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四级第一篇之邯郸勺丸创作
Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten
blanks. You are required to select one wordfor
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 the bank is identified by a letter.
Please mark the corresponding letter for each
item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through
the centre. You may not use any of the words in
the blank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
You might expect that children’s movies would be less
violent than those geared toward adults. But you’d be
__36__.
“Just because a film has a cute clown fish or a singing
mermaid or baby deer in it, doesn’t mean that there won't
be murder,” says Ian Colman, a mental health
epidemiologist at the University of Ottawa.
Colman thought it’d be interesting to compare violence in
films __37__ at kids and grown-ups, after a colleague of
his said that he may want to __38__ over the first five
minutes of Finding Nemo while watching with his kids,
since it __39__ a “death scene,” he says.
So he and a few other researchers __40__ the 45 children’s mov ies of all time to the adult’s dramas and __41__ how many murders and violent acts took place.
They skipped action movies because these “are often also marketed to, and viewed by, young children,” Colman and colleagues wrote in the study. They found that in children’s films __42__ those aimed toward adults, deaths amongst major characters were 2.5 times more __43__, and 2.8 times more likely to be murders, says Colman. Movie characters that were parents fared particularly badly.
But in this case, the findings do seem to have some real-world __44__. It may be best for parents to watch movies with their kids, so that if __45__ come up, they can be talked about, Colman says.
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四级第二篇
Part III Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten
blanks. You are required to select one wordfor
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 the bank is identified by a letter.
Please mark the corresponding letter for each
item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through
the centre. You may not use any of the words in
the blank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
One out of every two people in the U.K. will be __36__ with
cancer at some point in their lives, according to new
research published in the British Journal of Cancer on
Wednesday.
Other studies have __37__ that the U.K.’s cancer rates
would __38__ that level at some point in the future, but
the newest finding, from the organization Cancer Research
U.K., __39__ that that moment has already arrived for
anyone born after the early 1960s. The new figure updates
a previous figure published by the organization, which pegged the U.K. cancer rate at more than one in every three people.
Researchers say this new, higher figure is partly due to advances that have __40__people to live longer.
“Cancer is __41__ a disease of old age, with more than 60 percent of all cases diagnosed in people aged over 65. If people live long enough, then most will get cancer at some point. But there’s a lot we can do to make it less likely—like giving up smoking, being more active, drinking less alcohol and __42__ a healthy weight,” Peter Sasieni,
a professor at Queen Mary University of London and one of
the paper’s authors, said in a press release. “If we
want to reduce the risk of developing the disease, we must redouble our efforts and take action now to better __43__
the disease for future generatio ns.”
These figures are not a major shock to anyone __44__ with
the subject. Cancer rates in the U.S. are extremely similar. According to the latest publication of the American, the lifetime risk of developing cancer is __45__ less than one
in every two for men, and higher than one in every three
for women.
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四级第三篇
Part III Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten
blanks. You are required to select one wordfor
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 the bank is identified by a letter.
Please mark the corresponding letter for each
item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through
the centre. You may not use any of the words in
the blank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
“How do you get out of an Icelandic forest? You stand up.”
During five days spent in Iceland this fall, I heard locals tell this joke several times.
The quip once made __36__; Iceland was until recently a
tree-deprived land, hosting instead an __37__ of beautiful wide-open expanses, clad in volcanic rocks, glaciers and some grasses and shrubs. And while it still remains largely that way, trees and woodlands have been __38__ returning
the past several decades, and an Icelandic forestry
industry is beginning to take root.
That’s due in large part to a warming climate, which is helping many new types of trees grow here. Over the past 20 years, __39__ temperatures have __40__ by almost 2 degrees Fahrenheit. As a result, trees are __41__ faster and new varieties are now found here that couldn’t __42__ before.
