Part Ⅰ Writing
1. 目前考古正形成热潮
2. 分析这股热潮产生的原因
3. 你的看法
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Genetically Modified Foods -- Feed the World?
If you want to spark a heated debate at a dinner party, bring up the topic about genetically modified foods. For many people, the concept of genetically altered, high-tech crop production raises all kinds of environmental, health, safety and ethical questions. Particularly in countries with long agrarian traditions -- and vocal green lobbies -- the idea seems against nature.
In fact, genetically modified foods are already yew much a part of our lives. A third of the corn and more than half the soybeans and cotton grown in the US last year were the product of biotechnology, according to the Department of Agriculture. More than 65 million acres of genetically modified crops will be planted in the US this year. The genetic is out of the bottle.
Yet there are clearly some very real issues that, need to be resolved, lake any new product entering the food chain, genetically modified foods must be subjected to rigorous testing. In wealthy count, des, the debate about biotech is tempered by the fact that we have a rich array of foods to choose from -- and a supply that far exceeds our needs. In developing countries desperate to feed fast-growing and underfed populations; the issue is simpler and much more urgent: Do the benefits of biotech outweigh the risks?
The statistics on population growth and hunger are disturbing. Last year the world's population reached 6 billion. And by 2050, the UN estimates, it will be probably near 9 billion. Almost all that growth will occur in developing countries. At the same time, the world's available cultivable land per person is declining. Arable land has declined steadily since 1960 and will decrease by half over the next 50 years, according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA).
How can biotech help?
Biotechnologists have developed genetically modified rice that is fortified with beta-carotene(β-胡萝卜素)—which the body converts into vitamin A -- and additional iron, mid they are working on other kinds of nutritionally improved crops. Biotech can also improve farming productivity in places where food shortages are caused by crop damage attribution to pests, drought, poor soil and crop viruses, bacteria or fungi (真菌).
Damage caused by pests is incredible. The European corn borer, for example, destroys 40 million tons of the world's corn crops annual]y, about 7% of the total. Incorporating pest-resistant genes into seeds can help restore the balance. In trials of pest-resistant cotton in Africa, yields have increased significantly. So far, fears that genetically modified, pest-resistant crops might kill good insects as well as bad appear unfounded.
Viruses often cause massive failure in staple crops in developing countries. Two years ago, Africa lost more than half its cassava(树薯) crop --- a key source of calories -- to the mosaic virus.
Genetically modified, virus-resistant crops can reduce that damage, as can drought-tolerant seeds in regions where water shortages limit the amount of land under cultivation. Biotech can also help solve the problem of soil that contains excess aluminum, which can damage roots and cause many staple-crop failures. A gene that helps neutralize aluminum toxicity(毒性) in rice has been identified.
Many scientists believe biotech could raise overall crop productivity in developing countries as much as 25% and help prevent the loss of those crops after they are harvested.
Yet for all that promise, biotech is far from being the whole answer. In developing countries, lost crops are only one cause of hunger. Poverty plays the largest role. Today more than I billion people around the globe live on less than I dollar a day. Making genetically modified crops available will not reduce hunger if farmers cannot afford to grow them or if the local population cannot afford to buy the food those farmers produce.
Biotech has its own "distribution" problems. Private-sector biotech companies in the rich countries carry out much of the leading-edge research on genetically modified crops. Their products are often too costly for poor farmers in the developing world, and many of those products won't even reach the regions where they are most needed. Biotech firms have a strong financial incentive to target rich markets first in order to help them rapidly recoup the high costs of product development. But some of these companies are responding to needs of poor countries.
More and more biotech research is being carried out in developing countries. But to increase the impact of genetic research on tile food production of those countries, there is a need for better collaboration between government agencies -- both local and in developed countries -- and private biotech firms. The ISAAA, for example, is successfully partnering with the US Agency for International Development, local researches and private biotech companies to find and deliver biotech solutions for farmers in developing countries.
