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大学英语四级考前模考试卷(四)附答案

大学英语四级考前模考试卷(四)附答案
大学英语四级考前模考试卷(四)附答案

四级考前冲刺试题一

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of Is Offering Seats Compulsory for Young Passengers? You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below.

1. 有人认为公交车上年轻人必须给老人让座

2. 有人认为年轻人没有义务给老人让座

3. 你的看法

Is Offering Seats Compulsory for Young Passengers?

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Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)

Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.

Eat an Apple (Doctor’s Orders)

The farm stand is becoming the new apothecary (药剂师), preparing and giving out apples — not to

mention vegetables such as artichokes, asparagus and arugula — to fill a novel kind of prescription.

Doctors at three health centers in Massachusetts have begun advising patients to eat “prescription produce” from local farmers’ markets, in an effort to fight obesity (when someone is very fat in a way that is unhealthy) in children of low-income families. Now they will give coupons (赠券) amounting to $1 a day for each member of a patient’s family to promote healthy meals.

“A lot of these kids have a very limited range of fruits and vegetables that are acceptable and familiar to them. Potentially, they will try more,” said Dr. Suki Tep perberg, a family physician at Codman Square Health Center in Dorchester, one of the program sites. “The goal is to get them to increase their consumption of fruit and vegetables by one serving a day.”

The effort may also help farmers’ markets compete with fast-food restaurants selling dollar value meals. Farmers’ markets do more than $1 billion in annual sales in the United States, according to the Agriculture Department.

Massachusetts was one of the first states to promote these markets as hubs of preventive health. In the 1980s, for example, the state began issuing coupons for farmers’ markets to low-income women who were pregnant or breast-feeding or for young children at risk for malnutrition (营养不良). Thirty-six states now have such farmers’ market nutri tion programs aimed at women and young children.

Thomas M. Menino, the mayor of Boston, said he believed the new children’s program, in which doctors write vegetable “prescriptions” to be filled at farmers’ markets, was the first of its kind. Doctors will track participants to determine how the program affects their eating patterns and to monitor health indicators like weight and body mass index, he said.

“When I go to work in the morning, I see kids standing at the bus stop eating chips and drinking a sod a,” Mr. Menino said in a phone interview earlier this week. “I hope this will help them change their eating habits and lead to a healthier lifestyle.”

The mayor’s attention to healthy eating dates to his days as a city councilman. Most recently he has

appointed a well-known chef as a food policy director to promote local foods in public schools and to foster market gardens in the city.

Although obesity is a complex problem unlikely to be solved just by eating more vegetables, supporters of the vegetable coupon program hope that physician intervention will spur young people to adopt the kind of behavioral changes that can help prevent lifelong obesity.

Childhood obesity in the United States costs $14.1 billion annually in direct health expenses like prescription drugs and visits to doctors and emergency rooms, according to a recent article on the economics of childhood obesity published in the journal Health Affairs. Treating obesity-related illness in adults costs an estimated $147 billion annually, the article said.

Although the vegetable prescription pilot project is small, its supporters see it as a model for encouraging obese children and their families to increase the volume and variety of fresh produce they eat.

“Can we help people in low-income areas, who shop in the center of supermarkets for low-cost empty-calorie food, to shop at farmers’ markets by making fruit and vegetables more affordable?” said Gus Schumacher, the chairman of Wholesome Wave, a nonprofit group in Bridgeport, Conn., that supports family farmers and community access to locally grown produce.

If the pilot project is successful, Mr. Schumacher said, “farmers’ markets would become like a fruit and vegetable pharmacy (药房) for at-risk families.”

The pilot project plans to enroll up to 50 families of four at three health centers in Massachusetts that already have specialized children’s programs called healthy weight clinics.

A foundation called CAVU, for Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited, sponsors the clinics that are administering the vegetable project. The Massachusetts Department of Agriculture and Wholesome Wave each contributed $10,000 in seed money. (Another arm of the program, at several health centers in Maine, is giving fresh produce coupons to pregnant mothers.) The program i s to run until the end of the farmers’ market season in late fall.

