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2015年英语四级考试每日一练(9月17日)

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1、听录音,回答题

A.To make a business report to the woman.
B.To be interviewed for a job in the woman's company.
C.To resign from his position in the woman's company.
D.To exchange stock market information with the woman.


2、根据材料,回答问题。
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 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
Nearly a third of women are the main breadwinners in their household in Britain, according to a major survey.
Researchers said that in many relationships it was no longer assumed that the man would bring in the bigger income, 36in a time of widespread redundancies (裁员).
In a37 shift in attitudes, four out of ten women said that the career of whichever partner had the highest income would take38in the relationship.
In one in ten families, a house husband looks after the children and does the39while their female partner works full time.
Ten percent of women admitted this role 40 had put strains on their relationship and some said it had even led to them41 company.
The Women and Work Survey 2010, commissioned (受……委托) by Grazia magazine, found that almost half of full-time mothers42not earning their own money.
And two thirds of the mothers among the 2,000 women in the survey said they wanted to keep working insome way after having children.
A43 higher number of those with children under three said they would prefer to work--preferably part-time--rather than stay at home.
Victoria Harper of Grazia said,"Women are getting good jobs when they graduate, and working up the career44faster than they have ever done."
This means that there has to be more45between the roles of men and women in a relationship and when they have children.
A. precedence
B. connection
C. prospect
D. slightly
E. ladder
F. favored
G. plan
H. reversal
I. especially
J. parting
K. opposite
L. chores
M. disliked
N. fluidity
O. significant
36.__________


3、根据材料,回答问题。
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.
You may choose a para'graph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
Green Growth
A. The enrichment of previously poor countries is the most inspiring development of our time. It is also worrying. The environment is already under strain. What willhappen when the global population rises from 7 billion today to 9.3 billion in 2050, as demographers(人口统计学家) expect, and a growing proportion of these people can'afford goods that were once reserved for the elite? Can the planet support so much economic activity?
B .Many policymakers adopt a top-down and Western-centfic approach to such planetary problems. They discuss ambitious regulations in global forums, or look to giant multinationals and well-heeled (富有的) NGOs to set an example. But since most people live in the emerging world, it makes sense to look at what successful companies there are doing to make growth more sustainable.
C. A new study by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) identifies 16 emerging-market firms that they say are turning eco-consciousness into a source of competitive advantage. These highly profitable companies (which the study calls "the new sustainability champions") are using greenery to reduce costs, motivate workers and forge relationships. Their home-grown ideas will probably be easier for their peers to copy than anything cooked up in the West.
D. The most outstanding quality of these companies is that they turn limitationsof resources, labor and infrastructure) into opportunities. Thus, India's Shree Cement, which has tong suffered from water shortages, developed the world's most water-efficient method for making cement, in part by using air-cooling rather than water-cooling. Manila Water, a utility in the Philippines, reduced the amount of water it was losing, through wastage and illegal tapping, from 63% in 1997 to 12% in 2010 by making water affordable for the poor.
Broad Group, a Chinese maker of air conditioners, taps the waste heat from buildings to power its machines. Zhangzidao Fishery Group, a Chinese aquaculture (水产养殖) company, recycles uneaten fish feed to fertilize crops.
E.Setting green goals is a common practice. Sekem, an Egyptian food producer, set itself the task of reclaiming ( 开垦) desert land through organic farming. Florida Ice & Farm, a Costa Rican food and drink company, has adopted strict standards for the amount of water it can consume in producing drinks.
F.These firms measure themselves by their greenery, too. Florida Ice & Farm, for example, links 60% of its boss's pay to the triple bottom line of "people, planet and profit". The sustainability champions also encourage their workers to come up with green ideas. Natura, a Brazilian cosmetics company, gives bonuses to staff who find ways to reduce the firm's impact on the environment. Masisa, a Chilean forestry company, invites employees to "imagine unimaginable businesses" aimed at poorer consumers. Woolworths, a South African retailer, claims that many of its best green ideas have come from staff, not bosses.
G.In emerging markets it is hard for companies to stick to one specialism, because they have to worry about so many wider problems, from humble infrastructure to unreliable supply chains. So the sustainability champions seek to shape the business environment in which they operate. They lobby (游说) regulators: Grupo Balbo, a Brazilian organic-sugar producer, is working with the Brazilian government to establish a certification system for organic products. They form partnerships with governments and NGOs. Kenya's Equity Bank has formed an alliance with groups such as The International Fund for Agricultural Development to reduce its risks when lending to smallholders. Natura has worked with its suppliers to produce sustainable packaging, including a new "green" plastic derived from sugar cane.
H. The firms also work hard to reach and educate poor consumers, often sacrificing short-term profits to create future markets. Masisa organizes local carpenters into networks and connects them to low-income furniture buyers. Broad Group has developed a miniature device for measuring air pollution that can fit into mobile phones. Jain Irrigation, an Indian maker of irrigation systems, uses dance and song to explain the benefits of drip irrigation to farmers who can't read. Suntech, a Chinese solar-power company, has established a low- carbon museum to celebrate ways of reducing carbon-dioxide emissions.
Rich became green, or green became rich?
I.One could quibble (争辩)with BCG's analysis. Phil Rosenzweig of Switzerland's IMD business school has argued that management writers are prone to "the halo effect": they treat the temporary success of a company as proof that it has discovered some eternal principle of good management. The fact that some successful companies have embraced greenery does not prove that greenery makes a firm successful. Some firms, having prospered, find they can afford to splurge ( 挥霍) on greenery. Some successful firrns pursue greenery for public-relations purposes. And for every sustainable emerging champion, there are surely 100 firms that have prospered by belching ( 喷出 ) fumes into the air or pumping toxins into rivers.
J.Nonetheless, the central message of the WEF-BCG study--that some of the best emerging-world companies are combining profits with greenery--is thought-provoking. Many critics of environmentalism argue that it is a rich-world luxury: that the poor need adequate food before they need super-clean air. Some even see greenery as a rich-world conspiracy ( 阴谋): the West grew rich by industrializing (and polluting ), but now wants to stop the rest of the world from following suit. The WEF-BCG report demonstrates that such fears are overblown. Emerging-world companies can be just as green as their Western rivals. Many have found that, when natural resources are scarce and consumers are cash-strapped ( 资金短缺的 ), greenery can be a lucrative(利润丰厚的) business strategy.
An air-conditioner manufacturer uses the waste heat from buildings to supply its machines with power.


