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专业四级-23
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{{B}}TEXT A{{/B}}
When you think of the
tremendous technological progress we have made, it’s amazing how little we have
developed in other respects. We may speak contemptuously of the poor old Romans
because they relished the orgies of slaughter that went on in their arenas. We
may despise them because they mistook these goings on for entertainment. We may
forgive them condescendingly because they lived 2000 years ago and obviously
knew no better. But are our feelings of superiority really justified Are we any
less blood-thirsty Why do boxing matches, for instance, attract such universal
interest Don’t the spectators who attend them hope they will see some violence
Human beings remain as bloodthirsty as ever they were. The only difference
between ourselves and the Romans is that while they were honest enough to admit
that they enjoyed watching hungry lions tearing people apart and eating them
alive, we find all sorts o
A. not very high
B. high
C. contemptuous
D. critical
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[单项选择]Agriculture is the country's chief source of wealth, wheat ______ by far the biggest cereal crop.
A. is
B. been
C. be
D. being
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[单项选择]During the reading lesson, the teacher asked students to read a few ______ from the novel.
A. pieces
B. essays
C. fragments
D. confirms
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[单项选择]The police have offered a large ______ for information leading to the robber's arrest.
A. award
B. compensation
C. prize
D. reward
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[单项选择]What does the speaker ask the students to write down next
A. Places where T-shirts are not acceptable.
B. Images that are currently printed On T-shirts.
C. Names of people who have made T-shirts popular.
D. Ways that T-shirts represent American culture.
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[单项选择]Who ______ was coming to see me in my office this afternoon
A. you said
B. did you say
C. did you say that
D. you did say
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[单项选择]What will the women probably do next
A. Get some books for the man to look at.
B. Ask the man to look over her notes.
C. Continue her research in the library.
D. Find more information on how books are preserved.
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[单项选择]______ for the fact that she broke her leg, she might have passed the exam.
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[单项选择]The opening ceremony is a great occasion. It is essential ______ for that.
A. for us to be prepared
B. that we are prepared
C. of us to be prepared
D. our being prepared
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[单项选择]The ______ family in Chinese cities now spends more money on housing than before.
A. normal
B. average
C. usual
D. general
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{{B}}TEXT B{{/B}}
The promise of finding
long term technological solutions to the problem of world food shortage seems
difficult to fulfill. Many innovations that were once heavily supported and
publicized, such as fish protein concentrate and protein from algae grown on
petroleum substrates, have since fallen by the wayside. The proposals themselves
were technically feasible but they proved to be economically unviable and to
yield food products culturally unacceptable to their consumers.
One characteristic common to unsuccessful innovations has been that, even
with extensive government support, they often have not been technologically
adapted or culturally acceptable to the people for whom they had been developed.
A successful new technology, therefore, must fit the entire social cultural
system in which it is to find a place. Security of crop yield, practicality of
storage, and costs are much more significant than had previo
A. a suggestion is made and arguments in its favor are provided.
B. a criticism is imposed and an alternative proposal is suggested.
C. a generalization is advanced and supporting evidence is provided.
D. an example is analyzed and general conclusions are derived from it.
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[单项选择]Above the trees are hills, ______ magnificence the river faithfully reflects on the surface.
A. where
B. of whose
C. whose
D. which
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[单项选择]Your ideas, ______, seem unusual to me.
A. like he
B. like hers
C. similar to her
D. similar to herself
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[单项选择]The old couple will never ______ the loss of their son.
A. get over
B. get away
C. get off
D. get across
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[单项选择]She managed to save ______ she could out of her wages to help her brother.
A. how little money
B. so little money
C. such little money
D. what little money
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[单项选择]The popularity of the film shows that the reviewers' fears were completely ______.
A. unjustified
B. unjust
C. misguided
D. unaccepted
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[单项选择]Fool Jane is ______ she could not have done such a thing.
A. who
B. as
C. what
D. like
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[单项选择]The experiment requires more money than ______.
