2013年英语四级考试每日一练(8月1日)
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1. Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B,C and D on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
How many different kinds of emotions do you feel? You may be surprised to find that it is very hard to 1 all of them. Not only are 2 feelings hard to describe, in words, they are difficult to 3 . As a result, two .people rarely agree 4 all of them. 5 , there are a number of basic emotions that most people 6 .
When we receive something that we want, 7 something happens what we like, we 8 feel joy or happiness. Joy is a positive and powerful emotion, one .for which we all 9 . It is natural to want to be happy, and all of us search for happiness. As a general 10 , joy occurs when we reach a desired goal or 11 a desired object.
Since people often 12 different goals and .objects, it is understandable
that one person may find joy in repairing an automobile, 13 another may find joy in solving a math problem. Of course, we often share 14 goals or interests, and 15 we can experience joy together. This may be in sports, in the arts, in learning, in 16 a fatally, or in just being together.
When we have difficulty 17 obtaining desired objects or reaching desired goals we experience 18 emotions such as anger and sorrow. When little things get in our way, we experience minor frustrations or 19 .The more difficulty you have in reaching a goal, the more 20 you may feel and the more angry you may become.
A.classify
B.identify
C.specify
D.verify
2. 根据以下材料,回答58-12题:
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, Cand D You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people's. In the same way, when children learn to do all the other things they learn to do without being taught to walk, run, climb; whistle, ride a bicycle--compare those performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his own mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out; with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.
If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can't find the way to get the right answer. Let's end this nonsense of grades, exams,marks. Let us throw them all out. and let the children learn what all educated persons must someday learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.
Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them with our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one's life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, "But suppose they fail to learn something essential, something they will need to get in the world?" Don't worry! If it is essential,they will go out into the world and learn it.
What does the author think is the best way for children to learn things?
A.By imitating what other people do.
B.By making mistakes and having them corrected.
C.By listening to explanations from skilled people.
D.By asking a great many questions.
3.
根据所听内容及提问,作答____
A.They have two children already
B.Lisa wishes to have children, but her husband doesn't
C.They will start a family as soon as they get married
D.They don't want children for the time being
阅读(填空题)
4. Questions48-2are based on the following passage.
Men who bottle up their anger at being unfairly treated at work are up to five times more likely to 47 a heart attack, or even die from one, than those who let their 48 show a Swedish study has found.
The study followed 2,755 employed men who had not suffered any heart attacks from 1992 to 2003. At the end of the study, 47 ~ 49 had either suffered an attack, or died from heart disease, and many of those had been found to be "covertly coping" with unfair _50_ at work, "After adjustment for age, socioeconomic factors, risk behaviors, job _51 and biological risk factors at baseline ( 基线 ), there was a close-response relationship between covert coping and the risk of incident myocardial infarction (心肌梗塞 ) or cardiac death," the study's authors wrote. Covert coping was listed as "letting thing pass without saying anything" and "going
away" _52_ feelings of being hard done by colleagues or bosses. Men who often used these coping techniques had a two to rivefold higher risk of developing heart disease than those who were more. _53_. at work, the study showed.
The researchers said they could not answer the question of what might be a particularly healthy coping 54__ at work, but listed open coping behavior when 55__ unfair treatment or facing a56_ as "protesting directly," "talking to the person right away," "yelling at the person right away" or "speaking to the person later when things have calmed down."
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
请作答(47)______
5. You _____________ (当时要是对那位顾客更耐心些) ; I'm sure that selling him the watch was a possibility.
6. Scientists have devised a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand (缕) of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims.
The method relies on measuring how chemical variations in drinking water show up in people’s hair.
“You’re what you eat and drink, and that’s recorded in your hair,” said Thure Ceiling, a geologist at the University of Utah.
While U.S. diet is relatively identical, water supplies vary. The differences result from weather patterns. The chemical composition of rainfall changes slightly as rain clouds move.
Most hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water are stable, but traces of both elements are also present as heavier isotopes (同位素). The heaviest rain falls first. As a result, storms that form over the Pacific deliver heavier water to California than to Utah.
Similar patterns exist throughout the U.S. By measuring the proportion of heavier hydrogen and oxygen isotopes along a strand of hair, scientists can construct a geographic timeline. Each inch of hair corresponds to about two months.
Cerling’s team collected tap water samples from 600 cities and constructed a map of the regional differences. They checked the accuracy or the map by testing 200 hair samples collected from 65 barber shops.
They were able to accurately place the hair samples in broad regions roughly corresponding to the movement of rain systems.
“It’s not good for pinpointing (定位),” Ceding said. “It’s good for eliminating many possibilities.”
Todd Park, a local detective, said the method has helped him learn more about an unidentified woman whose skeleton was found near Great Salt Lake.
