选词填空部分是四级考试阅读理解题型的一个组成部分，它要求考生联系上下文，根据已经给出的单词，填写到文章空白处，使之连贯完整。这种题型的难度就是单词以及句式的分析，单词量不够的话，没办法做下去。但仅仅依靠单词量也不行，上下文的意思必须正确。考生们做这种题的时候一定要注意这些，大家可以试试下面的真题，感受一下这种题型的感觉。

Part Ⅲ

Reading Comprehension

(40 minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one wordfor each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read thepassage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank isidentified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in thebank more than once.

Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.

Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there are male and female brains,believing that explains just about every difference between the sexes. A new study26that belief,questioning whether brains really can be distinguished by gender.

In the study, Tel Aviv University researchers27for sex differences throughout the entirehuman brain.

And what did they find? Not much. Rather than offer evidence for28brains as male or female, research shows that brains fall into a wide range, with most people falling right in themiddle.

Daphna Joel, who led the study, said her research found that while there are some gender-based29, many different types of brain can't always be distinguished by gender.

While the average male and average female brains were30different, you couldn't tell itby looking at individual brain scans. Only a small31of people had all-male or all-female characteristics.

Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist ( 神经科学家), said the study is an important addition toa growing body of research questioning32beliefs about gender and brain function. But hecautioned against concluding from this study that all brains are the same,33of gender.

There's a mountain of evidence34the importance of sex influences at all levels of brainfunction, he told The Seattle Times.

If anything, he said, the study 35 that gender plays a very important role in the brain-- evenwhen we are not clear exactly how.

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这套四级阅读理解的选词填空部分是机具代表性的。四级阅读理解真题的价值是很大的，阅读理解作为四级考试中重要的组成部分一直是考生们复习的焦点，也是难点。倒不是说其他部分不重要，而是大家都明白阅读理解在考试中所占比重、篇幅以及分值，这是我们无法规避的部分。