和谐英语

大学英语四级考试考前预测试卷

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21. the author's attitude towards the development of nuclear power is _____.
a. negative   b. neutral   c. positive     d. questioning

22. what has made the procedure for licensing nuclear plants a bad dream? 
a. the inefficiency of the nuclear regulation commission.
b. the enormous cost of construction and operation.
c. the length of time it takes to make investigations.
d. the objection of the opponents of nuclear power.

23. it can be inferred from paragraph 2 that _____.
a. there are not enough safety measures in the u.s. for running new nuclear power 
       plants
b. it is not technical difficulties that prevent the building of nuclear power 
      plants in the u.s.
c. there are already more nuclear power plants than necessary in the u.s.
d. the american government will not allow japanese nuclear reactors to be 
      installed in the u.s.
24. governor mario cuomo's chief intention in proposing the settlement wa s to _____.
a. stop the shoreham plant from going into operation
b. urge the power company to further increase its power supply
c. permit the shoreham plant to operate under certain conditions
d. help the power company to solve its financial problems

25. from which sentence of the article can you see the attitude of the author and 
    that of govenor mario cuomo respectively?
a. the 2nd sentence in the first paragraph, the 3rd sentence in the last 
      paragraph.
b. the last sentence, the last sentence but one 
c. the last sentence in para.2, last sentence but one.
d. the last sentence in para.3, the 3rd sentence in the fifth paragraph.

passage 4
      does a bee know what is going on in its mind when it navigates its way to distant food sources and back to the hive (蜂房), using polarized sunlight and the tin y magnet it carries as a navigational aid? or is the bee just a machine, unable to do its mathematics and dance its language in any other way? to use dondald griffin's term, does a bee have “awareness", or to use a phrase i like better, c an a bee think and imagine?
        there is an experiment for this, or at least an observation, made long ago by karl von firsch and more recently confirmed by james gould in princeton. biologist s who wish to study such things as bee navigation, language, and behavior in general have to train their bees to fly from the hive to one or another special place. to do this, they begin by placing a source of sugar very close to the hive s o that the bees (considered by their trainers to be very dumb beasts) can learn w hat the game is about. then, at regular interval, the dish or whatever is moved progressively farther and farther from the hive, in increments (增加量) of about 25 percent at each move. eventually, the target is being moved 100 feet or more at a jump, very far from the hive. sooner or later, while this process is going on, the biologist shifting the dish of sugar will find the bees are out there waiting for them, precisely where the next position had been planned. this is an uncomfortable observation to make.

26. the best title for the passage is _____.
a. teaching the bees to navigate
b. testing the awareness of bees
c. navigational techniques of bees
d. behaviorists versus biologists: a zoological debate

27. the word “awareness" in paragraph 1 appears in quotation marks in order to _____.
a. show the author's preference for the term
b. indicate that it is being used humorously
c. acknowledge donald griffin's previous use of the term
d. point out that it was used differently earlier in the passage

28. in the second paragraph karl von frischis mentioned _____. 
a. to introduce his observation on bee behavior
b. to contrast his theories with those of james gould
c. acknowledge donald griffin's previous use of the term
d. point out that it was used differently earlier in the passage

29. according to the author, sugar was used in the study _____.
a. to reward the bees for performing the experiment correctly
b. to train the bees to travel to a particular place
c. to ensure that the bees knew where the hive was
d. to ensure that the bees would obey the orders

30. the result of the experiment explained in the passage seems to indicate that _____.
a. research using bees is too dangerous to be conducted successfully
b. bees are unable to navigate beyond 100 feet their hive
c. scientists can teach bees to navigate
d. bees are able to perform limited reasoning tasks

part iii vocabulary and structure (20 minutes)

directions: there are 30 incomplete sentences i n this part. for each sentence there are four choices marked a., b., c. and d.. choose the one answer that best completes the sentence. then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet wit h a single line through the centre.

31. we were _____for half an hour in the traffic and so we arrived late.
a.  kept off     b.  held up      c.  put back      d.  broken down

32. she felt offended at my remarks, but it wasn't my _____to hurt her.
a.  implication  b.  indication   c.  intention     d.  invasion

33. when they heard the police siren, the thieves dropped their _____and fled.
a.  limp         b.  plunder      c.  lid           d.  loop

34. it's an interesting old document but there are a lot of words i can't _____.
a.  pick out     b.  fill out     c.  make out      d.  look out

35. the book looks like an advanced _____text to me.
a.  economic     b.  economist    c.  economics     d.  economical

36. the doctor used strong medicine to _____the sick child of cold
a.  restore      b.  cure         c.  treat         d.  recover

37. when confronted with such questions, my mind goes _____, and 2 can hardly remember my own birthday.
a.  dim          b.  blank        c.  vain          d.  faint