大学英语四级考试预测试题二
Part I Writing （30 minutes）Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay according to the following instructions. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
Dama* square dance culture has generated some controversy recently. On the one hand, Dama square dance reflects social progress and the increasingly colorful life of senior citizens. On the other hand, many citizens who live near the square are disturbed by the noise of Dama square dance. What’s your opinion of Dama square dance? What’s your suggestion toward the problem? _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________
Part II Listening Comprehension （25 minutes）Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report 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 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.
1. A）Christmas-time attacks made by Somali rebels. C）The killing of more than 70 Ugandans in Kampala.
B）An explosion at a bus station in central Nairobi. D）Blasts set off by a Somali group in Uganda’s capital.
2. A）On Christmas Eve. C）During a security check.
B）Just before midnight. D）In the small hours of the morning.
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.
3. A）It is likely to close many of its stores. C）It remains competitive in the recession.
B）It is known for the quality of its goods. D）It will expand its online retail business.
4. A）Expand its business beyond groceries. C）Cut its DVD publishing business.
B）Fire 25,000 of its current employees. D）Sell the business for one pound. Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.
5. A）All taxis began to use meters. C）Advertisements were allowed on taxis.
B）All taxis got air conditioning. D）Old taxis were replaced with new cabs.
6. A）A low interest loan scheme. C）Taxi passengers’ complaints.
B）Environmentalists’ protests. D）Permission for car advertising.
7. A）There are no more irregular practices. C）New cabs are all equipped with meters.
B）All new cabs provide air-conditioning. D）New legislation protects consumer rights.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation 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 1 with a single line through the centre.
Conversation One
Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
8. A）She is hard-working. C）She is busy in the morning.
B）She has to catch an early bus. D）She gets up late in the morning.
9. A）It’s better than evening exercise. C）Young people do not need to take exercise.
B）It helps him work more efficiently. D）Morning exercise is generally informative.
10. A）He has to go to parties in the evening. C）The air is not fresh in the evening.
B）He has to prepare dinner for the family. D）He can’t afford the time.
11. A）Go home. C）Go to the bus stop.
B）Go to his office. D）Send his son to school.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A）Colorado. C）The Nile River.
B）Arizona. D）The Museum of Natural History.
13. A）Archaeological. C）Meteorological.
B）Biological. D）Sociological.
14. A）In a cave. C）In a tree.
B）In a river. D）In a boat.
15. A）Solve a mystery. C）Find some driftwood.
B）See the canyon. D）Take some photographs.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear three 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 1 with a single line through the centre. Passage One
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A）The head of the Alumni Office. C）A professor of business administration.
B）A doctor. D）A student from last year’s program.
17. A）Medical interns. C）Local business executives.
B）Undergraduate students. D）Alumni sponsors.
18. A）They give money to sponsor the program. C）They provide job opportunities.
B）They write letters of recommendation. D）They work for the Alumni Office. Passage Two
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19. A）To give background information about Santa Catalina Island.
B）To tell the audience about new books on Santa Catalina.
C）To introduce a training film on baseball.
D）To tell people about the music from the 1930s and 1940s.
20. A）A bandleader. C）An early settler of Santa Catalina.
B）A wealthy businessman. D）A baseball player from Chicago.
21. A）To set up an exclusive resort. C）To establish a summer retreat for musicians.
B）To build a marina. D）To start a training camp for a baseball team.
22. A）Traditional Portuguese music. C）Big-band music.
B）Opera. D）Music composed by Wrigley.
Passage Three
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
23. A）Recalling something from one’s memory. C）Conscience.
B）The preparatory method in exams. D）Man’s mind.
24. A）From the ones they are familiar with to the difficult ones.
B）From the short ones to the long ones.
C）From the complicated ones to the easy ones.
D）From the ones they are confident of to the more difficult ones.
25. A）When you can’t recall something instantly, you should try your best to do it.
B）When you can’t recall something instantly, you’d better have an operation on your mind.
