1．98年1月四级真题改编
Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: 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 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 bank more than once.
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child’s acquisition of each new skill—the first spoken words, the first __47__ steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is often __48__ to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child might be __49__ to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On th
e other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural __50__ for life and his desire to find out new things for himself.
Parents __51__ greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters, others are saver over times of coming home at night or punctuality for meals. In general, the controls __52__ represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child’s own happiness.
As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, __53__ is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality. Also, parents should realize that “example is better than precept”. If they are not sincere and do not __54__ what they preach, their children may grow confused, and __55__ insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled.
A sudden __56__ of a marked difference between their parents’ principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
A) consistency                I) tempting
B) alternate                J) enthusiasm
C) practice                K) assume
D) motivation            L) independent
E) awareness                M) vary
F) emotionally                N) encouraged
G) urgent                O) currently
H) imposed
Key : L I N J M,  H A C F E
2．00年6月四级真题改编
Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: 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 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 bank more than once.
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Americans are proud of their variety and individuality, yet they love and respect few things more than a uniform, whether it is the uniform of an elevator operator or the uniform of a five-star general. Why are uniforms so __47__ in the United States?
Among the arguments for uniforms, one of the first is that in the eyes of most people they look more __48__ than civilian (百姓的) clothes. People have become conditioned to expect __49__ quality from a man who wears a uniform. The television repairman who wears a uniform tends to inspire more __50__ than one who appears in civilian clothes. Faith in the skill of a garage __51__ is increased by a uniform. What easier way is there for a nurse, a policeman, a barber, or a waiter to lose professional identity (身份) than to step out of uniform?
Uniforms also have many practical benefits. They save on other clothes. They save on laundry bills. They are tax-deductible (可减税的).They are
often more comfortable and more __52__ than civilian clothes.
Primary among the arguments against uniforms is their __53__ of variety and the consequent loss of individuality experienced by people who must wear them. Though there are many types of uniforms, the wearer of any particular type is generally stuck with it, without change, until retirement. When people look alike, they tend to think, speak, and act __54__, on the job at least.
Uniforms also give rise to some practical problems. Though they are long-lasting, often their __55__ expense is greater than the cost of civilian clothes. Some uniforms are also expensive to __56__, requiring professional dry cleaning rather than the home laundering possible with many types of civilian clothes.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
A) superior                I) maintain
B) durable                J) indispensable
C) mechanic                K) trust
D) devise                L) similarly
E) lack                    M) popular
F) initial                    N) amateur
G) absence                O) automatically
H) professional
Key: M H A K C,  B E L F I
2002年1月四级真题改编
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Foxes and farmers have never got on well. These small dog-like animals have long been accused of killing farm animals. They are __47__ classified as harmful and farmers try to keep their numbers down by shooting or poisoning them.
Farmers can also call on the services of their local hunt to control the fox population. Hunting consists of __48__ a fox across the countryside, with a group of specially trained dogs, followed by men and women riding horses. When the dogs __49__ catch the fox they kill it or a hunter shoots it.
People who take part in hunting think of it as a sport; they wear a special uniform of red coats and white trousers, and follow strict codes of behavior. But owning a horse and hunting __50__ is expensive, so most hunters are wealthy.
It is estimated that up to 100,000 people watch or take part in fox hunting. But over the last couple of decades the number of people __51__ to fox hunting, because they think it is brutal (残酷的), has risen sharply. Nowadays it is rare for a hunt to pass off without some kind of confrontation (冲突) between hunters and hunt saboteurs (阻拦者). Sometimes these incidents lead to __52__, but mostly saboteurs interfere with the hunt by __53__ riders and disturbing the trail of the fox's smell, which the dogs follow.
Noisy confrontations between hunters and saboteurs have become so common that they are almost as much a part of hunting as the pursuit of foxes itself. But this year supporters of fox hunting face a much bigger __54__ to their sport. A Labour Party Member of the Parliament, Mike Foster, is trying to get Parliament to approve a new law which will make the hunting of wild animals with dogs __55__. If the law is passed, wild animals like foxes will be protected __56__ the ban in Britain.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
A) pursuing        I) regularly
B) opposed        J) favor
C) with            K) misleading
D) officially        L) valid
E) threat        M) eventually
F) under            N) shooting
G) illegal        O) violence
Key:　D A M I B, O K E G F
4．02年6月四级真题改编
Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: 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 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 bank more than once.
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
It is hard to track the blue whale, the ocean’s largest creature, which has almost been killed off by commercial whaling and is now listed as an __47__ species. Attaching radio devices to it is difficult and visual sightings are too __48__ to give real insight into its behavior.
So biologists were __49__ early this year when, with the help of the Navy, they were able to track a particular blue whale for 43 days, monitoring its sounds. This was possible because of the Navy’s formerly top-secret system of underwater listening devices __50__ the oceans.
Tracking whales is but one example of an exciting new world just opening to civilian scientists after the
cold war as the Navy starts to share and __51__ uncover its global network of underwater listening system built over the decades to __52__ the ships of potential enemies.
Earth scientists announced at a news __53__ recently that they had used the system for closely monitoring a deep-sea volcanic eruption (爆发) for the first time and that they plan similar studies.
deductibleOther scientists have __54__ to use the network for tracking ocean currents and measuring changes in ocean and global temperatures.
The speed of sound in water is __55__ one mile a second — slower than through land but faster than through air. What is most important, different layers of ocean water can act as channels for sounds focusing them in the same way a tethoscopy (听诊器) does when it carries __56__ noises from a patient’s chest to a doctor’s ear. This focusing is the main reason that even relatively weak sounds in the ocean, especially low-frequency ones, can often travel thousands of miles.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
A) startled        I) roughly
B) spanning        J) delighted
C) track            K) campaign
D) generally        L) endangered
E) unreliable        M) conference
F) extraordinary    N) harsh
G) faint            O) partly
H) proposed
Key: L E J B O , C M H I G
5．03年1月四级真题改编