1、专业英语四级模拟考试四2016年及答案解析 (总分：80.00，做题时间：130分钟)一、PART I DICTATION 10(总题数：1，分数：10.00)_二、PART II LISTENING CO(总题数：1，分数：0.00)三、SECTION B CONVERSATI(总题数：1，分数：0.00)四、PART III LANGUAGE KN(总题数：20，分数：20.00)2.They are bending with great _ over the computer.（分数：1.00）A.attemptB.concentrationC.toleranceD.devotion3.
2、The new evidence threw some light_ the case.（分数：1.00）A.inB.toC.atD.on4.The student was disappointed_ the prize awarded by the school.（分数：1.00）A.inB.withC.atD.to5.I would _ you not to involve in this matter（分数：1.00）A.councilB.counselC.declareD.console6.The ever-lasting inflation caused the rising of
3、the living_.（分数：1.00）A.costB.expenseC.priceD.value7.I do not doubt_ he will appear soon.（分数：1.00）A.thatB.whetherC.ifD.whatever8.All substances,_, liquid or solid, are made up of atoms.（分数：1.00）A.be they gasesB.whether they are gasesC.they are gasesD.they can be gases9.Only in recent years_ begun to
4、realize the importance of Internet.（分数：1.00）A.people haveB.have peopleC.that people haveD.since have people10.He was _by the police with breaking the law.（分数：1.00）A.chargedB.accusedC.capturedD.sentenced11.Some people do not show much_ in their choice of food.（分数：1.00）A.discriminationB.recognitionC.a
5、dmissionD.indecision12.James was born in London_May 7, 1952 _4:45_the morning.（分数：1.00）A.on/at/inB.in/at/inC.in/at/onD.on/by/in13.Is it important that he_ his education in all ways?（分数：1.00）A.developB.developsC.ill developD.developed14.Can you introduce the girl_ the right to me?（分数：1.00）A.inB.atC.o
6、nD.of15.A sneeze cannot be performed voluntarily,_ be easily suppressed.（分数：1.00）A.nor it canB.it can notC.nor can itD.cannot it16.He is still not here, he_.（分数：1.00）A.may miss his planeB.could miss his planeC.should have missed his planeD.may have missed his plane17.I believe watching TV is_ listen
7、ing to radio.（分数：1.00）A.so good or better thaB.like good or better thanC.as good as or better thanD.as good as or better18.The effect of the medicine,_ we had expected, was quite encouraging.（分数：1.00）A.whichB.thatC.asD.what19.“Would you send this message to Prof. Wilson?” “Sure,_him about something
8、else in any case, so there wont be any bother at all.”（分数：1.00）A.Ill seeB.I seeC.Ill be seeingD.I may see20.I have no choice then but _the work.（分数：1.00）A.finishedB.to finishC.finishD.finishing21.“During last decade, there have been many changes in family life.” “Are these changes _?”（分数：1.00）A.for
9、the good or for the badB.for the worse or for the betterC.for worse or for betterD.for the worst or for the best五、PART IV CLOZE 10 MI(总题数：1，分数：10.00)A. savageB. superiorityC. conceiveD. transferE. identificationF.grammatical G. reflectH. revealsI. numerousJ . independentlyK. exclusiveL. castsM. sens
10、eN. confidentiallyO. possess Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this 1 , every group has a culture, however savage, undeveloped, or uncivilized it may seem to us. To the professional anthropologist (人类学家), there is
11、no intrinsic 2 of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic hierarchy(等级制度) among languages. People once thought of the languages of backward groups as 3 and undeveloped forms of speech,consisting largely of grunts and groans. While it is possible that lang
12、uage in general began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of backward languages that no spoken tongue answers that description today. Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely complex, delicate, and ingenious pieces of machi
13、nery for the 4 of ideas. They fall behind our Western languages not in their sound patterns or 5 structures, which usually are fully adequate for all language needs, but only in their vocabularies, which 6 the objects and activities known to their speakers. Even in this department, however,two thing
14、s are to be noted: 1. All languages seem to 7 the machinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence or by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own system. 2. The objects and activities requiring names and distinctions inbackward langu
15、ages, while different from ours, are often surprisingly 8 and complicated. This study of language, in turn, 9 a new light upon the claim of the anthropologists that all cultures are to be viewed 10 , and without ideas of rank or hierarchy.（分数：10.00）A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K
16、.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.六、PART V READING COMPR(总题数：2，分数：10.00)passage one I
17、 lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity can do strange things to peopl
18、e. It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadnt been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I dont mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me
19、appreciate the more what I had left. Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was bewildered and afraid. But I was lucky. My par
20、ents and my teachers saw something in me-a potential to live, you might call it-which I didnt see, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness. The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadnt been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a ch
21、air rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a r
22、eal, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit. It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was
23、 mocking me and I was hurt. I cant use this. I said. Take it with you, he urged me, and roll it around. The words stuck in my head. Roll it around! By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphias
24、Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball. All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good to try for something I knew at the start was wildly
25、out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.（分数：5.00）(1).We can learn from the beginning of the passage that（分数：1.00）A.the author lost his sight because of a car crash.B.the author wouldnt love life if the disaste
26、r didnt happen.C.the disaster made the author appreciate what he had.D.the disaster strengthened the authors desire to see.(2).Whats the most difficult thing for the author?（分数：1.00）A.How to adjust himself to reality.B.Building up assurance that he can find his place in life.C.Learning to manage his