C）The subconscious activities may go to work to dig up a dim memory.
D）Forcing yourself to recall may loosen your memory.
Part III Reading Comprehension （40 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 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Worried about what people are saying about you? Concerns about gossip could influence behavior, including generosity, researchers said.
“As it turns out, the act of gossip can indeed be quite powerful,”said Jared Piazza of Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Piazza and Jesse M. Beringa studied the 26 of 72 college students who were asked to distribute tokens（代金券）with a monetary value between themselves and someone else.
Half of the group were 27 told their decision would be discussed with a third party. “Participants who were told that the receiver would be communicating their economic decision with the third party were 28 more generous in their allocations of the tokens than participants who were not 29 to believe that their decisions would be discussed,” Piazza and Beringa said in the study published in the journal Human Behavior.
They added that the most 30 strategy from an economic standpoint would have been for a student to 31 all 10 tokens to him or herself, but the threat of gossip seemed to
have 32 their decision.
Although gender did not play a major role in the study, men were slightly more 33 than women.
“Allocations of males were, on average, slightly greater than allocations of females, although there were almost twice as many female participants,” the researchers 34 .
A previous study showed that gossip is more powerful than truth, suggesting people believe what they hear through the grapevine even if they have evidence to the 35 .
A）added I）allocate
B）beneficial J）thought
C）swayed K）contrary
D）fabricated L）also
E）reactions M）generous
F）made N）led
G）still O）economical
H）significantly
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
Addicted, Really?
A）Mental-health specialists disagree over whether to classify compulsive online behaviour as addiction—and how to treat it. Craig Smallwood, a disabled American war veteran, spent more than 20,000 hours over five years playing an online role-playing game called “Lineage II”. When NCsoft, the South Korean firm behind the game, accused him of breaking the game’s rules and banned him, he was plunged into depression, severe paranoia（偏执）and hallucinations（幻想）. He spent three weeks in hospital. After that, he sued NCsoft for fraud and negligence（过失）, demanding over $ 9m in damages and claiming that the company acted negligently by failing to warn him of the danger that he would become “addicted”to the game.
B）But does it make sense to talk of addiction to online activity? Mental-health specialists say three online behaviors can become problematic for many people: video games, pornography （色情作品）and messaging via e-mail and social networks. But there is far less agreement about whether any of this should be called “Internet addiction”—or how to treat it.
C）Some mental-health specialists wanted “Internet addiction”to be included in the fifth version of psychiatry’s bible, the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders”, known as DSM-V, which is currently being overhauled （全面修订）. The American Medical Association endorsed （赞成）the idea in 2007, only to backtrack（放弃）days later. The American Journal of Psychiatry called Internet addiction a “common disorder”and supported its recognition. Last year the DSM-V drafting group made its decision: Internet addiction would not be included as a “behavioral addiction”—only gambling made the cut—but it said further study was necessary.
D）Skeptics say there is nothing uniquely addictive about the Internet. Back in 2000, Joseph
Walther, a communications professor at Michigan State University, co-wrote an article in which he suggested, tongue in cheek, that the criteria used to call someone an Internet addict might also show that most professors were “addicted”to academia （学术活动）. He argued that other factors, such as depression, are the real problem. He stands by that view today. “No scientific evidence has emerged to suggest that Internet use is a cause rather than a consequence of some other sort of issue,” he says. “Focusing on and treating people for Inter net addiction, rather than looking for underlying clinical issues, is definitely unwise.”
E）Others disagree. “That would be wrong,”says Kimberly Young, a researcher and therapist who has worked on Internet addiction since 1994. She insists that the Internet, with its powerfully immersive environments, creates new problems that people must learn to navigate（应对）. Otherwise, the changing lifestyle will affect the development of the society.