AdalsteinnSigurgeirsson, head of research for the Icelandic forest service, has heard the joke thousands of times. “[I] cringe every time I hear it,” he says. Sigurgeirsson picks me up on recent Monday morning in Reykjavik in his black Mitsubishi pickup. It’s rainy and the sky is dark—not
__43__ weather for walking through a forest. He’s dressed
in a blue sweater and green rain jacket. He smiles and nods at the deluge outside. “Welcome to Iceland!” The rain is usually __44__, he assures me, and it __45__ enough water
for tree growth over much of the island—one reason he is
so upbeat about forestry’s prospects here.
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四级第四篇
Part III Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten
blanks. You are required to select one wordfor
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 the bank is identified by a letter.
Please mark the corresponding letter for each
item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through
the centre. You may not use any of the words in
the blank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
For a while, biologist ArjanBoonman lived in Indonesia and spent much of his time traveling the country to make
__36__ recordings of bats.
“There’s a lot of deforestation there, and lots of bats are __37__ going to go extinct,” says Boonman, now a postdoctoral researcher at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
__38__ by the bats, he decided to gather as much
information as __39__ about the various species in Indonesia, before they’re gone.
One day Boonman sat down on a bus next to a friendly man, who told him he’d heard a species __40__cave nectar
bats making a clicking sound with their wings, perhaps using it to echolocate. Echolocation is the process whereby bats and other animals bounce sound off their surroundings to help them navigate, especially in the dark. Boonman was __41__.
Bat biologists, including Boonman, pretty much all assumed that bats only echolocate __42__, by making sounds in their larynx. It was also generally thought that the vast
majority of species in this family, known as Old World fruits bats, didn’t echolocate at all, says bat expert Nancy Simmons, the curator-in-charge at the department of mammalogy at New York’s American Museum of Natural History.
Yovel convinced Boonman that it was a story worth looking into, and together they and a third scientist went to
Thailand to record several different unrelated species of fruit bats (one of the better travel excuses out there). They found that several species of bats did __43__ make clicking sounds with their wings, increasing the frequency of these clicks more than fivefold when they turned out the lights.
This and other experiments led them to __44__ that the bats use these wing clicks to find their way around, and the clicking appears to function as a primitive form of echolocation, says Simmons, who wasn’t involved in the study, which was __45__ in the journal Current Biology.
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四级第五篇
Part III Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten
blanks. You are required to select one wordfor
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 the bank is identified by a letter.
Please mark the corresponding letter for each
item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through
the centre. You may not use any of the words in
the blank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
According to a study __36__ this week in the
journal Ecology Letters, the __37__ of birds in Europe has
__38__ by more than 20 percent in the past 30 years. While
there were over 2.1 billion European birds in 1980, there
are now around 1.6 billion, says study co-author Rich
Inger, an ecologist at the University of Exeter in the
United Kingdom.
Most of the decline—or 90 percent—is __39__ for by a
shrinking population in the 36 most common species, Inger
tells Newsweek.
For example, throughout the continent there are now 62 percent fewer house sparrows (家雀)than there were when Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, a decline of about 150 million animals, he says.
There were also drops in the numbers of such __40__ species as skylarks, grey partridges and starlings.
The decline is likely due in part to habitat loss and pesticide use. The amount of land used for agriculture in Europe has __41__ increased since 1980, and there are fewer places for birds to nest and find food, Inger says. At the same time, pesticide use has gone up, __42__ down the number of “pests” like inse cts that birds prey upon, he adds.
“We don’t manage the environment in a way that’s good
for birds,” Inger says.
The study looked at an __44__ amount of data collected by thousands of “citizen scientists” over 30 years in most countries in Europe, in “an __44__ departure from conventional approaches to reviewing bird monitoring data,” said Michael Wunder, an ornithologist at the University of Colorado-Denver who wasn’t __45__ in the study.
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六级第一篇
Part III Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten
blanks. You are required to select one wordfor
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 the bank is identified by a letter.
Please mark the corresponding letter for each
item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through
the centre. You may not use any of the words in
the blank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
Although many will vow to lose weight in the coming year, most will __36__ fail, not from lack of motivation or knowledge but from insuperable forces that undermine the
best of intentions.
