大学英语四级试卷
（满分120分，考试时间90分钟）
一、选择题：英孚口语培训（本题共20小题，每小题3分，共60分）
1. When Pilot Officer Peter Thwaites was away on business, his neighbour gave his wife _____ with the houwork.
A. an aid
B. a help
C. a hand
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D. a lift
2. It is bad manners to ______ other people behind their backs.
A. do up
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B. do by
C. do away withobvious是什么意思
D. do down
3. Samuel has curly hair but his twin sister’s is quite __________.
A. even
B. straight
C. uneven
D. regular
4. I feel rather doubtful ________ the result of the experiment.
A. about
B. at
C. with
D. for
5. ______ the vere cold, tourism was ________ full swing.
salaryA. Though, on B. Despite, on C. Though, in D. Despite, in
6. Pasngers may leave bulky articles under the stairs ______ the conductor's permission.
A. at
B. with
C. on
D. in
7. You won't get in _____ the end of the act.
A. till
B. at
C. by
D. in
8. He said he was in debt and asked me for a loan ______ $50.
A. on
B. for
C. with
D. of
9. What tremendous achievements we have made _______ all fronts in the past few years!
A. in
B. on
C. at
D. of
10. John is unfortunately devoid _______ a n of humour.
A. with
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C. to
D. from
11. Betty advid me to label our luggage carefully in ca it gets _____ in transit.
A. misud B. mishandled C. mistaken D. mislaid
12. Our side my office window, there is a fire _______ on the right.
A. ladder
B. escape
C. steps
D. stairs
13. The sight of the fruit salad made our daughter kit’s mouth _____.
A. wet
B. ooze
C. water
D. moisten
14. When Langston waited to be saved by Jesus, he saw the lighted candles on the altar _____ in the draught from the opening window.
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A. flickering B. fluttering C. shivering D. wavering
15. Marilyn will not be able to come to the Christmas party as she is _______ with a cold.
A. laid down
B. laid out
C. laid by
D. laid up
16. Little _______ a year ago that I would be studying here today in Britain.
A. I thought B. thought I C. I did think D. did I think
17. Not until ______ himlf riously ill.
A. he had completed the task did he find
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B. had he completed the task did he find
C. he completed the task had he found
D. did he complete the task he had found
18. In vain _______ to get in touch with the Embassy.
A. they tried B. tried they C. did they try D. they have tried
blindness19. Seldom _____ him fly into such a rage since I knew him.
A. I w B. I have en C. had I en D. have I en
20. Only by carrying out an open-door poling ______.
A. our country can be developed
B. can be our country developed
aquamanC. can our country develop
D. our country can develop
二、翻译（共计10分）
1. 电影开演半小时了。
汉译英：__________________________________________________________
2. 同学们花了几天时间完成了这项工作。
汉译英：___________________________________________.
3. 感谢告诉我这么多有关西方礼节的事情。
汉译英： ________________________________________________________
4. 你能告诉我哪里有好的地方吃饭吗？
汉译英： _________________________________________________________
5. 他明年将开始在中国教英语。
汉译英： ___________________________________________________________
三、完型填空：(共20分)
For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters,reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: anever-ending flood of words. In (1) -- a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend (2)-- can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are (3)-- readers. Most of us develop poor reading (4) -- at an early age, and never get over them. The maindeficiency (5) -- in the actual stuff of language itlf-words. Taken individually, words have (6) --meaning until they are strung together into phrad, ntences and paragraphs. (7) --, however, theuntrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, oftenregressing to (8) – words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over (9) -- you have justread, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit
which (10) -- down the speed of reading isvocalization - sounding each word either orally or mentally as (11) -- reads.To overcome the bad habits, some reading clinics u a device called an (12), which moves a bar(or curtain) down the page at a predetermined spee D. The bar is t at a slightly faster rate (13) -- thereader finds comfortable, in order to “stretch”him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, (14) --word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible. At first (15) -- issacrificed for spee D. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, (16) --your comprehension will improve. Many people have found (17) -- reading skill drastically improvedafter some training. (18) -- Charlce Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was areasonably good 172 words a minute (19) -- the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. Heis delighted that how he can (20) -- a lot more reading material in a short period of time.
