2014年英语四级考试每日一练(1月12日)
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1. 回答63-56题：
It is found that 71% of Americans regard it as worthwhile to __
A) spend money on souvenirs while traveling with family and friends
B) accept hidden costs while traveling with family and friends
C) travel with family and friends during the holiday season
D) travel with family and friends so as to please them
2. Questions56-12 are based on the following passage．
It was once thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic．Today,we know that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution，the problem is literally worldwide．On several occasions over the past decade，a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the entire eastern half of the United States and led to health warnings
even in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic．In fact， the very climate of the entire earth may be affected by air pollution．
Some scientists feel that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels(coal and oil．is creating a“greenhouse effect”一holding in heat reflected from the earth and raising the world’s average temperature．If this view is correct and the world’s temperature is raised only a few degrees。much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New Y0rk，Boston，Miami，and New Orleans will be under water．
Another view,less widely held，is that increasing particulate matter in the atmosphere is blocking sunlight and lowering the earth’s temperature—a result that would be equally disastrous．A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to new ice age and would make agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas．
At present we do not know for sure that either of these conditions will happen，though one recent government report prepared by experts in the field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very likely．Perhaps，if we are very lucky,the two tendencies will offset each other and the world’s temperature will
stay about the same as it is now．
According to the passage，people today think that air pollution________．
A．exists merely in urban and industrial areas
B．may have an effect on the entire earth
C．causes widespread damage in the countryside
D．is not so serious as it used to be
阅读(填空题)
3. Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions12-2are based on the following passage.
Health effects from indoor air pollutants may be experienced soon after exposure or, possibly, years later. Immediate effects may show up after a single exposure or repeated exposures. These include irritation (不适) of the eyes, nose, throat,headaches, dizziness, and fatigue. Such immediate effects are 1 short-term and treatable. Certain immediate effects are similar to those from colds or other viral (病毒性的) diseases, so it is often difficult to determine if the symptoms are a result of 2 to indoor air pollution. For this reason, it is important to pay attention to the time and place 3 occur.
Other health effects may show up either years after exposure has occurred or only after long or 4 periods of exposure. These effects, which 5 some breathing diseases, heart disease, and cancer, can be severely disabling or fatal. It is important to try to improve the indoor air quality in your home even if symptoms are not 6 .
While pollutants commonly found in indoor air are 7 for many harmful effects, there is considerable 8 about what concentrations or periods of exposure are necessary to produce specific health problems. People also react very differently to exposure to indoor air pollutants. Further research is 9 to better understand which health effects occur after exposure to the average pollutant concentrations found in homes and which occurs from the 10 concentrations that occur for short periods of time.
A ． uncertainty F ． repeated K ． symptoms
B ． lower G ． conditions L ． unconsciousness
C． exposure H higher M． rarely
D ． show I ． usually N ． needed
E ． noticeable J ． include 0 ． responsible
and fatigue. Such immediate effects are 1 short-term and treatable.
4. Directions;In this part，you will have l5 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on answer Sheet1．
For questions 2-8，mark
Y(for Yes) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;
N(for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;
NG(for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage．
For questions 9-11，complete the sentences with the information given in the passage．
Foreign adoptions
Madonna，as you might have hard，is in the process of adopting a baby from Malawi．The one—year—old boy named David was flown last month to London．The American pop music star and her husband have a home there．Madonna is married to a film director Guy Ritchie and is the biological mother of two children．
Madonna recently gave millions of dollars to support efforts to help orphans(孤儿)in Mala wi．The southern African country is one of the poorest nations in the world．
Madonna says she wants to give David a better life．But some people citicized her for adop ting a child whose father is still alive，even if the father did agree to it．And some child psychologists said children do best if they are well cared for in their own homeland．
The adoption is not yet final．The Lilongwe High court gave Madonna and her husband temporary custody of David on October l2th．The court order is for eighteen months．During that period a social worker will report on how the boy is being cared for．
A committee of 67 human rights groups in Malawi argued that adoption laws there normally ban international adoptions．The committee has brought a legal action to make sure if Madonna received special treatment．
Madonna says she did not．But she has supporters．They include Jane Aronson，an influential expert on adoptions and had of the World Orphans Foundation．She says Madonna is offering David a new life.
More than two thirds of people in the United States who adopt .children from other countries are not famous．They are people like Miriam and John Baxter of Bethesda, Maryland. The Baxters have a biological daughter named Olivia. Olivia was almost eight when her new brother, Matthew,arrived. The Baxters adopted Matthew from an orphanage (孤儿院) in South Korea.
They had thought about adopting a baby from China. But their plans changed five years ago after the World Trade Center attack in New York. A nearby office where they needed to get a document to satisfy Chinese adoption requirements was closed temporarily.
