专业四级 专业四级模拟4
PART II CLOZE (开始PART II CLOZE计时)
Decide which of the choices given below would correctly complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the correct choice for each blank on your answer sheet.
Early Tudor England was to a large extent self-sufficient. Practically all the necessities of life -- food, clothing, fuel and housing -- were produced from native resources by native effort, and it was to (26)_____ these primary needs that the great mass of the population labored (27)______ its daily tasks. Production was for the most part organized in innumerable small units. In the country the farm, the hamlet and the village lived on (28)____ they could grow or make for themselves, and (29)_____ the sale of any surplus in the local market town,(30)____ in the towns craftsmen applied themselves to their one-man business, making the boots and shoes, the caps and the cloaks, the (31)____ and harness of townsmen and countrymen (32____. Once a week town and country would meet to make (33)___ at a market which came (34)___ realizing the medieval idea of direct contact between producer and (35)_____. This was the traditional economy, which was hardly altered for some centuries, and which set the (36)_____ of work and the standard of life of perhaps nice out of (37)____ ten English men and women. The work was long and (38)____, and the standard of life achieved was almost (39)___ low. Most Englishmen lied by a diet which was often (40)____ and always monotonous, wore coarse and ill-fitting clothes which harbored dirt undermine, and lived in holes whose squalor would affront the modern slum dweller.
26. A) settle B) answer C) satisfy D) fill
27. A) at B) in C) on D) with
28. A) which B) what C) whether D) where
29. A) with B) by C) on D) for
30. A) although B) while C) nevertheless D) when
31. A) machines B) apparatus C) equipment D) implement
32. A) similar B) skin C) like D) alike
33. A) exchange B) bargain C) dealing D) ride
34. A) close at B) adjacent to C) near to D) near-by
35. A) consumer B) buyer C) user D) shopper
36. A) model B) form C) pattern D) method
37. A) every B) each C) the D) other
38. A) cruel B) hard C) ruthless D) severe
39. A) unimaginatively B) unimaginably C) imaginarily D) unimaginedly
40. A) weak B) little C) meagre D) sparse
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PART III GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (开始PART III GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY计时)
There are twenty-five sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that correctly completes the sentence. Mark your answer on your answer sheet.
41. He noticed the helicopter hovering over the field. Then, to his astonishment, he saw a rope ladder ______ out and three men climbing down it.
A) throwing
B) being thrown
C) having thrown
D) having been thrown
42. He resented ______ to wait. He expected the minister ________ him at once.
A) to be asked, to see
B) being asked, to see
C) to be asked seeing
D) being asked, seeing
43. The idea of traveling through ____ space to other planets interests many people today.
A) a
B) the
C) /
D) one
44. The meeting's been cancelled. Ann ______ all that work.
A) need to do
B) need have
C) needn't have done
D) needed not to do
45. You'd better look at the difficulty ____.
A) the other way
B) by the other way
C) another way
D) by another way
46. ____ I was very much mistaken, there was something wrong with Louise.
A) Unless
B) As
C) Though
D) Since
47. He is not under arrest, _____ any restriction on him.
A) or the police have placed
B) or have the police placed
C) nor the police have placed
D) nor have the police placed
48. We could _____ him with a detached house when he came, but he had specially asked for a small flat.
A) provide
B) have provided
C) not provide
D) not have provided
49. This missile is designed so that once _______ nothing can be done to retrieve it.
A) fired
B) being fired
C) they fired
D) having fired
50. ______ the two, Bob is _____ student.
A) Of, more diligent
B) In, more diligent
C) Of, the more diligent
D) In, the more diligent
51. _______, he would not have recovered so quickly.
