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专业四级-847
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[单项选择]Which of the following is done at an AT course()
A. To make people start to doubt themselves.
B. To show people they have a right to be themselves.
C. To help people to become a superior.
D. To help people to learn to be aggressive.
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[单项选择]Which of the following would NOT be appropriate for describing Emily’s poems()
A. Short.
B. Imaginative.
C. Original.
D. Having limited themes.
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[单项选择]Dangerous chemicals may()through the soil into rivers. Free dumping of wastes should be prohibited.
A. spread
B. permeate
C. perplex
D. filter
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[单项选择]After the Arab states won independence, great emphasis was laid on expanding education, with girls as well as boys()to go to school.
A. to be encouraged
B. been encouraged
C. being encouraged
D. be encouraged
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[单项选择]Iran has blamed()for laying the mines.
A. Saudi Arabia
B. the United States
C. United Arab Emirates
D. Not mentioned
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[单项选择]As ()announced in today’s papers, the Shanghai Export Commodities Fair is also open on Sunday.
A. being
B. is
C. to be
D. been
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[单项选择]Rader is used to extend the()of man’s senses for observing his environment, especially the sense of vision.
A. validity
B. liability
C. capability
D. intensity
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[单项选择]On knowing that his novel won the Pulitzer Prize, his friends held a big party()
A. in his glory
B. in his honor
C. for his glory
D. for his honor
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[单项选择]She read the story twice, ().
A. and so did Mary
B. and so Mary did
C. but Mary did
D. and neither did Mary
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Bringing up children is hard work, and you are often to blame for any bad behavior of your children. If so, Judith Rich Harris has good news for you. Parents, she argues, have no important long-term effects on the development of the personality of their children. Far more important are their playground friends and neighborhood companions. Ms. Harris takes to bits the assumption which has dominated developmental psychology for almost half a century.
Ms. Harris’s attack on the developmentalists’ "nurture" argument looks likely to reinforce doubts that the profession was already having. If parents matter, why is it that two adopted children, reared in the same home, are no more similar in personality than two adopted children reared in separate homes Or that a pair of identical twins, reared in the same home, are no more alike than a pair of identical twins reared in different homes
Difficult as it is to track the precise effects of parental upb
A. parents have not invested enough time and energy in their children
B. children’s personality is shaped by people they mix with outside the home
C. in the long run, parents will affect their children’s personality
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[单项选择]What does the man offer to do()
A. Help the woman pay the mechanic’s bill.
B. Help the woman fix her car.
C. Take the woman to her home.
D. Test-drive the woman’s car.
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[单项选择]A large building may have a heating()by which all the room are steam-heated.
A. appliance
B. apparatus
C. furniture
D. equipment
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[单项选择]What is suggested to the timid persons to overcome their problem()
A. To take an AT course.
B. To go to see a superior.
C. To talk with Dr. Albert.
D. To speak out for themselves.
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[简答题]You caught a cold yesterday and wanted to stay at home for a few days, so you could not attend the class. Write a note to your teacher Mr. Wang to ask for a sick leave.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness.
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[单项选择]What is the problem the speaker mainly talks about()
A. Some people buy things they do not want.
B. Some people are afraid to behave in a confident manner.
C. There are many superiors around you.
D. Some people think too highly of themselves.
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[单项选择]The number of the tickets()will be determined by the size of the stadium.
A. adaptable
B. acceptable
C. advisable
D. available
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[单项选择]There is much discussion today about the need for the government to()the theater.
A. substitute
B. subsidize
C. subscribe
D. subordinate
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[单项选择]Which of the following countries donated money for reconstruction()
A. Kuwait.
B. Iran.
C. Republic of Korea.
D. Saudi Arabia.
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[单项选择]You should()yourself with the relevant facts before making a decision.
A. acquaint
B. acquire
C. acknowledge
D. attempt
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[单项选择]The most successful way to solve the language problem while a foreign play is being performed is ()translation.
A. homogeneous
B. simultaneous
C. instantaneous
D. spontaneous
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[单项选择]What was achieved as a result of the negotiation()
A. A peace treaty.
B. A final agreement.
C. A bomb explosion.
D. We don’t know the result.
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[单项选择]Scarcely had we settled ourselves in our seats in the theatre()the curtain went up.