Will "Franken-foods" feed the world?
Biotech is not a panacea(治百病的药), but it does promise to transform agriculture in many developing countries. If that promise is not fulfilled, the real losers will be their people, who could suffer for years to come.
The world seems increasingly to have been divided into those who favor genetically modified (GM) foods and those who fear them. Advocates assert that growing genetically altered crops can be kinder to the environment and that eating foods from those plants is perfectly safe. And, they say, genetic engineering -- which can induce plants to grow in poor soils or to produce more nutritious foods -- will soon become an essential tool for helping to feed the world's burgeoning(迅速发展的) population. Skeptics contend that genetically modified crops could pose unique risks to the environment and to health -- risks too troubling to accept placidly. Taking that view, many European countries are restricting the planting and importation of genetically modified agricultural products. Much of the debate hinges on perceptions of safety. But what exactly does recent scientific research say about the hazards?
Two years ago in Edinburgh, Scotland, eco-vandals stormed a field, crushing canola plants. Last year in Maine, midnight raiders hacked down more than 3,000 experimental poplar trees. And in San Diego, protesters smashed sorghum and sprayed paint over greenhouse walls.
This far-flung outrage took aim at genetically modified crops. But the protests backfired: all the destroyed plants were conventionally bred. In each case, activists mistook ordinary plants for genetically modified varieties.
It's easy to understand why. In a way, genetically modified crops -- now on some 109 million acres of farmland worldwide -- are invisible. You can't see, taste or touch a gene inserted into a plant or sense its effects on the environment. You can't tell, just by looking, whether pollen containing a foreign gene can poison butterflies or fertilize plants miles away. That invisibility is precisely what worries people. How, exactly, will genetically modified crops affect the environment -- and when will we notice?
Advocates of genetically modified or transgenic crops say the plants will benefit the environment by requiring fewer toxic pesticides than conventional crops. But critics fear the potential risks and wonder how big the benefits really are. "We have so many questions about these plants," remarks Guenther Stotzky, a soil microbiologist at New York University. "There's a lot we don't know and need to find out."
As genetically modified crops multiply in the landscape, unprecedented numbers of researchers have started fanning into the fields to get the missing information. Some of their recent findings are reassuring; others suggest a need for vigilance.
1. Majority of people in those countries maintaining a long history of agriculture believe ______.
A) genetically modified crop is beneficial
B) genetically modified crop causes environmental problems
C) high-tech crop is a great benefit to the world
D) genetically modified foods is a heated topic
2. How much genetically modified corn was planted in the US last year?
A) More than half. B) 65 million acres. C) One third. D) Three quarters.
3. Why is the debate on genetically modified foods more heated in developing countries?
A) Because they have a rich range of foods. B) Because the supply outstrips the need.
C) Because they have to feed fast-growing populations. D) Because the risks outweigh the benefits
4. According to the UN's prediction, the growth population from now to 2050 is nearly all in ______.
A) western countries B) African countries
C) developed countries D) developing countries
5. Genetically modified crops can help to improve ______.
A) nutrient contents and farming productivity B) beta-carotene contents in rice
C) vitamin A and iron elements in crop D) attribution to resist insects
6. What was the reason that led to the loss of more than half of African main food two years ago?
A) Drought. B) Toxin in the crop. C) The mosaic virus. D) The barren soil.
7. The most important factor that leads to hunger in developing countries is ______.
A) lost crops B) global greenhouse effect
C) economic crisis D) poverty
8. Those people and countries which are restricting and opposed to genetically modified plants worry about ______.
9. The far-flung outrage destroys fields and plants because they misidentified _______.
10. Some people boost genetically modified crops on the condition that these altered plants contain ______.
Section B
Passage One
The very word "perfume" has feminine meaning to many male ears. Men can be sold" deodorant
(除臭剂)", but those little bottles with their fussy paraphernalia (随身用具) is too
much for the sensitive male ego. Yet no industry can afford to neglect half its potential market, and perfume-makers are ever keen to crack the shell of male silence. Now they may know how to do so.
