大学英语四级试卷
（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. The tourists ________ through the fog, trying to read what was engraved on the gravestone Shakespeare had chosen for hiself.
A. glanced
B. glimped
C. peered
D. peeped
2. After visiting the Holy Trinity Church, the boys _______ leaving so long that they almost missed the last train to London.
A. put off
B. delayed
C. stopped
D. halted
3. Having kissed her son, Eve gave him a dismissive _________ towards the car.
A. push
B. pull
C. draw
D. drag
4. There is _________ telling what the tiger will do when it is cornered.
A. nothing
B. none
C. no
D. no
5. The members in the testing team were quite _______ and could change their schedule upon request.
A. lenient
B. supple
C. flexible
D. gentle
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. The Chairman was evidently _____ by Jim’s words and glared at him for a few seconds.
A. put down B. put across C. put away D. put out
9. Peter would no more scribble all over a first edition of Gone with the Wind than he’d give his son _____ Picasso.
A. an existing B. an actual C. an original D. an inventive
10. Norris has decided to ______ for some evening closes next term now that he has settled down in New York.
A. enroll
B. enlist
C. engage
D. enter
11. The leaders were seen _____ in the hall but they didn't make known the problems_____.
A. be assembling, discussed
B. assembling, discussed
C. assembled, discussing
D. be assembled, discussing
12. Suddenly we felt the atmosphere _____ tense.
A. to grow
B. grown
C. grow
D. grew
13. The plan _____ read, a heated discussion began.
A. had been B. has been
C. having been D. was
14. ---- Why don’t we take a little break ?
---- Didn’t we just have ______ ?
A. it                B. that            C. one            D. this
15. ____,Internet writers do make impressive progress.
A.Encouraging and praising            B.To be encouraged and praised
C.Encouraged and praised            D.To encourage and praised
16. In the west, people make ___ a rule to send Christmas presents to their relatives and friends.
A. this        B. that      C. it      D. the following
17. --Is there a flight to London this evening?
--There ____ be. I’ll phone the airport and find it out.
A. must    B. has to    C. might    D. ought to
18. He called the police for help, ____ that the problem was more than he could deal with.
A. having been realized    B. to realize    C. realized    D. realizing
19. --- How much is the desk?
---it__ninety-nine pounds.(  )
A. costs
B. Pays to
C. spends
D. Takes is
20. I am afraid I won't be able to keep in touch__him.(  )
A. To go
B. For if
C. with
D. By too
二、单词拼写（共计15分）
1.Mr. Li moved to the seashore in his f______(四十来岁).
2.H______(听到) the good news, we all jumped with joy.
四级满分3.I changed into my sports shoes so that I could walk more c_______(舒服).
4.W_______(星期三) is the fourth day of a week.
5.Walking every day keep me f_____(健康) than before.
三、阅读理解：(共30分)
Many people believe the glare from snow causes snowblindnenss. Yet, dark glasses or not , they find themselves suffering from headaches and watering eyes,and even snowblindness,when exposed to several hours of "snow light" .
The United States Army has now determined that glare from snow does not cause snowblindness in troops in a snow-covered country.Rather, a man's eyes frequently find nothing to foucs on in a broad expanse of barren snow-covered terrain. So his gaze continually shifts and jumps back and forth over the entire landscape in search of tsomething to look at. Finding nothing, hour after hour, the eyes never sotp searching and the eyeballs become sore and the eye muscles ache. Nature offsets this irritation by producing more and fluid which covers the eyeball. The fluid coversthe eyeball in increasing quantity until vision blurs, then is obsured,and the result is total, even though temporary,snowblindness.