201712月英语四级选词填空真题及答案解析

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2016年 12月英语四级选词填空真题及答案

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PARTⅢ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You

are required to select oneword 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 in the bank more than once.

the centre. You may not use any of the words

Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there are “male”and“female ”brains,believing that explains just about every difference between the sexes.A new study 26 that belief, questioning whether brains really can be distinguished by gender.

In the study, Tel Aviv University throughout the entire human brain

researchers 27 for sex differences

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And what did they find? Not much. Rather than offer evidence for 28 brains as “male” or “female ”,research shows that brains fall into a wide range , with most people falling right in the middle.

Daphna Joel ,who led the study, said her research found that while there are somegender‐based 29 ,many different be distinguished by gender.

types of brain can’t always

While the “average”male and“average”female brains were 30different, you couldn ’t tell 31of people had

it by looking at individual brain scans. Only a small “all-male ”or“all-female ”characteristics.

Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist( 神经科学家 ) ，said the study

is an important addition to a growing body of research questioning 32 beliefs about gender and brain function. But he cautioned against concluding from this study that all brains are the same, 33 of gender.

“There’s a mountain of evidence 34 the importance of sex influences at all levels of brain function ,

”he told The Seattle Times.

If anything, he said, the study 35that gender plays a very important role in the brain

—“even when we are not clear exactly how.

”

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Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are requir ed to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word ban k 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 cor responding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through th e centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

It ’s our guilty pleasure: Watching

TV is the most common everyday activity,

after work and sleep, in many parts of the world. Americans view five hours of TV each day, and while we know that spending so much time sitting ad to obesity (

（36）can le

肥胖症 ) and other diseases, researchers have now quantified just

how（37） being a couch potato can be.

In an analysis of data from eight large

（38） published studies, a Harvard

-led group reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that for every two hours per day spent channel

（39）, the risk of developing Type 2 di

abetes( 糖尿病 ) rose 20% over 8.5 years, the risk of heart disease increased 15% over a

（40）, and the odds of dying prematurely

（41） 13% during a seven-yea

r follow-up. All of these compared with other sedentary( be especially

（42）are linked to a lack of physical exercise. But

久坐的 ) activities, like knitting, viewing TV may

（43） at promoting unhealthy habits. For one, the sheer number

of hours we pass watching TV dwarfs the time we spend on anything else. And oth er studies have found that watching ads for beer and popcorn may make you more likely to

（44）them.

’t compare different sedentary ac

Even so, the authors admit that they didn tivities to

（45）whether TV watching was linked to a greater risk of diabetes,

heart disease or early death compared with, say, reading.

A) climbed B) consume C) decade D) determine E) effective F) harmful G) outcom es

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H) passively I) previously J) resume K) suffered L) surfing M) term N) terminal s

O) twisting

参考答案解析 ： 36. passively

解析： sitting passively

被动坐着

从词性判断， 36题应该选一个副来词修饰sitting这个动名词， 而备选项中只有两个副词，

一个是 passively 被动地，一个是 previously 之前，再根据语义逻辑，坐着那看视电的行

该是

37. harmful 一

，而不存在前后之分。

解析： quantified just how harmful being a couch potato 量化长时间看电重严的视危 害

通过分析 how ( ) being a couch potato can be这句话的句子成分， 得出 how这个副

词该r接m38. previously 一f

解析：个u previously published studies 之前公布的研究 填，l一性

剩下一个副词p条有就是 previously ，刚好填入此处。 u，一个是害39. surfing b effective 有效的，一个是 ha 的l。解析：i spent channel surfing ，直接翻译道频在为冲浪，意译里这。视电看为的 channel 视s频是道指代 television电视；而“ surfing 冲浪”指代“ watching 看”，我们经常看到上网 h有常，害以用参的上40. decade 考harmful 可s 。 以解u的中的委婉表达。析词r解 ：这样af在只才能和前文 over 8.5.years 与后文 during a seven-year follow up 形成并列，备 ni 项i明n中只有 decade 符合条件。 n本g41. climbed c句里r存解运e在析关用a并：系示，s列 ，上42. outcomes e关t某只有将d系 climbed ，爬升。 解析：h险“ all of these outcomes 所有这些后果。 此题填 outcomes，是对前文各种疾病风险 。e增上1此 加网5句o了冲

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的概括。 43. effective

解析：be especially effective at promoting unhealthy habits 惯。be effective at doing 健康的习惯。 44. consume

解析： make you more likely to consume them

使你更有可能吃他们，这里注意

them 指

co

更容易形成不健康的习

有效做某事。 这里是讽刺用法， 用来强调看电视更容易形成不

前文出现的 beer 啤酒和 popcorn 爆米花，又能表示喝啤酒，又能表示吃爆米花的词只有 nsume。consume 消费，也只吃喝（东西）。 45. determine

解析：通过句法分析，本句应该填写动词原形，放在

to 不定式符号之后。备选项中有

3 个

动词原形，其中 consume已经填在了 44 题，在剩下的 resume 恢复和 determine 决定之间， 根据语义，应选择 determine 。

Reading is thought to be a kind of conversation between the reader and the text. The reader puts questions, as it were, to the text and gets answers. In the light of these he puts __1__ questions, and so on.

For most of the time this “conversation ” goes on below the level

of consciousness. At times, however, we become__2__ of it. This is usually whenwe are running into difficulties,

when mismatch is occurring between

__3__ and meaning. When successful matching is being experienced, our question of the text continues at the unconscious level.

Different people __4__ with the text differently. Somestay very close

to the words on the page, others take off imaginatively from the words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing and examining. The former

represents a kind of comprehension which is __5__ in the text. The latter

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