2015年英语四级考试每日一练(6月4日)
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单项选择题
1、Questions are based on the following passage．
Energy independence．It has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? If you think so, you're not alone, because energy independence has been the dream of American presidents for decades, and never more so than in the past few years, when the most recent oil price shock has been partly responsible for kicking off the great recession．
“Energy independence” and its rhetorical(修辞的) companion “energy security', are, however, slippery concepts that are rarely thought through．What is it we want independence from, exactly?
Most people would probably say that they want tobe independent from imported oil．But there are reasons that we buy all that off from elsewhere．
The first reason is that we need it to keep our economy running．Yes, there is a trickle (涓涓细流)of biofuel (生物燃料) available, and more may become available, but most biofueis cause economic wasteand environmental destruction．
Second, Americans have basically decided that they don't really want to produce all their Own oil．They value the environmental quality they preserve, over their off imports from abroad．Vast areas of the United States are off-limits to off exploration and production in the name of environmental protection．To what extent are Americans really willing to endure the environmental impacts of domestic energy production in order to cut back imports?
Third, there are benefits to trade．It allows for economic efficiency, and when we buy things from places that have lower production costs than we do, we benefit．And although you don't read about this much, the United States is also a large exporter of off products, selling about 2 million barrels of petroleum products per day to about 90 countries．
There is no question that the United States imports a great deal of energy and, in fact, relies on that steady flow to maintain its economy．When that flow is interrupted, we feel the pain in short supplies and higher prices．At the same time, we derive massive economic benefits when we buy the most affordable energy on the world market and when we engage in energy trade around the world．
What does the author say about energy independence for America?
A．It sounds very attractive．
B．It ensures national security．
C．It will bring oil prices down．
D．It has long been everyone's dream．
2、Questions are based on the following passage.
What is it about Americans and food? We love to eat, but we feel 36 __ about it afterward. We say we want only the best, but we strangely enjoy junk food. We' re(37) __ with health and weight loss but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity. Perhaps the (38) __ to this ambivalence lies in our history. The first Europeans came to this continent searching for new spices but went in vain. The first cash crop wasn't eaten but smoked. Then there was Prohibition, intended to prohibit drinking but actually encouraging more (39) __ ways of doing it.
The immigrant experience, too, has been one of in harmony. Do as Romans do means eating what" real Americans" eat, but our nation's food has come to be(40) __ by imports--pizza, say, or hot dogs. And some of the country's most treasured cooking comes from people who arrived here in shackles.
Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food has been a medium for the nation's defining struggles, whether at the Boston Tea Party or the sit-ins at southern lunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of health and even morality whether one refrains from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat for political(41) __
But strong opinions have not brought(42) __. Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become43of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain.
The(44) __ in food is still prosperous in the American consciousness. It's no coincidence, then, that the first Thanksgiving holds the American imagination in such bondage( 束缚 ). It's what we eat--and how we(45) __ it with friends.
A． answer
B． results
C．share
D．guilty
E．constant
F．defined
G．vanish
H．adapted
I．creative
J．belief
K．suspicious
L．certainty
M．obsessed
N．identify
O．ideals
第(36)题应填__________
3、根据材料，回答问题。
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
A．They took objective tests.
B．They specialized in one subject.
C．They spoke instead of writing.
D．They were timed by electric clocks.
4、根据材料，回答问题。
Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it, and the business of trying it on proceeds at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone's satisfaction.
For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have eactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else--he offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute bluntly; he does so with skill and polish. "I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the color you mentioned. " Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: "This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on. "
Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way.
Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only"having a look around". She is always open to persuasion; indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the look-out for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another, to and fro, often retracing her steps,before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a laborious process, but apparently an enjoyable one. So most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.
When a man is buying clothes, __________.
A．he chooses things that others recormnend
B．he buys cheap things, regardless of quality
C．he buys good things, so long as they are not too expensive
D．he does not mind how much he has to pay for the right things
简答题
5、中国戏曲是中国戏剧和音乐剧的结合。其起源可追溯到3世纪。中国戏曲有很多地方剧分支。京剧是其中有名的一个。京剧出现于18世纪末，并于l9世纪中期得到充分发展和认可。京剧在清朝宫廷{the qing Dy-nasty court}特别受欢迎，并已被视为中国的文化珍品之一。中国戏曲会用到面具。面具的每种颜色代表不同的含义，用来表现人物角色，说明他们的情感状态和大致性格。
6、听录音，回答题
Some years ago, an American policeman found a woman lying near a lonely road. She did not appear to have had an (26) __ But she was (27) __ and clearly in a state of shock. So he (28) __ her to the nearest hospital. She began to tell the doctor on duty the story which was astonishing and (29) __ She had been driving along a country road when she had been stopped by a flying saucer landing in front of her. She had been forced to leave the car and enter the flying saucer by (30) __ which looked like human beings and which could easily make themselves understood although they could not speak. It was as though they could read her thoughts and she could read theirs. They (31) __ her politely and allowed her to leave after carrying out a number of tests on her. As she otherwise seems to be (32) __, the doctor decided that she was probably(33) __ from the side effects of some drug. The woman insisted on being allowed to go home. But when she gave her address, it was in a town over (34) __ from the hospital.
