英语四级考试练习题及答案
（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 new examination syllabus for English majors will _____ next week.
A. come off B. come out C. come on D. come down
2. Department of Agriculture rules say farmers _____ sell their grain for human use if it contains no more than two insects per kilogram.
A. must
B. may
C. should
D. ought to
3. _______ happens in the world, the National Geographic Society records the changes.
A. Whatever B. Whenever C. However D. No matter
4. On that bitterly cold winter night, few people walked along the now _____narrow street.
A. deserted
B. lonely
C. isolated
D. neglected
5. The factory has turned out ______.
A. twice more TV sets this year than last year
B. TV sets this year twice as many as last year
C. twice as many TV sets this year as last year
D. TV sets twice more this year than last year
6. Human facial expressions differ from those of animals in the degree ______ they can be deliberately controlled and modified.
A. to which B. in which C. at which D. on which
7. ______ a laser to operate, stimulated emission must predominate over absorption throughout the laser medium.
A. Ordering to B. For ordering C. In order for D. The order of
8. An increase in wages is an incentive _______ better work.
A. to
B. in
C. of
D. for
9. Wine and song are appropriate ________ the occasion.
A. at
B. to
C. on
D. by
10. The death of the President is a loss regretted ______ all.
A. to
B. for
C. at
D. by
11. A doctor by training _______ he was, he proved himself to be a greater writer.
A. as
B. though
C. since
D. if四级满分
12. _____ the stress of examinations is over, we can all relax.
A. While
B. Even though
C. For
D. How that
13. As the sky grew darker, it became obvious to us that the boys _____ to finish the game quickly if they wanted to avoid the storm.
A. Have B. would have C. ought have D. having
14. Shout more loudly. He _____ you.
A. can't have heard
B. will not have heard
C. ought to have heard
D. may have heard
15. Don't bother me. Do what you _______, I don't care.
A. shall
B. will
C. will like
D. would like
16. Frank realized fully what he had dreamed about could not ______ have happened in real life.
A. Likely B. certainly C. doubtfully D. possibly
17. We had to wait some time before the menu was brought to us and our orders_____.
A. taken
B. given
C. done
D. made
18. _____ all their efforts, the American farmers can’t keep insects from damaging their cr
ops.
A. Despite
B. With
C. By
D. Under
19. The Chairman of our dramatic society was in the middle of phoning me when we were _____.
A. cut in
B. cut off
C. cut down
D. cut out
20. Accidents and exhaustion may force more than half the cyclists to drop out before reaching the ______.
A. dead line B. end line
C. finish line D. finishing line
People of Burlington are being disturbed by the sound of bells.Four students from BurlingtonCollege of Higher Education are in the bell tower of the 1 and have made up their minds to 2 the bellsnonstop for two weeks as a protest against heavy trucks which run 3 through the narrow High Street. “They not only make it 4 to sleep at night, but they are 5 damage to our houses and shops of historical6 ,”said John Norris, one of the protesters. “ 7 we must have these noisy trucks on the roads,”said Jean Lacey, a biology student, why don’t they build a new road that goes round the town Burlington isn’t much more than a 8 village.Its streetswere never 9 for heavy traffi C.Harry Fields also studying
10 said they wanted to make as much 11 possible to force the government officials to realize what everybody wasshavingsto 12 .“Most of them don’t 13 here anyway,”he said“, they come in for meetings and that, and the Town Hall is soundproof, so they probably don’t 14 .It’s high time they realized the problem.”The fourth student, Liza Vernum, said she thought the public were 15 on their side, and even if they weren’t they soon would be.I asked if they were 16 that the police might come to 17 them. “Not really,”she said,“actually we are 18 bellringers.I mean we are assistant bellringers for the church.There is no 19 against practising.”I 20 the church with the sound of the bells ringing in my ears.
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