环球时代：2006年英语专四考试模拟试卷
TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS
—GRADE FOUR—
TIME LIMIT: 130 MIN.
PART I DICTATION [15MIN.]
Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more..
Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.
PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION [15MIN.] (略)
In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your answer sheet.
SECTION A CONVERSATIONS
In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
SECTION B PASSAGES
In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
SECTION C NEWS BROAOCAST
In this section, you will hear several news items. Listen to them carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
PART III CLOZE [15 MIN.]
Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your answer sheet.
Interpersonal communication is your __________(1) interaction with others. Talking to a friend on campus, chatting to a friend on campus, chatting on the phone with a classmate about an __________(2) test, arguing the___________________(3) of a movie with friends, discussing strategies for accomplishing tasks __________(4), interviewing for a job, and planning the future __________(5) a loved one are all forms of interpersonal communication.
Effective interpersonal communication ___________(6) our sensitivity to others and to the situation. One goal of effective interpersonal communication is to maintain relationships, and forming __________(7) messages that accurately convey our ideas and feelings __________(8) not offending the other person is key __________(9) our success.
Effective interpersonal communication ___________(10) us. People who can clearly express their ideas, beliefs, and opinions become influential and ___________(11) control over what happens to them and to others that they __________(12). When we accurately and precisely __________(13) our thoughts, others gain a better __________(14) for our position. Their understanding and appreciation make it more likely that they will respond in __________(15) that are consistent with our needs.
Effective interpersonal communication helps us manage the __________(16) we create. Presenting ourselves in such a way that others will______________(17) and trust us is important in both public and private __________(18)—whether we’re communicating in a professional setting, __________(19) our interpersonal skills are vital to getting a job, holding a position, or rising in an organization, or in a private setting where we’re trying to __________(20) and maintain relationships.
31. [A] familiar [B] informal [C] intimate [D] close
32. [A] upcoming [B] final [C] mid-term [D] intermediate
33. [A] advances [B] strength [C] population [D] fondness
34. [A] at work [B] in work [C] under work [D] over work
35. [A] for [B] with [C] over [D] to
36. [A] describes [B] conveys [C] portrays [D] betrays
37. [A] sound [B] directory [C] diction [D] verbal
38. [A] if [B] when [C] while [D] as
39. [A] to [B] of [C] for [D] in
40. [A] empowers [B] reinforces [C] supports [D] sustains
41. [A] exhaust [B] exert [C] affect [D] enact
42. [A] care about [B] care for [C] care with [D] take to
43. [A] interpret [B] decipher [C] encode [D] decode
44. [A] assessment [B] evaluation [C] appreciation [D] appraisal
45. [A] approaches [B] methods [C] ways [D] ends
46. [A] impressions [B] practices [C] things [D] experiences
47. [A] respect [B] despise [C] mock [D] sneer at
48. [A] settings [B] locations [C] situations [D] circumstances
49. [A] when [B] where [C] how [D] if
50. [A] work [B] build [C] keep [D] retain
Text E
Taking a cue from the history of how previous universal technologies diffused, it is not far fetched to expect that the Internet will gradually reorganize the way we produce and consume. Like the forty-year sojourn before the electric motor found full fruition by not only making possible but also boosting the productivity of modern mass-production factories and mass-consumption appliances, there are likely to be many ingrained methods, tacit and explicit ways of doing business and conducting daily life that risk being swept away.
If the Internet is to have such a pervasive impact over the next two decades it will probably be largely due to the lower cost of doing all kinds of business in cyberspace. It is widely expected that in most markets including those for goods, services, finance, and labour, the efficiency of information sharing, the lifeblood of market transactions, will improve in four ways: greater coverage as more people will have access to more information; greater speed of information acquisition allowing less planned, more spontaneous searches; less time specific, since searches can be done at anytime; and less geographically bounded, since the information flows from anywhere the Internet can reach. Should the Internet achieve these objectives and become an accessible index of much of human knowledge, then the ratio of cost to a given quality of information will fall, potentially very significantly.
Direct, accurate and fast Internet based access to suppliers of labour, services, financing and commodities, is likely to offer both producers and consumers an opportunity to diversify and deepen their market relationships with a lower risk of incurring excessive search costs or error. For many analysts this portends a disassembling of many functions formerly bound together by the lower costs of information arising in a centralized head office or wholesale distributor. With the more advanced infrastructure of the Internet it should be feasible to take a more direct, flexible and even spontaneous approach to organizing the inputs needed to produce goods and services as well as the purchasing of all manner of consumer items.
In this view, the centralized, multi-functional enterprises and distribution systems of today will dissolve into component parts, hooked into a vast and more efficient web of suppliers and consumers. Inventing products as well as selling them could reverse direction, as consumers generate the custom specifications they desire and then seek out competent producers and even other buyers. Instead of today's aggressive distribution and marketing where the vendor pursues the consumer, the Internet might usher in a world where consumers solicit bids or send out queries aimed at fulfilling their needs at the lowest price. Participants across a wide range of different types of transaction could also become much less anonymous to one another as vast databases, and virtual reality unveil exchange relationships once shrouded by the limited availability of information on price, quality and past buyer's experiences. Such a massive redistribution of the roles that currently characterize the basic structure of exchange relationships will also provoke changes in how competition is assured.
97. It cannot be inferred from the first paragraph that
[A]electric motor stimulates the growth of productivity.
[B]we can learn from history of the future trend.
[C]our daily life mode are at risk now.
[D]internet will bring about unexpected changes.
98. what is the main reason, according to the text, for the Internet's widespread influence in the future?
[A]it can attract people's attention so they will buy things through the network.
[B]it can make people share information and enjoy boundless communication.
[C]it can provide a platform for people to get in touch with strangers.
[D]it can reduce cost for various business if they are put on line.
99. When the author uses the phrase "less geographically bounded" (line 7, paragraph 2), he probably means that
[A]people can get information with no geographical concerns.
[B]people will have more geografic information on things they concern.
[C]people will be less affected by geographical factors.
[D]people will enjoy the boundless freedom in term of geology.
100. which of the following statements will the author most probably disagree?
[A]Internet buying will change the way people do business.
[B]:limited information has been uncovered by virtue reality.
[C]large enterprises will be just a link in the future exchange network.
[D]wide application of Internet will lower the cost.