Craig Roberts of the University his colleagues -- working with a team from Unilever's research laboratory at nearby Port Sunlight -- have been investigating the problem. They already knew that appropriate scents can improve the mood of those who wear them. What they discovered, though, as they will describe in a forthcoming edition of the International Journal of
Cosmetic Science, is that when a man changes his it can alter his self-confidence to such an extent that it also changes how attractive women find him.
Half of Dr Roberts's volunteers were given an aerosol spray(烟雾喷剂) containing a commercial formulation of fragrance. The other half were given a spray identical in appearance but lacking active ingredients. The study was arranged so that the researchers did not know who had received the scent and who the fake. Each participant obviously knew what he was spraying on himself, since he could smell it. But since no one was told the true purpose of the experiment, those who got the fake did not realize they were being matched against people with a properly smelly aerosol.
Over the course of several days, Dr Roberts's team conducted several psychological tests on both groups of volunteers. They found that those who had been given the commercial fragrance showed an increase in self-confidence. Not that surprising, perhaps. What was surprising was that their self-confidence improved to such an extent that women who could watch them but not smell them noticed. The women in question were shown short, silent videos of the volunteers. They deemed the men wearing the deodorant more attractive. They were, however, unable to distinguish between the groups when shown only still photographs of the men, suggesting it was the men's movement and bearing, rather than their physical appearance, that was making the difference.
For Unilever and other manufacturers of men's scent, this is an important discovery. The firm's marketing of its, main product in this area, a deodorant called Lynx, plays up the so-called" Lynx Effect"-- which is supposed to make men irresistibly attractive to women. Dr Roberts's experiment,
however, suggests that the advertised "Born chicka wah wah" of the product may have nothing to do with a woman's appreciation of the smell, and everything to do with its psychological effect on the man wearing it.
52. Why are the little bottles with fussy paraphernalia too much for the sensitive male?
A) Because it is of much trouble to carry such bottles.
B) Because such bottles somewhat bear feminine meaning.
C) Because it is fairly enough for them to take deodorant.
D) Because perfume-makers' neglect of them has angered them.
53. According to the passage, Craig Roberts and his colleagues discover from their research that ______.
A) perfume-makers should never pay attention to this half market
B) proper odor can improve the mood of people who wear it
C) changes of body odor can alter wearers' self-confidence
D) proper odor can even change wearers' physical appearance
54. About the experiment conducted by Dr Roberts, the author tells us that ______.
A) researchers are clear about who received the aerosol spray
B) experiment's real intention was exposed to all the volunteers
C) researchers were surprised that aerosol spray increases wearers' self-confidence
D) what they found in the study has not been published yet
55. In the experiment, the volunteers were arranged in such a way that ______.
A) only half members are given commercial fragrance
B) they do not know what has been sprayed on themselves
C) they realized they are being compared in psychological tests
D) volunteers receiving scent paid special attention to their movement
56. What conclusion can we get from the passage?
A) What Dr Roberts found is a big beat to perfume industry.
B) What makes a difference is that scent makes wearers more confident.
C) Lynx is really effective in making men look charming.
D) Women are attracted by the smell they appreciate more.
Passage Two
Many bankers may be worried about whether some fancy product dreamed up during these years might yet lead to a visit from the police. Daniel Dantas, a financier, who has profited by operating at the opaque place where business and government meet in Brazil, has been opening the door to find the police outside for much of the past decade. On December 2nd he was convicted of a less sophisticated crime: trying to bribe police officers. Mr. Dantas, who has acquired great notoriety in Brazil, was fined $ 5 million and sentenced to ten years in prison. He has appealed against his conviction.