The police ' then started to make inquiries and soon discovered that there was already a search going on for the woman, whose husband had reported that she had disappeared. Her car had been found with the driver's door open and the engine running. In front of the car, the surface of the road had been completely destroyed--not by an explosion or anything of that kind, but (35) __ a large, circular, white, hot object had burned through it.
第(26)题__________
7、中华民族是由五十六个民族(nationalities)组成的大家庭。从遥远的古代起，我国各族人民就建立起了紧密的政治经济文化联系，并共同开发了祖国的大好河山，两千多年前就形成了幅员广阔的统一国家。悠久的中国文化，成为维系民族团结和国家统一的牢固纽带。团结统一，深深印在了中国人的民族意识中。
8、Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
逆境(adversity)就是人在生活中遇到的困难和遭受的挫折(setback)。人生在世，每个人都会遇到逆境，它在人们的成长和成熟的过程中起着重要作用。人们看待它的态度决定了它对人们的影响。用积极的态度看待逆境，我们的性格会变得成熟。因此逆境其实是一种挑战和考验，它能使人的潜力发挥到。它能帮人驱走惰性，在与困难进行的搏斗中完善自己，这就是逆境的意义所在!
9、剪纸和所有中国民间的手工艺术是一样的，都有着悠久的历史和文化积淀。剪纸起源于中国。在很早的时候就已经有了剪纸艺术，即使那个时候纸张还没有被发明出来。逢年过节，家家户户都会给自己的门窗上粘贴上漂亮的窗花剪纸(paper-cut decorat i ons)。剪纸因为其所用材料的低廉。所以使其得以在民间广为流传。剪纸所表现的题材反映了广大劳动人民基本的愿望和对未来美好生活的向往。
10、You shouM write a short essay on the topic ofstudents selecting their lecturers．
写作导航
1．引出现象：有些大学允许学生自由选择某些课程的任课教师；
2．指出学生选择教师时所考虑的主要因素。
3．点明学生自选任课教师的益处和可能产生的问题。
1、Questions are based on the following passage．
Energy independence．It has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? If you think so, you're not alone, because energy independence has been the dream of American presidents for decades, and never more so than in the past few years, when the most recent oil price shock has been partly responsible for kicking off the great recession．
“Energy independence” and its rhetorical(修辞的) companion “energy security', are, however, slippery concepts that are rarely thought through．What is it we want independence from, exactly?
Most people would probably say that they want tobe independent from imported oil．But there are reasons that we buy all that off from elsewhere．
The first reason is that we need it to keep our economy running．Yes, there is a trickle (涓涓细流)of biofuel (生物燃料) available, and more may become available, but most biofueis cause economic wasteand environmental destruction．
Second, Americans have basically decided that they don't really want to produce all their Own oil．They value the environmental quality they preserve, over their off imports from abroad．Vast areas of the United States are off-limits to off exploration and production in the name of environmental protection．To what extent are Americans really willing to endure the environmental impacts of domestic energy production in order to cut back imports?
Third, there are benefits to trade．It allows for economic efficiency, and when we buy things from places that have lower production costs than we do, we benefit．And although you don't read about this much, the United States is also a large exporter of off products, selling about 2 million barrels of petroleum products per day to about 90 countries．
There is no question that the United States imports a great deal of energy and, in fact, relies on that steady flow to maintain its economy．When that flow is interrupted, we feel the pain in short supplies and higher prices．At the same time, we derive massive economic benefits when we buy the most affordable energy on the world market and when we engage in energy trade around the world．
What does the author say about energy independence for America?
A．It sounds very attractive．
B．It ensures national security．
C．It will bring oil prices down．
D．It has long been everyone's dream．
2、Questions are based on the following passage.
What is it about Americans and food? We love to eat, but we feel 36 __ about it afterward. We say we want only the best, but we strangely enjoy junk food. We' re(37) __ with health and weight loss but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity. Perhaps the (38) __ to this ambivalence lies in our history. The first Europeans came to this continent searching for new spices but went in vain. The first cash crop wasn't eaten but smoked. Then there was Prohibition, intended to prohibit drinking but actually encouraging more (39) __ ways of doing it.
The immigrant experience, too, has been one of in harmony. Do as Romans do means eating what" real Americans" eat, but our nation's food has come to be(40) __ by imports--pizza, say, or hot dogs. And some of the country's most treasured cooking comes from people who arrived here in shackles.
Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food has been a medium for the nation's defining struggles, whether at the Boston Tea Party or the sit-ins at southern lunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of health and even morality whether one refrains from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat for political(41) __
But strong opinions have not brought(42) __. Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become43of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain.
The(44) __ in food is still prosperous in the American consciousness. It's no coincidence, then, that the first Thanksgiving holds the American imagination in such bondage( 束缚 ). It's what we eat--and how we(45) __ it with friends.
A． answer
B． results
C．share
D．guilty
E．constant
F．defined
G．vanish
H．adapted
I．creative
J．belief
K．suspicious
L．certainty
M．obsessed
N．identify
O．ideals
第(36)题应填__________
3、根据材料，回答问题。
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
A．They took objective tests.
B．They specialized in one subject.
C．They spoke instead of writing.
D．They were timed by electric clocks.
4、根据材料，回答问题。
Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it, and the business of trying it on proceeds at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone's satisfaction.
For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have eactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else--he offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute bluntly; he does so with skill and polish. "I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the color you mentioned. " Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: "This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on. "
Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way.
Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only"having a look around". She is always open to persuasion; indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the look-out for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another, to and fro, often retracing her steps,before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a laborious process, but apparently an enjoyable one. So most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.
When a man is buying clothes, __________.
A．he chooses things that others recormnend
B．he buys cheap things, regardless of quality
C．he buys good things, so long as they are not too expensive
D．he does not mind how much he has to pay for the right things
简答题
5、中国戏曲是中国戏剧和音乐剧的结合。其起源可追溯到3世纪。中国戏曲有很多地方剧分支。京剧是其中有名的一个。京剧出现于18世纪末，并于l9世纪中期得到充分发展和认可。京剧在清朝宫廷{the qing Dy-nasty court}特别受欢迎，并已被视为中国的文化珍品之一。中国戏曲会用到面具。面具的每种颜色代表不同的含义，用来表现人物角色，说明他们的情感状态和大致性格。
6、听录音，回答题
Some years ago, an American policeman found a woman lying near a lonely road. She did not appear to have had an (26) __ But she was (27) __ and clearly in a state of shock. So he (28) __ her to the nearest hospital. She began to tell the doctor on duty the story which was astonishing and (29) __ She had been driving along a country road when she had been stopped by a flying saucer landing in front of her. She had been forced to leave the car and enter the flying saucer by (30) __ which looked like human beings and which could easily make themselves understood although they could not speak. It was as though they could read her thoughts and she could read theirs. They (31) __ her politely and allowed her to leave after carrying out a number of tests on her. As she otherwise seems to be (32) __, the doctor decided that she was probably(33) __ from the side effects of some drug. The woman insisted on being allowed to go home. But when she gave her address, it was in a town over (34) __ from the hospital.
The police ' then started to make inquiries and soon discovered that there was already a search going on for the woman, whose husband had reported that she had disappeared. Her car had been found with the driver's door open and the engine running. In front of the car, the surface of the road had been completely destroyed--not by an explosion or anything of that kind, but (35) __ a large, circular, white, hot object had burned through it.
第(26)题__________
7、中华民族是由五十六个民族(nationalities)组成的大家庭。从遥远的古代起，我国各族人民就建立起了紧密的政治经济文化联系，并共同开发了祖国的大好河山，两千多年前就形成了幅员广阔的统一国家。悠久的中国文化，成为维系民族团结和国家统一的牢固纽带。团结统一，深深印在了中国人的民族意识中。
8、Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
逆境(adversity)就是人在生活中遇到的困难和遭受的挫折(setback)。人生在世，每个人都会遇到逆境，它在人们的成长和成熟的过程中起着重要作用。人们看待它的态度决定了它对人们的影响。用积极的态度看待逆境，我们的性格会变得成熟。因此逆境其实是一种挑战和考验，它能使人的潜力发挥到。它能帮人驱走惰性，在与困难进行的搏斗中完善自己，这就是逆境的意义所在!
9、剪纸和所有中国民间的手工艺术是一样的，都有着悠久的历史和文化积淀。剪纸起源于中国。在很早的时候就已经有了剪纸艺术，即使那个时候纸张还没有被发明出来。逢年过节，家家户户都会给自己的门窗上粘贴上漂亮的窗花剪纸(paper-cut decorat i ons)。剪纸因为其所用材料的低廉。所以使其得以在民间广为流传。剪纸所表现的题材反映了广大劳动人民基本的愿望和对未来美好生活的向往。
10、You shouM write a short essay on the topic ofstudents selecting their lecturers．
写作导航
1．引出现象：有些大学允许学生自由选择某些课程的任课教师；
2．指出学生选择教师时所考虑的主要因素。
3．点明学生自选任课教师的益处和可能产生的问题。
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