2010年12月英语四级考试模拟试题及答案(3)

　　Section C

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blank, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

　　An old friend from abroad, whom I was expecting to stay with me, (36) ________ from the airport to tell me that he had arrived. I was still at the office at the time, but I had made (37) ________ for his arrival. After explaining where my new flat was, I told him that I had left the key under a piece of stone near the door. As I was likely to be at home rather late, I advised him to go into the (38) ________ and help himself to food and drink.

　　Two hours later, my friend telephoned me from the flat. At the moment, he said, he was listening to some of my (39) ________ after having just had a truly (40 ) ________ meal. He had found a pan on the gas (41) ________ and fried two eggs and had helped himself to some cold chicken from the (42) ________. Now he said, he was drinking a glass of orange (43) ________ and he hoped I would join him. (44) ________________________________________ , he answered that he had not been able to find the key under the piece of stone, (45) ________________________________________. I listened to all this in astonishment. (46) ________________________________________.

　　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 center. 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 glance 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.

　　[A] allow

　　[B] instance

　　[C] blank

　　[D] industrial

　　[E] frustrating

　　[F] items

　　[G] indicating

　　[H] highlight [I] user

　　[J] complicated

　　[K] white

　　[L] annoying

　　[M] successful

　　[N] articles

　　[O] simple

　　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 center.

　　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 "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.

　　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采集者退散

　　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 13, Para. 2) means ________ .

　　[A] thorough [C] false

　　[B] ultimate [D] decisive