1、专业英语四级（完形填空）-试卷230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. hole B. uttering C. crack D. quiet E. betrayed F
2、. flattered G. concentrate H. speaking I. wander J. noisy K although L. affection M. hot N. but O. suggested One summer night, on my way home from work I decided to see a movie. I knew the theatre would be air-conditioned and I couldnt face my 1 apartment. Sitting in the theatre I had to look throug
3、h the 2 between the two tall heads in front of me. I had to keep changing the angle every time she leaned over to talk to him, or he leaned over to kiss her. Why do Americans display such 3 in a public place? I thought the movie would be good for my English, 4 as it turned out, it was an Italian mov
4、ie. After about an hour I decided to give up on the movie and 5 on my popcorn. Ive never understood why they give you so much popcorn! It tasted pretty good, though. After a while I heard no more of the romantic-sounding Italians. I just heard the sound of the popcorn crunching between my teeth. My
5、thought started to 6. I remembered when I was in South Korea, I used to watch Kojak on TV frequently. He spoke perfect KoreanI was really amazed. He seemed like a good friend to me, until I saw him again in New York speaking perfect English instead of perfect Korean. He didnt even have a Korean acce
6、nt and I felt like I had been 7. When our family moved to the United States six years ago, none of us spoke any English. Once we had begun to learn a few words, my mother 8 that we all should speak English at home. Everyone agreed, but our house became very 9 and we all seemed to avoid each other. W
7、e sat at the dinner table in silence, preferring that to 10 in a difficult language. Mother tried to say something in English but it came out all wrong and we all burst into laughter and decided to forget it! Weve been speaking Korean at home ever since.（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:_
8、填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_A. function B. warning C. definition D. replacing E. express F. words G. deeds H. interpret I. limitless J. single K. boundless L. general M. ordinary N. distinguishes O. different A language is a signaling system which operates with symbolic vocal sounds, and which is used b
9、y a group of people for the purpose of communication. Lets look at this 1 in more detail because it is language, more than anything else, that 2 man from the rest of the animal world. Other animals, it is true, communicate with one another by means of cries: for example, many birds utter 3 calls at
10、the approach of danger, monkeys utter 4 cries, such as expressions of anger, fear and pleasure. But these various means of communication differ in important ways from human language. For instance, animals cries do not 5 thoughts and feelings clearly. This means, basically, that they lack structure.
11、They lack the kind of structure that enables us to divide a human utterance into 6. We can change an utterance by 7 one word in it with another: a good illustration of this is a soldier who can say, e.g., tanks approaching from the north, and who can change one word and say aircraft approaching from
12、 the north or tanks approaching from the west; but a bird has a 8alarm cry, which means danger! This is why the number of signals that an animal can make is very limited: the great tit is a case in point; it has about twenty different calls, whereas in human language the number of possible utterance
13、s is 9. It also explains why animal cries are very 10 in meaning.（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. fatigue B. defects C. perfect D. improve E. rise F. mistakes G. carefully H. carelessly I. ignore J. assignment K. grades L. primarily M. lack N. short O. reducin
14、g Its an annual back-to-school routine. One morning you wave goodbye, and that very evening youre burning the late-night oil in sympathy. In the race to 1 educational standards, schools are throwing the books at kids. Even elementary school students are complaining of homework 2. Whats a well-meanin
15、g parent to do? As hard as it may be, sit back and chill, experts advise. Though youve got to get them to do it, by helping too much, or even examining answers too 3, you may keep them from doing it by themselves. I wouldnt advise a parent to check every single 4, says John Rosemond, author of Endin
16、g the Tough Homework. Theres a 5 of appreciation for trial and error. Let your children earn the grade they deserve. Many experts believe parents should gently look over the work of younger children and ask them to rethink their 6. But you dont want them to feel it has to be 7, she says. Thats not t
17、o say parents should 8 homeworkfirst, they should monitor how much homework their kids have. Thirty minutes a day in the early elementary years and an hour in 9 four, five, and six is standard, says Rosemond. For junior-high students it should be no more than an hour and a half, and two for high sch
18、ool students. If your child consistently has more homework than this, you may want to check with other parents and then talk to the teacher about 10 assignments.（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. incident B. when C. include D. flights E. informed F. carriages G.