Until now, those who undermine these intentions have been free to do whatever they can to trip up would-be weight watchers. No matter how extensive their efforts, the blame and responsibility has been __37__ on those who fail.
A similar situation existed 200 years ago, when Americans drank more than twice as much alcohol as they do now and large portions of the population were regularly inebriated. Alcohol was the beverage of choice and was __38__ all the time.
Employers often paid workers with alcohol as part of their wages. It was served to children, it was __39__ as medicine, and it was provided to voters in political campaigning. However, when more and more families lost their
breadwinners to alcohol-related problems, and business owners realized how much money they were losing due to employees who were drunk on the job and not performing, policies were __40__ that made alcohol less __41__ and less acceptable.
Businessmen subsidized alcohol-free taverns so workers
could socialize without being __42__ to drink. Bar owners began to be held responsible for the negative consequences
of serving too much alcohol, even requiring them to provide for the widows of patrons who died from alcohol purchased
at their establishments—policies that still exist today through dramshop liability.
Yet today, instead of instituting policies that would
standardize portion sizes so people aren’t __43__ served
too much, and policies that __44__ the placement of candy
at the cash register or discounts on junk food, individuals
are still expected to be able to __45__ all these cues that
undermine long-term goals.
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六级第二篇
Part III Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one wordfor
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 the bank is identified by a letter.
Please mark the corresponding letter for each
item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through
the centre. You may not use any of the words in
the blank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
NASA has __36__ details about a test flight for Orion, a spacecraft the organization built “to take humans farther
th an they’ve ever gone before.” On December
4, Orion will __37__ from Cape Canaveral, Florida for a two-orbit, four-hour, 3,600-mile flight meant to test the craft for safety systems, particularly high-speed re-entry systems, as the craft will return to Earth traveling
at 20,000 miles per hour at a temperature over 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Nobody will be on board for the test.
The flight has been dubbed “Exploration Flight Test-1”
and will mark the farthest distance from the Earth that a spacecraft __38__ to carry a crew has traveled in over 40 years, NASA said. By __39__, the International Space
Station is only about 240 miles up from the ground. It
will cost $375 million.
For future flights, Orion will lift off using an__40__
new heavy-lift rocket system, Space Launch System (SLS),
which was designed to send humans into deep space. The
first SLS test is set for 2018 and will include an orbit around the moon, which may become a manned flight. SLS is designed to allow the first visit by humans to an asteroid and, __41__, to Mars.
“This is just the first of what will be a long line of exploration missions beyond low Earth orbit, and in a few years we will be sending our astronauts to destinations humans have never experienced,”said Bill Hill, deputy associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development, in a statement. “It’s __42__ to be a part of the journey now, at the beginning.”
While NASA has big plans for Orion, manned missions are
not planned till after 2020, so a Mars __43__ may not be possible until the later 2020s or 2030s. Though 3,600 miles is the longest trip in quite some time, Mars is an__44__
140 million miles away, and much work is needed to ensure
the craft can be safe and __45__ enough for a crew to make that extremely long space journey.
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六级第三篇
Part III Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten
blanks. You are required to select one wordfor
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 the bank is identified by a letter.
Please mark the corresponding letter for each
item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through
the centre. You may not use any of the words in
the blank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
You may have noticed a n “I’m a Voter” app sitting on top
of your Facebook news feed yesterday and may have thought
it was another form of slacktivism—one that would have
little __36__ other than allowing the person behind the
social media profile to achieve some sense of satisfaction. But there’s more to it than that.
Back in 2010, Facebook, along with a group of political scientists, __37__ an experiment. They planted the following in the news feeds of tens of millions of users: a graphic containing a link to look up polling places, a
button to announce you had voted and six profile pictures
of friends who had already indicated they had voted. Other users were shown a generic message about voting or nothing
at all. The researchers then cross-referenced each user’s name with that day’s voting records and crunched the numbers.
