四级巅峰预测试题一

四级预测试题一

Part IWriting (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic How to Avoid Quarrel in Dormitory? You should write at least 120 words, and base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:1) 很多大学新生经常会与室友发生争吵2) 争吵可能带来的危害3) 如何避免争吵的发生How to Avoid Quarrel in Dormitory?

Part IIReading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(15 minutes)

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, choose the best answer from the four choices marked ［A］, ［B］, ［C］and ［D］.

For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.

Flight of Young Adults Is Causing Alarm UpstateUpstate (州的北部) New York is staggering from an accelerating exodus (大批的离去) of young adults, new census results show. The migration is turning many communities grayer, threatening the long term viability of ailing cities and raising concerns about the state s future tax base.From 1990 to 2004, the number of 25 to 34 year old residents in the 52 counties north of Rockland and Putnam declined by more than 25 percent. In 13 counties that include cities like Buffalo, Syracuse and Binghamton, the population of young adults fell by more than 30 percent. In Tioga County, 42 percent fewer young adults were counted in 2004 than in 1990.“Make no mistake: this is not business as usual,” Robert G. Wilmers, the chairman of M & T Bank in Buffalo, told his shareholders this spring. “The magnitude and duration of population loss among the young is unprecedented in our history. There has never been a previous 10 year period in the history of the upstate region when there has been any decline in this most vital portion of our pop ulation.”In New York City and the five suburban counties in New York State, the number of people aged 18 to 44 increased by 1.5 percent in the 1990 s. Upstate, it declined by 10 percent. Over all, the state population grew by 1.1 percent in the 1990 s —slower than the rate for any state except West Virginia and North Dakota.Population growth upstate might have lagged even more but for the flow of 21,000 prison inmates (囚犯), who accounted for 30 percent of new residents. During the first half of the current decade, the pace of depopulation actually increased in many places.In almost every place upstate, emigration rates were highest among college graduates, producing a brain drain, according to separate analysis of census results for The New York Times by two demographers (人口统计学专家), William Frey of the Brookings Institution and Andrew A. Beveridge of Queens College of the City University of New York. Among the nation s large metropolitan areas, Professor Frey said, Buffalo and Rochester had the highest rates of what he called “bright flight”.Matthew O Brien, a graduate of Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y., was 26 when he left his home in Troy, just northeast of Albany, a decade ago for a better job offer down South. He first moved to South Carolina, and now lives with his wife, Melissa, a Rochester expatriate (移民), and their two children in Tampa, Fla., where he handles manufacturing operations for the company that makes Bubble Wrap packaging.“I guess if I look back and think of the people I went to high schoo l with, they all went away to college, and that might have been a steppingstone to building a career,” Mr. O Brien said. “Not a lot did come back.”Some of the decline in the number of young adults may also have reflected children who left in the 1970 s or 1980 s with their parents. Mr. O Brien s