She gave()directions about the way the rug should
She gave________ directions about the way the rug should be cleaned.
A) explicit C)transient
B) brisk D)opaque
She gave________ directions about the way the rug should be cleaned.
A) explicit C)transient
B) brisk D)opaque
A.gave up
B.took up
C.lined up
D.made up
Directions: Read the following passage and the statements that follow. Choose the best answer for each statement from the four choices marked A, B,C and D.
“It hurts me more than you”, and “This is for your own good.” These are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.
That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy on us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alone policy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators, turned on the television, left the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation.
Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we’ve made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon•Klompus who says of her students—“so passive”—and wonders what happened.Nothing was demanded of them, she believes. Television, says Klompus, contributes to children’s passivity. “We’re not training kids to work any more,” says Klompus. “We’re talking about a generation of kids who’ve never been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them. Instead of saying ‘go look it up’, you tell them the answer. It takes greater energy to say no to a kid.”
Yes, it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It’s time for parents to end their vacation and come back to work. It’s time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them but it’s for their own good.It’s time to start telling them no again.
1.Children are becoming more inactive in study because().
A.they watch TV too often
B.they have done too much homework
C.they have to fulfil too many duties
D.teachers are too strict with them
2.One or perhaps more pages().
A.is missing
B.has been missed
C.are missing
D.was missing
3. What will a Chinese person say if he or she has received some help from his or her family member()?
A.Thank you
B.Excuse me
C.Nothing
D.I am sorry
4. The Indians taught the settlers how to build canoes for water transportation().
A.True
B.False
C.Not Mentioned
5.Nobody but Jack and Jane () made great progress in the class recently.
A.Have
B.Has
C.Had
D.has been
answer for each statement from the four choices marked A, B,C and D.
“It hurts me more than you”, and “This is for your own good.” These are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.
That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy on us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alone policy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators, turned on the television, left the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation.
Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we’ve made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon·Klompus who says of her students—“so passive”—and wonders what happened. Nothing was demanded of them, she believes. Television, says Klompus, contributes to children’s passivity. “We’re not training kids to work any more,” says Klompus. “We’re talking about a generation of kids who’ve never been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them. Instead of saying ‘go look it up’, you tell them the answer. It takes greater energy to say no to a kid.”
Yes, it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It’s time for parents to end their vacation and come back to work. It’s time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them but it’s for their own good. It’s time to start telling them no again.
1.Children are becoming more inactive in study because__________.
A.they watch TV too often
B.they have done too much homework
C.they have to fulfil too many duties
D.teachers are too strict with them
2.According to historic books, women in the Song Dynasty used paper cut as headdress.()
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Doesn’t say
One day when I was 15 years old, I had some friends over to hang out. While we were making food in the kitchen, my brother came in. He placed his beef next to my (1) one and said, “Courtney, your beef is bigger than mine. You don’t need to (2); you’re already fat enough.” Then he walked out laughing.
Unpleasant (3) on my physical appearance were nothing new. Something inside me gave in to his idea that my legs were (4), and that became the last day that I ever willingly wore (5) until I was 30 years old. For the next 15 years, I spent summer after summer (6) in long pants.
But then I met Ragen Chastain, and she (7) everything. I couldn’t believe that this woman who, like myself, weighed almost 300 pounds was so (8) and happy in her own skin. I (9) as she shared her own journey to recovery and self-love. She talked about how amazing our (10) are, simply because of the things they do every day—like breathing, (11) blood to every cell, blinking and walking.
Walking! I was suddenly (12) how foolish I’d been for so long. There’re people who are born without legs, or who lack (13) working legs, or who lose their legs, and I’d been hiding my perfectly strong, healthy, beautiful legs (14) because I had (15) someone to convince me that they weren’t good enough. The next day, I bought three pairs of shorts and a sundress and spent the entire summer letting my legs (16) the sun and feel the breeze.
The next time anyone comments on your body in a (17) way, look them straight in the eye, smile and say, “If what you see (18) you so much, feel free to practice the ancient art of looking (19) else.” That’s Ragen’s own (20), but I don’t think she’ll mind if you use it.
