为了帮助广大的考生们备考复习，小编整理了四级真题的相关信息，希望对参加英语四级考试的同学有所帮助。来做做看吧！

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. 

Contrary to popular belief, older people generally do not want to live with their children. Moreover, most adult children _____(26)every bit as much care and support to their aging parents as was the case in the "good old days", and roost older people do not feel _____(27). 

About 80% of people 65 years and older have living children, and about 90% of them have _____(28)contact with their children. About 75% of elderly parents who don't go to nursing homes live within 30 minutes of at least one of their children. 

However, _____(29)having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age. In fact, some research has found that people who are most involved with their families have the lowest spirits. This research may be _____(30), however, as ill health often makes older people more _____(31)and thereby increases contact with family members. So it is more likely that poor health, not just family involvement, _____(32)spirits. 

Increasingly, researchers have begun to look at the quality of relationships, rather than at the frequency of contact, between the elderly and their children. If parents and children share interests and values and agree on childrearing practices and religious _____(33)they are likely to enjoy each other's company. Disagreements on such matters can _____(34)cause problems. If parents are angered by their daughter's divorce, dislike her new husband, and disapprove of how she is raising their grandchildren, _____(35)are that they are not going to enjoy her visits.

A.abandoned 
B.advanced 
C.biased 
D.chances 
E.commitment 
F.dampens 
G.dependent 
H.distant 
I.frequent 
J.fulfillment 
K.grant 
L.merely 
M.provide 
N.understandably 
O.unrealistically

参考答案：

26. 正确选项 M provide 
27. 正确选项 A abandoned 
28. 正确选项 I frequent 
29. 正确选项 L merely 
30. 正确选项 C biased 
31. 正确选项 G dependent 
32. 正确选项 F dampens 
33. 正确选项 E commitment 
34. 正确选项 N understandably 
35. 正确选项 D chances

好了，以上是小编整理的英语四级真题的阅读理解--选词填空部分（不含听力与作文）。在选词汇时一定要结合句子上下文仔细斟酌，注意辨析词汇。如果自学吃力，不妨试试专业老师的指导，早日拿下四级。