大学英语四级模拟试题（3）

Part IV  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)(25 minutes)

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 center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

      Ten cats in search of owners will spend the next 10 days in a New York store window, their every move caught on camera for a real TV show, on which they will   47   for the show is the   48   of a pet food company and will be shown on cable channel Animal Planet, as well as on the Web site www. MeowMixHouse. com where viewers will be asked to vote off one feline(猫科的)   49   each day. Kitties who get the boot will be adopted into  50  homes.

      Meow MixHouse,   51   by Del Monte Foods Company, hopes the show will  52 cat adoption  as well as their products, which will be the only thing on the menu. Passerby taking a gander through a specially rented storefront on Madison Avenue in midtown Manhattan can watch the cats lazing about a luxuriously  53  cat-sized house that includes sealed down sofas, beds, a fish tank (with fake fish), kitchen and a porch, all put together by an interior designer.

     "It’s a Disney World for cats," said Meow Mix's Ryan Reed, in charge of ensuring the cats are well-cared for and well-behaved.   54   from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are also on hand to attend to the needs of the kitty stars.

     Enjoying their final day of obscurity on Monday, the cats seemed   55   by attention from visiting media most of the cats were asleep on the set, which will be   56   to the public on Tuesday.

A) unveiled          B) unfazed          C) contestant          D) permanent

E) owned           F) promote         G) fantastic           H ) volunteers

I) temporarily        J)creation          K)demand             L) out fitted

M)credit             N)citizens          O) compete