浙江大学城市学院BB平台大英4作业

四级水平词汇测试-- 1

1.What visual artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain because painters __________ their experiences into shapes and colors, not words.

所选答案： B. translate

2.The teacher’s praise __________ the girl to try even harder and soon she caught up with her classmates.

所选答案： B. encouraged

3.He applied his skill to the __________ use of words, the brief but vivid description. 所选答案： A. economical

4.The adult, with trained powers, has an immense __________ over the child in the acquisition of information.

所选答案： A. advantage

5.We all __________ greatly by lighthouses, even those of us who have never seen the sea and never expect to.

所选答案： C. benefit

6.Remote places with strange-sounding names __________ the traveller with promises of excitement, different forms of entertainment, and new kinds of food.

所选答案： D. attract

7.Oceans clearly play an essential role in life on Earth, yet because of their vastness, humans have tended to use their waters as dumping grounds for many __________ materials.

所选答案： C. waste

8.Unlike Britain and Japan, in the United States there is an additional reason for fashion: Most Americans seem to feel that something is wrong if there isn’t __________ change in their lives.

所选答案： A. frequent

9.Standard language is usually more appropriate in __________ situations because people have come to expect it on those occasions.

所选答案： B. formal

10.Americans have a craze for the sun, a(n) __________ that the sun will cure chronic illnesses, and that where there is sunshine there will be a job – or, if not a job, at least a warm, pleasant place to be unemployed.

所选答案： D. belief

11.Now, most survive. __________, many people have extra cattle to sell, and use the money to pay for school for their children.

所选答案： D. As a result

12.The novel was made into a movie in 1983 and again in 1998. I prefer the __________ version to the former.

所选答案： B. Latter

13.We often read in novels how a __________ respectable person or family has some terrible secret which has been concealed from strangers for years.

所选答案： B. seemingly

14.It’s one thing to _____________ with your friends on the phone, but it is quite another to compose a nice letter explaining the same ideas.

所选答案： B. communicate

15.I definitely prefer to live in a big city that offers a rich __________ of manyoptions,whether it be for jobs or leisure or cultural or intellectual activities.

所选答案： C. variety

16.If human beings were always ______ with what they have, we would still be living in Stone Age.

所选答案： A. satisfied

17.Trees cannot heal: they make no repairs. Instead, they defend themselves from the consequences of ______ and infection by walling off the damage.

所选答案： A. injury

18.Physiological theories are based on the idea that we dream to exercise various neural connections that ______ certain types of learning, some researchers think.

所选答案： A. affect

19.According to the __________ in our village, the man and woman should each plant a tree when they get married.

所选答案： A. convention

20.The automobile company says it cannot cut its prices any more because it has a(n) __________ to all its shareholders.

所选答案： A. responsibility

21.Many people are asking whether traditional research universities in fact have any future __________.

所选答案： B. at all

22.He suffered a stroke in 2008, which left him unable to speak, but his mental ___________ was not affected at all.

所选答案： C. capacity

https://www.360docs.net/doc/6a14193230.html,puter technology will __________ a revolution in business administration.

所选答案： C. bring about

24.The saying “__________ killed the cat” can be used to warn someone not to ask too many questions about something.

所选答案： C. Curiosity

25.Inviting James and Ivan to dinner on the same evening was a recipe for __________ -- they always argue with each other.

所选答案： B. disaster

26.Once the project is completed, flood peaks can be controlled on the upper reaches, thus reliving ___________ on the lower reaches of the river.

所选答案： C. pressure

27.Agricultural industrialization is a(n) ___________ course of accomplishing agricultural modernization for China and the world.

所选答案： C. inevitable

28.She was admitted to hospital for __________ so that doctors could watch her and see if anything was wrong with her.

所选答案： D. observation

29.If your equipment is of good quality and we receive a __________ offer, we may be able to place large orders with you.

所选答案： A. Favorable

30.Young as he is, he has got the ____________ to walk into a room of strangers and immediately start a conversation.

所选答案： A. confidence