2016年12月英语四级选词填空真题及答案第一套PARTⅢReading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select oneword for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefullybefore making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by aletter. 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.Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there are“male”and“female ”brains,believing that explains just about everydifference between the sexes.A new study 26 that belief, questioningwhether brains really can be distinguished by gender.In the study, Tel Aviv University researchers 27 for sex differences throughout the entire human brainAnd what did they find? Not much. Rather than offer evidence for 28brains as “male”or “female ”,research shows that brains fall into awide range , with most people falling right in the middle.Daphna Joel ,who led the study, said her research found that whilethere are somegender‐based 29 ,many different types of brain can’t always be distinguished by gender.While the “average”male and“average”female brains were 30different, you couldn ’t tell it by looking at individual brain scans. Only a small31of people had “all-male ”or“all-female ”characteristics.Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist( 神经科学家) ，said the study is an important addition to a growing body of research questioning 32beliefs about gender and brain function. But he cautioned againstconcluding from this study that all brains are the same, 33 of gender.“There’s a mountain of evidence 34 the importance of sex influences at all levels of brain function , ”he told The Seattle Times.If anything, he said, the study 35that gender plays a very important role in the brain —“even when we are not clear exactly how. ”Directions: In this section, there is a passage with 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 yourchoices. 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.It ’s our guilty pleasure: Watching TV is the most common everyday activity,after work and sleep, in many parts of the world. Americans view five hours ofTV each day, and while we know that spending so much time sitting （36）can le ad to obesity ( 肥胖症) and other diseases, researchers have now quantified justhow（37）being a couch potato can be.In an analysis of data from eight large （38）published studies, a Harvard-led group reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that forevery two hours per day spent channel （39）, the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes( 糖尿病) rose 20% over 8.5 years, the risk of heart disease increased 15%over a （40）, and the odds of dying prematurely （41）13% during a seven-year follow-up. All of these （42）are linked to a lack of physical exercise. Butcompared with other sedentary( 久坐的) activities, like knitting, viewing TV maybe especially （43）at promoting unhealthy habits. For one, the sheer numberof hours we pass watching TV dwarfs the time we spend on anything else. And other studies have found that watching ads for beer and popcorn may make you morelikely to （44）them.Even so, the authors admit that they didn ’t compare different sedentary activities to （45）whether TV watching was linked to a greater risk of diabetes,heart disease or early death compared with, say, reading.A) climbed B) consume C) decade D) determine E) effective F) harmful G) outcomes范文 范例 指导学习H) passively I) previously J) resume K) suffered L) surfing M) term N) terminals O) twisting参考答案解析 ：36. passively解析： sitting passively 被动坐着从词性判断， 36题应该选一个副词来修饰s itting 这个动名词， 而备选项中只有两个副词，一个是 passively 被动地，一个是 previously 之前，再根据语义逻辑，坐着那看电视的行该是一，而不存在前后之分。

37. harmful 解析： quantified just how harmful being a couch potato 量化长时间看电视的严重危害通过分析 how ( ) being a couch potato can be 这句话的句子成分， 得出 how 这个副词该接一个，性条，一个是 effective 有效的，一个是 harm f u l 有害的。

视是有害的harmful 。

38. previously解析： previously published studies 之前公布的研究填一p u b l i s h ，参考 的解在只剩下一个副词就是 previously ，刚好填入此处。