2002英语专业四级考试全真试题及答案
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Decide which of the choice given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your answer sheet.
People thinking about the origin of language for the first time usually arrive at the conclusion that it developed gradually as a system of grunts, hisses and cries and ____26 a very simple affair in the beginning. ______27 when we observe the language behavior of ____28 we regard as primitive cultures, we find it _____29 complicates. It was believes that an Eskimo must have at the tip of his tongue a vocabulary of more than 10,000 words ___30 to get along reasonably well, much larger than the active vocabulary of an average businessman who speaks English. ______31, These Eskimo words are far more highly inflected (词尾变化的)than _____32 of any
Of the well-known European languages, for a ___33 noun can be spoken or written in ______34 hundred different forms, each ___35 a precise meaning different from that of any other. The forms of the verbs are even more _____36. The Eskimo language is, therefore, one of the most difficult in the world to learn, ______37 the result that almost no traders or explorers have ___38 tried to learn it. Consequently, there has grown up, in communication between Eskimos and whites, a jargon ___39 to the pidgin English used in Old China, with a vocabulary of from 300 to 600 uninflected words. Most of them are derived from Eskimo but some are derived from English, Danish, Spanish, Hawaiian and other languages. It is this jargon that is usually _____by travelers as the Eskimo language.
B :must have been
C :ought to be
D :should be
B :Therefore
C :probably
D :undoubtedly
B :that
C :which
D :what
B :usually
C :surprisingly
D :sufficiently
B :so that
C :as such
D :as well as
B :Moreover
C :Though
D :Therefore
B :all others
C :these
D :those
B :singular
C :plural
D :compound
B :several
C :various
D :varied
B :causing
C :having
D :owning
B :multiple
C :uncountable
D :numerous
B :for
C :owing to
D :as
B :indeed
C :just
D :even
B :indeed
C :just
D :even
B :similar
C :related
D :relevant
B :talked about
C :spoken
D :told
There are twenty-five sentences in this Section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or expressions marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
Mark your answers on your answer sheet.
B :until
C :when
D :though
B :Both
C :Neither
D :All
B :have been pointing
C :were pointing
D :pointed
B :that
C :in where
D :where
B :what
C :that
D :they
B :to be
C :to have been
D :having been
B :so little money
C :such little money
D :what little money
B :as
C :that
D :like
B :being put in
C :has been put in
D :to be put in
B :Hadn’t it been
C :Was it not
D :Were it not
“ I don’t know. But its about time _______ on something.”
B :I decided
C :I decide
D :I’m deciding
B :compensation
C :prize
D :reward
B :quite
C :narrowly
D :seldom
B :unjust
C :misguided
D :unaccepted
B :agreeing
C :pleasing
D :obliging
B :bid
C :proposal
D :suggestion
B :positive
C :revealing
D :evident
B :regrettable
C :regretting
D :regretted
B :proudly
C :assuredly
D :confidently
B :average
C :usual
D :general
B :declares
C :claims
D :confirms
B :essays
C :fragments
D :extracts
B :vacant
C :free
D :deserted
B :get away
C :get off
D :get across
B :applied
C :tried
D :practiced
Section A Reading Comprehension [25 min]
In this Section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. choose the one that you think is the best answer.
Mark your answers on your answer sheet.
Text A
Many of the home electric goods which are advertised as liberating the modern woman tend to have the opposite effect, because they simply change the nature of work instead of eliminating it. Machines have a certain novelty value, like toys for adults. It is certainly less tiring to put clothes in a washing machine, but the time saved does not really amount to much: the machine has to be watched, the clothes have to be carefully sorted out first, stains removed by hand, buttons pushed and water changed, clothes taken out, aired and ironed. It would be more liberating to pack it all off to a laundry and not necessarily more expensive, since no capital investment is required. Similarly, if you really want to save time you do not make cakes with an electric mixer, you buy one in a shop. If one compares the image of the woman in the women’s magazine with the goods advertised by those periodicals, one realizes how useful a projected image cab be commercially. A careful balance has to be struck: if you show a labor-saving device, follow it up with a complicated recipe on the next page; on no account hint at the notion that a woman could get herself a job, but instead foster her sense of her own usefulness, emphasizing the creative aspect of her function as a housewife. So we get cake mixes where the cook simply adds an egg herself, to produce “ that lovely home-baked flavor the family love”, and knitting patterns that can be made by hand, or worse still, on knitting machines, which became tremendously fashionable when they were first introduced. Automatic cookers are advertised by pictures of pretty young mothers taking their children to the park, not by professional women presetting the dinner before leaving home for work.
B :Save the housewife very little time.
C :Save the housewife’s time but not her money.
D :Have absolutely no value for the housewife.
B :borrowed from the bank.
C :saved in the bank.
D :lent to other people.
