1、专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷 208及答案与解析 一、 PART IV CLOZE Decide 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. 0 AbenefitsIflourishing BcommissionsJsaddle CextravagantKinclination DsimilarLmounted EinaccessiblyMp
2、ioneered FrevenueNaccordingly GreluctantOharmonious Hmobilize Internet advertising is booming. The industry has gone from $ 9. 6 billion in【 C1】_in 2001 to $ 27 billion this year, according to Piper Jaffray, an investment bank. And it is still early days. The Internet accounts for only 5% of total s
3、pending on advertising, but that figure is expected to reach at least 20% in the next few years. The single largest category within this【 C2】 _industry, accounting for nearly half of all spending, is “pay-per-click“ advertising, which is used by firms both large and small to promote their wares. The
4、【 C3】 _of the pay-per-click approach over traditional advertising are obvious. Since advertisers pay only to reach the small subset who actually responds to art advertisement, the quality of the leads generated is very high, and advertisers are prepared to pay【 C4】 _. The price per click varies from
5、 $ 0.10 to as much as $ 30, depending on the keyword, though the average is around $ 0.50. Google made most of its $ 6.1 billion in revenue last year from pay-per-click advertising. But as pay-per-click advertising has grown into a huge industry, concern has【 C5】_over so-called “click fraud“ bogus(假
6、的 )clicks that do not come from genuinely interested customers. It takes two main forms. If you click repeatedly on the advertisements on your own website, or get other people or machines to do so on your behalf, you can generate a stream of bogus【 C6】 _. Click fraud can also be used by one company
7、against another: clicking on a rival firms advertisements can【 C7】_it with a huge bill. Bogus clicks are thought to account for around 10% of all click traffic, though nobody knows for sure. A few months ago Mr. Gross【 C8】 _an alternative to the pay-per-click model. In February, Snap, a search engin
8、e backed by Mr. Gross, launched “ pay-per-action“(PPA), a new model in which advertisers pay only if a click on an ad is followed by an action such as a purchase or a download. Google is testing a【 C9】 _model and Turn, com, another ad network, adopted the pay-per-action model a few weeks ago. Might
9、this put an end to click fraud? Dont bet on it, says Mike Zeman at Starcom, an advertising agency. Pay-per-action will be a niche, he predicts, since converting a click into an action depends on a variety of factors such as the ease of use of the advertisers website. Google and its peers will be【 C1
10、0】 _to be so dependent on factors outside their control. But Mr. Tobaccowala thinks pay-per-action could become a real alternative to pay-per-click. 1 【 C1】 2 【 C2】 3 【 C3】 4 【 C4】 5 【 C5】 6 【 C6】 7 【 C7】 8 【 C8】 9 【 C9】 10 【 C10】 10 AenormouslyIabolish BoccupyJrole CambiguousKunderrepresented Denro
11、lledLextraction EprofessionalMexcelling FparticipationNformulate GempiricallyOgrant Hevaluating When we started the Meyerhoff Scholars Program nearly 20 years ago, we faced a major challenge helping students of color achieve at the highest levels academically in science and engineering(S we have app
12、roximately 30 current scholars on campus. More than 5 percent of the programs nearly 50 graduates have completed undergraduate degrees in S&E fields, and nearly 90 percent of those graduates have gone on to S&E graduate and professional programs. Every month, at least one former Meyerhoff Scholar ea
13、rns a science-related Ph. D. To bring about the kinds of institutional changes needed to produce many more minority S&E graduates, academic leaders must willingly engage the campus community in wide-ranging conversations about minority【 C4】 _and performance. These conversations must be informed by i
14、nstitutional data on the performance of all students both high-achievers and underachievers and by【 C5】 _the effectiveness of instructional methods, including whether students have opportunities to engage in productive research with faculty mentors(导师 ). We have learned that it takes experienced res
15、earchers to produce aspiring researchers. UMBC faculty have thought long and hard about these issues, and the campus has benefited【 C6】 _from their experimentation, assessment, and analysis. By involving all parties in the process, we have gained the broad buy-in needed to achieve substantive, durab
16、le change. We also are working to apply the “Meyerhoff Model“ throughout the university. One example is our effort to increase the number of women S&E faculty and to support their【 C7】 _development. Supported by an ADVANCE【 C8】 _from the National Science Foundation, we have listened to the voices of
17、 women(and men)faculty and department Chairs, all of whom are working to make a difference. They are learning from one another about best practices, such as the critical【 C9】 _mentoring plays in the development of women faculty in scientific and technical fields. The data reflect our success. Since
