大家好~离下次四六级考试(2017年6月17日)还有不到6个月~~  

小编接下来将会推送12月四六级真题精析系列内容,每次针对特定题型,就难度、出处、结合专治四六级系列做题技巧进行分析~

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今天先分析整套试卷里难度最低的选词填空部分,目前全网只有2套选词填空题目,我们就以这两套题目为例啦~

2016.12四级选词填空综述

四级选词填空一篇是讲《海洋在升温》,一篇讲的是《人类的大脑是否有性别之分》;首先,按照我们四六级选词填空满分秘籍讲的做题步骤,先给选项标注词性;

四级选词填空真题对比:

第一套:海洋升温

文章来源:Science News(16.1.18)

字数:211 words

选项词性:

没有副词;

2个形容词

3个动词;

8个名词;

2个双词性,n./v.

第二套:大脑性别

文章来源:from the Grapevine(15.12.1)

字数:249 words

选项词性:

2个副词

3个形容词

6个动词;

2个名词;

2个双词性,n./v.

第一,从题材来看,两篇都属于科学报告。对比来说,《海洋》这篇略难,一共3段,第二段内容信息丰富。《大脑性别》249字,几乎每1-2句组成一段,一共8段,层次分明,读起来比较容易。文章比《海洋》长,做题时帮助解题的线索信息就多。

第二,从选项来看,《大脑性别》15个选项中有2个副词选项,在判定空格词性时,副词词尾-ly,最容易选出,基本为送分空。

反观《海洋》,15个选项中副词0个,但有8个名词,而且还有2个双词性(不是名词就是动词),名词可能有10个。名词的用法相对于副词、形容词和动词,更为复杂。

第三,从文章易读性来看,且《海洋》为说明文,行文用词多是四级考生不熟悉的短语词组,如volcanic outbreaks火山喷发,fossil fuel矿石燃料等等。无疑增加了做题难度。

来看看在做题时,如何应对吧~ 先从简单的入手:

题目精析

选项:

A) abnormal              I) regardless

B) applied                 J) searched

C) briefly                   K) similarities

D) categorizing         L) slightly

E) challenges            M) suggests

F) figure                    N) tastes

G) percentage           O) traditional

H) proving

Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there are “male” and “female” brains, believing that explains just about every difference between the sexes.

A new study   26   that belief, questioning whether brains really can be distinguished by gender.

In the study, Tel Aviv University researchers   27    for sex differences the entire human brain.

先看第一段的第一句,点明主旨。再看第26空,缺少动词,主语为单数,推断要填的动词为三单形式;第27空也缺少动词,且这个动词跟空格后的for组成固定搭配,时态未知。

选项M,N,E符合26的要求,再结合句义判断;第一句提到传统观点认为大脑有性别之分,而一项新的研究“质疑”这一理念,questioning 也呼应这里的动词的意义。

26空选,[E] challenges。

结合下文看第27空。

And what did they find? Not much. Rather than offer evidence for   28   brains as “male” or “female,” research shows that brains fall into a wide range, with most people falling right in the middle.

这个调查study是过去做的,did也呼应这一点。27填入的应是谓语动词过去式。27空选. [J] searched。

28题略难一些,可用排除法做。空格在名词前,应填入形容词,且这个词要能跟as搭配,在abnormal,traditonal和regardless里选择,语义不符。根据上下文语义应该填入categorizing,把……分类。

categorize A as B or C,把A分为B或C;categorize brains as “male”or“female”把大脑分为男性或女性。

28. [D] categorizing

Daphna Joel, who led the study, said her research found that while there are some gender-based   29   , many different types of brain can’t always be distinguished by gender.

29空解题的关键词在while,这里表“让步,尽管,即使”;那么这里要填入一个名词。

且意义与逗号后面的different types相反,选项中2个名词,percentage和similarities。显然选相同点。29. [K] similarities

While the “average” male and “average” female brains were   30   different, you couldn’t tell it by looking at individual brain scans. Only a small   31    of people had “all-male” or “all-female” characteristics.

第30空比较简单,系表结构,完整,这里缺修饰different的副词,在briefly和slightly中结合语义选择slightly。30. [L] slightly

第31题为固定搭配:a small percentage of people “一小部分比例的人”。

31. [G] percentage

Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist (神经科学家),said the study is an important addition to a growing body of research questioning   32    beliefs about gender and brain function. But he cautioned against concluding from this study that all brains are the same,   33   of gender.

这个句子有点长,但不难,动名词questioning看作是动词question,空格处缺少形容词,结合句义,这项研究是对什么的一个补充,选择traditional。

而不是变态的abnormal,也不是regardless,这个词一看就是要考固定搭配的,别问我为什么,做多了你就知道了,语感。

32. [O] traditional

第33题,of搭配,选regardless,regardless of 表示无论的意思。

33. [ I ] regardless

“There’s a mountain of evidence   34   the importance of sex influences at all levels of brain function,” he told The Seattle Times.

语感,一大堆证据后面跟什么,证明呀!选项中只有一个proving符合。34. [H] proving

If anything, he said, the study   35   that gender plays a very important role in the brain “even when we are not clear exactly how.”

最后一空,the study/research,凡是这些词做主语的,动词一般是suggest/prove/imply,直接选suggests。

35. [M] suggests