27、 life alone.D.To find a special work that suits the author.(3).According to the context, a chair rocker on the front porch in paragraph 3 means that the author（分数：1.00）A.would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life.B.was paralyzed and stayed in a rocking chair.C.would lose his will to struggle ag
28、ainst difficulties.D.would sit in a chair and stay at home.(4).According to the passage, the baseball and encouragement offered by the man（分数：1.00）A.hurt the authors feeling.B.gave the author a deep impression.C.directly led to the invention of ground ball.D.inspired the author.(5).According to the
29、passage, which of the following is CORRECT?（分数：1.00）A.The author set goals for himself but only invited failure most of the time.B.The author suggested not trying something beyond ones ability at the beginning.C.The bitterness of failure prevented the author from trying something out of reach.D.Beca
30、use of his limitations, the author tried to reach one goal at a time.passage two I have known very few writers, but those I have known, and whom I respected, confess at once that they have little idea where they are going when they first set pen to paper. They have a character, perhaps two; they are
31、 in that condition of eager discomfort which passes for inspiration; all admit radical changes of destination once the joumey has begun; one, to my certain knowledge, spent nine months on a novel about Kashmir, then reset the whole thing in the Scottish Highlands. I never heard of anyone making a sk
32、eleton, as we were taught at school. In the breaking and remaking, in the timing, interweaving, beginning afresh, the writer comes to discern things in his material which were not consciously in his mind when he began. This organic process, often leading to moments of extraordinary self-discovery, i
33、s of an indescribable fascination. A blurred image appears, he adds a brushstroke and another, and it is gone; but something was there, and he will not rest till he has captured it. Sometimes the yeast within a writer outlives a book he has written. I have heard of writers who read nothing but their
34、 own books, like adolescents they stand before the mirror, and still cannot fathom the exact outline of the vision before them. For the same reason, writers talk interminably about their own books, winkling out hidden meanings, superimposing new ones, begging response from those around them. Of cour
35、se a writer doing this is misunderstood: he might as well try to explain a crime or a love affair. He is also. Incidentally, an unforgivable bore. This temptation to cover the distance between himself and the reader, to study his image in the sight of those who do not know him, can be his undoing: h
36、e has begun to write to please. A young English writer made the pertinent observation a year or two back that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow. For this reason also the writer, like any other artist, has no resting place, no crowd or movement in which he
37、may take comfort, no judgment from outside which can replace the judgment from within. A writer makes order out of the anarchy of his heart; he submits himself to a more ruthless discipline than any critic dreamed of, and when he flirts with fame, he is taking time off from living with himself, from
38、 the search for what his world contains at its inmost point.（分数：5.00）(1).The writers that the author is familiar with confess that they would（分数：1.00）A.work out the ending of a novel in advance.B.follow the writing methods learned at school.C.remodel the main character in writing.D.make changes to t
39、he stories they first construct.(2).According to the passage, the process of writing（分数：1.00）A.depends on skillful planning.B.is predictable and methodological.C.depends on the writers experiences.D.is disorderly and unsystematic.(3).The word undoing in the third paragraph probably suggests（分数：1.00）
40、A.success.B.happiness.C.failure.D.sorrow.(4).According to the passage, the writer has no resting place because（分数：1.00）A.he is not clear about what he will write at the beginning.B.he should constantly edit his work to make it perfect.C.he has to face a lot of responses given by readers.D.he should
41、add brushstrokes to the appearing blurred images.(5).Which of the following statements about writers is TRUE according to the last paragraph?（分数：1.00）A.They have little ideas before they start writing.B.Their talent goes into all their drafts.C.It does harm to their writing when they flirt with fame
42、.D.They try to increase communication with readers.七、SECTION B SHORT ANSW(总题数：1，分数：10.00)In 1975 a doctor in Singapore noticed that hospitals were treating an unusual number of influenzalike cases. Influenza is sometimes called “flu or a “bad cold. He took samples from the throats of patients and in
43、 his hospital was able to find the virus of this influenza. There are three main types of the influenza virus(病毒). The most important of these are type A and B, each of them having several subgroups. With the instruments at the hospital the doctor recognized that the outbreak was due to a virus in g
44、roup A, but he did not know the subgroup. Then he reported the outbreak to the World Health Organization in Geneva. W.H.O. published the important news alongside reports of a similar outbreak in Hong Kong, where about 1520% of the population had become ill. As soon as the London doctors receive the
45、package of throat samples, doctors began the standard tests. They found that by reproducing itself with very high speed, the virus had grown more than a million times within two days. Continuing their careful tests, the doctors checked the effect of drugs against all the known subgroups of virus typ
46、e A. None of them gave any protection. This, then, was something new, a new influenza virus, against which the people of the world had no help whatever. Having found the virus they were working with, the two doctors now dropped it into the noses of some specially selected animals, which get influenza much as human beings do. In a short time the usua