A. then
B. when
C. as
D. after
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[单项选择]What does the man say about the woman’s car()
A. It probably won’t cost a lot to repair.
B. It’s probably difficult to drive.
C. The woman could probably repay it herself.
D. It’s rather small.
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[单项选择]Britain’s pressure is unusual()it is divided into two very different types of newspaper: the quality press and the popular press.
A. in how
B. in what
C. in which
D. in that
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[单项选择]What is the woman doing when the man interrupts her()
A. Making a video recording.
B. Taping some music.
C. Watching a film.
D. Writing a memo.
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[单项选择]What can be inferred about the author’s topic for the next part()
A. How it improved to become what it is now.
B. The White House of the next president.
C. The people who made the White House.
D. How it became respected.
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[单项选择]Our home is about a mile away from the station and there are not many houses ()
A. in between
B. among them
C. far apart
D. from each other
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[单项选择]My daughter is quite well now,()a slight headache.
A. besides
B. except
C. beside
D. except for
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[单项选择]Nuclear science should be developed to benefit the people()harm them.
A. more than
B. other than
C. rather than
D. better than
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Comparatively few fresh-water species of fishes are limited in their distribution to a single system, yet not many are found on both sides of high mountain ridge, such as the Rocky Mountains known as the Continental Divide in North America. That is to say, the fishes of the Mississippi Valley on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains are generally different and distinct from those of the Pacific Slope.
While it is a well-known fact that the fish life in no two-river system, even though they empty into the sea on the same side of a divide, is exactly identical, such streams do have many species in common. The principle rivers of the Atlantic Slope of the United Stated, for example, contain several species common to all of them, including the bullhead catfish, the bluesunfish, and the largemouth bass. None of these species can endure salt water, so they cannot now migrate from one river system to another. On the other hand, the more northern streams contain species not fou
A. a drainage divide
B. heavy rainfall
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[单项选择]Before the meeting, a bomb explosion injured ()people.
A. 4
B. 14
C. 24
D. 34
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[单项选择]When will the man start his trip()
A. Immediately.
B. Towards the end of the month.
C. Next month.
D. Tomorrow.
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[单项选择]How many people were killed in the attacks()
A. 0.
B. 2.
C. 4.
D. 6.
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Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Satire rarely offers original ideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies. What they do is looking at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false. Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift. It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the satiric meth
A. Difficulties of writing satiric literature.
B. Popular topic of satire.
C. New philosophies emerging from satiric literature.
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[单项选择]It is a ()that in such a rich country there should be so many poor people.
A. debate
B. dispute
C. dilemma
D. paradox
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[单项选择]Iran wants the cooperation of()in its minesweeping operation.
A. the United States
B. Iraq
C. Saudi Arabia
D. the United Arab Emirates
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[单项选择]()laid the mines in the Gulf of Oman.
A. The United States
B. Iran
C. The United Arab Emirates
D. Not mentioned
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[单项选择]By signing the lease we made a()to pay a rent of $200 a week.
A. conception
B. commission
C. commitment
D. confinement
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[单项选择]What did Emily and her sister have in common()
A. They kept contact only with close friends.
B. They were both unmarried.
C. They were both sociable.
D. They seldom left their hometown.
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[单项选择]I’m sure your suggestion will () the problem.
A. contribute to solving
B. be contributed to solve
C. contribute to solve
D. be contributed to solving
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[单项选择]There are altogether()incidents that day.
A. 4
B. 3
C. 5
D. 2
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Professor Smith persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for a fortnight. When he came to analyze their embarrassing lapse in a scientific report, he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groupings, nor did the lapses appear to be entirely random.
One of the women, for instance, on leaving her house for work one morning threw the dog her earrings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. "The explanation for this is that the brain is like a computer," explains the professor. "People program themselves to do certain activities regularly. It was the woman’s custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her earrings. But somehow the action got reversed in the program." About one in twenty of the incidents the volunteers reported were these "program assembly failures".
