英语四级模拟试题。
31. _______ its hot sun and beautiful beaches, Hawaii is a fine place
to live in or visit.
A) For B) With C) Since D) As
32. To our _______, Michael's illness proved not to be as serious as we
had feared.
A) anxiety B) eyes C) relief D) judgment
33. He promised to return the book as soon as he _______ it.
A) would read B) read
C) has read D) had read
34. The tourist industry ___________ greatly to the economy of that country.
A) supports B) benefits
C) assists D) contributes
35. Children who are over-protected by their parents may become ______ .
A) spoiled B) damaged C) harmed D) hurt
37. Tom sold the vegetables at half price rather than _______ them to go bad.
A) allow B) allowed C) allowing D) he allowed
38. They wonder ______ the figures are accurate.
A) that B) which
C) whether D) as if
39. It is usually better not to _______ things, in case they are not returned.
A) lend B) offer C) borrow D) lose
40. His ______ had always been to become an architect.
A) want B) imagination
C) ambition D) direction
41. Sadie had her hands _______ her mouth as if to stop herself from crying.
A) by B) at C) over D) above
42. His salary as a bus driver is much higher _______.
A) in comparison the salary of a teacher
B) than a teacher
C) than that of a teacher
D) to compare as a teacher
43. Ann prefers hiking _______ the cinema.
A) to going to B) than going to
C) than to go to D) to go to
44. He knows all Shakespeare's poems by _______ .
A) head B) heart C) mind D) memory
45. In the States, the black people on the whole _______ a much higher unemployment rate.
A) suffer from B) amount to
C) reach for D) extend to
46. He dared not harm the little girl, _______ the dog in her arms.
A) either B) also
C) and D) nor
47. _______ an umbrella with you in case it rains.
A) Bring B) Hold C) Fetch D) Take
48. It need hardly be said that a man who could _______ such treatment was a man of remarkable physical courage and moral strength.
A) make the best of B) catch up with
C) get rid of D) put up with
49. She was glad that the wicked man had decided _______.
A) not killing her B) his not killing her
C) not to kill her D) to not kill her
50. Some speculators (¨a??¨2¨|¨?) were _______ cash and so they sold their shares at any price.
A) badly in need of B) badly need for
C) in badly need for D) badly needed
CLOZE
There was a time when parents who
wanted an educational present for
their children would buy a typewri-
ter, a globe or an encyclopedia set
(¨°?¨??á??¨′??¨¨?¨o¨|). Now those __51__ 51. A) items B) toys
seem hopelessly old-fashioned: this C) sets D) series
Christmas, there were a lot of __52__ 52. A) private B) children
C) school D) personal
computers under the tree. __53__ that 53. A) given B) Provided
computers are their key to success, C) Convinced D) Believed
parents are also frantically insisting
that children __54__ taught to use them 54. A) are B) be
in school--as early as possible. C) are being D) were
The problem for schools is that
when it __55__ computers, parents do 55. A) talks about B) comes to
not always know best. C) turns to D) mentions
Many schools are __56__ parental 56. A) ignorant of B) blaming
impatience and are purchasing hardware C) yielding to
D) turnin a deaf ear to
(¨?2?t) __57__ sound educational plan- 57. A) without B) with
ning so they can say,"Ok, we've moved C) through D) for
into the computer age."Teachers __58__ 58. A) relied on B) relaxed
themselves caught in the middle of the C) freed D) found
problem -- between parent pressure and
__59__ educational decisions. 59. A) wise B) clever
C) slow D) enough
Educators do not even agree __60__ 60. A) on B) with
how computers should be used. A lot of C) to D) about
money is going for computerized educa-
tional materials __61__ research has 61. A) however B) where
C) what D) that
shown can be taught __62__ with pencil 62. A) equally
and paper. Even those who believe that B) in the same way
C) just as well D) not as well
all children should __63__ to computer, 63. A) be open B) have access
C) look D) turn
warn of potential __64__ to the very 64. A) approaches B) exposures
young. C) dangers D) laziness
The temptation(¨???¨?) remains strong
largely because young children __65__ 65. A) adopt B) keep
so well to computers. First graders have C) adapt D) devote
been__66__ willing to work for two hours 66. A) watched B) seen
on math skills. Some have an attention C) told D) taught
span of 20 minutes. __67__ school can 67. A) High B) Not every
afford to go into computing, and that C) No D) Any
creates __68__ another problem: a divi- 68. A) already B) of course
sion between the haves and have-nots. C) in addition D) yet
Very few parents ask __69__ computer 69. A) for B) against
instruction in poor school districts, C) to buy D) to use
__70__ there may be barely enough money 70. A) due that B) in any case
to pay the reading teacher. C) although D) where
READING COMPREHENSION
Questions 71 to 75 are based on the following passage:
The failed Skylab will come screaming home to earth in disappointmentsometime next month, but it will fall we know not where.
That precise information is beyond even the calculations of scientistsand their computers.
The best they can tell us is that the space station, weighing 77 tons andas high as a 12-story building, will break into hundreds of pieces that willbe scattered across a track 100 miles wide and 4,000 miles long.
We are again exposed to one of those unexpected adventures, or misadven-tures, of science that attracts our attention from the boring routines ofdaily existence and encourages us to think a lot about man's future.
What worries Richard Smith, the Skylab's director, is the'big pieces'that will come through the atmosphere. Two lumps, weighing 2 tons each, andten, weighing at least 1,000 pounds each, will come in at speeds of hundredsof miles an hour, and if they crash on land they will dig holes up to 100feet deep.
What worries us, with our lack of scientific knowledge and our quickimagination, is both the big and little pieces, although project officialssay there is a very small chance that anyone will be injured by them.
That's good to know , but it doesn't remove the doubts of the millionswho still remember the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. That accidenttook place in 1979 in spite of what scientists had assured us as to thesafety of the nuclear reactor.
71. Where the Skylab will fall _______.
A) is kept secret
B) will be announced soon
C) is predicted by scientists
D) can't be predicted
72. The broken Skylab will be _______.
A) in two lumps--one weighing 2 tons and the other weighing 10 tons
B) falling with the force of a 12-story building
C) composed of 12 big pieces and hundreds of smaller pieces
D) an attractive scene to millions of people
73. The author suggests that _______.
A) the danger of the Skylab's fall has been overestimated
B) it's useless to worry over things you can't do anything about
C) computers can solve the problem caused by the broken Skylab
D) the danger of the Skylab's fall has been underestimated
74. The author refers to Three Mile Island _______.
A) because he fears that a piece of the Skylab may strike a nuclear power
plant
B) as a doubtful comment on the officials' words
C) because he is afraid of nuclear power
D) because the nuclear reactor there and the Skylab were built by the same
company
75. The author expresses his _______.
A) interest in the failure of the Skylab
B) willingness to give his advice
C) doubtful attitude toward scientists
D) eagerness to see more new scientific discoveries