F）No one disputes that online habits can turn toxic. Take South Korea, where widespread broadband means that the average high-school student plays video games for 23 hours each week. In 2007 the government estimated that around 210,000 children needed treatment for Internet addiction. In 2010 newspapers around the globe carried the story of a South Korean couple who fed their infant daughter so little that she starved to death. Instead of caring for the child, the couple spent most nights at an Internet café, sinking hours into a role-playing game in which they raised, fed and cared for a virtual daughter. And several South Korean men have died from exhaustion after marathon, multi-day gaming sessions.
G）The South Korean government has since asked game developers to adopt a gaming curfew（宵禁）for children, to prevent them playing between midnight and 8 a.m. At the same time, it has also opened more than 100 clinics for Internet addiction and sponsored a n “Internet rescue camp” for serious cases.
H）But compulsive behaviour is not limited to gamers. E-mail or web-use behaviours can also show signs of addiction. Getting through a business lunch in which no one pulls out a phone to check their messages now counts as a minor miracle in many quarters. A deluge （泛滥）of self-help books, most recently “Alone Together”by Sherry Turkle, a social scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, offer advice on how to unplug （去除障碍）.
I） Pornography is hardly new, either, but the Internet makes accessing it much easier than ever before. When something can be summoned in an instant via broadband, whether it is a game world, an e-mail inbox or pornographic material, it is harder to resist. New services lead to new complaints. When online auction sites first became popular, talk of “eBay addiction” soon followed. Dr. Young says women complain to her now about addiction to Facebook—or even to “FarmVille”, a game playable only within Facebook.
J）Treatment centres have popped up around the world with the popularity of online games. In 2006 Amsterdam’s Smith & Jones facility billed itself as “the first and, currently, the only residential video-game treatment program in the world”. In America the reSTART Internet Addiction Recovery Program claims to treat Internet addiction, gaming addiction, and even “texting addiction”. In China, meanwhile, military-style “boot camps”are the preferred way to treat Internet problems.
K）Yet many people like feeling permanently connected. As Arikia Millikan, an American blogger, once put it, “If I could be jacked in at every waking hour of the day, I would, and I think a lot of my peers would do the same.”Bob LaRose, an Internet specialist at Michigan State University, doesn’t believe her. In his research on college students, he found that most sense when
they are “going overboard and restore self-control”. Less than 1% have a pathological（病态的）problem, he adds. For most people, Inte rnet use “is just a habit—and one that brings us pleasure.”
36. According to Joseph Walther, it is unwise to emphasize the treatment of Internet addiction instead of seeking for potential clinical issues.
37. As online games become popular, treatment centres have sprung up all over the world.
38. After playing online games continuously for days, several South Korean men were exhausted to death.
39. Smallwood sued NCsoft and claimed a huge compensation for fraud and its negligence of warning him of the danger of game addiction.
40. In South Korea, a gaming curfew for children was adopted to prevent children playing after midnight.
41. Internet addiction still needs to be further studied though the DSM-V did not categorize it as
a “behavioral addiction”.
42. An Internet specialist found that most college students could realize when they are going too far and restore self-control.
43. According to mental-health specialists, for many people, video games, pornography and messaging via e-mail and social networks can become problematic online behaviors.
