最新2017年英语专四真题及答案 (1)

2017年英语专业四级真题及答案

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III. 语言知识：

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11. ___B_____ combination of techniques authors use, all 5

stories---from the briefest anecdotes to the longest novels ----have a 6

plot.

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A. Regarding

B. Whatever.

C. In so far as

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12. She followed the receptionist down a luxurious corridor to a 9

closed door, ____B______ the women gave a quick knock before opening it..

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A. wherein

B. on which

C. but when

D. then

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13. Ms Ennab is one of the first Palestinian ______C____ with seven 12

years’ racing experience.

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A. woman drivers

B. women driver

C. women drivers

D. woman

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driver

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14. “I wondered if I could have a word with you.” The past tense 16

in the sentence refers to a __B___.

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A. past event for exact time reference

B. present event for

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tentativeness

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C. present event for uncertainty

D. past event for

politeness

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15. “If I were you, I wouldn’t wait to propose to her.” The

subjunctive mood in the sentence is used to ____D______.

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A. alleviate hostility

B. express unfavorable feelings

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C. indicate uncertainty

D. make a suggestion

16. “It’s a shame that the city official should have gone back on

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his word.” The modal auxiliary SHOULD express __B_____.

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A obligation

B disappointment

C future in the past D.

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tentativeness

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17. Timothy Ray Brown, the first man cured of HIV, initially opted 30

against the stem cell transplantation that _____D______ history.

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A. could have later made

B. should have made later

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C. might make later

D. would later make

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18. Some Martian rock structures look strikingly like structures on 34

Earth that are known ___C___by microbes.

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A. having been created

B. being created

C. to have been created

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D. to be created

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19. At that moment, with the crowd watching me, I was not afraid in 38

the ordinary sense, as ______ if I ____A_______alone.

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A. would have been …had been

B. should be … had been

C. could be … were

D. might have been… were

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20. You must fire __C____ incompetent assistant of yours

A. the

B. an

C. that

D. whichever

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21. Some narratives seem more like plays, heavy with dialogue by which 44

writers allow their __A___to reveal themselves.

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A. characters

B. characteristics

C. charisma D

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characterizations

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22. If you intend to melt the snow for drinking water, you can

___D_____ extra purity by running it through a coffee filter.

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A. assure

B. insure

C. reassure

D. ensure

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23. The daisy-like flowers of chamomile have been used for centuries

to ___B____anxiety and insomnia.

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A. decline

B. relieve C quench D suppress

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24. Despite concern about the disappearance of the album in popular 54

music, 2014 delivered a great crop of album ___C_______.

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A. publications B appearances C. releases D.

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presentations

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25. The party’s reduced vote in the general election was 58

___C______of lack of support for its policies.

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A. revealing

B. confirming

C. indicative

D. evident

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26. He closed his eyes and held the two versions of La Mappa to his

mind’s __B______ to analyze their differences.

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A. vision B eye C. view D. sight

27. Twelve pupils were killed and five ___A_____injured after gunmen

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attacked the school during lunchtime.

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A. critically

B. enormously

C. greatly

D. hard

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28. A 15-year-old girl has been arrested ___C_____ accusations of 67

using Instagram to anonymously threaten her high-school.

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A. over

B. with

C. on

D. for

29. It was reported that a 73-year-old man died on an Etihad flight

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__D______to Germany from Abu Dhabi.

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A. bounded

B. binded

C. boundary

D. bound

30. It’s ____B_____ the case in the region; a story always sounds

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clear enough at a distanced, but the nearer you get to the scene of events 74

the vaguer it becomes.

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A. unchangeably

B. invariably

C. unalterably

D. immovably

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IV. 完形填空：

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A. always

B. barely

C. demise

D. emergence

E. gained

F.

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implications G. leaf H. lost I. naturally J. object K. one L.

