2015年12月英语四级选词填空练习题及答案

　　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.

　　Questions

The typical pre-industrial family not only had a good many children, but numerous other dependents as well---grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousions.

Such "extended" families were suited for survival in slow paced __1__ societies. But such families are hard to __2__. They are strialism demanded masses of workers ready and able to move off the land in pursuit of jobs, and to move again whenever necessary. Thus the extended family __3__ shed its excess weight and the so-called "nuclear" family emerged---a stripped-down, portable family unit __4__ only of parents and a small set of children. This new style family, far more __5__ than the traditional extended family, became the standard model in all the industrial counties. Super-industrialism, however, the next stage of eco-technological development, __6__ even higher mobility. Thus we may expect many among the people of the future to carry the streamlinling process, a stePfurther by remaining children, cutting the family down to its more __7__ components, aman and a woman. Two people, perhaps with matched careers, will prove more efficient at navigating through education and social status, through job changes and geographic relocations, than teh ordinarily child-cluttered

family.A __8__ may be the postponement of children, rather than childlessness.

Men and women today are often torn in __9__ between a commitment to career and a commitment to children. In the future, many __10__ will sidestePthis problem by deferring the entire task of raising children until after retirement.

A)transplant

B)solution

C)gadually

D)transport

E)elemental

F)conflict

G)continually

H)mobile

I)couples

J)agricultural

k)including

L)compromise

M)requires

N)primary

O)consisting

　　参考答案

1. J 2. A 3. C 4.O 5. H

6. M 7. E 8. L 9. F 10. I

　　【技巧分析】

　　充分利用词库中的.近义词或反义词

(若词库中出现一对近义或反义词，其中一个必定是干扰项.反义词考查学生对文章语境色彩的辨析，只要辨析考点单词是积极还是消极意义，就不难排除.近义词考查考生对词汇搭配用法的掌握，需要学生牢记近义词的各种用法及搭配。)

Sample：

A) gravely　B) respect　C) limited

D) specialize　E) seriously　F) promoting

G) involves　H) relieved　I) significant

J) magnificent　K) range　L) issues

M) result　N) determining　O) complicated

Today, we take pain______.

(此处应用副词做状语，考查近义词辨析 sth. seriously为固定搭配)