1、四级第一篇Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: 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 choice
2、s. 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 blank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. You might expect that
3、childrens movies would be less violent than those geared toward adults. But youd be _36_.“Just because a film has a cute clown fish or a singing mermaid or baby deer in it, doesnt mean that there wont be murder,” says Ian Colman, a mental health epidemiologist at the University of Ottawa.Colman thou
4、ght itd be interesting to compare violence in films _37_ at kids and grown-ups, after a colleague of his said that he may want to _38_ over the first five minutes of Finding Nemo while watching with his kids, since it _39_ a “death scene,” he says.So he and a few other researchers _40_ the 45 childr
5、ens movies of all time to the adults dramas and _41_ how many murders and violent acts took place.They skipped action movies because these “are often also marketed to, and viewed by, young children,” Colman and colleagues wrote in the study. They found that in childrens films _42_ those aimed toward
6、 adults, deaths amongst major characters were 2.5 times more _43_, and 2.8 times more likely to be murders, says Colman. Movie characters that were parents fared particularly badly.But in this case, the findings do seem to have some real-world _44_. It may be best for parents to watch movies with th
7、eir kids, so that if _45_ come up, they can be talked about, Colman says.注意：此部分题请在答题卡 2 上作答。A) significance I) concludes B) measured J) right C) look K) versus D) compared L) aimed E) magnificent M) skip F) issues N) includes G) universal O) wrong H) common 答案： Part III Reading Comprehension36 O 41
8、B 46 51 56 6137 L 42 K 47 52 57 6238 M 43 H 48 53 58 6339 N 44 A 49 54 59 6440 D 45 F 50 55 60 65四级第二篇Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: 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 i
9、n 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 b
10、lank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. One out of every two people in the U.K. will be _36_ with cancer at some point in their lives, according to new research published in the British Journal of Cancer on Wednesday.Other studies have _37_ that the U.K.s cancer ra
11、tes would _38_ that level at some point in the future, but the newest finding, from the organization Cancer Research U.K., _39_ that that moment has already arrived for anyone born after the early 1960s. The new figure updates a previous figure published by the organization, which pegged the U.K. ca
12、ncer rate at more than one in every three people.Researchers say this new, higher figure is partly due to advances that have _40_ people to live longer.“Cancer is _41_ a disease of old age, with more than 60 percent of all cases diagnosed in people aged over 65. If people live long enough, then most
13、 will get cancer at some point. But theres a lot we can do to make it less likelylike giving up smoking, being more active, drinking less alcohol and _42_ a healthy weight,” Peter Sasieni, a professor at Queen Mary University of London and one of the papers authors, said in a press release. “If we w
14、ant to reduce the risk of developing the disease, we must redouble our efforts and take action now to better _43_ the disease for future generations.”These figures are not a major shock to anyone _44_ with the subject. Cancer rates in the U.S. are extremely similar. According to the latest publicati
15、on of the American, the lifetime risk of developing cancer is _45_ less than one in every two for men, and higher than one in every three for women.注意：此部分题请在答题卡 2 上作答。A) hit I)diagnosed B) slightly J) forecast C) indicates K) prevent D) implies L) familiar E) allowed M) skip F) generally N)maintaini
16、ng G) primarily O) obtaining H) stop 答案： Part III Reading Comprehension36 I 41 G 46 51 56 6137 J 42 N 47 52 57 6238 A 43 K 48 53 58 6339 C 44 L 49 54 59 6440 E 45 B 50 55 60 65四级第三篇Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. Yo
17、u 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 w
18、ith a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the blank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. “How do you get out of an Icelandic forest? You stand up.”During five days spent in Iceland this fall, I heard locals tell this joke several times
19、.The quip once made _36_; Iceland was until recently a tree-deprived land, hosting instead an _37_ of beautiful wide-open expanses, clad in volcanic rocks, glaciers and some grasses and shrubs. And while it still remains largely that way, trees and woodlands have been _38_ returning the past several
20、 decades, and an Icelandic forestry industry is beginning to take root.Thats due in large part to a warming climate, which is helping many new types of trees grow here. Over the past 20 years, _39_ temperatures have _40_ by almost 2 degrees Fahrenheit. As a result, trees are _41_ faster and new vari
21、eties are now found here that couldnt _42_ before.Adalsteinn Sigurgeirsson, head of research for the Icelandic forest service, has heard the joke thousands of times. “I cringe every time I hear it,” he says. Sigurgeirsson picks me up on recent Monday morning in Reykjavik in his black Mitsubishi pick
22、up. Its rainy and the sky is darknot _43_ weather for walking through a forest. Hes dressed in a blue sweater and green rain jacket. He smiles and nods at the deluge outside. “Welcome to Iceland!” The rain is usually _44_, he assures me, and it _45_ enough water for tree growth over much of the isla
23、ndone reason he is so upbeat about forestrys prospects here.注意：此部分题请在答题卡 2 上作答。A) provides I)moderate B) ideal J) survive C) middle K) decreased D) average L)increased E) sense M) effect F) abundance N) growing G) primarily O) steadily H) stop 答案： Part III Reading Comprehension36 E 41 N 46 51 56 613
24、7 F 42 J 47 52 57 6238 O 43 B 48 53 58 6339 D 44 I 49 54 59 6440 L 45 A 50 55 60 65四级第四篇Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: 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
25、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 blank more than
