名校四级密卷华东师范大学卷(阅读部分)

中国名校四级密卷---华东师范大学卷

发布日期：[2003-12-23 9:27:59]

考试说明与要求

1.《中国名校四级密卷》共16套，由全国16所著名高校的大学英语教学专家，每人命题一套，讲解一套，16套密卷集中国名校之大成，尽显中国名家之风采。

2.语言课是实践课，实践课必须用足够的实践量作保证。所以本书提倡增大测试量，提高测试频率。建议考生每周自我测试两套试卷，两个月做完全书。

3.考试时严格按大学英语四级考试实战要求操作。第一、测试时间为120分钟，连续做题，不要中断。第二、自我约束，不看答案和详解。遇到生词，结合上下文猜词义，不要查词典。第三、调整心态，沉着考试。既不要紧张，也不要随心所欲。

4.考试时基本上按试卷各部分内容所分配的时间答题，避免某个部分花时间太多，以致于没有足够时间做短文写作的情况出现。

5.每次自测完后，及时核对参考答案。对于似是而非之题，参看试卷的答案详解，究根到底，直至知其所以然为止。对于做错的题目，要作为重点进行学习，弄通弄懂，不要留到第二天。

6.学习是同遗忘作斗争的过程，因此，考前有必要复习16套试卷中自测时做错的所有题目。

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

Directions:There are four passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Passage One

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.

Even if all the technical and intellectual problems can be solved, there are major social problems inherent in the computer revolution. The most obvious is unemployment, since the basic purpose of commercial computerization is to get more work done by fewer people. One British study predicts that “automation induced unemployment” in Western Europe could reach 16% in the next decade, but most analyses are more optimistic. The general rule seems to be that new technology eventually creates as many jobs as it destroys, and often more. “People who put in computers usually increase their staffs as well,” says CPT’s Scheff. “Of course,” he adds,“ one industry may kill another industry. That’s tough on some people.”

Theoretically, all unemployed workers can be retrained, but retraining programs are not high on the nation’s agenda(议程). Many new jobs, moreover, will require an ability in using computers, and the retraining needed to use them will have to be repeated as the technology keeps improving. Says a chilling report by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment: “Lifelong retraining is expected to become the standard for many people.” There is already considerable evidence that

the school children now being educated in the use of computers are generally the children of the white middle class. Young blacks, whose unemployment rate stands today at 50%, will find another barrier in front of them.

Such social problems are not the fault of the computer, of course, but a consequence of the way the American society might use the computer. “Even in the days of the big, main-frame computers, when they were a machine for the few,” says Katherine Davis Fishman, author of The Computer Establishment, “it was a tool to help the rich get richer. It still is to a large extent. One of the great values lot the personal computer is that smaller firms, smaller organizations can now have some of the advantages of the bigger, organizations.”

21. The closest restatement of “one industry may kill another industry”. (Sent. 6, Para.1). is that .

A) industries tend to compete with one another

B) industries tend to combine into bigger ones

C) one industry may increase its staff at the expense of another

D) one industry might be driven out of business by another industry

22. The word “chilling” (Sent. 3, Para. 2) most probably means .

A) discouraging B) convincing C) misleading D) interesting

23. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A) Computers are efficient in retraining unemployed workers.

B) Computers may offer more working opportunities than they destroy.

C) Computers will increase the unemployment rate of young blacks.

D) Computers can help smaller organizations to function more effectively.

24. From the passage it can be inferred that .

A) all school children are offered a course in the use of computer

B) all unemployed workers are being retrained

C) in reality only a certain portion of unemployed workers will be retrained

D) retraining programmes are considered very important by the government

25. The major problem discussed in the passage is.

A) the importance of lifelong retraining of the unemployed workers

B) the social consequences of the widespread use of computers in the United States

C) the barrier to the employment of young people

D) the general rule of the advancement of technology

Passage Two

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

We are all naturally attracted to people with ideas, beliefs and interests like our own. Similarly, we feel comfortable with people with physical qualities similar to ours.

You may have noticed how people who live or work closely together come to behave in a similar way. Unconsciously,we copy those we are close to