2015年英语四级考试每日一练(5月22日)
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1、根据材料,回答问题。
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
In the second half of the twentieth century, many countries of the South ( 发展中国家) began to send students to the industrialized countries for further education. They urgently needed supplies of highly trained personnel to implement a concept of development based on modernization.
But many of these students decided to stay on in the developed countries when they had finished their training. At the same time, many professionals who did return home but no longer felt at ease there also decided to go back to the countries where they had studied.
In the 1960s, some Latin American countries tried to solve this problem by setting up special "return" programs to encourage their professionals to come back home. These programs received support from international bodies such as the International Organization for Migration, which in 1974 enabled over 1,600 qualified scientistsand technicians to return to Latin America.
In the 1980s and 1990s, "temporary return" programs were set up in order to make the best use of trained personnel occupying strategic positions in the developed countries. This gave rise to the United Nations Development Program's Transfer of Knowledge through Expatriate ( 移居国外的 ) Nationals, which encourages technicians and scientists to work in their own countries for short periods. But the brain drain (人才流失) fromthese countries may well increase in response to the new laws of the international market in knowledge.
Recent studies forecast that the most developed countries are going to need more and more highly qualified professionals around twice as many as their educational systems will be able to produce, or so it is thought. As a result there is an urgent need for developing countries which send students abroad to give preference to fields where they need competent people to give muscle to their own institutions, instead of encouraging the training of people who may not come back because there are no professional outlets for them. And the countries of the South must not be content with institutional structures that simply take back professionals sent abroad, they must introduce flexible administrative procedures to encourage them to return. If they do not do this, the brain drain is bound to continue.
Which of the following is NOT correct according to the passage?
A.The developing countries believe that sending students to the industrialized countries is a good way to meet their own needs for modernization.
B.The South American countries have been sending students to developed countries since the 1920s.
C.Many people trained abroad remain in the developed countries instead of coming back to serve their home countries.
D.The International Organization for Migration successfully helped more than 1,600 professionals to return to their own countries in a single year.
2、根据材料,回答 问题。
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., 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.
Passage One
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
Fried foods have long been frowned upon. Nevertheless, the skillet (长柄平底煎锅) is about our handiest and most useful piece of kitchen equipment. Strong woodcutters and others engaged in active labor requiring 4,000calories per day or more will take approximately one-third of their rations prepared in this fashion. Meat, eggs, and French toast cooked in this way are served in millions of homes daily. Apparently the consumers are not beset with more signs of indigestion than afflicted by those who insist upon broiling, roasting, or boiling. Some years ago one of our most eminent physiologists investigated the digestibility of fried potatoes. He found that the pan variety was more easily broken down for assimilation than when deep fat was employed. The latter, however, dissolved within the alimentary tract ( 消化道 ) more readily than the boiled type. Furthermore, he learned, by watching the progress of the contents of the stomach by means of the fluoroscope (荧光检查仪), that fat actually accelerated the rate of digestion. Now all this is quite in contrast with "authority". Volumes have been written on nutrition, and everywhere the dictum ( 权威意见) has been accepted--no fried edibles of any sort for children. A few will go so tar as to forbid this style of cooking wholly. Now and then an expert will be bold enough to admit that he uses them himself, the absence of discomfort being explained on the ground that he possesses a powerful gastric ( 胃的 )apparatus. We can of course sizzle perfectly good articles to death so that they will be leathery and tough. But thorough heating, in the presence of shortening, is not the awful crime that it has been labeled. Such dishes stimulate rather than retard contractions of the gall bladder. Thus it is that bile ( 胆汁 ) mixes with the nutriment shortly after it leaves the stomach.
We don't need to allow our foodstuffs to become oil soaked, but other than that, there seems to be no basis for the widely heralded prohibition against this method. But notions become fixed. The first condemnation probably rose because an "oracle" ( 圣贤) suffered from dyspepsia (消化不良) which he ascribed to some fried item on the menu. The theory spread. Others agreed with him, and after a time the doctrine became incorporated in our textbooks. The belief is now tradition rather than proved fact. It should have been refuted long since, as experience has demonstrated its falsity.
This passage focuses on__________.
A.why the skillet is a handy piece of kitchen equipment
B.the digestibility of fried foods
C.how the experts can mislead the public in the area of food preparation
D.why fried foods have long been frowned upon
3、Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
A.The head of the Alumni Office.
B.A doctor.
C.A professor of business administration.
