大學(xué)生英語專四的難度是比較大的，對于英語專業(yè)的同學(xué)來說，想要順利通過考試，提升訓(xùn)練是非常有必要的。今天我們?yōu)榇蠹艺砹舜髮W(xué)生英語專四考試難度提升訓(xùn)練，一起來看一下吧。

大學(xué)生英語專四考試難度提升訓(xùn)練

For many environmentalists, the world seems to be getting worse. They have developed a hitlist of our main fears: natural resources are 1 out? the population is ever growing, leaving less and less to eat? species are becoming 2 in vast numbers, and the planet's air and water are becoming ever more polluted.

But a quick look at the facts shows a different picture. First, energy and other natural resources have become more 3 not less so, since the book 'The Limits to Growth' was published in 1972 by a group of scientists. Second, more food is now produced per 4 of the world's population than at any time in history. Fewer people are 5 . Third, although species are indeed becoming extinct, only about 0.7% of them are expected to disappear in the next 50 years, not 25~50%, as has so often been 6 . And finally, most forms of environmental pollution either appear to have been 7 , or are transient - associated with the early stages of industrialization and therefore best cured not by restricting economic growth, but by 8 it. One form of pollution - the release of greenhouse gases that causes global warming - does appear to be a phenomenon that is going to extend well into our future, but its total impact is unlikely to 9 a devastating (令人心神不安的) problem. A bigger problem may well turn out to be an inappropriate response to it.

Yet opinion polls suggest that many people nurture the belief that environmental standards are declining and some factors seem to cause this disjunction between 10 and reality.

A) pose

B) exaggerated

C) accelerating

D) extinct

E) exist

F) perception

G) wealthy

H) magnified

I) starving

J) head

K) running

L) predicted

M) abundant

N) conception

O) reducing

答案：

1. K

2. D

3. M

4. J

5. I

6. L

7. B

8. C

9. A

10. F

專四考試通關(guān)模擬訓(xùn)練題

Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this (36), every group has a culture, however savage, undeveloped, or uncivilized it may seem to us.

To the professional anthropologist (人類學(xué)家), there is no intrinsic(37)of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic hierarchy(等級制度) among languages.

People once thought of the languages of backward groups as (38) and undeveloped forms of speech,consisting largely of grunts and groans. While it is possible that language in general began as a series of 　grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of "backward" languages that no spoken tongue answers that description today. Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely complex, delicate, and ingenious pieces of machinery for the(39)of ideas. They fall behind our Western languages not in their sound patterns or(40 )structures, which usually are fully adequate for all language needs, but only in their vocabularies, which41the objects and activities known to their speakers. Even in this department, however,two things are to be noted: 1. All languages seem to(42)the machinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence or by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own system. 2. The objects and activities requiring names and distinctions in"backward" languages, while different from ours, are often surprisingly(43)and complicated.

This study of language, in turn, (44)a new light upon the claim of the anthropologists that all cultures are to be viewed(45), and without ideas of rank or hierarchy.

A. savage

B. superiority

C. conceive

D. transfer

E. identification

tical

G. reflect

H. reveals

I. numerous

J . independently

K. exclusive

L. casts

M. sense

N. confidentially

O. possess

參考譯文

文化是人類某一特定群體所有傳統(tǒng)、風(fēng)俗、信仰及生活方式的總和。從這種[36]意義上說，每個群體都有一種文化，不管在我們看來，它是多么野蠻、不發(fā)達(dá)或未開化。

對于專業(yè)的人類學(xué)家而言，沒有哪種文化在本質(zhì)上比另一種[37]優(yōu)越，這就像對于專業(yè)的語言學(xué)家而言。語言之間并沒有內(nèi)在的等級一樣。

人們曾經(jīng)認(rèn)為落后群體的語言就是[38]野蠻的、不發(fā)達(dá)的言語形式，主要包括咕噥和呻吟。盡管一般來說，語言有可能是以一系列的咕噥和呻吟的形式開始的，但是，通過對“落后”語言的研究證實(shí)，今天沒有哪種語言符合這種描述。按照我們的最嚴(yán)格標(biāo)準(zhǔn)來講，作為[39]傳遞思想的工具，多數(shù)未開化人群的語言極其復(fù)雜、縝密，并具有獨(dú)創(chuàng)性。這些語言在語音模式或[40]語法結(jié)構(gòu)上通常能完全滿足語言的所有需求，并不落后于我們西方的語言，比我們落后的只是[41]反映這些說話者所知物體及活動的詞匯。然而，即使是在這方面，也有兩點(diǎn)值得一提：1.所有語言都[42]擁有拓展詞匯的機(jī)制，要么是通過將現(xiàn)存詞匯組合在一起來拓展，要么是通過從其他語言中借入一些詞并將其改造以適應(yīng)自身體系來實(shí)現(xiàn)。2.在這些[43]“落后的”語言中，盡管那些需要　　名字及區(qū)分的物體及活動與我們不同，它們卻都經(jīng)常是多得出奇、復(fù)雜得出奇。