B :Encourage housewives to go out to work.
C :Turn housewives into excellent cooks.
D :Give them a false sense of fulfillment.
Text B
The “ standard of living” of any country means the average persons share of the goods
and services which the country produces. A country's standard of living, therefore, depends
first and foremost on its capacity to produce wealth. "Wealth" in this sense is not money, for
we do not live on money but on things that money can buy.- "goods" such as food and cloth-
ing, and "services" such as transport and entertainment.
A country's capacity to produce wealth depends upon many factors, most of which have
an effect on one another. Wealth depends to a great extent upon a country' s natural re-
sources, such as coal, gold, and other minerals, water supply and so on. Some regions of
the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have a fertile soil and a favorable
climate; other regions possess none of them.
Next to natural resources comes the ability to turn them to use. Some countries are per-
haps well off in natural resources, but suffered for many years from civil and external wars,
and for this and other reasons have been unable to develop their resources. 'Sound and stable
political conditions, and freedom from foreign invasion, enable a country to develop its natu-
ral resources peacefully and steadily, and to produce more wealth than another country
equally well served by nature but less well ordered. Another important factor is the technical
efficiency of a country's people. Industrialized countries that have trained numerous skilled
workers and technicians are better placed to produce wealth than countries whose workers
are largely unskilled.
A country's standard of living does not only depend upon the wealth that is produced
and consumed within its own borders, but also upon what is indirectly produced through
international trade. For example, Britain's wealth in foodstuffs' and other agricultural
products would be much less if she had to depend only on those grown at home. Trade makes
it possible for her surplus manufactured goods to be traded abroad for the agricultural
products that would otherwise be lacking. A country's wealth is, therefore, much influenced by
its manufacturing capacity, provided that other countries can be found ready to accept its
manufactures.
B :the type of wealth produced.
C :how well it can create wealth.
D :what an ordinary person can share.
B :political and social stability.
C :qualities of its workers.
D :use of natural resources.
country's standard of living.
B :industrial goods
C :foodstuffs
D :export import
How we look and how we appear to others probably worries us more when we are in our
teens or early twenties than at any other time in our life. Few of us are content to accept our-
selves as we are, and few are brave enough to ignore the trends of fashion.
Most fashion magazines or TV advertisements try to persuade us that we should dress in
a certain way or behave in a certain manner. If we do, they tell us, we will be able to meet
new people with confidence and deal with every situation confidently and without embarrassment. Changing fashion, of course, does not apply just to dress. A barber today does not cut
a boy's hair in the same way as he used to, and girls do not make up in the same way as their
mothers and grandmothers did. The advertisers show us the latest fashionable Styles and we
are constantly under pressure to follow the fashion in case our friends think we are odd or
dull.
What causes fashions to change? Sometimes convenience or practical necessity or just
the fancy of an influential person can establish a fashion. Take hats, for example. In cold
climates, early buildings were cold inside, so people wore hats indoors as well as outside. In
recent times, the late President Kennedy caused a depression in the American hat industry by
not wearing hats: more American men followed his example.
There is also a cyclical pattern in fashion. In the 1920s in Europe and America, short
skirts became fashionable. After World War Two, they dropped to ankle length. Then they
got shorter and shorter until the miniskirt was in fashion. After a few more years, skirts
became longer again.
Today, society is much freer and easier than it used to be. It is no longer necessary to
dress like everyone else. Within reason, you can dress as you like or do your hair the way
you like instead of the way you should because it is the fashion. The popularity of jeans and
the "untidy" look seems to be a reaction against the increasingly expensive fashions of the top
fashion houses.
At the same time, appearance is still important in certain circumstances and then we
must choose our clothes carefully. It would be foolish to go to an interview for a job in a law
firm wearing jeans and a sweater; and it would be discourteous to visit some distinguished
scholar looking as if we were going to the beach or a night club. However, you need never
feel depressed if you don't look like the latest fashion photo. Look around you and you’ll see
that no one else does either!
B :concerned about appearance in old age.
C :far from neglecting what is in fashion.
D :reluctant to follow the trends in fashion.
B :personal dress.
C :individual hair style
D :personal future
B :varied
C :unknown
D :inexplicable
B :formality
C :informality
D :individuality
Massive changes in all of the world's deeply cherished sporting habits are underway.
Whether it's one of London's parks full of people playing softball, and Russians taking up
rugby, or the Superbowl rivaling the British Football Cup Final as a televised: spectator event
in Britain, ;he patterns of players and spectators are changing beyond recognition, We are
witnessing a globalization of our sporting culture ........
That annual bicycle race, the Tour de France, much loved by the French is a good case
in point. Just a few years back it was a strictly continental affair with France, Belgium and
Holland, Spain and Italy taking part. But in recent years it has been dominated by Colombian mountain climbers, and American and Irish riders.
