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2. 2018英语专业四级考试真题

PART  III  LANGUAGE USAGE

     There are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four options marked A, B, C and D.  Choose the one that best completes the sentence or answers the question. Mark hour answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

 

11. The Bent Pyramid outside Cairo __________ ancient Egypt’s first attempt to build a smooth-sided pyramid.

A. has been believed to have been

B. was believed to be

C. is believed to have been

D. is believed to be

 

12. U.S. News ____________ rankings of colleges since 1983. They are a very popular resource for students looking to apply to university campus.

A. maintains

B. is maintaining

C. maintained

D. has been maintaining

 

13. He was lured into a crime he would not ____________have committed.

A. actually

B. accidentally

C. otherwise

D. seldom

 

14. She was once a young country wife with chickens in the backyard and a view of _____________ mountains behind the apple orchard.

A. blue hazy Virginia

B. hazy blue Virginia

C. Virginia hazy blue

D. Virginia blue hazy

 

15. I long to alleviate __________, but I cannot.

A. the evil

B. evil

C. evils

D. an evil

 

16. Indeed, it is arguable that body shattering is the very point of football, as killing and maiming ______________.

A. war

B. are war

C. of war

D. are of war

 

17. At ____________, photography is a chemical process, during which a light-sensitive material is altered when exposed to light.

A. its most basic

B. its basic

C. the most basic

D. the basic

 

18. She hired a lawyer to investigate, only to learn that Gabriel had removed her name from the deed. The infinitive verb phrase “only to learn” is used __________.

A. to express an intended purpose

B. to indicate a high degree of possibility

C. to reveal an undesirable consequence

D. to dramatize a stated fact

 

19. Which of the following italicized words DOES NOT carry the metaphorical meaning?

A. I wonder what’s behind this change of plan.

B. Jim turned to speak to the person standing behind him.

C. This work should have been finished yesterday. I’m getting terribly behind.

D. I suppose I’m lucky because my parents were behind me all the way.

 

20. My mother was determined to help those in need and she would have been immensely proud of what has been achieved these last 20 years. The italicized part in the sentence expresses _______.

A. a hypothesis

B. a suggestion

C. a contradiction

D. a surprise

 

21. When the police officers who took part in the King beating were first brought to ___________, their lawyers used the videotape as evidence against the prosecution.

A. justice

B. testimony

C. trial

D. verdict

 

22._________, the most controversial candidate in the election campaign, he has been strongly criticized for his crude comments about women.

A. Questionably

B. Arguably

C. Contentiously

D. Debatably

 

23. Prices have recently risen in order to __________ the increased cost of raw materials.

A. cut

B. buoy

C. offer

D. offset

 

24. The celebrity says in court papers she “has no __________ of giving any authorization to anyone to proceed with a divorce.”

A. recommendation

B. recording

C. recollection

D. recognition

 

25.What actually __________ a good angle — or a good selfie overall — is rooted in what we consider beautiful.

A. consists

B. constitutes

C. composes

D. constructs

 

26. The school is going the ________ mile to create the next generation of sporting stars thanks to its unique development program.

A. final

B. further

C. supplementary

D. extra

 

27. The teachers’ union _________ a lawsuit against the district calling for repairing “deplorable” school conditions.

A. fired

B. filed

C. fined

D. filled

 

28. Last March the __________ of a 19th century cargo ship was found by an underwater archaeological team.

A. debris

B. ruins

C. remains

D. wreck

 

29. She’s worn his designs on __________ occasions from red carpets to movie premieres.

A. countless

B. countable

C. numerical

D. numeral

 

30. A leading ___________ intelligence and operations company has released its analysis of worldwide reported incidents of piracy and crime against mariners.

A. oceangoing

B. oceanic

C. marine