2023年4月17日发(作者：游戏教学法)大学英语四级试卷
（满分120分，考试时间90分钟）
一、选择题：
（本题共20小题，每小题3分，共60分）
1. An art gallery is ______ room, where ______ works of art are shown.
A. a, th教师思想汇报
e
B. the, /
C. the, a
D. a, /
2. Suddenly ____ fire broke out in the room and everything in it was soon
on _______fine.
A. /, a
B. the, /
C. a, /
D. /, the
3. Changchun, _______ capital of Jilin Province, is as important _______
industrial centre as Shenyang.
A. /, an
B. the, a
C. the, the
D. /, the
4. He is such _______ lfish man that he hasn't ______ least concern
for others.
A. /, the
B. a, /
C. a, the
D. the, a
5. Towards ______ evening ______ cold rain began to fall.
A. the, a
B. /, the
C. /, a
D. the, /
6. Bacon and eggs _______ common Sunday breakfast in England.
A. is an
B. are the
C. is a
D. are
7. Mr. Ma can not only play ______ chess very well but also play _______
piano.
A. /, /
B. the, /
C. /, a
D. /, the
8. Professor Jones, the man who discovered _______ new drug that everyone
is talking about, refud to give _________ press conference.
A. a, a
B. the, the
C. a, the
D. the, a
9. He was taken _____ prisoner in the war and spent ______ next two years
in a prisoner-of-war camp in the south.
A. /, the
B. the, a
C. the, /
D. the, the
10. ______ computer is more esntial to a modern business than ________
typewriter.
A. The, the
B. /, /
C. A, the
D. The, a
11. His father had promid to buy him a computer ______ he behaved
himlf.
A. in ca
B. while
C. after
D. provided
12. They climbed to the top of the hill _______ they could get a bird's-eye
view of the city.
A. for fear that B. in order that C. in ca D. as a result
13. _____ You are free tonight, why not drop in and play chess with me?
A. For
B. Since
C. Becau
D. Even if
14. ______ people depend on such a great extent on forest, every effort
must be made to prerve trees and wildlife.
A. How
B. That
C. Since
D. Which
15. _______ he did anything el, Mr. Williams spent a year haunting
medical
institutions and getting introductions to scientists of his repute.
A. Although
B. Since
C. Before
D. Immediately after
16. ______ he lived most of his adult life on the Continent, Jakes Joyce's
fiction was always t in Ireland.
A. Becau B. Despite
C. Although D. Since
17. He insisted on his opinion ______ strong opposition.
A. though
B. becau
C. accordingly
D. despite
18. One side of the board should be painted yellow, and ____ white.
A、the other is B、another C、the other D、another is
19. John would rather _____ a day off than worked yesterday week.
A. have taken B. take
C. be taken D. be taking
20. ______, he would not have studied at Harvard.
A. If it weren't for you
B. If it had not been for the scholarship
C. If I were you
D. If he got no scholarship
二、完型填空（共计20分）
Who won the幼儿园家长发言稿
World Cup 1994 football game? What happened at the United
Nations? How did thecritics like the new play? (1) -- an event takes place,
newspapers are on the streets (2) -- the er anything
happens in the world, reports are on the spot to (3) -- the
pers have one basic (4) --, to get the news as quickly as
possible from its source, from thowho make it to tho who want to (5)
-- it. Radio, telegraph, television, and 6 inventions broughtcompetition
for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of
communication.(7) --, this competition merely spurred the newspapers on.
They quickly made u of the newer andfaster means of communication to
improve the (8) -- and thus the efficiency of their own
more newspapers are (9) -- and read than ever before. Competition also
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os many other fields. Besides keeping
readers (10) -- of the latest news, today's newspapers (11)-- and
influence readers about politics and other important and rious matters.
Newspapers influencereaders' economic choices (12) -- advertising. Most
newspapers depend on advertising电脑自启动管理在哪里
for their very (13)--. Newspapers are
sold at a price that (14) -- even a small fraction of the cost of
production. The main(15) -- of income for most newspapers is commercial
advertising. The (16) -- in lling advertisingdepends on a newspaper's
value to advertirs. This (17) -- in terms of circulation. How many
peopleread the newspaper? Circulation depends (18) -- on the work of the
circulation department and on thervices or entertainment (19) -- in
a newspaper's pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on
anewspaper's value to readers as a source of information (20) -- the
community, city, country, state, nation,and world—and even outer space.
when C. Soon after D. Before
give C. given D. being given
C. carry D. bring
C. problem D. purpo
h C. know D. write
r C. one another D. the other
r C. Therefore D. So
C. rate D. speed
C. printed D. completed
informed C. to be informed D. informed
ain age C. educate D. edit
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nce C. contents D. purpo
to cover s to cover C. fails to cover D. succeeds
in
C. cour D. finance
C. chance D. success
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at C. much D. something
ng d C. which offered D. to be offered
C. at D. about
三、阅读理解：(共25分)
The economy of the United states after 1952 was the econnomy of a
well-fed,almost fully employed people. Despit occasional alarms, the
country escaped any postwar depression and lived in a state of boom. A
n economic survey of the year 1955, a typical year of the 1950’s, may
be typical as illustrating the rapid economic growth of the decade. The
national output was value at 10 percent above that of 1954 (1955 output
was estimated at 392 billion dollars). The production of manufacturers
was about 40 percent more than it had averaged in the years immediately
following World War 2. The country’s business spent about 30billion
dollars for new factories and machinery. National income available for
spending was almost a third greater than it had been it had been in 1950.
