练兵场 leisure activities take you away from home B) More haste, less speed who will care for your pet during your ab- C Put the cart before the hors sences? Read about the temperaments and D) Make hay while the sun shines needs of species and breeds, and identify those 【文章解析】 that best match your lifestyle 短文大意:本文讲的是如何选择宠物的 Questions: 问题,美国人非常喜欢饲养宠物,因为宠物能 1. According to the passage.“ status- symbol"给家庭带来乐趣、幸福。但是在选择宠物时, (Line 6, Paragraph 2) probably means 作者提醒读者要谨慎、实际,还要综合考虑各 种不同的因素,做好充分的物质、心理、精神 A)an expensive pet 甚至时间上的准备,不可盲目,否则也会带来 B)a hard-to-get pet 些意想不到的麻烦。 C)showing the owners social position 1.C)。语义题。根据第一段中的上下文 D) showing the owners special ability 此处 status- symbol指的是“显示主人社会地 2. The millions of unwanted pets that have to位、身份的象征”,表达某人与众不同、带有炫 be put to death each year are caused by the 耀的意思,故选C),其余均为千扰项,应排 following EXCEPI 除 A) some diseases easily caught by the pets 2.A)。细节题。本题通过文章第二段可 B) the owner's hasty decision 知,许多宠物大量死去是由于B),C),D)三个 C) the childrens unawareness of how to re of them 选项所陈述的内容造成的,而A)选项中“宠 物容易感染各种疾病而死去”文中并没有提 D) the separation of the lovers 3. Which of the following statements is NOT 及,故选A)。 true according to the passage? 3.O)。判断题。通过上下文,A选项与第 二段第一句话 to listen to the veterinarians A)Selecting a pet should ask an expert's recommendation(倾听兽医的推荐)为同义项 advice B) Parents should listen to their childrens B)选项是说家长应倾听孩子的建议,与第二 suggestion 段第八句话 Family members should decide to- C)Selecting a pet should take the pet's gether相等。C)选项意思是:选择宠物时应考 medical condition into consideration 虑到宠物的健康状况,而文中第二段第七句 D) Selecting a pet the family should I 是说要考虑到家庭成员的健康状况(是否有 realistic 过敏史)是否适合养宠物。因此C)选项为答 4. What can we infer from the passage? 案 A)Pets can always bring us companion- 4.C)。细节题。任何事物都有好坏两个方 ship, joy, unconditional love, a sense 面,饲养宠物并非只带来快乐,也会带来烦 of safetv, and often a service 恼,这就是作者反复强调为什么要求读者在 B)Pet- owning experience can be a most选择宠物时要仔细、全面考虑的原因之所在, one 故选C,其余选项均为干扰项,故应排除。 C) Pets can sometimes bring us some un- 5.A)。主旨题。做好本题除了弄清原文大 comfortableness 意外,还要明白所给四个谚语的含义,它们的 D) Pet-owning can be expensive 意思分别是A),“三思而后行”;B),“欲速则不 5. Which of the following proverbs is mostly 达”;C),“本末倒置”;D),“未雨绸缪”。根据全 related to the meaning of the whole passage?文,可以判断出A)选项的含义最接近文章大 A) Look before you leap 意,故选A)。英 2005.03
大学英语四级考试版 even given up sitting at table and having a 快速阌读训练二则 leisurely evening meal, exchanging the news of the day. A sandwich and a glass of beer will do Ia anything, providing it doesn't interfere with the programme. The monster demands and obtains absolute silence and attention. If any member of the family dares to open his mouth during a programme, he is quickly silenced Whole generations are growing up addicted to the telly. Food is left uneaten homework undone and sleep is lost. The telly is a universal pacifier. It is now standard practice for mother to keep the children quiet by putting them in the living-room and turning on the set It doesn't matter that the children will watch rubbishy commercials or spectacles of sadism and violence so long as they are quiet Television encourages passive enjoyment We become content with second-hand experiences. It is so easy to sit in our armchairs watching others working. Little by little, 吉林刘志香选编 television cuts us off from the real world. We get so lazy, we choo ose to nd a fine day (A) semi-darkness, glued to our sets, rather than go Yes. but what did we use to do befor out into the world itself. Television may be there was television? How often we hear splendid medium of communication, but it statements like this! Television hasn't been with prevents us from communicating with each us all that long, but we are already beginning to other. We only become aware how totally forget what the world was like without it. irrelevant television is to real living when we Before we admitted the one-eyed monster into spend a holiday by the sea or in the mountains, our homes, we never found it difficult to far away from civilization. In quiet, natural occupy our spare time. We used to enjoy surroundings, we quickly discover how little we civilized pleasures. For instance, we used to miss the hypnotic tyranny of King Telly have hobbies, we used to entertain our friends 1. What is the biggest harm of TV? and be entertained by them, we used to go A It deprives people of communication outside for our amusements to theatres, cinemas with the real world restaurants and sporting events. We even used to People become lazy read books and listen to music and broadcast C. People become dependent on second talks occasionally. All that belongs to the past hand experience Now all our free time is regulated by the goggle D. TV consumes a large part of one's life box. We rush home or gulp down our meals to 2. What does a mother usually do to keep her be in time for this or that programme, We have children quiet? 200503