One month after Leslie-Ann Ogiste, a certified nursing assistant in Boston, and her 9-year-old son, Makael Constance, received their first vegetable prescription coupons at the Codman Center, they have lost a combined four pounds, she said. A staff member at the center told Ms. Ogiste about a farmers’ market that is five minutes from her apartment, she said.

“It worked wonders,” said Ms. Ogiste, who bought and prepared eggplant, cucumbers,tomatoes, summer squash, corn, bok choy, parsley, carrots and red onions. “Just the variety, it did help.”

Ms. Ogiste said she had minced some vegetables and used them in soup, pasta sauce and rice dishes —the better to disguise the new good-for-you foods that she served her son.

Makael said he did not mind. “It’s really good,” he said.

Some nutrition researchers said that the Massachusetts project had a good chance of improving eating habits in the short term. But, they added, a vegetable prescription program in isolation may not have a

long-term influence on reducing obesity. Families may revert to their former habits in the winter when the farmers’ markets are closed, these researchers said, or they may not be able to afford fresh produce after the voucher program ends.

Dr. Shikha Anand, the medical director of CAVU’s healthy weight initiative, said the group hoped to make the veggie prescription project a year-round program through partnerships with grocery stores.

But people tend to overeat junk food in higher proportion than they undereat vegetables, said Dr. Deborah A. Cohen, a senior natural scientist at the RAND Corporation. So, unless people curtail (减少) excessive consumption of salty and sugary snacks, she said, behavioral changes like eating more fruit and vegetables will have limited effect on obesity.

In a recent study led by Dr. Cohen, for example, people in southern Louisiana typically exceeded guidelines for eating salty and sugary foods by 120 percent in the course of a day while falling short of vegetable and fruit consumption by 20 percent.

The weight clinics in Massachusetts chosen for the vegetable prescription test project already encourage families to cut down on unhealthy snacks.

Even as Ms. Ogiste and her son started shopping a t the farmers’ market and eating more fresh produce, for example, they also cut back on junk food, she said.

“We have stopped the snacks. We are drinking more water and less soda and less juice too,” Ms. Ogiste said. “All of that helped.”

1. Dr. Suki Tepperberg suggested that many overweight children .

A) have consumed too much meat

B) dislike fruits and vegetables by nature

C) mainly come from wealthy families

D) will have more vegetables if provided

2. Besides poor obese children, the veg etable “prescription” program is also helpful for .

A) doctors at the health centers

B) farmers in the local market

C) restaurants serving fast food

D) manufactures providing concerned medicine

3. In the new children’s program, what doctor s need to do is .

A) evaluating the effect of the program B) writing prescriptions at a farm stand

C) giving vegetable coupons to farmers D) developing novel medicine to fight obesity

4. According to the phone interview, why did Thomas M. Menin o support the current farmers’ market

nutrition programs?

A) He hoped to promote local foods in the whole city.

B) He wanted to change children’s unhealthy lifestyle.

C) He was persuaded by his food policy director to do so.

D) He had to fulfill his “healthy eating” promise made years ago.

5. Some people support the vegetable coupon program because they think .

A) eating more fruits and vegetables can solve the problem of obesity

B) the program will encourage overweight children to take more exercises

C) it will save the patients a large amount of money on medical treatment

D) eating habits changed under doctors’ interventions will do patients good

6. What do we know about Wholesome Wave from the passage?

A) It is a nonprofit group that specializes in weight control.

B) It sponsors healthy weight clinics in local farmers’ markets.

C) It tries to make fresh food available to poor families.

D) It is giving vegetable coupons to pregnant women.

7. What happened to Leslie-Ann Ogiste after she got the first vegetable coupons?

A) She successfully lost a lot of weight.

B) She spent a total of four pounds on vegetables.

C) She got her weight down a bit.

D) She gained weight due to the variety of the food.

8. According to some nutrition researchers, the vegetable prescription program will have limited effect

on obesity if carried out _____________________________________.

9. To effectively reduce obesity, Dr. Deborah A. Cohen suggested overweight people eat less

_____________________________________.

10. In Ms. Ogiste and her son’s current diet, fresh vegetables are increased while junk food is

_____________________________________.

Part III Listening Comprehension(35 minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

11. A) He read the newspaper. C) He listened to a radio report.

B) He read the cabinet report. D) His secretary telephoned him.

