2024年3月16日发(作者：)

英语四级考试练习题及答案

（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. Please ______ your voice if you have any questions to ask the chairman.

A. speak up

B. rice

C. raise

D. lift

2. Jack, the Boxer, who was seen stretched out on the canvas, had been

_____ for five minutes.

A. insensitive B. insensible C. unconscious D. unknowing

3. Clive, a student at Cambridge, will come home next week as university

_____ for the summer holidays on the 5th of July.

A. breaks up B. breaks in C. breaks down D. breaks off

4. We haven’t the _____ idea why we got such a massive telephone bill

last month.

A. dampest

B. mistiest

C. foggiest

D. rainiest

5. Liberals tend to favour ______ conservatives do .

A. more than immediate social change

B. change more immediate than social

C. more immediate social change than

D. social change more than immediate

6. Light comes in _______ the window.

A. by

B. through

C. out of

D. in

7. The young worker expressed the indignation _______ being dismissed

without any reason.

A. for

B. at

C. to

D. of

8. Science has brought _______ many changes in our life.

A. out

B. into

C. about

D. forward

9. ______ onetime, Manchester, New Hampshire, was the home of the most

productive cotton mills in the world.

A. On

B. At

C. By

D. To

10. If something is out _______ the question, it is impossible.

A. of

B. to

C. with

D. in

11. _______ snobbish people ______ you described are to be found

everywhere.

A. Such…like B. So…like C. Such…as D. So…as

12. The doctors must have spared no pains to treat the patient _______

he has recovered from his serious injury.

A. but

B. before

C. for

D. till

13. Research into the dynamics of storms is directed toward improving

the ability to predict these events _____ to minimize damage and avoid

loss of life.

A. and thus B. so C. however D. because

14. ______ the large amount of time devoted to listening every day, most

college

students do not listen effectively.

A. Moreover B. Nevertheless C. Despite D. Furthermore

15. The Smithsonian Institution preserves more than sixty-five million

items of scientific, historical, or artistic interest, ______ winning

the popular title "attic of the nation."

A. however

B. thus

C. and

D. moreover

16. Adoms hadn’t a _______ what the speaker was talking about most of

the time because the class was in chaos.

A. guess

B. thought

C. concert

D. clue

17. Linda asked to be _______ to you.

A. reminded B. remembered C. regarded D. recalled

18. The National Geographic Society headquarters, _____ in Washington

P.C. is well-known for its magazine.

A. situated

B. placed

C. stood

D. positioned

19. The words Francis Key wrote on the back of the old letter “The

Stor-Spangled Banner” because the national _____ of the United States.

A. song

B. hymn

C. anthem

D. motto

20. The blind musician ran the _______ of his finger over the piano before

he began to play.

A. points

B. ends

C. edges

D. tips

二、完型填空（共计20分）

As the plane circled over the airport, everyone sensed that something

was plane wasmoving unsteadily through the air, and 1 the

passengers had fastened their seat belts, they were suddenly2 forwar

that moment, the air-hostess 3 .She looked very pale, but was quite

4 .Speaking quickly butalmost in a whisper, she 5 everyone that the pilot

had 6 and asked if any of the passengers knewanything about machines or

at 7 how to drive a a moments 8 , a man got up and followed

the hostesssintosthe pilot’s the pilot 9 , the man took

his seat and listened carefully to the 10instructions that were being

sent by radio from the airport 11 .The plane was now dangerously close

12 the ground, but to everyone’s 13 , it soon began to clim man

had to 14 the airport several timesinsgroupsto become 15 with the

controls of the plane. 16 the danger had not yet passe terrible

17came when he had to lan ing 18 , the man guided the plane toward

the airfiel shook violently19 it touched the ground and then moved

rapidly 20 the runway and after a long run it stopped safely.

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