2016年12月英语四级考试完形填空训练题

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2016年12月英语四级考试完形填空训练题

　　完形填空训练题一

　　Who won the World Cup 1994 football game? What happened at the United Nations? How did the critics like the new play? ____1____ -- an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets ____2____ -- the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reports are on the spot to ____3____ -- the news.

　　Newspapers have one basic ____4____ --, to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to ____5____ -- it. Radio, telegraph, television, and 6 inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. ____7____ --, this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the ____8____ -- and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are ____9____ -- and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch outsintos many other fields. Besides keeping readers ____10____ -- of the latest news, today's newspapers ____11____ -- and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers' economic choices ____12____ -- advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very ____13____ --. Newspapers are sold at a price that ____14____ -- even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main ____15____ -- of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The ____16____ -- in selling advertising depends on a newspaper's value to advertisers. This ____17____ -- in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends ____18____ -- on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment ____19____ -- in a newspaper's pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper's value to readers as a source of information ____20____ -- the community, city, country, state, nation, and world—and even outer space.

　　1.A.Just when B. While C. Soon after D. Before

　　2.A.to give B. giving C. given D. being given

　　3.A.gather B. spread C. carry D. bring

　　4.A.reason B. cause C. problem D. purpose

　　5.A.make B. publish C. know D. write

　　6.A.another B. other C. one another D. the other

　　7.A.However B. And C. Therefore D. So

　　8.A.value B. ratio C. rate D. speed

　　9.A.spread B. passed C. printed D. completed

　　10.A.inform B. be informed C. to be informed D. informed

　　11.A.entertain B. encourage C. educate D. edit

　　12.A.on B. through C. with D. of

　　13.A.forms B. existence C. contents D. purpose

　　14.A.tries to cover B. manages to cover

　　C. fails to cover D. succeeds in

　　15.A.source B. origin C. course D. finance

　　16.A.way B. means C. chance D. success

　　17.A.measures B. measured C. Is measured D. was measured

　　18.A.somewhat B. little C. much D. something

　　19.A.offering B. offered C. which offered D. to be offered

　　20.A.by B. with C. at D. about

　　完形填空训练题二

　　From childhood to old age, we all use language as a means of broadening our knowledge of ourselves and the world about us. When humans first ____1____--, they were like newborn children, unable to use this ____2____ -- tool. Yet once language developed, the possibilities for human kind’s future ____3____ -- and cultural growth increased.

　　Many linguists believe that evolution is ____4____ -- for our ability to produce and use language. They ____5____ -- that our highly evolved brain provides us ____6____ -- an innate language ability not found in lower ____7____ --. Proponents of this innateness theory say that our ____8____ -- for language is inborn, but that language itself develops gradually, ____9____ -- a function of the growth of the brain during childhood. Therefore there are critical ____10____ -- times for language development.

　　Current ____11____ -- of innateness theory are mixed, however, evidence supporting the existence of some innate abilities is undeniable. ____12____ --, more and more schools are discovering that foreign languages are best taught in ____13____ -- grades. Young children often can learn several languages by being ____14____ -- to them, while adults have a much harder time learning another language once the ____15____ -- of their first language have become firmly fixed.

　　____16____ -- some aspects of language are undeniably innate, language does not develop automatically in a vacuum. Children who have been ____17____ -- from other human beings do not possess language. This demonstrates that ____18____ -- with other human beings is necessary for proper language development. Some linguists believe that this is even more basic to human language ____19____ -- than any innate capacities. These theorists view language as imitative, learned behavior. ____20____ --, children learn language from their parents by imitating them. Parents gradually shape their child's language skills by positively reinforcing precise imitations and negatively reinforcing imprecise ones.

　　1.A.generated B. evolved C. born D. originated

　　2.A.valuable B. appropriate C. convenient D. favorite

　　3.A.attainments B. feasibility C. entertainments D. evolution

　　4.A.essential B. available C. reliable D. responsible

　　5.A.confirm B. inform C. claim D. convince

　　6.A.for B. from C. of D. with

　　7.A.organizations B. organisms C. humans D. children

　　8.A.potential B. performance C. preference D. passion

　　9.A.as B. just as C. like D. unlike

　　10.A.ideological B. biological C. social D. psychological

　　11.A.reviews B. reference C. reaction D. recommendation

　　12.A.In a word B. In a sense C. Indeed D. In other words