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四六级选词填空（回答问题）专项训练
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.
Exercise 1
Questions 47 to
56 are based on the following passage.
El Nino is name given to the mysterious
and often unpredictable change in the
climate of the world. This strange
__47__ happens every five to eight years. It
starts
in the Pacific Ocean and is
thought to be caused by a failure in the
trade winds
(
信
风
)
，
which
affects the ocean currents driven by these winds.
As the trade winds lessen
in __48__,
the ocean temperatures rise, causing the Peru
current flowing in from the
east to
warm up by as much as
5
℃
.
The warming of the ocean has far-
reaching effects. The hot,
humid
(
潮湿的
) air
over the ocean causes severe __49__
thunderstorms. The rainfall is increased across
South America __50__ floods to Peru. In
the West pacific, there are droughts affecting
Australia and Indonesia. So while some
parts of the world prepare for heavy rains and
floods, other parts face drought, poor
crops and __51__.
El
Nino
usually
lasts
for
about
18
months.
The
1982-83
El
Nino
brought
the
most __52__ weather in modern history.
Its effect was worldwide and it left more than
2,000 people dead and caused over eight
billion pounds __53__ of damage. The 1990
El Nino lasted until June 1995.
Scientists __54__ this to be the longest El Nino
for
2,000 years.
Nowadays,
weather experts are able to
forecast
when an El Nino
will
__55__,
but they are still
not __56__ sure what leads to it or what affects
how strong it will be.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡
2
上作答。
A)
estimate
B)
strength
C)
deliberately
I)
J)
completely
destructive
K)
starvation
D)
notify
E)
tropical
F)
phenomenon
G)
stable
H)
attraction
Exercise 2
L)
bringing
M)
exhaustion
N)
worth
O)
strike
Questions 47 to
56 are based on the following passage.
The flood of women into the job market
boosted economic growth and changed
U.S.
society
in
many
ways.
Many
in-home
jobs
that
used
to
be
done
__47__
by
women
—
ranging
from
family
shopping
to
preparing
meals
to
doing
__48__
work
—
still
need
to
be
done
by
someone.
Husbands
and
children
now
do
some
of
these
jobs,
a
__49__
that
has
changed
the
target
market
for
many
products.
Or
a
working woman may face a crushing
“poverty of time” and look for help elsewhere,
creating opportunities for producers of
frozen meals, child care centers, dry cleaners,
financial services, and the like.
Although there is still a big wage
__50__ between men and women, the income
working
women
__51__
gives
them
new
independence
and
buying
power.
For
example, women now
__52__ about half of all cars. Not long ago, many
cars dealers
__53__
women
shoppers
by
ignoring
them
or
suggesting
that
they
come
back
with
their husbands. Now car
companies have realized that women are __54__
customers.
It
’
s
interesting
that
some
leading
Japanese
car
dealers
were
the
first
to
__55__
pay
attention
to
women
customers.
In
Japan,
fewer
women
have
jobs
or
buy
cars
—
the
Japanese society is still very much
male-oriented. Perhaps it was the __56__ contrast
with Japanese society that prompted
American firms to pay more attention to women
buyers.
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上作答
A)
scale
B)
retailed
I)
potential
J)
gap
C)
generate
D)
extreme
E)
technically
F)
affordable
G)
situation
H)
really
K)
voluntary
L)
excessive
M) insulted
N)
purchase
O)
primarily
Exercise 3
Questions 47 to 51 are based on the
following passage.
I
’
ve heard from
and talked to many people who described how Mother
Nature
simplified
their
lives
for
them.
They
’
d
lost
their
home
and
many
or
all
of
their
possessions
through
fires,
floods,
earthquakes,
or
some
other
disaster.
Losing
everything you own under such
circumstances can be distressing, but the people
I
’
ve
heard from
all saw their loss, ultimately as a blessing.
“
The fire saved us the agony
of deciding what to keep and what to get rid
of,
”
one
woman
wrote.
And
once
all
those
things
were
no
longer
there,
she
and
her
husband
saw how they had weighed them down and complicate
their lives.
“
There was so
much stuff we never used and that was just taking
up space. We
vowed when we started
over, we
’
d replace only what
we needed, and this time
we
’
d
do it right.
We
’
ve kept our promise: we
don
’
t have much now, but
what we have is
exactly what we
want.
”
Though
we
’
ve never had a
catastrophic loss such as that, Gibbs and I did
have a
close call shortly before we
decided to simplify. At that time we lived in a
fire zone.
One
night
a
firestorm
rages
through
and
destroyed
over
six
hundred
homes
in
our
community.
That
tragedy
gave
us
the
opportunity
to
look
objectively
at
the
goods
we
’
d accumulated.
