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公共英语四级-360
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[简答题]Giving children "Lucky Money" in the Spring Festival is one of old Chinese customs, but with the improvement of living standard, the meaning of "Lucky Money" has changed greatly. Write an essay which includes the following two points.
1) Write the messages conveyed by Lucky Money.
2) Give your comments.
You should write 160-200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.
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W: It’s well-known science fiction plot to freeze a body and bring it back to life years later.
However, this may no longer be so far from the truth. Joining us from our Cardiff studio is Professor Andrew Morgan, who’s been doing some research into this subject. Professor Morgan.
M: Yes, well, I’ve been looking into the ability of certain animals to freeze themselves for a certain amount of time, and then to come back to life when the circumstances around them change. And, what I’ve been working on over the past two years is the particular process that enables them to do this.
W: What have you actually discovered
M: I think it’s a particular chemical in the animals’ bodies which begins to work under certain circumstances. And I’m now experimenting with this chemical to see if I can get other animals that wouldn’t normally be able to freeze themselves to be able to do this.
W: Have you had any
A. He is a film director of Science Fiction.
B. He is a writer of Science Fiction.
C. He is a scientist who researches on how to freeze a body and bring it back to life later.
D. He is a doctor who treats terminal illnesses. -
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Malls are popular places for Americans to go. Some people spend so much time at malls that they are called "mall rats". Mall rats shop until they drop in the hundreds of stores under one rood.
People like malls for many reasons. They feel safe because malls have police stations of private security guards. Parking is usually free, and the weather inside is always fine. The newest malls have beautiful rest areas with waterfalls and large green trees.
The largest mall in the United States is the Mall of America in Minnesota. It covers 4.2 mil- lion square feet. It has 350 stores, eight night clubs, and a seven-acre park! There are park- ing spaces for 2,750 cars. About 750,000 people shop there every week.
The first indoor mall in the United States was built in 1965 in Edina, Minnesota. People like doing all their shopping in one place. More malls were built around the country. Now, malls are like town centers where people come to do many things, th
A. One spends so much time at malls.
B. One steals at malls.
C. One sees dentists at malls.
D. One eats a lot at malls. -
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When 18-year-old Jon Angle set his sights on a $5,000 motorcycle last month, he was determined not to let a little thing like lack of funds stand in his, way. "My bank said they’d never loan me that sort of money, since I don’t really have any assets yet," the recent high school graduate from Littleton, Colo., recalls. Still, Angle was able to secure a loan from the Young Americans Bank in Denver, which caters to the under-22-year-old crowd and permits allowance to be listed as a source of income on loan application. Now, with a new Suzuki, Angle is setting aside most of the income from his $6.75-an-hour job at a local McDonald’s to pay off his debt.
At mails, movie theaters and even motorcycle dealerships around the country, teenagers like Jon Angle are behaving like the fiscal equivalent of the Energizer Bunny: They keep spending, and spending, and spending. Last year, 12-to-19-year-olds went on their biggest shopping spree ever, ringing up $
A. American young people are not allowed to get loans from the bank unless they have personal assets.
B. Adolescent consumption reached an unprecedented level last year.
C. Almost all American adolescents work on a part-time basis one time or another.
D. American adolescents find it hard to get by only with the allowances their parents give them. -
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Good news is bad news and bad news is good news, newsmen often say to one another. And when you look at the media it’s only too easy to see what they mean. A dictionary definition of the media is mass communication, e.g. the press, television, radio. The media sees its main purpose as giving the public news. Naturally to provide the public with news, the media has first to gather it. The whole function and purpose of the media, then, seems to depend on the word "news", but more important, on how the word is interpreted.
The media like any big business venture today is an extremely competitive world of its own. In providing material for its public it has constantly to make sure it serves the right diet. No public will waste time on your paper or your TV channel otherwise. The sad truth is that there seems only one way to catch an audience—hit them right between the eyes. What started as a mild tap has now become a sledgehammer blow that goes by the na
A. will defend themselves very fully.
B. don't give lengthy answers.
C. never listen to criticism.
D. justify their behavior at great length. -
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What is it about Paris For the last two centuries it has been the single most visited city in the world. Tourists still go for the art and the food, even if they have to brave the disdain of ticket-takers and waiters. Revolutionaries on the run, artists in search of the galleries and writers looking for the license to explore their inner selves went looking for people like themselves and created their own fields filled with experimentation and constant arguments. Would worldwide communist revolution have been conceivable without the Paris that was home to Marx, Lenin and Ho Chi Minh Would Impressionism or Cubism have become "isms" without Paris as a place to work and as a subject to paint How Paris came to be, for such a long time, "capital of the world"
The answer lies in the city’s "myths" according to the distinguished Harvard historian Patrice Higonnet in "Paris: Capital of the World. " In his book, Paris came to stand for
A. Stanford University
B. Harvard University
C. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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A funny thing happened to me last Friday. I’d gone to London to do some shopping and by early afternoon I’d bought everything I wanted. So, I took a taxi to Waterloo station. I can’t really afford taxis, but I wanted to get the 3:30 train. Unfortunately the taxi got stuck in a traffic jam, and by the time I got to Waterloo, the train had just gone. I had to wait an hour for the next one. I bought a newspaper and wandered over to the station buffet. At that lime of day it was nearly empty, so I bought a coffee and a packet of biscuits. There were plenty of empty tables and I found one near the window. I sat down and began doing the crossword.
