没关系英语怎么说大学英语4级考试预测试题 1

大学英语

4

级考试预测试题

1

Writing

Directions:

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled

On College Students Using Credit Cards.

You should write at least 120

words following the outline given below:

1.

越来越多的大学生使用信用卡

2.

使用信用卡的优点与弊端

3.

你的观点

On College Student Using Credit Cards

Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)

Directions

:

In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and

answer the questions on

Answer Sheet 1.

For questions 1-7, choose the best answer

from

the

four

choices

marked

A),

B),

C)

and

D).

For

questions

8-10,

complete

the

sentences with the information given in the passage.

7 Things You Can’t Say in Canada

Attacking our sacred cows (things or people that cannot be criticized) may turn you

into one looked down upon by all others

—

but it can also be a lot of fun.

Every culture has its unacknowledged taboos

—

the things you are forbidden to say or

do in

polite company, the accepted truths

you are not

allowed to

doubt. You might

think that a liberal, open-minded country like Canada would be free of such taboos,

but

you’d

be

wrong.

In

spite

of

our

belief

in

our

own

enlightened

tolerance,

some

things are simply not open to

debate. If you try, you’re bound to shock the

neighbors.

It’s risky to question the wisdom of the tribe. You might get stoned. On the other hand,

some people might sneak up to you afterwards and confess that they secretly agree.

So here’s a challenge to

a few of our nation’s most widely held beliefs. You say these

things in public at your own peril. I will be elaborating on these points over the

months to come. Feel free to stone me or secretly agree

—

or, even better, add to the

list. At the very least, t

hey’re sure to start a good dinner

-party fight.

1

Margaret Atwood writes some really awful books.

The queen of Canadian Literature dominates the literary world like a giant. Nobody

has won more awards than she has, and nobody is more feared. There is no such thing

as a bad review of a Margaret Atwood book in Canada. That’s too bad, because many

of her books are tedious and unreadable, full of tortuous plots and unpleasant

characters. Why will no one say so? Because we’re grateful that she’s put us on the

global map. And because if they do,

they’ll

never work in this country again.

Recycling is a waste of time and money

.

Once upon a time it was easy to put out the trash. Today, the Garbage Gestapo rules

our lives. Every household has become a mini version of the village dump, and every

one of us has become a garbage picker, carefully separating our organics from our

bottles and papers, and worrying about where our dryer lint is supposed to go.

Don’t try to sneak a wine bottle into the wrong bag! The trash pol

ice will punish you.

The truth about recyc

ling is that it’s a giant waste of dollars and doesn’t help the

environment. But don’t tell your kids. They won’t believe you. They’ve been

brainwashed.

Only private enterprise can save public health care.

Tommy D

ouglas, the CBC’

s Greatest Canadian, brought us universal health care. But

even his plan didn’t originally pay for everybody’s ingrown toenails. His primary goal

was to make sure nobody faced financial ruin if they got sick.

Today we have a system where controlling costs is more important than treating

patients, and where ideology is crippling us. In some places, including Toronto,

people go blind waiting for cataract surgery. The government could restore their sight

tomorrow simply by sending them to a private clinic instead of to a hospital. The cost

to the government would be exactly the same. But in Canada, private is a dirty word,

and so the government would rather you go blind. Poor Tommy would be spinning in

his grave.

David Suzuki is bad for the environment.

From global warming to farmed salmon and genetically modified crops, David Suzuki

has just one message: The End is near.

He is our homegrown prophet of doom who preaches the essential wickedness of the

human race. Like a modern Savonarola, he warns that unless we cast our material

possessions into the bonfire, we’re all going to hell.

The trouble with this apocalyptic vision is that people are starting to tune out. And our

hugely expensive investment in the unworkable Kyoto treaty, which Mr. Suzuki tells

us doesn’t go nearly far enough, will crowd out more practical measures to cut smog

and clean up our waste sites.

2

A national daycare program won’t do a thing to help poor kids.

Cheap national daycare! Who could be against it? It’s supposed to g

ive kids a better

start in life, and nobody can object to that. But in Quebec, where the program started,

universal daycare has turned out to be nothing more than a giant (and extremely costly)

subsidy for relatively well-heeled middle-class parents. Few poor parents use the

system.

No doubt convenient daycare is a godsend for many. But so far there is no definitive

evidence that kids who go to daycare go on to do better in school or in life. So if we

want to invest billions in helping kids, why are we spending it on the kids who need

help the least?

Group of Seven artists are overexposed genre(

类型

) painters.

I like A.Y. Jackson as much as you do. His paintings remind me of when I went to

summer camp. I grew up with a reproduction of

The West Wind

hanging in our living

room. (That was by Tom Thomson, who wasn’t really a member of Group of Seven,

but never mind.) Group of Seven were the first artists to depict the wild Canadian

landscape, and they were bold young rebels in their time.

But that time was 80 years ago. Today their work is the quintessence of bourgeois

picture- postcard art

—the kind of art it’s safe to ta

ke your mother to see. Enough,

already. Maybe it’s time we moved on.

The United States is the greatest force for good the world has ever known.

Of all the shocking things you can say around the dinner table, this is the most

shocking one. After all, America-bashing is part of our national identity.

At best, we see our neighbor as a well-intentioned but arrogant and blundering bully

(

欺负弱小者

) that throws its weight around too much. At worst, we see our neighbor

as one of the most evil nations in the world. And yet, right now, hundreds of millions

of people in India and China and other desperately poor parts of the world are being

liberated from millennia of suffering and serfdom. Why? Because of the United States,

which has spread its idea of economic freedom

—

and its purchasing power

—

around

the world.

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