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Model Test Four 预测试卷四
Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
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 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example: You will hear: W: I certainly hope the library will be open this Saturday.
M: The sign says library hours! Week days 8 am. to 9 pm. On Saturdays 9 to 5, closed Sunday.
Q: When will the library be open on Saturday?
You will read:
A) 8 am. to 9 am.
B) 5 am. to 9 pm.
C) 9 am. to 5 pm.
D) closed
From the conversation we know that the two are talking about library hours. On week days the library is open from 8 am. to 9 pm. On Saturdays it is open from 9 am. to 5 pm. Therefore C) “9 am. to 5 pm.” is the correct answer. You should choose C) on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.
Sample Answer ［A］［B］ ［C］ — ［D］
1. A) It is very pleasant. B) It is hot.
C) It is cold. D) It is rainy.
2. A) Both of them enjoyed it.
B) Neither of them liked it.
C) He liked it but his wife didn’t.
D) He wife liked it but he didn’t.
3.A) $100. B) $150. C) $200. D) $250.
4. A) A teacher. B) A friend.
C) The woman herself. D) The woman’s mother.
5. A) Mary wouldn’t call the woman again.
B) Mary didn’t call.
C) Mary would call next time she came to town.
D) That she hoped to come for dinner next time she came to town.
6. A) Paul’s science teacher.
B) Paul’s failing his science course.
C) Paul’s problem in the course of science.
D) Paul’s special help in school science.
7. A) Sells insurance. B) He is a professional musician.
C) Lives on unemployment. D) Sells violins.
8. A) At his new apartment. B) The other day.
C) On the other side of town. D) On the street.
9. A) Go to the library. B) The library closes at 10.
C) The library closes at 11. D) Get together.
10. A) It ran into another car.
B) It fell into a river.
C) It was badly damaged.
D) It left the road and stopped in a field.
SECTION B Compound Dictation
Directions: In this section you will hear a passage three times. During the First reading you should listen carefully for a general idea of the whole passage. Then listen to the passage again. When the first part of the passage is being read, you should fill in the missing word during the pause at each blank . After listening to the second part of the passage you are required to write down the main points according to what you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read the third time you can check what you have written.
Electronic mail systems are either computerized or noncomputerized . Important among the computerized systems are the(11)____ones organized into(12)____of various sizes. Most noncomputerized electronic mail system such as(13)____units of various kinds are simple, turnkey systems that require little effort
to(14)____. Though often of value in (15)____applications, these systems have only interim(间歇) worth in office automation unless they can be electronically integrated.
Communication in an EMS is either synchronous or nonsynchronous.People involved in synchronous communication must(16)____, such as (17)_________________________________.A nonsynchr
onous system(18)____at different times.
Electronic systems output soft copy or hard copy. Soft copy(19)____,but many applications will(20)____.
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are four passages in this part. 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 1
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:
It happened in the late fall of 1939 when, after a Nazi submarine had penetratedthe British sea defense around the Firth of Forth and damaged a British cruiser, Reston and a colleague contrived to get the news past British censorship. They cabled a series of seemingly harmless sentences to The Time’s editors in New York, having first sent a message instructing the editors to regard only the last word of each sentence. Thus they were able to convey enough words to spell out the story. The fact that the news or the submarine attack was printed In New York before it had appeared in the British press sparked a big controversy that led to an investigation by Scotland Yard and British Military Intelligence. But it t
ook the investigators eight weeks to decipher. The Times’s reporters’ code, an embarrassingly slow bit of detective work, and when it was finally solved the incident had died and little was done about it. The Time’s editors in New York, though they had given the story very prominent play, later expressed dismay that the reporters had risked so much for so little; and the incident left Reston deeply distressed. It was so out of character for him to have become involved in such a thing. The tactics were questionable and, though the United States was not yet in the war, Britain was already established as America’s close ally and breaking British censorship seemed both an irresponsible and unpatriotic thing to do.
21. The episode recounted in the passage took place____.
A) just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War
B) before Britain entered the Second World War
C) before the United States entered the Second World War
D) While the United States was in the Second World War
22. The plan for evading British censorship of the submarine story was thought up by____.
A) two reporters B) one reporter
C) The Times’s editors and one reporter D) The Times’s editors and two reporters
23. It was clear that British censorship rules had been broken because the story was____.
A) first published in New YorkB) published nowhere but in The Times
C) uncomplimentary to the BritishD) much fuller in its Times version than elsewhere
24. According to the author, the British did little about the story’s publication mainly because____.
A) everyone responsible had apologized for what had happened
B) it took the authorities too long to figure out how the censors had been outwitted
C) Scotland Yard and British Military Intelligence disagreed about who was at fault
D) they were afraid to admit that the censors had been so easily fooled
25. The passage indicates that eventually everyone involved came to regard the publication of the story in The Times as a____.
A) regrettable error B) cheap journalistic trick
C) brilliant journalistic maneuver D) proper exercise of the freedom of the press
Passage 2
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:
I came across an old country guide the other day .It listed all the tradesmen in each village in my part of the country, and it was impressive to see the great variety of services which were available on one’s own doorstep in the late Victorian countryside.
Nowadays a superficial traveler in rural England might conclude that the only village tradesmen still flourishing were either selling frozen food to the inhabitants or selling antiques to visitors. Nevertheless, this would really be a false impression. Admittedly there has been a contraction of village commerce, but it
s vigour is still remarkable.
Our local grocer’s shop, for example, is actually expanding in spite of the competition from supermarkets in the nearest town. Women sensibly prefer to go there and exchange the local news while doing their shopping, instead of queuing up(anonymously) at a supermarket. And the proprietor knows well that personal service has a substantial cash value.
His prices may be a bit higher than those in the town, but he will deliver anything at any time .His assistants think nothing of bicycling down the village street in their lunch hour to take a piece of cheese to an old age pensioner who sent her order by word of mouth with a friend who happened to be passing , the more
affluent customers telephone their shopping lists and the goods are on their doorsteps within an hour. They have only to knit at a fancy for some commodity outside the usual stock and the grocer, a red-faced figure, instantly obtains it from them.
The village gains from this sort of enterprise, of course. But I also find it satisfactory because a village shop offers one of the few ways in which a modest individualist can still get along in the world without attaching himself to the big battalions of industry or commerce.
Most of the village shopkeepers I know, at any rate, are decidedly individualist in their ways. For example, our shoemaker is a formidable figure: a thickset,irritable man whom children treat with marked respect , knowing that an illjudged word can provoke an angry eruption at any time. He stares with smouldering
contempt at the pairs of cheap, massproduced shoes taken to him for repair: has it come to this, he seems to be saying, that he , a craftsman, should have to waste his skills upon such trash? But we all know he will in fact do excellent work upon them . And he makes beautiful shoes for those who can afford such luxury.
26. The writer considered the old country guide interesting because he found in it____. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] 下一页
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