[外语类试卷]专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷239及答案与解析.doc
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1、专业英语四级(完形填空)模拟试卷 239及答案与解析 一、 PART IV CLOZE Decide 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. 0 A. little B. unanswered C. detect D. inevitably E. deep F. drop G. useless H. eventually I. effecti
2、ve J. address K. catch L. adds M. improve N. sufficient O. limited In September, more than a dozen whales beached themselves in the Canary Islands. Rescuers tried to water down the whales and keep them cool. But all of them【 C1】_ died. Nearby, NATO naval forces were testing echo sounding devices mea
3、nt to【 C2】_ an enemys submarines, and public knowledge of the deaths ultimately came to strengthen suspicions of a link between whale distress and loud ocean noises. The theory is that the mammals seek to escape the roar of the【 C3】 _, rush toward the surface and in some cases end up going ashore. F
4、or decades, environmentalists have worked to reduce the undersea noise usually with【 C4】 _ success, given the growing industrialization and militarization of the oceans. They have filed suits and waged letter-writing campaigns, including a recent petition that asks the United States Navy to【 C5】 _ i
5、ts testing of underwater sound equipment. The discovery by biologists in Hawaii that whales can decrease the sensitivity of their hearing to protect their ears from loud noise【 C6】 _ another dimension to the debate. Michael Jasny, a senior policy analyst, called the research fascinating and said he
6、hoped it would prove【 C7】 _ in protecting whale hearing from these threats. But he characterized the finding as a work in progress that posed many【 C8】 _ questions. “A lot more work needs to be done,“ he said. “Could it be replicated in the wild? Its a huge question.“ Even if whales could learn to d
7、ecrease the sensitivity of their hearing, Mr. Jasny said, that would【 C9】 _ only a relatively small part of the oceanic noise problem. “Its important to understand that its【 C10】 _,“ he said of the proposed method. “It wont be a silver bullet.“ 1 【 C1】 2 【 C2】 3 【 C3】 4 【 C4】 5 【 C5】 6 【 C6】 7 【 C7】
8、 8 【 C8】 9 【 C9】 10 【 C10】 10 A. weak B. as C. difficult D. convincing E. missing F. surprise G. consumption H. prices I. conversely J. help K. foxed L. off M. overwhelmingly N. spot O. dumb When shopkeepers want to lure customers into buying a particular product, they typically offer it at a discou
9、nt. According to a new study to be published in the Journal of Marketing, they are【 C1】 _ a trick. A team of researchers, led by Akshay Rao of University of Minnesota, looked at consumers attitudes to discounting. Shoppers, they found, much prefer getting something extra free to getting something ch
10、eaper. The main reason is that most people are【 C2】_ at fractions. Consumers often struggle to realise, for example, that a 50% increase in quantity is the same as a 33% discount in price. They【 C3】 _ assume the former is better value. In an experiment, the researchers sold 73% more hand lotion when
11、 it was offered in a bonus pack than when it carried an equivalent discount. This numerical blind【 C4】 _ remains even when the deal clearly favours the discounted product. In another experiment, this time on his undergraduates, Mr. Rao offered two deals on loose coffee beans: 33% extra free or 33%【
12、C5】 _ the price. The discount is by far the better proposition, but the experiment shows the supposedly clever students viewed them【 C6】 _ equivalent Marketing types can draw lessons beyond just pricing, says Mr. Rao. When advertising a new cars efficiency, for example, it is more【 C7】 _ to talk abo
13、ut the number of extra miles per gallon it does, rather than the equivalent percentage fall in fuel【 C8】 _. There may be lessons for officials who regulate prices too. Even well-educated shoppers are easily【 C9】 _. Sending everyone back to school for maths seems out of the question. But more promine
14、ntly displayed unit prices in shops and advertisements would be a great【 C10】 _. 11 【 C1】 12 【 C2】 13 【 C3】 14 【 C4】 15 【 C5】 16 【 C6】 17 【 C7】 18 【 C8】 19 【 C9】 20 【 C10】 20 A. but B. direct C. fluent D. surveys E. subtle F. answered G. dazzle H. abilities I. neglected J. takes K. language L. knowl
15、edge M. tracks N. flowing O. continuous Who hasnt wanted to master not just two languages but 10? Take Giuseppe Mezzofanti, a 19th-century priest who was said to be【 C1】 _ in as many as 50 languages. Native speakers came from all over the world to test his【 C2】 _, and many left astonished. In Babel
16、No More, Michael Erard investigates the legend of Mezzofanti and other linguistic geniuses. Early on Erard asks what it means to really know a language. Claire Kramsch tells him the question should not be “How many languages do you know?“ but rather “In how many languages do you live?“ Understanding
17、 the【 C3】 _ cultural difference of a language requires extensive and 【 C4】 _ contact with its speakers, and for that reason Kramsch doubts that anyone could ever live in more than four or five languages. Fair enough,【 C5】 _ what about the astonishing feats of memory and calculation that people displ
18、ay when they pick up a new language, or eight? Erard points out that, for no good reason, this question has been【 C6】 _ by science. After all, we study extraordinary talents in mathematics and music; why not linguistic geniuses? Erard【 C7】 _down Mezzofantis papers, speaks to many language experts an
19、d even learns that some bilingual people experience mental illness in one【 C8】 _ but not another. Most interestingly, he【 C9】 _ a group of modern linguistic geniuses. Memory, motivation and practice are all important, they say, but so is a practical strategy. Those who claimed to speak 11 languages
20、did not much care about sounding like a native. Unlike Mezzofanti, their goal was not to【 C10】 _but to do see the world, read the local paper and not get lost. 21 【 C1】 22 【 C2】 23 【 C3】 24 【 C4】 25 【 C5】 26 【 C6】 27 【 C7】 28 【 C8】 29 【 C9】 30 【 C10】 30 A. prime B. added C. by D. reproductive E. exc
21、essive F. take G. extends H. producing I. adult J. proves K. on average L. early M. females N. balance O. helping Human males living with their moms may not expect to have much luck hooking up this Valentines Day. But among the northern Muriqui monkeys, males that spend the most time around their mo
22、thers seem to get a(n)【 C1】 _ boost when mating time rolls around. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, suggest that females in some species may have evolved to play a critical role in their sons【 C2】 _ success. Karen Strier, the papers lead author and
23、a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the paper “【 C3】 _“ the so-called grandmother hypothesis, a concept in which human females evolved to live past their【 C4】 _ reproductive years to spend more time【 C5】 _ offspring. The research team observed and collected genetic data from a g
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