19、 called H. serious I. stressful J. disaster K. command L. reluctantly M. confronted N. require O. easily As a physician who travels quite a lot, I spend a lot of time on planes listening for that dreaded Is there a doctor on board? announcement. Ive been 1 only oncefor a woman who had merely fainted
20、. But the 2 made me quite curious about how often this kind of thing happens. I wondered what I would do if 3 with a real midair medical emergencywithout access to a hospital staff and the usual emergency equipment. So 4 the New England Journal of Medicine last week published a study about in-flight
21、 medical events, I read it with interest. The study estimated that there are an average of 30 in-flight medical emergencies on U.S. flights every day. Most of them are not 5; fainting and dizziness are the most frequent complaints. But 13% of themroughly four a dayare serious enough to 6 a pilot to
22、change course. The most common of the serious emergencies 7 heart trouble, strokes, and difficulty breathing. Lets face it: plane rides are 8. For starters, cabin pressures at high altitudes are set at roughly what they would be if you lived at 5,000 to 8,000 feet above sea level. Most people can to
23、lerate these pressures pretty 9, but passengers with heart disease may experience chest pains as result of the reduced amount of oxygen flowing through their blood. Another common inflight problem is deep venous thrombosisthe so-called economy class syndrome. Whatever happens, dont panic. Things are
24、 getting better on the in-flight-emergency front. Thanks to more recent legislation, 10 with at least one attendant are starting to install emergency medical kits to treat heart attacks.（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230答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)
25、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）_解析：A. hole B. uttering C. crack D. quiet E. betrayed F. flattered G. concentrate H. speaking I.
26、wander J. noisy K although L. affection M. hot N. but O. suggested One summer night, on my way home from work I decided to see a movie. I knew the theatre would be air-conditioned and I couldnt face my 1 apartment. Sitting in the theatre I had to look through the 2 between the two tall heads in fron
27、t of me. I had to keep changing the angle every time she leaned over to talk to him, or he leaned over to kiss her. Why do Americans display such 3 in a public place? I thought the movie would be good for my English, 4 as it turned out, it was an Italian movie. After about an hour I decided to give
28、up on the movie and 5 on my popcorn. Ive never understood why they give you so much popcorn! It tasted pretty good, though. After a while I heard no more of the romantic-sounding Italians. I just heard the sound of the popcorn crunching between my teeth. My thought started to 6. I remembered when I
29、was in South Korea, I used to watch Kojak on TV frequently. He spoke perfect KoreanI was really amazed. He seemed like a good friend to me, until I saw him again in New York speaking perfect English instead of perfect Korean. He didnt even have a Korean accent and I felt like I had been 7. When our
30、family moved to the United States six years ago, none of us spoke any English. Once we had begun to learn a few words, my mother 8 that we all should speak English at home. Everyone agreed, but our house became very 9 and we all seemed to avoid each other. We sat at the dinner table in silence, pref
31、erring that to 10 in a difficult language. Mother tried to say something in English but it came out all wrong and we all burst into laughter and decided to forget it! Weve been speaking Korean at home ever since.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：M）填空项1:_（正确答案：C）填空项1:_（正确答案：L）填空项1:_（正确答案：N）填空项1:_（正确答案：G）填空项1:_（正
32、确答案：I）填空项1:_（正确答案：E）填空项1:_（正确答案：O）填空项1:_（正确答案：D）填空项1:_（正确答案：H）解析：解析：此处结构为prefer A to B“喜欢A更胜于B”，to为介词，因此空格处需填入名词或动名词。preferring后面的that即指代前面所说的这种一言不发的情景，根据preferto的意思，可知to后面应表示“说话”的情况。词库中的uttering和speaking都有“说，讲”之意，但空格后有介词in，表明需填不及物动词，故可排除及物动词uttering，选speaking。A. function B. warning C. definition D.
