2015年6月英語四級真題及答案：選詞填空

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Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 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.

Question 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

It’s our guilty pleasure: Watching TV is the most common everyday activity,after work and sleep, in many parts of the world. Americans view five hours of TV each day, and while we know that spending so much time sitting ___36___ can lead to obesity(肥胖癥) and other diseases, researchers have now quantified just how___37___being a couch potato can be.

In an analysis of data from eight large ___38___published studies, a Harvard-led group reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that for every two hours per day spent channel ___39___,the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes(糖尿病)rose 20% over 8.5 years, the risk of heart disease increased 15% over a ___40___, and the odds of dying permaturely___41___ 13% during a seven-year follow-up .All of these___42____are linked to a lack of physical exercise. But compared with other sedentary(久坐的)activities, like knitting ,viewing TV may be especially__43___at promoting unhealthy habits. For one, the sheer number of hours we pass watching TV dwarfs the time we spend on anything else. And other studies have found that watching ads for beer and popcorn may make you more likely to ___44___them.

Even so, the authors admit that they didn’t compare different sedentary activities to ___45___whether TV watching was linked to a greater risk of diabetes,heart disease or clearly death compared with, say, reading.

注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。

A)climbed I)previously

B)conseme J)resume

C)decade K)suffered

D)determine L)suffering

E)effectIve M)term

F)harmfulN)terminals

G)outcomes O)twisting

H)passively

參考答案：

選詞填空

36. passively

解析：sitting passively 被動坐著

從詞性判斷，36題應該選一個副詞來修飾sitting這個動名詞，而備選項中只有兩個副詞，一個是passively被動地，一個是previously之前，再根據語義邏輯，坐著那看電視的行為應該是一種被動行為，而不存在前后之分。

37. harmful

解析：quantified just how harmful being a couch potato 量化長時間看電視的嚴重危害

通過分析how ( ) being a couch potato can be 這句話的句子成分，得出how 這個副詞之后應該接一個形容詞，符合詞性條件的備選項，一個是effective 有效的，一個是harmful有害的。根據語義邏輯，長時間看電視是有害的，故選harmful。

38. previously

解析： previously published studies 之前公布的研究

38題空格處應該填一個副詞來修飾published這個詞，參考36題的解析，備選項中現在只剩下一個副詞就是previously，剛好填入此處。

39. surfing

解析：spent channel surfing ，直接翻譯為在頻道沖浪，意譯為看電視。這里的channel頻道指代television電視;而“surfing沖浪”指代“watching看”，我們經常看到上網常用surfing一詞，這里運用了仿詞，將“上網沖浪”的`surfing借過來用來指“看電視“。以上可以理解為英語中的委婉表達。

40. decade

解析：increased 15% over a decade 10年增加了15% 。40題后面出現了一個詞并列連詞and，說明本句存在并列關系。通讀此句，40題在over之后應該填一個表示時間的名詞，這樣才能和前文over 8.5.years 與后文during a seven-year 　　follow up 形成并列，備選項中只有decade符合條件。

41. climbed

解析：the odds …climbed 13% 幾率增加了13% 。解析同40題，根據and所指向的并列關系，前文說某一種風險增加了20%，某一種風險的增加了15%，此處空格也應該填一個表示上升的動詞，備選項只有climbed，爬升。

42. outcomes

解析：all of these outcomes 所有這些后果。 此題填outcomes，是對前文各種疾病風險的概括。

43. effective

解析：be especially effective at promoting unhealthy habits 更容易形成不健康的習慣。be effective at doing 有效做某事。這里是諷刺用法，用來強調看電視更容易形成不健康的習慣。

44. consume

解析：make you more likely to consume them 使你更有可能吃他們，這里注意them指前文出現的beer啤酒和popcorn爆米花，又能表示喝啤酒，又能表示吃爆米花的詞只有consume。consume消費，也只吃喝(東西)。

45. determine

解析：通過句法分析，本句應該填寫動詞原形，放在to 不定式符號之后。備選項中有3個動詞原形，其中consume已經填在了44題，在剩下的resume恢復和determine決定之間，根據語義，應選擇determine。