专业英语四级（完形填空）-试卷232及答案解析.doc

1、专业英语四级（完形填空）-试卷232及答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、CLOZE(总题数：5，分数：100.00)1.PART IV CLOZEDecide which of the words given in the box below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. The words can be used ONCE ONLY.（分数：20.00）_A. disgraceful B. imperfect C. hold D. consideratio

2、n E. approved F. accordingly G. naked H. wandering I. incorrect J. ignorance K. rise L. culture M. reclining N. struck O. apparently There is a closer relationship between morals and architecture and interior decoration than we suspect. Huxley has pointed out that Western ladies did not take frequen

3、t baths because they were afraid to see their own 1 bodies, and this moral concept delayed the 2 of the modern white-enameled bathtub for centuries. One can understand, why in the design of old Chinese furniture there was so little 3 for human comfort only when we realize the Confucian atmosphere in

4、 which people moved about. Chinese redwood furniture was designed for people to sit upright in, because that was the only posture 4 by society. Even Chinese emperors had to sit on a throne on which I would not think of remaining for more than five minutes, and for that matter the English kings were

5、just as badly off. Cleopatra went about 5 on a couch carried by servants, because 6 she had never heard of Confucius. If Confucius should have seen her doing that, he would certainly have 7 her shins with a stick, as he did to one of his old disciples, Yuan Yan, when the latter was found sitting in

6、an 8 posture. In the Confucian society in which we lived, gentlemen and ladies had to 9 themselves perfectly erect, at least on formal occasions, and any sign of putting ones leg up would be at once considered a sign of vulgarity and lack of 10.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项

7、1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_A. forge B. traces C. private D. fear E. puzzles F. helpful G. creates H. free I. guard J. calmness K. explains L. problems M. public N. defense O. display The differences between men and women clarify why they have different expectations about communication in marriage. For women, ta

8、lk 1 intimacy. Marriage is an orgy(狂欢)of closeness: you can tell your feelings and thoughts, and still be loved. Womens greatest 2 is being pushed away. But men live in a hierarchical world, where talk maintains independence and status. They are on 3to protect themselves from being put down and push

9、ed around. This 4the paradox of the talkative man who said of his silent wife, Shes the talker. In 5 settings, he feels challenged to show his intelligence and 6 his understanding. But at home, where he has nothing to prove and no one to defend against, he is free to remain silent. For his wife, bei

10、ng home means she is 7 from the worry that something she says might offend someone, or spark disagreement, or appear to be showing off; at home she is free to talk. The communication 8 that endanger marriage cant be fixed by mechanical engineering. They require a new conceptual framework about the r

11、ole of talk in human relationships. Many of the psychological explanations may not be 9, because they tend to blame either women (for not being assertive enough)or men(for not being in touch with their feelings). A sociolinguistic approach in which male-female conversation is seen as cross-cultural

12、communication allows us to understand the problem and 10 solutions without blaming either party.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_A. comfortable B. prefer C. investment D. academically E. worked out F. overwhelmed G. land H. opt I. oriented J. leading K. credits L

13、 transition M. compensation N. occupy O. nominated Given the choice between spending an evening with friends and taking extra time for his schoolwork, Andy Klise admits he would probably 1 to the latter. Its not that he doesnt like to have fun; its just his desire to excel 2 drives his decision-mak

14、ing process. A graduate of Wooster High School and now a senior biology major at the College of Wooster, Klise acknowledges that he may someday have second thoughts about his decision to limit the time he has spent socializing, but for now, he is 3 with the choices he has made. If things had not 4 a

15、s well as they have, I would have had some regrets, says Klise, who was a Phi Beta Kappa inductee as a junior. But spending the extra time studying has been well worth the 5. I realized early on that to be successful, I had to make certain sacrifices. As for the origin of his intense motivation, Kli

16、se notes that it has been part of his makeup for as long as he can remember. Ive always been goal 6, he says. This internal drive has caused me to give my all in pretty much everything I do. Klise 7 Woosters nationally recognized Independent Study(IS.)program with preparing him for his next step in

