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2019
年大学英语四模拟试题含答案
Part
Ⅲ
Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
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 26 to 35 are
based on the following passage.
America
’
s
Internet is faster than ever before, but people
still complain about
their Internet
being too slow.
New
York
’
s Attorney
General
’
s office
(26)_______an investigation in the fall
into whether or notVerizon, Cablevision
and Time Warner are delivering broadband
that
’
s as fast as
the providers (27)_______it is. Earlier this
month, the office asked
for
the
public
’
s
help
to
measure
their
speed
results,
sayingconsumers
(28)_______to get the speeds they were
promised.
“
Too many of us
may be paying
for onething, and getting
another
，”
the
Attorney General said.
If the
investigation uncovers anything, it
wouldn
’
t be the first time a
telecom
provider got into
(29)_______over the broadband speeds it promised
and delivered
customers.
Back
in
June,
the
Federal
Communications
Commission
fined
AT&
T
$$ 100 million over (30)_______ that the
carrier secretly reduced wireless speeds after
customers consumed a certain amount of
(31)_______ .
Even
when
they
stay
on
the
right
side
of
the
law,
Internet
providers
arouse
customers
’
anger over bandwidth speed and cost.
Just this week, an investigation
found
that media and telecom giant Comcast is
the
most
(32)_______
provider.
Over
10
months,
Comcast
received
nearly
12,000
customer complaints, many (33)_______
to its monthly data cap and overage
(
超过额
度的）
charges.
Some Americans are getting so
(34)_______ with Internet providers
they
’
re just
giving up. A recent
study
found that the number of Americans with high-speed
Internet at home today
(35)_______
fell
during
the
last
two
years,
and
15%
of
people
now
consider
themselves to be
“
cord-
cutters.
”
注意：此部分试题请在
答题卡
2
上作答。
A)accusations
B) actually
C) claim
D)
communicating
E) complain
F)
data
G) deserved
H) frustrated
I)
hated
J) launched
K) relating
L) times
M) trouble
N)
usually
O) worried
Section
B
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
paragraph
more
than
once.
Each
paragraph
is
marked
with
a
letter.
Answer
the
questions by marking the
corresponding letter on
Answer Sheet
2
.
From
Accountant to Yogi: Making a Radical Career Change
[A]At
some
point,
almost
all
of
us
will
experience
a
period
of
radical
professional
change.
Some
of
us
will
seek
it
out;
for
others
it
will
feel
like
an
unwelcome
intrusion
into
otherwise
stable
careers.
Either
way,
we
have
choices
about how we respond
to it when it comes.
[B]We
recently
caught
up
with
yoga
entrepreneur
Leah
Zaccaria,
who
put
herself through the fire of change to
completely reinvent herself. In her search to
live a life of purpose, Leah left her
high-paying accounting job, her husband, and
her home, in the process, she built a
radically new life and career. Since then, she
has
founded
two
yoga
studios,
met
a
new
life
partner,
and
formed
a
new
community
of
people.
Even
if
your
personal
reinvention
is
less
drastic,
we
think
there are lessons from
her experience that apply.
[C]Where
do
the
seeds
of
change
come
from?
the
Native
American
Indians
have
a
saying:
“
Pay
attention
to
the
whispers
so
you
won
’
t
have
to
hear
the
screams.
”
Often the best ideas for big changes
come from unexpected places
—
it
’
s just a
matter of tuning in. Great leaders recognize the
weak signals or slight
signs that point
to big changes to come. Leah reflects on a time
she listened to the
whispers:
“
About
the
time
my
daughter
was
five
years
old.
I
started
having
a
sense
that
‘
this
isn
’
t
right.
”’
She then
realized that her life no longer matched
her vision for it.
[D]Up
until that point, Leah had followed traditional
measures of success. After
graduating
with
a
degree
in
business
and
accounting,
she
joined
a
public
accounting firm, married, bought a
house, put lots of stuff in it, and had a baby.
“
I
did what
everybody else thought looked
successful,
”
she
says. Leah easily could
have fallen
into a trap of feeling content; instead, her
energy sparked a period of
experimentation and renewal.
[E]Feeling the need to change, Leah
started playing with future possibilities by
exploring
her
interests
and
developing
new
capabilities.
First
trying
physical
exercise and dieting, she lost some
weight and discovered an inner strength.
“
1
felt powerful
because 1 broke through my own
limitations,
”
she
recalls.
[F]However, it was another
interest that led Leah to radically reinvent
herself.