It turns out users who were given the option of letting
their friends know that they had voted were 0.39 percent more __38__ to vote than those who were shown nothing. The researchers also found that the behavior was __39__: People were __40__ by seeing that their close friends had voted.
It was like a virtual version of the old “I Voted” button: part brag, part guilt trip. According to The New Republic, “The researchers concluded that their Facebook graphic directly mobilized 60,000 voters, and, thanks to the ripple effect, __41__ caused an additional 340,000 votes to be
cast that day.”
The researchers noted that the 2000 election was decided by 537 voters in Florida, making it clear that Facebook has
the __42__ to influence elections.
This year, Facebook__43__ the “I’m a Voter” app to all adults in the United States. With the U.S. adult population somewhere around 242.4 million, some 138.2 million
voting-age Americans were 0.39 percent more likely to vote because they had seen the app. This means about 539,000
voters may have been __44__ influenced by Facebook to cast
ballots in these midterm elections.
While many are calling the voter turnout “dismal” this
year, without Facebook, it could have been __45__.
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六级第四篇
Part III Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one wordfor
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 the bank is identified by a letter.
Please mark the corresponding letter for each
item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through
the centre. You may not use any of the words in
the blank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
A New Orleans native, UmaNagendra’s doc toral research at
the University of Georgia was __36__ by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and looks at how the “natural world
__37__ from disasters,” according to the announcement
in Science—which along with its publisher, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and HighWire Press, sponsors the __38__ contest.
In her video, Nagendra and five fellow aerialists sport bright green tights as they represent seedlings, twisting and turning on ropes in an effort to show “how several different species of tree seedlings in the southern Appalachian Mountains interact with soil organisms. The
video __39__ a tornado coming through an undisturbed forest, she explains, disrupting pathogens that accumulate in the soil near tree roots and altering the forest
environment.
Nagendra’s video won the biology category as well as the overall 2014 title. Winners were also __40__ in physics,
chemistry, and social science categories, as well as in
an__41__ audience vote.
__42__ winners reviewed entries for this y ear’s contest
for their artistic and scientific merit and whittled down the list to a dozen finalists, which wereannounced last Monday. A group of __43__—which included both scientists and artists, both independent and affiliated with __44__ like MIT, Harvard, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Pilobolus dance theater—made the final selections.
“Dance is a…universal medium,” says Hans Rinderknecht, a Ph.D. student at MIT whose video won the physics category. The competition gives __45__ the opportunity to take their work “out of this very abstract, very mathematical place and [put] it into a form where people can relate.”
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六级第五篇
Part III Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten
blanks. You are required to select one wordfor
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 the bank is identified by a letter.
Please mark the corresponding letter for each
item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through
the centre. You may not use any of the words in
the blank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
An investigation into the __36__ crash of a Virgin Galactic
spaceship has found that a function to help the craft
__37__ into the atmosphere was deployed early, a federal
safety official said on Sunday, adding pilot error could
not be ruled out.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is leading
the __38__ into what caused the spacecraft to crash in
California's Mojave Desert during a test flight on Friday, killing one pilot and __39__ injuring the other.
SpaceShipTwo's rotating tail boom, a key safety feature for re-entering the atmosphere, rotated early, Christopher Hart, acting chairman of the NTSB, said late on Sunday, though he said it was too __40__ to say whether this had __41__ the crash.
Hart told a news conference that investigators had __42__
the "feathering" system, which helps it descend into the atmosphere from space, should have been __43__ when the vehicle was traveling about 1.4 times the speed of sound.
Hart said the feathering system, which folds the vehicle in half to create more atmospheric drag, was unlocked early by the co-pilot, according to video from the spaceship’s cockpit. About two seconds later, the spaceplane’s tail section began to fold. Asked if the NTSB was considering the __44__ of pilot error, Hart said: "We are not ruling anything out. We are looking at all of these issues to determine what was the __45__ cause of this mishap."
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