44. People regard it as a small miracle if nobody takes out a phone to read the messages at a business lunch.
45. Kimberly Young insists that people must learn to deal with new problems brought about by the Internet.
Section C
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 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
Fried foods have long been frowned upon. Nevertheless, the skillet （长柄平底煎锅）is about our handiest and most useful piece of kitchen equipment. Strong woodcutters and others engaged in active labor requiring 4,000 calories per day or more will take approximately one-third of their rations prepared in this fashion. Meat, eggs, and French toast cooked in this way are served in millions of homes daily. Apparently the consumers are not beset with more signs of indigestion than afflicted by those who insist upon broiling, roasting, or boiling. Some years ago one of our most eminent physiologists investigated the digestibility of fried potatoes. He found that the pan variety was more easily broken down for assimilation than when deep fat was employed. The latter, however, dissolved within the alimentary tract （消化道）more readily than the boiled type. Furthermore, he learned, by watching the progress of the contents of the stomach by means of the fluoroscope （荧光检查仪）, that fat actually accelerated the rate of digestion. Now all this is quite in contrast with “authority”. V olumes have been written on nutrition, and everywhere the dictum （权威意见）has been accepted—no fried edibles of any sort for children. A few will go so far as to forbid this style of cooking wholly. Now and then an expert will be bold enough to admit that he uses them himself, the absence of discomfort being explained on the ground that he possesses a
powerful gastric（胃的）apparatus. We can of course sizzle perfectly good articles to death so that they will be leathery and tough. But thorough heating, in the presence of shortening, is not the awful crime that it has been labeled. Such dishes stimulate rather than retard contractions of the gall bladder. Thus it is that bile（胆汁）mixes with the nutriment shortly after it leaves the stomach.
We don’t need to allow our foodstuffs to become oil soaked, but other than that, there seems to be no basis for the widely heralded prohibition against this method. But notions become fixed. The first condemnation probably rose because an “oracle”（圣贤）suffered from dyspepsia （消化不良）which he ascribed to some fried item on the menu. The theory spread. Others agreed with him, and after a time the doctrine became incorporated in our textbooks. The belief is now tradition rather than proved fact. It should have been refuted long since, as experience has demonstrated its falsity.
46. This passage focuses on ______.
A）why the skillet is a handy piece of kitchen equipment
B）the digestibility of fried foods
C）how the experts can mislead the public in the area of food preparation
D）why fried foods have long been frowned upon
47. People engaged in active labor eat fried foods because ______.
A）they are healthful C）they can be easily digested
B）they are much cheaper D）they can provide the calories the workers need 48. The author implies that the public should ______.
A）prepare some foods by frying C）fry foods for adults but not for children
B）avoid fried foods if possible D）prepare all foods by frying
49. When the author says that “an ‘oracle’ suffered from dyspepsia which he ascribed to some fried item on the menu” he is being ______.
A）grateful B）factual C）sarcastic D）humorous
50. The passage was probably taken from ______.
A）a medical journal C）a speech at a medical convention
B）a publication addressed to the general public D）an advertisement for cooking oil
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
In the second half of the twentieth century, many countries of the South （发展中国家）began to send students to the industrialized countries for further education. They urgently needed supplies of highly trained personnel to implement a concept of development based on modernization.
But many of these students decided to stay on in the developed countries when they had finished their training. At the same time, many professionals who did return home but no longer felt at ease there also decided to go back to the countries where they had studied.
In the 1960s, some Latin American countries tried to solve this problem by setting up special “return” programs to encourage their professionals to come back home. These programs received support from international bodies such as the International Organization for Migration, which in 1974 enabled over 1,600 qualified scientists and technicians to return to Latin America.
In the 1980s and 1990s, “temporary return”programs were set up in order to make the best use of trained personnel occupying strategic positions in the developed countries. This gave rise to the
United Nations Development Program’s Transfer of Knowledge through Expatriate （移居国外的）Nationals, which encourages technicians and scientists to work in their own countries for short periods. But the brain drain （人才流失）from these countries may well increase in response to the new laws of the international market in knowledge.
Recent studies forecast that the most developed countries are going to need more and more highly qualified professionals around twice as many as their educational systems will be able to produce, or so it is thought. As a result there is an urgent need for developing countries which send students abroad to give preference to fields where they need competent people to give muscle to their own institutions, instead of encouraging the training of people who may not come back because there are no professional outlets for them. And the countries of the South must not be content with institutional structures that simply take back professionals sent abroad, they must introduce flexible administrative procedures to encourage them to return. If they do not do this, the brain drain is bound to continue.
51. Which of the following is NOT correct according to the passage?
A） The developing countries believe that sending students to the industrialized countries is a good way to meet their own needs for modernization.
B） The South American countries have been sending students to developed countries since the 1920s.
