现如今作为大学生的我们应该在大学里对自己的综合能力进行一个整体的提高，而不是迷恋于网络游戏不嗯能够自拔。那么为了能够在以后找一份理想的工作，英语的学习是必不可少的。而英语四级作为最基础的一门英语水平考试我们更应该去认真准备。在此我将往年的英语四级真题进行了部分的节选，希望大家能够从中有所收获。

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 onAnswer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

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 study 1 that belief, questioning whether brains really can be distinguished by gender.

In the study, Tel Aviv University researchers 2 for sex differences the entire human brain.

And what did they find? Not much. Rather than offer evidence for 3 brains as “male” or “female,” research shows that brains fall into a wide range, with most people falling right in the middle.

Daphna Joel, who led the study, said her research found that while there are some gender-based 4 , many different types of brain can’t always be distinguished by gender.

While the “average” male and “average” female brains were 5 different, you couldn’t tell it by looking at individual brain scans. Only a small 6 of 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 to a growing body of research questioning 7 beliefs about gender and brain function. But he cautioned against concluding from this study that all brains are the same, 8 of gender.

“There’s a mountain of evidence 9 the importance of sex influences at all levels of brain function,” he told The Seattle Times.

If anything, he said, the study 10 that gender plays a very important role in the brain “even when we are not clear exactly how.”

A) abnormal I) regardless

B) applied J) searched

C) briefly K) similarities

D) categorizing L) slightly

E) challenges M) suggests

F) figure N) tastes

G) percentage O) traditional

H) proving