D.A student from last year's program.
4、
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A.,B., C.and D., and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
A.He is very quiet.
B.He gives amusing lectures.
C.He should give more than one series of talks.
D.He lectures only to the serious students.
5、听音频:
根据以下资料,回答题:
A.Because he iS preparing for a glohal tour.
B.Because he is preparing for a geography class.
C.Because he wants to find the location of China.
D.Because he wants to draw a picture of all the countries.
6、根据下面文章,回答题。
Public colleges must be stewards(管家)of the public’s trust and of students’ and taxpayers’dollars.They should be(36)__________for containing costs and for spending on what matters most:prepanng students to be active learners,career-ready and engaged citizens.Public colleges are using myriad strategies to cut costs and keep college(37)__________.These include(38)__________administrative expenses;eliminating low-enrollment programs and student support services;and achieving cost savings in energy management and employee health care.
Fast-rising tuition increases may make it seem that institutional spendiiIg is out of(39)__________.However,public colleges’collective(40)__________per fulltime student has actually been flat in recent years.
The primary reason for escalating(逐步上升)tuition prices has been the state-to-student cost shift that has taken place in who pays for a public higher education.States have gradually(41)__________from their public higher education systems.with families picking up more of me tab through tuition increases.Institutions have first turned to reducing spending,only raising tuition prices to(42)__________academic quality.
The best way to mitigate future tuition increases is for state leaders to reinvest in public higher education.With the Great Recession finally behind us—during which states dramatically reduced(43)__________for public colleges and universities— state leaders started reinvesting in public higher education this year,providing a nearly 6% increase in funding.
Maintaining(44)__________to afrordable public colleges is paramount to our nailon’s economic security, social equity and civic vibrancy.It is(45)__________
upon state government,together with public colleges and universities,to ensure this happens.
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
A.raise
B.disinvested
C.fair
D.reducing
E.reinvest
F.affordable
G.tuition
H.accountable
I.afford
J.funding
K.incumbent
L.maintain
M.access
N.control
O.spending
第36题应填__________
填空题
7、 __________
简答题
8、新疆民族工艺品和地方土特产历史悠久,品种繁多,具有独特的民族风格,深受中外游客的喜爱。新疆和田玉(Hotan jade)石中华民族的瑰宝,曾几次提名要作为中国的“国石”。早在新石器时代(NeoI ithic Age),昆仑山下的祖先们就发现了和田玉,并作为瑰宝和友谊媒介向东西方运送和交流,形成了我国古老的和田玉运输通道“玉石之路”,即后来的“丝绸之路”的前身。
9、世界文化遗产——龙门石窟(Longmen Grottoes),是我国三大佛教石窟艺术宝库之一。龙门石窟自北魏孝文帝迁都洛阳开始动工,历经400多年的雕刻,现存窟龛2300多个,雕像10万余尊,碑刻题记30多万字。龙门石窟以大量的实物形象和文字资料从不同侧面反映了中国古代政治、经济、宗教、文化等许多领域的发展变化,对中国石窟艺术的创新和发展做出了重大贡献。
10、You shouM write a short essay entitled Creating a Green Campus.
写作导航
1.建设绿色校园十分重要;
2.绿色校园不仅指绿色环境;
3.为了建设绿色校园我们应该采取的措施。
1、根据材料,回答问题。
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
In the second half of the twentieth century, many countries of the South ( 发展中国家) began to send students to the industrialized countries for further education. They urgently needed supplies of highly trained personnel to implement a concept of development based on modernization.
But many of these students decided to stay on in the developed countries when they had finished their training. At the same time, many professionals who did return home but no longer felt at ease there also decided to go back to the countries where they had studied.
In the 1960s, some Latin American countries tried to solve this problem by setting up special "return" programs to encourage their professionals to come back home. These programs received support from international bodies such as the International Organization for Migration, which in 1974 enabled over 1,600 qualified scientistsand technicians to return to Latin America.
In the 1980s and 1990s, "temporary return" programs were set up in order to make the best use of trained personnel occupying strategic positions in the developed countries. This gave rise to the United Nations Development Program's Transfer of Knowledge through Expatriate ( 移居国外的 ) Nationals, which encourages technicians and scientists to work in their own countries for short periods. But the brain drain (人才流失) fromthese countries may well increase in response to the new laws of the international market in knowledge.
