2007年6月23日四级考试完型填空——点评(附录供原题和参考答案)
2007年6月24日
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西安新东方学校
国内部
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07年6月的四级昨天刚刚落下帷幕就收到很多考生反馈过来的信息,他们普遍认为今年的考题比去年难,时间不够用,由于前面的快速阅读,学员们用的时间占用太多以至于后面的完型没有细看,只能草草做完。其实,今年的完型难度和题材都保持了一如既往的风格。难度适中,甚至比2006年12月份的完型要简单些,因为本篇完形填空原文属记叙描写类文章,主题围绕发生在印度卡什米尔地区的自然灾害(地震)、援助和灾后重建等内容展开,我们在平时的练习中这类文章已经见过很多次了,我们对相对熟悉的内容就会感到游刃有余。
下面我们就详细地分析这一次的四级完型的特点。
第一,近义词的辨析一直是每次完型考试必考的内容之一
例如,
79题,they are _79___ of free fresh
fruit.
A)
seeking
B)
dreaming
C)
longing
D) searching
这里考查动词词组的用法,seek 是及物动词,而
dream 有它的固定用法—— dream of doing
sth.,选项 long 的用法是:long for
sth. 或者 long to do sth. ,
选项D) search
后面接for,
67题: It (the earthquake) took some 75,000
lives, ____ 13,000 and left nearly 3.5 million without food, jobs,
or homes.
A
injured
B
ruined
C
destroyed
D damaged
相信这四个单词对于大家来说都不陌生,都是我们词汇课堂上专门强调过的同义词,ruin,
destroy, damage 都表示对物体的破坏和摧毁,只有injure
表示人的受伤,结合前文死了多少人(took
…lives),接下来就该讲受伤了多少人,后面又讲到多少人无家可归。所以根据常识判断选出正确答案injure
应该不困难。
再如78题:
families … had to … share cook-stoves and bathing _____
with neighbors.
A facilities
B
instruments
C
implements
D
appliances
这几个单词也是我们常见的高频词,这里考察的是它们词义的辨析。在本题中因为出现了cook-stoves
和bathing
,所以我们选facilities(设施)
与之搭配,另外要引起我们注意的是home appliances
(household appliances/household electric
appliances)也是经常考察到的固定表达,意为家用电器。
再如85题:
And for the thousands of survivors, the _____ will never be
complete.
A)
reservation
B)
retreat
C)
replacement
D) recovery
这一题考察的是re-字母打头的单词,几乎每一次考试都会考到re-字母打头的单词,其实是形近字的辨析,reservation
预定,保留;retreat 退却,撤退,放弃;replacement
代替,更换,替换品;recovery
找回,恢复,痊愈。如果对词义很熟悉,排除形近的干扰后,迅速就能选出正确选项。而从上下文我们可以得知,援助工作者预测重新建设成地震以前的模样要花很多年的时间,对于很多幸存者来说,这种恢复是不可能完成的。因此答案就是recovery.
第二 ,结合上下文选择合适的词义。
如80题:
They want to get back to their herds and
start 80 again.
A)
producing B)
cultivating
C) farming D) nourishing
要选对这个空,必须借助于前面一个短语 go back to
herds(畜群),从意义上farming(务农,畜牧)和前面的意思最为接近,所以选farming.
第三,和2006年6月以及12月份一样有一次考查了大量的短语和固定搭配。
例如: set out ; set in ; set forth ; set on.
(71题),take aside; take away; take up;
take out.(84题).
其中还考到了一些常见的短语 ,如:provide
…for…(73题),as many as
(76题) , nothing but
(81题), dream of (79题).
最后,通过对这次完型的浅析,我们不难得出结论,在今后的复习备战中,除了将历年完形填空真题仔细分析外,那就是无论出什么样的题材和什么形式的考题,只要我们紧紧抓住“一个中心两个基本点”就可以了,一个中心,即指以高频词为中心,包括近义词的意义辨析和形近词的区别。一个基本点是指固定搭配,包括万能词和不同介词搭配,常见短语搭配;另一个基本点是联系语境,结合上下文来选择合适的选项,毕竟词本无义,意随景生。
附录:
2007年6月23日
四级完型填空
An earthquake hit Kashmir on Oct.8.2005. it took some 75,000
lives, __67 130,000 and left nearly 3.5
million without food, jobs or homes. _68____overnight,
scores of tent villages bloomed ___69__ the region, tended
by international aid organizations, military __70___ and aid
groups working day and night to shelter the survivors before winter
set _71___.
Mercifully , the season was
mild. But with the __72__ of spring, the refugees will be
moved again. Camps that _73___ health care, food and shelter
for 150,000 survivors have begun to close as they were
_74___ intended to be permanent.
For most of the refugees, the thought of going back brings
__75__ emotions. The past six months have been difficult.
Families of __76__ many as 10 people have
had to shelter _77___ a single tent and share cook stoves
and bathing __78__ with neighbors. “ they are looking
forward to the clean water of their rivers,” officials say. “
they are _79___ of free fresh fruit. They want to get back
to their herds and start __80__ again.” But most will be
returning to _81___ but heaps of ruins. In many villages ,
electrical __82__have not been repaired, nor have roads. Aid
workers _83___that it will take years to rebuild what the
earthquake took __84__. And for the thousands of survivors,
the _85____ will never be complete.
Yet the survivors have to start somewhere.
New homes can be built _86___ the stones, bricks and beams
of old ones. Spring is coming and it is a good time to start
again.
67. A)
injured B)
ruined C)
destroyed
D) damaged
68. A)
Altogether
B)Almost C)
Scarcely
D)Surely
69. A)
among
B)
above
C)
amid
D) across
70. A)
ranks
B) equipment C)
personnel D)
installations
71. A)
out
B)
in
C)
on
D)forth
72. A)
falling
B) emergence C)
arrival
D) appearing
73. A)
strengthened B)
aided
C) transferred D) provided
74. A)
never
B)
ever
C)
once
D) yet
75. A)
puzzled B)
contrasted C)
doubled
D) mixed
76. A)
like
B)
as
C)
so
D) too
77. A)
by
B)
below
C)
under
D) with
78. A)
facilities B)
instruments C)
implements D) appliances
79. A)
seeking
B)
dreaming
C)
longing
D) searching
80. A)
producing B)
cultivating
C)
farming
D) nourishing
81. A)
anything B)
something
C) everything D) nothing
82. A)
lines
B)
channels
C)
paths
D) currents
83. A)
account
B) measure
C)
estimate
D) evaluate
84. A)
aside
B)
away
C)
up
D) out
85. A)
reservation B)
retreat
C)
replacement
D) recovery
86. A)
from
B)
through
C)
upon
D) onto
Keys:
67. A) injured 68. B)
Almost 69. D)
across 70.
C)personnel
71. B)in
72.
C)arrival 73.
D) provided 74. A) never
75.D) mixed
76.B)
as
77.
C) under 78.A)
facilities
79.B ) dreaming 80. C)
farming 81. D) nothing 82. A )
lines
83. C) estimate
84. B)
away 85.D)
recovery 86. A) from