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1、-1 - 大学英语四级考试 15 选 10 专项训练 Unit One Directions: In this passage there are ten bla nks. You are required to select one word for each bla nk 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 iden

2、tified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the cen tre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more tha n once. Questions 1 to 10 are based on the following passage. Look ing back on years of livi ng in a work in g-class

3、home in the North of En gla nd, I should say that a good livi ng room must _ 11 three prin cipal thin gs: homeli ness, warmth and ple nty of good food. The livi ng-room is the warm heart of the family and _ 1 _ ofte n slightly stuffy to a middle-class visitor. It is not a social centre but a family

4、cen ter; little entertaining goes on there or in the front room, if there_13_ to be one; you do not entertain in anything approaching the middle-class _14 The wifes social life outside her 15 family is found over the wash in g-li ne, at the little shop on the corner, visit ing relatives at a moderat

5、e _16 occasi on ally, and perhaps now and aga in a visit with her husba nd to his pub or club. Apart from these two places, he has just his work and his football matches. They will have, each of them, friends at all these places, who may well not know what the in side of their house is like, havi ng

6、 n ever stepped across the threshold, as the old 17 phrase has it. The family hearth is 18 for the family itself, and those who are somethi ng to us(a no ther favorite formula) and who look in for a talk or just to sit. Much of the free time of a man and his wife will 19 be passed at that hearth. Ju

7、st stay ing in is still one of the most com mon leisure-time 20 A.happens B professi ons C. sense D. n evertheless E. fashi oned F dista nee G. immediate H. usually I. occupati ons J preserved K. imitate L. provide M. therefore N reserved O. con tribute Unit Two Passage 2 Flying over a desert area i

8、n an airplane, two scientists looked down with trained eyes at trees and bushes. After an hours _ 11 _ one of the scientists wrote in his book, Look here for _ 1 _ metal. Scientists in another airplane, flying over a mountain region, sent a _ 13 _to other scientists on the ground, Gold possible. Wal

9、king across hilly ground, four scientists reported, This ground should be searched for metals. From an airplane over a hilly wasteland a scie ntist sent back by radio one word, Ura nium. None of the scientists had X-ray eyes : they had no _14_ powers for looking down below the earths surface. They w

10、ere 15 _ putt ing to use one of the n ewest methods of 16 min erals in the ground using trees and plants as 17 that certain minerals may lie beneath the ground on which the trees and plants are growing. This newest method of searching for minerals is 18 on the fact that minerals deep in the earth ma

11、y 19 the kind of bushes and trees that grow on the surface. At Wats on Bar Creek, a brook six thousa nd feet high in the mountains of British Columbia, Can ada, a min eral search group gathered bags of tree seeds. Boxes were filled with small branches from the trees. Roots were dug and put into boxe

12、s. Each bag and box was 20 marked. In a scie ntific laboratory the parts of the forest trees were bur ned to ashes and tested. Each small part was exam ined to lear n whether there were mi nerals in it. A. sig ns B. sufficie ntly C. locati ng D. affect E merely F magic G. hints H. carefully I. findi

13、ng J. message K. flight L. probable M reveali ng N based O. in formatio n Unit Three Passage 2 Americas most famous woma n is the Goddess of Liberty, i. e. the Statue of Liberty. It was first thought of in 1865 by Edouard de Laboulaye and desig ned by ano ther Fren chma n, Frederic Bartoldi. They wa

14、n ted to 一11 liberty and frien dship. It was hoped that the monument would be completed by 1876 when America _ 12 _ its centennial. Fund raising and the 13 of the statue in France went slowly. It was 1885 whe n the 214 crates containing the statue reached New York. America ns were in itially _ 14 _

15、for they had not raised the money to pay for the erect ion of the base. Fund-2 - rais ing by popular subscripti on was beh ind 15 write letters which were then sold in public. The base and statue, 16 _ 272 feet tall, were completed in 1886. From a 17 _ sta ndpo int, the statue is a marvel. The inner

16、 structure was desig ned by the French engin eer, Alexa ndre Eiffel. His desig n for the stressed copper skin of the statue an ticipated many of the 18 utilized in moder n aircraft. After a cen tury, the monument bega n to show sig ns of gett ing worse in _ 19 Statue, so it was with restoratio n. A

17、Fren chma n no ted the decay and French and America n craftsme n and con tributi ons brought about the ren ewal of the Statue in time for its cen te nn ial.Liberty is still 20 in France and the Un ited States. A.completely B. measures C. popular D. together E.honor F manu facture G schedule H. rewar

18、d I. celebrated J prin ciples K embarrassed L tech ni cal M. volu ntary N con diti ons O. discouraged Unit Four Passage 2 Sophy Brent came to visit me nearly every day. She made me feel uneasy most of the time. She smoked _ 1_1 _ and never used an ashtray. She followed me into the kitchen while I ma

19、de tea or coffee or supper and _ 12 _ herself to the childre ns orange juice. She made a great hit with my two-year-old daughter Flora, who would 13 about her for hours and refer to her lov in gly as sofa, and she was always talk ing about my husba nd and ask ing me where he was. I could not decide

20、why she chose my 14 , although I realized that no body else paid her very much atte nti on. Her situation was very difficult in that she was _ 15 _ out of drama school and only nineteen, but being _ 1_6 _ to play a leading part in a company of fairly _ 17 _ and experieneed actors. They would not hav

21、e liked her much even if she had bee n good, and as, from all acco un ts, she was not good so they took every 18 to run her dow n. I thi nk she thought that I was the only person around who was both unconnected with the theatre and tolerably _ 19 _ . To associate with me was not, at any rate, to ste

22、p dow n the scale. And for my part, although I felt troubled by her I did not dislike her. There was something genuinely outstanding in her personality, and she had such physical _20_ that with me she could get away with anything. She was nice to have aroun d, like flowers or a bowl of fruit. A. hel

23、ped B. smart B con sta ntly D. treated E. required F. supreme G hang H. charm I. con ti nu ally J. compa ny K opport un ity L. dist in guished M. straight N part ner O disappo in ted Unit Five Passage 2 Many people often enjoy eating out either before or after a visit to the theatre. However, most o

24、f us would rather keep the two 11 _ separate. One man who thinks that they can be successfully combined has not only expressed his ideas in a recent book, but also set up an establishme nt where the theory is put very 12 into practice. The man is Paul Thornton, and the place is the Hollics, an old f

25、armhouse. When ever I visit a new restaura nt, I feel the same exciteme nt that kee n theatre-goers must experie nce on ope ning ni ght. I had this feeli ng last Friday eve ning at dusk, as my wife and I were tak ing a walk in the beautiful garde ns of the restaura nt 13 after we had arrived. Dinner

26、 was as excelle nt as we had bee n 14 . There is no menu, for Mr. Thornton creates his meals rather as a director produces a play. Nevertheless, the various comb in ati ons of 15 at each course are always 16 as if they were done by magic. He and his team of highly skilled helpers serve, cut and cook the food, moving about the stage as con fide ntly as 17 _ actors. The meal is as differe nt from what one finds in ordi nary restaura nts as a 1 _ performa nce of A Midsummer Nights Dream would be from a sec on d-rate televisio n product ion. May I offer a few words of a