C） Many people trained abroad remain in the developed countries instead of coming back to serve their home countries.
D） The International Organization for Migration successfully helped more than 1,600 professionals to return to their own countries in a single year.
52. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons why the developing countries are losing their brain power?
A） Many professionals did not feel comfortable in their home countries after they returned home.
B）“Temporary return”programs encouraged professionals to work in their home countries for short periods.
C） The new laws of the international market encourage knowledge transfer.
D） The professionals from the developing countries have been trained in fields where they could not apply their knowledge to the best advantage in their home countries.
53. In the author’s opinion, the developing countries should ______.
A） keep their present administrative procedures so as to ensure that their students return after graduation
B） cooperate more effectively with international organizations
C） set up more return programs under the guidance of the UN
D） send students abroad in the fields where their knowledge is more likely to be made full use of in their own countries
54. According to the passage, the problem of the developing countries will continue ______.
A） as long as the developed countries need more qualified professionals than they can educate domestically
B） as long as the developing countries are content with their present institutional structures C） unless those countries stop sending large number of students to be trained abroad
D） if their governments fail to make administrative adjustments concerning the return
procedures of their professionals
55. The best title for the passage is ______.
A）The Brain Drain of the Developing Countries C）The Talents from the Developing Countries
B）Knowledge Transfer D）The Failure of Development Programs
Part IV Translation （30 minutes）Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
孔子（公元前551～公元前479），中国历史上伟大的教育家、思想家和政治家，儒家思想（Confucianism）的创始人。他创办私学，招收并教育弟子（disciple），创立了以“仁”为核心的道德学说。相传他有弟子三千，曾带领部分弟子周游列国。孔子的言论及其与弟子们的对话被汇集编纂成《论语》（The Analects of Confucius），千古传诵。自汉代以后，儒家思想成为两千多年来中华传统文化的主流，影响极为深远。
大学英语四级考试模拟试卷及参考答案(第一套)
大学英语四级考试模拟试卷及参考答案(第 一套） Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minute s) Directions: There are 4 reading passa ges in this part. Each passage is followe d by some questions or unfinished stateme nts. For each of them there are four choi ces marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the co rresponding letter on the Answer Sheet wi th a single line through the center. Pass age One Questions 21 to 25 are based on the follo wing passage. There is a difference between science and technology. Science is a method of a nswering theoretical questions; technolog y is a method of solving practical proble ms. Science has to do with discovering th e facts and relationships between observa ble phenomena in nature and with establis
2016 年12 月大学英语四级考试真题及 答案 【篇一：2016 年12 月大学英语四级翻译作文题目及答 案】 翻译一： 在中国文化中，红色通常象征着好运、长寿和幸福。在春节和其他喜庆场合，红色到处可见。人们把现金作为礼物送给家人或亲密朋 友时，通常放在红信封里。红色在中国流行的另一个原因是人们把 它与中国革命和共产党相联系。然而，红色并不总是代表好运与快 乐。因为从前死者的名字常用红色书写，用红墨水写中国人名被看 成是一种冒犯行为。 as a symbol of good luck, longevity and happiness in chinese culture, the color of red can be seen everywhere during springfestive and other festive/ joyous occasions. cash is usually put in red envelopes as gifts for relatives and close/intimate friends. also, red is much-welcomed / fashionable in china because of its association with chinese revolutions and the communist party. however, red does not always represent / equal to good luck and joy. red was previously used to write the names of the deceased so it is seen as an offence to write chinese people ’s names in red ink. 翻译二 随着中国的改革开放，如今很多年轻人都喜欢举行西式婚礼。新娘 在婚礼上穿着白色婚纱，因为白色被认为是纯洁的象征。然而，在 中国传统文化中，白色经常是葬礼上使用的颜色。因此务必记住， 白花一定不要用作祝人康复的礼物，尤其不要送给老年人或危重病 人。同样，礼金也不能装在白色信封里，而要装在红色信封里。 with the reform and opening-up of china, a great many young people nowadays prefer to hold western-style wedding: the bride wears white wedding gown because the color is considered to symbolize purity/is considered as the symbol of purity. however, in tradition chinese culture, white is often used on funerals. so, do bear in mind that white flowers should never be used as a gift to celebrate someone ’s recovery, especially not for the aged or those who are seriously ill.
