2013年英语四级考试每日一练(9月9日)
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1. Questions 58-68 are based on the following passage.
According to the passage, Savill hit the headlines because__________
2. Today, most countries in the world have canals. Many countries have built canals near the coast, and parallel （67） the coast. Even in the twentieth century, goods can be moved more cheaply by boat than by any other （68） of transport.
These （69） make it possible for boats to travel （70） ports along the coast without being （71） to the dangers of the open. Some canals, such as the Suez and the Panama, save ships weeks of time by making their （72） a thousand miles shorter. Other canals permit boats to reach cities that are not （73） on the coast; still other canals （74） lands where there is too much water, help to （75） fields where there is not enough water, and （76） . water power for factories and mills. The size of a canal （77） on the kind of boats going through it. The canal must be wide enough to permit two of the largest boats using it to （78） each other easily. It must be deep enough to leave about two feet of water （79） the keel of the largest boat using the canal. When the planet Mars was first （80） through a telescope, people saw that the round disk of the planet was crises-crossed by a （81） of strange blue- green lines. These were called "canals" （82） they looked the same as canals on earth （83） are viewed from an airplane.
However, scientists are now （84） that the Martian phenomena are really not canals. The photographs （85） from space-ships have helped us to （86） the truth about the Martian "canals".
阅读以上短文，回答68-58题
请在 （67） 处填上答案。
A．off
B．with
C．to
D．by
3. Questions58-53are based on the following passage.You're busy filling out the application form for a position you really need. Let's assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn't it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the
form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University?
More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university.
Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week.
Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them "impostors (骗子 )"; another refers to them as "special cases". One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by "no such people". To avoid outright( 彻底的 ) lies, some job-seekers claim that they "attended" or "were associated with" a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that "attending" means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that "being associated with" a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century--that's when they began keeping records, anyhow. If you don't want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony diploma.
One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from "Smoot State University". The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the "University of Purdue". As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
The main idea of this passage is that __
A． employers are checking more closely on applicants now
B． lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem
C． college degrees can now be purchased easily
D． employers are no longer interested in college degrees
4. Questions53-68are based on the following passage.
The phrase "be well on with" in Paragraph 1 most probably means
5. 根据材料回答{TSE}题：
The Library of Congress in Washington D. C., which houses the largest collection of books in the world, is fighting a battle against paper deterioration. The pages
A．seldom
B．rarely
C．never
D．sometimes
翻译题
6. Urban crowdedness would be greatly relieved if___________________ (公交费用更合理)
7. Having spent almost two hours talking with the dean，he started to seriously consider_______________________(出国进修)．
8. With the improvement of our living standards，________________ (人们越来越重视健康问题)．
9. While __________ (全面了解该病的起因)may be several years away，a breakthrough leading to a successful treatment could come much sooner．
翻译题
10. Soon after he transferred to the new school.Ali found that he had________________ (很难跟上班里的同学) in math and English.
1. Questions 58-68 are based on the following passage.
According to the passage, Savill hit the headlines because__________
2. Today, most countries in the world have canals. Many countries have built canals near the coast, and parallel （67） the coast. Even in the twentieth century, goods can be moved more cheaply by boat than by any other （68） of transport.
These （69） make it possible for boats to travel （70） ports along the coast without being （71） to the dangers of the open. Some canals, such as the Suez and the Panama, save ships weeks of time by making their （72） a thousand miles shorter. Other canals permit boats to reach cities that are not （73） on the coast; still other canals （74） lands where there is too much water, help to （75） fields where there is not enough water, and （76） . water power for factories and mills. The size of a canal （77） on the kind of boats going through it. The canal must be wide enough to permit two of the largest boats using it to （78） each other easily. It must be deep enough to leave about two feet of water （79） the keel of the largest boat using the canal. When the planet Mars was first （80） through a telescope, people saw that the round disk of the planet was crises-crossed by a （81） of strange blue- green lines. These were called "canals" （82） they looked the same as canals on earth （83） are viewed from an airplane.
However, scientists are now （84） that the Martian phenomena are really not canals. The photographs （85） from space-ships have helped us to （86） the truth about the Martian "canals".
阅读以上短文，回答68-58题
请在 （67） 处填上答案。
A．off
B．with
C．to
D．by
3. Questions58-53are based on the following passage.You're busy filling out the application form for a position you really need. Let's assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn't it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the
form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University?
More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university.
Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week.
Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them "impostors (骗子 )"; another refers to them as "special cases". One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by "no such people". To avoid outright( 彻底的 ) lies, some job-seekers claim that they "attended" or "were associated with" a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that "attending" means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that "being associated with" a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century--that's when they began keeping records, anyhow. If you don't want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony diploma.
One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from "Smoot State University". The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the "University of Purdue". As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
The main idea of this passage is that __
A． employers are checking more closely on applicants now
B． lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem
C． college degrees can now be purchased easily
D． employers are no longer interested in college degrees
4. Questions53-68are based on the following passage.
The phrase "be well on with" in Paragraph 1 most probably means
5. 根据材料回答{TSE}题：
The Library of Congress in Washington D. C., which houses the largest collection of books in the world, is fighting a battle against paper deterioration. The pages
A．seldom
B．rarely
C．never
D．sometimes
翻译题
6. Urban crowdedness would be greatly relieved if___________________ (公交费用更合理)
7. Having spent almost two hours talking with the dean，he started to seriously consider_______________________(出国进修)．
8. With the improvement of our living standards，________________ (人们越来越重视健康问题)．
9. While __________ (全面了解该病的起因)may be several years away，a breakthrough leading to a successful treatment could come much sooner．
翻译题
10. Soon after he transferred to the new school.Ali found that he had________________ (很难跟上班里的同学) in math and English.
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