12. A) Lower the rent of his apartment. C) Rent his apartment to the local newspaper.

B) Put an advertisement in a newspaper. D) Find a potential renter during the in-season.

13. A) To have a rest. C) To take cold drugs.

B) To see a doctor. D) To listen carefully.

14. A) She will treat the man tonight.

B) She’d like to lend money to the man.

C) The man will also have lots of money soon.

D) The man shouldn’t have spent all his money.

15. A) The company will beat other companies in business.

B) The failure of the football team was just as expected.

C) The company will not sponsor the football team.

D) The football team fell short of the company’s expectations.

16. A) They are short of hands. C) They will not hire more people.

B) The man needs more chances. D) The man will have a chance to take a holiday.

17. A) Results of genetic research. C) The way to get the blood sample.

B) The blood sample collection. D) Religious concern about genetic research.

18. A) He has no choice but to go home in a minute.

B) He is unable to have a drink with the woman.

C) He’ll join the woman after the report is finished.

D) He’s very happy to accept the woman’s invitation.

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

19. A) To ask for help finding a job.

B) To ask him to give her some advice.

C) To invite him to go shopping with her later.

D) To find out what he’s doing during the summer.

20. A) She might get a good job later.

B) She could stay at a hotel at a discount.

C) She might be able to get course credits for her work.

D) It would give her a chance to make a lot of money immediately.

21. A) Its strictness about punctuality. C) Its expensive rent.

B) Its long-hour work. D) Its lower pay.

22. A) Visit the hotel. C) Continue her job search for a while.

B) Work in the clothing store. D) Make extra money while taking classes. Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

23. A) The agents failed to deliver the wine.

B) The consumers are not satisfied with the wine.

C) The wine isn’t of the same brand as she ordered.

D) The goods can’t get through the customs.

24. A) Sometimes they are unreliable. C) On the whole they can be trusted.

B) Obviously they have made a mistake. D) Generally speaking, they are very helpful.

25. A) To ask the switchboard operator to take the message.

B) To have the operator connect him to another office.

C) To tell his forwarding agents to investigate the stuck goods.

D) To send her enough amount of wine as quickly as possible.

Section B

Directions:In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

26. A) He told no one about his disease.

B) He worked hard to pay for his medication.

C) He depended on the nurses in his final days.

D) He had stayed in the hospital since he fell ill.

27. A) She wanted to obey her mother.

B) She found no one willing to listen to her.

C) She thought it was shameful to have AIDS.

D) She was afraid of being looked down upon.

28. A) To remember her father.

B) To draw people’s attention to AIDS.

C) To show how little people knew about AIDS.

D) To tell people about the sufferings of her father.

Passage Two

Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

29. A) Your eyesight. C) The mechanical condition of your car.

B) Your driving ability. D) Your knowledge of traffic regulations.

30. A) To practice driving with an experienced driver.

B) To drive under normal highway condition.

C) To have the car checked by the license officer.

D) To use it as an identification card.

31. A) The license office provides the test vehicle.

B) The examiner shows how to start, stop or park.

C) The examiner watches you driving in your car.

D) The test is carried out where there is little traffic.

32. A) Drivers-to-be. C) License examiners.

B) Traffic regulation makers. D) Policemen.

Passage Three

Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

33. A) She felt tired of taking care of patients.

B) She had suffered a lot of mental pressure.

C) She needed the right time to look after her children.

D) She wanted to earn more money to support her family.

34. A) They look like people raising pigs. C) They never do their work carefully.

B) They look down upon cleaners. D) They always make a mess in their offices.

35. A) Light-hearted because of her fellow workers.

B) Happy because the building is fully lit.

C) Tired because of the heavy workload.

D) Bored because time passed slowly.

Section C

Directions:In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

Many businesses, such as department stores, restaurants, hotels and airline companies, use a credit system for selling their products and (36) _________. In a credit system, the seller (37) _________ to sell something to the buyer without (38) _________ receiving cash. The buyer (39) _________ the goods or services immediately and (40) _________ to pay for them later. This “buy-now-pay-later” credit system is quite old. People have been buying things on credit for centuries. But (41) _________ people use credit cards. There are two types of credit cards. One type is (42) _________ directly by a store to a customer. Many large department stores issue credit cards to their customers. The store credit card can be used to make (43) _________ only at a particular store. The other kind of credit card is issued by a credit company. (44) ___________________________________________________________________. If you have a major credit card, you can buy airplane ticket, stay at hotels, and eat at restaurants with it. (45) ___________________________________________________________________. So if you want a credit card from a credit company, you generally have to make an application at a bank. (46) ___________________________________________________________________.

