1、大学英语四级完形填空第一篇 Most people have no idea of the hard work and worry that goes into the collecting of those fascinating birds and animals that they pay to see in the zoo. One of the questions that is always asked of me is (1) I became an animal collector in the first (2). The answer is that I have alwa
2、ys been interested in animals and zoos. According to my parents, the first word I was able to say with any (3) was not the conventional “mamma” or “daddy”, (4) the word “zoo”, which I would (5) over and over again with a shrill (6) until someone, in groups to (7) me up, would take me to the zoo. Whe
3、n I (8) a little older, we lived in Greece and I had a great (9) of pets, ranging from owls to seahorses, and I spent all my spare time (10) the countryside in search of fresh specimens to (11) to my collection of pets. (12) on I went for a year to the City Zoo, as a student (13) , to get experience
4、 of the large animals, such as lions, bears, bison and ostriches, (14) were not easy to keep at home. When I left, I (15) had enough money of my own to be able to (16) my first trip and I have been going (17) ever since then. Though a collectors job is not an easy one and is full of (18), it is cert
5、ainly a job which will appeal (19) all those who love animals and (20) .1.A.how B. where C. when D. whether2.A.region B. field C. place D. case3.A.clarity B. emotion C. sentiment D. affection4.A.except B. but C. except for D. but for5.A.recite B. recognize C. read D. repeat6.A.volume B. noise C. voi
6、ce D. pitch7.A.close B. shut C. stop D. comfort8.A.grew B. was growing C. grow D. grown9.A.many B. amount C. number D. supply10.A.living B. cultivating C. reclaiming D. exploring11.A.increase B. include C. add D. enrich 12.A.later B. furtherC. then D. subsequently13.A.attendant B. keeper C. member D
7、. aide14.A.who B. they C. of which D. which15.A.luckily B. gladly C. nearly D. successfully16.A.pay B. provide C. allow D. finance17.A.normally B. regularly C. usually D. often18.A.expectations B. sorrowsC. excitement D. disappointments19.A.for B. with C. to D. from20.A.excursion B. travel C. journe
8、y D. Trip第一篇解析：1.【答案】A 根据下一句及随后的内容，作者讲的是怎样成为动物爱好者的(从小就喜欢动物)，应当选择A.how。2.【答案】C in the first place是固定短语,意思是“首先”。此句意思是：别人经常问到的问题之一，是当初我是如何爱上动物的。3.【答案】A 这句话的意思是：作者在呀呀学语之时,最早发清楚的音是“zoo”(动物园),而不是“妈妈”,“爸爸”,因此,应选clarity“清晰”。填入其他选项emotion (感情),sentiment(多愁善感),affection(友爱)不合逻辑。4.【答案】B but在此处连接另一个句子(it was th
9、e word“zoo”,“it was”被省略)，表示转折，意为“而是”，Except, except for, but for的用法接近，表示“除了”。5.【答案】D 根据后面的over and over again,应选“repeat”6.【答案】C 小孩想去动物园,便不停地发出尖叫声,故选“voice”。A shrill voice与scream的意思接近。volume(音量)；noise(噪音)；pitch(音调)均不合要求。7.【答案】B shut sb.up是指让某人住口，为了让孩子停止尖叫，只好带他去动物园。8.【答案】A 根据后面主句的时态，此处只能用一般过去时。9.【答案】C
10、 a great many后直接跟可数名词的复数形式；a great / large amount of后跟不可数名词；只有a great /large number of后可以跟可数名词的复数形式。10.【答案】D living后必须接介词in，意为“居住”；cultivating耕种；reclaiming开垦；只有exploring有探察的意思。11.【答案】C add to相当于increase，增加。其余选项后面都不接to。12.【答案】A later on为固定短语，“后来”。13.【答案】D attendant仆人；keeper可理解为“饲养员”，但是a student- keep
11、er容易被误解为“收留学生的人”；aide有“助手”之义。作者一边上学，一边在动物园里打工，只能当助手。14.【答案】D which在此引导定语从句，修饰前面列出的动物。15.【答案】D 因为钱是在动物园打工挣的，选successfully更能体现其含义。16.【答案】D finance my first trip意为“支付我的旅行费用”；pay后应接介词for；其他选项的意思相差甚远。17.【答案】B 此句为现在完成进行时态,选regularly比较贴切。18.【答案】D 此句是由though引导的让步状语从句，应与主句意思相对立。选项中，sorrows和disappointments与主句
12、的appeal to相对立，但sorrows的分量太重。19.【答案】C appeal to为成语，意思是“吸引”。20.【答案】B excursion短途旅行；journey(从一地到另一地的)长距离，具体的旅途；travel旅行，旅游，海外旅行；trip旅行，远足。 第二篇If you were to begin a new job tomorrow, you would bring with you some basic strengths and weaknesses. Success or (1) in your work would depend, to (2) great ext
