2015年12月英语四级阅读答案解析

2015年12月英语四级阅读答案解析

2015年12月英语四级阅读答案解析

【阅读】

选词填空

第一篇For manyAmericans, 2013 ended with an unusually

bitter cold snap. LateNovember and December saw early snow

and bone-chilling temperaturesin much of the country, part of a

year when—for the first time intwo decades—record-cold days

will likely turn out to haveoutnumbered record-warm ones. But

the U.S. was the exception:November was the warmest ever

globally, and the provisional dataindicates that 2013 is likely to

have been the fourth-hottest yearon record.

Enjoy thesnow now, because chances are good that 2014 will

be evenhotter—perhaps the hottest year since records have been

kept.That’s because,scientists are predicting, 2014 will be an El

Niño year.

El Niño,Spanish for “the child”, occurs when surface ocean

waters in thesouthern Pacific become abnormally warm. So large

is the Pacific,covering 30% of the planet’s surface, that the

specific energygenerated by its warming is enough to touch off

a series of weatherchanges around the world. El Niño are

associated with abnormallydry conditions in the Southeast Asia

and Australia. They can leadto extreme rain in parts of North and

South America, even assouthern Africa experiences dry weather.

Marine life may beaffected too: El Niño the rising of the cold,

nutrient-rich waterthat supports large fish populations, and the

unusually warm oceantemperatures can destroy coral.

参考答案

36. N. saw 第一空显然缺少谓语，优先考虑动词，结合语义并根据Late November andDecember可以推出应选择过去式动词，故答案锁定saw.

37. F. decades 根据two，首选复数名词，结合语义，“for the

first time in the two decades”,二十年来头一次。

38. H.globally 句子为主系表结构，不缺主要成分，所以首选副词和形容词，根据语义，ever表示“一直以来地、向来地”，“十一月向来是全球范围内最温暖的一个月。”

39. D.chances 缺少主语，并且谓语是are，所以首选复数形式的名词，结合前文Enjoythe snow now, “享受现在的雪吧”，因为“时机是好的”。

40. J.occurs 空格前方有主语，且是单数形式，而后面由when引导的时间状语从句的时态是一般现在时，所以主句谓语锁定第三人称单数形式的动词，只能选择occurs.

41. A.specific空格左为定冠词the，空格右为名词，中间只能选形容词，选择“特定的”符合语义。

42. B. associated 空格左为be动词，右边为介词with，中间只能是形容词或动词的过去分词形式，beassociated with表示“与…有联系”，符合原意。

43. G.experiences 空格左为主语southern Africa，空格内应该为动词的第三人称单词形式，结合语义，选G，“南非经历着干燥的天气。

44. M.reduce 空格左为情态动词，空格内必须为动词原形，填reduce“减少”符合原题。

45. K. populations 空格与左边的large fish 共同构成动词support的宾语，只能选一个名词来作为名词词组，故选K，“大量的鱼群”。

仔细阅读

第一篇

Everybody sleeps—so goes theSesame Street song meant

for obstinately awakechildren. That may be true, but what people stay up late tocatch—or wake up early in order not to miss—varies byculture.

Around the world, people changed sleep patterns thanks to

the startor end of daylight savings time. Russians, for example,

began towake up about a half-hour later each day after President

VladimirPutin shifted the country permanently to “winter

time”starting on October 26.

Russia’s other latenights and early mornings generally

coincided with public holidays.One such spike was on New

Year’s Eve, which Russians tend to ringin with unusual fervor, as

well as on World War II Victory Day.According to another

Jawbonefinding,Russians have the world's latest bedtime on

December 31, hittingthe hay at around 3:30 a.m.

Russians also got upan hour later on International Women’s

Day, the day for coddlingand celebrating female relatives.

Similarly, Americans’late nights, late mornings, and longest

sleeps coincided withthree-day weekends.

Canada got the leastsleep of the year the night it beat

Sweden in the Olympic hockeyfinal.

The World Cup wasalso a major sleep-deprivation culprit.

The worst night for sleepin the U.K. was the night of the England-Italy match on June 14.Brits stayed up a half-hour later to watch

it, and then they wokeup earlier than usual the next morning

thanks to summer nights, thephenomenon in which the sun

barely sets in northern countries inthe summertime. That was

nothing, though, compared to Germans,Italians, and the French,

who stayed up around an hour and a halflater on various days

throughout the summer to watch theCup.

It should be made clear that not everyone has a device to

record their sleep patterns; in some of these nations, it’s likely that only the richest people do. And people who elect to track

their sleep may try to get more sleep than the average person.

Even if that’s the case, though, the above findings are still

striking. If the most healthconscious among us have such deep

swings in our shuteye levels throughout the year, how much

sleep are the rest of us losing?

参考答案及解析

61题，定位到第一段最后一句“varies byculture”，所以答案选A——They areculture-related.

62题，由题干的大写名词Russian定位到第二段和第三段。第二段的“Russian, for example, began towake up about a half-hour

later each day”这一句是干扰句，起得晚不一定睡得早，所以答案推不出“他们比其他地方的人睡得更久”。然后看到第三段“Russia’sother late nights and early mornings generally

coincided withpublic holidays”，所以答案为C——They don’t