英语四级 2018年6月·第1套 Part III Section A 完形填空(选词填空)试卷排版
英语四级2018年6月·第1套 Part III Section A 完形填空(选词填空):共 10 题、占整卷 5%(710 分制折算约 36 分)、卷面选文共 246 个英文单词。本页按真题原卷版式还原该模块卷面(不含解析);逐题解析在「题目解析」页,全文逐句精读在「原文精读」页;本模块真题可免费下载 PDF/Word,入口见上方本题行。
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真题卷第1套(2018-06) • 四级
Part III Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
An office tower on Miller Street in Manchester is completely covered in solar panels. They are used to create some of the energy used by the insurance company inside. When the tower was first 26 in 1962, it was covered with thin square stones. These small square stones became a problem for the building and continued to fall off the face for 40 years until a major renovation was 27 . During this renovation the building's owners, CIS, 28 the solar panel company, Solar century. They agreed to cover the entire building in solar panels. In 2004, the completed CIS tower became Europe's largest 29 of vertical solar panels. A vertical solar project on such a large 30 has never been repeated since.
Covering a skyscraper with solar panels had never been done before, and the CIS tower was chosen as one of the "10 best green energy projects". For a long time after this renovation project, it was the tallest building in the United Kingdom, but it was 31 overtaken by the Mill bank Tower.
Green buildings like this aren't 32 cost-efficient for the investor, but it does produce much less pollution than that caused by energy 33 through fossil fuels. As solar panels get 34 , the world is likely to see more skyscrapers covered in solar panels, collecting energy much like trees do. Imagine a world where building the tallest skyscraper wasn't a race of 35 , but rather one to collect the most solar energy.
A)cheaper
B)cleaner
C)collection
D)competed
E)constructed
F)consulted
G)dimension
H)discovered
I)eventually
J)height
K)necessarily
L)production
M)range
N)scale
O)undertaken