The charge stems from a police investigation into money-laundering(洗钱) known as Operation Satiagraha. It grew out of a previous investigation into Mr. Dantas's use of Kroll, a security consultancy, to watch over his business partners. During this investigation the police seized a computer from Opportunity, Mr. Dantas's investment bank, which contained data from the mid-1990s to 2004 and apparently showed suspicious movements of money.
The judge found that Mr. Dantas tried to pay bribes, via two go-betweens, to keep his name out of the Satiagraha investigation. A man fitted with a bugging device was offered $1 million in cash, with another $4 million to follow, the police say. They claim that Mr. Dantas's trick involved money travelling to the Cayman Islands, then via the British Virgin Islands to an account in Ireland, on to Delaware, and then re-entering Brazil as foreign investment.
For Mr. Dantas his crime is a steep fall from grace. A man who sleeps little and socializes less, he is a vegetarian and self-made billionaire, a gifted financier who has serially fallen out with his business partners. He once controlled a large telecoms firm, acting for investors who included Citigroup. He says he is the victim of a conspiracy mounted by the government.
It is Mr. Dantas' supposed influence in government circles that has added to his notoriety. During the 1990s, when many state-owned businesses were privatized, Mr. Dantas positioned himself as the man with the needed expertise and contacts. He enjoyed easy access to the government of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, including meetings with the president himself. That influence carried through into the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Mr. Dantas is alleged to have been one of the funders of a cash-for-votes scheme in Brazil's Congress mounted by leaders of Lula's Workers' Party in 2003-2004. Many of those who have had dealings with Mr. Dantas insist that these have been legitimate and conducted in good faith. They include Luiz Eduardo Greenhalgh, a lawyer and PT politician, whom he hired as a consultant.
57. What kind of crime was Daniel Dantas convicted of according to the passage?
A) A crime quite experienced and tactful.
B) A crime by operating at the opaque place.
C) A crime attempting to temper police to work for him.
D) A crime in money laundering.
58. How did the police convict the charge against Mr. Dantas according to the passage?
A) They seized a computer by chance and got some evidence.
B) They directly conducted a probe into him.
C) They found he tempered police officers to delete his name.
D) They questioned him and made sure the process of money laundering.
59. Mr. Dantas' relationship with his business partners is that ______.
A) he usually gets along well with them
B) he does not have a quite good relation with them
C) he totally trusts all of his business partners
D) he believes that they make him a victim
60. What kind of relationship is reflected between Mr. Dantas and government in the passage?
A) His influence on government may reduce his notoriety and crime.
B) In business privatization, he participated with demanding expertise.
C) He never meets the President himself.
D) People knowing him deem that he was sheer evil.
61. What can we learn about Mr. Dantas according to the whole passage?
A) He is a gifted financier and less socialized person.
B) He always enjoys notorious fame in economic and political field.
C) He is a vegetarian who likes making food by himself.
D) His tragedy was mounted by the government conspiracy.
Part Ⅴ Cloze
In recent years, researches have suggested more health value from vitamin D than had once been thought.
Vitamin D is (62) naturally in the is a (63) source. It is also found in some foods. Vitamin D helps to increase levels of calcium in the blood. It helps build strong bones and teeth.
It also (64) to do more than just protect against rickets (软骨病). That serious bone disease was the reason why vitamin D was added to milk. Rickets is now (65) in the western world. But it is still a common childhood disease in developing countries. Rickets can and is also (66) to cause bone pain and weakness, teeth problems and muscle (67)
According to the study by the Harvard School of Public Health, Vitamin D might protect against multiple sclerosis (硬化症), also called MS.
MS is a (68) disease of the central nervous system that (69) about two million people around the world. There is no (70) . The level of severity can differ from person to person. But is usually seriously disabling.
The study iii Boston found that people with higher levels of vitamin D had lower (71) of MS. It found that the chance of developing MS was sixty-two percent lower among those with the highest level of vitamin D (72) those with the lowest level.
Vitamin D may become a future (73) for MS. But, he says first scientists must carry (74) a large, controlled study in which some people get vitamin D and others (75) not.