练兵场 A. Let them watch the set lots that could have housed five to six million B Put them in the living-room C. Let them watch the rubbish Of course, many were never upin D. Let them alone there was always a huge surplus of 3. What does the first sentence in the first para- but vacant, land around Chicago and other graph mean? cities. These excesses underscore a feature of A. We found it difficult to occupy our spare upy our spare residential expansion related to the growth of time mass transportation: urban sprawl was essentially B. We become addicted to TV unplanned. It was carried out by thousands of C. What we used to do is different from small investors who paid little heed to now coordinated land use or to future land users D. We used to enjoy civilized pleasures Those who purchased and prepared land for residential purposes, particularly land near or Mass transportation revised the social and outside city borders where transit lines and economic fabric of the American city in three middle-class inhabitants were anticipated, did so undamental ways. It catalyzed(催化,加速) to create demand as much as to respond to it physical expansion, it sorted out people and land Chicago is a prime example of this process. Real uses, and it accelerated the inherent instability of estate subdivision there proceeded much faster urban life. By opening vast areas of unoccupied than population growth land for residential expansion, the omnibuses, 4. With which of the following subjects is the horse railways, commuter trains, and electric passage mainly concerned? trolleys pulled settled regions outward two to A. Types of mass transportation four times more distant from city centers than B Instability of urban life they were in the premodern era. In 1850, for C How supply and demand determine mly Ble, the borders of Boston lay scarcely two land use from the old business district; by the turn D. The effect of mass transportation on of the century the radius extended ten miles urban expansion Now those who could afford it could live far 5. Why does the author mention both Boston removed from the old city center and still and Chicago? commute there for work, shopping, and A. To demonstrate positive and negative entertainment. The new accessibility of land ettects of growth around the periphery(周围,边缘) of almost B. To exemplify cities with and without every major city sparked an explosion of real mass transportation. estate development and fueled what we now C. To show mass transportation changed know as urban sprawl. Between 1890 and 1920 many cites for example, some 250,000 new residential lots D. To contrast their rate of growth were recorded within the borders of Chicago, 6. According to the passage. what was one most of them located in outlying areas. Over the disadvantage of residential expansion? same period, another 550,000 were plotted A. It was expensive outside the city limits but within the B. It happened too slowly metropolitan area. Anxious to take advantage of C. It was unplanned. the possibilities of commuting, real estate D. It created a demand for public trans developers added 800,000 potential building portation.阅语验 sites to the Chicago region in just thirty years- (参考答案见P64 2005.03
英语通 大学英语四级考试版 ②2009语四毁 廊坊师范学院李树德吉林北华大学王克英 Part I听力(本部分配有录音磁带) C) He is taking an exam. Section A Conversations D) He is drawing a map Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 7. A) Cathy wasn't invited to the meeting. short conversations. At the end of each conver- B) Cathy has been invited by the t organize sation, a question will be asked about what was C) Cathy was the organizer herself said. Both the conversation and the question D) Cathy was not welcomed. will be spoken only once. After each question 8. A)A department store. B)A hospital there will be a pause. During the pause, you C)A coffee room D) A restaurant. must read the 4 choices marked A, B, C and 9. A)To take a science test D. and decide ihich is the best answer B)To write a report 1. A)Twin sisters B)Twin brothers C)To see his political science teacher C)Close friends. D) Colleagues D)To type some letters. 2. A)The council will extend the railway this 10. A) She feels that the man must go there by year himself B)The council will extend the railway next B) She is complaining about the noise inside. C) She is disappointed that the MeDonald's C)The council will extend the railway sooner is always too oily or later. D) She feels that she can't stand the circum- D) The council will never extend the rail- stance inside way. Section B Passage 3. A) He enjoys watching people dance. Directions: In this section. you will hear a B) He might not really like dancing passage. At the end of the passage, there are 5 C)He doesn't think dancing is hard questions. Both the pas sage and the questions D)He dances well will be spoken twice. After you hear a ques- 4. A) Football B)Dinner tion, you must choose the best ansier from the C) Examination D) Lecture 4 choices marked A. B. C, and D 5. A)An interesting movie. I1. A) During the American Revolution B)A poor-taste audience. B)After the Civil War. C)A successful play. C) In the 1890s D) An unsuccessful play D) At the turn of this century 6. A)He is writing a report. 12. A) Because he was a great inventor. B) He is reading a nove B) Because he knew a lot about techniques 回 2005.03
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