新东方：2008年12月英语四级考试模拟冲刺试卷

　　Questions 19-22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

　　22. how did the woman know about the Student Action Union?

　　23.Why is the Student Action Union opposing the parting lot plan?

　　24. What is the Student Action Union going to do on Thursday?

　　25. what will the woman probably do on Thursday afternoon?

　　Passage one

　　Next time you bring your kids in for a checkup, don't be surprised if the doctor asks about their tastes in entertainment. The American Academy of Medicine suggested last week that doctors work with parents to evaluate how much TV kids watch and what they see, what video and computer games they play, which websites they visit on the Internet, whether they view R-rated videos without the company of their parents, what music they like and what books they read. Doctors are worried that kids who spend too much time in front of the tube don't get enough exercise and can become overweight. The academy is also concerned that the messages kids get from entertainment media can make them more violent and sexually active.

　　The academy recommends that children under age two not watch any TV. "Children need activities to stimulate the brain during the first two years of life," says Dr. Miriam Baron, who chairs the academy's committee on public education. "They need feedback and socialization." Older children, she says, should watch TV in a common area. Their bedrooms should be "electronic media-free" zones where they can have a quiet place to read, study, play or just relax.

　　Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　Q26. What unusual question may doctors ask when giving kids a checkup next time?

　　Q27. The academy suggests that children under age two.

　　Q28. According to the report, children's bedrooms should.

　　Passage Two

　　My first semester of college was the worst I’ve been through. I had made plans during the summer to share an apartment with two of my close friends from high school. But before we moved in, problems started developing.

　　One of the two girls I was to share an apartment with was going to work instead of going to college. However, a week before we were to move in, she found out that she didn't get the job. She was forced to live at home and look for work. The rest two of us lasted for a month and then agreed that we couldn’t make it with the higher monthly rent payments. I started looking around.

　　I found another apartment and the rent wasn’t bad. The place was noisy, but is was the best ai could afford for the time. However, one day when I returned, I was smoke coming from the back of the house. The cottage had caught fire, and my room was a burned mess. I was once more out of a place to stay.

　　I finally gave up looking around and moved home. I had to drive forty miles to school every day, so I almost spent as much on gas as I would have on lodging, I was very bored. I almost host the will to study. It had been really a bad semester.

　　29. what was the speaker’s plan before her first college semester began?

　　30. What was the first lodging problem the speaker encountered?

　　31. Why did the speaker move back home finally?

　　32.Why does the speaker think her first semester of college was the worst?

　　Passage Three

　　The French are at heart traditionalists. Though they dearly live revolutions, they disapprove of shifts in behavior. Everything must be done properly, an expression that applies equally to getting married and getting drunk, stuffing a duck and filming in a form, addressing an envelop and addressing a teacher. There is an established order of things, and the order was established by the French.

　　The desire to maintain standards is best seen on any holiday in the summer. Where the Italians, the British, and even the Germans, relax sufficiently to leave there faces unshaven, or mealtimes become irregular, or dresses become strange, the French behave as though they were still under the microscope of real life.

　　French men and women take two hours over their morning making up. Watch any Frenchman at a campsite in the summer and see how long he spends shaving, trimming his moustache, and on general showers.

　　Wives cook three-course lunches which they serve to their husbands in the stuffy heat at little tables with linen napkins and polished dishware. The white wine must stand in an ice bucket. Everything is correct--the bread, the cheese, the sauce.

　　Mr,eats greedily .Mrs.stands behind him, and a little to the side, nodding happily. She will do the washing-up immediately the meal is finished. All will be neat and tidy before any other activity is even considered.

　　33. Which people are keen on order, according to the passage?

　　34. What will the wife do after the meal?

　　35. What is the characteristic of French people’s life according to the passage?