“
I
remember
sitting
on
a
bench
with
my
aunt
at
a
yoga
studio,
’’
she
said,
having
a
moment
of
clarity
right
then
and
there:Yoga
is
saving
my
life.
Yoga
is
waking me
up. I
’
m not happy and I want
to change and I
’
m done with
this.
”
In
that
moment
of
clarity
Leah
made
an
important
leap,conquering
her
inner
resistance to change
and making a firm commitment to take bigger steps.
[G]Creating the future you want is a
lot easier if you are ready to exploit the
opportunities that come your way. When
Leah made the commitment to change,
she
primed herself to new opportunities she may
otherwise have overlooked. She
recalls:
[H]One day a man I worked with, Ryan,
who had his office next to mine, said,
“
Leah,
let
’
s go look at this space
on Queen Anne.
”
He knew my love for yoga
and
had seen a space close to where he lived that he
thought might be good to
serve as a
yoga studio. As soon as I saw the location, I knew
this was it. Of course I
was scared,
yet I had this strong sense of
“
I have to do
this.
”
Only a few
months
later Leah opened her first yoga
studio, but success was not instant.
[I]Creating the future takes time.
That
’
s why leaders continue
to manage the
present while building
toward the big changes of the future. When
it
’
s time to
make
the leap, they take action and immediately drop
what
’
s no longer serving
their purpose. Initially Leah stayed
with her accounting job while starting up the
yoga studio to make it all work.
[J]Soon after, she knew she had to make
a bold move to fully commit to her
new
future. Within two years, Leah shed the safety of
her accounting job and made
the switch
complete. Such drastic change is not easy.
[K]Steering through change and facing
obstacles brings us face to face with our
fears.
Leah
reflects
on
one
incident
that
triggered
her
fears,
when
her
investors
threatened to shut
her down:
“
I was probably up
against the most fear I
’
ve
ever
had
，”
she says.
“
I had
spent two years cultivating this community, and it
had
become
successful
very
fast,
but
within
six
months
I
was
facing
the
prospect
of
losing it all.
”
[L]She
connected
with
her
sense
of
purpose
and
dug
deep,
cultivating
a
tremendous sense of strength.
“
I was feeling so
intentional and strong that I
wasn
’
t going to let fear
just take over. I was thinking,
‘
OK, guys, if you want to
try to shut
me down, shut me
down.
’
And I knew it was a
negotiation scheme, so I was able to
say to myself,
‘
This is not
real.
’”
By naming
her fears and facing them head-on,
Leah
gained confidence. For most of us, letting go of
the safety and security of the
past
gives us great fear. Calling out our fears
explicitly, as Leah did,can help us act
decisively.
[M]The cycle of
renewal never ends. Leah
’
s
growth spurred her to open her
second
studio
—
and it
wasn
’
t for the money.
[N]I have no desire to make millions of
dollars. It
’
s not about
that; it
’
s about
growth for me. Honestly, I
didn
’
t need to open a second
studio. I was making as
much money as I
was as an accountant. But I know if you
don
’
t grow, you stand
still, and that
doesn
’
t work for me.
[O]Consider
the
current
moment
in
your
own
life,
your
team
or
your
organization. Where are
you in the cycle of renewal: Are you actively
preserving the
present,
or
selectively
forgetting
the
past,
or
boldly
creating
the
future?
What
advice would Leah give you to move you
ahead on your journey? Once
we
’
re on
the path
of growth, we can continually move through the
seasons of transformation
and renewal.
注意：此部分试题请在
答题卡
2
上作答。
36. Readiness
to take advantage of new opportunities will make
it easier to create
one
’
s desired
future.
37.
By
conventional
standards,
Leah
was
a
typical
successful
woman
before
she
changed her career.
38.
Leah gained confidence by laying out
her fears and confronting them directly.
39.
In search of a
meaningful life, Leah gave up what she had and set
up her own
yoga studios.
40
Leah's interest in yoga prompted her to make a
firm decision to reshape her life.
signs may indicate great changes to come and
therefore merit attention.
42.
Leah
’
s first yoga studio was
by no means an immediate success.
43.
Some
people
regard
professional
change
as
an
unpleasant
experience
that
disturbs their stable
careers.
44.
The worst fear
Leah ever had was the prospect of losing her yoga
business.
45.
As
she
explored
new
interests
and
developed
new
potentials
，
Leah
felt
powerful internally.
Section C
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