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2017年6月英语四级阅读选词填空真题及答案
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Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there are “male” and “female” brains, believing that explains just about every difference between the sexes. A new study 26 that belief, questioning whether brains really can be distinguished by gender.
In the study, Tel Aviv University researchers 27 for sex differences the entire human brain.
And what did they find? Not much. Rather than offer evidence for 28 brains as “male” or “female,” research shows that brains fall into a wide range, with most people falling right in the middle.
Daphna Joel, who led the study, said her research found that while there are some gender-based 29 , many different types of brain can’t always be distinguished by gender.
While the “average” male and “average” female brains were 30 different, you couldn’t tell it by looking at individual brain scans. Only a small 31 of people had “all-male” or “all-female” characteristics.
Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist (神经科学家),said the study is an important addition to a growing body of research questioning 32 beliefs about gender and brain function. But he cautioned against concluding from this study that all brains are the same, 33 of gender.
“There’s a mountain of evidence 34 the importance of sex influences at all levels of brain function,” he told The Seattle Times.
If anything, he said, the study 35 that gender plays a very important role in the brain “even when we are not clear exactly how.”
A) abnormal I) regardless
B) applied J) searched
C) briefly K) similarities
D) categorizing L) slightly
E) challenges M) suggests
F) figure N) tastes
G) percentage O) traditional
H) proving
英语四级阅读选词填空答案:性别影响大脑功能
26. [E] challenges
27. [J] searched
28. [D] categorizing
29. [K] similarities
30. [L] slightly
31. [G] percentage
32. [O] traditional
33. [ I ] regardless
34. [H] proving
35. [M] suggests
【解析】
26. 根据简单句的基本句型尝试,此空格处应填入谓语动词,再根据时态和主谓一致原则,此处可填入的备选项为challenges和suggests或tastes,再根据前后文语境锁定答案为challenges,这里的challenge是动词,表“怀疑”。
27. 根据主谓宾的常识以及时态要求将答案缩小在searched和applied之间,再看空格后面的搭配为for, search for 意思为寻找符合语境;倘若选applied,apply for的意思是申请,与与语境明显不符合。综上,故答案为searched。
28. 根据介词后面需要搭配名词或动名词的原则,确认该空格应在名词性质的备选项中记性选择,在根据前后文语义应该填入 categorizing, categorize A as B or C,把A分为B或C;categorize brains as “male”or“female” ,把电脑分为男性或女性。
29. 根据句法知识和词性搭配,该空格应该填入名词词性,再根据空格前的逻辑词while表对比这一用法,确定while从句与主句是对比关系,主句中有difference一词,故将答案锁定为 similarities。
30. 根据词性搭配原则,此处应该填入副词故而在slightly和briefly之间进行选择,再根据语义将答案确定为slightly。
31. 根据词性搭配和small一词的用法,将答案锁定为percentage,a small percentage of 表示一小部分。
32. 根据词性搭配尝试此处应该填入形容词,再根据前文语义将答案确定为traditional。
33. 此题主要考察单词的固定搭配,regardless of 表示无论,无论从语法还是语义均符合要求,故而选regardless。
34. 根据原文,此处从语法方面考虑需要填一个非谓语动词,再根据前文语义故而选择 providing.
35. 根据简单句基本句型和时态及主谓一致此处应该填第三人称的动词,再根据语义,只有suggests符合。
Part Ⅲ Reading Section A(卷二)
The ocean is heating up. That's the conclusion of a new study that finds that Earth's oceans now (27)heat at twice the rate they did 18 years ago. Around half of ocean heat intake since 1865 has taken place since 1997, researchers report online in Nature Climate Change.
Warming waters are known to (28)to coral bleaching(珊瑚白化) and they take up more space than cooler waters, raising sea (29). While the top of the ocean is studied, its depths are more difficult to (30)The researchers gathered 150 years of ocean temperature data in order to get better (31)of heat absorption from surface to seabed. They gathered together temperature readings collected by everything from a 19th century (32)of British naval ships to modern automated ocean probes. The extensive data sources, (33)with computer simulations(计算机模拟), created a timeline of ocean temperature changes, including cooling from volcanic outbreaks and warming from fossil fuel (34).
About 35 percent of the heat taken in by the oceans during the industrial era now residents at a (35)of more than 700 meters, the researchers found. They say they're unsure(36)whether the deep-sea warming canceled out warming at the sea's surface.
A absorb
B combined
C contribute
D depth
E emission
F.explore
G explore
H.floor
I.heights
J.indifferent
K level
L.mixed
M picture
N unsure
O voyage
参考答案:
(26)A absorb
(27)C contribute
(28)K level
(29)G explore
(30)M picture
(31)O voyage
(32)B combined
(33)E emission
(34)D depth
(35)N unsure
参考解析
文章第一句讲到海洋正在升温,不难推断出第26题应该是选absorb,absorb为吸收的意思。
be known to do sth, 由此可知第27题应该选动词原形,再根据后面的to, 故将答案锁定为contribute,contribute… to…意思为是……的原因,有助于;为……做贡献;为……捐款;为……撰稿。
raising…为结果状语从句,意为导致了海平面的上升,故此空的答案为levels。
该句的前半句意思是海洋的表层(顶部)被研究得较为透彻,考生要谨记在做完形填空时,要做到上下文的对应,比对一下就可得知该空应该选择study的近义词,通观所有的选项, 故选explore。
研究者搜集了150年的海洋温度数据, 目的是要清晰地比对现在与过去的变化趋势, 故不难推测出要做图来进行比对, 因此该空的答案为picture。
31空后面有naval ships这样的字眼,故能联想到该空应该与ships有关,因此该空的答案为voyage。
能与介词with搭配的形容词,通观所有的选项,只有combined,combined with意为结合, 该短语在句中做插入语。
Fossil fuel为矿物燃料,燃烧矿物燃料排放出的废气会导致温室效应, 故该空应该选择emissions。
More than 700 meters是一个长度,再看前文,亦有提示----its depths, 故该空的答案为depth,at a depth of…意为在……的深度。
35空应填入一个形容词, 再结合后面的宾语从句的引导词whether, 故将答案锁定为unsure, 要注意sure和unsure的宾语从句的引导词是不同的, sure的宾语从句引导词为that, unsure的宾语从句的引导词为whether, 类似的词语还有doubt,考生要注意区分。
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