2008年12月大学英语四级预测试题及答案解析1.doc

2008年12月大学英语四级预测试题及答案解析(三)一、选词填空题第1题：Undoubtedly the globe is getting hotter and hotter. The unavoidable questions are: How much responsibility shall we take for warming, and are we1 to stop the destruction by limiting our insatiable 2 for natural fuels?It seems that global warming is too3 to be worried about, or too unpredictable. The computer 4 cannot define what the weather is like next week. In cold winter day it might be considered that a little warming would be a fair thing. And doubtlessly: Alarming about 5 alteration may sound like an environmentalist frightening strategy, aiming to urge humans to walk and keep the world cleaner.However, based on the data collected by scientists, bad news are brought to our living media.From California to the snowy peaks of China, the air is heating up right now, and the globe is being fast warmed, the 6 has increased by 1 compared with the past century. In addition, some parts like remote places have been in a much hotter state. The results arent satisfactory, ice being7 , rivers running dry, and coasts being 8 , threatening villages and cottages.The 9 are gradually occurring without any obvious phenomenon. But they shouldnt slip our mind, because they can pose as a great potential threat to the10 world.A) remoteB) technologyC) composingD) wholeE) voluntaryF) climateG) skillH) desireI) meltingJ) vanishingK) erodedL) temperatureM) amazementN) changesO) clever 【参考答案】：EHABFLIKND二、完型填空第2题：Given you were going to hunt for a job, you were doomed to be endowed with some strengths and weaknesses. Success or 1 in job-hunting would rely, to 2 great extent, 3 your capability of exerting your strengths and weaknesses to the best scope. 4 the most significance is the attitude. A person 5 begins to work believing that he wont like it or is6 what he is going to suffer is showing a disadvantage which can only forbid his success. In another word, a person who is firm 7 his mind that he is most likely as capable 8 doing the job as others and who is voluntary to make a ready attempt 9 it owns some strength of will. It is most likely that he will perform well. 10 the essential skills for a specific job is merit. A weakness is obviously short of those skills. A book-keeper who cant develop new understandings or a carpenter who is unable to make a straight line 11 in a hopeless dilemma. This book has been designed to help you draw 12 the strength and conquer the 13 that you maybe reveal in your working process. But in order to weigh your development, you must first14 stock of the position you are reaching now. 15 we go further into the book, well be16 in detail with particular issues for developing and enhancing 17 skills. Nevertheless18 begin with, you ought to pause 19 look into your current strengths and weaknesses in three areas that play significant roles in your success or failure in school: your20 , your communication skills and strategies, and your learning habits.1. A) improvement B) victoryC) failure D)achievement2. A) a B) theC) some D) certain3. A) in B) on C) of D) to4. A) Out of B) OfC) To D) Into5. A) who B) whatC) when D) which6. A) ensure B) certainC) sure D) surely7. A) onto B) on C) off D) in8. A) to B) at C) of D) for9. A) near B) on C) by D) at10. A) Have B) HadC) Having D) Had been 11. A) being B) been C) are D) is12. A) except B) but C) for D) on13. A) idea B) weaknessC) strength D) advantage14. A) make B) take C) do D) give15. A) As B) Till C) Over D) Out16. A) deal B) dealtC) be dealt D) dealing17. A) learnt B) learnedC) learning D) learn18. A) around B) toC) from D) beside19. A) to B) onto C) into D) with20. A) intelligence B) workC) attitude D) weakness 1小题、【正确答案】：C2小题、【正确答案】：A3小题、【正确答案】：B4小题、【正确答案】：B5小题、【正确答案】：A6小题、【正确答案】：C7小题、【正确答案】：D8小题、【正确答案】：C9小题、【正确答案】：D10小题、【正确答案】：C11小题、【正确答案】：D12小题、【正确答案】：B13小题、【正确答案】：B14小题、【正确答案】：B15小题、【正确答案】：A16小题、【正确答案】：D17小题、【正确答案】：C18小题、【正确答案】：B19小题、【正确答案】：A20小题、【正确答案】：C【参考解析】：无三、阅读理解第3题：It is 4 oclock in the early morning.Everything but the computing room on the campus of the university appears as quiet and misty as the mysterious hell. In the computing room, 30 students crumpled with blurred eyes, sit still at their desk, thumping the dirty and worn keys. Staring