2011年12月大学英语四级全真预测试题四及答案解析 - 副本

2011年12月大学英语四级全真预测试题四及答案解析

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It could be used in 6 plants by mechanics looking to identify machine parts or by electricians wiring a 7 device.

A spokesman for the project said: "A car mechanic for8 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 9 accident black spots or dangers on the road."

In other cases the glasses could be worn by people going on a guided tour, 10 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

【参考答案】：

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二、阅读理解

第2题：

What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home? The answers lie in the way Americans live today. During the first few decades of the twentieth century, canned and other convenience foods freed the family cook from full-time duty at the kitchen range.

Then, in the 1940s, work in the wartime defense plants took more women out of the home that ever before, setting the pattern of the working wife and mother. Unless family members pitch in with food preparation, women are not fully liberated from that chore.

It's easier to pick up a bucket of fried

chicken on the way home from work or take the family out for pizzas or burgers than to start opening cans or heating up frozen dinners after a long, hard day. Also nowadays, the rising divorce rate means that there are more single working parents with children to feed. And many young adults and elderly people, as well as unmarried and divorced mature people, live alone rather than as a part of a family unit and don't want to bother cooking for one. Fast food is appealing because it is fast, it doesn't require any dressing up, it offers a "fun" break in the daily routine, and the outlay of money seems small. It can be eaten in the car-sometimes picked up at a drive-in window without even getting out-or on the run. Even if it is brought home to eat, there will never be any dirty dishes to wash because of the handy disposable wrappings. Children, especially, love fast food because it's finger food, no struggling with knives and forks, no annoying instructions from adults about table manners.