英语四级单选选择.docx

1. Can you understand the____D______ of someone who likes to watch animals fighting each other? A. mood B. excitement C. mentality D. feeling Thousands of disputes between management and labor resulted from____B____ wages coupled with inflation. 3. The _____A___of finding gold in California attracted a lot of people to settle down there. The manager spoke highly of such ____A____as loyalty, courage and truthfulness shown by his employees. A. virtues B. feature C. properties D. characteristics 5. Olives have been ____C____for centuries in some countries in the Middle East. A. refined B. molded C. cultivated D. surveyed 6. A large picture of the battle of Waterloo ____C____ the space above the fireplace. A. glued B. huddled C. occupied D. landscaped 7. The report seeks to ____D_____the rise in crime to the increase in unemployment. A. reveal B. affect C. motion D. relate 8. The advertisement says this material doesn B____in’the wash, but it has. A. contract B. shrink C. slim D. dissolve 9. Please be careful when you are drinking coffee in case you ____C_____the new carpet. A. crash B. pollute C. spot D. stain At first, the speaker was referring to the problem of pollution in the country but halfway in her speech, she suddenly ___B______to another subject. A. committed B. switched C. favored D. transmitted 11. He hoped the firm would ___C____him to the Paris branch. A. exchange B. transmit C. transfer D. removed 12. The ancient Egyptians knew ways to ____C_____dead bodies from decay. A. deserve B. reserve C. preserve D. conserve 13. The survivors of the shipwreck ____D_____a distress signal every hour. A. tracked B. stimulated C. steered D. transmitted 14. Only the Chinese has successfully ____C_____pandas and raised their babies in captivity. A. reproduced B. bred C. tamed D. preserved Professor Taylor ’talks has indicated that science has a very strong ___D_____on the everyday life of non-scientists as well as scientists. A. motivation B. perspective C. impression D.