四級英語選詞填空訓練題

　　選詞填空是英語四級考試改革後出現的新題型，由於題目考查的範圍和內容較複雜，成為不少考生失分較多的題型。下面小編為大家帶來，歡迎考生參考練習。

　　原文

　　Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always __1__ such people, but I also explain that there'sa big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of __2__ and fame, notthe long hours alone at a typewriter. "You've got to want to write," I say to them, "not want to be a writer."The reality is that writing is a __3__, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there arethousands more whose longing is never __4__. When I left a 20-year career in the US. Coast Guard to become a freelancewriter***自由撰稿人***, I had no __5__ at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn't even matter that it was __6__and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and feltlike a __7__ writer.After a year or so, however, I still hadn't gotten a break and began to __8__ myself. It was so hard to sell a storythat __9__ made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn't going to be one ofthose people who die wondering, what if? I would keeo putting my dream to the test----even though it meant living with __10__and fear of failure. This is the Shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream learn to live there.

　　選項

　　A*** barely

　　B*** genuine

　　C*** rewarded

　　D*** doubt

　　E*** lonely

　　F*** poverty

　　G*** persuade

　　H*** prospects

　　I*** uncertainty

　　J***impossibly

　　K*** encourage

　　L***awarded

　　M*** alone

　　N***wealth

　　O***cold

　　答案

　　1.選K***。此處應填動詞的原形。可選項有doubt，persuade，encourage，但由always推知，作者是在鼓勵那些想要成為作家的人，而不是懷疑也不是說服，故排除doubt和persuade而選encourage.

　　2.選N***。由空格後的fame可知，此處應填名詞。可選項有prospects和wealth，但由dreaming of 與第二段中The reality is„poor-paying可推知，那些想當作家的人夢想的是金錢和名譽，而不是前途，故排除prospects而選wealth.

　　3.選E***。此處應填形容詞，private，poor-paying一起修飾affair.選項中有lonely和alone，能修飾affair的只有lonely，alone表示“孤獨的”時，通常作表語，故排除alone而選lonely.

　　4.選C***。此處應填動詞的被動形式。可選項有rewarded和awarded，前者可表示“***為所希望的舉動得到的***回報”，後者作動詞時表示“頒發，授予”，故只有rewarded符合題意而排除awarded.

　　5.選H***。此處應填名詞。“當我辭別了我在美國海岸警衛隊20年工作成為一個自由撰稿人時，沒有任何„„可言”，可選項有prospects和wealth，但wealth一般指抽象意義上的“金錢”，因此排除wealth而選prospects“前途”。

　　6.選O***。it指代的是apartment building，從had no bathroom可知這個公寓條件很差，選項中只有cold能說明公寓的條件差，故選擇O***cold.

　　7.選B***。“我馬上買了一臺舊的手動打字機，感覺自己就好像是一個„„的作家”，由前面提到的to become a freelance writer可推知，此處作者是想成為一個真正的作家，故選項中只有genuine“真正的”符合題意。

　　8.選D***。由空格前的to可知，此處應填動詞的原形。可選項有doubt，persuade，encourage，但由still hadn't gotten a break“在寫作上還沒有任何進展”，所以此處應理解為他開始懷疑自己的選擇是否正確，故doubt符合文意。

　　9.選A***。that從句結構完整，後面有made，故此處應填副詞。可選項有barely和impossibly，因that引導的從句是對story的解釋，再由hard一詞可推知，此處應填的副詞應表達肯定的意思，故排除impossibly而選barely“僅僅，剛剛”。

　　10.選I***。由空格後的and可知，此處應填名詞。由fear of failure可知，所填詞應表示不好的境遇，可選項有poverty和uncertainty;又由fear可推知，此處強調的是生活的變化無常，而不是生活的貧困，故選uncertainty.