4、 根据以下资料,回答题:
Questions 61 to 65 are based on thefollowingpassage.
Milleunials(千禧一代)have a reputation for being pretty savvy(聪慧的)with technology and social media——not to mention their finances----一but today’s young adults are clueless when it comes to knowledge of their credit.
A new study conducted by the Consumer Federation of America and VantageScore Solutions finds that 18-34 year-olds lag behind older Americans on credit knowledge.Not that older generations are whiz kids when it comes to credit——just over 40%of consumers surveyed even know what their credit score measures,for instance—but millennials have the dubious distinction(区别)of being even less-informed than other age groups.
Only around half of milleunials have ever even bothered to order a free copy of their credit report,as compared to about three.quarters of older people surveyed.
They’re more likely to think age plays a role in credit scoring,that the government keeps track of consumer credit data and that credit repair services can legitimately fix your credit(by and large,they Can’t).And while most of them know that a lot of credit card debt,declaring bankruptcy and missing payments can affect their credit,only 6%got everything fight when they picked from a list of factors that could potentially impact their score.
Young adults have a pretty poor grasp on how far-reaching this impact is:Only 1 8 percent knew that utility companies,cell phone carders,mortgage lenders and home insurers,landlords and credit card companies can all use a consumer’s credit when doing business with them.
They’re also unaware of the financial consequences of bad credit.just 1 5%knew that a bad credit score could cost more than$5,000 in higher interest payments over the life of a car loan.
One factor that seems to make a difference in how much credit knowledge people have is whether or not.mey’ve actually goRen their free credit report(if you’re one of the many who haven’t,you can do so at annualcreditreport.corn).Interestingly,
people who got their credit reports knew more than those who had just gotten their credit scores.
“Those who are interested in their credit reports are probably also interested in their credit scores.”CFA executive director Stephen Brobeck says in a statement.“It’s so easy to go online and get your free reports that this action likely motivates people to learn more about credit scores.”
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。.
What does the word“whiz kids”mean(Line 3.Para.2)?
A.Children who are very naughty.
B.Children who are a little dull.
C.Children who are extraordinarily smart.
D.Children who quite sensitive.