The woman was 5 feet tall. Police recovered 26 bones, a T-shirt and several strands of hair.
When Park heard about the research, he gave the hair samples to the researchers. Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.
She stayed in the Northwest, although the test could not be more specific than somewhere between eastern Oregon and western Wyoming.
“It’s still a substantial area,” Park said. “But it narrows it way down for me.”
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
What is the scientists’ new discovery?
A.One’s hair growth has to do with the amount of water they drink.
B.A person’s hair may reveal where they have lived.
C.Hair analysis accurately identifies criminal suspects.
D.The chemical composition of hair varies from person to person.
7. Paper--More than Meets the Eye
We are surrounded by so much paper and card that it is easy to forget just how complex it is. There are many varieties and grades of paper materials, and whilst it is fairly easy to spot the varieties, it is far more difficult to spot the grades.
It needs to be understood that most paper and card is manufactured for a specific purpose, so that whilst the corn-flake packet may look smart, it is clearly not something destined for the archives. It is made to look good, but only needs a limited life span. It is also much cheaper to manufacture than high grade card.
Paper can be made from an almost endless variety of cellulose-based material which will include many woods, cottons and grasses or which papyrus is an example and from where we get the word "paper". Many of these are very specialized, but the preponderance of paper making has been from soft wood and cotton or rags, with the bulk being wood-based.
Paper from Wood
In order to make wood into paper it needs to be broken down into fine strands. Firstly by powerful machinery and then boiled with strong alkalies such as caustic soda, until a fine pulp of cellulose fibers is produced. It is from this pulp that the final product is made, relying on the bonding together of the cellulose into layers. That, in a very small nutshell, is the essence
of paper making from wood. However, the reality is rather more complicated. In order to give us our white paper and card, the makers will add bleach and other materials such as china clay and additional chemicals.
A further problem with wood is that it contains a material that is not cellulose. Something called lignin. This is essential for the tree since it holds the cellulose fibres together, but if it is incorporated into the manufactured paper it presents archivists with a problem. Lignin eventually breaks down and releases acid products into the paper. This will weaken the bond between the cellulose fibers and the paper will become brittle and look rather brown and careworn. We have all seen this in old newspapers and cheap paperback books. It has been estimated that most paper back books will have a life of not greater than fifty years. Not what we need for our archives.
Since the lignin can be removed from the paper pulp during manufacture, the obvious question is "why is it left in the paper?" The answer lies in the fact that lignin makes up a considerable part of the tree. By leaving the lignin in the pulp a papermaker can increase his paper yield from a tree to some 95%. Removing it means a yield of only 35%. It is clearly uneconomic to remove the lignin for many paper and card applications.
It also means, of course, that lignin-free paper is going to be more expensive, but that is nevertheless what the archivist must look for in his supplies. There is no point whatsoever in carefully placing our valuable artifacts in paper or card that is going to hasten their demise. Acid is particularly harmful to photographic materials, causing them to fade and is some cases simply vanish!
So, how do we tell a piece of suitable paper or card from one that is unsuitable? You cannot do it by simply looking, and rather disappointingly, you cannot always rely on the label. "Acid-free" might be true inasmuch as a test on the paper may
indicate that it is a neutral material at this time. But lignin can take years before it starts the inevitable process of breaking down, and in the right conditions it will speed up enormously.
Added to this, as I have indicated earlier, paper may also contain other materials added during manufacture such as bleach, china clay, chemical whiteners and size. This looks like a bleak picture, and it would be but for the fact that there are suppliers who will guarantee the material that they sell. If you want to be absolutely sure that you are storing in, or printing on,
the correct material then this is probably the only way.
Incidentally, acids can migrate from material to material. Lining old shoe boxes with good quality acid-free paper will do little to guard the contents. The acid will get there in the end.
Paper from Rag
Paper is also commonly made from cotton and rag waste. This has the advantage of being lignin-free, but because there is much less cotton and rag than trees, it also tends to be much more expensive than wood pulp paper. You will still need to
purchase from a reliable source though, since even rag paper and card can contain undesirable additives.
A reliable source for quality rag papers is a recognized art stockiest. Many water color artists insist on using only fine quality rag paper and board.
The main lesson to learn from this information is that you cannot rely on purchasing archival materials from the high street. The only safe solution is to purchase from specialist suppliers. It may cost rather more, but in the end you will know that your important and valuable data and images have the best home possible.
阅读以上文章,回答2-2题
The corn-flake packet is cheaper than __
[A] high grade card
[B] middle grade card
[C] low grade card
[D] any grade card
8. It was the president who __________ (领导了一场政治运动).
9. 根据上述文章回答{TSE}题:
Who is going to supply a new version of Kindle reader?
