真題是最好的訓(xùn)練題庫，小編在此奉上2015年12月19日全國大學(xué)英語四級(jí)完形填空真題及參考答案。：

 

　　Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

 

　　For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell. November and December    36     early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two    37    , record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones. But the U.S. was the exception; November was the warmest ever   38    , and current data indicates that 2013 is likely to have been the fourth hottest year on record.

 

　　Enjoy the snow now, because    39     are good that 2014 will be even hotter, perhaps the hottest year since records have been kept. That’s because, scientists are predicting, 2014 will be an EI Niuo year.

 

　　EI niuo, Spanish for “the child”,    40     when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific become abnormally warm. So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet’s surface, that the    41     energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world. EI Ninos are    42     with abnormally dry conditions in Southeast Asia and Australia. They can lead to extreme rain in parts of North and South America, even as southern Africa    43     dry weather. Marine life may be affected too; EI Ninos can    44     the rising of the cold, nutrient-rich（營養(yǎng)豐富的）water that supports large fish    45    ,and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral(珊瑚).

 

　　注意：此部分試題請?jiān)诖痤}卡2上作答。

　　參考答案：

 

　　36. N. saw 第一空顯然缺少謂語，優(yōu)先考慮動(dòng)詞，結(jié)合語義并根據(jù)Late November and December可以推出應(yīng)選擇過去式動(dòng)詞，故答案鎖定saw.

 

　　37. F. decades 根據(jù)two，首選復(fù)數(shù)名詞，結(jié)合語義，“for the first time in the two decades”,二十年來頭一次。

 

　　38. H.globally  句子為主系表結(jié)構(gòu)，不缺主要成分，所以首選副詞和形容詞，根據(jù)語義，ever表示“一直以來地、向來地”，“十一月向來是全球范圍內(nèi)最溫暖的一個(gè)月。”

 

　　39. D.chances  缺少主語，并且謂語是are，所以首選復(fù)數(shù)形式的名詞，結(jié)合前文Enjoy the snow now, “享受現(xiàn)在的雪吧”，因?yàn)?ldquo;時(shí)機(jī)是好的”。

 

　　40. J.occurs  空格前方有主語，且是單數(shù)形式，而后面由when引導(dǎo)的時(shí)間狀語從句的時(shí)態(tài)是一般現(xiàn)在時(shí)，所以主句謂語鎖定第三人稱單數(shù)形式的動(dòng)詞，只能選擇occurs.

 

　　41. A.specific空格左為定冠詞the，空格右為名詞，中間只能選形容詞，選擇“特定的”符合語義。

 

　　42. B. associated  空格左為be動(dòng)詞，右邊為介詞with，中間只能是形容詞或動(dòng)詞的過去分詞形式，be associated with表示“與…有聯(lián)系”，符合原意。

 

　　43. G.experiences  空格左為主語southern Africa，空格內(nèi)應(yīng)該為動(dòng)詞的第三人稱單詞形式，結(jié)合語義，選G，“南非經(jīng)歷著干燥的天氣。

 

　　44. M.reduce  空格左為情態(tài)動(dòng)詞，空格內(nèi)必須為動(dòng)詞原形，填reduce“減少”符合原題。

 

　　45. K. populations 空格與左邊的large fish 共同構(gòu)成動(dòng)詞support的賓語，只能選一個(gè)名詞來作為名詞詞組，故選K，“大量的魚群”。