2016下半年英语四级模拟试卷及答案

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Part

Ⅱ

Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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 the

Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:

Every year 100 million holiday

—

makers are drawn to the one

third of the world's tourist trade, it is the most popular of all the holiday destinations; it is

also the most has only 1 per cent of the world's sea surface, but carries more

than half the oil and tar floating on the waters. Thousands of factories pour their poison

into the Mediterranean, and almost every city, town and village on the coast sends its

sewage, untreated, into the result is that the Mediterranean, which nurtured so

many civilizations, is gravely ill

—

the first of the seas to fall victim to the abilities and

attitudes that evolved around it. And the pollution does not merely keep back life of the

sea

—

it threatens the people who inhabit and visit its shores The mournful form of disease

is caused by sewage. Eighty five per cent of the waste from the Mediterranean's 120 coastal

cities is pushed out in to the waters where their people and visitors bathe and fish. What is

more, most cities just drop it in straight off the beach; rare indeed are the places like

Cannes and Tel Aviv which pipe it even half a mile surprisingly, vast areas of

the shallows are awash with bacteria and itdoesn't take long for these to reach people.

Professor William Brumfitt ofthe Royal Free Hospital once calculated that anyone who goes

for a swim in the Mediterranean has a one in seven chance of getting some sort of disease.

Other scientists say this is an overestimate; but almost all of them agree that bathers are at

ry adds its own poisons. Factories cluster round the coastline, and even the most

modern rarely has proper waste treatment plant. They do as much damage to the sea as

sewage. But the good news is that the countries of the Mediterraneanhave been coming

together to work out how to save their common sea.

causes of the Mediterranean's pollution is ____.

A) the oil and tar floating on the water

B) many factories put their poison into the sea

C) untreated sewage from the factories and coastal cities

D) there are some sorts of diseases in the sea

of following consequence of a polluted sea is not true according to the

passage?

A) Bring up so many civilizations.

B) Various diseases in the sea.

C) It threatens the inhabitants and travelers.

D) One in seven chance of getting some sort of disease swimming in the sea.

word “sewage”refer to ____.

A) poison

C) liquid material

B) waste

D) solid material

does industry do much damage to the sea?

A) Because most factories have proper waste treatment plants.

B) Because many factories have not proper waste treatment plants

even the most modern one.

C) Because just the modern factory has a waste treatment plant.

D) Because neither ordinary factories nor most modern ones have proper waste

treatment plants.

is the passage mainly about?

A) Save the world.

B) How the people live in the Mediterranean sea.

C) How the industry dangers the sea.

D) Beware the dirty sea.

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:

THE CLASSROOM is a man's world, where boys get two thirds of the teachers'

attention

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even when they are in a minority

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taunt (

辱骂

) the girls without punishment,

and receive praise for sloppy work that would not be tolerated from girls. They are

accustomed to being teachers' pets, and if girls get anything like equal treatment, they will

protest eagerly and even wreck claims are made in a book out this week,

written by Dale Spender, a lecturer at the London University Institute of Education. She

argues that disc rimination against girls is so deeply in co educational schools that single

sex classes are the only case is based on tape recordings of her own and other

teachers' lessons. Many of them, like Spender, had deliberately set out to give girls a fair

chance. “Sometimes,” says Spender, “I have even thought I

have gone too far and have spent

more time with the girls than the boys.” The tapes proved otherwise. In 10 taped lessons

(in secondary schooland college), Spender never gave the girls more than 42 per cent of her

attention (the average was 38 percent) and never gave the boys less than 58 percent. There

were similar results for other teachers, both male and other words, when

teachers give girls more than a third of their time, they feel that they are cheating the boys

of their rightful share. And

so do the boys themselves. “She always asks the girls all the

questions,” said one boy in a classroom where 34 per cent of the teachers' time was

allocated to girls. “She doesn't like boys, and just listens to the girls.” said a boy in another

class, where his sex got 63 per cent of teacher regarded two thirds of the

teacher's time as a fair deal

—

and when they got less they caused trouble in class and even

complained to higher authority. “It's important to keep their attention,” said one t

eacher,

“Otherwise,they play you up something awful.”Spender concludes that, in mixed classes, if

the girls are as boisterous and pushy as the boys, they are considered “unladylike”, if they

are docile and quiet, they are ignored.

boys are better treated in class, ____ would be better.

A) single sex classes and co educational classes

B) co educational classes

C) single sex classes

D) None of the above

Spender obtained the evidence for her claims by ____

A) her own lessons in secondary school and college

B) the other teachers' tape recordings

C) both male and female teachers

D) tape recordings of her own and other teachers' lessons

are the boy's reactions when girls are given more

attention?

A) They will keep the teachers' attention again.

B) They will make some trouble and complain to the headmaster.

C) They will play up the teacher something awful.

D) They will feel they are cheated by teachers.

word “boisterous” in the last

paragraph probably means ____.

A) rough B) brave

C)troublesome D) emotional

best title for this passage would be ____.

A) boys are teachers' pets

B) boys do better in co educational classes

C) single sex classes are better than co eduationed classes

D) girls do better than boys

Gestures aren't the only area in which the unwary traveler can get trippedup. Foreign

cultures adhere to different business customs and behavior.

For example:Caffeine junkies should restrain themselves in the Middle East.“Three

cups of tea or coffee is usually the polite limit in offices and during social calls,” counsels

“Travel Pak, ” a free publication of Alia, the Royal Jordanian Airline. “But

if your host keeps

going, you also may continue sipping. If you've had your fill, give your empty cup a quick

twist a sort of wiggle

—as you hand it back. That means “No more, thank you.”Middle East

visitors also should not be surprised “if others barge ri

ght into the office in the middle of

your conversation with the person you are seeing,” notes “Travel Pak.” An old Arab custom

calls for keeping an “opeThe British, however, consider it impolite to interrupt a visitor,

even after all business has been transacted. The commercial caller is expected to be

sensitive to this point, know when to stop, and initiate his or her own Japan

certain guests at evening business gatherings will leave early. They should be allowed to