写作
10.
1. Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B,C and D on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
How many different kinds of emotions do you feel? You may be surprised to find that it is very hard to 1 all of them. Not only are 2 feelings hard to describe, in words, they are difficult to 3 . As a result, two .people rarely agree 4 all of them. 5 , there are a number of basic emotions that most people 6 .
When we receive something that we want, 7 something happens what we like, we 8 feel joy or happiness. Joy is a positive and powerful emotion, one .for which we all 9 . It is natural to want to be happy, and all of us search for happiness. As a general 10 , joy occurs when we reach a desired goal or 11 a desired object.
Since people often 12 different goals and .objects, it is understandable
that one person may find joy in repairing an automobile, 13 another may find joy in solving a math problem. Of course, we often share 14 goals or interests, and 15 we can experience joy together. This may be in sports, in the arts, in learning, in 16 a fatally, or in just being together.
When we have difficulty 17 obtaining desired objects or reaching desired goals we experience 18 emotions such as anger and sorrow. When little things get in our way, we experience minor frustrations or 19 .The more difficulty you have in reaching a goal, the more 20 you may feel and the more angry you may become.
A.classify
B.identify
C.specify
D.verify
2. 根据以下材料,回答58-12题:
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, Cand D You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people's. In the same way, when children learn to do all the other things they learn to do without being taught to walk, run, climb; whistle, ride a bicycle--compare those performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his own mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out; with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.
If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can't find the way to get the right answer. Let's end this nonsense of grades, exams,marks. Let us throw them all out. and let the children learn what all educated persons must someday learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.
Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them with our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one's life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, "But suppose they fail to learn something essential, something they will need to get in the world?" Don't worry! If it is essential,they will go out into the world and learn it.
What does the author think is the best way for children to learn things?
A.By imitating what other people do.
B.By making mistakes and having them corrected.
C.By listening to explanations from skilled people.
D.By asking a great many questions.
3.
点击播放
根据所听内容及提问,作答____
A.They have two children already
B.Lisa wishes to have children, but her husband doesn't
C.They will start a family as soon as they get married
D.They don't want children for the time being
阅读(填空题)
4. Questions48-2are based on the following passage.
Men who bottle up their anger at being unfairly treated at work are up to five times more likely to 47 a heart attack, or even die from one, than those who let their 48 show a Swedish study has found.
The study followed 2,755 employed men who had not suffered any heart attacks from 1992 to 2003. At the end of the study, 47 ~ 49 had either suffered an attack, or died from heart disease, and many of those had been found to be "covertly coping" with unfair _50_ at work, "After adjustment for age, socioeconomic factors, risk behaviors, job _51 and biological risk factors at baseline ( 基线 ), there was a close-response relationship between covert coping and the risk of incident myocardial infarction (心肌梗塞 ) or cardiac death," the study's authors wrote. Covert coping was listed as "letting thing pass without saying anything" and "going
away" _52_ feelings of being hard done by colleagues or bosses. Men who often used these coping techniques had a two to rivefold higher risk of developing heart disease than those who were more. _53_. at work, the study showed.
The researchers said they could not answer the question of what might be a particularly healthy coping 54__ at work, but listed open coping behavior when 55__ unfair treatment or facing a56_ as "protesting directly," "talking to the person right away," "yelling at the person right away" or "speaking to the person later when things have calmed down."
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
请作答(47)______
5. You _____________ (当时要是对那位顾客更耐心些) ; I'm sure that selling him the watch was a possibility.
6. Scientists have devised a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand (缕) of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims.
The method relies on measuring how chemical variations in drinking water show up in people’s hair.
“You’re what you eat and drink, and that’s recorded in your hair,” said Thure Ceiling, a geologist at the University of Utah.
While U.S. diet is relatively identical, water supplies vary. The differences result from weather patterns. The chemical composition of rainfall changes slightly as rain clouds move.
Most hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water are stable, but traces of both elements are also present as heavier isotopes (同位素). The heaviest rain falls first. As a result, storms that form over the Pacific deliver heavier water to California than to Utah.
Similar patterns exist throughout the U.S. By measuring the proportion of heavier hydrogen and oxygen isotopes along a strand of hair, scientists can construct a geographic timeline. Each inch of hair corresponds to about two months.
Cerling’s team collected tap water samples from 600 cities and constructed a map of the regional differences. They checked the accuracy or the map by testing 200 hair samples collected from 65 barber shops.
They were able to accurately place the hair samples in broad regions roughly corresponding to the movement of rain systems.
“It’s not good for pinpointing (定位),” Ceding said. “It’s good for eliminating many possibilities.”
Todd Park, a local detective, said the method has helped him learn more about an unidentified woman whose skeleton was found near Great Salt Lake.