26、 once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. For a while, biologist Arjan Boonman lived in Indonesia and spent much of his time traveling the country to make _36_ recordings of bats.“Theres a lot of deforestation there, and lots of bats are _37_ going to go extinct,” says Boonman, no
27、w a postdoctoral researcher at Tel Aviv University in Israel. _38_ by the bats, he decided to gather as much information as _39_ about the various species in Indonesia, before theyre gone.One day Boonman sat down on a bus next to a friendly man, who told him hed heard a species _40_ cave nectar bats
28、 making a clicking sound with their wings, perhaps using it to echolocate. Echolocation is the process whereby bats and other animals bounce sound off their surroundings to help them navigate, especially in the dark. Boonman was _41_.Bat biologists, including Boonman, pretty much all assumed that ba
29、ts only echolocate _42_, by making sounds in their larynx. It was also generally thought that the vast majority of species in this family, known as Old World fruits bats, didnt echolocate at all, says bat expert Nancy Simmons, the curator-in-charge at the department of mammalogy at New Yorks America
30、n Museum of Natural History.Yovel convinced Boonman that it was a story worth looking into, and together they and a third scientist went to Thailand to record several different unrelated species of fruit bats (one of the better travel excuses out there). They found that several species of bats did _
31、43_ make clicking sounds with their wings, increasing the frequency of these clicks more than fivefold when they turned out the lights.This and other experiments led them to _44_ that the bats use these wing clicks to find their way around, and the clicking appears to function as a primitive form of
32、 echolocation, says Simmons, who wasnt involved in the study, which was _45_ in the journal Current Biology.注意：此部分题请在答题卡 2 上作答。A) called I) indeed B) published J)conclude C) vocally K) Interested D) feasible L)Fascinated E) possible M) identical F) probably N) skeptical G) primarily O) audio H) stop
33、 答案： Part III Reading Comprehension36 O 41 N 46 51 56 6137 F 42 C 47 52 57 6238 L 43 I 48 53 58 6339 E 44 J 49 54 59 6440 A 45 B 50 55 60 65四级第五篇Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word fo
34、r 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
35、. You may not use any of the words in the blank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. According to a study _36_ this week in the journal Ecology Letters, the _37_ of birds in Europe has _38_ by more than 20 percent in the past 30 years. While there were over 2.1 billi
36、on European birds in 1980, there are now around 1.6 billion, says study co-author Rich Inger, an ecologist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.Most of the declineor 90 percentis _39_ for by a shrinking population in the 36 most common species, Inger tells Newsweek.For example, througho
37、ut the continent there are now 62 percent fewer house sparrows (家雀)than there were when Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, a decline of about 150 million animals, he says.There were also drops in the numbers of such _40_ species as skylarks, grey partridges and starlings.The decline is likely
38、due in part to habitat loss and pesticide use. The amount of land used for agriculture in Europe has _41_ increased since 1980, and there are fewer places for birds to nest and find food, Inger says. At the same time, pesticide use has gone up, _42_ down the number of “pests” like insects that birds
39、 prey upon, he adds.“We dont manage the environment in a way thats good for birds,” Inger says.The study looked at an _44_ amount of data collected by thousands of “citizen scientists” over 30 years in most countries in Europe, in “an _44_ departure from conventional approaches to reviewing bird mon
40、itoring data,” said Michael Wunder, an ornithologist at the University of Colorado-Denver who wasnt _45_ in the study.注意：此部分题请在答题卡 2 上作答。A) insightful I)involved B) huge J)conclude C) immense K) breaking D) quantity L)knocking E) quality M) identical F) declined N)published G) common O)accounted H)
41、greatly 答案： Part III Reading Comprehension36 N 41 H 46 51 56 6137 D 42 L 47 52 57 6238 F 43 C 48 53 58 6339 O 44 A 49 54 59 6440 G 45 I 50 55 60 65六级第一篇Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one
42、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
43、 centre. You may not use any of the words in the blank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. Although many will vow to lose weight in the coming year, most will _36_ fail, not from lack of motivation or knowledge but from insuperable forces that undermine the best of
44、intentions.Until now, those who undermine these intentions have been free to do whatever they can to trip up would-be weight watchers. No matter how extensive their efforts, the blame and responsibility has been _37_ on those who fail.A similar situation existed 200 years ago, when Americans drank m
45、ore than twice as much alcohol as they do now and large portions of the population were regularly inebriated. Alcohol was the beverage of choice and was _38_ all the time.Employers often paid workers with alcohol as part of their wages. It was served to children, it was _39_ as medicine, and it was
46、provided to voters in political campaigning. However, when more and more families lost their breadwinners to alcohol-related problems, and business owners realized how much money they were losing due to employees who were drunk on the job and not performing, policies were _40_ that made alcohol less
47、 _41_ and less acceptable.Businessmen subsidized alcohol-free taverns so workers could socialize without being _42_ to drink. Bar owners began to be held responsible for the negative consequences of serving too much alcohol, even requiring them to provide for the widows of patrons who died from alco
48、hol purchased at their establishmentspolicies that still exist today through dramshop liability.Yet today, instead of instituting policies that would standardize portion sizes so people arent _43_ served too much, and policies that _44_ the placement of candy at the cash register or discounts on junk food, individuals are still expected to be able to _45_ all these cues that undermine long-term goals.注意：此部分题请在答题卡 2 上作答。A) adopted I)adapted B) served J) levied C) described K) ignore D) prescr
