2024年6月10日发(作者：)

大学英语四级试卷

（满分120分，考试时间90分钟）

一、选择题：

（本题共20小题，每小题3分，共60分）

1. He regrets ______ my advice.

A. not having taken B. not take C. to have not taken D. not to take

2. He has been hoping for a rise in salary for a year but he ______ ask for

it yet.

A. daren’t B. doesn’t dare

C. hadn’t dared D. won’t dare

3. At an early age she already showed a talent ______ music.

A. in

B. for

C. on

D. of

4. I feel rather doubtful ________ the result of the experiment.

A. about

B. at

C. with

D. for

5. ______ the severe cold, tourism was ________ full swing.

A. Though, on B. Despite, on C. Though, in D. Despite, in

6. Passengers may leave bulky articles under the stairs ______ the conductor's

permission.

A. at

B. with

C. on

D. in

7. You won't get in _____ the end of the act.

A. till

B. at

C. by

D. in

8. He said he was in debt and asked me for a loan ______ $50.

A. on

B. for

C. with

D. of

9. What tremendous achievements we have made _______ all fronts in the past

few years!

A. in

B. on

C. at

D. of

10. John is unfortunately devoid _______ a sense of humour.

A. with

B. of

C. to

D. from

11. Betty advised me to label our luggage carefully in case it gets _____ in

transit.

A. misused B. mishandled C. mistaken D. mislaid

12. Our side my office window, there is a fire _______ on the right.

A. ladder

B. escape

C. steps

D. stairs

13. The sight of the fruit salad made our daughter kit’s mouth _____.

A. wet

B. ooze

C. water

D. moisten

14. When Langston waited to be saved by Jesus, he saw the lighted candles on

the altar _____ in the draught from the opening window.

A. flickering B. fluttering C. shivering D. wavering

15. Marilyn will not be able to come to the Christmas party as she is _______

with a cold.

A. laid down

B. laid out

C. laid by

D. laid up

16. Little _______ a year ago that I would be studying here today in Britain.

A. I thought B. thought I C. I did think D. did I think

17. Not until ______ himself seriously ill.

A. he had completed the task did he find

B. had he completed the task did he find

C. he completed the task had he found

D. did he complete the task he had found

18. In vain _______ to get in touch with the Embassy.

A. they tried B. tried they C. did they try D. they have tried

19. Seldom _____ him fly into such a rage since I knew him.

A. I sew B. I have seen C. had I seen D. have I seen

20. Only by carrying out an open-door poling ______.

A. our country can be developed

B. can be our country developed

C. can our country develop

D. our country can develop

二、翻译（共计10分）

1. 电影开演半小时了。

汉译英：__________________________________________________________

2. 同学们花了几天时间完成了这项工作。

汉译英：___________________________________________.

3. 感谢告诉我这么多有关西方礼节的事情。

汉译英： ________________________________________________________

4. 你能告诉我哪里有好的地方吃饭吗？

汉译英： _________________________________________________________

5. 他明年将开始在中国教英语。

汉译英： ___________________________________________________________

三、完型填空：(共20分)

For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work

they must read letters,reports, trade publications, interoffice

communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: anever-ending flood

of words. In (1) -- a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend

(2)-- can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate

fact is that most of us are (3)-- readers. Most of us develop poor reading

(4) -- at an early age, and never get over them. The maindeficiency (5) --

in the actual stuff of language itself-words. Taken individually, words have

(6) --meaning until they are strung together into phrased, sentences and

paragraphs. (7) --, however, theuntrained reader does not read groups of words.

He laboriously reads one word at a time, oftenregressing to (8) – words or

passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over (9) -- you have justread,

is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which (10) -- down the speed

of reading isvocalization - sounding each word either orally or mentally as

(11) -- overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device

called an (12), which moves a bar(or curtain) down the page at a predetermined

spee D. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate (13) -- thereader finds

comfortable, in order to “stretch”him. The accelerator forces the reader

to read fast, (14) --word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization,

practically impossible. At first (15) -- issacrificed for spee D. But when

you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, (16) --your

comprehension will improve. Many people have found (17) -- reading skill

drastically improvedafter some training. (18) -- Charlce Au, a business

manager, for instance, his reading rate was areasonably good 172 words a minute

(19) -- the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. Heis

delighted that how he can (20) -- a lot more reading material in a short period

of time.

ng C. offering D. getting

y C. roughly D. decidedly

s C. poor D. urgent

ng C. situations D. custom

es C. touches D. involves

B. A lot C. little D. dull

ately fact C. Logically D. Unfortunately

C. rewrite D. recite

C. that D. if

C. slows D. measures

one C. he D. reader

rator C. amplifier D. observer

C. beyond D. than

ng g C. making D. indicating

g hension C. gist D. regression

C. or D. for

C. their D. such a

at C. Make D. Consider

C. after D. before

over C. present D. get through