[2016年英语四级选词填空]2016英语四级选词填空模拟练习及答案解析(3)

Section A
　　Directions：In this section，there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blankfrom a list ofchoices given in a word bankfollowing 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 ofthe words in the bank more than once.
　　Questions 36 to 45 are based on thefoilowingpassage
　　The social network will let users“mute”messages from other users on their timelines without the muted person’s knowledge，thereby avoiding the(36)__________
　　process of having to unfollow(取消关注)，or put up with，your(37)__________talkative IRL friends.Twitter rolled out new(38)__________to let users better manage the deluge(泛滥)of tweets they receive.
　　Users can now“mute”people they follow,removing those people’s tweets and retweets from their own timelines.The muted person won’t know that he or she has been(39)__________.It’s a stealthy way to read less content from certain users without having to unfollow them.A person can easily be muted or(40)__________at
　　any time，Twitter said in a blog post.
　　“Mute gives you even more(41)__________over the content you see on Twitter by letting you remove a user’s content from key parts of your Twitter experience，”the company said.
　　Though Twitter had been experimenting with the feature in recent weeks，it announced that muting will be(42)__________to all users of the company’s iOS and Android apps，as well as 　　the Twitter.com website.Some other Twitter applications，like TweetDeck，already allowed muting.
　　The feature is part of Twitter’s(43)__________strategy to make its service more accessible to a wider range of people.Following a successful initial public offerin9，Twitter’s stock has tumbled in recent months as investors worry about the social network’s(44)__________to attract new users.CEO Dick Costolo(45)__________that Twitter would make changes to its interface this year to make it easier to understand and manage.The company overhauled(彻底检修)user profile pages in April as part of this effort.
　　A.silenced
　　B.awkward
　　C.unmvted
　　D.feature
　　E.embarrassment
　　F.unfollowed
　　G.control
　　H.extremely
　　I.overall
　　J.vowed
　　K.generally
　　L.ability
　　M.accepted
　　N.available
　　O.characters

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