2014年英语四级考试每日一练(1月22日)
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单项选择题
1、根据以下资料，回答题：
Section A
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 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Women in 2011 made no significant gains in winning more top US business jobs, according to a study, but he head of the study said women are poised to make 47 in the year ahead.
The number of women who were board directors, corporate officers or top earners at Fortune 500 companies remained 48 unchanged, said the study by Catalyst, a nonprofit group that 49 opportunities for women in business.
The percentage of companies with women on the board of directors was 15.1 percent this year, compared with 14.8 percent in 2010, Catalyst said.
Also, the percentage of corporate officer positions 50 by women was 15.7 percent in 2011 and 15.4 percent in 2010, it said. The percentage of top earners in 2011 who were women was 6.2 percent, compared to 6.7 percent in 2010, it said.
The research on the Fortune 500 companies was 51 on data as of March 31, 2011. The slight changes in the numbers are not considered 52 significant, Catalyst said.
Nevertheless, given the changes in U.S. politics, the future for women in business looks more 53 , said Ilene Lang, president and chief executive 54 of Catalyst.
"Overall we're 55 to see change next year," Lang said. "When we look at shareholders, decision makers,the general public, they're looking for change. "
"What they're basically saying is, 'Don't give us 56 of the status quo(现状). Get new ideas in there, get some fresh faces.'" she said.
A．officer I．essentially
B．changes J．strides
C．based K．promotes
D．positions L．statistically
E．more M．confused
F．promising N．held
G．businesslike O．expecting
H．surveying
47._________________
2、Questions are based on the following passage.Researchers have created a "beauty machine" they say can turn a woman's photo into the likeness of a cover model with the push of a button. The goal is not just to toy with pictures. Sure, the new computer software could help editors distort
magazine cover photos even more than they already do. But it could also guide plastic surgeons ( 整形医师) in efforts to achieve some perceived level of perfection in a patient. Or the software might even be incorporated into future digital cameras to make us all appear gorgeous, the researchers suggest.
Attractiveness--for men or women--can be objectified by a computer and boiled down to a function of mathematical distances or ratios, Cohen-Or said, admitting that the work is likely to be controversial. "Beauty can be quantified by mathematical measurements and ratios. It can be definedas average distances between features, which a majority of people agree are the most beautiful," he said. "I don't claim to know much about beauty. For us, every picture in this research project is just a collection of numbers."
Cohen-Or and colleagues asked 68 Israeli and German men and women, aged 25 to 40, to rank the beauty of 93 different men's and women's faces on a scale of 1 to 7. The scores were entered into a database and correlated to 250 different measurements and facial features, such as ratios of the nose, chin and distance from ears to eyes. From this, they created an algorithm of "desirable elements of attractiveness" that then spits out the new you.
The beauty machine is more subtle than a typical Photoshop makeover. The machine does not seem to work so well on celebrities, however. "We've run the faces of people like Brigitte Bardot and Woody Allen through the machine and most people are very Unhappy with the results," Cohen-Or said. "But in unfamiliar faces, most would agree the output is better."
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
What is said about the "beauty machine" in the first paragraph?
A．It can be used by any person who wants herself/ himself to be beautifu
B．It can just help editors make more beautiful picture
C．It can lead plastic surgeons achieve a better result in a patien
D．It can be used in digital camera to make us more beautiful no
3、根据以下资料，回答题。
What do we know about the unmarried men，according to the last sentence of the first paragraph？
A． A)They got a 16%increase in household incom
B． B)They got a 16%decrease l’n household incom
C． C)Only16%of them were in financial difficult
D． D)Only16%of them earned more than in 1970．
填空题
4、But for____________.(他们过高估计了房价)，their investment of this year should have been profitable．
5、He made such a contribution to the town that____________________ (以他的名字为其中一条路命名)．
6、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
7、What is the practical value of Cerling’s research?
A．It helps analyze the quality of water in different regions.
B．It helps the police determine where a crime is committed.
C．It helps the police narrow down possibilities in detective work.
D．It helps identify the drinking habits of the person under investigation.
