Part III. Filling in the blanks (10 points) Directions: In this part,

1.A)nSection C (10 points)Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks from D1 to D10 with the exact words you have just heard. (请将答案写在答题卡二上)s.II. Reading and WritingSection A (10 points)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 write the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 1 You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

2.In this section, there is a passage with 10 blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in the word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. You may not use any

3.Section ADirections: There are 10 incomplete sentences in this part. You are required to select one word for each sentence from a list of choices given in a word bank below. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Write the corresponding letter for each sentence. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.A) appropriate B) criticized C) enable D) ensured E) origins F) reliable G) resources H) thoughtful I) as to J) No wonder K) Why not 1. These articles do not give me advice ________ how to pursue my dream, but they are inspiring.

4.Directions: In this section, there is a passage with eight 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 text in 3.4.1 carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.(注意只要填写单词前对应的大写字母即可，不要填写其他信息，也不要多打空格。)There are 1)_____ to making cities smart to cater to the increasing 2)______ by increasing 3)______ in the increasing 4)_______. We can 5)______ our existing infrastructures in service, which might be a more practical or faster solution. We can also construct completely new smart cities, which might be more radical and 6)______, and will arouse some 7)________ or even 8)_______.A urbanization; B different approaches;C ambitious; D digitize or retrofit;E needs; F criticism;G populations; H questioning

5.复习 2018.12四级真题选词填空(只输入选项) 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. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Millions die early from air pollution each year. Air pollution costs the global economy more than $5 trillion annually in welfare costs, with the most serious 1 occurring in the developing world. The figures include a number of costs 2 with air pollution. Lost income alone amounts to $225 billion a year. The report includes both indoor and outdoor air pollution. Indoor pollution, which includes 3 like home heating and cooking, has remained 4 over the past several decades despite advances in the area. Levels of outdoor pollution have grown rapidly along with rapid growth in industry and transportation. Director of Institute for Hea

6.Part Two Blank Filling (15%)Directions: In this part there are seven questions and for each question there are two or three blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices for the question. 1. rhymes, rhythm(1) Beef ______ with leaf.(2) That girl will be a great dancer - she's got natural ______ .

7.Directions: In this part, you are going to read one passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Then write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

8.Part II Cloze (2’×10=20’)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. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write the corresponding letter for each of them on the Answer Sheet. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. A）accepted F) funds K) propelB) based G) lest L) reclineC) cutting H) level M) ridiculeD) designed I) maintain N) seeminglyE) established J) notoriety O) wealthTom had been working really hard to get 11）____________ at Cambridge. He had read a lot about the university before his interview, 12）____________ they asked him about it. He knew that Peterhouse was the oldest college and was 13）____________ in 1284, with church 14）____________, like most colleges, by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely and that the newest college, Robinson, was opened in 1979 and funded by donations from a man who had made his 15）____________ with racehorses — times have changed! He knew all about punts, which are long, low boats that you 16）___________ with a pole while young men and women 17）____________ in the boat drinking champagne and eating strawberries, and he also knew that there was a difference between Oxford and Cambridge even about this! You have to stand up to punt, and you stand at the 18）______ end in Cambridge and at the other end in Oxford, and this is 19）__________ important. The websites he had looked at said that if you got it wrong, people would really 20）___________ you!11. ______

9.PartⅡ Blank Filling (10 points) Directions: Choose the proper word from the bracket to complete each of the following sentences. 1.It is far more ____to fail than to cheat. (honorable / honor)

10.Part III. Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following statements, each blank represents one word and the first letter of which is already given as a clue. (Each is 1 point, totaling 20 points.) 1) Language is defined as a system of a______ v______ symbols used for human communication.

11.Complete the passage with suitable words from the word bank. You may not use and of the words more than once.

12. Grammar - Editing (10 points, 1 point for each)Directions: For each sentence, you should find one mistake in each sentence. There are three choices marked A, B, and C. You should decide on the mistake and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Every day we should to leam something new. 选项： A、 Every day B、 should to C、 new

13.I. Fill in the following blanks. (20 points, 2 points for each) Directions: Complete each sentence with correct information. Then write your answer on the Answer Sheet. The Canterbury Tales is written for the greater part in ______ couplets.

14.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 above the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please fill the corresponding letter for each item in the blank. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. A. fluent B. acquisition C. diverse D. reverse E. competent F. competitive G. skim H. beneficial I. enhance J. engage K. comprehension L. confusion M. proficiency N. exposure O. efficiency Testing has replaced teaching in most public schools. Instead of teaching reading or writing skills which are 1 to students, now teachers are somehow encouraged to 2 the learning process. For instance, they ask students to read the questions at the end of a reading text first, and then teach them to 3 he text for the answers with various test-taking skills. We wonder whether the test-taking skills really help improve their language 4 . The ability to read or write should 5 the ability to do reasonably well on comprehension of reading texts or 6 writing. However, neither reading nor writing develops simply through learning test-taking skills. Teachers must be careful when they teach students how to read and write to avoid any false language 7 . Too many discussions on test-taking skills will only end up with more 8 in learning because students have become more interested in test-taking skills rather than concentrating on the nature and quality of what should be taught. As a result, students may be 9 in taking tests while they have little or no 10 to serious reading or thinking. They are unable to understand or talk about what they read, which is definitely disastrous to their academic preparation.