對于語言的研究反過來讓人們對人類學(xué)家的斷言——所有的文化都該被[45]獨(dú)立看待，而不該帶著等級觀念去看待——[44]有了新的認(rèn)識。

答案解析

36.M

語法判斷：分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，該空后面是一個完整的句子，初步判斷介詞短語inthis——在句中作狀語。分析此短語可知，inthis后缺少一個單數(shù)名詞。

語義判斷：符合上述語法條件的單詞有superiority、transfer、identification、sense四項(xiàng)，而這些名詞中可以與inthis構(gòu)成介詞短語的只有sense，inthis sense意為“從這個意義上講”，符合此處文意，故選M。

37.B

語法判斷：分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，該空缺少一個單數(shù)名詞，一則因?yàn)榍懊娴闹^語是系動詞is，二則因?yàn)榍懊娴男稳菰~no是用來修飾名詞的。

語義判斷：符合上述語法條件的單詞有三個：superiority意為“優(yōu)越性”，transfer意為“轉(zhuǎn)移;轉(zhuǎn)換”，identification意為“鑒別;身份證明”。本句的大意是“沒有哪種文化在本質(zhì)上比另一種優(yōu)越”，因此，只有superiority符合文意。

38.A

語法判斷：分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，該空缺少一個形容詞，與并列的形容詞undeveloped共同修飾后面的名詞forms。

語義判斷：符合上述語法條件的形容詞有四個：savage意為“野蠻的”，9rammatical意為“語法的”，numerous意為“許多的”，exclusive意為“單獨(dú)的”。把這四項(xiàng)代入原文后可知savage比較貼合文意。

39.D

語法判斷：分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，該空位于介詞短語forthe__________ofideas之中。分析此短語可知，該空缺少一個名詞。

語義判斷：符合上述語法條件的單詞有transfer和identification兩個，只有transfer與后面的0fideas構(gòu)成的短語transfer ofideas(傳遞思想)符合這里的語義表達(dá)，故選D。

40.F

語法判斷：分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，該空所處的位置是not…or…并列結(jié)構(gòu)，intheir省略掉了，因此，此處缺少一個與其前面的sound形成并列關(guān)系的名詞或形容詞，來修飾后面的structures。

語義判斷：結(jié)合前面38題的“語義判斷”，可知只有形容詞grammatical(i吾法的)符合這里的語義表達(dá)，修飾后面的structures，表示“語法結(jié)構(gòu)”，故選F。

41.G

語法判斷：分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，該空所處的句子是一個which引導(dǎo)的非限制性定語從句，修飾前面的名詞vocabularies，該空應(yīng)填入一個復(fù)數(shù)的謂語動詞。

語義判斷：符合上述語法條件的單詞有conceive(構(gòu)想)、reflect(反映)和possess(擁有)三個。結(jié)合此處文意“反映這些說話者所知物體及活動的詞匯”，可知reflect為正確答案。

42.O

語法判斷：分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，該空缺少一個動詞原形，構(gòu)成seemtodo sth.這一常用表達(dá)。

語義判斷：符合上述語法條件的單詞有conceive和possess兩個。結(jié)合語境，本句的大意是“所有語言都擁有拓展詞匯的機(jī)制”。因此possess為正確答案。

43.I

語法判斷：分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，該空缺少一個形容詞作表語，和complicated并列。

語義判斷：結(jié)合前面38題和40題的“語義判斷”，并結(jié)合此處文意“多得出奇”，可知應(yīng)填入numerous。故選I。

44.L

語法判斷：分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，該空缺少一個動詞，且應(yīng)為第三人稱單數(shù)形式，因?yàn)榍懊娴闹髡Z是this study。

語義判斷：符合上述語法條件的單詞有casts(投射;鑄造)和reveals(揭示)兩個。結(jié)合語境，本句的大意是“對于語言的研究反過來讓人們對人類學(xué)家的斷言有了新的認(rèn)識”，因此，只有casts符合。cast anewlight on/upon意為“使人們對……有新的認(rèn)識”。

45.J

語法判斷：分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，該空前是一個完整的主系表結(jié)構(gòu)的句子，判斷該空應(yīng)填入一個副詞來修飾前面的動詞view。

語義判斷：符合上述語法條件的單詞有independently和confidentially兩個。結(jié)合語境，本句的大意是“所有的文化都該被獨(dú)立看待”，可知independently為正確答案，故選J。

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