2013年12月英語四級完型填空模擬練習題(8)

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To others and themselves the British have a reputation for beingconservative——not in the narrow political sense, but in thesense of adherence to accepted ideas and unwilling to questionthem.The reputation comes partly from their 1_ .For 900 2_they have suffered 3_ invasion nor revolution (except in 1649 4_ 1688) nor disastrous defeat in 5_ .Their monarchy (君主政體) survives 6 _serious question.Under its normal 7_ politicalarrangements have been 8_ stable that, except for the 9_interruptions in the seventeenth 10_ , they have been adopted throughout 11_ centuries to meetchanging needs without violent 12_ .Britain, in 1978, was 13 _in managing without 14 _writtenconstitution; some fragmentary definitions of 1688 still 15 _.There had been 16_ quarrels, socialand economic as well 17_ political, but the quarrels had been 18_ , usually 19 _compromise.Theunderlying 20_ had not been broken.   1.A.language B.future C.history D.literature   2.A.centuries B.years C.minutes D.seconds   3.A.neither B.as C.or D.either   4.A.too B.but C.or D.and   5.A.home B.study C.peace D.war   6.A.and B.without C.with D.neither   7.A.name B.people C.leadership D.enemy   8.A.so B.very C.too D.such   9.A.two B.one C.no D.couple   10.A.month B.day C.year D.century   11.A.a B.any C.the D.few   12.A.changes B.change C.altered D.changed   13.A.common B.popular C.unique D.angry   14.A.two B.a C.some D.their   15.A.survive B.surviving C.survives D.survived   16.A.bitter B.happy C.pleasant D.unhappy   17.A.for B.as C.to D.at   18.A.settling B.settles C.settle D.settled   19.A.for B.at C.to D.by   20.A.continue B.continuity C.continuous D.continued
    1.【答案】C   【解析】由于下文緊接著敘述到過去900年的有關情況。故應選history,才能與下文銜接。   2.【答案】B   【解析】根據(jù)句子意思判斷。   3.【答案】A   【解析】應選neither才能與其后出現(xiàn)的nor構成并列連詞neither…nor…。   4.【答案】D   【解析】根據(jù)句子意思判斷。   5.【答案】D   【解析】需選一名詞與前面的介詞in構成介詞短語,且這個短語在語意上要與前面的disastrous defeat相吻合。故選D可以滿足這個條件。   6.【答案】B   【解析】without serious question意為“沒有嚴重的問題”。   7.【答案】C   【解析】“在……領導下”的表達方式是under the…leadership.   8.【答案】A   【解析】so…that…構成固定短語,意為“這么……以致于”   9.【答案】A   【解析】上面提到1649和1688兩次革命,所以A項正確。   10.【答案】D   【解析】根據(jù)句子意思判斷。   11.【答案】C   【解析】the centuries特指那些穩(wěn)定的世紀。   12.【答案】A   【解析】應從A或B中選一名詞作介詞without的賓語。將A和B加以比較:A.changes作可數(shù)名詞用,意為“變化”,符合題意。B.change一詞系不可數(shù)名詞,意為“零錢,找頭”。   13.【答案】C   【解析】根據(jù)上下文意思,應選unique“獨一無二的;的”。   14.【答案】B   【解析】沒有一項成文憲法,a為一項的意思。   15.【答案】D   【解析】應選survived才與上下文時態(tài)一致。   16.【答案】A   【解析】bitter意為“尖銳的,厲害的”。   17.【答案】B   【解析】as well as為一并列連詞。   18.【答案】D   【解析】settled符合語法要求。   19.【答案】D   【解析】by compromise意為“通過折衷、妥協(xié)的辦法”。如:We should settle our differences by compromise.我們應采取折衷的辦法來解決我們之間的分歧。   20.【答案】B   【解析】四個選項中,只有名詞continuity正確。