at the colorful screen, they tap continuously for hours. For the other parts in the world, it might be in the midst of the night, nevertheless here time represents nothing. It is an utterly enclosed field. These young computer “hackers” are tracing a sort of stimulus; a drive so exciting and absorbing it downplays nearly anything else in their lives and founds as the focus their being. They are compelled computer programmers. Some of these students have been glued to the console for no less than twenty hours even with no break for meals or rest. Some have been sleeping on sofas and lounge chairs in the computing room, trying to struggle for a few momentsrest but hate to get too far away from their addicted machines.It is no necessary for most of these students to be at the computing room in the middle of the night. What they are working belong to no assignments. They remain there because they desire to bethey can not resist the attraction of the computers.Furthermore they are in groups instead of alone. There are hackers at computing rooms all over the country. In the unimaginable way, they focus on nothing but computer. They escape from schooling and live beyond friendship; they might have difficulty being employed, choosing to travel from one computing room to another. They may even abandon personal health.“There is one hacker in my memory. We actually had to lift him away from his chair to feed him and arrange him to rest and sleep. We truly worried about his health,” says a computing science professor at California University.Professors of computer science are nowadays shedding more light on this hacker phenomenon and are on the watch for latent hackers and more and more severe computer addictives. They are sober that hackers are not simply resulted from the close relationship with a machine. It is the result of social relationship with the attractive thinking machines, which are becoming nearly universal 1. We can learn from the passage that those at the computing room in the middle of the night are .A) students working on a programB) students using computers to amuse themselvesC) hard-working computer science majorsD) students deeply fascinated by the computer2. Which of the following is NOT true of those young computer “hackers”?A) Most of them are top students majoring in computer programming.B) For them, computer programming is the sole purpose for their life.C) They can stay with the computer at the centre for nearly two days on end.D) Their “love” for the computer is so deep that they want to be near their machines even when they sleep.3. It can be reasonably inferred from the passage that .A) the“hacker”phenomenon exists only at university computing roomsB) university computing rooms are open to almost everyoneC) university computing rooms are expecting outstanding programmers out of the“hackers”D) the“hacker”phenomenon is partly attributable to the deficiency of the computing rooms4.The authors attitude towards the “hacker” phenomenon can be described as .A) affirmative B) contemptuous C) anxious D) disgusted5. Which of the following may be the most appropriate title for the passage?A) The Charm of Computer ScienceB) A New Type of Electronic ToysC) Compulsive Computer ProgrammersD) Computer Addicts 1小题、【正确答案】：D2小题、【正确答案】：A3小题、【正确答案】：B4小题、【正确答案】：C5小题、【正确答案】：D【参考解析】：1. D 细节理解题 文章的第二段提到“What they are working belong to no assignments. They remain there because they desire to bethey can not resist the attraction of the computers.”表明这些学生是由于无法抗拒电脑的诱惑而非做作业才彻夜呆在电脑前的。可见是沉迷于电脑的学生。所以选D。2. A 细节理解题根据第一题的信息，这些学生不是主修电脑编程的最好的学生,而仅仅是沉迷于电脑的“黑客”。而其余的选项在文章中均有体现。故答案为A。 3. B 推断题第三段提到“they might have difficulty being employed, choosing to travel from one computing room to another.”既然这些学生可以自由选择一个又一个的电脑房，那就可以推断出大学的电脑房是对所有人开放的。 4. C 推断题第一段的最后两句话、第三段的最后一句话以及最后一段第一句话“Professors of computer science are nowadays shedding more light on this hacker phenomenon and are on the watch for latent hackers and more and more severe computer addictives.”都表明了作者的焦急态度。5. D 主题推断题文章一开始就提到了沉迷于电脑的学生，然后又举了一个电脑“黑客”“废寝忘食”的例子。最后大学教授分析了“黑客”现象的发生原因。可见最适当的标题应该是D。 