actually D) Continuously



__5. A) negative B) optimistic C) pleasant D) disappointed



__6. A) developed B) centralized C) realized D) commercialized



__7. A) users B) producers C) customers D) citizens



__8. A) enterprises B) governments C) officials D) customers



__9. A) away B) for C) aside D) behind



__10. A) netted B) worked C) put D) organized



__11. A) decrease B) narrow C) neglect D) low



__12. A) containing B) preventing C) keeping D) combating



__13. A) win B) detail C) defeat D) fear



__14. A) enormous B) countless C) numerical D) big



__15. A) bring B) keep C) hold D) take



__16. A) at B) with C) of D) for



__17. A) offence B) investment C) invasion D) insult



__18. A) construction B) facility C) infrastructure D) institution



__19. A) why B) where C) when D) how



__20. A) concerning B) concluding C) according D) including

参考答案：




由文中第一行的
digital divide
得出答案。




obscure
模糊的，不清楚的；
visible
看得见的，明显的；
invisible
看不见的；
indistinct< br>不清楚的，模糊的。空格前的
less
已有否定意义




force
力量，武力；
obstacle
障碍；
eve nt
事件；
surprise
惊奇，诧
异。句意：现在有新的、乐观的力量来 对抗数字鸿沟。




seriously
认真地；entirely
完全的；
actually
实际上；
continuo usly
连
续地。




negative< br>消极的；
optimistic
乐观的；
pleasant
令人愉快的 ；

disappointed
令人失望的。前文说有积极的力量在对抗数字鸿沟的不 利
因素，因此，实

际上我们有理由保持乐观的态度。




develop
发展；
centralize
集中；
re alize
认识到；
commercialize
使
商业化，由下文
“
网络有利于商业途径的普及
”
，可知此处表述的意思是
网络越来越商业化。
in the interest of...
为了
...
的利益




user
使用者；
producer
生产者 ；
customer
消费者；
citizen
公民。
句意：越多的人 上网就有越多的潜在消费者。




enterprise
企业，事业；
government
政府；
official
官员；句意： 越
来越多的政府害怕他们的国家
...




leave behind
留下，超过



与
leave
相关的短语：
leave aside
把某事搁置一边



leave out
省去，遗漏，不考虑



leave off
停止，不再穿




网络把人们联系在一起，选
netted




decrease
减少，
narrow
变窄；
neglect
忽视，
疏忽；
low
降低

句意：
因此，我现在认为数字鸿沟是在变窄而不是在拓宽




contain
包含，
容纳；
prevent
防止，阻止；
keep
保留，
保持；
combat
战斗，搏斗




win
赢得；
detail
详述，细说；< br>defeat
击败，战胜；
fear
畏惧。




enormous
巨大的；
countless
无数的；
numerical
数字的。
potential
作名词为不可数，不能用
c ountless
修饰，
big
一般表示尺寸、数字、范
围上的大。




take advantage of
利用




with respect to
关于，
至于

with
也可换成
in.
表示关于的还有
with
regard to,concerning
等。




offence
冒犯；
investment
投资；
invasio n
入侵；
insult
侮辱




co nstruction
建筑；
facility
设备；
infrastruc ture
基础设施；
institution
公共机构，制度。从后文中出现的
infrastructure
可以轻易得到答案。




表语从句，表示原因，
“
这也就是为什么
...”




concerning
关于；
concluding
结 束的；
according
根据；
including
包
括

An invisible border divides those arguing for computers in the classroom on
the behalf of students’ career prospects and those arguing for computers in
the classroom for broader reasons of radical educational reform. Very few
writers on the subject have explored this __1__
—
indeed,
contradiction
—
which goes to the heart of what is wrong with the __2__ to
put computers in the classroom.



An education that aims at getting a student a certain kind of job is
a/an __3__ education, justified for reasons radically different from why
education is __4__ required by law. It is not simply to __5__ everyone’s job
prospects that all children are legally __6__ to attend school into their , we
have a certain __7__ of the American citizen,a character who is __8__ if he
cannot competently assess __9__ his livelihood and happiness are affected
by things __10__ of himself.