(1)A、small
B、slim
C、plain
D、thick
(2)A、eat
B、talk
C、walk
D、cry
(3)A、suggestion
B、comments
C、reports
D、reflection
(4)A、unacceptable
B、unnecessary
C、unique
D、special
(5)A、shorts
B、socks
C、pants
D、T-shirts
(6)A、driving
B、roasting
C、sleeping
D、running
(7)A、believed
B、changed
C、explained
D、solved
(8)A、energetic
B、generous
C、sensitive
D、tiresome
(9)A、expected
B、laughed
C、listened
D、waited
(10)A、bodies
B、legs
C、images
D、weights
(11)A、pulling
B、putting
C、preventing
D、pumping
(12)A、afraid of
B、absorbed in
C、anxious about
D、aware of
(13)A、accidentally
B、possibly
C、properly
D、regularly
(14)A、indelight
B、inshame
C、inpanic
D、inpride
(15)A、begged
B、allowed
C、refused
D、invited
(16)A、avoid
B、cover
C、kick
D、see
(17)A、different
B、negative
C、normal
D、positive
(18)A、amuses
B、bothers
C、excites
D、hurts
(19)A、anywhere
B、somewhere
C、nowhere
D、everywhere
(20)A、decision
B、creation
C、question
D、requirement
Mr. Smith is telling two funny stories of his police work.
Story A
I remember catching a "thief" in a clothes shop once. It was strange. The man was hiding a yellow sweater inside his coat. I thought he had stolen it, so I caught him. We found later that his wife gave him the sweater for his birthday, but he hated it. He just wanted to return it to the shop for money, but he didn’t want his wife to see him! We soon let him go.
Story B
Another day, a man called Bob went into a bank on Sixth Street. He wrote on the back of an envelope, "Give me the money! Or I’ll kill you. " and gave it to the bank clerk. She gave him $100,000 and the man ran away. Then we received a phone call from the bank clerk. She told us to go to the man’s house in Candy Town and get him. We caught him as soon as he got out of the elevator. He couldn’t believe that we found him so quickly. We told him that the front of the envelope he used had his name and address on it!
1.What does Mr. Smith do?()
A.A bank clerk.
B.A policeman.
C.A thief.
D.A taxi driver.
2.Mr. Smith caught the man in the clothes shop().
A.by exchange
B.by mistake
C.by accident
D.on purpose
3.Why did the man return the sweater to the shop?()
A.Because he didn' t want his wife to see it
B.Because he liked money more than the sweater.
C.Because he hated it and wanted to get the money back
D.Because he wanted to buy a new sweater.
4.Bob was caught so quickly because().
A.his address was found on the envelope he used
B.he received a phone call from the bank clerk
C.the police waited for him outside the elevator
D.he used the money to buy a lot of things
5.What do you think of Bob?()
A.He 15 brave.
B.He Is careful.
C.He Is shy.
D.He is stupid.
21. On hearing 3-year-old cousin had cancer, how did the author feel? ()
A. Puzzled
B. Shock
C. Afraid
D. Worried
22. What can we know from Paragraph 2? ()
A. The world is unfair to the writer’s family.
B. Unlucky things didn’t happen to the writer’s family.
C. The writer had the disability with her legs.
D. Unlucky things of the family made the writer very sad.
23. Where did the conversation happen? ()
A. In the living room
B. In the kitchen
C. In the bedroom
D. On the street
24. What can we know about Madi? ()
A. She was kind and willing to help others
B. She liked smiling, but didn’t love cooking.
C. She made her mother regret her hair.
D. She didn’t like wearing long hair again.
Maria Mitchell(1818-1889,the first woman astronomer(天文学家)in the United States, was born in Nantucket. Massachusetts. Her parents valued education and insisted on giving her the same quality of education that boys received.
Her father. William Mitchell, was an astronomer and teacher himself. When he built his own school, Maria became a student and also a teaching assistant to him. At home. Marias father taught her to watch the stars and other natural objects in space using his personal telescope(望远镜).
Later she went to work at the library of the Nantucket Atheneum. Over the next tweny years. she further developed her interest in reading as many books as she could.She spent her nights watching the sky closely with her father.
On October 1, 1847,Maria discovered a comet(彗星 )by merely using a two-inch telescope. Some years before, King Frederick VI of Denmark had set up prizes to each discover of a"telescopic comet". The prize was to be given to the"first discoverer"of each such comet because comets were often discovered by more than one person.