13、ent, (3) your ability to use your strengths and weaknesses to the best advantage. (4) the utmost importance is your attitude. A person (5) begins a job convinced that he isnt going to like it or is (6) that he is going to ail is exhibiting a weakness which can only hinder his success. On the other h
14、and, a person who is secure (7) his belief that he is probably as capable (8) doing the work as anyone else and who is willing to make a cheerful attempt (9) it possesses a certain strength of purpose. The chances are that he will do well. (10) the prerequisite skills for a particular job is strengt
15、h. Lacking those skills is obviously a weakness. A book-keeper who cant add or a carpenter who cant cut a straight line with a saw (11) hopeless cases.This book has been designed to help you capitalize (12) the strength and overcome the (13) that you bring to the job of learning. But insgroupsto mea
16、sure your development, you must first (14) - stock of swheres you stand now. (15) - we get further along in the book, well be (16) - in some detail with specific processes for developing and strengthening (17) - skills. However, (18) - begin with, you should pause (19) - examine your present strengt
17、hs and weaknesses in three areas that are critical to your success or failure in school: your (20) -, your reading and communication skills, and your study habits.1.A.improvement B. victoryC. failure D. achievement2.A.a B. the C. some D. certain3.A.in B. on C. of D. to4.A.Out of B. Of C. To D. Into5
18、.A.who B. what C. that D. which6.A.ensure B. certain C. sure D. surely7.A.onto B. on C. off D. in8.A.to B. at C. of D. for9.A.near B. on C. by D. at10.A.Have B. Had C. Having D. Had been11.A.being B. been C. are D. is12.A.except B. but C. for D. on13.A.idea B. weaknessC. strength D. advantage14.A.ma
19、ke B. take C. do D. give15.A.as B. till C. over D. out16.A.deal B. dealt C. be dealt D. dealing17.A.learnt B. learned C. learning D. learn18.A.around B. to C. from D. beside19.A.to B. onto C. into D. with20.A.intelligence B. work C. attitude D. weakness第二篇解析：1.【答案】C 本句的意思是：“成功或失败在很大程度上取决于你是否能扬长避短。”i
20、mprovement改进；victory胜利；achievement成果，成就。这三个词都不合题意，只有C. failure“失败”最合适。2.【答案】A to a great extent是固定短语，意思是“很大程度上”，符合题意。类似的说法还有：to a large extent, to some extent, to an extent, to a certain extent, to that extent, to the extent of。the, some, certain都不能与great extent搭配。3.【答案】B on与前面的depend构成本句谓语。4.【答案】B
21、of与名词连用,表示具有某种性质,状态，做表语。置于句首，表示强调。正常语序为：Your attitude is of the utmost importance.5.【答案】A A person后应当是定语从句,“开始工作的那个人”。6.【答案】C 本句的意思是“如果一个刚刚开始工作的人就深信自己不会喜欢或肯定不适应这项工作，那么阻碍他成功的缺点就暴露出来了。”or后面省略了主语he。ensure保证；certain肯定的(只能用于It做主语的句子里)；surely确实地；sure肯定的。7.【答案】D in ones belief相信。其它选项都不能与belief搭配。8.【答案】C ca
22、pable of doing是固定搭配，意为“能够干什么”。9.【答案】D attempt用做名词，后接介词at，意为“试图，努力”；如果后面接介词on，表示攻击的意思。其他两项都不能与attempt搭配。10.【答案】C 本句的意思是“具有某一工作的必要技能是一个优势”此处应填句子的主语，故选动名词having。11.【答案】D 本句主语是A book-keeper or carpenter。根据主谓一致原则，其谓语应当用单数is，而不是复数are。being, been都是分词，应该排除。12.【答案】D on与前面的capitalize搭配，表示“利用”。做不定式help的补语。其它选项
23、不能与capitalize搭配。13.【答案】B 本句的意思是“克服缺点”,应选weakness(缺点，弱点)。idea观点；strength优点；advantage优势。14.【答案】B 固定短语take stock of，意为“对估价，对作出判断”。15.【答案】A 本句的意思是：“随着更深入的阅读”，从语法角度，此处应填关联词。四个选项中，只有as能用做关联词。16.【答案】D 选项A, B, C分别是deal(处理，论述，涉及)的原形，过去分词及被动语态。根据语法和语义，此处应填将来进行时，意思是“随着书中内容的进一步深入，我们将详细论述发展和加强学习技能的具体过程。”17.【答案】C
24、 根据上下文，这里应当指“学习技能”。18.【答案】B 固定短语to begin with，意为“首先，第一”，常用做插入语。19.【答案】A 谓语动词pause后，examine又是动词原形，所以这里应当选to，可构成动词不定式，做目的状语。其余选项都是介词，不合题意。20.【答案】C 本句对全文进行总结概括，与文章的开头相呼应，Of the utmost importance is your attitude故选attitude.第三篇Who won the World Cup 1994 football game? What happened at the United Nations?