After a couple of minutes a man sat down opposite me. There was nothing special about him, except that he was very tall. In fact he looked like a typical city businessman. I didn’t say anything and I carried on with my crossword. Suddenly he reached across the table, opened my packet of biscuits, took one, dipp -
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The influence of climate on behavior appears all-pervasive. Indeed, who can claim that weather factors have no influence on their decision-making Everyone can point to instances where plans and activities have been changed because of weather conditions. People’s moods also change with the weather: bright sunny days seem to lift spirits, while dark rainy periods bring on depression.
Law enforcement agencies are beginning to show interests in the effect of atmospheric conditions on behavior. Every year, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports provide break-downs of the crime rates by month and season of the year. Both monthly and seasonal variations are considered to reflect the varying influence of temperature, precipitation, humidity, length of daylight, and a number of other climatological factors.
Various studies find relationships between specific climatological conditions and crime. Rising temperature is generally accompanied by increase in aggression and
A. during the night.
B. on clear and fine days.
C. on hot and sunny days.
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The term "virus" is derived from the Latin word for poison, or slime. It was originally applied to the noxious stench emanating from swamps that was thought to cause a variety of diseases in the centuries before microbes were discovered and specifically linked to illness. But it was not until almost the end of the nineteenth century that a true virus was proven to be the cause of a disease.
The nature of viruses made them impossible to detect for many years, even after bacteria had been discovered and studied. Not only are viruses too small to be seen with a light microscope, they also cannot be detected through their biological activity, except as it occurs in conjunction with other organisms. In fact, viruses show no traces of biological activity by themselves. Unlike bacteria, they are not living agents in the strictest sense. Viruses are very simple pieces of organic material composed only nucleic acid, either DNA or RNA, enclosed in a coat of,
A. bacteria are easier to detect.
B. bacteria are harder to eradicate.
C. viruses are extremely poisonous.
D. viruses are found only in hot climates. -
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The population of the United States is only 6% of the world’s population, but Americans (21) one third of all the energy (22) in the world. This fact alone says that Americans need to use less energy. And because the price of energy had been rising very rapidly (23) the limited supplies of oil in particular, Americans are becoming aware to the need to (24) energy. In California we have a California Energy Commission which has set up in the past five years to (25) plan for our future energy use. We have (26) laws in California to help us conserve energy. First of all, our houses in California have been very (27) of energy in the past. They were not (28) very carefully and so the heat would go out of the house very rapidly. Now we require that the homes have a (29) level of insulation, and so the homes built now are much more (30) .
(31) , in transportation (32) a
A. conserve
B. consume
C. produce
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61) How physically attractive someone is plays a role in determining your ideas about the desirability of developing an acquaintance or a friendship with that person. Attractiveness seems to influence our perception of. others’ traits. Attractive people are judged to be more poised, sociable, independent, interesting, exciting, and to have greater sexual warmth.
In one study concerned with the importance of physical attractiveness, Karen Dion and her colleagues asked university students to rate a series of photographs of both males and females as high, average, or low in physical attractiveness. The photos were then passed onto another group of students, who were asked to rate those pictures on a number of personality traits and to predict future events in their lives. 62) The results showed that, regardless of whether the rater was the same or the opposite sex as the subject, attractive people of both sexes rated as having more socially desirable personal -
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An Unpleasant Trip
Mr. Bush and his wife, Helena, went to Sydney for their winter holiday. But they were by no means pleased with their howl. As soon as they returned home, Mr. Bush decided to write to the manager of Happytours.
Mr. Bush: Can you spare a moment, dear I want you to listen to this letter.
Helena: Go ahead, then.
Mr. Bush: Dear Sir, my wife and I arrived home last night after a holiday arranged by your firm in Jersey. We stayed at the hotel described in your brochure as a comfortable, medium-sized hotel, with a magnificent view of the sea, offering courteous, old fashioned service and excellent food, served in a relaxed friendly atmosphere.
Helena: Yes, that’s what the brochure said.
Mr. Bush: In fact the hotel is situated at least half a mile from the sea. Our room overlooks a car park.
Helena: Through the gates of which motor vehicles were constantly arriving or departing.
Mr. B