2015年6月英语四级考试真题及答案(卷二完整)

　　Part III Reading Comprehension (40minutes)

　　Section A

　　Direction: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank follwing the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making choices. Each choie in the bank is identificated by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answere Sheet2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

　　Question 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

　　It’s our guilty pleasure: Watching TV is the most common everyday activity,after work and sleep, in many parts of the world. Americans view five hours of TV each day, and while we know that spending so much time sitting ___36___ can lead to obesity(肥胖症) and other diseases, researchers have now quantified just how___37___being a couch potato can be.

　　In an analysis of data from eight large ___38___published studies, a Harvard-led group reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that for every two hours per day spent channel ___39___,the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes(糖尿病)rose 20% over 8.5 years, the risk of heart disease increased 15% over a ___40___, and the odds of dying permaturely___41___ 13% during a seven-year follow-up .All of these___42____are linked to a lack of physical exercise. But compared with other sedentary(久坐的)activities, like knitting ,viewing TV may be especially__43___at promoting unhealthy habits. For one, the sheer number of hours we pass watching TV dwarfs the time we spend on anything else. And other studies have found that watching ads for beer and popcorn may make you more likely to ___44___them.

　　Even so, the authors admit that they didn’t compare different sedentary activities to ___45___whether TV watching was linked to a greater risk of diabetes,heart disease or clearly death compared with, say, reading.

　　注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

　　A)climbed I)previously

　　B)conseme J)resume

　　C)decade K)suffered

　　D)determine L)suffering

　　E)effectIve M)term

　　F)harmful N)terminals

　　G)outcomes O)twisting

　　H)passively

　　参考答案：

　　36.H passively 成分完整，缺少状语修饰sitting，选passively;

　　37.F harmful 原句为how harmful being a couch potato can be. couch potato沙发土豆指的是总是长时间坐在沙发边吃边看电视而慢慢变成“土豆形”身材的人。

　　38.N terminals 从八个终端terminals上所获取的数据分析

　　39.L surfing channel surfing，每天花两小时搜频道

　　40.C decade 空后面是逗号，就只能从前面获得信息;空前面是不定冠词a，应填入一个名词。填ddecade和前面的8.5years相对应。

　　41.A climbed 提升了13%。

　　42.G outcomes 这里的be动词前面应该是名词短语作主语，应填入名词，选G，all of these outcomes。

　　43.E effective 由空前的may be especially可推出需要填入一个形容词，由文意可知填入effective。和其他的久坐型的活动比起来，促成不健康习惯的养成，看电视带来的效果特别明显。

　　44.B consume make sb. likely to do sth. 应填入动词原形，consume使你更有可能去消费它们。

　　45.D determine 不定式，应该填一个动词原形。作者承认他们还没有比较出哪种久坐型活动决定着心脏病等症状的出现。