Altogether the volunteers logged 433 unintentional actions that they fo
A. to keep track of people who tend to forget things
B. to report their embarrassing lapses at random
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[单项选择]The government officials estimate that the war has created more than half a million()who need immediate food, clothing and shelter.
A. exiles
B. hostages
C. survivors
D. refugees
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[单项选择]What does the woman say about the mechanic()
A. He will probably overcharge her.
B. He is one of her neighbors.
C. He only works on new cars.
D. He has fixed her car before.
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[单项选择]If each representative present here makes his usual speech, the meeting will be()for more than an hour.
A. expanded
B. prolonged
C. delayed
D. exceeded
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[单项选择]Any driver stopped by the police for some minor traffic()can be asked to take test for alcoholic drinking.
A. violation
B. accident
C. congestion
D. devastation
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[单项选择]Why are some people afraid to speak out for themselves()
A. Some people have a low self-image.
B. There is always someone around who knows better.
C. Salesmen talk people into buying things they don’t want.
D. People don’t share the common knowledge.
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[单项选择]Many people like to watch () film.
A. a pleasing
B. an exciting
C. a delighted
D. an interested
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[单项选择]Why does the man want to go to southern cities again()
A. Start a new business.
B. Strengthen personal contacts.
C. Visit the headquarters.
D. Cancel an order.
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[单项选择]How did Americans feel toward the White House in the beginning()
A. They didn’t care.
B. They hated it.
C. They loved it.
D. They had mixed feelings.
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[单项选择]Why does the woman feel grateful to Professor Mecheno()
A. He gave her a good grade in her Japanese class.
B. He told her about an interesting movie to watch.
C. He helped get her into the program.
D. He recorded some tapes especially for her.
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For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, inter-office communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In (31) a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend (32) can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are (33) readers. Most of us develop poor reading (34) at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency (35) in the actual stuff of language itself-words. Taken individually, words have (36) meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. (37) , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to (38) words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over (39) you have just read, is a common bad habit i
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[单项选择]When business is (), there is usually an obvious increase in unemployment.
A. degraded
B. depressed
C. reduced
D. lessened
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[简答题]Being an Only Child Is More Advantageous
You are to write in three parts:
In the first part, state specifically what your opinion is.
In the second part, support your opinion with one or two reasons.
In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks.
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[单项选择]Why is the woman so excited()
A. She received a letter from her Japanese friend.
B. She got a job at a travel agency.
C. She lost a job at a travel agency.
D. She is going to study in another country.
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[单项选择](), the little girl can help her mother with some housework.
A. Young as she is
B. Young as is she
C. As she is young
D. As is she young
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[单项选择]What does the woman imply about her car()
A. It has broken down before.
B. She generally doesn’t allow people to borrow it.
C. She is trying to sell it.
D. She bought it from a friend.
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[单项选择]Why was the White House in disorder during Lincoln’s time()
A. Not enough maintenance.
B. People didn’t care.
C. A lack of regulations over visitors.
D. Bad constructions.
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[简答题]Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.
Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.
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[单项选择]() the library ()the bookstore has the book I need. Will you tell me where I can get it
A. Neither, nor
B. Neither, or
C. Either, or
D. Either, nor
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[单项选择]()of the burden of ice, the balloon climbed up and drifted to the South.
A. To be free
B. To free
C. Freeing
D. Freed
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[单项选择]She hasn’t seen her family()three years ago.
A. since
B. from
C. for
D. before
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[单项选择]The UN relief agency planned to spend()million rebuilding the refugee camps.
A. $15
B. $17
C. $20
D. $23
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[单项选择]Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true()
A. She never gave up finding her true love.
B. She lived a solitary life.
C. She was proud of her success as a poet.
D. She received little college education.
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[单项选择]The high cost for getting there was()by the fact that I fotmd a very cheap place to live.
A. offset
B. participated
C. elaborated
D. reclaimed
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[单项选择]What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers()
A. Classmates.
B. Colleagues.
C. Husband and wife.
D. Professor and student.
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[单项选择]Where did the attack take place()
A. Washington.
B. Paris.
C. Athens.
D. Baghdad.
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[单项选择]On entering the room, he()his eyes round it but saw nothing strange.
A. jerked
B. flung
C. tossed
D. cast