18、1999, UMBC has increased the number of women faculty in S&E tenure-track(终身教授 )positions from 20 to 39, while the number of men in these positions has remained unchanged. Women now【 C10】 _nearly a quarter of all S&E tenure-track positions compared with only 13 percent in 1999. 11 【 C1】 12 【 C2】 13 【
19、 C3】 14 【 C4】 15 【 C5】 16 【 C6】 17 【 C7】 18 【 C8】 19 【 C9】 20 【 C10】 专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷 208答案与解析 一、 PART IV CLOZE Decide 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. 【知识模块】 完形 1 【正确答案】 F 【试题解析】 根据空格前
20、的介词 in可知,空格处缺少名词。由空格前的 $9 6 billion in和空格后的 in 2001 to$27 billion this year可知,这些钱应该是公司的收入总额。本句句意为:该产业的收入已从 2001年的 96亿美元增加到今年的 270亿美元。备选名词中的 revenue“收入,收益 ”与句意吻合,故 F为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 2 【正确答案】 I 【试题解析】 根据空格后名词 industry可推断,此处缺少形容词作定语。结合文章第一句话 Internetadvertising is booming (互联网广告业正在蓬勃发展。 )可知,该产业是欣欣向荣的,备选形
21、容词中的 flourishing“繁荣的,欣欣向荣的 ”符合句意,故 I为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 3 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据空格前的 the和空格后的 of可推断,此处缺少名词。由下文的over traditional advertising可知,本句是将点击付费广告这种新形式与传统的广告形式相比较,备选名词中的 benefits“好处 ”经常用于 the benefits of A over B结构,表示 “A比 B有 优势 ”,故 A为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 4 【正确答案】 N 【试题 解析】 根据句子结构可知,该空缺少副词。本句句意为:只有广告传播到少数真正点击广
22、告的人时广告商才需付费,由此得到的就是具有较强购买意向的信息,他们当然乐意为此付钱了。备选副词 accordingly“相应地;因此 ”符合句意,故 N为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 5 【正确答案】 L 【试题解析】 由句子结构可知,该空缺少动词。本句句意为:随着点击付费广告发展成为一个庞大的产业,人们对所谓的点击欺诈的担心也 _。备选动词中的 mounted“增强,加剧 ”与本句句意相吻合,故 L为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 6 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据空格前的形容词 bogus可推断,此处缺少名词。由上文的 If you click repeatedly on theadver
23、tisements on your own website, or get other people or machines to do so on your behalf可推知,人们这样做就可以骗取佣金,故Bcommissions“佣金,回扣 ”为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 7 【正确答案】 J 【试题解析】 根据空格前的 can可推断,此处缺少动词,且应为动词原形。本句句意:点击竞争对手的广告可以让对手 _高额的广告费。 saddlewith 意为“(使 ) 承担 ” ,符合句意,故 J为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 8 【正确答案】 M 【试题解析】 根据句子结构可知,该空缺少动词。空格所
24、在句的前一段谈到点击付费广告有缺点,本段介绍一些新的替代做法,由此可推知本句句意为:几个月前 Gross开发了一种代替点击付费广告的模式。备选动词中的 pioneered“开拓,开发 ”与句 意相吻合,故 M为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 9 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 由空格后的名词 model可知,该空缺少形容词作定语。本句句意为:谷歌也正在试用一种模式,另一家网络广告公司 Turn com则在几周前采用了 PPA模式。由此可推知,谷歌所采用的是与 PPA相似的模式,备选形容词中的similar“相似的 ”符合句意,故 D为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 10 【正确答案】 G 【试题解析】
25、 由句子结构可知,该空缺少形容词作表语。结合下文的 be so dependent on factors outside theircontrol(过多依赖超出自己控制范围的因素 )可推知,网络广告公司并不希望或者不情愿这样做, reluctant“不情愿的 ”与句意相吻合,故 G为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 【知识模块】 完形 11 【正确答案】 M 【试题解析】 根据句子结构可知,空格处缺少形容词作表语。由前一句话中的 : we faced a majorchallenge-helping students of color achieve at the highest levels ac
26、ademically in science andengineering 可推知,当时,在学校里,非白人的少数民族学生不是很优秀,备选形容词中的 excelling“胜过的,优于的 ”在含义上与句意相吻合,故 M为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 12 【正确答案】 K 【试题解析】 根据空格后的 minority enrollment可推断,此处缺少形容词作定语。由空格后的 minorityenrollment of approximately 20 percent可知, 非白人的少数民族学生人数只占大约 20,名额很少,备选形容词中的underrepresented“代表名额不足的 ”符合句意,
27、故 K为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 13 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 根据句子结构可推断,此处缺少动词,且应为过去分词形式。由空格后的 more than 800 high-achieving students; we have approximately 30 current scholars on campus可推知,该项目招收了 800多名优秀学生, enrolled“登记,招收 ”符合句意,故 D为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 14 【正确答案】 F 【试题解析】 根据空格后的 and performance可知,该空缺少名词。空格处应该是与 performance并列的名词,备选名
28、词中的 participation“参加,参与 ”与句意相符,故 F为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 15 【正确答案】 H 【试题解析】 由句子结构可知,该空缺少动词现在分词。空格后的 the effectiveness of instructional methods(教学方法的有效性 )是需要进行评估后才能知道的,备选动词中的 evaluating“评估 ”符合句意,故 H为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 16 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据句子结构可推断此处缺少副词。结合下文提及的 we have gainedto achieve substantive , durable change
29、可知,他们获益匪浅,enormously“大量地,极度地,非常地 ”符合句意,故 A为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 17 【正确答案】 E 【试题解析】 根 据空格后的 development可推断此处缺少形容词作定语。结合下文可知,该项目还支持女性在专业方面的发展, professional“职业的,专业的 ”符合句意,故 E为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 18 【正确答案】 O 【试题解析】 根据句子结构可知,该空缺少名词。由空格前的 supported by和空格后的 from the NationalScience Foundation可推知,该项目应该是受到了国家科学基金会一项基金的帮助
30、,故 Ogrant“基金 ”为答案。 【知识模块】 完 形 19 【正确答案】 J 【试题解析】 由空格前的 the critical可知,该空缺少名词。结合空格后的 plays in可知,此处是一个固定搭配: play the critical role in“在 方面起关键作用 ”,故 Jrole“作用,角色 ”为答案。 【知识模块】 完形 20 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 由句子结构可知,该空缺少动词。空格后的 nearly a quarter of all S&E tenure-track positions意为 “近四分之一的理工科 终身教授职位 ”,备选动词中的 occupy“担任 ( 职务 );居于 ( 地位 ),占 (空间或面积 )”符合句意,故 B为答案。 【知识模块】 完形
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