四六级选词填空练习

1、CET4新题型样卷One in six. Believe it or not, that s the nu mber of America ns who struggle with hun ger. To make tomorrow a littlebetter, Feedi ng America, the n ati on s lagfest hun ger-relief orga ni zati on, has chose n September as Hun ger ActionMon th. As par t of its 30 Ways in 30 Days program, it3

2、7 s aegkiosis the country to help the more tha n 200 foodbanks and 61,000 agencies in its network provide low-income individuals and families with the fuel they need to 38.It s the ki nd of work that evdrysddonai St. An drew s Episcopal Church in San Antonio. People w9o at its front door on the firs

3、t and third Thursdays of each month aren t ltookingftff Gede for som-thing to eat. St.An drew s runs a food pan try食品室)that 40 the city and several of the 41tow ns. Janet Drane is its man ager.In the wake of the 42, the nu mber of families in n eed of food assista nee bega n to grow. It is 4 that 49

4、 millio nAmerica ns are un sure of where they will find their next meal. What most surpris ing is that 36% of them live in 44 where at least one adult is work ing.It used to be that one job was all you n eeded,” says St. An drevwe see now have three or four part- time jobs and they re stitlnrithie e

5、dge 45 . ”A) accumulateI) householdsB) circli ngJ) recessi onC) com mun itiesK) reportedD) competiti onL) reviewedE) domesticM) servesF) finan ciallyN) surro undingG) formallyO) surviveH) gather36. E 37. C 38. O 39. H 40. M41. N 42. J 43. K 44. I 45. F 2013 年 12 月 CET4To get a sense of how wome n ha

6、ve progressed in scie nee take a quick tour of the physics departme nt at the Uni versity of California Berkeley. This is a storied place the 36of some of the most important discoveries in modernscience-starting with Ernest Lawrenees invention of the cyclotron( 回旋加速器 )in 1931.A generation ago female

7、 faces were 37and. even today, visitors walking through the first floor of LeConte Hall will See a full corridor of exhibits 38the many distinguished physicists who made history here, 39 all of them white malesBut climb up to the third floor and youll see a 40display. There, among the photos of curr

8、e nt faculty membersand stude nts are portraits of the 41head of the departme nt, Marjorie Shapiro and four other wome n whose research42everyth ing from the mecha nics of the uni verse to the smallest particles of matter. A sixth woma n was hired justtwo weeks ago. Although theyre still only about

9、10 percent of the physics faculty, women are clearly a presence here. And the real 43may be in the smaller photos to the right graduate and un dergraduate stude nts about 20 perce nt of themfemale. Every years Berkeley sends its fresh female physics PhDs to the countrys top universities. That makes

10、Shapiro optimistic but also 44 I believe things are getting better she says but theyre not getting better as 45 as iwould like.A)circumsta neeI) honoringB)con fide neeJ)hopeC)coversK) prese ntlyD)curre ntL) rareE)dealsM) realisticF)differe ntN) siteG)expos ingO) virtuallyoH)dcjsmhNLCET6新题型样卷To un de

11、rsta nd why we should be concerned about how young people read, it helps to know someth ing about the waythe ability to read evolved. Un like the ability to un dersta nd and produce spoke n Ian guage, the ability to read must be pain stak in gly36by each in dividual. The“ readi ng circuits ” we con

12、struct in the brain can be37 or they can be robust, depe nding on how ofte n and how 38 we use them.The deep reader enters a state of hyp no tic trance(心醉神迷的状态 ).When readers are enjoying the experie nee themost, the pace of their read ing39 slows.The comb in ati on of fast, flue nt decodi ng of wor

13、ds and slow, un hurried progress on the page gives deep readers time to en rich their readi ng with reflect ion and an alysis. It gives them time to establish an 40 relati on ship with the author, the two of them41 in a long and warm con versati on like people falli ng in love.This is not read ing a

14、s many young people know it. Their read ing is in strume ntal:the differenee between what lit erary critic Frank Kermode calls(肉体OTnareading ” and “ spiritual reading.allow our offspring to believe carnal reading is all there is if we don t open the door to spiritual reading, through an early 42_on

15、discipline and practice we will have 43 them of an enjoyable experienee they would not otherwise encounter. Observing young people s 44 to digital devices, some progressive educators talk about “ meetingkids where they are, ” moldi ng in structiou nd their on scree n habits. This is mistake n. We n

16、eed,45, to show them someplace they ve neaeriace only deep reading can take them.A) acquiredI) in timateB) actuallyJ) no twithsta ndingC) attachme ntK) petitionD) cheatedL) ratherE)engagedM) scarcelyF) feebleN) swayedG) illicitO) vigorouslyH) in siste neeAFOBI EHDCL2013 年 12 月 CET6Quite often, educa

17、tors tell families of children who are learning English as a second Ianguage to speak only English, and not their n ative Ian guage, at home. Although these educators may have good (36), their advice to families ismisguided, and it (37)from misun dersta ndings about the process of Ian guage acquisit

18、i on. Educators may fear thatchildre n heari ng two Ian guages will become (38)con fused and thus their Ian guage developme nt will be (39)this concern is n ot docume nted in the literature. Childre n are capable of lear ning more tha n one Ian guage, whether (40)or sequentially(依次地).In fact, most c

19、hildren outside of the United States are expected to become bilingual oreven, in many cases, multilingual. Globally, knowing more than one Ianguage is viewed as an (41)and even an ecessity in many areas.It is also of concern that the misguided advice that students should speak only English is given

20、primarily to poor families with limited educational opportunities, not to wealthier families who have many educational advantages. Since children from poor families often are (42)as at-risk for academic failure, teachers believe that advising familiesto speak En glish on ly is appropriate. Teachers

21、con sider lear ning two Ian guages to be too (43)for childre n frompoor families, believ ing that the childre n are already burde ned by their home situati ons.If families do n ot know En glish or have limited En glish skills themselves, how can they com muni cate in En glish? Advisi ng non-En glish

22、- speak ing families to speak only En glish is (44)to telli ng them not to com muni cate with orin teract with their childre n. Moreover, the (45)message is that the familys n ative Ian guage is n ot importa nt orvalued.A)assetI) perma nen tlyB)delayedJ) prevale ntC)deviatesK) simulta neouslyD)equiv

23、ale ntL) stemsE)ide ntifiedM) successivelyF)inten ti onsN) un derly ingG)H)object overwhel mingO) visualizi ngFLIBK AEHDN2007 年 6 月 CET4Years ago, doctors ofte n said that pain was a no rmal part of life .In particular, whe n older patie nts_47_ of pain, theywere told it was a natural part of aging

24、and they would have to learn to live with it.Times have cha nged. Today, we take pain _48_. In deed, pain is now con sidered the fifth vital sig n, as importa nt as blood pressure, temperature, breathing rate and pulse in =49_ a person s weeing. We know that chronic (慢性的)pain can disrupt (扰舌L ) a pe

25、rson s life, causing problems th50_ 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

26、 depressi on and other psychological and social 52_ related to chronic pain. Such comprehe nsive therapy often _53_ the work of social workers, psychiatrists (心理医生 )and psychologists, as well as specialists in pain medicine.This moder n 54 for pain man ageme nt has led to a wealth of inno vative treatme nts which are more effect