We saw that there was so much we could
get rid of and only never miss, but be
better off without. Having almost lost
it all, we found it much easier to let go of the
things we knew
we
’
d never use again.
Obviously,
there
’
s
a
tremendous
difference
between
getting
rid
of
possessions
and losing them
through a natural disaster without having a say in
the matter. And this
is not to minimize
the tragedy and pain such a loss can generate.
But
you might
think about
how
you would
approach the
acquisition process
if
you had it to do all over again. Look
around your home and make a list of what you
would replace.
Make another
list of things
you
wouldn
’
t acquire again no
matter what,
and in
fact
would be happy to be rid of.
When
you
’
re ready to start
unloading some of your stuff, that list will be a
good
place to start.
注意：此部分试
题请在答题卡
2
上作答。
47.
Many
people
whose
possessions
were
destroyed
in
natural
disasters
eventually
considered their
loss ________.
48.
Now that
all their possessions were lost in the fire, the
woman and her husband
felt that their
lives had been ________.
49.
What
do we know about
the author
’
s
house from
the sentence
“
Gibbs and did
have a close call
...
”
(Line 1-2, Para. 4)?
50.
According
to
the
author,
getting
rid
of
possessions
and
losing
them
through
a
natural
disaster are vastly ________.
51.
What does the author suggest people do
with unnecessary things?
Exercise 4
Questions 47 to
51 are based on the following passage.
Google
is
a
world-famous
company,
with
its
headquarters
in
Mountain
View,
California. It was set up in a Silicon
Valley garage in 1998, and
inflated
(
膨胀
) with
the
Internet bubble. Even when everything around it
collapsed the company kept on
inflating.
Google
’
s
search
engine
is
so
widespread
across
the
world
that
search
became Google, and
google
became a verb. The
world fell in love with the effective,
fascinatingly fast technology.
Google owes much of its success to the
brilliance of S. Brin and L. Page, but also
to a series of fortunate events.
It was Page who, at Stanford in 1996,
initiated
the
academic project that eventually became
Google
’
s search engine.
Brin, who had met
Page at a student
orientation a year earlier, joined the project
early on. They were both
Ph.D.
candidates when they devised the search engine
which was better than the rest
and,
without
any
marketing,
spread
by
word
of
mouth
from
early
adopters
to,
eventually, your grandmother.
Their breakthrough, simply put, was
that when their search engine crawled the
Web, it did more than just look for
word matches, it also
tallied
(
统计
) and ranked a
host of other critical factors like how
websites link to one another. That delivered far
better results than anything else. Brin
and
Page meant to name
their creation Googol
(the
mathematical
term
for
the
number
1
followed
by
100
zeroes),
but
someone
misspelled the word
so it stuck as Google. They raised money from
prescient
(
有先见
之明的
)
professors and venture capitalists, and moved off
campus to turn Google into
business.
Perhaps their biggest stroke of luck came early on
when they tried to sell
their
technology to other search engines, but no one met
their price, and they built it
up on
their own.
The
next
breakthrough
came
in
2000,
when
Google
figured
out
how
to
make
money
with
its
invention.
It
had
lots
of
users,
but
almost
no
one
was
paying.
The
solution turned out to be advertising,
and it
’
s not an exaggeration
to say that Google is
now essentially
an advertising company, given that
that
’
s the source of nearly
all its
revenue. Today it is a giant
advertising company, worth $$100 billion.
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2
上作答。
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47.
Apart
from
a
series
of
fortunate
events,
what
is
it
that
has
made
Google
so
successful?
48.
Google
’
s search
engine originated from ________ started
by L. Page.
49.
How did Google
’
s
search engine spread all over the world?
50.
Brin
and
Page
decided
to
set
up
their
own
business
because
no
one
would
________.
51.
The revenue of the
Google company is largely generated from ________.
Exercise 5
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the
following passage.
Years
ago, doctors often said
that
pain
was
a normal
part of life.
In particular,
when older patients __47__ of pain,
they were told it was a natural part of aging and
they would have to learn to live with
it.
Times
have
changed.
Today,
we
take
pain
__48__.
Indeed,
pain
is
now
considered the fifth vital sign, as
important as blood pressure, temperature,
breathing
rate and pulse in __49__ a
person
’
s well-being. We know
that
chronic
(
慢性的
) pain
can
disrupt
(
扰乱
) a
person
’
s life, causing
problems that __50__ from missed work to
depression.
That
’
s
why
a
growing
number
of
hospitals
now
depend
upon
physicians
who
__51__ in pain medicine. Not only do we
evaluate the cause of the pain, which can
help
us
treat
the
pain
better,
but
we
also
help
provide
comprehensive
therapy
for
depression and other
psychological
and social
__52__ related to
chronic
pain.
Such