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公共英语四级-3
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W: Almost five million people are married each year in the United States. About one in every eight of these weddings takes place in June, the traditional month for weddings. Getting married can be as simple as a five-minute ceremony performed by a judge in a law office. Or it can be a traditional religious ceremony at home, or in a church. The average age of an American woman being married for the first time is about twenty-four years. The average age for a man is twenty-five. Most young men and women get engaged about a year before the wedding. In the Nineteen-Sixties and Seventies, many young Americans decided not to have traditional, formal weddings. Many brides and grooms wrote their own wedding ceremonies. These often included poetry and personal statements about their goals in marriage. Some grooms wore old blue jeans to their weddings. More than a few brides were married in their bare feet. It was not unusual to be married on a sandy beach or on a mountainside. In the last
A. About five million.
B. About two and a half million.
C. About one point eight million.
D. About six hundred and twenty-five thousand. -
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Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a very complex network composed of the prices of all the products bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad of services, including labor, professional, transportation, and public-utility services. The interrelationships of all these prices make up the "system" of prices. The price of any particular product or service is linked to a broad, complicated system of prices in which everything seems to depend more or less upon everything else. If one were to ask a group of randomly selected individuals to define "price", many would reply that price is an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product or service or, in other words, that price is the money value of a product or service as agreed upon in a market transaction. This definition is,
A. unusual ways to advertise products.
B. types of payment plans for service.
C. theories about how products affect different levels of society.
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For all his vaunted talents, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has never had much of a reputation as an economic forecaster. In fact, he shies away from making the precise-to-the-decimal-point predictions that many other economists thrive on. Instead, he owes his success as a monetary policymaker to his ability to sniff out threats to the economy and manipulate interest rates to dampen the dangers he perceives. Now, those instincts are being put to the test. Many Fed watchers-and some policymakers inside the central bank itself are beginning to wonder whether Greenspan has lost his touch. Despite rising risks to the economy from a swooning stock market and soaring oil prices that could hamper growth, the Greenspan-led Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) opted to leave interest rates unchanged on Sept. 24. But in a rare dissent, two of the Fed’s 12 policymakers broke ranks and voted for a cut in rotes—Dallas Fed President Robert D. McTeer Jr. and central bank Go
A. Greenspan didn't rule out the possibility of a future rate reduction.
B. Greenspan's monetary policy may turn out to be a failure.
C. Greenspan's refusal to cut rates now was justified.
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Conditions were near perfect as parachutist Elizabeth Cheshire jumped from the twin-engine plane at 10,000 feet. The 22-year-old daughter of a war-time hero, Elizabeth had 60 jumps behind her. The weather was fine and the wind was well below the 10 mph (miles per hour) maximum allowed for jumping. Free-falling with eight other members of her parachute club, Elizabeth watched the Cambridge shire countryside spread out beneath her. At 2,000 feet she opened her parachute. Seconds later she had the most terrifying experience of her life. At 800 feet and right on target for the landing zone, a massive gust of wind picked her up and swept her away from the airfield near Pampisford Village. As she fought with the parachute strings to get back on course, a main road and lines of trees loomed up before her. Using every ounce of strength she managed to clear them. But then came the moment of horror. She saw herself heading straight for three 11,000 volt electrical power tines. Elizabeth cr
A. Elizabeth went straight back home after the accident.
B. Her friends didn't expect that Elizabeth would come back unhurt.
C. The power supply of the area was cut off because of the accident.
D. Elizabeth would not give up parachute jumping in spite of the accident. -
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W: I haven’t seen you here for a couple of weeks. M: I’ve been spending a lot of time in the library. W: Working on a paper M: I wish I were working on a paper. I was working on three different papers: anthropology, English literature and history. W: Wow. That is a lot of work. M: Yeah. And what’s frustrating is that I’m studying the 19th century British Empire in all three classes. But I can’t write a single paper for all the three. W: Why not M: The professors won’t let me even if I make it three times as long as the suggested length. W: Oh. That’s not too bad. Could you write your paper on three aspects of one topic M: Umm, what do you mean Do you have something in mind W: Well, let’s see. Maybe you could do something with Romanticism, like: write your anthropology paper on a cultural basis of Romanticism; and your history paper on the influence of the Romantic poets on the British farm policy; and—OK—and your English