Waiting for the office to re-open would have delayed the process another month. And .the Baxters already faced a year of waiting,
Then they learned that it might be faster to try to adopt a child from South Korea. Miriam Baxter has a brother and a sister who were adopted from there. And, in her words, "we wanted the
child so much, we just could not wait any longer. "
There are many ol
5. A decreasing number of today’s workers are willing to work in the same field，_______ (更别说在同一家公司了)．
6.
7. Why is the area just under the shark’s collagen fibers similar to a belted radial tire?
A．Because it is also full of blood pressure.
B．Because it is also filled of air pressure.
C．Because it is also inflated by pressure.
D．Because it also can be used again and again.
8. It’s decided that the new mayor be __________ (提升为教育部部长)．
9. Directions : In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank "is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions{TSE}are based on the following passage.
Internet use appears to cause a decline in psychological well-being. Even people who spent just a few hours a week on the Internet experienced more depression and loneliness than those who logged on 1 frequently. And it wasn't that people who were already feeling bad spent 2 time on the Internet, but that using the Net 3 appeared to cause the bad feelings.
Researchers are puzzling over the results, which were 4 contrary to their expectations. They 5 that the Net would prove socially healthier than television, since the Net allows users to choose their information and to communicate with others..
The fact that Internet use 6 time available for family and friends may account for the drop in well-being, researchers hypothesized. Faceless, bodiless "virtual" communication may be less psychologically 7 than actual conversation, and the relationships formed through it may be shallower．Another possibility is that 8 to the wider world via the Net makes users less satisfied with their lives.
"But it's important to remember this is not about the 9 , perhaps; it's about how it is used ," says psychologist Christine Riley of Intel, one of the study's sponsors. "It really points to the need for considering social 10 in terms of how you design applications and services for technology. "
A.reduces F．depressing K. technology
B．required G .less L .reasons
C. more H. factors M. exposure
D. satisfying I.access N. expected
E .actually J．completely O.saves
Even people who spent just a few hours a week on the Internet experienced more depression and loneliness than those who logged on 1 frequently.
写作
10. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic." One Way to Solve the Problem. You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below in Chinese."
1．机动车被看作是空气污染的首要原因
2．提出解决这一问题的方法
3．并说明原因
One Way to Solve the Problem
1. 回答63-56题：
It is found that 71% of Americans regard it as worthwhile to __
A) spend money on souvenirs while traveling with family and friends
B) accept hidden costs while traveling with family and friends
C) travel with family and friends during the holiday season
D) travel with family and friends so as to please them
2. Questions56-12 are based on the following passage．
It was once thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic．Today,we know that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution，the problem is literally worldwide．On several occasions over the past decade，a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the entire eastern half of the United States and led to health warnings
even in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic．In fact， the very climate of the entire earth may be affected by air pollution．
Some scientists feel that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels(coal and oil．is creating a“greenhouse effect”一holding in heat reflected from the earth and raising the world’s average temperature．If this view is correct and the world’s temperature is raised only a few degrees。much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New Y0rk，Boston，Miami，and New Orleans will be under water．
Another view,less widely held，is that increasing particulate matter in the atmosphere is blocking sunlight and lowering the earth’s temperature—a result that would be equally disastrous．A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to new ice age and would make agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas．
At present we do not know for sure that either of these conditions will happen，though one recent government report prepared by experts in the field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very likely．Perhaps，if we are very lucky,the two tendencies will offset each other and the world’s temperature will
stay about the same as it is now．
According to the passage，people today think that air pollution________．
A．exists merely in urban and industrial areas
B．may have an effect on the entire earth
C．causes widespread damage in the countryside
D．is not so serious as it used to be
阅读(填空题)
3. Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions12-2are based on the following passage.
Health effects from indoor air pollutants may be experienced soon after exposure or, possibly, years later. Immediate effects may show up after a single exposure or repeated exposures. These include irritation (不适) of the eyes, nose, throat,headaches, dizziness, and fatigue. Such immediate effects are 1 short-term and treatable. Certain immediate effects are similar to those from colds or other viral (病毒性的) diseases, so it is often difficult to determine if the symptoms are a result of 2 to indoor air pollution. For this reason, it is important to pay attention to the time and place 3 occur.
Other health effects may show up either years after exposure has occurred or only after long or 4 periods of exposure. These effects, which 5 some breathing diseases, heart disease, and cancer, can be severely disabling or fatal. It is important to try to improve the indoor air quality in your home even if symptoms are not 6 .