大学英语四级期末试卷 Part I: Multiple choice 20% Directions:For each of the following blanks, four choices are given. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank and mark A, B, C, or D on Answer Sheet. 1. Now that we’ve got a loan from the bank, our project is financially _____. A. constructive B. feasible C. favorable D. stiff 2. Due to his recent failure to meet the deadline, Jason is ____ from the list for promotion. . A. eliminated B. retreated C. pried D. wrenched 3. We need someone really ____ who can organize the office and make it run smoothly.. A. crucial B. realistic C. essential D. efficient 4. I am pleased to hear of your job offer-all that hard work at school has obviously __. A. paid off B. taken its toll C. made a difference D. shown up 5. As a reporter, I was paid to __ into other people’s lives. A. pry B. convert C. blurt D. carve 6. The mayor promised to trim the city budget without cutting ___ services. . A. essential B. appropriate C. equivalent D. lucrative 7. The doctor ___ Billy’s operation with x-rays and special exercises to make him stronger. A. went after B. followed up C. started up D. took on 8. A firm might sometimes sell at a loss to drive a competitor out of business, and__ increase its market power. A. therefore B. thereby C. hence D. further 9. You can ___ the video camera on a tripod (三脚架)，so that you don’t have to worry about holding it steady while you ask questions. A. withstand B. mount C. implement D. dwell 10. AIDS activists permanently changed and shortened America’s ___process for testing and approving new drugs of all kinds, for all diseases. A. efficient B. stagnant C. intricate D. appropriate 11.___ students should be motivated by a keen interest in theatre and should have some familiarity with plays in production.. A. prospective B. responsible C. ethnic D. realistic 12.However, the new law, once passed, will ___ the Bridlintong agreement illegal by giving workers the right to join unions of their choice.. A. convert B. render C. cancel D. eliminate 13.This course focuses on the ____ of economic analysis to the problems of inflation, unemployment, the balance of payments and enterprise behaviour. A. conception B. combination C. application D. introduction 14.The aircraft base is protected with specially designed shelters which are built to ___ ground and air attacks. A. launch B. withstand C. contest D. contend
大学英语四级模拟题四 Part One Reading Comprehension (2’×10 = 20’) 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. Passage One Air pollution can spread from city to city. It even spreads from one country to another. Some northern European countries have had “black snow”from pollutants that have traveled through the air from other countries and have fallen with the snow. So air pollution is really a global problem. Air pollution can kill babies, older people, and those who have respiratory（呼吸的）diseases. As found in cities, air pollution increases the risks of certain lung diseases. Air pollution can cause both airplane and car accidents because it cuts down visibility （能见度）. There are other possible health dangers from air pollution that we don’t know much about. For example, scientists are trying to find out whether chemicals that reach us from the air may cause changes in our cells. These changes might cause babies to be born with serious birth defects. Scientists are trying to learn how all the many chemicals are apt（易于的）to take into our bodies from air, water, food, and even medicines act together to affect our health and the way our bodies work. That is another reason why it is so important to begin to control pollution now instead of waiting until we learn all the answers. Air pollution costs us a lot of money. It corrodes（腐蚀）our buildings. It damages farm crops and forests. It has a destructive effect on our works of art. The cost of all this damage to our government is great. It would be much more worthwhile, both for us and for the government, to spend our tax dollars on air pollution control. 