精品文档英语专业四级完型填空题Cloze -- Passage 1Academy Award nominees who go home empty-handed may not have a shiny Oscar to show off, but they may turn out to be the bigger winners in the game of life.According to a study published in British Medical Journal on December 21, Oscar-winning screenwriters are more successful, more productive, and more ____1____ than losing nominees;however, they die sooner by about four years.Because success is usually linked to better health, his is the first ____2____ever that success is not associated with improved ____3____, says Donald Redelmeier, lead author of thestudy.Researchers ____4____down information about every person who was ever nominated for anOscar since the awards were first handed out 73 years ago.To explain the ____5____findings, he offers two theories. The first is the work-to-death hypothesis.According to Redelmeier, screenwriters are more ____6____to lead unhealthy lifestyles, meaning they smoke more, exercise less, and work a lot of late-night hours, which translates into not enough sleep.Screenwriters don't have a boss to report to, which brings into ____7____Redelmeier'ssecond explanation, the party-hearty hypothesis.When you become a successful screenwriter, you gain status without daily accountability,and as a ____8____your success may lead you to more alcohol, more parties, and more obesity,he says.Redelmeier hopes his study will ____9____how important it is to lead a healthy lifestyle.The bottom line, he says, is that greater success may ____10____lead to worse health ifpeople fail to look after themselves.A) longevity B) flourish C) aptD) sometimes E) tracked F) respectedG) account H) miracle I) occupationJ) puzzling K) stress L) consequenceM) internal N) fairly O) restrainedCloze -- Passage 2Many people wonder why some men want to live on the moon. It is ____1____ not thekind of place where most men would choose to live. But man has always moved to new areas. Some scientists hope that continued work will be done on the moon. Many experimentswill be done there more ____2____. Some large ____3____are very easy to do in a placewithout air. Matter can be heated to very high temperatures without ____4____change when it is in such a place. Air, dust, and clouds cannot ____5____man's view of space from the moon.The very high or very low temperatures and low gravity on the moon will be used for many experiments. One very important use of the moon will be to ____6____spaceship.Man might be able to learn much about his own body by living on the moon. He would be living in a habitat that he made for himself. Man would be in control of the ____7____of life inwhich he lives. ____8____could be removed from the air in this community.Gravity is the one thing that would not be under man's control. Some scientists believe thelow gravity of the moon would be ____9____for man. The heart would not have to work so hard.The body would need less energy to move than it does on the earth. However, the human body might change during long stays on the moon. Much exercise would probably be needed to keep the body in good ____10____.A) community B) condition C) launchD) insight E) chemical F) mysteriousG) experiments H) probably I) healthfulJ) easily K) extend L) renderM) promptly N) block O) bacteria精品文档．精品文档Cloze -- Passage 3Each artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. He hopes the publicwill listen and understand –he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him. What visual artist like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to ____1____,because painters translate their experience into shapes and colors, not ____2____. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors, out of the ____3____billions possible, isexceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their works we should never have noticed these ____4____shapes and colors, or have felt the ____5____which theybrought to the artist.Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in____6____and at rest; their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at,that they contain beautiful sights. Contemporary artists might say that they ____7____choosesubjects that provide an interesting pattern, that there is nothing more in it. Yet even they do not choose entirely without ____8____to the character of their subjects.If one painter chooses to paint a decaying leg and another a lake in moonlight, each of themis ____9____our attention to a certain aspect of the world. Each painter is telling us something, showing us something, ____10____something –all of which means that, consciously or unconsciously, he is trying to teach us.A) words B) directing C) countlessD) crawl E) reference F) merelyG) erect H) motion I) explainJ) emphasizing K) sympathetic L) gloriouslyM) delight N) crisis O) particularCloze -- Passage 4What is pop culture? Well, pop is ____1____ for popular. The beginning of pop culture canoften be related to popular movies, television shows, music stars and sports figures. Pop culture is also improved by business and ____2____. The most common examples of American pop culture____3____among high school and college students. ____4____set by famous people quicklybecome part of young people's lifestyles.American pop culture has spread around the world. One major reason for its ____5____isthat English is a worldwide language. English is the language of diplomacy, international business and communication. Since language and culture go together, learning English means becoming____6____of English-speaking cultures. Also, America is a world leader in movies, music and magazines. The kind of American culture communicated in those ____7____is pop culture. Finally, pop culture is easy to ____8____and to export. For that reason, it is easy to sell to the world.Many people consider that American pop culture is what America is all about. Does popculture ____9____the true culture of America? Yes and no. Pop culture does express a part of American society –____10____urban young people that pay much attention to the media. ButAmerican pop culture is not fixed and ever-changing. It is a man-made and superficial（表面的）picture of America. If you want to learn about real American culture, you'll have to go a littlefarther than McDonald's.A) trends B) immediately C) reflectD) advertising E) orderly F) awareG) short H) media I) especiallyJ) opponents K) package L) appearM) inspiring N) utmost O) popularityCloze -- Passage 5The Hakka people are seen as a united people in China. This character is especially____1____ among overseas Hakkas. They share their good and bad times together. This spirit ofunity and cooperation is ____2____in the culture of Hakka Earth Buildings.It was because when it was hard for individuals to survive on their own, people had to help精品文档．精品文档each other and learn to unite and cooperate. Only in this way could they hope to ____3____more. The design and ____4____of Hakka Earth Buildings made it easy to pull together all the weakerforces and form one stronger force. With this stronger force, better results could be achieved in terms of developing business as well as improving living ____5____.A Hakka Earth Building used to hold together the ____6____interest of a family clan（家族）or a whole village community. But now this fortress-like structure can no longer meet the needs of a ____7____society. People have moved out.of life road well as the Buildings have recorded a ____8____of history as Hakka Earthseveral generations of the Hakka people. For those later generations who have never lived and will never live in these earth buildings, they may well become a tourist ____9____in the villages. Butthe ____10____tradition represented by these earth buildings should be kept and passed on by the Hakka people as their own family culture and ethnic culture.modern C) B) standards A) generatingvain F) E) unique D) achieveconstitution I) H) attraction G) periodstructure L) K) distinguish J) rootedremarkable O) shared almost N) M)Cloze -- Passage 6on problems”“potential security authority compiled a list of BEIJING'S local education campus last week. They include fire accidents, traffic accidents, crime, bombing, stealing, socialcommunication problems and 1“Though the ‘ivory tower' shuts out some dangers from the outside world, it is not a paradiseBeijing of the focus,”said an official beto crimes and accidents. School-safety has en in 2 Education Committee.accidents 3 In the first six months of this year in China, 25 students were victims ofor crimes and 10 students committed suicide.Making live in? made safer places to numbers remain low, how can campuses be While safety education compulsory is the governments' answer. University students in Beijing will soonreceive compulsory classes. In the lessons, they will learn how to protect themselves by looking at on campus.real 4to happen. 5 For example, girls will learn when and where sexual harassment is mostin skirts not wearing mini on how to protect themselves, like They will also get 6crowded public places.those also outside, but the aware of the dangers from Students should not only belast in the list, it doesn't mean suicide is the least serious. self-inflicted. 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