17、life: a research position with the National Institute of Health(NIH). I am hoping that my I.S. experience will help me 8 a research position with NIH, says Klise. The yearlong program gives students a chance to work with some of the nations 9 scientists while making the 10 from undergraduate to grad

18、uate studies or a career in the medical field.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_A. additional B. ideally C. altered D. personal E. likely F. excessive G. virtually H. combined I. exceed J. errors K. preferably L. exist M. motion N. operation O. while In a telephon

19、e survey of more than 2,000 adults, 21% said they believed the sun revolved around the earth. An 17% did not know which revolved around which. I have no doubt that 2 all of these people were taught in school that the earth revolves around the sun; they may even have written it on a test. But they ne

20、ver 3 their incorrect mental models of planetary 4 because their everyday observations didnt support what their teachers told them: People see the sun moving across the sky as morning turns to night, and the earth seems stationary 5 that is happening. Students can learn the right answers by heart in

21、 class, and yet never 6 them with their working models of the world. The objectively correct answer the professor accepts and the students personal understanding of the world can 7 side by side, each unaffected by the other. Outside of class, the student continues to use the 8 model because it has a

22、lways worked well in that circumstance. Unless professors address specific 9 in students personal models of the world, students are not 10 to replace them with the correct ones.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_专业英语四级（完形填空）-试卷232答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、CLOZE(总

23、题数：5，分数：100.00)1.PART IV CLOZEDecide which of the words given in the box below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. The words can be used ONCE ONLY.（分数：20.00）_解析：A. disgraceful B. imperfect C. hold D. consideration E. approved F. accordingly G. naked H. wandering

24、I. incorrect J. ignorance K. rise L. culture M. reclining N. struck O. apparently There is a closer relationship between morals and architecture and interior decoration than we suspect. Huxley has pointed out that Western ladies did not take frequent baths because they were afraid to see their own 1

25、 bodies, and this moral concept delayed the 2 of the modern white-enameled bathtub for centuries. One can understand, why in the design of old Chinese furniture there was so little 3 for human comfort only when we realize the Confucian atmosphere in which people moved about. Chinese redwood furnitur

26、e was designed for people to sit upright in, because that was the only posture 4 by society. Even Chinese emperors had to sit on a throne on which I would not think of remaining for more than five minutes, and for that matter the English kings were just as badly off. Cleopatra went about 5 on a couc

27、h carried by servants, because 6 she had never heard of Confucius. If Confucius should have seen her doing that, he would certainly have 7 her shins with a stick, as he did to one of his old disciples, Yuan Yan, when the latter was found sitting in an 8 posture. In the Confucian society in which we

28、lived, gentlemen and ladies had to 9 themselves perfectly erect, at least on formal occasions, and any sign of putting ones leg up would be at once considered a sign of vulgarity and lack of 10.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：G）填空项1:_（正确答案：K）填空项1:_（正确答案：D）填空项1:_（正确答案：E）填空项1:_（正确答案：M）填空项1:_（正确答案：O）填空项1:_（正确答案：

29、N）填空项1:_（正确答案：I）填空项1:_（正确答案：C）填空项1:_（正确答案：L）解析：解析：此处应填入名词，作介词of的宾语。由并列连词and推断，lack of和a sign of vulgarity表达的意思相近，lack of意为“缺乏”，有否定之义，因此空格处应填入和vulgarity相反的名词，词库中culture“修养”一词符合语境。干扰项ignorance“无知，愚昧”与vulgarity意义相近，代入之后与文意正好相反，故排除。A. forge B. traces C. private D. fear E. puzzles F. helpful G. creates H

30、 free I. guard J. calmness K. explains L. problems M. public N. defense O. display The differences between men and women clarify why they have different expectations about communication in marriage. For women, talk 1 intimacy. Marriage is an orgy(狂欢)of closeness: you can tell your feelings and thou

31、ghts, and still be loved. Womens greatest 2 is being pushed away. But men live in a hierarchical world, where talk maintains independence and status. They are on 3to protect themselves from being put down and pushed around. This 4the paradox of the talkative man who said of his silent wife, Shes the

