http://home.xdf.cn/大学英语四级考试15选10专项训练Unit OneDirections:In this passage there are ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choicesgiven in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choicein the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single linethrough 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 roommust 11 three principal things:homeliness,warmth and plenty of good food.The living-room is the warm heart of thefamily and 12 often slightly stuffy to a middle-class visitor.It is not a social centre but a family center,little entertaininggoes on there or in the front room,if there 13 to be one;you do not entertain in anything approaching the middle-class 14The wife's social life outside her 15 family is found over the washing-line,at the little shop on the corner,visiting relatives ata moderate 16 occasionally,and perhaps now and again a visit with her husband to his pub or club.Apart from these twoplaces,he has just his work and his football matches.They will have,each of them,friends at all these places,who maywell 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 18for 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.Juststaying in is still one of the most common leisure-time 20A.happensB.professions C.senseD.neverthelessE.fashionedF.distanceG.immediateHusuallyI.occupations J.preservedK.imitateprovideM.thereforereservedcontributeUnit TwoPassage 2Flying over a desert area in an airplane,two scientists looked down with trained eyes at trees and bushes.After an hour's 11one of the scientists wrote in his book,"Look here for 12 metal."Scientists in another airplane,flying over a mountainregion,sent a 13 to 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 oneword,"Uranium.None of the scientists had X-ray eyes.they had no 14 powers for looking down below the earth's surface.They were 15certain minerals may lie beneath the ground on which the trees andplants are growing.This newest method of searching for minerals is 18 on 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 groupgathered bags of tree seeds.Boxes were filled with small branches from the trees.Roots were dug and put into boxes.Eachbag and box was 20 marked.In a scientific laboratory the parts of the forest trees were bumed to ashes and tested.Eachsmall part was examined to learn whether there were minerals in it.A.signsC.locatingD.affectE.merelyFmagicG.hintsH.carefullyI.findingJ.messageK.flightL.probableM.revealingbasedXDF.CNhttp://home.xdf.cn/Unit ThreePassage 2America's most famous woman is the Goddess of Liberty,i.e.the Statue of Liberty.It was first thought ofin1865 by Edouard de Laboulaye and designed by another Frenchman,Frederic Bartoldi.They wanted to_11 liberty and friendship.It was hoped that the monument would be completed by 1876 when America_12 its centennial.Fund raising and the 13 ofthe statue in France went slowly.It was 1885 when the 214 crates containing the statue reached New York.Americans were initially 14 for they had not raised the money to pay for the erection of the base.Fundraising by popular subscription was behind 15.One fund raising method used was to have popular Americans writeletters which were then sold in public.The base and statue,16 272 feet tall,were completed in 1886.From a 17 standpoint,the statue is amarvel.The inner structure was designed by the French engineer,Alexandre Eiffel.His design for the stressed copper skinAfter a century,the monument began to show signs of getting worse in 19 Just as Frenchmen had created the Statue,so it was with restoration.AFrenchman noted the decay andFrench and American craftsmen and contributionsbrought about the renewal of the Statue in time for its centennial.Liberty is still_20in France and the UnitedStates.A.completelyB.measuresC.popularDtogetherE.honorF.manufacture G.scheduleH.rewardI.celebratedJ.principlesKembarrassed L.technicalM.voluntaryNconditions0.discouragedUnit FourPassage 2Sophy Brent came to visit me nearly every day.She made me feel uneasy most of the time.She smoked 11and never usedan ashtray.She followed me into the kitchen while I made tea or coffee or supper and 12 herself to the children's orangejuice.She made a great hit with my two-year-old daughter Flora,who would 13 about her for hours and refer to herlovingly as "sofa",and she was always talking about my husband and asking me where he was.I could not decide why she chose my 14,although I realized that nobody else paid her very much attention.Her situationwas very difficult in that she was 15 out of drama school and only nineteen,but being 16 to play a leading part in acompany of fairly 17 and experienced actors.They would not have liked her much even if she had been good,and as,fromall accounts,she was not good so they took every 18 to run her down.I think she thought that I was the only person aroundwho was both unconnected with the