Recent studies forecast that the most developed countries are going to need more and more highly qualified professionals around twice as many as their educational systems will be able to produce, or so it is thought. As a result there is an urgent need for developing countries which send students abroad to give preference to fields where they need competent people to give muscle to their own institutions, instead of encouraging the training of people who may not come back because there are no professional outlets for them. And the countries of the South must not be content with institutional structures that simply take back professionals sent abroad, they must introduce flexible administrative procedures to encourage them to return. If they do not do this, the brain drain is bound to continue.
Which of the following is NOT correct according to the passage?
A.The developing countries believe that sending students to the industrialized countries is a good way to meet their own needs for modernization.
B.The South American countries have been sending students to developed countries since the 1920s.
C.Many people trained abroad remain in the developed countries instead of coming back to serve their home countries.
D.The International Organization for Migration successfully helped more than 1,600 professionals to return to their own countries in a single year.
2、
This passage focuses on__________.
A.why the skillet is a handy piece of kitchen equipment
B.the digestibility of fried foods
C.how the experts can mislead the public in the area of food preparation
D.why fried foods have long been frowned upon
3、Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
A.The head of the Alumni Office.
B.A doctor.
C.A professor of business administration.
D.A student from last year's program.
4、
听音频:
听句子,回答问题。Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A.,B., C.and D., and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
A.He is very quiet.
B.He gives amusing lectures.
C.He should give more than one series of talks.
D.He lectures only to the serious students.
5、听音频:
点击播放
根据以下资料,回答题:
A.Because he iS preparing for a glohal tour.
B.Because he is preparing for a geography class.
C.Because he wants to find the location of China.
D.Because he wants to draw a picture of all the countries.
6、根据下面文章,回答题。
Public colleges must be stewards(管家)of the public’s trust and of students’ and taxpayers’dollars.They should be(36)__________for containing costs and for spending on what matters most:prepanng students to be active learners,career-ready and engaged citizens.Public colleges are using myriad strategies to cut costs and keep college(37)__________.These include(38)__________administrative expenses;eliminating low-enrollment programs and student support services;and achieving cost savings in energy management and employee health care.
Fast-rising tuition increases may make it seem that institutional spendiiIg is out of(39)__________.However,public colleges’collective(40)__________per fulltime student has actually been flat in recent years.
The primary reason for escalating(逐步上升)tuition prices has been the state-to-student cost shift that has taken place in who pays for a public higher education.States have gradually(41)__________from their public higher education systems.with families picking up more of me tab through tuition increases.Institutions have first turned to reducing spending,only raising tuition prices to(42)__________academic quality.
The best way to mitigate future tuition increases is for state leaders to reinvest in public higher education.With the Great Recession finally behind us—during which states dramatically reduced(43)__________for public colleges and universities— state leaders started reinvesting in public higher education this year,providing a nearly 6% increase in funding.
Maintaining(44)__________to afrordable public colleges is paramount to our nailon’s economic security, social equity and civic vibrancy.It is(45)__________
upon state government,together with public colleges and universities,to ensure this happens.
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
A.raise
B.disinvested
C.fair
D.reducing
E.reinvest
F.affordable
G.tuition
H.accountable
I.afford
J.funding
K.incumbent
L.maintain
M.access
N.control
O.spending
第36题应填__________
填空题
7、 __________
简答题
8、新疆民族工艺品和地方土特产历史悠久,品种繁多,具有独特的民族风格,深受中外游客的喜爱。新疆和田玉(Hotan jade)石中华民族的瑰宝,曾几次提名要作为中国的“国石”。早在新石器时代(NeoI ithic Age),昆仑山下的祖先们就发现了和田玉,并作为瑰宝和友谊媒介向东西方运送和交流,形成了我国古老的和田玉运输通道“玉石之路”,即后来的“丝绸之路”的前身。
9、世界文化遗产——龙门石窟(Longmen Grottoes),是我国三大佛教石窟艺术宝库之一。龙门石窟自北魏孝文帝迁都洛阳开始动工,历经400多年的雕刻,现存窟龛2300多个,雕像10万余尊,碑刻题记30多万字。龙门石窟以大量的实物形象和文字资料从不同侧面反映了中国古代政治、经济、宗教、文化等许多领域的发展变化,对中国石窟艺术的创新和发展做出了重大贡献。
10、You shouM write a short essay entitled Creating a Green Campus.
写作导航
1.建设绿色校园十分重要;
2.绿色校园不仅指绿色环境;
3.为了建设绿色校园我们应该采取的措施。
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