A) Hadn't he taken good care of
B) Had he not been taken good care of
C) Had not he been taken good care of
D) Had he bee not taken good care of
52. The local council has decided to take the _______ of the hotel to court.
A) Landlord
B) tenant
C) client
D) proprietor
53. Swarms of wasps are always invading my garden. They are a thorough _______.
A) nuisance
B) disturbance
C) trouble
D) annoyance
54. The cold drink ____ him after his long hot journey.
A) reduced
B) refreshed
C) released
D) recovered
55. For years she suffered from the ____ that her husband might come back to her.
A) vision
B) idea
C) imagination
D) illusion
56. He went to Australia hoping to find a teaching _______ without too much difficulty.
A) work
B) career
C) post
D) employment
57. The accusation left him quite ______ with rage.
A) quiet
B) silent
C) mute
D) speechless
58. As the drug took ______ the patient became quieter.
A) force
B) effect
C) action
D) influence
59. Notebooks, textbooks and school magazines were accidentally ________ all over the floor.
A) spread
B) separated
C) splashed
D) scattered
60. An ______ degree was conferred on the distinguished professor.
A) honest
B) honored
C) honorary
D) honorific
61. Mr. Brown's condition looks very serious and it is doubtful if he will pull ______.
A) up
B) through
C) out
D) back
62. The purpose of the survey was to _______ the inspectors with local conditions.
A) inform
B) notify
C) instruct
D) acquaint
63. Because of his poor health, it took him a long time to throw _____ his bad cold.
A) off
B) away
C) down
D) over
64. Though badly damaged by fire, the palace was eventually _____ to its original splendor. A. recovered b. renewed C. restored D. replaced 65. They had a pleasant chat ______ a cup of coffee.
A) off
B) away
C) restored D. replaced 65. They had a pleasant chat ______ a cup of coffee. A. for
D) replaced 65. They had a pleasant chat ______ a cup of coffee. A. for
65. They had a pleasant chat ______ a cup of coffee.
A) for
B) with
C) during
D) over
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PART IV READING COMPREHENSION (开始PART IV READING COMPREHENSION计时)
In this part there are four passages followed by fifteen questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. choose the one that you think is the correct answer. Mark you choice on your answer sheet.
TEXT A Large companies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large. The same problem, on a smaller scale, faces practically every company trying to develop new products and create new jobs. There can be little prospect of raising the sort of sums needed from friends and people we know, and while banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are generally unwilling to provide money on a permanent basis for long-term projects. So companies turn to public, inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in the business in exchange for a share in future profits. This they do by issuing stocks and shares in the business through The Stock Exchange. By doing so they can put into circulation the savings of individuals and institution, both at home and overseas. When the saver needs his money back, he does not have to go to the company with whom he originally placed it. Instead, he sells his shares through a stockbroker (证券经纪人)to some other saver who is seeking to invest his money. Many of the services needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by the Government or by local authorities. Without hospitals, roads, electricity, telephones, railways, this country could not function. All these require continuous spending on new equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money than is raised through taxes alone. The government, local authorities, and nationalized industries therefore frequently needed to borrow money to finance major capital spending, and they, too, come to The Stock Exchange. There is hardly a man or woman in this country whose job or whose standard of living does not depend on the ability of his or her employers to raise money to finance new development. In one way or another this new money must come from the savings of the country. The Stock Exchange exists to provide a channel through which these savings can reach those who need finance.
66. Almost all companies involved in new production and development must _____.
A) rely in their own financial resources.
B) persuade the banks to provide long-term finance.
C) borrow large sums of money from friends and people we know.
D) depend on the population as a whole for finance.
67. The money which enables these companies to go ahead with their projects is _____.
A) repaid to its original owners as soon as possible.
B) raised by the selling of shares in the companies.
C) exchanged for part ownership in The Stock Exchange.
D) invested in different companies on The Stock Exchange.
68. When the savers want their money back they _____.
A) ask another company to obtain their money for them.
B) look for other people to borrow money from.
C) put their shares in the company back on the market.
D) transfer their money to a more successful company.