A. have been put in
B. being put in
C. has been put in
D. to be put in
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[单项选择]According to the man, why do modern books decay
A. They are often handled improperly by readers.
B. The paper is destroyed by chemicals.
C. The ink used in printing damages the paper.
D. The glue used in the binding loses its strength.
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{{B}}TEXT E{{/B}}
These days we hear a lot
of nonsense about the "great classless society". The idea that the twentieth
century is the age of the common man has become one of the great cliches of our
time. The same old arguments are put forward in evidence. Here are some of them:
monarchy as a system of government has been completely discredited. The
monarchies that survive have been deprived of all political power. Inherited
wealth has been savagely reduced by taxation and, in time, the great fortunes
will disappear altogether. In a number of countries the victory has been
complete. The people rule; the great millennium has become a political reality.
But has it Close examination doesn’t bear out the claim.
It is
a fallacy to suppose that all men are equal and that society will be leveled out
if you provide everybody with the same educational opportunities. (It is
debatable whether you can ever provide everyone with the same
A. Equality of opportunity in the twentieth century has not destroyed the class system.
B. Equality means money.
C. There is no such society as classless society.
D. Nature can’t give you a classless society.
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[单项选择]The new colleague ______ to have worked in several big corporations before he joined our company.
A. confess
B. declares
C. claims
D. confirms
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[单项选择]{{I}}Question 29 and 30 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.{{/I}}According to the news, the current Indian landmass was once part of ______ millions of years ago.
A. Antarctica
B. Africa
C. Australia
D. America
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[单项选择]______ I like economics, I like sociology much better.
A. As much as
B. So much
C. How much
D. Much as
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[单项选择]"What courses are you going to do next semester " I don't know. But it's about time ______ on something.
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[单项选择]When people download Sun’s Java program, they can choose to install ______.
A. Open-Office software
B. Google searching Toolbar
C. Microsoft Office
D. Yahoo searching Toolbar
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[单项选择]What does the man say is a drawback to the process of restoring books
A. It’s very expensive.
B. It hasn’t proven to be totally effective.
C. It can be damaging to some books.
D. It can’t be used on books published before 1850.
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[单项选择]There has been a ______ lack of communication between the union and the management.
A. regretful
B. regrettable
C. regretting
D. regretted
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[单项选择]The head of the museum was ______ and let us actually examine the ancient manuscripts.
A. promising
B. agreeing
C. pleasing
D. obliging
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[单项选择]The multinational corporation was making a take-over ______ for a property company.
A. application
B. bid
C. proposal
D. suggestion
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[单项选择]{{I}}Questions 8 to 10 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the conversation.{{/I}}What did Julia Margaret Cameron emphasize in her portrays
A. Her subject’s home.
B. Her subject’s social status.
C. Her subject’s personality.
D. Her subject’s role in history.
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[单项选择]{{I}}Question 26 and 27 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.{{/I}}The total casualties have surpassed ______.
A. 38,000
B. 60,000
C. 68,000
D. 98,000
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[单项选择]During the summer holiday season it is difficult to find a(n) ______ room in the hotels here.
A. empty
B. vacant
C. free
D. deserted
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[单项选择]{{I}}Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the passage.{{/I}}What’s the talk mainly about
A. The advantages of an economy based on farming.
B. Reasons farmers continued using river transportation.
C. The role of cotton in the United States economy.
D. Improved methods of transporting farm crops.
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[单项选择]Time ______, the celebration will be held as scheduled.
A. permit
B. permitting
C. permitted
D. permits
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[单项选择]Jack ______ from home for two days now, and I am beginning to worry about his safety.
A. has been missing
B. has been missed
C. had been missing
D. was missed
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[简答题]There is always the heated discussion about which is better, to be man or to be a women. What’s your opinion.
{{I}}Write a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:{{/I}}
{{B}}TO BE A MAN OR A WOMAN{{/B}}
You are to write in three parts.
In the first part, state your opinion.
In the second part, give specific reasons for your opinion.
In the last paragraph, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion with a summary.
{{I}}Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks.{{/I}}
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[单项选择]Why does Microsoft feel pressure
A. Because the products from other companies are better.
B. Because the products from other companies are easy to operate.
C. Because they are no longer in the dominant position.
D. Because the products from their rivals are lower in price.
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[单项选择]{{I}}Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the passage.{{/I}}Whet does the professor mainly discuss
A. How grasshoppers find food.
B. How grasshoppers fight other insects.
C. How grasshoppers communicate with each other.
D. How grasshoppers escape from danger.
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{{B}}TEXT D{{/B}}
New and bizarre crimes
have come into being with the advent of computer technology. Organized crime to
has been directly involved; the new technology offers it unlimited
opportunities, such as data crimes, theft of services, property-related crimes,
industrial sabotage, politically related sabotage, vandalism, crimes against the
individual and financially related crimes...
