1、专业英语四级（完形填空）-试卷236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. decreasing B. underlines C. delivered D. mission
2、s E. because F. put off G. demand H. though I. play J. improving K. transferred L. careers M. tackle N. recovers O. partial Young people ought not to be idle. It is very bad for them, said Margaret Thatcher many years ago. She was right: there are few worse things that society can do to its young th
3、an to leave them in uncertainty. Those who start their 1 on the unemployment pension are more likely to have lower wages and more spells of joblessness later in life, 2 they lose out on the chance to acquire skills and self-confidence in their formative years. Yet more young people are idle than eve
4、r. Depending on how you measure them, the number of young people without a job is nearly as large as the population of America. Two factors 3 a big part. First, the long slowdown in the West has reduced 4 for labour, and it is easier to 5 hiring young people than it is to fire older workers. Second,
5、 in emerging economies population growth is fastest in countries with dysfunctional(失调的)labour markets, such as India and Egypt. The most obvious way to 6 this problem is to reignite growth. That is easier said than done in a world plagued by debt, and is anyway only a 7 answer. The countries where
6、the problem is worst suffered from high youth unemployment even when their economies were growing. Throughout the recession companies have continued to complain that they cannot find young people with the right skills. This 8 the importance of two other solutions: reforming labour markets and 9 educ
7、ation These are familiar prescriptions, but ones that need to be 10 with both a new vigour and a new twist.（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. ambitious B. appeals to C. contacts D. expect E. easily F. works G. consulting H. recruit I. turns to J. settled K. exce
8、pt L. harshly M. texting N. like O. typical A young consultants life is tiring. A 1 week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to wherever the client is based. He can expect to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily 2 a di
9、stant lover. Its quite normal to spend a year living out of a suitcase, sighs one London-based consultant. So the job 3insecure overachieversa phrase widely used in the industrywho are always worried that they havent done enough work, jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college
10、-leavers. Most drop out within a few years and take more 4 jobs elsewhere in the business world, where their experience and 5 allow them to slot in several levels above their less-travelled counterparts. The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where ambitious young people want t
11、o live. The best-paid jobs are in places 6 London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating opportunities are richest. Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. But consultancies benefit from it. They 7 bright young things in the metropolis and then hire
12、 out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one reason why consultants have to travel so much. The system 8, more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not 9 hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the cap
13、ital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all, 10 enough sleep.（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. marking B. since C. nuisance D. arrive E. profound F. signs G. explosion H. worry I. though J. passing K. decreased L. appeared M. drop off N. s
14、urvive O. businesses The arrival of the mass-produced car, just over a century ago, caused a(n) 1 of business creation. First came the makers of cars and all the parts that go into them. Then came the garages, filling stations and all sorts of other car-dependent 2: car parks, motels, out-of-town sh
15、opping centres. Now another revolution on wheels is on the horizon: the driverless car. Nobody is sure when it will 3. Google, which is testing a fleet of autonomous cars, thinks in maybe a decade, others reckon longer. And, when it does, the self-driving car, like the ordinary kind, could bring 4 c
16、hange. Just imagine. It could, for a start, save the motor industry from stagnation. Carmakers are anxious about 5 that smartphone-obsessed teenagers these days do not rush to get a driving licence and buy their first car, as their parents did. But once they are spared the trouble and expense of tak
17、ing lessons and 6 a test, young adults might rediscover the joys of the open road. Another 7 for the motor industry is that car use seems to be peaking in the most congested cities. Yet automated cars would drive nose-to-tail, increasing the capacity of existing roads; and since they would be able t
18、o 8 their passengers and drive away, the lack of parking spaces in town might not matter so much. All these trends will affect the car business. But when mass-produced cars 9, they had an impact on the whole of society. Electronics and software firms will be among the winners: besides providing all
19、the sensors and computing power that self-driving cars will need, they will enjoy strong demand for in-car entertainment systems, 10 cars occupants will no longer need to keep their eyes on the road.（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. what B. deserve C. turning i
20、nto D. unlike E. virtually F. endangered G. safe H. decline I. remember J. standards K. combining L. sense M. ideally N. rules O. that Polar bears, rhinoceroses and elephants are all on the immediate critical list. The rhino is doomed due to increasingly cash-rich Asias belief 1 its horn has some ki
21、nd of Harry Potter magical power. The beasts 2 is an object lesson in the dangers of giving idiots money. But it is not only our friends in the animal kingdom who are being destroyed by economic forces beyond their control. The worlds thinkers are now also a gravely 3 species. And yet, 4 the conceit
22、ed creatures who share their fate, there is not even the most hasty plan in place to protect them. Once thinkers were everywhere, like butterflies, sparrows and bees, which have also 5 disappeared. No one under 40 can be expected to 6 the prevalent abundance of pure thought that once characterised o
23、ur culture. It has disappeared gradually, like roadside wildflowers and sticklebacks in streams, as if it never were. Today, all our universities are 7 book-balancing business schools or results-driven scientific research centres, treating students as customers who 8 to see an investment return in t