The people who really matter welcome the shift toward globalization. Peugeot. Michelin
and Panasonic are multi-national corporations that want worldwide returns for the millions
they invest in teams. So it does them literally a world of good to see this unofficial world
championship become just that.
This is undoubtedly an economic-based revolution we are witnessing here,, one made
possible by. communications technology, but made to happen because of marketing considera-
tions. Sell the game and you can sell Coca Cola or Budweiser as well.
The skilful way in which American football has been sold to Europe is a good example of
how all sports will develop. The aim of course is not really to Spread the sport for its own
sake, but to increase the number of people interested in the major money-making events.
The economics of the Superbowl are already astronomical. With seats at US$125, gate
receipts alone were a staggering $10,000,000. The most important statistic of the day, however, was the $100,000,000 in TV advertising fees. Imagine how much that becomes when the
eyes of the world are watching.
So it came as a terrible shock, but not really as a surprise, to learn that some people are
now suggesting that soccer change from being a game of two 45-minute halves, to one of four
25-minute quarters. The idea is unashamedly to capture more advertising revenue, without
giving any thought for the integrity of a sport which relies for its essence on the flowing
nature of the action.
Moreover, as sports expand into world markets, and as our choice of sports as consumers
also grows, so we will demand to see them played at a higher and higher level. In boxing
we have already seen numerous, dubious world title categories because people will not pay to
see anything less than a " World Title " fight, and this means that the title fights have to be
held in different countries around the world!
Massive changes in all of the world's deeply cherished sporting habits are underway.
Whether it's one of London's parks full of people playing softball, and Russians taking up
rugby, or the Superbowl rivaling the British Football Cup Final as a televised: spectator event
in Britain, ;he patterns of players and spectators are changing beyond recognition, We are
witnessing a globalization of our sporting culture ........
That annual bicycle race, the Tour de France, much loved by the French is a good case
in point. Just a few years back it was a strictly continental affair with France, Belgium and
Holland, Spain and Italy taking part. But in recent years it has been dominated by Colombian mountain climbers, and American and Irish riders.
The people who really matter welcome the shift toward globalization. Peugeot. Michelin
and Panasonic are multi-national corporations that want worldwide returns for the millions
they invest in teams. So it does them literally a world of good to see this unofficial world
championship become just that.
This is undoubtedly an economic-based revolution we are witnessing here,, one made
possible by. communications technology, but made to happen because of marketing considera-
tions. Sell the game and you can sell Coca Cola or Budweiser as well.
The skilful way in which American football has been sold to Europe is a good example of
how all sports will develop. The aim of course is not really to Spread the sport for its own
sake, but to increase the number of people interested in the major money-making events.
The economics of the Superbowl are already astronomical. With seats at US$125, gate
receipts alone were a staggering $10,000,000. The most important statistic of the day, however, was the $100,000,000 in TV advertising fees. Imagine how much that becomes when the
eyes of the world are watching.
So it came as a terrible shock, but not really as a surprise, to learn that some people are
now suggesting that soccer change from being a game of two 45-minute halves, to one of four
25-minute quarters. The idea is unashamedly to capture more advertising revenue, without
giving any thought for the integrity of a sport which relies for its essence on the flowing
nature of the action.
Moreover, as sports expand into world markets, and as our choice of sports as consumers
also grows, so we will demand to see them played at a higher and higher level. In boxing
we have already seen numerous, dubious world title categories because people will not pay to
see anything less than a " World Title " fight, and this means that the title fights have to be
held in different countries around the world!
B :traditional sports are getting popular.
C :many local sports are becoming international.
D :foreigners are more interested in local sports.
B :Revival
C :Communications technology
D :Marketing strategies.
minute quarters?
B :Unclear
C :Reserved
D :Critical
B :they regard sports as consumer goods.
C :there exist few world-class championships
D :sports events are exciting and stimulating.
First read the following question.
Now, go through TEXT E quickly and answer Question 81.
Pickpockets operate in crowded places in the hope of getting easy pickings. Don't make
it easy for them. Keep wallets, purses and other valuables out of sight. If wearing a jacket,
an inside pocket is the best place to use. If not, your possessions are safest in a pocket with
a button-down flap.
Please co-operate with the police by reporting any crime or suspicious activity immedi-
ately, either by dialing 110 or calling at your nearest police station.
B :tell people what to wear.
C :describe how to catch thieves.
D :explain how to contact the police.
First read the following question.
Now, go through TEXT F quickly and answer Question 82.
It is widely accepted that China is a country faced with severe water shortages. Insufficient water resources have slowed agricultural development. And to make matters worse,
some of the traditional Chinese irrigation methods have wasted an astonishing amount of water.
In China today, the utilization efficiency of farming water is about 30 to 40 per cent. This
figure stands in sharp contrast to developed country's utilization average of 70-80 per cent.