33、 replacing E. express F. words G. deeds H. interpret I. limitless J. single K. boundless L. general M. ordinary N. distinguishes O. different A language is a signaling system which operates with symbolic vocal sounds, and which is used by a group of people for the purpose of communication. Lets look
34、 at this 1 in more detail because it is language, more than anything else, that 2 man from the rest of the animal world. Other animals, it is true, communicate with one another by means of cries: for example, many birds utter 3 calls at the approach of danger, monkeys utter 4 cries, such as expressi
35、ons of anger, fear and pleasure. But these various means of communication differ in important ways from human language. For instance, animals cries do not 5 thoughts and feelings clearly. This means, basically, that they lack structure. They lack the kind of structure that enables us to divide a hum
36、an utterance into 6. We can change an utterance by 7 one word in it with another: a good illustration of this is a soldier who can say, e.g., tanks approaching from the north, and who can change one word and say aircraft approaching from the north or tanks approaching from the west; but a bird has a
37、 8alarm cry, which means danger! This is why the number of signals that an animal can make is very limited: the great tit is a case in point; it has about twenty different calls, whereas in human language the number of possible utterances is 9. It also explains why animal cries are very 10 in meanin
38、g.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：C）填空项1:_（正确答案：N）填空项1:_（正确答案：B）填空项1:_（正确答案：O）填空项1:_（正确答案：E）填空项1:_（正确答案：F）填空项1:_（正确答案：D）填空项1:_（正确答案：J）填空项1:_（正确答案：I）填空项1:_（正确答案：L）解析：解析：空格前的are和very提示，空格处需填入形容词或相当于形容词的分词作表语。上文提到，动物的叫声数量有限，因此推测动物的叫声在表达意思方面应是十分“笼统的”，故选general“笼统的”。ordinary表示“平常的，普通的”，并没有“笼统”之义，可排除。A. fatigue B.
39、defects C. perfect D. improve E. rise F. mistakes G. carefully H. carelessly I. ignore J. assignment K. grades L. primarily M. lack N. short O. reducing Its an annual back-to-school routine. One morning you wave goodbye, and that very evening youre burning the late-night oil in sympathy. In the race
40、 to 1 educational standards, schools are throwing the books at kids. Even elementary school students are complaining of homework 2. Whats a well-meaning parent to do? As hard as it may be, sit back and chill, experts advise. Though youve got to get them to do it, by helping too much, or even examini
41、ng answers too 3, you may keep them from doing it by themselves. I wouldnt advise a parent to check every single 4, says John Rosemond, author of Ending the Tough Homework. Theres a 5 of appreciation for trial and error. Let your children earn the grade they deserve. Many experts believe parents sho
42、uld gently look over the work of younger children and ask them to rethink their 6. But you dont want them to feel it has to be 7, she says. Thats not to say parents should 8 homeworkfirst, they should monitor how much homework their kids have. Thirty minutes a day in the early elementary years and a
43、n hour in 9 four, five, and six is standard, says Rosemond. For junior-high students it should be no more than an hour and a half, and two for high school students. If your child consistently has more homework than this, you may want to check with other parents and then talk to the teacher about 10
44、assignments.（分数：20.00）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：G）填空项1:_（正确答案：J）填空项1:_（正确答案：M）填空项1:_（正确答案：F）填空项1:_（正确答案：C）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：O）解析：解析：空格位于介词about后，且空格后带了宾语assignments，因此空格处应填入动名词或形容词。空格所在句的主句部分是针对从句所说“如果你孩子的家庭作业一直比这个标准多”这种情况的对策，由于作业太多，所以应该要求“减少”作业，故填入reducing“减少”。A. incident B. when C. include D. flights E. informed F. carriages G. called H. serious I. stressful J. disaster K. command L. reluctantly M. con