5、根据材料回答题
A.Amazon,by far the largest bookseller in the country,reported on May 19 that it is now selling more books in its electronic Kindle format than in the old paper-and.ink format.That is remarkable,considering that the Kindle has only been around for four years.E-books now account for 14 percent of All book sales in the country and are increasing far faster than overall book sales.E-book sales are up 146 percent over last year,while hardback sales increased 6 percent and paperbacks decreased 8percent.
B.Does this spell the doom of the physical book?Certainly not immediately,and perhaps not at all What it does mean is that the book business will go through a transformation in the next decade or so more profound than any it has seen since Gutenberg introduced printing from moveaB.e type in the 1450s.
C. PhysicA. books will surely become much rarer in the marketplace.Mass market paperbacks,which have been declining for years anyway,will probably disappear,as will hardbacks for mysteries,thrillers,“romance fiction.”etc.Such books,which only rarely end up in permanent collections,either private or
public.will probably only be available as e-books within a few years.Hardback and trade paperbacks for“serious”nonfiction and fiction will surely last longer.Perhaps it will become the mark of an author to reckon with that he or she is still puB.ished in hard copy.
D. As for children’s books,who knows?Children’s books are like dog food in that the purchasers are not the consumers,so the market(and the marketing)is inherently strange.
E.For clues to the book’s future,let’s look at some examples of technological change and see what happened to the old technology.
F. One technology replaces another only because the new technology is better,cheaper,or both.The greater the difference,the sooner and more thoroughly the new technology replaces the old.Printing with moveaB.e type on paper dramatically reduced the cost of producing a book compared with the old-fashioned ones handwritten on vellum,which comes from sheepskin.A Bible-to be sure,a long
Book required vellum made from 300 sheepskins and countless man-hours of labor.Before printing arrived,a BiB.e cost more than a middle-class house.There were perhaps 50.000 books in all of Europe in 1450.By l500there were 10 million.
G.But while printing quickly caused the hand written book to die out,handwriting lingered on(继续存在) well into the l 6th century.Very speciA. books are still occasionA.ly produced on vellum.but they are one—of-a-kind show pieces.
H. Sometimes a new technology doesn’t drive the old one out,but only parts of it while forcing the rest to evolve.The movies were widely predicted to drive live theater out of the marketplace,but they didn’t,because theater turned out to have quA.ities movies could not reproduce.Equally,TV was supposed to replace movies but,again,did not.
I.Movies did,however,fatally impact some parts of live theater.And while TV didn’t kill movies,it did kill second-rate pictures,shorts,and cartoons.
J. Nor did TV kill radio.Comedy and drama shows(“Jack Benny,”“Amos and Andy,” “The Shadow”)all migrated to television.But because you can’t drive a cal ”and watch television at the same time,rushhour became radio’s prime,while music,talk,and news radio greatly enlarged their audiences.Radio is today a very different business than in the late 1940s and a much larger one.
K.Sometimes old technology lingers for centuries because of its symbolic power.Mounted cavalry(骑兵) replaced the chariot(二轮战车)on the battlefield around 1 000 BC.But chariots maintained their place in parades and triumphs right up until the end of the Roman Empire 1,500 years later.The Sword hasn’t had a military function for a hundred years,but is still part of an officer’s full.dress nniforill,precisely because a sword A.ways symbolized“an ofificer and a gentleman.”
L.Sometimes new technology is a little cranky(不稳定的)at first.Television repairman was a common occupation in the 1950s.for instance.And so the old technology remains as a backup.Steamships captured the North Atlantic passenger business from sail in the 1840s because of its much greater
speed.But steamships didn’t lose their sails until the 1880s,because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down.Until ships became large enough(and engines small enough)to mount two engines side by side.they needed to keep sails.(The high cost of steam and the lesser need for speed kept the majority of the world’s ocean freight moving by sail until the early years of the 20th century.)
M.Then there is the fireplace.Central heating was present in every.upper-and middle-class home by the second half of the 1 9th century.But functioning fireplaces remain to this day a powerful selling point in a house or aDartment.I suspect the reason is a deep.rooted love of the fire.Fire was one of the earliest major technological advances for humankind,providing heat,protection,and cooked food(which is much easier to eat and digest).Human control of fire goes back far enough(over a million years)that evolution could have produced a genetic leaning towards fire as a central aspect of human life.
N. Books-especially books the average person could afford-haven’t been around long enough to produce evolutionary change in humans.But they have a powerful hold on many people nonetheless,a hold extending far beyond their literary content.At their best,they are works of art and there is a tactile(触觉的)pleasure in books necessarily lost in e-book versions.The ability to quickly thumb through pages is  also lost.And a room with books in it induces,at least in some,a feeling not dissimilar to that of a fire in the fireplace on a cold winter’s night.
0. For these reasons I think physical books will have a longer existence as a commercial product than some currently predict.Like swords,books have symbolic power.Like fireplaces,they induce a sense of comfort and warmth.And,perhaps,similar to sails,they make a usefurback-up for when the lights goout.
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
Authors still puB.ished in printed versions will be considered important ones.


