四级模拟题。
29. A) They refused to apologize for having followed her though the town.
B) They regretted having wrongly accused her of stealing.
C) They still suspected that she was a thief.
D) They agreed to pay her $ 3,000 damages.
Passage Two
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
30. A) His friend gave him the wrong key.
B) He didn’t know where the back door was.
C) He couldn’t find the key to his mailbox.
D) It was too dark to put the key in the lock.
31. A) It was getting dark.
B) He was afraid of being blamed by his friend.
C) The birds might have flown away.
D) His friend would arrive any time.
32. A) He looked silly with only one leg inside the window.
B) He knew the policeman wouldn’t believe him.
C) The torch light made him look very foolish.
D) He realized that he had made a mistake.
Passage Three rn
Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
33. A) The threat of poisonous desert animals and plants.
B) The exhaustion of energy resources.
C) The destruction of energy resources.
D) The spread of the black powder from the fires.
34. A) The underground oil resources have not been affected.
B) Most of the desert animals and plants have managed to survive.
C) The oil lakes soon dried up and stooped evaporating.
D) The underground water resources have not of oil wells.
35. A) To restore the normal production of the oil wells.
B) To estimate the losses caused by the fire.
C) To remove the oil left in the desert.
D) To use the oil left in the oil lakes.
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 you 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.
As the plane circled over the airport, everyone sensed that something was wrong. The plane was moving unsteadily through the air, and 47 the passengers had fastened their seat belts, they were suddenly 48 forward. At that moment, the air-hostess 49 .She looked very pale, but was quite 50 .Speaking quickly but almost in a whisper, she 51 everyone that the pilot had 52 and asked if any of the passengers knew anything about machines or at 53 how to drive a car. After a moment 54 , a man got up and followed the hostess into the pilot\'s cabin. Moving the pilot 55 , the man took his seat and listened carefully to the 56 instructions that were being sent by radio from the airport below. The plane was now dangerously close to ground, but to everyone\'s relief, it soon began to climb.
A. although B. anxious
C. thrown D. shifted
E. appeared F. urgent
G. presented H. aside
I. even J. informed
K. calm L. least
M. fainted N. length
O. hesitation
Section B rn
Direction: There are 2 passage 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 rn
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communications technologies, people in the poor world would be left stranded on the wrong side of a “digital divide.” Yet the debate over the digital divide is founded on a myth — hat plugging poor countries into the internet will help them to become rich rapidly.
This is highly unlikely, because the digital divide is not a problem in itself, but a symptom of deeper, more important divides: of income, development and literacy. Fewer people in poor countries than in rich ones own computers and have access to the internet simply because they are too poor, are illiterate, or have other more immediate concerns, such as food, health care and security. So even if it were possible to wave a magic wand and cause a computer to appear in every household on earth, it would not achieve very much: a computer is not useful if you have no food or electricity and cannot read. Yet such Wand-waving — through the construction of specific local infrastructure projects such as rural telecenters — is just the sort of thing for which the UN\'s new fund is intended.
This sort of thing is the wrong way to go about addressing the inequality in access to digital technologies: it is treating the symptoms, rather than the underlying causes. The benefits of building rural computing centers, for example, are unclear. Rather than trying to close the divide for the sake of it, the more sensible goal is to determine how best to use technology to promote bottom-up development. And the answer to that question turns out to be remarkably clear: by promoting the spread not of PCs and the Internet, but of mobile phones.
57. What is the main idea of this passage? rn
A) Plugging poor countries into the Internet will help them to become rich rapidly.
B) Poor countries should be given more basic devices other than advanced ones.
C) Rich countries should help poor ones becoming rich.
D) People in poor countries cannot afford devices such as computer.
58. What did the author mean by referring \"digital divide.\" (Line 3, Para. 1)?
A) Digital technology will make the gap between rich world and poor world wider.
B) Digital technology will divide people into rich and poor world.
C) People can be divided digitally.
D) To divide people in digital world is wrong.
59. We can infer from the 2nd paragraph that.
A) people in poor countries cannot use computer because of illiteracy.
B) poor people cannot use computers.
C) there would be no magic to cause a computer to appear in every household on earth.
D) people in poor countries need more basic living conditions than computers.
60. Considering the following sentences, which one would the author most agree?
A) Digital technology is useless.
B) Digital divide will help poor countries becoming rich.
C) Poor people need more immediate concerns, such as food, health care and security.
D) Mobile phones should be promoted firstly.
61. The following passage will probably be:
A) How to promote using of mobile phones.
B) How to use technology to promote bottom-up development.
C) The benefits of building rural computing centers.
D) How to meet the need of food, health and security in poor countries.
Passage Two
Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors (流星 ) but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on earth. Light gets through, and this is essential for plants to make the food which we eat. Heat, too, makes our environment endurable. Various kinds of rays come through the air from outer space, but enormous quantities of radiation from the sun are screened off. As soon as men leave the atmosphere they are exposed to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, do prevent a lot of radiation damage.
Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in space. The unit of radiation is called “rem”. Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than 0.1 rem without being damaged; the figure of 60 reins has been agreed on. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about radiation damage — a person may feel perfectly well, but the cells of his or her sex organs may be damaged, and this will no be discovered until the birth of deformed children or even grandchildren.
Missions of the Apollo flights have had to cross belts of high amount of rems. So far, no dangerous amounts of radiation have been reported, but the Apollo missions have been quite short. We simply do not know yet how men are going to get on when they spend weeks and months outside the protection of the atmosphere, working in a space laboratory. Drugs might help to decrease the damage done by radiation, but no really effective ones have been found so far.
