词汇理解是大学英语四级考试的必考题型，主要考查考生对连贯性，一致性等语篇的整体特征以及单词在实际语境中的理解，注重考生的实际运用能力，本文整理了2016年12月英语四级词汇理解真题(卷三)，希望对大家备战四级考试有所帮助。

Part III Reading Comprehension(40minutes)

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.

When someone commits a criminal act, we always hope the punishment will match the offense. But when it comes to one of the crudest crimes-animal fighting-things _____ (27) work out that way. Dog-fighting victims are _____ (28) and killed for profit and killed for profit and "sport," yet their criminal abusers often receive a _____ (29) sentence for causing a lifetime of pain. Roughly half of all federally-convicted animal fighters only get probation (缓刑).

Some progress has been made in the prosecution (起诉) of animal fighters. But federal judges often rely heavily on the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines when they _____ (30) penalties, and in the case of animal fighting, those guidelines are outdated and extremely _____ (31).

The U.S. Sentencing Commission, which _____ (32) these sentencing guidelines, is revisiting them, proposing to raise the minimum sentence from 6-12 to 21-27 months. This is a step in the right _____ (33), but we'd like to see the U.S. Sentencing Commission make further changes to the guidelines.

Along with this effort, we're working with animal advocates and state and federal lawmakers to _____ (34) anticruelty laws across the country, as well as supporting laws and policies that assist overburdened animal _____ (35) that care for animal fighting victims. This help is_____ (36) important because the high cost of caring for animal victims is a major factor that prevents people from getting involved in cruelty cases in the first place.

选项：

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答案：

27.K

28.O

29.J

30.D

31.G

32.B

33.E

34.M

35.L

36.C

      篇章词汇阅读主要测试考生在语篇、段落层次上对词汇的运用，考生要时刻牢记不能孤立地看待每一个空格，要注意联系上下文进行综合分析。首先需要快速阅读选项，进行词性分类。  然后分析空格所在句子结构，判断所填词的词性和形式。根据空格所在句含义及上下文，推测所填词含义和色彩。将筛选出的选项带入空格，联系上下文确定答案。 最后复读原文，谨慎调整。