15.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 above the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please fill the corresponding letter for each item in the blank. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.A. spectacular B. speculate C. span D. scope E. available F. compelled G. bothered H. accumulated I. prospect J. boost K. humanities L. liable M. knowledgeable N. expelled O. stimulated Many people like to save books. If you walk into their home, you are 1 to see anywhere from a single bookshelf to a whole library full of all kinds of books. They have 2 such a wealth of books that the shelves in their study rooms reach up to the ceilings. The 3 book collections they keep on the shelves are dusted and lined up neatly. There are two important reasons why people save books. One reason people save their books is to use them as reference materials. People whose job includes studying a lot of textbooks might feel 4 to save some of those books for future reference. Those interested in electronic equipment keep their books to 5 about the mystery of computer technology and the like. Many families keep encyclopedias (百科全书) for their children to 6 their knowledge. Another reason people save books is to make a good impression. Some think that a library full of the books of the 7 , such as literatures and the books about art and history makes them look 8 . Some people have never 9 to read those books. Also, some people like to show to visitors their wide 10 of tastes and interests. In fact, it’s just a good feeling they want to have

“At first I thought this was a wonder, because everything was so 32___, but then we realized that this is a huge 33___ in the end," said the mayor. He also noted the plastic bags and other materials that have washed ashore on the island can cause serious problems for34___.

Still, all these little eggs contained an extra treat with their toys. They 35____notes from afar.

There was just one problem for the German children who received them: They were written in Russian.

">16.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.

It's a fantasy that goes back centuries: a message in a bottle, carried ashore from far-off lands. Authors, artists and children26___have dreamed of such a gift from the sea.

This time, though, it's not a bottle that washes ashore. It's eggs - thousands of little toy eggs. That's what happened on the German island of Langeoog this week.

Lying just off the North Sea coast, it found itself 27___ by an invasion of colored plastic eggs - much to the28____ of local children, because the eggs contained toys.

Police 29___the eggs came from a freighter that lost part of its cargo during an unusually 30 ____storm, the worst to hit Germany's northeastern coast since 2006.

At any rate, what was lost now has been found, by many of the community's littlest residents.

“The surprise eggs have found their way to freedom," said Mayor Uwe Garrel. However, the joy of the moment 31___ off soon.

“At first I thought this was a wonder, because everything was so 32___, but then we realized that this is a huge 33___ in the end," said the mayor. He also noted the plastic bags and other materials that have washed ashore on the island can cause serious problems for34___.

Still, all these little eggs contained an extra treat with their toys. They 35____notes from afar.

There was just one problem for the German children who received them: They were written in Russian.

17.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 above the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please fill the corresponding letter for each item in the blank. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.A. spectacular B. speculate C. span D. scope E. available F. compelled G. bothered H. accumulated I. prospect J. boost K. humanities L. liable M. knowledgeable N. expelled O. stimulated Many people like to save books. If you walk into their home, you are 1 to see anywhere from a single bookshelf to a whole library full of all kinds of books. They have 2 such a wealth of books that the shelves in their study rooms reach up to the ceilings. The 3 book collections they keep on the shelves are dusted and lined up neatly. There are two important reasons why people save books. One reason people save their books is to use them as reference materials. People whose job includes studying a lot of textbooks might feel 4 to save some of those books for future reference. Those interested in electronic equipment keep their books to 5 about the mystery of computer technology and the like. Many families keep encyclopedias (百科全书) for their children to 6 their knowledge. Another reason people save books is to make a good impression. Some think that a library full of the books of the 7 , such as literatures and the books about art and history makes them look 8 . Some people have never 9 to read those books. Also, some people like to show to visitors their wide 10 of tastes and interests. In fact, it’s just a good feeling they want to have.

18. A balanced　is a financial plan in which expenses are no greater than income. ( A: expense B: income C: budget D: scheduleSection B (1×10=10分)Directions: There are also 10 incomplete statements here. You should fill in each blank with the proper form of the word given in the brackets. Write the word or words in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.

19.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 above the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please fill the corresponding letter for each item in the blank. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. A. fluent B. acquisition C. diverse D. reverse E. competentF. competitive G. skim H. beneficial I. enhance J. engageK. comprehension L. confusion M. proficiency N. exposure O. efficiency Testing has replaced teaching in most public schools. Instead of teaching reading or writing skills which are 11 to students, now teachers are somehow encouraged to 12 the learning process. For instance, they ask students to read the questions at the end of a reading text first, and then teach them to 13 he text for the answers with various test-taking skills. We wonder whether the test-taking skills really help improve their language 14 . The ability to read or write should 15 the ability to do reasonably well on comprehension of reading texts or 16 writing. However, neither reading nor writing develops simply through learning test-taking skills. Teachers must be careful when they teach students how to read and write to avoid any false language 17 . Too many discussions on test-taking skills will only end up with more 18 in learning because students have become more interested in test-taking skills rather than concentrating on the nature and quality of what should be taught. As a result, students may be 19 in taking tests while they have little or no 20 to serious reading or thinking. They are unable to understand or talk about what they read, which is definitely disastrous to their academic preparation.