TEXT B The year 1400 opened with more peacefulness than usual in England. Only a few months before, Richard II -- weak, wicked, and treacherous -- had been deposed (废黜), and Harry IV declared king in his stead. But it was only a seeming peacefulness, lasting for but a little while; for though King Harry proved himself a just and a merciful man -- as hostile and mercy went with the men of iron of those days -- and though he did not care to shed blood needlessly, there were many noble families who had been benefited by King Richard during his reign, and who had lost some what of their power and prestige from the coming in of the new king. Among these were a number of great lords who had been degraded from their former titles and estates, from which degradation King Richard had lifted them. They planned to fall upon King Harry and his followers and to massacre (屠杀) them during a great tournament (中世纪之马上比武大会) which was being held at Oxford. And they might have succeeded had not one of their own members betrayed them. But Harry did not appear at the lists; whereupon, knowing that he had been lodging at Windsor with only a few attendants, the conspirators marched there against him. In the meantime, the king had been warned of the plot, so that instead of finding him in the royal castle, they discovered through their scouts that he had hurried to London, and that he was marching against them at the head of a considerable army. So nothing was left but flight. One and another, they were all caught and some killed. Those few who found friends faithful and bold enough to afford them shelter dragged those friends down in their own ruin.
69. What does the author seem to think of King Harry?
A) He was the best king England had ever had.
B) He was unfair and cowardly.
C) He was just as evil as King Richard.
D) He was a better ruler than King Richard.
70. How did King Harry find out about the plot?
A) His scouts discovered it.
B) He saw the conspirators coming.
C) One of the conspirators told him.
D) He found a copy of the conspirators' plan.
71. How did the conspirators find out that Harry was in London?
A) They saw him leave Windsor.
B) Harry's attendants told them.
C) They saw him at the tournament.
D) Their scouts told them.
72. Why did the nobles wish to kill Harry?
A) Harry had taken away power given to them by Richard.
B) Harry was weak, wicked, and treacherous.
C) Harry had needlessly killed members of their families.
D) Harry had killed King Richard.
TEXT C The ballad and the fork song have long been recognized as important keys to the thoughts and feelings of a people, but the dime novel though sought by the collector and referred to in a general way by the social historian, is dismissed with a smile of amusement by almost everyone else. Neither fork songs nor dime novels were actually created by the plain people of America. But in their devotion to these modes of expression, the people made them their own. The dime novel, interested as it was for the great masses and designed to fill the pockets of both author and publisher, quite naturally sought the lowest common denominator (共同点，标准): themes that were found to be popular and attitudes that met with the most general approval became stereotyped (定型的). Moreover, the dime novel, reflecting a much wider range of attitudes and ideas than the ballad and the fork song, is the nearest thing we have had in this country to a true "proletarian" literature, that is, a literature written for the great masses of people and actually read by them. Although a study of our dime novels alone cannot enable anyone to determine what are the essential characteristics of the American tradition, it can contribute materially to that end. Sooner or later, the industrious researchers who have minded so many obscure lodes of American literary expression will almost certainly turn their attention to these novels and all their kind. Let no one think, however, that the salmon-covered paperbacks once so eagerly devoured (贪婪地阅读) by soldiers, lumberjacks (伐木工人), trainmen, hired girl, and adolescent boys now make exciting or agreeable even for the historian, much as the social and historical implications may interest him. As for the crowds today who get their sensational thrills from the movies and the tabloids (小刊，小报), I fear that they would find these hair-raisers of an earlier age deadly dull.
73. The principal intention of the author of a dime novel was to _____.
A) explore a segment of American society.
B) Promote the American political philosophy.
C) raise the level of intelligence of the great masses of people.
D) make money.
74. The "lowest common denominator" refers to _____.
A) the poorer classes.
B) themes attitudes that would be accepted by the greatest number of people.
C) attitudes accepted by the American intellectuals.
D) the character of the authors of the dime novel.
75. "Proletarian" literature is _____.
A) written for and read by the great masses of people.
B) distinguished by its devotion to pornography.
C) distinguished by its elegant style.
D) written for, but not actually read by, most people.
TEXT D There are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force; the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second. It is, therefore, necessary for a prince to know how to use both the beast and the man. This was covertly taught to the rulers by ancient writers, who relate how Achilles and many others of those ancient princes were given Chiron the centaur to be brought up and educated under his discipline. The parable (寓言) of this semi-animal, semi-human teacher is meant to indicate that a prince must know how to use both natures, and that without the other it is not durable. A prince, being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast, must imitate the fox, and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this. Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interest, and the reasons which made him bind himself no longe