There was once a question of who should be the winner. As the story goes, francesco de Vico had discovered the same comet two days later, but had reported it to the European vor. She won the prize in 1848 and became a big name the world over. The comet was named“ Miss mitchell&39;s Comet.”
What ean be learnt about Marias parents according to the text?
A.They came from low-income families.
B.They gave Maria equal chance for education
C.They were both astronomers
D.They were both teachers.
When did Franeeseo de Vico discover the comet?A.In1818
B.In1889
C.In1848
D.In1847
What problem did Maria meet with in winning the prize?A.She named the comet on her own
B.She did not use the required telescope.
C.She did not report her discovery in time
D.She discovered the comet with her father
Whe played the most important role in Maria's great achievement?A.King FrederickⅥ
B.Francesco de Vico
C.Her father
D.Her mother
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When I first met Nina, I disliked her at once. She was wearing skintight pedal pushers, a flashy, floppy top, and sneakers with no socks - bizarrely inappropriate even at our very informal company. Soon, Nina was doggedly pumping me for information about the new department I was
running, where she hoped to get a permanent job. Not a chance, I thought. Not if I have anything
to say about it However, I didn’t Within a few days she was‘trying out’,for me. I gave her a moderately difficult, uninteresting, and unimportant project that I didn’t need for months. It took that long for her successor to put in order the mess she had made out of ft Although I couldn’t have prediction exactly what Nina would do,in three minutes I had assessed her as someone who could not be relied on to get a job done.
We all make quick judgments about strangers. Within seconds after we meet someone, We take in a host of details and draw rather large conclusions from them. We may decide in a minute whether it is someone’s nature to be warm or cold, friendly or hostile, anxious or calm, happy or troubled. Unconsciously, we often ask and quickly answer certain questions: Will I enjoy talking to him at this party? Will she make an interesting friend? Will he/she make a good boss / sales manager / secretary for me? If we get to know the person better, we may change our minds. But
we may not have the chance.
From Nina’s inappropriate dress and aggressive behavior. toward me, I’d decided she was pushy. stupid and had poor judgment. I also had a lot of vague impressions I couldn’t explain. It was as if a warning bell went off in my head. Its message: this person was not to be trusted; her behavior. would be unpredictable; she was motivated by a peculiar agenda of her own that I would never understand.
I was using a combination of observation, inference and intuition.
59.Why did the author dislike Nina?
A)Because of her badly looking sneakers.
B)Because of her inappropriate dress and aggressive behavior.
C)Because of her special uniform.
D)Because of her dirty words to the author.
60.Why did the author give Nina an“unimportant project”that he“didn’t need for months”?
A)Because the author wanted to play trick on her.
B)Because he had no other job for her to do at the moment.
C)Because the author believed she was the right person for the job.
D)Because the author thought she couldn’t be relied on to get a job done.
61.According to the passage, which of the following is not true?
A)People tend to make quick judgment about strangers.
B)The author’s first judgment about Nina was totally wrong.
C)Nina behaved rather pushy when she first met the author.
D)The author actually disliked Nina at the first sight.
62.The author’s judgment about Nina was based on ().
A)a combination of observation, inference and intuition
B)a combination of imagination and observation
C)a combination of observation, intuition and imagination
D)a combination of inference, analysis and imagination
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B),C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
1.A) He has proved to be a better reader than the woman.
B) He has difficulty understanding the book.
C) He cannot get access to the assigned book.
D) He cannot finish his assignment before the deadline.
2.A) She will drive the man to the supermarket.
B) The man should buy a car of his own.
C) The man needn't go shopping every week.
D) She can pick the man up at the grocery store.
3.A) Get more food and drinks.
B) Ask his friend to come over.
C) Tidy up the place.
D) Hold a party.
4.A) The talks can be held any day except this Friday.
B) He could change his schedule to meet John Smith.
C) The first-round talks should start as soon as possible.
D) The woman should contact John Smith first.
5.A) He understands the woman's feelings.
B) He has gone through a similar experience.
C) The woman should have gone on the field trip.
D) The teacher is just following the regulations.
6.A) She will meet the man halfway.
B) She will ask David to talk less.
C) She is sorry the man will not come.
D) She has to invite David to the party.
7.A) Few students understand Prof. Johnson's lectures.
B) Few students meet Prof. Jonson's requirements.
C) Many students find Prof. Johnson's lectures boring.
D) Many students have dropped Prof. Johnson's class.
8.A) Check their computer files.
