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公共英语四级-289
[填空题]What is Ginger It is ______ with an aromatic flavor.What is Ginger It is ______ with an aromatic flavor.
[单项选择] Questions 11-13 are based on the following friends’ talk about where to entertain. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11-13.Who is Barbara going to shop with
A. Tom.
B. Tim and Mary.
C. Mary and Tom.
D. Tom, Mary and Tim.
[单项选择]Landslides happen when large amounts of rock, mud and other loose materials are suddenly uprooted and sent sliding down a slope. This might be caused by an earthquake or it might happen after a heavy rain or when soil becomes waterlogged after a fall of snow.
As the material loses its grip and begins to move down the slope it gathers speed and sweeps up more material with devastating results. Nepal suffers from frequent landslides because the hillsides have been stripped of trees. When it rains the water soaks into the soil and this slides down the mountainside.
The worst landslide in Wales’ history came about with the collapse of an artificial mountain on 21 October 1966.
A 250-metre high mountain of waste material from the local coal mine had been piled up outside the village of Aberfan. Two million tons of rock, coal and mud began to move with a thunderous roar towards’the local school, uprooting trees and crushing houses. It was the start of the school day and
A. When large amounts of rock, mud and other loose materials are suddenly uprooted and sent sliding down a slope.
B. This might be caused by an earthquake or it might happen after a heavy rain or when soil becomes waterlogged after a fall of snow.
C. This might be caused by forest fire.
D. The hillsides have been stripped of trees which are rooted on them.
[简答题]Environmentalists and activists accused the world’s rich nations of managing a global conference on genetically modified foods to calm public fears. Activists said a three-day Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development conference on GM foods which began on Monday in Scotland was little more than an apology for the global biotechnology industry.
A handful of environmental grofips such as Green Peace and Friends of the Earth were invited to the conference, as well as one scientist known for his opposition to GM foods and an outspoken consumer rights group.
(62) But activists said that was not enough to counter dozens of representatives from biotechnology companies and scientists keen to promote research and commercialization of GM crops and foods.
(63) "The overall weight of the conference is skewed toward scientists and industry, officials who are in favor of GM foods." Robin Harper. a Green Party member of the new Scottish Parliament
[单项选择]Questions 14-16 are based on a lecture on human language. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14-16.Why is the study important to human
A. Because people have an interest in children’s learning.
B. Because it leads to greater understanding of language.
C. Because it encourages the researchers to work hard.
D. Because it is good to children’s health.
[单项选择]It was the single, strangely spiraled tusk that first alerted scientists. Sticking out of the ice covered by Siberian soil, like an ivory tombstone, it revealed the. presence of a true scientific wonder: underneath lay the frozen body of a mammoth.
The discovery has presented researchers with an unprecedented challenge--to move to laboratory, a mammoth’s entire, undisturbed body where it can be analyzed at leisure and its biological secrets revealed.
Last week, scientists completed the first stage of this remarkable transfer, using a helicopter to lift a twenty-three-ton block of ice and mammoth to a new site where defrosting can be started.
As one of the team, Dutch paleontologist Dick Mol put it, "It’s very exciting. I’ve been working on mammoths for more than 25 years, and this is a dream for me—to find the soft parts and touch them and even smell them."
In particular, the discovery and recovery of the 23,000-year-old body has raised speculation that
A. A mammoth had a strangely spiraled long nose.
B. A mammoth was like an ivory tombstone.
C. A mammoth stuck out of the Siberian soil.
D. There was a frozen mammoth under the Siberian soil.
[多项选择]Many young people choose to continue their education at colleges or universities in foreign countries. Write an essay on the topic "On Study in Foreign Countries". Your essay should include the following points:
(1) the benefits of studying abroad
(2) the problems that students might experience in a foreign country.
You should write 160-200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.
[单项选择]A land free from destruction, wealth, natural resources, and labor supply--all these were important (21) in helping England to become the center for the Industrial Revolution. (22) they were not enough. Something (23) was needed to start the industrial process. That "something special", was men (24) individuals who could invent machines, find new (25) of power, and establish business organizations to reshape the society.
The men who (26) the machines of the Industrial Revolution (27) from many backgrounds and many occupations. Many of them were (28) inventors than scientists, A man who is a (29) scientist is primarily interested in doing his research (30) . He is not necessarily working (31) that his findings can be used.
An inventor or one interested in applied science is (32) trying to make something that has a concrete (33) He tries to solve a problem
A. But
B. And
C. Besides
D. Even
[多项选择]What is Ginger It is ______ with an aromatic flavor.
[单项选择]Diogenes was the founder of the creed called Cynicism (the word means "doggishness"); he spent much of his life in the rich, lazy, corrupt Greek city of Corinth, mocking and satirizing its people, and occasionally converting one of them. He was not crazy. He was a philosopher who wrote plays and poems and essays expounding his doctrine; he talked to those who cared to listen; he had pupils who admired him. But he taught chiefly by example. All should live naturally, he said, for what is natural is normal and cannot possibly be evil or shameful. Live without conventions, which are artificial and false; escape complexities and superfluities and extravagance; only so can you live a free life. The rich man believes he possesses his big house with its many rooms and its elaborate furniture, his pictures and his expensive clothes, his horses and his servants and his bank accounts. He does not. He depends on them, he worries about them, he spends most of his life’s energy looking after them;
A. We should lead a lazy and idle life.
B. People should live a natural and simple life.
C. We’d better enjoy a luxurious life.
D. We should make an easy living just like a dog.
[单项选择]Questions 17-20 are based on comments on job interviews. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17-20.How long does an interview usually last according to the speaker
A. At least 45 minutes.
B. From 30 to 45 minutes.
C. Less than 30 minutes.
D. More than 45 minutes.
[单项选择]We all know that the normal human daily cycle of activity is some 7—8 hours’ sleep alternating with some 16—17 hours’ wakefulness and that, broadly speaking, the sleep normally coincides with the hours of darkness. Our present concern is how easily and to what extent this cycle can be modified.
The question is no more academic one. The ease, for example, with which people can change from working in the day to working at night, is a question of growing importance in industries where automation calls for round-the-clock working of machines. It normally takes from five days to one week for a person to adapt to a reversed routine of sleep and wakefulness, sleeping during the day and working at night. Unfortunately, it is often the case in industries where shifts are changed every week; a person may work from 12 midnight to 8 a.m. one week, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. the next, and 4 p.m. to 12 midnight the third and soon. This means that no sooner has he got used to one routine than he has to
A. Because few people like to reverse the cycle of sleep and wakefulness.
B. Because shift work in industries requires people to change their sleeping habits.
C. Because people are required to work at night.in some fields of industries.
D. Because sleep normally coincides with the hours of darkness.