2018年6月英语四级第一套卷真题及答案(9)

　　Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension （40 minutes）

　　Section A

　　Directions： 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 following the passage。 Read the passage through carefully before making your choices。 Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter。 Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre。 You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once。

　　Since the 1940s， southern California has had a reputation for smog。 Things are not as bad as they once were but， according to the American Lung Association， Los Angeles is still the worst city in the United States for levels of 26 。Gazing down on the city from the Getty Center， an art museum in the Santa Monica Mountains， one would find the view of the Pacific Ocean blurred by the haze（霾）。Nor is the state’s bad air 27 to its south。 Fresno， in the central valley， comes top of the list in America for year-round pollution。 Residents’ hearts and lungs are affected as a 28 。

　　All of which， combined with California’s reputation as the home of technological 29 ，makes the place ideal for developing and testing systems designed to monitor pollution in 30 。And that is just what Aclima， a new firm in San Francisco， has been doing over the past few months。 It has been trying out monitoring that are 31 to yield minute-to-minute maps of 32 air pollution。 Such stations will also be able to keep an eye on what is happening inside buildings， including offices。

　　To this end， Aclima has been 33 with Google’s Street View system。 Davida Herzl， Aclima’s boss， says they have revealed pollution highs on days when San Francisco’s transit workers went on strike and the city’s 34 were forced to use their cars。 Conversely， “cycle to work” days have done their job by 35 pollution lows。

　　［评述］

　　选词填空的解题技巧第一步将选项根据词性分类，这道题中考查名词7个，动词5个，形容词2个，副词1个。因此将单词分类之后，我们很快把15选1缩小到了最多是7选1，最少的情况是1选1。另外，名词通过简单判断单复数形式，动词通过时态和非谓语动词还可以进一步缩小范围。同样，仔细阅读解题的关键仍然与我们强调的一致，找准定位，选项与原文内容一一比对，排除各类干扰选项后，做对题目并不是很难。

　　［答案］

　　26。 M pollutants

　　27。 N restricted

　　28。 C consequence

　　29。 J innovation

　　30。 F detail

　　31。 K intended

　　32。 L outdoor

　　33。 B collaborating

　　34。 I inhabitants

　　35。 E creating

　　［解析］

　　26。 答案M

　　解析：介词of后填名词，根据上下文语义，该空后为pollutants，污染物。

　　27。 答案N

　　解析：固定搭配be restricted to，表示“仅限于…，限制在…”。

　　28。 答案C

　　解析：空前不定冠词，空格填名词，固定搭配as a consequence，表示“因此”。

　　29。 答案J

　　解析：空前形容词，空格填名词，结合语义，为innovation，创新。

　　30。 答案F

　　解析：空前介词，空格填名词，固定搭配in detail，表示“详细地”。

　　31。 答案K

　　解析：固定搭配be intended to，表示“打算，意图”。

　　32。 答案L

　　解析：空前介词，空后名词，空格填形容词，结合语义选择outdoor，表示户外的。

　　33。 答案B

　　解析：结合时态和固定搭配collaborate with，表示“合作”。

　　34。 答案I

　　解析：空前所有格，空格填名词，结合语义，I选项inhabitants居民为正确选项。

　　35。 答案E

　　解析：空前介词，空后名词，空格填动词ing，结合语义，E选项正确。

　　Section B

　　Directions： In this section， you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it。 Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs。 Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived。 You may choose a paragraph more than once。 Each paragraph is marked with a letter。 Answer the question by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2。