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 Martian surface temperature is a 100 degrees C below zero at night, so that butter put outside will not ________.
A. thaw
B. dissolve
C. melt
D. fuse
2. Whose _______ was it to pay a visit to Lake Erie?
A. dream
B. purpose
C. thought
D. idea
3. There is a _____ of vegetables in Shanghai at the moment because of the cold weather.
A. shortage
B. want
C. need
D. desire
4. He is a bad influence ________ the children.
A. on
B. in
C. with
D. against
5. It is not easy to distinguish ______ an American and a Canadian.
A. among
B. between
C. both
D. from
6. Don’t leave your brand-raw sweater and pajamas on the floor; please hang them on the _______ behind the door.
A. rod
B. pole
C. hook
D. log
7. Christopher couldn’t tell us the name of the monster he read about in the newspaper although it was on the _____ of his tongue.
A. tip
B. end
C. slip
D. back
8. It is ________ whether Sam will come to attend his best friend’s funeral as he has taken the town’s money and made off with it.
A. unlikely B. doubtful C. improbable D. unexpected
9. To attend the grand dinner party, the French cabinet minister had a new suit made to _________.
A. Order B. direction C. instruction D. command
10. When Jim was tidying up his drawer, he ____ his mother’s prize possession the tri-coloured glazed miniature terra-cotta warrior.
A. came round B. came across C. came over D. came into
11. When the crowd saw the prize-fighter stretched out on the canvas, shouts and cheers _______ from it.
A. broke up B. broke forth C. broke through D. break upon
12. This detective story might not be _______ interesting to keep the child awake.
A. enough
B. adequately
C. amply
D. sufficiently
13. The two pieces of fried steak Mr King had for dinner gave him _____.
A. an upset stomach
B. a headache
C. a sore throat
D. an infection
14. If reading is to accomplish anything more than _______ time, it must be active.
A. wasting
B. spending
C. passing
D. idling
15. The _____ from the airport was really tiring because it was situated for from the city.
A. flight
B. travel
C. crossing
D. journey
16. _____ the Washington Monument and the Capitol, Washington D. C. would be a completely horizontal city.
A. It were not for
B. For it were not
C. Were it not for
D. weren't it for
17. ______, I'll marry him all the time.
A. Being he rich or poor
B. Was he rich or poor
C. Be he rich or poor
D. Whether rich or poor
18. A sneeze cannot be performed voluntarily, _____ be easily suppressed. A. nor cat it B. and cannot it C. nor it can D. it cannot
四级满分19. Few of the gold seekers who flocked to California were experienced miners
______ that they had to be.
A. but neither did they feel
B. neither did they feel
C. and so did they feel
D. and they felt too
20. _____, their help, we would not have succeeded.
A. Hadn't been for
B. Had not it been for
C. Had it not been for
D. It hadn't been for
Today the car is the most popular sort of transportation in all of the United States. It has completely 1 thehorse as a 2 of everyday transportation. Americans use their car for 3 90% of all 4 business. MostAmericans are able to 5 cars. The average price of a 6 made car was ,050 in 1950, ,470 in 1960 and upto ,750 7 1975.During this period American car manufacturers set about 8 their products and workefficiency. As a result, the yearly income of the 9 family increased from 1950 to 1975 10 than the priceof cars. For this reason 11 a new car takes a smaller 12 of a family’s total earnings today. In 1951 13 it took 8.1 months of an average family’s 14 to buy a new car. In 1962 a new car 15
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