2018英语专四真题和参考题答案与解析.doc

2018英语专业四级考试真题及参考答案
PART III LANGUAGE USAGE
There are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four options marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence or answers the question. Mark hour answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
11. The Bent Pyramid outside Cairo __________ ancient Egypt’s first attempt to build a smooth-sided pyramid.
A. has been believed to have been
B. was believed to be
C. is believed to have been
D. is believed to be
12. . News ____________ rankings of colleges since 1983. They are a very popular resource for students looking to apply to university campus.
A. maintains
B. is maintaining
C. maintained
D. has been maintaining
13. He was lured into a crime he would not ____________have committed.
A. actually
B. accidentally
C. otherwise
D. seldom
14. She was once a young country wife with chickens in the backyard and a view of _____________ mountains behind the apple orchard.
A. blue hazy Virginia
B. hazy blue Virginia
C. Virginia hazy blue
D. Virginia blue hazy
15. I long to alleviate __________, but I cannot.
A. the evil
B. evil
C. evils
D. an evil
16. Indeed, it is arguable that body shattering is the very point of football, as killing and maiming ______________.
A. war
B. are war
C. of war
D. are of war
17. At ____________, photography is a chemical process, during which a light-sensitive material is altered when exposed to light.
A. its most basic
B. its basic
C. the most basic
D. the basic
18. She hired a lawyer to investigate, only to learn that Gabriel had removed her name from the deed. The infinitive verb phrase “only to learn” is used __________.
A. to express an intended purpose
B. to indicate a high degree of possibility
C. to reveal an undesirable consequence
D. to dramatize a stated fact
19. Which of the following italicized words DOES NOT carry the metaphorical meaning?
A. I wonder what’s behind this change of plan.