24、he form of increased living 9 and higher salaries in exchange for spending their student loans, and funded by patrons and public bodies wanting to see practical results. Once you joined a university to service the global advancement of ideas. Now you employ it to make you more employable. We are unc
25、onvinced as to the actual practical value of rhinos, but we have a 10 that it reflects badly on us if these things are allowed to disappear on our watch. The same is true of thinkers.（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236答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、C
26、LOZE(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. decreasing B. underlines C. delivered D. missions E. because F. put off G. demand H. though I
27、. play J. improving K. transferred L. careers M. tackle N. recovers O. partial Young people ought not to be idle. It is very bad for them, said Margaret Thatcher many years ago. She was right: there are few worse things that society can do to its young than to leave them in uncertainty. Those who st
28、art their 1 on the unemployment pension are more likely to have lower wages and more spells of joblessness later in life, 2 they lose out on the chance to acquire skills and self-confidence in their formative years. Yet more young people are idle than ever. Depending on how you measure them, the num
29、ber of young people without a job is nearly as large as the population of America. Two factors 3 a big part. First, the long slowdown in the West has reduced 4 for labour, and it is easier to 5 hiring young people than it is to fire older workers. Second, in emerging economies population growth is f
30、astest in countries with dysfunctional(失调的)labour markets, such as India and Egypt. The most obvious way to 6 this problem is to reignite growth. That is easier said than done in a world plagued by debt, and is anyway only a 7 answer. The countries where the problem is worst suffered from high youth
31、 unemployment even when their economies were growing. Throughout the recession companies have continued to complain that they cannot find young people with the right skills. This 8 the importance of two other solutions: reforming labour markets and 9 education These are familiar prescriptions, but o
32、nes that need to be 10 with both a new vigour and a new twist.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：L）填空项1:_（正确答案：E）填空项1:_（正确答案：I）填空项1:_（正确答案：G）填空项1:_（正确答案：F）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：B）填空项1:_（正确答案：J）填空项1:_（正确答案：C）解析：解析：根据空格前的need to be和后面的with，可判断此处可能为被动语态，空格处需要填入动词的过去分词。词库中的过去分词有delivered和transferre
33、d，空格所填动词的作用对象是ones，即“以上两种解决方法”，能与之构成合乎语义逻辑的搭配的只有delivered“履行，实现”，代入后表示“这些措施需要以新的活力和策略来实施”。A. ambitious B. appeals to C. contacts D. expect E. easily F. works G. consulting H. recruit I. turns to J. settled K. except L. harshly M. texting N. like O. typical A young consultants life is tiring. A 1 wee
34、k starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to wherever the client is based. He can expect to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily 2 a distant lover. Its quite normal to spend a year living out of a suitcase, sighs one Londo
35、n-based consultant. So the job 3insecure overachieversa phrase widely used in the industrywho are always worried that they havent done enough work, jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most drop out within a few years and take more 4 jobs elsewhere in the busine
36、ss world, where their experience and 5 allow them to slot in several levels above their less-travelled counterparts. The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where ambitious young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places 6 London and New York. Such cities are also wh
37、ere the culture and dating opportunities are richest. Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. But consultancies benefit from it. They 7 bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one reason why consultants have to tr
38、avel so much. The system 8, more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not 9 hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all, 10 enough sleep.（分数：
39、20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：O）填空项1:_（正确答案：M）填空项1:_（正确答案：B）填空项1:_（正确答案：J）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：H）填空项1:_（正确答案：F）填空项1:_（正确答案：E）填空项1:_（正确答案：K）解析：解析：空格处需填介词。空格前说“他们什么都有”，“他们”指“年轻咨询师”。但文章首句就提到年轻咨询师的生活是tiring“劳累的”，由此可以推知他们休息不足，即缺少足够的睡眠，故选except“除了”。A. marking B. since C. nuisance D. arrive E. profo
40、und F. signs G. explosion H. worry I. though J. passing K. decreased L. appeared M. drop off N. survive O. businesses The arrival of the mass-produced car, just over a century ago, caused a(n) 1 of business creation. First came the makers of cars and all the parts that go into them. Then came the ga
41、rages, filling stations and all sorts of other car-dependent 2: car parks, motels, out-of-town shopping centres. Now another revolution on wheels is on the horizon: the driverless car. Nobody is sure when it will 3. Google, which is testing a fleet of autonomous cars, thinks in maybe a decade, other
42、s reckon longer. And, when it does, the self-driving car, like the ordinary kind, could bring 4 change. Just imagine. It could, for a start, save the motor industry from stagnation. Carmakers are anxious about 5 that smartphone-obsessed teenagers these days do not rush to get a driving licence and b
43、uy their first car, as their parents did. But once they are spared the trouble and expense of taking lessons and 6 a test, young adults might rediscover the joys of the open road. Another 7 for the motor industry is that car use seems to be peaking in the most congested cities. Yet automated cars wo
44、uld drive nose-to-tail, increasing the capacity of existing roads; and since they would be able to 8 their passengers and drive away, the lack of parking spaces in town might not matter so much. All these trends will affect the car business. But when mass-produced cars 9, they had an impact on the w
45、hole of society. Electronics and software firms will be among the winners: besides providing all the sensors and computing power that self-driving cars will need, they will enjoy strong demand for in-car entertainment systems, 10 cars occupants will no longer need to keep their eyes on the road.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：G）填空项1:_（正确答案：O）填空项1:_