This is not the first study to show a possible (76) between vitamin D and multiple sclerosis. But it has (77) the clearest evidence of a direct (78) . The National Institutes of Health says some studies also suggest vitamin D (79) protect against some kinds of (80) . But it says more human studies are needed to learn if a lack of vitamin D (81) the risk of cancer.
62. A) made B) producedC) created D) manufactured
63. A) major B) minorC) most D) surplus
64. A) shows B) appearsC) looks D) appeals
65. A) common B) popularC) rare D) usual
66. A) added B) subjectedC) owned D) reducted
67. A) loss B) lackC) insufficiency D) shortage
68. A) slow B) gradualC) progressive D) tardy
69. A) effects B) affectsC) impacts D) suffers
70. A) cure B) solutionC) curl D) curse
71. A) levels B) rates
C) rites D) interests
72. A) than B) then
C) and D) as
73. A) danger B) way
C) method D) treatment
74. A) in B) out
C) about D) on
75. A) do B) get
C) make D) gain
76. A) difference B) relative
C) relationship D) combination
77. A) refused B) provided
C) promoted D) denied
78. A) combination B) touch
C) contact D) link
79. A) may B) should
C) can D) must
80. A) cancer B) fever
C) cold D) flu
81. A) rises B) decreases
C) increases D) improves
Part Ⅵ Translation
Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets. Please write your translation on Answer Sheet 2.
82. The shop owner will ________________(今天把这些预订的电视机送到消费者手中).
83. It is unfortunate that pay increases ____________________ (并不能弥补恶劣的工作环境).
84. __________ (兹回复问询), our company has already accomplished the interview and found the proper employee for that post.
85. Hurry up, or the tickets _____________ (我们到那时都卖完了).
86. This bird is really lovely. ________________ (我从未见过更好看的).
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
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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
最牛英语口语培训模式：躺在家里练口语，全程外教一对一，三个月畅谈无阻！ 洛基英语，免费体验全部在线一对一课程：（报名网址） Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always __1__ such people, but I also explain that there’sa big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of __2__ and fame, notthe long hours alone at a typewriter. "You’ve got to want to write," I say to them, "not want to be a writer."The reality is that writing is a __3__, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there arethousands more whose longing is never __4__. When I left a 20-year career in the US. Coast Guard to become a freelancewriter(自由撰稿人), I had no __5__ at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn’t even matter that it was __6__and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and feltlike a __7__ writer.After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t gotten a break and began to __8__ myself. It was so hard to sell a storythat __9__ made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one ofthose people who die wondering, what if? I would keeo putting my dream to the test----even though it meant living with __10__and fear of failure. This is the Shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream learn to live there. A) barely B) genuine C) rewarded D) doubt E) lonely F) poverty G) persuade H) prospects I) uncertainty J)impossibly K) encourage L)awarded M) alone N)wealth O)cold 【答案】 1.选K)。此处应填动词的原形。可选项有doubt, persuade, encourage, 但由always推知，作者是在鼓励那些想要成为作家的人，而不是怀疑也不是说服，故排除doubt和persuade而选encourage。 2.选N)。由空格后的fame可知，此处应填名词。可选项有prospects和wealth，但由dreaming of 与第二段中The reality is... poor-paying可推知，那些想当作家的人梦想的是金钱和名誉，而不是前途，故排除prospects而选wealth。
洛基英语，中国在线英语教育领导品牌 Model Test 1 Part One Listening Comprehension Section A Directions： In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said - Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be 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 the Answer Sheet with a line through the centre. Example： You will hear： You will read： A） At the office. B） In the waiting room. C） At the airport. D） In a restaurant. From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening. This is most likely to have taken place at the office. Therefore, A） At the office is the best answer. You should choose [A] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre. 1. A） She is not interested in the article. B） She has given the man much trouble. C） She would like to have a copy of the article. D） She doesn't want to take the trouble to read the article. 2. A） He saw the big tower he visited on TV~ B） He has visited the TV tower twice. C） He has visited the TV tower once. D） He will visit the TV tower in June. 3. A） The woman has trouble getting along with the professor. B） The woman regrets having taken up much of the professor's time. C） The woman knows the professor has been busy. D） The woman knows the professor has run into trouble. 4. A） He doesn't enjoy business trips as much as he used to. B） He doesn't think he is capable of doing the job. C） He thinks the pay is too low to support his family, D） He wants to spend more time with his family. 5. A） The man thought the essay was easy. B） They both had a hard time writing the essay. C） The woman thought the essay was easy. D） Neither of them has finished the assignment yet. 6. A） In the park. B） Between two buildings C） In his apartment. D） Under a huge tree. 7. A） It's awfully dull. B） It's really exciting.