theatre and tolerably 19.To associate with me was not,at any rate,to step down thescale.And for my part,although I felt troubled by her I did not dislike her.There was something genuinely outstanding inher personality,and she had such physical 20 that with me she could get away with anything.She was nice to have around,like flowers or a bowl of fruit.A.helpedB.smartBconstantlyD.treatedE.requiredF.supremeGhangH.charmI.continuallyJ.companyopportunityL.distinguishedM.straightN.partner0disappointedUnit FivePassage 2Many people often enjoy eating out either before or after a visit to the theatre.However,most of us would rather keep thetwo 11 separate.One man who thinks that they can be successfully combined has not only expressed his ideas in a recentbook,but also set up an establishment where the theory is put very 12 into practice.The man is Paul Thornton,and theplace is the Hollics,an old farmhouse.Whenever I visit a new restaurant,I feel the same excitement that keen theatre-goers must experience on opening night.IXDF.CNhttp://home.xdf.cn/had this feeling last Friday evening at dusk,as my wife and I were taking a walk in the beautiful gardens of the restaurant13 after we had arrived.Dinner was as excellent as we had been 14.There is no menu,for Mr.Thornton creates his mealsrather as a director produces a play.Nevertheless,the various combinations of 15 at each course are always 16 as if theywere done by magic.He and his team of highly skilled helpers serve,cut and cook the food,moving about the "stage"asconfidently as 17 actors.The meal is as different from what one finds in ordinary restaurants as a 18 performance ofAMidsummer Night's Dream would be from a second-rate television production.May I offer a few words of advice in case you are thinking of paying him a visit.Try not to arrive just after noon,as Mr.Thornton does not serve a normal lunch.His "brunch"which19the best20of a traditionalEnglish breakfast,is served around eleven o'clock and is so plentiful that lunch is unnecessary.A.featuresB.shortlyC.potentialD.definitelyE.perfectF.promotedG.liveH.professionalI.charactersJ.promisedK.choicesL.includes M.pleasuresN.vigorouslysubstitutionsUnit SixPassage2Student expeditions do a great deal of good work on the Arctic islands but from time to time cause trouble in the huts,probably because students are not familiar with the 11 of the little wooden huts dotted all over the islands of the Spizbergengroup.Each hut 12 has an inner and an outer door,shutters over the windows,a store of wood 13 up outside,dry chopped woodinside,utensils and cutlery,and above all,a small store of food.All these things must be completely in14whenever the hut is left.It makes no 15 if it is only the middle of July.That 16 hut may not be visited again before the winter.A door left open canlead either to snow filling up the hut to the ceiling,or 17 still,wind blowing the roof off.Unfastened shutters leave thewindows an easy prey for polar bears 18 for food and the result is again snow in the hut.The ready-chopped wood is alsovery important.A traveler visiting the hut in the middle of the dark time and perhaps in bad weather,his feet,hands and face bitten by thefrost,will have his difficulties doubled if the wood he left has been used up by others and he had nothing with which to19 a fire.Ten or more years ago there were enough hunters to look after most of the huts,but now many buildings have becomeuseless because there is no one to repair them and because of20A.worseB.peculiarC laidD.lightE.generallyF.orderG.particularH.conventionsI.carelessness J.differenceK.builtLfashionsM.searching N.ordinarilyO.resultUnit SevenPassage 2Most of us trade money for entertainment.Movies,concerts and shows are enjoyable but 11.If you think that you can'thave a good time without spending a lot of money,read on.A little resourcefulness and a few minutes ofnewspaper-scanning should give you some pleasant surprises.People may be the most interesting show in a large city.12 through busy streets and see what everybody else is doing.Youwill probably see people from all over the world;you will 13 see people of every age,size,and shape,and you'll get a freefashion show,too.Window-shopping is also a 14 sport if the stores are closed.Check the listings in your neighborhood paper.Local colleges or schools often 15 the public to hear an interesting speakeror a good 16.The film or concert series at the local public library probably won't cost you a penny.Be sure to checkcommercial advertisements too.A flea market can provide hours of pleasant looking round.Perhaps you can find a freecooking or crafts 17in a department store.Plan ahead for some activities.It is always more pleasant not to have people in front of you in a museum or at a zoo.Youmay save some money,too,since these places often 18 aside one or two free 19 days at slow times during the week.Make