8、 It is impossible mat_____________________(她能按时还钱)．
9、 To such___________ (她的讲话时间太长了)that many people left half way through the lecture．
10、No one had told Smith about__________(第二天有一场讲座)．
1、根据以下资料，回答题：
Section A
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 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Women in 2011 made no significant gains in winning more top US business jobs, according to a study, but he head of the study said women are poised to make 47 in the year ahead.
The number of women who were board directors, corporate officers or top earners at Fortune 500 companies remained 48 unchanged, said the study by Catalyst, a nonprofit group that 49 opportunities for women in business.
The percentage of companies with women on the board of directors was 15.1 percent this year, compared with 14.8 percent in 2010, Catalyst said.
Also, the percentage of corporate officer positions 50 by women was 15.7 percent in 2011 and 15.4 percent in 2010, it said. The percentage of top earners in 2011 who were women was 6.2 percent, compared to 6.7 percent in 2010, it said.
The research on the Fortune 500 companies was 51 on data as of March 31, 2011. The slight changes in the numbers are not considered 52 significant, Catalyst said.
Nevertheless, given the changes in U.S. politics, the future for women in business looks more 53 , said Ilene Lang, president and chief executive 54 of Catalyst.
"Overall we're 55 to see change next year," Lang said. "When we look at shareholders, decision makers,the general public, they're looking for change. "
"What they're basically saying is, 'Don't give us 56 of the status quo(现状). Get new ideas in there, get some fresh faces.'" she said.
A．officer I．essentially
B．changes J．strides
C．based K．promotes
D．positions L．statistically
E．more M．confused
F．promising N．held
G．businesslike O．expecting
H．surveying
47._________________
2、Questions are based on the following passage.Researchers have created a "beauty machine" they say can turn a woman's photo into the likeness of a cover model with the push of a button. The goal is not just to toy with pictures. Sure, the new computer software could help editors distort
magazine cover photos even more than they already do. But it could also guide plastic surgeons ( 整形医师) in efforts to achieve some perceived level of perfection in a patient. Or the software might even be incorporated into future digital cameras to make us all appear gorgeous, the researchers suggest.
Attractiveness--for men or women--can be objectified by a computer and boiled down to a function of mathematical distances or ratios, Cohen-Or said, admitting that the work is likely to be controversial. "Beauty can be quantified by mathematical measurements and ratios. It can be definedas average distances between features, which a majority of people agree are the most beautiful," he said. "I don't claim to know much about beauty. For us, every picture in this research project is just a collection of numbers."
Cohen-Or and colleagues asked 68 Israeli and German men and women, aged 25 to 40, to rank the beauty of 93 different men's and women's faces on a scale of 1 to 7. The scores were entered into a database and correlated to 250 different measurements and facial features, such as ratios of the nose, chin and distance from ears to eyes. From this, they created an algorithm of "desirable elements of attractiveness" that then spits out the new you.
The beauty machine is more subtle than a typical Photoshop makeover. The machine does not seem to work so well on celebrities, however. "We've run the faces of people like Brigitte Bardot and Woody Allen through the machine and most people are very Unhappy with the results," Cohen-Or said. "But in unfamiliar faces, most would agree the output is better."
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
What is said about the "beauty machine" in the first paragraph?
A．It can be used by any person who wants herself/ himself to be beautifu
B．It can just help editors make more beautiful picture
C．It can lead plastic surgeons achieve a better result in a patien
D．It can be used in digital camera to make us more beautiful no
3、根据以下资料，回答题。
What do we know about the unmarried men，according to the last sentence of the first paragraph？
A． A)They got a 16%increase in household incom
B． B)They got a 16%decrease l’n household incom
C． C)Only16%of them were in financial difficult
D． D)Only16%of them earned more than in 1970．
填空题
4、But for____________.(他们过高估计了房价)，their investment of this year should have been profitable．
5、He made such a contribution to the town that____________________ (以他的名字为其中一条路命名)．
6、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
7、What is the practical value of Cerling’s research?
A．It helps analyze the quality of water in different regions.
B．It helps the police determine where a crime is committed.
C．It helps the police narrow down possibilities in detective work.
D．It helps identify the drinking habits of the person under investigation.
8、 It is impossible mat_____________________(她能按时还钱)．
9、 To such___________ (她的讲话时间太长了)that many people left half way through the lecture．
10、No one had told Smith about__________(第二天有一场讲座)．
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