在近年的英语四级考试中，阅读理解题型不断变化，难度也相应增大；尽管所选材料题材广泛，包罗万象，但其体裁选用和题型设置相对稳定，提问方式大同小异，所以考生可通过熟悉各种题型及其应试策略，提高这类题型的得分比例。本文整理了2016年6月英语四级词汇理解真题及答案(卷二)供大家参考学习。

  PartⅢ Reading Comprehension

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.

Contrary to popular belief, older people generally do not want to live with their children. Moreover, most adult children _____(26)every bit as much care and support to their aging parents as was the case in the "good old days", and roost older people do not feel _____(27).

About 80% of people 65 years and older have living children, and about 90% of them have _____(28)contact with their children. About 75% of elderly parents who don't go to nursing homes live within 30 minutes of at least one of their children.

However, _____(29)having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age. In fact, some research has found that people who are most involved with their families have the lowest spirits. This research may be _____(30), however, as ill health often makes older people more _____(31)and thereby increases contact with family members. So it is more likely that poor health, not just family involvement, _____(32)spirits.

Increasingly, researchers have begun to look at the quality of relationships, rather than at the frequency of contact, between the elderly and their children. If parents and children share interests and values and agree on childrearing practices and religious _____(33)they are likely to enjoy each other's company. Disagreements on such matters can _____(34)cause problems. If parents are angered by their daughter's divorce, dislike her new husband, and disapprove of how she is raising their grandchildren, _____(35)are that they are not going to enjoy her visits.

选项：

ned

ed

s

ment

s

ent

t

nt

lment

e

tandably

istically

答案：

26 M. provide

27 A. abandoned

28 I. frequent

29 L. merely

30 C. biased

31 G. dependent

32 F. dampens

33 E. commitment

34 N. understandably

35 D. chances

      在做这类题型时，首先应当仔细阅读题目，弄清题目的具体要求，以及所给4个选项，然后在题目或选项中确定关键词，再利用关键词回文章中定位，找出文章中相对应的细节性句子，与4个选项进行对照，以确定正确答案。