文都：2008年12月英语四级全真预测试卷(六)

　　Part ⅥTranslation(5 minutes)

　　Direction:Complete the sentences on Answer Sheet 2 by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.

　　87.If you don’t like to swim, you (不妨待在家里).

　　88.Please be careful when you are drinking coffee in case you(弄脏了新地毯).

　　89.John seems a nice person, (即使这样), I don’t trust him.

　　90.What a lovely party! It’s worth(牢记一生).

　　91.Cancer is (仅次于) heart disease as a cause of death.

　　Key to Model Test Thirteen

　　Part IWriting

　　【写作思路】

　　写一篇关于失败是否是件坏事的议论文，从失败是生活中的常事，论述人们对待失败的态度以及阐明自己的态度。

　　【参考范文】

　　Is Failure a Bad Thing?

　　Failure is not a stranger to life. It can happen anywhere, anytime and to anyone. No person succeeds all the time. The more development you want to make, the more failure you might encounter. So, people are faced with failure now and then.

　　There are different attitudes towards failure. Some people are afraid of failure and they can not bear the blow of failure, so they stay where they are and try to not to make progress. Some optimists, however, fight against failure bravely and achieve all his aims at last.

　　My attitude is that we aren’t afraid of failure. When we meet with failure, we don’t lose heart. We should call up all our courage and persist in what you are engaged in. Remember the proverb: Where there is a will, there is a way.

　　Part IIReading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

　　1.【解析】Y。根据第二段的第一、二句话。

　　2.【解析】N。文章第六段，Some of the birds were taken to North America, some to Japan, some to the Philippines, some to the island of Oahu, and some to the Marshall Islands. 并不是都去了the island of Oahu。

　　3.【解析】Y。参看文章第四段。

　　4.【解析】N。文章第九段，They could not even feel the turning of the earth, because it turns slowly there. 文章第十一段，Once they thought it was the turning of the earth. Then they thought it was the sun. Both of these have been proven wrong. 这些都证明了the turning of the earth 并不是原因。

　　5.【解析】Y。第八段最后一句 There is nothing on the sea to remember. Some birds fly regularly from Alaska to Hawaii, a journey of 2,000 miles and there is no land on the way.

　　6.【解析】Y。根据第九段第二句话The ice there does nothing to help a bird to find the right direction.

　　7.【解析】NG。

　　8.【解析】The shorter days第三段中，But when the summer is ending in the north, the days become shorter and shorter. This may be the sign for the birds that the winter is coming. 第四段，Perhaps the shorter days send them south.

　　9.【解析】north第九段，Every direction from the South Pole is north.

　　10.【解析】lines of force/lines of life第十三段，He believes that lines of force, or lines of life, stand round people, animals and even things like metals.

　　Part IIIListening Comprehension

　　Section A

　　11.M:Your son seems to have made much progress in playing the piano. Does he attend any piano classes?

　　W: Yes, he takes lessons twice a week, but from next week on, he will go to the class on Saturday evenings too.

　　Q:How often will the woman’s son have piano lesson from next week on?

　　【解析】C对话中女士说她儿子一周上两次课，但从下周开始周六晚上也要上课，所以我们可以推断要上三次课。所以选C。