But this was not always the case; before it was legally required for all
children to attend school until a certain __11__, it was widely accepted
that some were just not equipped __12__ nature to pursue this kind of

optimism characteristic of all industrialized countries, we came to accept
that everyone is __13__ to be educated. Computer-education advocates
__14__ this optimistic notion for a pessimism that __15__ their otherwise
cheery outlook. __16__ on the confusion between educational and
vocational reasons for bringing computers into schools,
computer-education advocates often __17__ the job prospects of
graduates over their educational __18__.



There are some good arguments for a technical education given the
right kind of student. Many European schools __19__ the concept of
professional training early on in order to make sure children are __20__
equipped for the professions they want to join.





1.[A]distinction
[B]topic
[C]separation
[D]education



2.[A]campaign
[B]practice
[C]action
[D]goal



3.[A]informal
[B]basic
[C]technical
[D]expensive



4.[A]differently
[B]universally
[C]conversely
[D]regularly



5.[A]form
[B]consist
[C]arise
[D]raise



6.[A]ordered
[B]inquired
[C]required
[D]acquired



7.[A]conception
[B]information
[C]theme
[D]imagination



8.[A]complete
[B]accomplished
[C]incomplete
[D]improper



9.[A]why
[B]what
[C]where
[D]how



10.[A]inside
[B]outside
[C]beside
[D]aside



11.[A]year
[B]age
[C]day
[D]extent



12.[A]in
[B]at
[C]by
[D]with



13.[A]fit
[B]responsible
[C]suitable
[D]able



14.[A]consider
[B]forget
[C]forsake
[D]foretell



15.[A]believes
[B]becomes
[C]bears
[D]betrays



16.[A]Encountering
[B]Banking
[C]Devising
[D]Seeking



17.[A]emphasize
[B]encourage
[C]engage
[D]enlarge



18.[A]academy
[B]position
[C]degree
[D]achievement



19.[A]interact
[B]introduce
[C]announce
[D]invent



20.[A]traditionally
[B]drastically
[C]properly
[D]hardly








答案：
1~5 AACBD
6~10 CACDB






11~15
BCACD
16~20 AADBC

Have you ever wondered what our future is likePractically all people _1_ a desire to
predict their future

people seem inclined to _3_ this task using causal

we _4_
recognize that future circumstances are _5_ caused or conditioned by present

learn that getting an education will _6_ how much money we earn later and that
swimming beyond the reef may bring an unhappy _7_ with a shark.



Second,people also learn that such _8_ of cause and effect are probabilistic(
可
能的
) in

is,the effects occur more often when the causes occur than when the
causes are _9_, but not ,students learn that studying hard _10_ good grades in most
instances,but not every

makes these concepts of causality and probability more
_11_ and provides techniques for dealing _12_ then more accurately than does
causal human

looking at ordinary human inquiry,we need to _13_ between
prediction and ,even if we don't understand why,we are willing to act _14_ the basis
of a demonstrated predictive ability.



Whatever the primitive drives _15_ motivate human beings,satisfying them
depends heavily on the ability to _16_ future

attempt to predict is often played in
a _17_ of knowledge and

you can understand why certain regular patterns
_18_,you can predict better than if you simply observe those ,human inquiry aims
_19_ answering both
observing and figuring out.



1. [A]exhibit [B]exaggerate [C]examine [D]exceed



2. [A]contexts [B]circumstances [C]inspections [D]intuitions



3.[A]underestimate [B]undermine [C]undertake [D]undergo



4. [A]specially [B]particularly [C]always [D]generally



5. [A]somehow [B]somebody [C]someone [D]something



6. [A]enact [B]affect [C]reflect [D]inflect



7. [A]meeting [B]occurrence [C]encounter [D]contact



8. [A]patterns [B]designs [C]arrangements[D]pictures



9. [A]disappointde [B]absent [C]inadequate [D]absolute



10.[A]creates [B]produces [C]loses [D]protects