1、国家公共英语四级(综合)练习试卷 34及答案与解析 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. 0 What do you do when you want to learn the meaning of a 【 C1】 _ word? If youre 【 C2】 _ most people, you do o
2、ne of two things. You ask someone to tell you the words meaning, or you look 【 C3】 _ the word in a dictionary. The fact that you can look up words in a dictionary can be 【 C4】 _ to a man named Noah Webster. He produced the first dictionary of American English. Noah Webster was a person who 【 C5】 _ w
3、ords. He was born in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1758. Webster studied at Yale and later became a teacher and a writer. In 1782 Webster was teaching at an elementary school in Goshen, New York. He saw that the schoolbooks he was using left 【 C6】 _ something he felt was important. The books Webster
4、 【 C7】 _ to use in his teaching came from England. These books were just 【 C8】 _ for teaching English children. But they paid no 【 C9】_ to American culture. Remember, the United States had only just 【 C10】_ its independence from England. Americans still educated their children the same way the Briti
5、sh 【 C11】 _ . Noah Webster wanted to give his students an education that was strongly 【 C12】 _ . In writing his first dictionary, Webster was preparing for something grander. He had become familiar 【 C13】 _ many different languages. He felt it was helpful and important to know where words came from
6、their 【 C14】 _ . He traveled in England and France 【 C15】 _ research on the histories of English words. In 1807 he began to work on An American Dictionary of the English Language. Webster was seventy years old when he published the first 【 C16】 _ of this important work in 1828. Webster wrote the dic
7、tionary completely 【 C17】 _ hand. In those days people didnt have ballpoint pens, much 【 C18】 _ typewriters. He had to use a quill pen, which was a feather with its thickest end 【 C19】 _ into a point. This point was dipped in a bottle of ink in order to write. A writer using a quill pen had to dip t
8、he pen constantly to 【 C20】 _ the ink. 1 【 C1】 _ ( A) sure ( B) such ( C) certain ( D) some 2 【 C2】 _ ( A) like ( B) alike ( C) likely ( D) as 3 【 C3】 _ ( A) on ( B) up ( C) at ( D) for 4 【 C4】 _ ( A) traced ( B) back ( C) returned ( D) gone 5 【 C5】 _ ( A) respected ( B) liked ( C) loved ( D) absorb
9、ed 6 【 C6】 _ ( A) out ( B) off ( C) over ( D) behind 7 【 C7】 _ ( A) must ( B) have ( C) was ( D) had 8 【 C8】 _ ( A) good ( B) well ( C) fairly ( D) fine 9 【 C9】 _ ( A) attentiveness ( B) attention ( C) note ( D) notice 10 【 C10】 _ ( A) win ( B) beat ( C) won ( D) beaten 11 【 C11】 _ ( A) way ( B) doe
10、s ( C) can ( D) did 12 【 C12】 _ ( A) England ( B) American ( C) different ( D) independent 13 【 C13】 _ ( A) to ( B) with ( C) at ( D) in 14 【 C14】 _ ( A) story ( B) histories ( C) country ( D) resource 15 【 C15】 _ ( A) made ( B) carried ( C) doing ( D) studying 16 【 C16】 _ ( A) work ( B) dictionary
11、( C) edition ( D) book 17 【 C17】 _ ( A) in ( B) at ( C) by ( D) on 18 【 C18】 _ ( A) same ( B) more ( C) similar ( D) less 19 【 C19】 _ ( A) sharpen ( B) sharpening ( C) sharpens ( D) sharpened 20 【 C20】 _ ( A) dip ( B) redip ( C) fill ( D) refill 国家公共英语四级(综合)练习试卷 34答案与解析 一、 Section II Use of English
12、(15 minutes) Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. 【知识模块】 Great Men 1 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 此处意为 “某一个 ”。 【知识模块】 Great Men 2 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 此处意为 “像 一样 ”。 【知识模块】 Great Men 3 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 意为 “查字典 ”,是固定搭配。 【知识模块】 Great Me
13、n 4 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 此处意为 “追溯到 ”。 【知识模块】 Great Men 5 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 “loved”比 “liked”语气更为强烈。 【知识模块】 Great Men 6 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 意为 “遗漏,漏掉 ”。 【知识模块】 Great Men 7 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 “have to”表示客观上的必须,而且这里应用过去时。 【知识模块】 Great Men 8 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 “fine”比 “good”更为书面化。 【知识模块】 Great Men 9 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 这里是 固
14、定搭配。 【知识模块】 Great Men 10 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 这里是 “赢得独立,获得独立 ”的意思,而且应用过去时。 【知识模块】 Great Men 11 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 这里是替代动词。 【知识模块】 Great Men 12 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据前面一句的意思可推断出此含义。 【知识模块】 Great Men 13 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 这里是固定搭配。 【知识模块】 Great Men 14 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 此句意为 “这些词来自哪里 ”,即它们的 “来源 ”。 【知识模块】 Great Men 15 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 这里是固定搭配。 【知识模块】 Great Men 16 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 指 “第一版 ”。 【知识模块】 Great Men 17 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 这里是固定搭配。 【知识模块】 Great Men 18 【正确答案】 D 【试题解 析】 根据句意可作此判断。 【知识模块】 Great Men 19 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 过去分词表被动,补充说明前面的名词。 【知识模块】 Great Men 20 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 指 “再充满 ”,是一个持续不断的过程。 【知识模块】 Great Men