B) Make some computations.
C) Study a computer program.
D) Assemble a computer.
Questions 19 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
9.A) It allows him to make a lot of friends.
B) It requires him to work long hours.
C) It enables him to apply theory to practice.
D) It helps him understand people better.
10.A) It is intellectually challenging.
B) It requires him to do washing-up all the time.
C) It exposes him to oily smoke all day long.
D) It demands physical endurance and patience.
11.A) In a hospital.
B) At a coffee shop.
C) At a laundry.
D) In a hotel.
12.A) Getting along well with colleagues.
B) Paying attention to every detail.
C) Planning everything in advance.
D) Knowing the needs of customers.
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
13.A) The pocket money British children get.
B) The annual inflation rate in Britain.
C) The things British children spend money on.
D) The rising cost of raising a child in Britain.
14.A) It enables children to live better.
B) It goes down during economic recession.
C) It often rises higher than inflation.
D) It has gone up 25% in the past decade.
15.A) Save up for their future education.
B) Pay for small personal things.
C) Buy their own shoes and socks.
D) Make donations when necessary. 来源:考试大-英语四级考试
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
Passage One
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
16.A) District managers.
B) Regular customers.
C) Sales directors.
D) Senior clerks.
17.A) The support provided by the regular clients.
B) The initiative shown by the sales representatives.
C) The urgency of implementing the company's plans.
D) The important part played by district managers.
18.A) Some of them were political-minded.
B) Fifty percent of them were female.
C) One third of them were senior managers.
D) Most of them were rather conservative.
19.A) He used too many quotations.
B) He was not gender sensitive.
C) He did not keep to the point.
D) He spent too much time on details.
Passage Two
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
20.A) State your problem to the head waiter.
B) Demand a discount on the dishes ordered.
C) Ask to see the manager politely but firmly.
D) Ask the name of the person waiting on you.
21.A) You problem may not be understood correctly.
B) You don't know if you are complaining at the right time.
C) Your complaint may not reach the person in charge.
D) You can't tell how the person on the line is reacting.
22.A) Demand a prompt response.
B) Provide all the details.
C) Send it by express mail.
D) Stick to the point.
Passage Three
Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
23.A) Fashion designer
B) Architect.
C) City planner.
D) Engineer.
24.A) Do some volunteer work.
B) Get a well-paid part-time job.
C) Work flexible hours.
D) Go back to her previous post.
25.A) Few baby-sitters can be considered trustworthy.
B) It will add to the family's financial burden.
C) A baby-sitter is no replacement for a mother.
D) The children won't get along with a baby-sitter.
Nothing Was working. When the trip was over,I went to see my doctor, She gave me eye drops, but clearly they weren&39;t worth the time or ___25___ and the swelling got worse and worse.
I finally decided that it would be best for me to ___26___ being so sad and take it easy and havefun. It was summer after all.I had a fun night with my friends as if nothing was ___27___ .The next morning I woke up and went to ___28___ how swollen my eyes were,only to find myself ___29___ at my normal face, It was a miracle(奇迹).I ___30___ asking myself why I hadn&39;t done that earlier. Was being with my friends and having fun really the ___31___ to my problem?
To this day I still do not know what I had,and ___32___ do any of the many doctors that I ___33___ during the summer, I would really like to go back to Iceland to see the Northern Lights, ___34___ I am very much frightened that I am just allergic to the country. I hope I never ___35___ having such terrible swelling in my eyes ever again.
21. ___________
A.know
B.doubt
C.insist
D.fear
22_________A.cutting
B.going
C.pulling
D.hurrying
23_________A.caused
B.fought
C.caught
D.treated
32_________A.neither
B.none
C.either
D.no
24_________A.on
B.from
C.with
D.to
33_________A.hated
B.employed
C.disappointed
D.visited
25_________A.pain
B.adventure
C.weight
D.money
35_________A.finish
B.forgive
C.experience
D.consider
27_________A.fair
B.mistaken
C.similar
D.wrong
26_________A.tnr
B.mind
C.prefer
D.stop
28_________A.check
B.explain
C.describe
D.mark.I
29_________A.aiming
B.looking
C.waving
D.pointing
30_________A.missed
B.kept
C.regretted
D.excused
34_________A.so
B.or
C.but
D.for
31_________A.way
B.relation
C.answer
D.dewgtion
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