2017年6月大學英語四級選詞填空解析

今年的四級考試如約而至，準時落下帷幕。蘭州新東方學校李逸飛老師在第一時間為各位同學做出解析。今年的四級閱讀難度總體平穩，沒有出現偏題怪題，與前期考試難度基本持平。

本次四級選詞填空難度適中，除了staple (a.主要的) 較難， 其餘14個單詞都是上課所講過的辭彙。

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 with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

The method for making beer has changed over time. Hops(啤酒花)，for example, which many a modern beer its bitter flavor, are a 26.relatively recent additions to the beverage. This was mentioned in reference to brewing in the ninth century. Now, researchers have found a 27.surprising ingredient in residue(殘留物) from 5000-year-old beer brewing equipment. While excavating two pits at a site in the central plains of China, scientists discovered pottery fragments from pots, funnels, amphorae, and stoves (stove fragment pictured). The different shapes of the containers 28.suggest they were used to brew, filter, and store beer—they may be ancient 「beer-making tools,」 and the earliest 29.direct evidence of beer brewing in China, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. To 30.test that hypothesis, the team examined the yellowish, dried 31.remains inside the vessels. The majority of the grains—about 80%—were from cereal crops like barley(大麥), and about 10% were bits of roots, 32.including lily, which would have sweetened the brew, the scientists say. Barley was an unexpected find: The crop was domesticated in western Eurasia and didn』t become a 33.staple food in central China until about 2000 years ago, according to the researchers. based on that timing, they suggest barley may have 34.arrived in the region not as food, but as 35.raw material for beer brewing.

A) arrived

B) consuming

C) direct

D) exclusively

E) including

F) inform

G) raw

H) reached

I) relatively

J) remains

K) resources

L) staple

M) suggest

N) surprising

O) test

【答案】26. I 27. N 28. M 29. C 30. O 31. J 32. E 33. L 34.A 35. G