A. Writing papers for his classes.
B. Meeting with his professors.
C. Doing extra work in the chemistry lab.
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61) The teaching of English as a second language (ESL) in schools has had a history of conflicting arguments, interesting innovations and some very positive methodological changes. To understand the present situation, it is necessary to consider the past and the wider educational context which has a bearing on it. Until quite recently, approaches to ESL work have been strongly influenced by methods developed to teach English as a foreign language to older learners. These methods placed much emphasis on drills, exercises and remedial programs that focus on language in abstraction. 62) The prescriptive nature of such methods and the demands they made on the teacher’s time developed the belief that ESL work would be tackled only by the specialist ESL teacher working with small groups of children. 63) Such an approach does not fit comfortably into current notions of learning and teaching in the primary school, nor does it sufficiently equip ESL learners in the secondary school
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W: Underground tickets are available at all underground stations. Ticket prices for the underground vary according to the distance you travel. The network is divided into five zones, a central zone and four outer zones. Generally, your fare will increase, the more zones you travel through. You must buy your ticket before you start your journey, from a ticket office or machine. Keep your ticket for inspection and collection at your destination. The easiest and most economical way to travel around London is with a travel card. This gives you the freedom of London’s trains, tubes and buses in whichever zones you choose. It’s perfect for the visitor because one ticket combines travel on the trains of Network Southeast with the underground, Dockland Light railway and most London buses. It’s more convenient than buying separate tickets for each journey. Travel cards are available from any train or tube station. A one-day travel card is ideal for a day’s shopping
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M: Welcome to Yellow Stone National Park. Before we begin our nature walk today, I’d like to give you a short history of our national park service. The national park service began in the late 1800s. A small group of explorers had just completed a month long exploration of the region that is now Yellow Stone. They gathered around the campfire and after hours of discussion, they decided that they should not claim this land for themselves. They felt it should be accessible to everyone so they began a campaign to preserve this land for everyone’s enjoyment. Two years later, in die late 19th century, an Act of Congress signed by President Ulysses S. Grant proclaimed the Yellow Stone region a public park. It was the first national park in the world. After Yellow Stone became a public park, many other areas of great scenic importance were set aside. And in 1916 the national park service was established to manage these parks. As a park ranger, I am an employee of the national
A. Several explorers.
B. Representatives of Congress.
C. President Grant.
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The topic of thought is one area of psychology, and many observers have considered this aspect in connection with robots and computers: Some of the old worry about A1 (artificial intelligence) were closely linked to the question of whether computers could think. The first massive electronic computers, capable of rapid (if often unreliable) computation and little or no creative activity, were soon named "electronic brains". A reaction to this terminology quickly followed: To put them in their place, computers were called "high-speed idiots", an effort to protect human vanity. But not everyone realized the implications of the expression: "high-speed idiot". It has not been pointed out often enough that even the human idiot is one of the most intelligent fife forms on the earth. If the early computers were even that intelligent, it was already a remarkable state of affairs. One consequence from studying the possibility of computer thought was that we we
A. are terms that are not clear and will never be exactly defined.
B. might come to be better understood because of research into artificial intelligence and computers.
C. have precise biological meanings that refer only to human mental processes.
D. should not be used to describe computers. -
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Proper street behavior in the United States requires a nice balance of attention and inattention. You are supposed to look at a (21) just enough to show that you’re (22) of his presence. If you look too little, you appear arrogant or furtive (鬼鬼祟祟的), too much, (23) you’re inquisitive. Usually what happens is that people (24) each other until they are about eight feet (25) , at which point both cast down their eyes. Sociologist Dr. Erving Goffman (26) this as "a kind of dimming of lights." Much of eye behavior is so (27) that we react to it only on the intuitive level. The next time you have a (28) with someone who makes you feel liked, notice what he does with his eyes. (29) are he looks at you more often than is usual with (30) a little longer than the normal. You interpret this as a sign of a polite one (31) he is interested in you as a person (32) just in the topic of conversation. Probably
A. induced
B. cheated
C. distracted
D. realized