2012年6月英语四级考前10天冲刺试卷及答案(7)

 　　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 fit each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank ~bllowing the passage. Read the passage through carefully before trucking 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. Y ou may not use any of the words in the bank more than once
　　Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
　　Men who bottle up their anger at being unfairly treated at work are up to five times more likely to 47 a heart attack, or even die from one, than those who let their 48 show a Swedish study has found.
　　The study followed 2,755 employed men who had not suffered any heart attacks from 1992 to 2003. At the end of the study, 47 ~ 49 had either suffered an attack, or died from heart disease, and many of those had been found to be "covertly coping" with unfair _50_ at work, "After adjustment for age, socioeconomic factors, risk behaviors, job _51 and biological risk factors at baseline ( 基线 ), there was a close-response relationship between covert coping and the risk of incident myocardial infarction (心肌梗塞 ) or cardiac death," the study’s authors wrote. Covert coping was listed as "letting thing pass without saying anything" and "going
　　away" _52_ feelings of being hard done by colleagues or bosses. Men who often used these coping techniques had a two to rivefold higher risk of developing heart disease than those who were more. _53_. at work, the study showed.
　　The researchers said they could not answer the question of what might be a particularly healthy coping 54__ at work, but listed open coping behavior when 55__ unfair treatment or facing a56_ as "protesting directly," "talking to the person right away," "yelling at the person right away" or "speaking to the person later when things have calmed down."
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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.
　　I was introduced to the concept of literacy animator in Oladumi Arigbede’s (1994) article on high illiteracy rates among women and school dropout rates among girls. According to Arigbede, literacy animators view their role as assisting in the self-
　　liberating development of people in the world who are struggling for a more meaningful life. Animators are a family of deeply concerned and committed people whose gut-level rejection of mass human pauperization (贫民) compels them to intervene
　　on the side of the marginalized (使处于社会边缘 ). Their motivation is not derived from a love of literacy as merely another technical life skill, and they accept that literacy is never culturally or ideologically neutral.
　　Arigbede writes from her experiences as an animator working with women and men in Nigeria. She believes that literacy animators have to make a clear choice about whose culture and whose ideology will be fostered among those with whom they work. Do literacy educators in the United States consider whether the instruction they pursue conflicts with their students’ traditional cultures or community, or fosters illiteracies in learners’ first or home languages or dialects and in their orality?
　　Some approaches to literacy instruction represent an ideology of individualism, control, and competition. Consider, for example, the difference in values conveyed and represented when students engage in choral reading versus the practice of
　　having one student read out loud to the group. To identify as a literacy animator is to choose the ideology of "sharing,
　　solidarity, love, equity, co-operation with and respect of both nature and other human beings". Literacy pedagogy that matches the animator ideology works on maintaining the languages and cultures of millions of minority children who at present are being forced to accept the language and culture of the dominant group. It might lead to assessment that examines the performance outcomes of a community of literacy learners and the social significance of their uses of literacy, as opposed to measuring what an individual can do as a reader and writer on a standardized test. Shor ( 1993 ) describes literacy animators as problem-posing, community-based, dialogic educators. Do our teacher-education textbooks on reading and language arts promote the idea that teachers should explore problems from a community-based dialogic perspective?
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　　57. A literacy animator is one who ____
　　[A] struggles for a more meaningful life
　　[B] frees people from poverty and illiteracy
　　[C] is committed to marginalize the illiterate
　　[D] is concerned with what is behind illiteracy
　　58. The author suggests that literacy educators in the US in a way __
　　[A] promote students’ home languages
　　[B] force students to accept their culture
　　[C] teach nothing but reading and writing
　　[D] consider literacy as of non-neutral nature
　　59. Arigbede worked with Nigerians probably to
　　[A] teach American customs and ideology
　　[B] make a choice of culture to be fostered
　　[C] reject the values of the dominant class
　　[D] help maintain Nigerian language and culture
　　60. Animator ideology emphasizes more __
　　[A] the social function of literacy
　　[B] students’ performance in tests
　　[C] the dominant group’s language
　　[D] the attainment of life skills
　　61. It is implied by the author that, because of the kind of teacher education in the US, teachers there tend to ignore __
　　[A] constant development of new teaching approaches
　　[B] using their own wisdom in problem-solving
　　[C] talented performances of minority students
　　[D] community-based literacy enhancement
　　Passage Two
　　Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
　　InfraGard is a grass-roots effort to respond to the need for cooperation and collaboration in countering the threat of cyber crime and terrorism to private businesses and the government. By the end of September, there will be InfraGard chapters in all 50 states, Calloway said. With advice from the FBI, each local chapter will be run by a board of directors that includes members of private industry, the academic community and public agencies. Banks, utilities, and other businesses and
　　government agencies will use a secure Web site to share information about attempts to hack into their computer networks.
　　Members can join the system free. A key feature of the system is a two-pronged method of reporting attacks.
　　A "sanitized" description of a hacking attempt or other incident--one that doesn’t reveal the name or information about the victim--can be shared with the other members to spot trends. Then a more detailed description also can be sent to the FBI’s
　　computer crimes unit to interfere if there are grounds for an investigation. Cyber crime has jumped in recent years across the nation, particularly in hotbeds of financial commerce and technology like Charlotte. "Ten years ago, all you needed to protect yourself was a safe, a fence and security officers," said Chris Swecker, who is in charge of the FBI’s Charlotte office. "Now any business with a modem is subject to attack." FBI agents investigate computer hacking that disrupted popular Web sites including Amazon. corn, CNN and Yahoo!
　　Several North Carolina victims have been identified this year. The investigation has also identified computer systems in North Carolina used by hackers to commit such attacks. Prosecutions of hackers have been hampered by the reluctance of companies to report security intrusions for fear of bad publicity and lost business. Meanwhile, too many corporations have made it too easy for criminals by sacrificing security for speed and accessibility, Jack Wiles, who will lead the local InfraGard
　　chapter’s board, said a recent report estimated 97 percent of all cyber crime goes undetected. Wiles, a computer security expert, has a firewall on his personal computer to prevent hackers from getting into his files. "I get at least one report a day that somebody was trying to get into my computer," he said, "the Net is a wonderful place, but it’s also a dangerous one."
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　　62. From the first paragraph, we know __
　　[A] InfraGard is a protective measure against cyber crime
　　[B] InfraGard is a measure of cooperation and collaboration
　　[C] there will be 50 InfraGard chapters in all states
　　[D] private business and the government are now committing cyber crime
　　63. Each local chapter of InfraGard will be run by the following EXCEPT __
　　[A] academic communities
　　[B] public agencies
　　[C] the FBI
　　[D] private industry
　　64. By saying "too many corporations...speed and accessibility" (Lines 3-4, Para. 3 ), the author means __
　　[A] too many corporations take no notice of the security problem of computers
　　[B] criminals are sacrificing security for speed and accessibility
　　[C] it’s very easy to sacrifice security for speed and accessibility
　　[D] many companies suffer from computer hacking because they value speed and accessibility more than security
　　65. All the following are reasons for the rise in cyber crime EXCEPT __
　　[A] victims won’t report intrusions by hackers
　　[B] victims have no firewalls
　　[C] the use of modem is increasing
　　[D] companies don’t pay enough attention to security
　　66. It can be concluded from the passage that __
　　[A] not all hacking attempts are worthy of investigation
　　[B] information of the victims is inaccessible
　　[C] InfraGard chapters will be in effect by the end of September
　　[D] Amazon.corn was often disrupted by hacking