第4题：Very few commenters have a better point of that forbidding exchanging media called E-mail than John Moon, the CEO of E-mail management company Talk Labs. Moon examines a network that deals with 5.0 million letters everyday. The servers run and fixed by Talk Labs manage mail delivery and routing for many companies, including Security Company of England and Malshef Business.As a matter of fact, all of Talk Labscustomers are madeup of companies whose daily E-mail outflow and inflow have substantially increased with the expansion of the Web. “E-mail usage has significantly risen recently,” he says. Indeed, Talk Labs estimates that it has risen from 20 a day each employee as lately as three years ago to 30 or 40 at present.The implications for Corporate America are equally huge. As E-mail researcher and consultant Jack Blour believes, companies can be in the expectation of the volume of E-mail rising through their servers to grow 70% to 90% in 2002. And as individual messages soar it is most likely that they contain memorycompanies could finally pay 100% to 150% more simply this year on systems in the store and management of those messages. Thats the reason why tech consultancy Tadigul Group predicts demand for software manageing E-mail, such as Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes, to grow from $2.6 billion in sales today to $4.4 billion by 2005.Controlling pure junk will cost too much money. About 20% of the E-mail Talk Labs manages is uninvited, according to Moonwho further states that about 1.25% of all the E-mail his company cancels includes useless files.It is estimated that handling spam(垃圾邮件) costs $8.6 billion throughout the world, according to a 2001 Japanese study. And some companies has been worried that the jam of pornographic spam may urge employees to sue on grounds of disturbance due to brought discomfort.1. The first sentence of this passage “Very few commenters have a better point of that forbidding exchanging media called E-mail than John Moon”most probably means .A) John Moon clearly know the E-mail is wasting resourcesB) no one knows the fact that E-mail is gossip exchanging way but John MoonC) John Moon does not know anything about the E-mailD) the John Moon always concentrated on the ocean of the junk E-mail2. Which of the following is NOT true about Talk Labs?A) It is an E-mail management company.B) All of Talk Labscustomers are corporations.C) John Moon is the chief technology officer of Talk Labs.D) The company puts the great emphasis on dealing with the junk E-mail.3. The word “that” in the last sentence of the third paragraph most possibly means .A) it is expected that Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes grow from $2.6 billion in sales today to $4.4 billion by 2005B) the junk E-mail has been overloaded in the InternetC) the increase of individual messages needs more staffD) the company has paid 100% to 150% for individual message storage4.The following statements about the E-mail have been mentioned EXCEPT .A) Moon examines a network that processes 5.0 million letters each dayB) according to Jack Blour, companies can expect the volume of E-mail passing through their servers to grow not more than 50% in 2002C) too much money has been spent in controlling the junk E-mailD) some employees might take legal action in accordance with annoyance arising from exposure to some unpleasant resources.5. What is the best title for the passage?A) The E-mail MonsterB) Talk Labs Business IntroductionC) To Avoid E-mail SurgeD) E-mail Destroys Everything1小题、【正确答案】：A2小题、【正确答案】：D3小题、【正确答案】：D4小题、【正确答案】：B5小题、【正确答案】：A【参考解析】：1. A 句意理解题文章第一句的意思是“没有人比John Moon更懂得E-mail废话成堆的特点。”所以选A项(John Moon清楚地知道E-mail是在浪费资源)。2. D 细节理解题 第四段第二句表示“Talk Labs公司管理的邮件中有20%是不速之客(About 20% of the Email Talk Labs manages is uninvited )”由此可见，公司的工作重点并不是处理垃圾邮件。此外，其他三项均可在第一段和第二段中找到对应点，所以选D。3. D 推断题代词that的指代对象应该从前一句中寻找。前一句指出“为了存储和管理上述信息，这些公司仅今年一年就可能要在系统建设上增加100%到150%的费用。(companies could finally pay 100% to 150% more simply this year on systems in the store and management of those messages.)”选项D(公司投入100%-150%的费用在个人信息储存上)与此内容相符，所以选D。4. B 细节理解题根据第三段第二句，选项B中的not more than 50%表示低于50%，而文中提到电子邮件增加70%到90%。所以选B。5. A 主题推断题文章在第一句中就说“that forbidding exchanging media called Email”，说明了作者对E-mail的态度是否定的，后面又分析E-mail的其他缺点，如浪费资源和不安全等。所以，选项A中的Monster(妖怪)比较形象地表达了作者的看法。 