英语四级全套模拟试卷 PartⅠ Writing(答题时间30分钟) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Selecting Courses. You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below in Chinese: 1. 选修课程在大学很普遍 2. 解释其中的原因 3. 你的看法 PartⅡ listening comprehension Section A (three news reports)略 Section B (two long conversations)略 Section C (three passages)略 PartⅢ reading comprehension(答题时间共40分钟) Section A EI NIno is name given to the masterious and often unpredictable change in the climate of the world.This strange __1__ happens every five to eight years.It starts in the PAacific Ocean and is thought to be caused by a
failure in the trade winds(信风)，which affects the ocean currents driven by these winds. As the trade winds lessen in __2__, the ocean comperatures rise causing the Peru current flowing in form the east to warm up by as much as 5°C. The warming of the ocean has far-reaching effects.The hot,humid(潮湿的)air over the ocean causes severe __3__ thunderstorms.The rainfall is increased acrossAounth American __4__ floods to Peru.In the West pacific,there are droughts affecting Australia and Indonesia.So while some parts of the world perpare for heavy rains and floods,other parts face drought,poor crops and __5__. EI Nino usually lasts for about 18 months The 1982-83 EI Nino brough the most __6__weather in mordern history. Its effect was worldwide and it left more than 2,000 people dead and caused over eight billion pounds __7__ of damage.The 1990 EI Nino will __9__, but they are still not __10__ sure what leads to it or what affects how strong it will be. [A] estimate [B] strength [C] deliberately [D] notify [E] tropical
英语四级阅读模拟训练和答案 导读：我根据大家的需要整理了一份关于《英语四级阅读模拟训练和答案》的内容，具体内容：下面是我整理的，希望对大家有帮助。The human brain contains 10 thousand million cells and each of these ma... 下面是我整理的，希望对大家有帮助。 The human brain contains 10 thousand million cells and each of these may have a thousandconnections. Suchenormous numbers used to discourage us and cause us to dismiss thepossibility of making a machine with human -like ability, but now that we have grown used tomoving forward at such a pace we can be less sure. Quite soon, in only 10 or 20 years perhaps,we will be able to assemble a machine as complex as the human brain, and if we can we will. Itmay then take us a long time to render it intelligent by loading in the right software (软件)orby altering the architecture but that too will happen. I think it certain that in decades, not centuries, machines of silicon (硅)will arise first to rivaland then exceed their human ancestors. Once they exceed us they will be capable of theirown design. In a real sense they will be able to reproduce themselves. Silicon will have endedcarbons long control. And we will no longer be able to claim ourselves to be the finestintelligence in the known
2017年6月大学英语四级阅读理解经 典模拟试题五 * 英语四级阅读模拟试题 There are people in Italy who can’t stand soccer. Not all Canadians love hockey. A similar situation exists in America, where there are those individuals you may be one of them who yawn or even frown when somebody mentions baseball. 『Baseball to them means boring hours watching grown men in funny tight outfits standing around in a field staring away while very little of anything happens.』① They tell you it’s a game better suited to the 19th century, slow, quiet, gentlemanly. These are the same people you may be one of them who love football because there’s the sport that glorifies “the hit”.By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent, still. On TV the game is fractured into a dozen perspectives, replays, close ups. The geometry of the game, however, is essential to understanding it. You will contemplate the game from one point as a painter does his subject; you may, of course, project yourself into the game. It is in this projection that the game affords so much space and time for involvement. The TV won’t do it for you. Take, for example, the third baseman. You sit behind the third base dugout and you watch him watching home plate. His legs are apart, knees flexed. His arms hang loose. He does a lot of this. The skeptic still cannot think of any other sports so still, so passive. 『But watch what happens every time the pitcher throws: the third baseman goes up on his toes, flexes his arms or bring the glove to a point in front of him, takes a step right or left, backward or forward, perhaps he glances across the field to check his first baseman’s