1. Air pollution may lead to airplane accidents because . A. it may cause pilots to be ill B. engines may fail from the air-borne dirt C. visibility is reduced D. it brings a lot of black snow 2. Scientists are trying to find a link between pollution and . A. intelligence levels B. birth problems C. man’s behavior D. the nervous system 3. Scientists have not yet determined . A. all of the effects of pollution on the human body B. how pollution can be controlled successfully C. when the atmosphere first became polluted D. how some snow becomes black 4. The author suggests that before air pollution becomes more serious, . A. factories will be forced to stop operating B. buildings should be protected C. the earth will begin to grow colder D. more money should be spent to solve the problem 5. We can conclude that . A. civilization may be ruined if pollution is not controlled B. pollution is more serious in Europe than it is in America C. most people do not know that pollution is a serious problem D. we should learn all the answers before we begin to control pollution Passage Two Stiletto heels could be banned from the workplace because of health and safety reasons, according to British Trade Union bosses. The Trade Union Congress, predominantly male, has proposed a motion arguing that high heels are disrespectful to women while they also contribute to long term injuries. They propose instead that women wear “sensible shoes”with an inch heel limit in an attempt to avoid future foot and back pain as well as injuries. The motion is due to be debated at next month’s conference. The motion states: “Congress believes high heels may look glamorous on the Hollywood catwalks but are completely in appropriate for the day-to-day working environment. Feet bear the burden of daily life, and for many workers prolonged standing, badly fitted footwear, and in particular high heels can be a hazard. Around two million days a year are lost through sickness as a result of lower limb disorders. Wearing high heels can cause long-term foot problems and also serious foot, knee and back pain and damaged joints. Many employers in the retail sector force women workers to wear high heels as part of their dress code. More must be done to raise awareness of this problem so that women workers and their feet are protected.” Nadline Dorries, the Tory Member of Parliament, however criticized the motion and said the extra height heels give women can help them when in the workplace. “I’m 5ft 3in and need every inch of my Christian Louboutin heels to look my male colleagues in the eye,”she said. “If high heels were banned in Westminster, no one would be able to find me. The Trade Union leaders need to get real, stop using obvious sexist tactics by discussing women’s
大学英语四级考试真题及答案(绝对完整） Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minute to write a short essay on the topic of students selecting their lectures. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given bellow: 1. 越来越多的博物馆免费对外开放的目的是什么？ 2. 也会带来一些问题 3. 你的看法？ 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. How Do You See Diversity? As a manager, Tiffany is responsible for interviewing applicants for some of the positions with her company .During one interview, she noticed that the candidate never made direct eye contact. She was puzzled and somewhat disappointed because she liked the individual otherwise. He had a perfect resume and gave good responses to her questions, but the fact that he never looked her in the eye said “untrustworthy,” so she decided to offer the job to her second choice. “It wasn’t until I attended a diversity workshop that I realized the person we passed over was the perfect person,” Tiffany confesses. What she hadn’t known at the time of the interview was that the candidate’s “different” behavior was simply a cultural misunderstanding . He was an Asian-American raised in a household where respect for those in authority was shown by averting(避开) your eyes. “I was just thrown off by the lack of ye contact; not realizing it was cultural,” Tiffany says. “I missed out ,but will not miss that opportunity again.” Many of us have had similar encounters with behaviors we perceive as different. As the world becomes smaller and our workplaces more diverse, it is becoming essential to expand our under-standing of others and to reexamine some of our false assumptions . Hire Advantage At a time when hiring qualified people is becoming more difficult ,employers who can eliminate invalid biases(偏爱) from the process have a distinct advantage .My company, Mindsets LLC ,helps organizations and individuals see their own blind spots . A real estate recruiter we worked with illustrates the positive difference such training can make .