While pollutants commonly found in indoor air are 7 for many harmful effects, there is considerable 8 about what concentrations or periods of exposure are necessary to produce specific health problems. People also react very differently to exposure to indoor air pollutants. Further research is 9 to better understand which health effects occur after exposure to the average pollutant concentrations found in homes and which occurs from the 10 concentrations that occur for short periods of time.
A ． uncertainty F ． repeated K ． symptoms
B ． lower G ． conditions L ． unconsciousness
C． exposure H higher M． rarely
D ． show I ． usually N ． needed
E ． noticeable J ． include 0 ． responsible
and fatigue. Such immediate effects are 1 short-term and treatable.
4. Directions;In this part，you will have l5 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on answer Sheet1．
For questions 2-8，mark
Y(for Yes) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;
N(for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;
NG(for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage．
For questions 9-11，complete the sentences with the information given in the passage．
Foreign adoptions
Madonna，as you might have hard，is in the process of adopting a baby from Malawi．The one—year—old boy named David was flown last month to London．The American pop music star and her husband have a home there．Madonna is married to a film director Guy Ritchie and is the biological mother of two children．
Madonna recently gave millions of dollars to support efforts to help orphans(孤儿)in Mala wi．The southern African country is one of the poorest nations in the world．
Madonna says she wants to give David a better life．But some people citicized her for adop ting a child whose father is still alive，even if the father did agree to it．And some child psychologists said children do best if they are well cared for in their own homeland．
The adoption is not yet final．The Lilongwe High court gave Madonna and her husband temporary custody of David on October l2th．The court order is for eighteen months．During that period a social worker will report on how the boy is being cared for．
A committee of 67 human rights groups in Malawi argued that adoption laws there normally ban international adoptions．The committee has brought a legal action to make sure if Madonna received special treatment．
Madonna says she did not．But she has supporters．They include Jane Aronson，an influential expert on adoptions and had of the World Orphans Foundation．She says Madonna is offering David a new life.
More than two thirds of people in the United States who adopt .children from other countries are not famous．They are people like Miriam and John Baxter of Bethesda, Maryland. The Baxters have a biological daughter named Olivia. Olivia was almost eight when her new brother, Matthew,arrived. The Baxters adopted Matthew from an orphanage (孤儿院) in South Korea.
They had thought about adopting a baby from China. But their plans changed five years ago after the World Trade Center attack in New York. A nearby office where they needed to get a document to satisfy Chinese adoption requirements was closed temporarily.
Waiting for the office to re-open would have delayed the process another month. And .the Baxters already faced a year of waiting,
Then they learned that it might be faster to try to adopt a child from South Korea. Miriam Baxter has a brother and a sister who were adopted from there. And, in her words, "we wanted the
child so much, we just could not wait any longer. "
There are many ol
5. A decreasing number of today’s workers are willing to work in the same field，_______ (更别说在同一家公司了)．
6.
7. Why is the area just under the shark’s collagen fibers similar to a belted radial tire?
A．Because it is also full of blood pressure.
B．Because it is also filled of air pressure.
C．Because it is also inflated by pressure.
D．Because it also can be used again and again.
8. It’s decided that the new mayor be __________ (提升为教育部部长)．
9. Directions : In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank "is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions{TSE}are based on the following passage.
Internet use appears to cause a decline in psychological well-being. Even people who spent just a few hours a week on the Internet experienced more depression and loneliness than those who logged on 1 frequently. And it wasn't that people who were already feeling bad spent 2 time on the Internet, but that using the Net 3 appeared to cause the bad feelings.
Researchers are puzzling over the results, which were 4 contrary to their expectations. They 5 that the Net would prove socially healthier than television, since the Net allows users to choose their information and to communicate with others..
The fact that Internet use 6 time available for family and friends may account for the drop in well-being, researchers hypothesized. Faceless, bodiless "virtual" communication may be less psychologically 7 than actual conversation, and the relationships formed through it may be shallower．Another possibility is that 8 to the wider world via the Net makes users less satisfied with their lives.
"But it's important to remember this is not about the 9 , perhaps; it's about how it is used ," says psychologist Christine Riley of Intel, one of the study's sponsors. "It really points to the need for considering social 10 in terms of how you design applications and services for technology. "
A.reduces F．depressing K. technology
B．required G .less L .reasons
C. more H. factors M. exposure
D. satisfying I.access N. expected
E .actually J．completely O.saves
Even people who spent just a few hours a week on the Internet experienced more depression and loneliness than those who logged on 1 frequently.
写作
10. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic." One Way to Solve the Problem. You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below in Chinese."
1．机动车被看作是空气污染的首要原因
2．提出解决这一问题的方法
3．并说明原因
One Way to Solve the Problem
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