四级第一次模拟Passage one Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage. A few years ago a young mother watched her husband diaper (给…换尿布) their firstborn son. “You do not have to be unhappy about it,” she protested. “You can talk to him and smile a little.” The father, who happened to be a psychologist, answered firmly, “He has nothing to say to me, and I have nothing to say to him.” Psychologists now know how wrong that father was. From the moment of birth, a baby has a great deal to say to his parents, and they to him. But a decade or so ago, these experts were describing the newborn as a primitive creature who reacted only by reflex, a helpless victim of its environment without capacity to influence it. And mothers accepted the truth. Most thought (and some still do) that a new infant could see only blurry (模糊的) shadows, that his other senses were undeveloped, and that all he required was nourishment, clean diapers, and a warm bassinet. Today university laboratories across the country are studying newborns in their first month of life. As a result, psychologists now describe the new baby as perceptive, with remarkable learning abilities and an even more remarkable capacity to shape his or her environment including the attitudes and actions of his parents. Some researchers believe that the neonatal period may even be the most significant four weeks in an entire lifetime. Far from being helpless, the newborn knows what he likes and rejects what he doesn’t. He shuts out unpleasant sensations by closing his eyes or averting his face. He is a glutton for novelty. He prefers animate things over inanimate and likes people more than anything. When a mere nine minutes old, an infant prefers a human face to a head-shaped outline. He makes the choice despite the fact that, with delivery room attendants masked and gowned, he has never seen a human face before. By the time he’s twelve hours old, his entire body moves in precise synchrony (同时发生) to the sound of a human voice, as if he were dancing. A non-human sound, such as a tapping noise, brings no such response. 57. The author points out that the father diapering his first-born son was wrong because________. A) he believed the baby was not able to hear him B) he thought the baby didn’t have the power of speech C) he was a psychologist unworthy of his profession D) he thought the baby was not capable of any response 58. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE? A) A new infant can see only blurry shadows. B) A new infant’s senses are undeveloped C) All a new infant requires is nourishment, clean diapers, and a warm bassinet. D) A new infant is actually able to influence his or her environment 59. What does the sentence “He is a glutton for novelty” probably mean? A) The newborn is greedy for new food. B) The newborn tends to overeat. C) The newborn always loves things that are new to him. D) The newborn’s appetite is a constant topic in novels. 60. According to the passage, it’s groundless to think that newborns prefer________. A) a human face to a head-shaped outline B) animate things to inanimate ones C) human voice to non-human sounds D) nourishment to a warm bassinet 61. What is the passage mainly discussing about? A) What people know about newborns. B) How wrong parents are when they handle their babies. C) How much have newborns progressed in a bout a decade’s time. D) Why the first month of life is the most significant four weeks in a lifetime. Passage Two Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage. The view over a valley of a tiny village with thatched (草盖的) roof cottages around a church; a drive through a narrow village street lines with thatched cottages painted pink or white; the sight in parts of England. Most people will agree that the thatched roof is an essential part of the attraction of the English countryside. Thatching is in fact the oldest of all the building crafts practiced in the British Isles (英论诸岛). Although thatch has