The low utilization efficiency has resulted from the adoption of some traditional Chinese irrigation methods.
Only by using modern irrigation methods can we reduce water shortage in agriculture.
One of the advantages of modern irrigation methods is that they alone can save 20-30
per cent of the present volume of wasted irrigation water.
B :irrigation methods.
C :natural resources.
D :water shortages.
First read the following question.
Now, go through TEXT G quickly and answer Question 83.
May 5th 200_
Dear Mark,
Hello again! Here are my holiday plans. I'll leave on a tour of South-east Asia in August and will arrive in Singapore in September.
These are my travel plans:
August 28th London-Tokyo
September 1st Tokyo- Bangkok
September 4th Bangkok-- Singapore
September 7th Singapore-Manila
September 9th Manila-London
Looking forward to seeing you again.
Best Wishes,
Christopher
B :holiday greetings
C :holiday greetings
First read the following question.
Now, go through TEXT H quickly and answer Question 84.
DAY TRIPS
Even if you are only going on a trip to another country, accidents can happen. So
please make sure you have adequate travel insurance.
TAKE CARE IN WATER
Bathing will cool you but remember that fatal accidents can happen very easily and in the
most unexpected conditions. Adults should watch each other for signs of trouble when in
water. Children should always be supervised by an adult who can swim well. Young children
should never be left unattended near a stretch of water.
TAKE CARE ON THE ROADS
Traffic accidents are the major cause of death among travelers. Whether driver or
pedestrian, always check on local traffic regulations.
B :Baby-sitters.
C :Insurance agents.
D :Traffic police.
First read the following questions.??
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86. Participants can bring along their ___ to the competition.?
A. Christmas trees B. Christmas presents? C. festival costumes D. decoration materials ?
Now read Text I quickly and mark your answers on your answer sheet.??
With Christmas Day around the corner, Hong Kong’s Provisional Regional Council announced that a Christmas tree decoration competition will be held on Sunday in conjunction with the ongoing Regional Council Festival.? Members of the public are welcome to take part in the competition as families or small groups. Each team should be formed by at least three persons.? A total of 99 Christmas trees of 1.5 metres in height will be available for the participating teams to decorate. Participants can bring along their own decorati on materials and to use their imagination and creativity to achieve the best res ults.?
Each participating team can take home the Christmas tree it has decorated as a souvenir. In addition, there will be cash awards for the winners.??
B :three
C :four
D :five
First read the following questions.??
Now read Text quickly and mark your answers on your answer sheet.??
Summer Outings?
Trip One?
Saturday 15 July Stratford-upon-Avon and “Julius Caesar”?
The coach will leave at 9 am, allowing a couple of hours to visit Stratford befo re the performance of “Julius Caesar” at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Back aro
und 7:30 pm.??
Trip Two?
Sunday 23 July Bath?
The spa town of Bath contains the country’s finest Roman ruins, and much elegant Georgian architecture. The coach will depart at 9 am, returning at around 6:30 pm.??
Trip Three?
Saturday 5 August Stratford-upon-Avon and “The Taming of the Shrew”? Another chance to visit Stratford. “The Taming of the Shrew” stars Josie Lawrenc e in the title role. The coach will leave at 9 am, returning at around 7:30 pm.??
Trip Four?
Wednesday 9 August Oxford and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”? A half-day trip to Oxford. The coach will leave at 2:15 pm, allowing an afternoo n to see the sights before one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays at the Playho use Theatre. Back after the show.??
B :Saturday 15 July.
C :Wednesday 9 August.
D :Saturday 5 August.
88. Which of the following trips offers you the opportunity to see Geor gian architecture??
B :Trip Two.
C :Trip Three.
D :Trip Four. ?
First read the following questions.??
Now read Text K quickly and mark your answers on your answer sheet.??
Some of the data from a survey on national stereotypes in some European countries is summarized below:?
Germans Liked themselves best of all. Most Europeans agreed that the Germans had the highest proportion of good qualities. They considered themselves very tolerant, but nobody else did.
French Not really admired by anyone except the Italians. Other Europeans found them conservative, withdrawn, brilliant, superficial. Also, not very friendl y.
British Mixed reactions. Some found them calm, reserved, open- minded, others thought they were insular and superior. The British most admired the Dutch.
Italians Generally considered by everyone to be lazy and untrustworthy, an d the Italians agreed! Most also found them to be charming, hospitable and noisy
. The Italians admired the French. Hardly anyone loved the Italians except the French.
Dutch Most admired people in Europe—except by their neighbours—the Belgians. Everyone agreed that the Dutch are hardworking, thrifty, good-natured, tolerant and business-minded.
B :The Italians.
C :The British.
D :The Germans. ?
B :the Dutch
C :the French
D :the British ?