2014年12月英语四级考试临考猜题卷（四）
Part III Reading Comprehension.(40 minutes)
Section C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
57、57-66
Instinctively, the first thing we want to know about a disease is whether it is going to kill us. Twenty-five years ago, tiffs was the only question about AIDS we couJd anwer with any certainty; now, it is the only question we really camaot answer well at all.
By now, those of us in the AIDS business long term have cared for thousands of patients. No one with that kind of personal experience can doubt for a moment the deadly potential of H. I. V. or the life-saving capabilities of the drugs developed against it. But there are also now htmdreds of footnotes and exceptions and modifications to those two facts that make the big picture ever murkier (扑朔迷离).
We have patients scattered at every possible point: men and women who cruise on their medications with no problems at all, and those who never become stable on them and die of AIDS; those who refuse them until it is too late, and those who never need them at all; those who leave AIDS far behind only to die from lung cancer or breast cancer or liver failure, and those few who are killed by the medications themelves.
So, when we welcome a new patient into our world, one whose fated place in this world is still unclear, and that patient asks us, as most do, whether this illness is going to kill him or not, it often takes a bit of mental stammering (口吃 ) before we hazard an answer,Now, a complete rundown of all the news from the front would take hours. The statistics change almost; hourly as new treatments appear. It is all too cold, too mathematical, too scary to dump on the head of a sick, frightened person. So we simplify. "We have good treatments now, we say. "You should do fine. "
Once, not so long ago, we were working in another universe.Now we have simply rejoined the carnival ( 嘉年华) of modern medicine, noisy and encouraging, confusing and contradictory, fueled by the eternal balancing of benefits and risks.
You can.win big, and why shouldn't you, with the usual fall-safe combination of luck and money. You have our very best hopes, so step right up: we sell big miracles but, offer no guarantees.
What does the author say about AIDS?
A．It is definitely deadly twenty-five years ago.
B．The patients want to know everything about it.
C．We can answer anything about it with certainty now.
D．We could not answer questions about it well before.
58、What do we know about the AIDS patients the author has cared for?
A．All of them need the help of medications.
B．Some of them die of refusing medications.
C．All of them die of AIDS eventually.
D．Some of them are killed by the fear of AIDS.
59、By "meutal stammering", the author means.
A．they cannot give an exact answer to AIDS patients
B．they hesitate to tell the truth to AIDS patients who will die
C．tehy need to think about whether patients will die of AIDS
D．they have to make up excuses to comfort AIDS patients
60、A complete count of all the statistics about AIDS.
A．will promote new treatments to appear
B．will simplify doctors' answers about AIDS
C．will be too cold and mathematical for doctors
D．will be influenced by new treatments
61、What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
A．The life of AIDS patients was offered no guarantees not so long ago.
B．AIDS can be got rid of with the fail-safe combination of luck and money.
C．Doctors should offer AIDS patients their best hopes to encourage them.
D．Moderu medicine brings about both benefits and risks to AIDS patients.
62、
62-71
Most of us would shy away from making purchases in a foreign country ff we didn't know the exchange rate. Yet, ff privacy is the true currency of the Interuet, as many argue, millions of us are doing that very thing every day. i Meanwhile, Internet giants amend their privacy policies in ways that allow them to harvest and sell even more of our personal data. While privacy campaigners protest, users generally vote with their clicks and carry on regardless.
So should we conclude the Interuet generation is happy to trade its privacy for free or cheaper Web services? Not according to Nicola Jentzsch of the German Institute of Research in Berlin, and colleagues, who last week published research showing that most people prefer to protect their personal data when given a choice and that a significant proportion are willing to pay extra to do so.
The researchers directed 443 students to a website offering tickets for a real movie showing, sold by two different uendors (商贩). Although the tickets were subsidized, the volunteers, who were able to purchase one, two, or no tickets, had to pay most of the cost themselves.
When both vendors offered tickeks at the same price but only one required customers to enter their cell phone number, the more privacy-friendly yendor got 83% of sales. When participants were offered the santo choice, but with an additional charge of 50 euro cents from the privacy-friendly cinema, its market share fell to 31%.
"It turns out that when you are good on privacy you can charge more and make a greater profit," says Alessandro Acquisti of the University of Cambridge, one of the authors of the study, published by the European Network and Information Security Agency.
"What people say in surveys is that they care about privacy, but what they actually do is spend their time constantly updating their status on Facebo0k," says Acquisti. "This has led some to conclude that people no longer care about privacy. This new data, along with similar work we have done in the U. S, shows this is not the case, and that the desire for privacy is not dead after all. "
According to the passage, many people believe that
A．we can benefit from selling our personal data
B．Internet giants should perfect their privacy policies
C．our privacy is the true currency of the Internet
D．privacy campaigners should vote with their clicks
63、What does Nicola Jentzsch say about the Internet generation?
A．They are more likely to trade their privacy for free Web services.
B．They are willing to pay extra to protect their personal data.
C．Most of them will protect their privacy when given a choice.
D．Most of them are happy to share their personal data on the Internet.
64、In what circumstances does the market share of the privacy-friendly cinema fall?
A．When it offers tickets at the same price as the other does.
B．When it asks customers to enter their cell phone number.
C．When it charges customers an additional 50 euro cents.
D．When it raises the average price of one ticket by 83%.
65、According to Alessandro Acquisti, how can vendors make a greater profit'?
A．To be friendly to consumers' privacy.
B．To offer a competitive price to consumers.
C．To be good at tracking consumers' privacy.
D．To increase expenses on the Web services.
66、What is the author's purpose of writing this passage?
A．To promote understanding between vendors and constumers.
B．To argue that the Internet generation still cares about their privacy.
C．To persuade people not to constantly update their status on Facebook.
D．To urge vendors to be more privacy-friendly to make a greater profit.
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