Consumers spent about 256 billion dollars; that is about 700 million
dollars a day ,or about twenty-five million dollars every hour , all round
the clock. Sixty-five million people held jobs and only a little more
than two million wanted jobs but could not find them . Only agriculture
complained that it was not sharing in the room. To some obrvers this
was an ominous echo of the mid-1920’s . As farmer’s shre of their products
declined , marketing costs ro. But there were , among the obrvers
of the national economy, a few who were not as confident as 饿英语怎么说
the majority .
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and would eventually
lead to the oppsite-depression.
1. What is the best title of the passage?
A. The Agriculatural Trends of 1950’s
B. The Unemployment Rate of 1950’s
C. U.S. Economy in the 50’s
D. The Federal Budget of 1952
2. In Line 3, the word “boom” could best be replaced by______.
A. nearby explosion
B. thunderous noi
C. general public support
D. rapid economic growth
3. It can be inferred the national from the passage that most people in
the United States in 1955 viewed the national economy with an air of
_________.
A. confidence B. confusion C. disappointment D. suspicion
4. Which of the following were LEAST satisfied with the national economy
in the 1950’s?
A. Economists B. Frmaers C. Politicians D. Steelworkers
5. The pa战狼2演员表
ssage states that inco爸爸英语
m available for spending in the U.S. was
greater in 1955 than in 1950 . How much was it ?
A. 60％ B. 50％ C. 33％ D. 90％
四、书面表达：(满分15分)
请你写封信给你的朋友Tony告诉他，请他关照下你的朋友小花,内容重点如下:
1.告诉这个消息
2.请他给你朋友小花一些建议并给予指导
注意:字数应为120词左右
参考答案：
一、选择题：
1-5题答案:DCACC
6-10题答案:CDDAA
11-15题答案:DBBCC
16-20题答案:CDCAB
二、完型填空
1.【答案】A just 在此为副词，意为“刚刚”，做状语。此句意为“一个事件
刚刚发生，街上就有报 纸报道详情了。说明报纸对新闻的反应之快。
2.【答案】A to give 和 giving 都合乎语法，但 giving 强调的是正在发生的
动作，而此处重点表达 的是“反应快”，不是正在做什么。
3.【答案】A 消息，信息要靠收集。
4.【答案】D 后面的不定式短语表示目的。
5.【答案】C 提供信息的目的是为了让他人知道，所以选 C。
6.【答案】B other 意为“其他的”。此句意为：无线电，电报，电视，及其它
发明，成为报纸的 竞争对手。
7.【答案】A 根据句中的 merely 及其后所述内容，应选 however，表转折。
8.【答案】D 使用更新，更快的通讯工具，目的是提高速度。
9.【答案】C 报纸是印出来的，先印后看(读)。
10.【答案】D keep s B. +过去分词是一种复合结构，s B. 与过去分词为被动
关系，意为保持这种关 系的继续。此句的意思是：报纸不断地为读者提供新闻
信息。
11.【答案】C 关于 politics 之类的严肃话题,只能选 educate。
12.【答案】B 此句意为：报纸通过广告影响读者在经济生活中的选择。
13.【答案】B 大多数报纸依靠广告收入来维持生存，此现象人人皆知。
14.【答案】C 报纸的售价之低，不足以抵付成本的一小部分。符合上下文关于
广告收入的说法。
15.【答案】A 收入来源应该用 source。因为 source 指河流，泉水的发源地；
常指抽象事物的根 源或来源以及资料，信经营计划书怎么写
息的出处或来源。origin 起源，起因。
指事物后来发生,发展变化的最初起 点,或指人的出身和血统。
16.【答案】D succeed in 为固定短语。此句意为：广告业务的成功，取决于报
纸在客户(要打广 告的人)心中的价值。
17.【答案】C 根据上下文，此处应该用一般现在时的被动语态，此句意为：报
纸在客户心中的 价值，是靠发行量衡量的。
18.【答案】C 该句意为：发行量的大小，很大程度上取决于发行部门的工作及
报纸所提供的服 务功能和娱乐功能。
19.【答案】B offered 作 rvices 和 entertainment 的定语。
20.【答案】D information 后面接介词 about，表示“关于”。
三、阅读理解：
答案：CDABC
四、书面表达：
省略。。。。。。
