2016年12月英语四级选词填空真题及答案
第一套
PARTⅢ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this ction, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to lect oneword 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. Plea mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not u 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 xes.A new study 26 that belief, questioning whether brains really can be distinguished by
gender.
In the study, Tel Aviv University rearchers 27 for x differences throughout the entire human brain
And what did they find? Not much. Rather than offer evidence for 28 brains as “male” or“female”,rearch shows that brains fall into a wide range , with most people falling right in the middle.
沙县是哪个省的Daphna Joel ,who led the study, said her rearch found that while there are some gender‐bad 29 ,many different types of brain can’t always be distinguished by gender.
While the “average”male and“average”female brains were 30different, you couldn’t tell it by looking at individual brain scans. Only a small 31of 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 rearch questioning 32 beliefs about gender and brain fun
攀龙附凤ction. 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 x influences at all levels of brain function ,”he told The Seattle Times.
If anything, he said, the study 35that gender plays a very important role in the brain—“even when we are not clear exactly how.”
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Directions: In this ction, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to lect 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. Plea mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not u any of the words in the bank more than once.
It’s our guilty pleasure: Watching TV is the most common everyday activity, after work and sleep, in many parts of the world. Americans view five hours of TV each day, and while we know that spending so much time sitting （36）can lead to obesity (肥胖症) and other dias, rearchers have now quantified just how（37） being a couch potato can be.
一望无际什么意思 In an analysis of data from eight large （38） published studies, a Harvard-led group reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that for every two hours per day spent channel （39）, the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes(糖尿病) ro 20% over 8.5 years, the risk of heart dia incread 15% over a （40）, and the odds of dying prematurely （41） 13% during a ven-year follow-up. All of the （42） are linked to
a lack of physical exerci. But compared with other dentary(久坐的) activities, like knitting, viewing TV may be especially （43） at promoting unhealthy habits. For one, the sheer number of hours we pass watching TV dwarfs the time we spend on anything el. And other studies have found that watching ads for beer and popcorn may make you more likely to （44）them.
Even so, the authors admit that they didn’t compare different dentary activities to （45） whether TV watching was linked to a greater risk of diabetes, heart dia or early death compared with, say, reading.
A) climbed B) consume C) decade D) determine E) effective F) harmful G) outcomes愿望英文
H) passively 甜脆柿I) previously沙里淘金 阴囊瘙痒是什么原因J) resume K) suffered L) surfing M) term N) terminals O) twisting
参考答案解析：
36. passively
解析：sitting passively 被动坐着
从词性判断，36题应该选一个副词来修饰sitting这个动名词，而备选项中只有两个副词，一个是passively被动地，一个是previously之前，再根据语义逻辑，坐着那看电视的行为应该是一种被动行为，而不存在前后之分。
37. harmful
解析：quantified just how harmful being a couch potato 量化长时间看电视的严重危害
通过分析how ( ) being a couch potato can be 这句话的句子成分，得出how 这个副词之后应该接一个形容词，符合词性条件的备选项，一个是effective 有效的，一个是harmful有害的。根据语义逻辑，长时间看电视是有害的，故选harmful。
38. previously
解析： previously published studies 之前公布的研究
38题空格处应该填一个副词来修饰published这个词，参考36题的解析，备选项中现在只剩
下一个副词就是previously，刚好填入此处。
39. surfing
解析：spent channel surfing ，直接翻译为在频道冲浪，意译为看电视。这里的channel频道指代television电视；而“surfing冲浪”指代“watching看”，我们经常看到上网常用surfing一词，这里运用了仿词，将“上网冲浪”的surfing借过来用来指“看电视“。以上可以理解为英语中的委婉表达。