62. According to the first paragraph, the atmosphere is essential to man in that ____.
A) it protects him against the harmful rays from space
B) it provides sufficient light for plant growth
C) it supplies the heat necessary for human survival
D) it screens off the falling meteors
63. We know from the passage that ____.
A) exposure to even tiny amounts of radiation is fatal
B) the effect of exposure to radiation is slow in coming
C) radiation is avoidable in space exploration
D) astronauts in spacesuits needn\'t worry about radiation damage
64. The harm radiation has done to the Apollo crew members ____
A) is significant B) seems overestimated
C) is enormous D) remains unknown
65. It can be inferred from the passage that ____.
A) the Apollo mission was very successful
B) protection from space radiation is no easy job
C) astronauts will have deformed children or grandchildren
D) radiation is not a threat to well-protected space explorers
66. The best title for this passage would be ____.
A) The Atmosphere and Our Environment
B) Research on Radiation
C) Effects of Space Radiation
D) Importance of Protection Against Radiation
Part V Cloze (15 minutes)
Direction: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choice 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.
Who won the World Cup 1994 football game? What happened at the United Nations? How did the critics like the new play? 67 an event takes place; newspapers are on the streets 68 the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reports are on the spot to 69 the news.
Newspapers have one basic 70 , to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to 71 it. Radio, telegraph, television, and 72 inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. 73 , this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the 74 and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are 75 and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out to many other fields. Besides keeping readers 76 of the latest news, today\'s newspapers 77 and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers\' economic choices 78 advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very 79 .Newspapers are sold at a price that 80 even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main 81 of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The 82 in selling advertising depends on a newspaper\'s value to advertisers. This 83 in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends 84 on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment 85 in a newspaper\'s pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper\'s value to readers as a source of information 86 the community, city, country, state, nation, and world—and even outer space.
67.A.Just when B. While C. Soon after D. Before
68.A.to give B. giving C. given D. being given
69.A.gather B. spread C. carry D. bring
70.A.reason B. cause C. problem D. purpose
71.A.make B. publish C. know D. write
72.A.another B. other C. one another D. the other
73.A.However B. And C. Therefore D. So
74.A.value B. ratio C. rate D. speed
75.A.spread B. passed C. printed D. completed
76.A.inform B. be informed C. to be informed D. informed
77.A.entertain B. encourage C. educate D. edit
79.A.on B. through C. with D. of
80.A.forms B. existence C. contents D. purpose
81.A.source B. origin C. course D. finance
82.A.way B. means C. chance D. success
83.A.measures B. measured C. Is measured D. was measured
84.A.somewhat B. little C. much D. something
85.A.offering B. offered C. which offered D. to be offered
86.A.by B. with C. at D. about
Part VI
Direction: Complete th sentences on Answer Sheet 2 by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.
87. _______________(直到失去健康) that people know the value of health.
88. The bag was stuffed _____________.(脏衣服)
89. __________(很多朋友不在), we decided to put the meeting off.
90. _______________(给我印象最深的) were her liveliness and sense of humor.
91. There engines are ___________.(不如我们制造的那些发动机功率大)
Part I
Global Warming
In these times, people all over the world are starting to learn the influence that global warming has on people everywhere. it is a sad truth that this issue is affecting not only merely the weather, but not everyday lives as well.
These are numerous reasons to explain this; here I would like to explore some of the most important ones. The development of modern industry must be the biggest reason. Carbon dioxide exerted from some factories is believed to be contributing to the accelerated warming our atmosphere. In addition, the way that we are consuming a greater and greater amount of energy in the process of our day-to-day lives is only exacerbating this problem.
Talking into consideration those factors discussed above, I believe there are at least two measures we can take: on one hand, the government should come up with more effective and stricter laws for the regulation of industrial emissions and byproducts. On the other hand, as individuals, we need to get into the habit of saving energy. With joint effort from every one of us, we can certainly hope for a lasting solution to this problem one day.
Part II
1.F.当出现all这种过于绝对的词语时，考生应该引起注意。一般这样的命题多数是不正确的。首段中有句话：“All spiders produce silk, but only some construct webs to catch their food”命题中all的说法过于绝对。
2.T.该命题是对原文第二段首句话的同义改写。
3.F.原文中第二段首句中写到，“of the 600+ spiders in Britain only 12 are strong enough to pierce the human skin”，因此并不是命题中说的当它们刺进人的皮肤会经常杀死人。
4.F．原文中说，“Arachne became depressed after this and in the end she hung herself.”注意代词this指代上面的句子，结合上一句一起理解，命题显然是错误的。
5. NG.文章中只出现过一次Tim Tegenaria，所以该题很好定位，即最后一段的第二句。可是文章中并没有出现tarantula spiders。
6.T.该命题定位在最后一段倒数第三句话处。
7.NG.首先定位Money spiders出现的位置是文章的最后的两句，可是并没有提到它是最小的。
8.32000
该题由关键词species of spider定位在第二段倒数第二句。
9.looking at their pales
该题定位在倒数第二段的首句。
10.the Goliath spider
扫读全文的时候注意有最高级的地方。由此我们可以将该题定位在文章最后一段的首句。
Part III
Section A
11. B 12.D 13.B 14.A 15.C 16.B 17.D 18.B
11. M: I forgot to bring my pencil and paper to take notes with in class.
W: That’s all right. I have enough for both of us.
Q: What will the woman most probably do next?
12. W: When is Jason coming?
M: Well, he said he’d be here at seven-thirty, but if you know him, it will be at least eight o’clock.
Q: What do we know about Jason?
13. M: Are you ready to check out?
W: Yes. I’ll pay the bill and you’ll call the desk and have our baggage taken out to the taxi.
Q: Where does this conversation most probably take place?
14. M: Remember, you promised to help me with my homework for English class.
W: But I want to watch this program first. It is almost over. Wait a moment, please.
Q: What does the woman mean?