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

Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.

There was a time when red meat was a luxury for ordinary Americans, or was at least something special: cooking a roast for Sunday dinner, ordering a steak at a restaurant. Not anymore. Meat consumption has more than 47 in the United States in the last 50 years.

Now a new study of more than 500,000 Americans has provided the best 48 that our love for red meat has exacted a high price on our health and limited our life span. The study found that, other things being 49 , the men and women who consumed the most red and processed meat were likely to die sooner, 50 from one of our two leading killers, heart disease and cancer, than people who consumed much 51 amounts of these foods.

To prevent deaths 52 to red and processed meats, people should eat a hamburger only once or twice a week instead of every day, a small steak once a week instead of every other day, and a hot dog every month and a half instead of once a week. In 53 of red meat, non-vegetarians (非素食者) might consider poultry and fish. Likewise, those who ate the most fruits and vegetables also tended to live 54 .

Anyone who worries about global well-being has yet another reason to consume less red meat. A reduced 55 on red meat for food could help to save the planet from the 56 effects of environmental pollution, global warming and the lessening of fresh water.

Section B

Directions:There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

The work on atmospheric chlorofluorocarbons (氯氟化碳) led eventually to a global CFC ban that saved us from ozone-layer reduction. Do we have time to do a similar thing with carbon emissions to save ourselves from climate change?

Not a hope at all. Most of the “green” stuff is very close to a big trick. Carbon trading, with its huge government grants, is just what finance and industry wanted. It’s not going to do a thing about climate change, but it’ll make a lot of money for a lot of people and postpone the moment of reckoning.

I am not against renewable energy, but to spoil all the decent countryside in the UK with wind farms is driving me mad. It’s absolutely unnecessary, and it takes 2,500 square kilometers to produce a gigawatt (十亿瓦特) —that’s an awful lot of countryside.

Work to sequester (隔离) CO2(carbon dioxide) is also a waste of time. It’s a crazy idea — and dangerous. It would take so long and use so much energy that it will not be done.

And, nuclear power is a way for the UK to solve its energy problems, but it is not a global cure for climate change. It is too late for emissions reduction measures.

Yet we are not doomed. There is one way we could save ourselves and that is through the massive burial of charcoal (木炭). It would mean farmers turning all their agricultural waste — which contains carbon that the plants have spent the summer sequestering — into charcoal, and burying it in the soil. Then you can start shifting vast quantities of carbon out of the system and pull the CO2 down quite fast.

What we can do is getting farmers to burn their crop waste at very low oxygen levels to turn it into charcoal, which the farmer then ploughs into the field. A little CO2 is released but the bulk of it gets converted to carbon. You get a few per cent of bio-fuel as an additional product of the burning process, which the farmer can sell. This scheme would need no subsidy (补贴): the farmer would make a profit. This is the one thing we can do that will make a difference.

57. According to the passage, carbon trading .

A) probably saves people from climate change

B) benefits some financially but not environmentally

C) has contributed a lot to carbon emissions reduction

D) makes huge money for governments around the world

58. What does the author say about wind farms in Britain?

A) The gain does not equal to the loss.

B) They can help solve world’s energy problems.

C) They would be perfect if they take up smaller space.

D) They will waste the government lots of time and money.

59. What’s the author’s opinion on nuclear power?

A) It’s one of the emission reduction measures that should be advocated.

B) It’s only applicable to Britain but not the whole world in emission reduction.

C) It’s of no help to the current global climate as a slow way to pull CO2 down.

D) It’s a good way to solve both the energy and pollution problems in the world.

