英语四级考试15选10专项考试题库含答案考点总结版全套Unit OneDirections:In this passage there are 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 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.Looking back on years of living in a working-class home in the North of England, I should say that a good living room must11three principal things: homeliness, warmth and plenty of good food. The living-room is thewarmheart of the family and12often slightly stuffy to a middle-class visitor. It is not a social centre but a family center; little entertaining goes onthereor inthefront room, if there13to be one; you do not entertain in anything approaching the middle-class14 The wifes social life outside her 15 family is found over the washing-line, at the little shop on the corner, visiting relatives atamoderate 16 occasionally, and perhaps now and againa visit withher husband to his pub or club. Apart from these two places, he has just his work and his football matches. They will have, each of them, friends at all these places, who may well not know what the inside of their house is like, having never stepped across the threshold, as the old 17 phrase has it. The family hearth is 18 for the family itself, and those who are something to us(another favorite formula) and who look in for a talk or just to sit. Much of the free time of a man and his wife will 19 be passed at that hearth. Just staying in is still one of the most common leisure-time 20A. happensB.professionsC.senseD.neverthelessE. fashionedF.distanceG.immediateH.usuallyI. occupationsJ.preservedK.imitateL.provideM. thereforeNreserved0.contributeUnit TwoPassage 2Flying over a desert area in an airplane, two scientists looked down with trained eyes at trees and bushes. After an hours11one of the scientists wrote in his book, Look here for12metal. Scientists in another airplane, flying over a mountain region, sent a13to other scientists on the ground, Gold possible. Walking across hilly ground, four scientists reported, This ground should be searched for metals. From an airplane over a hilly wasteland a scientist sent back by radio one word, Uranium. None of the scientists had X-ray eyes: they had no14powers for looking down below the earths surface. They were15putting to use one of the newest methods of16minerals in the groundusing trees and plants as17that certain minerals may lie beneath the ground on which the trees andplants are growing.This newest method of searching for minerals is18on the fact that minerals deep in the earth may19the kind of bushes and trees that grow on the surface.At Watson Bar Creek, a brook six thousand feet high in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada, a mineral search group gathered bags of tree seeds. Boxes were filled with small branches from the trees. Roots were dug and put into boxes. Each bag and box was 20 marked. In a scientific laboratory the parts of the forest trees were burned to ashes and tested. Each small part was examined to learn whether there were minerals in it.A. signsB.sufficientlyC.locatingD.affectE. merelyF.magicG.hintsH.carefullyI. findingJ.messageK.flightL.probableM. revealingN.basedO.informationUnit Three.Passage 2Americas most famous woman is the Goddess of Liberty, i. e. the Statue of Liberty. It was first thought of in 1865 by Edouard de Laboulaye and designed by another Frenchman, Frederic Bartoldi. They wanted to11liberty and friendship.It was hoped that the monument would be completed by 1876 when America12its centennial. Fund raising and the13of the statue in France went slowly. It was 1885 when the 214 crates containing the statue reached New York.Americans were initially14for they had not raised the money to pay for the erection of the base. Fund raising by popular subscription was behind15. One fund raising method used was to have popular Americans write letters which were then sold in public.The base and statue,16272 feet tall, were completed in 1886. From a17standpoint, the statue is a marvel. The inner structure was designed by the French engineer, Alexandre Eiffel. His design for the stressed copper skin of the statue anticipated many of the18utilized in modern aircraft.After a century, the monument began to show signs of getting worse in19. Just as Frenchmen had created the Statue, so it was with restoration.A Frenchman noted the decay and French and American craftsmen and contributions brought about the renewal of th