四级模拟试题十一 含答案

四级模拟试题十一

PART III CLOZE Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.

Internet security experts have long known that simple passwords do not fully defend online bank accounts from [31] _______ fraud artists. Now a study suggests that a popular secondary security measure provides little additional protection.

The study, produced jointly by researchers at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, looked at a technology called site-authentication images. In the system, currently used by [32] _______ institutions like Bank of America, ING Direct and Vanguard, online banking customers are asked to select a(n) [33] _______, [34] _______ a dog or chess piece, that they will see every time they [35] _______ in to their account.

The [36] _______ is that if customers do not see their image, they could be at a [37] _______ Web site, [38] _______ to look like their bank's, and should not enter their passwords. The Harvard and M.I.T. researchers tested that hypothesis. In October, they brought 67 Bank of America customers in the Boston area into a controlled environment and asked them to [39] _______ routine online banking activities, like [40] _______ account balances. But the researchers had secretly withdrawn the images. Of 60 participants who got that far into the study and whose results could be verified, 58 entered passwords [41] _______. Only two chose not to log on, citing security [42] _______.

\[43] _______ is that site-authentication images increase security [44] _______ customers will not enter their passwords if they do not see the correct image,\said Stuart Schechter, a computer scientist at the M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory. \the premise is right less than 10 percent [45] _______.\

He added: \wait for something better.\

The system has some high-power supporters in the financial services world, [48] _______ to comply [49] _______ new online banking regulations. In 2005, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, an interagency body of federal banking regulators, determined that passwords alone did not effectively [50] _______ intruders like identity thieves.

31. A. decided B. determined C. resoluted D. resolve 32. A. economic B. economical C. finance D. financial 33. A. picture B. item C. image D. screen 34. A. like B. as C. for example D. namely 35. A. log B. connect C. enter D. access

36. A. opinion B. concept C. view D. conception 37. A. cheating B. faked C. false D. fraudulent 38. A. pretended B. disguised C. counterfeited D. masked 39. A. carry B. perform C. conduct D. execute 40. A. look for B. look up C. look in D. look into 41. A. anyway B. anymore C. somehow D. someway

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42. A. steps B. concerns C. notions D. instructions 43. A. deduction B. conclusion C. premise D . promise 44. A. because B. as C. since D. for

45. A. at the time B. of the time C. in the time D. on the time 46. A. will B. would C. is to D. were to 47. A. deploy B. carry out C. perform D. accept

48. A. with many try B. with many trying C. many try D. many trying 49. A. to B. for C. in D. with 50. A. thwart B. restrain C. hold D. exclude

PART IV GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARYThere are thirty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.

51. She has bought herself _______ dress. A. a cotton purple expensive B. an expensive purple cotton C. a purple expensive cotton D. a cotton expensive purple

52. The bank is reported in the local newspaper _______ in broad daylight yesterday. A. to be robbed B. robbed

C. to have been robbed D. having been robbed

53. It is only when you nearly lose someone _______ fully conscious of how much you value him. A. do you become B. then you become C. that you become D. have you become

54. As teachers we should concern ourselves with what is said, not what we think _______. A. ought to be said B. must say

C. have to be said D. need to say

55. Doing your homework is a sure way to improve your test scores, and this is especially true _______ it comes to classroom tests. A. when B. since C. before D. after

56. Fewer and fewer of today's workers expect to spend their working lives in the same field, _______ the same company. A. all else

B. much worse

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C. let alone D. less likely

57. David prefers _______.

A. to play football rather than staying with his wife B. to play football rather than stay with his wife C. playing football rather than stay with his wife

D. playing football rather than have stayed with his wife

58. _______ in a recent science competition, the three students were awarded scholarships totaling $21,000. A. Judged the best B. Judging the best

C. To be judged the best D. Having judged the best

59. These surveys indicate that many crimes go _______ by the police, mainly because not all victims report them. A. unrecorded B. not recording C. unrecording

D. to have been unrecorded

60. I don't recollect _______ her cry in public before. A. to see

B. having seen C. to watch D. watch

61. Beer is the most popular drink among male drinkers _______ overall consumption is significantly higher than that of women. A. that B. what C. which D. whose

62. I felt somewhat disappointed and was about to leave, _______ something occurred which attracted my attention. A. unless B. until C. when D. while

63. If Tom wins tomorrow, he _______ thirty races in the past four years. A. will win B. has won

C. would have won D. will have won

64. No longer are contributions to computer technology confined to any one country; _______ is this more true than in Europe. A. hardly

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B. little C. seldom D. nowhere

65. In \clause is _______ of the sentence. A. the object

B. the complement C. the gerund D. the adverbial

66. There are still many problems ahead of us, but fortunately we can see the light at the end of the _______ by the terrific feedback I got from the market this time. A. campaign B. day C. tunnel D. road

67. There are occasions when giving a gift _______ spoken communication, since the message it offers can cut through barriers of language and cultural diversity. A. overtakes B. nourishes C. surpasses D. enforces

68. Tom gave me a new knife as _______ for the one he lost. A. substitute B. compensation C. reward D. pension

69. Some educators try to put students of similar abilities into the same class because they believe this kind of _______ grouping is advisable. A. homogeneous B. instantaneous C. spontaneous D. anonymous.

70. To ensure maximal voter participation in a presidential election, thorough planning and a voter registration _______ are usually required. A. collocation B. investigation C. drive

D. confinement

71. Over the past ten years, natural gas production has remained steady, but _______ has risen steadily.

A. consumption B. dissipation C. disposal D. expenditure

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72. How could Hitler's vast operation of highly-organized mass murder, which was not _______ to Jews, come about? A. conformed B. complied C. confined D. consented

73. Peter did _______ well in the examination because he had been working very hard. A. exclusively B. excessively C. extensively D. exceptionally

74. Metals we found in the earth _______ iron, lead and copper. A. include B. contain C. comprise D. constitute

75. We rarely perceive more than a minute _______ of the sights and sounds that fall upon our sense organs; the great majority pass us by. A. fiction B. function C. fraction D. friction

76. The Spanish team, who are not in superb form, will be doing their best next week to _______ themselves on the German team for last year's defeat. A. remedy B. reproach C. revive D. revenge

77. After four years in the same job his enthusiasm finally _______. A. deteriorated B. dispersed C. dissipated D. drained

78. Doctors are often caught in a _______ because they have to decide whether they should tell their patients the truth or not. A. puzzle B. perplexity C. dilemma

D. bewilderment

79. We object to the idea that it is military force that should be _______ in settling international disputes. A. applied to B. resorted to C. fallen back on

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