The woman was 5 feet tall. Police recovered 26 bones, a T-shirt and several strands of hair.
When Park heard about the research, he gave the hair samples to the researchers. Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.
She stayed in the Northwest, although the test could not be more specific than somewhere between eastern Oregon and western Wyoming.
“It’s still a substantial area,” Park said. “But it narrows it way down for me.”
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
What is the scientists’ new discovery?
A.One’s hair growth has to do with the amount of water they drink.
B.A person’s hair may reveal where they have lived.
C.Hair analysis accurately identifies criminal suspects.
D.The chemical composition of hair varies from person to person.
7. Paper--More than Meets the Eye
We are surrounded by so much paper and card that it is easy to forget just how complex it is. There are many varieties and grades of paper materials, and whilst it is fairly easy to spot the varieties, it is far more difficult to spot the grades.
It needs to be understood that most paper and card is manufactured for a specific purpose, so that whilst the corn-flake packet may look smart, it is clearly not something destined for the archives. It is made to look good, but only needs a limited life span. It is also much cheaper to manufacture than high grade card.
Paper can be made from an almost endless variety of cellulose-based material which will include many woods, cottons and grasses or which papyrus is an example and from where we get the word "paper". Many of these are very specialized, but the preponderance of paper making has been from soft wood and cotton or rags, with the bulk being wood-based.
Paper from Wood
In order to make wood into paper it needs to be broken down into fine strands. Firstly by powerful machinery and then boiled with strong alkalies such as caustic soda, until a fine pulp of cellulose fibers is produced. It is from this pulp that the final product is made, relying on the bonding together of the cellulose into layers. That, in a very small nutshell, is the essence
of paper making from wood. However, the reality is rather more complicated. In order to give us our white paper and card, the makers will add bleach and other materials such as china clay and additional chemicals.
A further problem with wood is that it contains a material that is not cellulose. Something called lignin. This is essential for the tree since it holds the cellulose fibres together, but if it is incorporated into the manufactured paper it presents archivists with a problem. Lignin eventually breaks down and releases acid products into the paper. This will weaken the bond between the cellulose fibers and the paper will become brittle and look rather brown and careworn. We have all seen this in old newspapers and cheap paperback books. It has been estimated that most paper back books will have a life of not greater than fifty years. Not what we need for our archives.
Since the lignin can be removed from the paper pulp during manufacture, the obvious question is "why is it left in the paper?" The answer lies in the fact that lignin makes up a considerable part of the tree. By leaving the lignin in the pulp a papermaker can increase his paper yield from a tree to some 95%. Removing it means a yield of only 35%. It is clearly uneconomic to remove the lignin for many paper and card applications.
It also means, of course, that lignin-free paper is going to be more expensive, but that is nevertheless what the archivist must look for in his supplies. There is no point whatsoever in carefully placing our valuable artifacts in paper or card that is going to hasten their demise. Acid is particularly harmful to photographic materials, causing them to fade and is some cases simply vanish!
So, how do we tell a piece of suitable paper or card from one that is unsuitable? You cannot do it by simply looking, and rather disappointingly, you cannot always rely on the label. "Acid-free" might be true inasmuch as a test on the paper may
indicate that it is a neutral material at this time. But lignin can take years before it starts the inevitable process of breaking down, and in the right conditions it will speed up enormously.
Added to this, as I have indicated earlier, paper may also contain other materials added during manufacture such as bleach, china clay, chemical whiteners and size. This looks like a bleak picture, and it would be but for the fact that there are suppliers who will guarantee the material that they sell. If you want to be absolutely sure that you are storing in, or printing on,
the correct material then this is probably the only way.
Incidentally, acids can migrate from material to material. Lining old shoe boxes with good quality acid-free paper will do little to guard the contents. The acid will get there in the end.
Paper from Rag
Paper is also commonly made from cotton and rag waste. This has the advantage of being lignin-free, but because there is much less cotton and rag than trees, it also tends to be much more expensive than wood pulp paper. You will still need to
purchase from a reliable source though, since even rag paper and card can contain undesirable additives.
A reliable source for quality rag papers is a recognized art stockiest. Many water color artists insist on using only fine quality rag paper and board.
The main lesson to learn from this information is that you cannot rely on purchasing archival materials from the high street. The only safe solution is to purchase from specialist suppliers. It may cost rather more, but in the end you will know that your important and valuable data and images have the best home possible.
阅读以上文章,回答2-2题
The corn-flake packet is cheaper than __
[A] high grade card
[B] middle grade card
[C] low grade card
[D] any grade card
8. It was the president who __________ (领导了一场政治运动).
9. 根据上述文章回答{TSE}题:
Who is going to supply a new version of Kindle reader?
写作
10.
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