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Calculate for a moment what could be done with even a part of those hours. Five thousand hours, I am told, are what a typical college undergraduate spends working on a bachelor's degree. In 10,000 hours you could have learned enough to become an astronomer or engineer. You could have learned several languages fluently. If it appealed to you, you could be reading Homer in the original Greek or Dostoyevsky in Russian. If it didn't, you could have walked around the world and written a book about it. The trouble with television is that it discourages concentration. Almost anything interesting and rewarding in life requires some constructive, consistently applied effort. The dullest, the least gifted of us can achieve things that seem miraculous to those who never concentrate on anything. But Television encourages us to apply no effort. It sells us instant gratification(满意). It diverts us only to divert, to make the time pass without pain. Television's variety becomes a narcotic(麻醉的), nor a stimulus. Its serial, kaleidoscopic (万花筒般的)exposures force us to follow its lead. The viewer is on a perpetual guided tour: 30 minutes at the museum, 30 at the cathedral, 30 for a drink, then back on the bus to the next attraction—except on television., typically, the spans allotted arc on the order of minutes or seconds, and the chosen delights are more often car crashes and people killing one another. In short, a lot of television usurps(篡夺;侵占) one of the most precious of all human gifts, the ability to focus your attention yourself, rather than just passively surrender it. Capturing your attention—and holding it—is the prime motive of most television programming and enhances its role as a profitable advertising vehicle. Programmers live in constant fear of losing anyone's attention—anyone's. The surest way to avoid doing so is to keep everything brief, not to strain the attention of anyone but instead to provide constant stimulation through variety, novelty, action and movement. Quite
精品文档 2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题及答案（完整版） 来源：文都教育 Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following topic. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Suppose a foreign friend of yours is coming to visit your hometown, what is the most interesting place you would like to take him/her to see and why? 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 Part II Listening Comprehension (30 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 1 with a single line through the centre. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 1. A) See a doctor about her strained shoulder. B) Use a ladder to help her reach the tea. C) Replace the cupboard with a new one. D) Place the tea on a lower shelf next time. 2. A) At Mary Johnson's. C) In an exhibition hall. B) At a painter's studio. D) Outside an art gallery. 3. A) The teacher evaluated lacks teaching experience. B) She does not quite agree with what the man said. C) The man had better talk with the students himself. D) New students usually cannot offer a fair evaluation. 4. A) He helped Doris build up the furniture. B) Doris helped him arrange the furniture.
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大学英语四级考试模拟试题 Model Test Five Part ⅠListening Comprehension Directions: This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. Choose the correct answer---A, B, C or D, and then, mark your answer by writing the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Section A (C) 11. A) He will only be available in the afternoon. B) It’s not his office hour. C) He doesn’t have time. D) He is too tired after class. (A) 12. A) The woman insists on going out. B) The woman doesn’t like watching TV. C) The man promised her a gift on her birthday. D) The man is too tired to go out. (B) 13. A) There are too many courses offered to
2007年6月大学英语四级考试A卷试题以及答案 Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of Welcome to our club. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given bellow: 欢迎辞，欢迎加入俱乐部。 标题：Welcome to our club 书写提纲： 1. 表达你的欢迎； 2. 对你们俱乐部作一个简要介绍。 Welcome to English club! It could serve as a platform to show your outstanding abilities and help you develop a range of great skills. You can be involved in a variety of activities including staging musical dramas, holding group discussions and watching Oscar-winning movies. These extra-curricular activities could offer you ample opportunities. First, you active participation is helpful to strengthen the sense of responsibility and managing interpersonal relations. Second, various activities organized by us could raise your level of proficiency in English. A good command of English empowers you to enjoy decided competitive edge over your peers. You can file a written application to our staff office or email us via bonoo@https://www.doczj.com/doc/2311411911.html,. The deadline for entries is Sept.25th. Come on, join us now! 注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。 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, mark Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; Y(for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 8-10. complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Protect Your Privacy When Job-hunting Online Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person's personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain. The numbers associated with identity theft are beginning to add up fast these days. A recent General Accounting Office report estimates that as many as 750.000 Americans are victims of identity theft every year. And thai number may be low, as many people choose not to report the crime even if they know they have been victimized. Identity theft is "an absolute epidemic," states Robert Ellis Smith, a respected author and