四、阅读理解第5题：Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.For questions 1-7, markY (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Unemployment BlessingsCommunity InvolvementFor Lisa Perez, the wakeup call was burned pork chops. An executive who previously hadnt been particularly interested in home and health had become obsessed with homemaking during a stint of unemployment.Ms. Perez, 35, resolved to become an active volunteer for the duration of her search. She gave her time to a health-care concern, a housing program and a political campaign.The work bolstered her self-confidence. “Volunteering takes the focus off of you. One thing you have thats still valuable is your time. And, of course, you learn that there are thousands of people with a life thats much worse than yours,” she says.Volunteer assignments are also great ways to meet powerful and well-connected people. Over a six-month period, her volunteering evolved into working as a paid consultant and then as a full-time employee, a job she still holds today. In all, she was unemployed for eight months.Continuing EducationEven as the economy improves, a jobless executive may face up to a year or more of unemployment. This is a lot of time, especially for hard-charging high-performers who are not used to having any free time.When laid off from the position of executive in a steel company near Cleveland, Mr. Bellavance, single and virtually debt free, shifted his finances into survival mode. He cashed out his pension, sold his house, unloaded things he didnt need at garage sales, and rented an apartment with a roommate. Then, he says, “I signed up for every benefit I could find.”But he wasnt just waiting out the year. He spent the rest of his search updating his skills, including becoming certified in new database, project-management software and other related areas.“People should not feel guilty about accepting government aid,” he says, “I saw this in a lot of people. They felt they were some kind of loser for taking benefits. My advice is: Get all you can. Youve been paying for these programs in your entire career, and you may as well start to benefit from them.”Family MattersIn addition to pursuing training or volunteering, some displaced careerists use their time off work to attend to family matters. Many executives rediscover their children or find time to help their parents.Stanford Rappaport held three jobs in San Francisco, including high-tech and teaching positions. When he was laid off from the high-tech job last year, he knew it might be a long slog before he could get another post like it in the Bay Area.Mr. Rappaports remaining job, a part-time faculty position with City College of San Francisco, didnt pay enough to support him. After a couple of months of searching with no results, he decided to escape the Northern California jobs meltdown. “My plan,” he says, “was to get out of an expensive living situation, and either seek work in another section of the U.S. or overseas, for those two years.” Mr. Rappaport, who speaks five languages, had worked overseas before.Before he found an assignment, his Arkansas-based mother was diagnosed with a serious chronic illness, and he was called into duty as a son. Mr. Rappaport was able to help his mother get her affairs in order not to interrupt his search by using a San Francisco mail drop and cell phone. “I continued to look for work in California while I was in Fayetteville, Ark., helping my mother through this crisis.”Mr. Rappaports stay in Arkansas lasted six months. “Its amazing that at this stage I had the opportunity to spend a significant amount of time with my mother and improve her life and get a lot of things done for her. Most people never have that opportunity. Im very thankful that I had the chance. It was absolutely worth it,” he says.One of the unexpected benefits was the huge boost in confidence he gained from his role as caregiver. Hed been feeling depressed and defeated when he left California, but after returning, he felt renewed. He landed a job with a former employer after returning to San Francisco and remains a part-time faculty member.Discovery and ExplorationInstead of spending time off lamenting your unemployed status, ask yourself: “Is there something Ive always wanted to