Theft of data, or
data crime, has attracted the interest of organized criminal syndicates. This is
usually the theft or copying of valuable computer grogram. An international
market already exists for computerized data, and specialized fences are said to
be playing a key role in this rapidly expanding criminal market. Buyers for
stolen programs may range from a firm’s competitors to foreign
nations.
A competitor sabotages a company’s computer system to
destroy or cripple the firm’s operational ability, thus neutralizing its
competi
A. 7.
B. 8.
C. 9.
D. 10.
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{{B}}TEXT C{{/B}}
Though England was on the
whole prosperous and hopeful, though by comparison with her neighbors she
enjoyed internal peace, she could not evade the fact that the world of which she
formed a part was torn by hatred and strife as fierce as any in human history.
Men were still for from recognizing that two religions could exist side by side
in the same society; they believed that the toleration of another religion
different from their own. And hence necessarily false, must inevitably destroy
such a society and bring the souls of all its members into danger of hell. So
the struggle went on with increasing fury within each nation to impose a single
creed upon every subject, and within the general society of Christendom to
impose it upon every nation. In England the Reformers, or Protestants, aided by
the power of the Crown, had at this stage triumphed, but over Europe as a whole
Rome was beginning to recover some of the
A. The continuity of the religious struggle in Britain in new ways
B. The conversion of religion in Britain
C. The victory of the New religion in Britain
D. England became prosperous
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[单项选择]In which domain will Google and Sun cooperate to challenge Microsoft
A. Hardware products.
B. Personal computer market.
C. Desktop computer market.
D. Portable computer market.
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[单项选择]{{I}}Question 28 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 5 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.{{/I}}
A. has completed its mission in Iraq
B. is going to withdraw the American soldiers
C. has caused great loss to Iraqi people
D. stick to its policy and military presence in Iraq
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[单项选择]AIDS is said ______ the number one killer of both men and women over the past few years in that region.
A. being
B. to be
C. to have been
D. having been
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[单项选择]{{I}}Questions 24 and 25 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.{{/I}}How many people have died in the disaster
A. Less than 600.
B. Less than 640.
C. 614 or so.
D. More than 640.
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[单项选择]The teacher ______ expects that his students to pass the university entrance examination.
A. confidentially
B. proudly
C. assuredly
D. confidently
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[单项选择]I arrived at the airport so late that I ______ missed the plane.
A. only
B. quite
C. narrowly
D. seldom
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[单项选择]What is the speaker’s mainly discussing
A. The importance of anthropology to modem society.
B. A good source of information about a society.
C. Attitudes toward culture in the 1940’s.
D. The relationship between anthropology and the military.
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[简答题]Write a note of about 50~60 words based on the following situation:
You fail to visit your friend Tony while he is being hospitalized. Write him a note to show your concerns and regrets and tell why.
{{I}}Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness.{{/I}}
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[单项选择]—Does Alan like hamburgers —Yes. So much ______ that he eats them almost every day.
A. for
B. as
C. to
D. so
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[单项选择]It is futile to discuss the matter further, because ______ going to agree upon anything today.
A. neither you nor I are
B. neither you nor me is
C. neither you nor I am
D. neither me nor you are
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[单项选择]Why does the speaker mention what is printed on certain T-shirts
A. To show how politics have changed over the years.
B. To point out that T-shirts often provide personal information.
C. To illustrate how the printing on clothing has improved.
D. To support that T-shirts are a form of art.
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[单项选择]Scientific research results can now be quickly ______ to factory production.
A. used
B. applied
C. tried
D. practiced
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[单项选择]{{I}}Questions 4 to 7 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the conversation.{{/I}}What is the main topic of the conversation
A. The difficulty of raising animals on farms in colonial America.
B. Traffic problems in colonial American cities.
C. Population growth in colonial American cities.
D. Economic conditions in colonial America.
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[单项选择]The party's reduced vote was ______ of lack of support for its policies.
A. indicative
B. positive
C. revealing
D. evident