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online M. rising N. single O. value

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MILLIONS of people now rent their movies the Netflix way. They fill out a wish list from the 50,000 titles on the company's Web site and

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receive the first few DVD's in the mail; when they mail each one back,

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the next one on the list is sent. The Netflix model has been exhaustively 86

analyzed for its disruptive, new-economy（31）implications. What will 87

it mean for video stores like Blockbuster, which has, in fact, started

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a similar service? What will it mean for movie studios and theaters? What

does it show about "long tail" businesses -- ones that combine many niche

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markets, like those for Dutch movies or classic musicals, into a 91

(32)single large audience? But one other major implication has(33)barely

been mentioned: what this and similar Internet-based businesses mean for

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that stalwart of the old economy, the United States Postal Service.

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Every day, some two million Netflix envelopes come and go as 95

first-class mail. They are joined by millions of other shipments from 96

（34）online pharmacies, eBay vendors, https://www.360docs.net/doc/4a5103492.html, and other businesses 97

that did not exist before the Internet.

The（35）demise of "snail mail" in the age of instant electronic

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communication has been predicted at least as often as the coming of the 100

paperless office. But the consumption of paper keeps （36）rising. It has roughly doubled since 1980. On average, an American household 101

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receives twice as many pieces of mail a day as it did in the 1970's. 103

The harmful side of the Internet's impact is obvious but 104

statistically less important than many would guess. People (37) 105

naturally write fewer letters when they can send e-mail messages. To (38) 106

leaf through a box of old paper correspondence is to know what has been 107

_(39) lost i n this shift: the pretty stamps, the varying look and feel 108

of handwritten and typed correspondence, the tangible (40) object that 109

was once in the sender's hands.

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V. Reading comprehension

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Section A

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Passage one

（1）When I was a young girl living in Ireland, I was always pleased 114

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when it rained, because that meant I could go treasure hunting. What’s

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the connection between a wet day and a search for buried treasure? Well,

it’s quite simple. Ireland, as some of you may already know, is the home 117

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of Leprechauns – little men who possess magic powers and, perhaps more

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interestingly, pots of gold.

（2）Now, although Leprechauns are interesting characters, I have 120

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to admit that I was more intrigued by the stories of their treasure hoard.

This, as all of Ireland knows, they hide at the end of the rainbow. 122

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Leprechauns can be fearsome folk but if you can discover the end of the

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rainbow, they have to unwillingly surrender their gold to you. So whenever

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it rained, I would look up in the sky and follow the curve of the rainbow

to see where it ended. I never did unearth any treasure, but I did spend 126

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many happy, showery days dreaming of what I could do with the fortune

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if I found it.

（3）As I got older, and started working, rainy days came to be just 129

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another nuisance and my childhood dreams of finding treasure faded. But

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for some people the dream of striking it lucky never fades, and for a

fortunate few, the dream even comes true! Such is the case of Mel Fisher. 132

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His dream of finding treasure also began in childhood, while reading the

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great literature classics “Treasure Island” and “Moby Dick”. However, 135

unlike myself, he chased his dream and in the end managed to become one 136

of the most famous professional treasure hunters of all time, and for 137

good reason. In 1985, he fished up the priceless cargo of the sunken Spanish ship Atocha, which netted him an incredible $400 million dollars! 138

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（4）After the ship sank in 1622 off the coast of Florida, its murky 140

waters became a treasure trove of precious stones, gold bars and silver coins known as “pieces of eight”. The aptly-named Fisher, who ran a 141

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commercial salvaging operation, had been trying to locate the underwater 143

treasure for over 16 years when he finally hit the jackpot! His dreams 144

had come true but finding and keeping the treasure wasn’t all plain 145

sailing. After battling with hostile conditions at sea, Fisher then had 146

to battle in the courts. In fact, the State of Florida took Fisher to court over ownership of the find and the Federal government soon followed 147

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suit. After more than 200 hearings, Fisher agreed to donate 20% of his 149

yearly findings for public display, and so now there is a museum in Florida which displays hundreds of the objects which were salvaged from the 150

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Atocha.

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（5）This true story seems like a modern-day fairytale: a man pursues 153

his dream through adversity and in the end, he triumphs over the 154

difficulties - they all live happily ever after, right? Well, not exactly. 155

Archaeologists object to the fact that with commercial salvaging 156

operations like Fisher’s, the objects are sold and dispersed and UNESCO 157

are worried about protecting our underwater heritage from what it 158

describes as “pillaging”.