60. To reduce carbon emission fast in the world, the author suggests .

A) capturing and sequestering CO2 in the air

B) building more nuclear power plants

C) planting more trees to absorbing CO2

D) burying burnt crop waste into the field

61. According to the passage, one advantage of the author’s proposal is that .

A) it can produce charcoal most of which can be used as fuel

B) it doesn’t involve any international cooperation or negotiation

C) it brings extra income to farmers and saves government money

D) it needs no advanced technology or expensive equipment

Passage Two

Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.

A few years back, the decision to move the Barnes, a respected American art institution, from its current location in the suburban town of Merion, Pa., to a site in Philadelphia’s museum district caused an argument — not only because it shamelessly went against the will of the founder, Albert C. Barnes, but also because it threatened to dismantle (拆开) a relationship among art, architecture and landscape critical to the Barnes’s success as a museum.

For any architect taking on the challenge of the new space, the confusion of moral and design questions

might seem overwhelming. What is an architect’s responsibility to Barnes’s vision of a marvelous but odd collection of early Modern artworks housed in a rambling(布局凌乱的) 1920s Beaux-Arts pile? Is it possible to reproduce its spirit in such a changed setting? Or does trying to replicate (复制) the Barnes’s unique atmosphere only doom you to failure? The answers of the New York architects taking the commission are not reassuring.

The new Barnes will include many of the features that have become virtually mandatory (强制性的) in the museum world today —conservation and education departments, temporary exhibition space, auditorium, bookstore, café— making it four times the size of the old Barnes. The architects have tried to compensate for this by laying out these spaces in an elaborate architectural procession that is clearly intended to replicate the peacefulness, if not the fantastic charm, of the old museum.

But the result is a complicated design. Almost every detail seems to ache from the strain of trying to preserve the spirit of the original building in a very different context. The failure to do so, despite such an earnest effort, is the strongest argument yet for why the Barnes should not be moved in the first place.

The old Barnes is by no means an obvious model for a great museum. Inside the lighting is far from perfect, and the collection itself, mixing masterpieces by Cézanne, Picasso and Soutine with second-rate paintings by lesser-known artists, has a distinctly odd flavor. But these apparent flaws are also what have made the Barnes one of the country’s most charming exhibition spaces.

But today the new Barnes is after a different kind of audience. Although museum officials say the existing limits on crowd size will be kept, it is clearly meant to draw bigger numbers and more tourist dollars. For most visitors the relationship to the art will feel less immediate.

62. The Old Barnes becomes the successful museum mainly because of .

A) the beneficial geographical position in a suburban town

B) its unique design and orderly collection of arts

C) the influence of its founder Albert C. Barnes

D) the perfect connection among art, architecture and landscape

63. The biggest challenge architects face in building the new Barnes is .

A) the ethical and design problems

B) the difficulty to retain its original peacefulness

C) the lack of confidence in undertaking the task

D) the difficulty to put all the artworks in a smaller space

64. According to the passage, the new Barnes will .

A) be completely the same as the old one B) take up more space than the old one

C) be changed into an art education center D) be forced to be modern in appearance

65. Why does the author oppose to relocate the Barnes?

A) The relocation means disrespect to the person who runs it.

B) Architectures’ complicated design will make the museum charmless.

C) The spirit of the old Barnes will be gone in a different place.

D) The multiple functions of the new Barnes will destroy the collection.

66. What do we know about the old Barnes from the fifth paragraph?

A) It is a good example of the great modern museums.

B) It is downgraded by the mixture of different paintings.

C) The world-famous painters’ works make it a charming place.

D) It is the seeming imperfection that makes it attractive.

Part V Cloze (15 minutes)

Directions:There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

How men first learned to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a 67 . All we really know is that men, unlike

a n i m a l s,s o m e h o w i n v e n t e d c e r t a i n

68 to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with e a c h other; and that later they agreed 69 certain signs, called letters, which could be 70 to represent those sounds, and which could be 67. A) myth B) wonder

C) mystery D) peculiarity

68. A) sounds B) gestures

C) signs D) movements

69. A) in B) with

C) of D) upon

70. A) spelt B) combined

C) related D) copied

71. A) down B) out

C) by D) off

handed 71 . Those sounds, whether spoken, 72 written in letters, we call words.

The power of words, then, lies in their 73 —the things they bring up before our minds. Words become 74 with meaning for us by experience; and the 75 we live, the more certain words 76 to us the happy and sad 77 of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something to us 78 .

Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal 79 to our minds and emotions. This 80 and telling use of words is what we call 81 style. 82 all, the real poet is a master of words. He can 83 his meaning in words which sing like music, and 84 by their position and association can 85 men to tears. We should, 86 , learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately, or they will make our speech or writing silly and vulgar. 72. A) and B) yet

C) also D) or

73. A) functions B) associations

C) roles D) links

74. A) filled B) full

C) live D) active

75. A) happier B) sadder

C) shorter D) longer

76. A) reappear B) recall

C) remember D) recollect

77. A) incidents B) cases

C) events D) affairs

78. A) raises B) increases

C) improves D) emerges

79. A) intensively B) extensively

C) broadly D) powerfully

80. A) charming B) academic

C) conventional D) common

81. A) written B) spoken

C) literary D) dramatic

82. A) Over B) After

C) At D) Above

83. A) transfer B) communicate

C) convey D) transmit

84. A) which B) that

C) what D) how

85. A) engage B) make

C) move D) force

86. A) therefore B) however

C) furthermore D) nevertheless

Part VI Translation (5 minutes)

Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets. Please

write your translation on Answer Sheet 2.

87. Medical research has shown that the widespread use of cigarettes

___________________________ (促进了癌症的增加).

88. While people may refer to television for up-to-the-minute news, ___________________________

(电视完全取代报纸是不可能的).

89. I don’t think it advisable that Tom ___________________________ (被委以该职) since he has no

experience.

90. We gave out a cheer when the red roof of the cottage ___________________________ (映入眼

帘).

91. Frankly speaking, I’d rather you ___________________________ (别为这做任何事) for the time

being.

参考答案

Part I Writing

【范文】

Is Offering Seats Compulsory for Young Passengers?

In recent years, there have been many disputes about young’s giving seats to the elderly on buses. Some people maintain that the elderly are physically weak and are more prone to falling and getting hurt when standing on a moving bus. Therefore, young people, especially those taking the priority seats, have obligation to offer the seats to senior citizens to prevent potential hurt.

Some people, however, think the other way. Young passengers, they say, pay for the bus trip, so they enjoy the same right as senior citizens to use seats on the bus. Besides, many young riders, though physically strong, can’t escape being exhausted by a day’s work and are in great need of

the seats on buses too. Forcing them to give up the seats seems inhuman and unfair.

In my view, whether it is compulsory for the young to give up their seats to needy riders depends on the kind of seats they take. In general, it is a moral requirement for young passengers on regular seats to do so. However, for those sitting on priority seats, it is a legal obligation.

Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

1. D)

2. B)

3. A)

4. B)

5. D)

6. C)

7. C)

8. in isolation 9. salty and sugary snacks 10. cut back

Part III Listening Comprehension

Section A

11. A) 12. B) 13. A) 14. A) 15. A) 16. C) 17. B) 18. B)

19. B) 20. A) 21. D) 22. D) 23. D) 24. C) 25. A)

Section B

26. A) 27. D) 28. B) 29. D) 30. A) 31. C) 32. A) 33. C)34. D) 35. A)

Section C

36. services 37. agrees 38. immediately 39. receives

40. promises 41. nowadays 42. issued 43. purchases

44. Credit cards from credit companies can be used to buy things almost anywhere

45. Most large credit companies are connected to large banks

46. After an applicant receives a credit card, he or she can use the card to make purchases

Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

Section A

47. L) 48. C) 49. B) 50. E) 51. D) 52. F) 53. K) 54. J) 55. I) 56. O)

Section B

57. B) 58. A) 59. C) 60. D) 61. C) 62. D) 63. A) 64. B) 65. C) 66. D)

Part V Cloze

67. C) 68. A) 69. D) 70. B) 71. A) 72. D) 73. B) 74. A) 75. D) 76. B) 77. C) 78. B) 79. D) 80. A) 81. C) 82. D) 83. C) 84. A) 85. C) 86. A)

Part VI Translation

87. contributes to the increase of cancers

88. it is unlikely that television will replace the newspaper completely

89. (should) be assigned to the job

90. came into view / came into sight

91. didn’t do anything about it

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