2016年公共英语四级专项练习题及答案

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　　part A

Although many governments try to convince their respective subjects that atomic energy is an acceptable alternative _1__ the burning of fossil fuels,no government has taken the least trouble to explain the e they are __2_ them.__3_ the reason,the public must learn by experience,even though this _4__ may be catastrophic.

While it is true that nuclear reactors do not produce visible smoke,it is certainly not __5_ that they do not the pollution they produce is much more insidious precisely because it is __6_.

__7_ inconvenient it may be for governments to publish all the facts,they have no moral excuse for not doing so,__8_ they think they are acting in our best least some of the facts are known,even though they are not widely reported.

Nuclear reactors produce radioactive water and gases in vast _9__ __10_ all this waste?It is __11_ concrete tanks and stored on tank is __12_ in disused salt is run into fractured is is __13_ about in special even when dumped,it has to be kept __14_ by sprinklers to stop it from the contents of the tanks are,of course,extremely efforts of a fracture in the tank or a failure of the cooling system would be _15__.

While every effort is made to _16__ that radioactive wastes do not excape into the sea or _17__ supplies of drinking water,such a leakage would be too horrible __18_ even then ,governments would presumably continue to belittle the hazards.

It seems that __19_ governments can get away with not telling the truth,they will continue to keep rtheless the people _20__ to know the full you know what happens to the radioactive waste in your country?No?Well—find out!

1) A for B with C to D instead of

2) A unaware of B aware of C unaware from D aware from

3) A however B whatever C whenever D wherever

4) A experiment B government C danger D experience

6) A visible B invisible C disvisible D unvisible

5) A unture B unreal C true D distrue

7) A however B whatever C whenever D wherever

8) A even B if even C if D even if

9) A numbers B quality C quantities D degree

10) A happens to B happen to C happened to D happening to

11) A put down B put into C put up D puto onto

12) A stored B storing C being stored D to be stored

13) A transporting B transport C being transported D transported

14) A hot B cooled C cool D to cool

15) A disaster B danger C a disaster D disastrous

16) A reassure B ensure C convince D assure

17) A in front of B behind C forward D into

18) A against B that C to D too

19) A as long as B as well as C as good as D as smart as

20) A has a right B with a right C having a right D have a right

　　答案:

1--5 CABDC　6--10 BADCA

11--15 BADCD　16--20 BDCAD

　　part B

The loudest outcry about poverty seemed to come in the wealthiest country by far in the world. According to most calculations, 21 most of the 1945-1970 period the United States had a standard of living well 22 Europe’s and many times above the world 23 . Yet 24 about grinding poverty, hunger, and dreadful need proceed more from the United States than from countries with one-fortieth of their living standard. An annual per capita income of eight dollars is 25 of much of Africa and Asia and not a little of South America.

It would seem strange to these people 26 they only aware of the fact that American radicals demand a 27 from an American 28 to the far corners of the globe so that the money thus saved can be spent raising the standard of living of 29 Americans. What this last point suggests is not so much that human 30 are never to be satisfied though this is doubtlessly true, and the American suburbanite 31 of his second car and his color TV suffers just as 32 as an African farmer in need of a second cow and a screen door. Rather, it suggests the 33 of contemporary breach of social 34 —the emancipation of the individual self.

People have learned to consider any 35 to personal fulfillment an 36 insult. They have greatly expanded the circle of self-awareness. They no longer accept sharp limitations on individual desires in the 37 of the group. The amount of potential human discontent has always been 38 — misery, failure, misfitting, bitterness, hatred, envy 39 telling. It has usually failed of 40 , and in the past it was accepted passively as being beyond help.

21、 A. until B. through C. in D. onto

22、 A. over B. above C. against D. below

23、 A. average B. common C. mean D. ordinary

24、 A. storms B. rage C. protests D. fury

25、 A. now that B. regardless C. ignorant D. typical

26、 A. was B. being C. were D. to be

27、 A. retreat B. compromise C. restraint D. detachment

28、 A. confinement B. commitment C. complement D. concealment

29、 A. underprivileged B. misguided C. underlined D. overjoyed

30、 A. anticipations B. shelters C. shortages D. wants

31、 A. informed B. deprived C. ensured D. relieved

32、 A. acutely B. abnormally C. aggressively D. initially

33、 A. margin B. scope C. range D. extent

34、 A. liberties B. norms C. institutions D. practices

35、 A. access B. exception C. obstacle D. approach

36、 A. incomprehensible B. uninterpretable C. intolerable D. negligible

37、 A. face B. company C. name D. wake

38、 A. bulky B. prompt C. momentary D. infinite

39、 A. at B. beyond C. on D. with

40、 A. utterance B. admittance C. compliance D. importance

　　参考答案：

21.B22.B23.A24.C25.D

26.C27.A28.B29.A30.D

31.B32.A33.D34.B35.C

36.C37.C.C38.D39.B40.A