32、 talker. In 5 settings, he feels challenged to show his intelligence and 6 his understanding. But at home, where he has nothing to prove and no one to defend against, he is free to remain silent. For his wife, being home means she is 7 from the worry that something she says might offend someone, or

33、spark disagreement, or appear to be showing off; at home she is free to talk. The communication 8 that endanger marriage cant be fixed by mechanical engineering. They require a new conceptual framework about the role of talk in human relationships. Many of the psychological explanations may not be 9

34、 because they tend to blame either women (for not being assertive enough)or men(for not being in touch with their feelings). A sociolinguistic approach in which male-female conversation is seen as cross-cultural communication allows us to understand the problem and 10 solutions without blaming eith

35、er party.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：G）填空项1:_（正确答案：D）填空项1:_（正确答案：I）填空项1:_（正确答案：K）填空项1:_（正确答案：M）填空项1:_（正确答案：O）填空项1:_（正确答案：H）填空项1:_（正确答案：L）填空项1:_（正确答案：F）填空项1:_（正确答案：A）解析：解析：solutions跟上文的understand the problem并列，因此空格处应填入动词原形。由上文的allows usto understand the problem“让我们理解这个问题”，可看出这种方法是有好处的，因此空格处应该填入带有积极意义的词，并且该

36、词可与solutions构成搭配。词库中的forge“创造，开创”符合要求。A. comfortable B. prefer C. investment D. academically E. worked out F. overwhelmed G. land H. opt I. oriented J. leading K. credits L. transition M. compensation N. occupy O. nominated Given the choice between spending an evening with friends and taking extra t

37、ime for his schoolwork, Andy Klise admits he would probably 1 to the latter. Its not that he doesnt like to have fun; its just his desire to excel 2 drives his decision-making process. A graduate of Wooster High School and now a senior biology major at the College of Wooster, Klise acknowledges that

38、 he may someday have second thoughts about his decision to limit the time he has spent socializing, but for now, he is 3 with the choices he has made. If things had not 4 as well as they have, I would have had some regrets, says Klise, who was a Phi Beta Kappa inductee as a junior. But spending the

39、extra time studying has been well worth the 5. I realized early on that to be successful, I had to make certain sacrifices. As for the origin of his intense motivation, Klise notes that it has been part of his makeup for as long as he can remember. Ive always been goal 6, he says. This internal driv

40、e has caused me to give my all in pretty much everything I do. Klise 7 Woosters nationally recognized Independent Study(IS.)program with preparing him for his next step in life: a research position with the National Institute of Health(NIH). I am hoping that my I.S. experience will help me 8 a resea

41、rch position with NIH, says Klise. The yearlong program gives students a chance to work with some of the nations 9 scientists while making the 10 from undergraduate to graduate studies or a career in the medical field.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：B）填空项1:_（正确答案：D）填空项1:_（正确答案：A）填空项1:_（正确答案：E）填空项1:_（正确答案：C）填空

42、项1:_（正确答案：I）填空项1:_（正确答案：K）填空项1:_（正确答案：G）填空项1:_（正确答案：J）填空项1:_（正确答案：L）解析：解析：根据空格前的定冠词the，可确定空格需填入名词。空格后fromto表示状态的变化，词库中的transition“过渡”符合上下文语义，代入表示“从本科生过渡到研究生学习”，故选L。A. additional B. ideally C. altered D. personal E. likely F. excessive G. virtually H. combined I. exceed J. errors K. preferably L. exi

43、st M. motion N. operation O. while In a telephone survey of more than 2,000 adults, 21% said they believed the sun revolved around the earth. An 17% did not know which revolved around which. I have no doubt that 2 all of these people were taught in school that the earth revolves around the sun; they

44、 may even have written it on a test. But they never 3 their incorrect mental models of planetary 4 because their everyday observations didnt support what their teachers told them: People see the sun moving across the sky as morning turns to night, and the earth seems stationary 5 that is happening. Students can learn the right answers by heart in class, and yet never 6 them with their working models of the world. The objectively correct answer the prof