2012年6月英语四级考前10天冲刺试卷及答案(6)

  　　Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
　　Section A
　　Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each
　　choice in bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
　　Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
　　It seems you always forget--your reading glasses when you are rushing to work, your coat when you are going to the cleaners, your credit card when you are shopping...
　　Such absent-mindedness may be 47 to you; now British and German scientists are developing memory glasses that record everything the 48 sees.
　　The glasses can play back memories later to help the wearer remember things they have forgotten such as where they left their keys. And the glasses also 49 the user to "label" items so that information can be used later on. The wearer could walk
　　around an office or a factory identifying certain 50 by pointing at them. Objects indicated are then given a 51 label on a screen inside the glasses that the user then fills in.
　　It could be used in 52 plants by mechanics looking to identify machine parts or by electricians wiring a 53 device.
　　A spokesman for the project said: "A car mechanic ’for 54 could find at a glanbe where a part on a certain car model is so that it can be identified and repaired. For the motorist the system could 55 accident black spots or dangers on the road."
　　In other cases the glasses could be worn by people going on a guided tour, 56 points of interest or by people looking at panoramas where all the sites could be identified.
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　　Section B
　　Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked [A ], [B], [ C] and [D ]. You should decide on the best choice and mark the
　　corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
　　Passage One
　　Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
　　You’re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need. Let’s assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn’t it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the
　　form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University?
　　More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university.
　　Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week.
　　Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them "impostors (骗子 )"; another refers to them as "special cases". One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by "no such people". To avoid outright( 彻底的 ) lies, some job-seekers claim that they "attended" or "were associated with" a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that "attending" means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that "being associated with" a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century--that’s when they began keeping records, anyhow. If you don’t want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony diploma.
　　One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from "Smoot State University". The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the "University of Purdue". As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
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　　57. The main idea of this passage is that __
　　[A] employers are checking more closely on applicants now
　　[B] lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem
　　[C] college degrees can now be purchased easily
　　[D] employers are no longer interested in college degrees
　　58. According to the passage, "special cases" refers to cases that __
　　[A] students attend a school only part-time
　　[B] students never attended a school they listed on their application
　　[C] students purchase false degrees from commercial firms
　　[D] students attended a famous school
　　59. We can infer from the passage that __
　　[A] performance is a better judge of ability than a college degree
　　[B] experience is the best teacher
　　[C] past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees do
　　[D] a degree from a famous school enables an applicant to gain advantage over others in job competition
　　60. This passage implies that __
　　[A] buying a false degree is not moral
　　[B] personnel officers only consider applicants from famous schools
　　[C] most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from school
　　[D] society should be greatly responsible for lying on applications
　　61. The word "phony" (Line 10, Para. 2) means__
　　[A] thorough
　　[B] ultimate
　　[C] false
　　[D] decisive
　　Passage Two
　　Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
　　Material culture refers to what can be seen, held, felt, used--what a culture produces. Examining a culture’s tools and technology can tell us about the group’s history and way of life. Similarly, research into the material culture of music can help us to understand the music culture. The most vivid body of material culture in it, of course, is musical instruments. We cannot hear for ourselves the actual sound of any musical performance before the 1870s when the phonograph was invented, so we rely on instruments for important information about music cultures in the remote past and their development. Here we have two kinds of evidence: instruments well preserved and instruments pictured in art. Through the study of instruments, as well as paintings, written documents, and so on, we can explore the movement of music from the Near East to China over a thousand years ago, or we can outline the spread of Near Eastern influence to Europe that resulted in the development of most of the instruments in the symphony orchestra.
　　Sheet music or printed music, too, is material culture. Scholars once defined folk music cultures as those in which people learn and sing music by ear rather than from print, but research shows mutual influence among oral and written sources during
　　the past few centuries in Europe, Britain, and America. Printed versions limit variety because they tend to standardize any song, yet they stimulate people to create new and different songs. Besides, the ability to read music notation has a far-reaching effect on music and, when it becomes widespread, on the music culture as a whole.
　　One more important part of music’s material culture should be singled out: the influence of the electronic media-~radio, record player, tape recorder, television, and videocassette, with the future promising talking and singing computers and other
　　developments. This is all part of the "information revolution", a twentieth-century phenomenon as important as the industrial revolution was in the nineteenth. These electronic media are not just limited to modern nations; they have affected music
　　cultures all over the globe.
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　　62. Research into the material culture of a nation is of great importance because
　　[A] it helps produce new cultural tools and technology
　　[B] it can reflect the development of the nation
　　[C] it helps understand the nation’s past and present
　　[D] it can demonstrate the nation’s civilization
　　63. It can be learned from this passage that __
　　[A] the existence of the symphony was attributed to the spread of Near Eastern and Chinese music
　　[B] Near Eastern music had an influence on the development of the instruments in the symphony orchestra
　　[C] the development of the symphony shows the mutual influence of Eastern and Western music
　　[D] the musical instruments in the symphony orchestra were developed on the basis of Near Eastern music
　　64. According to the author, music notation is important because
　　[A] it has a great effect on the music culture as more and more people are able to read it
　　[B] it tends to standardize folk songs when it is used by folk musicians
　　[C] it is the printed version of standardized folk music
　　[D] it encourages people to popularize printed versions of songs
　　65. It can be concluded from the passage that the introduction of electronic media into the world of music
　　[A] has brought about an information revolution
　　[B] has speeded up the appearance of a new generation of computers
　　[C] has given rise to new forms of music culture
　　[D] has led to the transformation of traditional musical instruments
　　66. Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the passage?
　　[A] Musical instruments developed through the years will sooner or later be replaced by computers.
　　[B] Music cannot be passed on to future generations unless it is recorded.
　　[C] Folk songs cannot be spread far unless they are printed on music sheets
　　[D] The development of music culture is highly dependent on its material aspect.