填空题
6、根据材料,回答问题。
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Baroness Thatcher is at the centre of a new row at Oxford University after plans to name a building after Britain's first female Prime Minister were (26) __________.
Some (27) __________are hoping to snub one of the university's most illustrious alumnae again--more than25 years after protests there (28)__________her being denied an honorary degree. Thatcher became the fast Oxford educated Prime Minister since the Second World War to be refused an (29)__________degree from the University in 1985 following student (30) __________ amidst cuts to education.
And now, a new revolt could halt plans to name a new facility after her. Oxford (31)__________and Syrian born billionaire Wafic Said is said to have donated ~15 million towards a new (32)__________at Oxford's Said Business School, due to open in the autumn, and has indicated that he wants to name it after the women he describes as "lioness".
But the news is not being welcomed by everyone.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Bernard Sufrin, a fellow at Worcester College, said signatories would be "(33) __________"to force a vote against the "inconceivable" plans.
He said "I hope that those responsible for naming the building will take advice from those--now retired-- leading members of the University who oversaw the (34)__________failure of an honorary degree for Mrs.
Thatcher being proposed only to be rejected by (35)__________the Congregation."
26.__________

简答题
7、1.提出你喜爱的电视节目
2.陈述喜爱的原因;
3.从你喜爱的节目中有哪些收获。


8、 “你要茶还是咖啡?是用餐人常被问到的问题。许多西方人会选咖啡、而中国人则会选茶.相传一位皇帝与五千年前发现茶,并用来治病,在明清(the ming and qing dynasties)期间,茶馆遍布全国,饮茶在六世纪传到日本,但直到十七、十八世纪才传到欧美。如今,茶是世界上流行的饮料(beverage)之.--。茶是中国的民族饮品,也是中国传统和文化的重要组成部分。


9、Directions:For ths part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the picture below.You should start your essay with a briefaccount ofcollegeflea market and then discuss the advantages and disadvantages of college flea market.You should write at least120words and no more than 180

注意:此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

10、众所周知。电子商务是我国新兴的商务模式。在社会日新月异的今天。电子商务已经成为人们日常生活中的一部分。电子商务让人们的生活变得更加便捷,让人们能够足不出户就得到自己想要的商品,而且可以通过自己想要的排序方式,来进一步进行选择。比如说按照价钱来进行排序,这样可以得到更加物美价廉的商品。电子商务正处在空前的发展时期(unprecedented per i od of deve J opment).推动着世界经济的快速发展。


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