25、 How did the critics like the new play? (1) - an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets (2) - the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reports are on the spot to (3) - the news.Newspapers have one basic (4) -, to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those w
26、ho make it to those who want to (5) - it. Radio, telegraph, television, and 6 inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. (7) -, this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster m
27、eans of communication to improve the (8) - and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are (9) - and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch outsintos many other fields. Besides keeping readers (10) - of the latest news, todays newspapers (11) - an
28、d influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers economic choices (12) - advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very (13) -. Newspapers are sold at a price that (14) - even a small fraction of the cost of production. The m
29、ain (15) - of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The (16) - in selling advertising depends on a newspapers value to advertisers. This (17) - in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends (18) - on the work of the circulation department and on the
30、 services or entertainment (19) - in a newspapers pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspapers value to readers as a source of information (20) - the community, city, country, state, nation, and worldand even outer space.1.A.Just when B. While C. Soon after D. Before2.A.to give
31、B. giving C. given D. being given3.A.gather B. spread C. carry D. bring4.A.reason B. cause C. problem D. purpose5.A.make B. publish C. know D. write6.A.another B. other C. one another D. the other7.A.HoweverB. And C. Therefore D. So8.A.value B. ratio C. rate D. speed9.A.spread B. passed C. printed D
32、. completed10.A.inform B. be informedC. to be informed D. informed11.A.entertain B. encourage C. educate D. edit12.A.on B. through C. with D. of13.A.forms B. existence C. contents D. purpose14.A.tries to cover B. manages to cover C. fails to cover D. succeeds in15.A.source B. origin C. course D. fin
33、ance16.A.way B. means C. chance D. success17.A.measures B. measuredC. Is measured D. was measured18.A.somewhat B. little C. much D. something19.A.offering B. offeredC. which offered D. to be offered20.A.by B. with C. at D. about第三篇解析：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
34、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
35、sb.+过去分词是一种复合结构，sb.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，信息的出处或来源。origin起源，起因。指事物后来
36、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services和entertainment的定语。20.【答案】D information后面接介词about，表示“关于”。第四篇For many people today, r
37、eading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In (1) - a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend (2) - can mean the dif
38、ference 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 main deficiency (5) - in the actual stuff of language itself-words. Taken individually, words have (6) - meaning unt
39、il they are strung together into phrased, sentences and paragraphs. (7) -, however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to (8) words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over (9) - you have just read, is a common
40、 bad habit in reading. Another habit which (10) - down the speed of reading is vocalization - sounding each word either orally or mentally as (11) - reads.To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an (12), which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined s
41、peed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate (13) - the reader 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) - is sacrificed for speed. But when you lea
42、rn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, (16) - your comprehension will improve. Many people have found (17) - reading skill drastically improved after some training. (18) - Charlce Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute (
43、19) - the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can (20) - a lot more reading material in a short period of time.1.A.applying B. doing C. offering D. getting2.A.quickly B. easily C. roughly D. decidedly3.A.good B. curious C. poor D. urgent4.A.training B.
44、habits C. situations D. custom5.A.lies B. combines C. touches D. involves6.A.some B.A lot C. little D. dull7.A.Fortunately B. In factC. Logically D. Unfortunately8.A.reuse B. reread C. rewrite D. recite9.A.what B. which C. that D. if10.A.scales B. cuts C. slows D. measures11.A.some one B. one C. he
45、D. reader12.A.acceleratorB. actor C. amplifier D. observer13.A.then B. as C. beyond D. than14.A.enabling B. leading C. making D. indicating15.A.meaning B. comprehensionC. gist D. regression16.A.but B. nor C. or D. for17.A.our B. your C. their D. such a18.A.Look at B. Take C. Make D. Consider19.A.for
46、 B. in C. after D. before20.A.master B. go over C. present D. get through第四篇解析：1.【答案】D 本句意思是“谁如果想谋得一份差事”。applying需加for,意思是“申请”；B.doing做；C.offering提供此三项均不符题意，只有D.getting(获得)适合。2.【答案】A 本句意为“快速阅读与理解的能力，是关系到成败的关键所在”只有quickly与原意吻合。easily(容易地)；roughly (粗略地)；decidedly(果断地)均与原文内容不符。3.【答案】C 英语中，阅读速度快的人称为good reader，反之，就是poor reader。根据上下文的内容，多数人都属于poor reader，因此选poor(差的)。其它选项不妥。4.【答案】B 此处的意思是“
