2014年12月英语四级冲刺全真模拟试题二

　　Section II Use of English (15 minutes)

　　根据以下资料，回答21-40题：

　　Man has been storing up useful knowledge about himself and the universe at the rate which has been spiraling upward for l0,000 years.

　　The 21 took a sharp upward leap with the invention of writing，but even 22 it remained painfully slow for several centuries.The next great leap forward 23_______ knowledge acquisition did not occur 24 me.invention of movable type in the l5th century by Gutenberg and others. 25 to 1500，by the most optimistic 26_______ Europe was producing books at a rate of 1000 titles per year.This means that it 27 a full century to produce a library of l00000 rifles.By l950，four and a half 28 later，the rate had accelerated so sharply that Europe was producing 120000 titles a year. 29 0nce took a century now took only ten months.By l960，a 30_____ decade later，the rate had made another significant jump， 31 a century's work could be finished in seven and a half months.32 ，by the mid-sixties，the output of books on a world 33 ，Europe included，approached the prodigious figure of 900 titles per day.

　　One can 34 argue that every book is a net gain for the advancement of knowledge.Nevertheless we find that the accelerative 35 in book publication does，in fact,crudely 36 the rate at which man discovered new knowledge。For example，prior to Gutenberg 37 11 chemical elements were known.Antimony，the l2th，was discovered 38 about the time he was working on his invention.It was fully 200 years since the 11th，arsenic，had been discovered.39 the same rate of discovery continued，we would by now have added only two or three additional elements to the periodic table since Gutenber9.40 ，in the 450 years after his time，certain people discovered some seventy additional elements.And since l900 we have been isolating the remaining elements not at a rate of one every two centuries，but of one every three years.

　　21、

　　A.accumulation

　　B.development

　　C.knowledge

　　D.rate

　　22、

　　A.so

　　B.if

　　C.then

　　D.when

　　23、

　　A.to

　　B.by

　　C.from

　　D.in

　　24、

　　A.until

　　B.since

　　C.when

　　D.before

　　25、

　　A.As

　　B.Due

　　C.Prior

　　D.Next

　　26、

　　A.examples

　　B.estimates

　　C.evidence

　　D.evaluation

　　27、

　　A.would take

　　B.had taken

　　C.was taking

　　D.would have taken

　　28、

　　A.decades

　　B.centuries

　　C.dozens

　　D.years

　　29、

　　A.This

　　B.These

　　C.It

　　D.What

　　30、

　　A.plain

　　B.historic

　　C.single

　　D.eventful

　　31、

　　A.now that

　　B.so that

　　C.as

　　D.when

　　32、

　　A.However

　　B.But

　　C.And

　　D.Therefore

　　33、

　　A.scope

　　B.sphere

　　C.scale

　　D.stretch

　　34、

　　A.so

　　B.hardly

　　C.accordingly

　　D.therefore

　　35、

　　A.line

　　B.circle

　　C.diagram

　　D.curve

　　36、

　　A.fit

　　B.like

　　C.resemble

　　D.parallel

　　37、

　　A.about

　　B.only

　　C.more than

　　D.less than

　　38、

　　A.in

　　B.at

　　C.on

　　D.for

　　39、

　　A.As

　　B.Had

　　C.If

　　D.With

　　40、

　　A.In addition

　　B.In turn

　　C.Instead

　　D.In particular