05年12月英語四級(jí)考試最后模擬試卷及答案

Part III           Vocabulary    (20 minutes)

Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the ONE answer that best com­pletes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.

41. Trees are a renewable resource that when managed properly can _____ our needs indefi­nitely.

    [A] sustain       [B] retain       [C] maintain      [D] obtain

42. The Prime Minister refused to _____ on the rumor that he had planned to resign.

[A] explain            [B] comment        [C] remark         [D] talk

43. I ______ them that both the issues mentioned by my friend will be considered at the public inquiry.

[A] insure             [B] reserve      [C] persuade        [D] assure

44. It is well-known that the retired workers in our country are to _____ free medical care.

[A] entitled         [B] granted       [C] presented      [D] promised

45. The increase in student numbers ________ many problems for the university.

      [A] forces            [B]presses        [C] provides       [D] poses

46. We may have been poor, but we were always ______ dressed.

[A] respectably        [B] respectfully    [C] politely       [D] respectively

47. I am not _____ with beautiful dreams, I want beautiful realities.

[A] conservative      [B] confident      [C] content        [D] generous

48. Care should be taken to decrease the length of time that one is _____ loud continuous noise.

[A] associated with     [B] filled with     [C] subjected to     [D] attached to

49. People enter the organization from a(n) _____ range of social, economic, and educa­tional backgrounds.

[A] extensive          [B] influential     [C] diverse     [Dl peculiar

50. The agreement is not _____, because one of the people who signed it is not lawfully old enough to do so.                                              

[A] operative          [B] effective       [C] legal        [D] valid

51. After everyone was seated the chairman ______to announce his plans.

[A] progressed         [B] promoted      [C] proceeded    [D] proposed

52. Teacher's notes give practical _____ on developing reading skills, together with ideas for implementing play-reading in class.

    [A] notions          [B] hints          [C] perceptions      [D] phases

53. His sudden _____ greatly surprised all of us as he was always a very kind man.

[A] unhappiness        [B] heartiness      [C] harshness        [D] uprightness

54. She packed her bags, then called the airport and made a(n) _____ on the last flight out of Los Angeles.

[A] conservation        [B] reservation      [C] preservation     [D]observation

55. If you are a public figure you can't afford to be too _____ to criticism.

[A] sensible        [B] sensitive        [C] rational         [D] reasonable

56. His spending on pleasure and luxuries is rather high in _____ to his income.

[A] comparison      [B] calculation       [C] association      [D] proportion

57. I had difficulty in _____ myself from telling her what I thought of her.

[A] restraining        [B] retaining          [C] reserving     [D] restricting

58. The book gives a brief ____ of the course of his research up till now.

[A] outline       [B] reference       [C] frame       [D] outlook

59. Many species of animals have now _____ from the face of the earth.

[A] dissolved         [B] vanished           [C] faded    [D] escaped

60. Within days of being appointed office manager he had ________ on the staff.

[A] compelled       [B] imposed        [C] opposed         [D] compressed

61. Advertising was _____ never used, even in the early 1970s when the use of search by companies was much less widespread.

[A]precisely        [B] progressively    [C] practically       [D] presumably

62. I think you can take a(n) _____ language course to improve your English.

[A] intermediate   [B] middle        [C] medium   [D]mid

63. The chairman of the company said that new techniques had ______ improved their pro­duction efficiency.

[A] violently        [B] severely     [C] radically        [D] extremely

64. Which format a participant should choose will depend upon his or her _____ stage, work situation and individual learning style.

  [A] employment     [B] career         [C] vocation         [D] profession

65. But there are no convincing reasons for believing that this would have a _____ effect on economic performance.

[A] partial          [B] preferable         [C] beneficial        [D] liable

66. The company has just _____ its plans for the coming year, including the opening of new offices in Paris.

[A] revealed      [B] relieved           [C]revised           [D] reversed

67. The _____ between rich and poor is wider in the South than in the rest of the country.

[A] difference       [B] distinction         [C] gap    [D] variation

68. Any investigation which covers a long ____ of time is bound to encounter certain special problems.

[A] rank    [B] span       [C] scope      [D] scale

69. Nevertheless, the United States maintained its military _____ in some African and West­ern Asian countries despite international protest.                      

[A] attachment       [B] involvement      [C] interaction      [D] communication

70. Bachelor's degree graduates get an average of four or five job offers with salaries _____ from the high teens to the low 20s and plenty of chances for rapid advancement.

    [A] altering      [B] ranging        [C] differing       [D] separating