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2020年12月四级第1套选词填空原文翻译及答案解析

本页收录2020年12月四级第1套选词填空的原文、备选词库与逐空解析。选词填空共 10 空,从 15 个备选词中选择,每词只能用一次,考查词性辨析与上下文搭配,解题顺序通常是先判断词性再定词义。

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.

Trust is fundamental to life. If you can't trust anything, life becomes intolerable. You can't have relationships without trust, let alone good ones.

信任是生活的基础。如果你不能信任任何事物,生活将变得无法忍受。没有信任,你无法建立关系,更不用说良好的关系了。

In the workplace, too, trust is __26__. An organization without trust will be full of fear and __27__. If you work for a boss who doesn't trust their employees to do things right, you'll have a __28__ time. They'll be checking up on you all the time, correcting "mistakes" and __29__ reminding you to do this or that. Colleagues who don't trust one another will need to spend more time __30__ their backs than doing any useful work.

在工作场所,信任同样至关重要。一个没有信任的组织将充满恐惧和怀疑。如果你为一个不信任员工能做好事情的老板工作,你会过得很痛苦。他们会一直监督你,纠正“错误”并不断提醒你做这做那。互不信任的同事将需要花更多时间监视彼此的背影,而不是做任何有用的工作。

Organizations are always trying to cut costs. Think of all the additional tasks caused by lack of trust. Audit (审计) departments only exist because of it. Companies keep large volumes of __31__ because they don't trust their suppliers, their contractors or their customers. Probably more than half of all administrative work is only there because of an ever-existing sense that " you can't trust anyone these days. " If even a small part of such valueless work could be __32__, the savings would run into millions of dollars.

组织总是试图削减成本。想想所有因缺乏信任而产生的额外任务。审计部门的存在仅仅是因为这个原因。公司保存大量记录,因为他们不信任供应商、承包商或客户。可能超过一半的行政工作之所以存在,只是因为一种持续存在的感觉,即“如今你不能信任任何人”。如果即使能移除一小部分这种无价值的工作,节省下来的资金将达到数百万美元。

All this is extra work we __33__ onto ourselves because we don't trust people—the checking, following through, doing things ourselves because we don't believe others will do them __34__ or at all. If we took all that away, how much extra time would we suddenly find in our life? How much of our work __35__ would disappear?

所有这些都是我们因不信任他人而给自己增加的额外工作——检查、跟进、亲自做事,因为我们不相信别人会妥善完成或根本不会完成。如果我们摆脱这一切,我们会在生活中突然找到多少额外时间?我们的工作堆积物会消失多少?

A) constantlyB) credibleC) essentialD) exploringE) gatherF) loadG) miserableH) pressureI) properlyJ) recordsK) removedL) stacksM) suspicionN) trackedO) watching
逐空答案与解析
26.
答案 C
解析此处需要一个形容词来修饰名词trust,表达信任在工作场所的重要性。根据上下文,信任是工作场所的基本要素,因此选择 'essential'。
27.
答案 M
解析此处需要一个名词来填充空格,与 'fear' 并列,描述一个缺乏信任的组织中的氛围。根据上下文,不信任会导致怀疑和恐惧,因此选择 'suspicion'。
28.
答案 G
解析此处需要一个形容词来修饰名词 'time',描述在不信任的老板手下工作的感受。根据上下文,这种经历是不愉快的,因此选择 'miserable'。
29.
答案 Aconstantly
解析空格位于 'correcting "mistakes" and __29__ reminding you' 中,需要一个副词修饰现在分词 reminding,与前面的 correcting 并列描述老板的行为。constantly(不断地)= 'constantly reminding you to do this or that'(不停地提醒你做这做那),语义和搭配都贴切。其余选项 watching 是动名词、properly 修饰对象不符,均不通。
30.
答案 Owatching
解析空格位于 'spend more time __30__ their backs' 中,需要动名词构成 'spend time doing sth' 结构。固定短语 watch one's back(提防、保护自己以防被暗算)正合句意:互不信任的同事得花更多时间彼此提防,而非做有用的工作。tracked 是过去式、不能直接接 their backs 也无此搭配,故选 O watching。
31.
答案 J
解析此处需要一个名词来描述公司因为不信任而保留的大量文件。根据上下文,这些文件是记录,因此选择 'records'。
32.
答案 K
解析此处需要一个动词的过去分词来描述如果能减少无价值的工作,将会带来什么结果。根据上下文,减少这些工作可以节省大量资金,因此选择 'removed'。
33.
答案 F
解析此处需要一个名词来描述我们因为不信任而给自己增加的额外负担。根据上下文,这些负担是额外的工作量,因此选择 'load'。
34.
答案 I
解析此处需要一个副词来修饰动词 'do',描述我们不相信别人会正确完成工作。根据上下文,我们不相信他们会正确地做这些工作,因此选择 'properly'。
35.
答案 Hpressure
解析空格位于 'How much of our work __35__ would disappear?' 中,需要一个名词与 work 构成复合名词作主语,呼应上文 'extra work we load onto ourselves'(我们给自己施加的额外工作)。work pressure(工作压力)= 去掉这些因不信任而生的额外工作后,会消失多少工作压力,语义连贯。load 已用于 b33,stacks(一摞摞)与 work 搭配不自然,故选 H pressure。