和谐英语

大学英语四级模拟试题(四)

2007-10-18来源:

81. cellular mobile telephones are telephone sets _________. 
   a) used in cars 
   b) capable of being moved in offices or at home 
   c) shaped like cells 
   d) controlled by human voices 

82. drivers using cellular mobile telephones are prone to accidents because 
   _____________. 
   a) telephone conversation distracts users from driving 
   b) drivers are often not skillful enough to use them 
   c) they are not reliable 
   d) they are not "hands free" 

83. which of the following statements is not true? 
   a) the voice dialer unit is a device which dials numbers by human 
    voice, rather than by hand. 
   b) the voice dialer allows drivers to pay more attention on driving 
    while dialing. 
   c) the voice dialer unit can make cellular mobile phones completely 
    "hands free." 
   d) the voice dialer was developed by voice control systems, inc. 

84. the voice dialer unit is programmed to respond to ____________. 
   a) what the user wants to say 
   b) a special vocabulary used by the driver 
   c) various commands spoken by the user 
   d) only the telephone numbers and specific control commands 

85. this passage centres on ___________. 
   a) a new hazard on the road 
   b) different kinds of telephones 
   c) a safer car telephone 
   d) voice control systems, inc 

  questions 86 to 90 are based on the following passage: 

   having no language, infants cannot be told what they need to learn. yetby the age of three they will have mastered the basic structure of theirnative language and will be well on their way to communicative competence.acquiring their language is a most impressive intellectual feat. studies ofhow children learn language generally agree that the most remarkable aspectof this feat is the rapid acquisition of grammar. nevertheless, the ability 
of children to conform to grammatical rules is only slightly more wonderfulthan their ability to learn words. it has been estimated that the averagehigh school graduate in the united states has a reading vocabulary of 80,000words, which includes idiomatic expressions and proper names of people andplaces. this vocabulary must have been learned over a period of 16 years.from the figures, it can be calculated that the average child learns at arate of about 13 new words per day. clearly a learning process of greatcomplexity goes on at a rapid rate in children. 

86. according to the passage, approximately how long does it take children 
   to learn the basic structure of their native language? 
   a) one year.            b) three years. 
   c) about two and half years.    d) thirteen years. 

87. what is the main subject of the passage? 
   a) language acquisition in children. 
   b) teaching languages to children. 
   c) how to memorize words. 
   d) communicating with infants. 

88. the word "feat" in line 6 is closest in meaning to which of the 
   following? 
   a) experiment.           b) idea. 
   c) activity.            d) accomplishment. 

89. in line 10, the word "which" refers to _______. 
   a) their ability          b) reading vocabulary 
   c) idiomatic expression      d) learning process 

90. according to the passage, what is impressive about the way children learn 
   vocabulary? 
   a) they learn words before they learn grammar. 
   b) they learn even very long words. 
   c) they learn words very quickly. 
   d) they learn the most words in high school. 

  writing 

   directions: for this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a compositionon a hundred years from now in three paragraphs. you are given the first sen-tence each paragraph. your part of the composition should be no less than 100words, not including the words given. remember to write clearly. 
   you should write this composition on the composition sheet. 

           a hundred years from now 
   some people are pessimistic (?¨¤?£¤1?|¨??) when they think about the future. __________________________________________________________________________ 

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   other people believe that man adapts very easily.____________________ 

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   if we are to have a bright future, we have to take measures now._____ 

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