[外语类试卷]2012年12月大学英语四级真题试卷(第1套)及答案与解析.doc
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1、2012年 12月大学英语四级真题试卷(第 1套)及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Education Pays based on the statistics provided in the chart below (Weekly earnings in 2010). Please give a brief description of the chart first and then make co
2、mments on it. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Education Pays 二、 Part II Reading 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 attached to the passage. For q
3、uestions 1-7, mark: Y (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. 1 The Magician The revolution that Steve Jobs led is onl
4、y just beginning When it came to putting on a show, nobody else in the computer industry, or any other industry for that matter, could match Steve Jobs. His product launches, at which he would stand alone on a black stage and produce as if by magic an “incredible“ new electronic gadget (小器具 ) in fro
5、nt of an amazed crowd, were the performances of a master showman. All computers do is fetch and work with numbers, he once explained, but do it fast enough and “ the results appear to be magic“. Mr Jobs, who died recently aged 56, spent his life packaging that magic into elegantly designed, easy-to-
6、use products. The reaction to his death, with people leaving candles and flowers outside Apple stores and politicians singing praises on the internet, is proof that Mr Jobs had become something much more significant than just a clever money-maker. He stood out in three ways as a technologist, as a c
7、orporate (公司的 ) leader and as somebody who was able to make people love what had previously been impersonal, functional gadgets. Strangely, it is this last quality that may have the deepest effect on the way people live. The era of personal technology is in many ways just beginning. As a technologis
8、t, Mr Jobs was different because he was not an engineer and that was his great strength. Instead he was keenly interested in product design and aesthetics (美学 ), and in making advanced technology simple to use. He repeatedly took an existing but half-formed idea the mouse-driven computer, the digita
9、l music player, the smartphone, the tablet computer (平板电脑 ) and showed the rest of the industry how to do it properly. Rival firms competed with each other to follow where he led. In the process he brought about great changes in computing, music, telecoms and the news business that were painful for
10、existing firms but welcomed by millions of consumers. Within the wider business world, a man who liked to see himself as a hippy (嬉皮士 ) , permanently in revolt against big companies, ended up being hailed by many of those corporate giants as one of the greatest chief executives of his time. That was
11、 partly due to his talents: showmanship, strategic vision, an astonishing attention to detail and a dictatorial management style which many bosses must have envied. But most of all it was the extraordinary trajectory (轨迹 ) of his life. His fall from grace in the 1980s, followed by his return to Appl
12、e in 1996 after a period in the wilderness, is an inspiration to any businessperson whose career has taken a turn for the worse. The way in which Mr Jobs revived the failing company he had co-founded and turned it into the worlds biggest tech firm (biggter even than Bill Gatess Microsoft, the compan
13、y that had outsmarted Apple so dramatically in the 1980s) , sounds like something from a Hollywood movie. But what was perhaps most astonishing about Mr Jobs was the absolute loyalty he managed to inspire in customers. Many Apple users feel themselves to be part of a community, with Mr Jobs as its l
14、eader. And there was indeed a personal link. Apples products were designed to accord with the bosss tastes and to meet his extremely high standards. Every iPhone or MacBook has his finger-prints all over it. His great achievement was to combine an emotional spark with computer technology, and make t
15、he resulting product feel personal. And that is what put Mr Jobs on the right side of history, as technological innovation (创新 ) has moved into consumer electronics over the past decade. As our special report in this issue (printed before Mr Jobss death) explains, innovation used to spill over from
16、military and corporate laboratories to the consumer market, but lately this process has gone into reverse. Many peoples homes now have more powerful, and more flexible, devices than their offices do; consumer gadgets and online services are smarter and easier to use than most companies systems. Fami
17、liar consumer products are being adopted by businesses, government and the armed forces. Companies are employing in-house versions of Facebook and creating their own “app stores“ to deliver software to employees. Doctors use tablet computers for their work in hospitals. Meanwhile, the number of cons
18、umers hungry for such gadgets continues to swell. Apples products are now being snapped up in Delhi and Dalian just as in Dublin and Dallas. Mr Jobs had a reputation as a control freak (怪人 ) , and his critics complained that the products and systems he designed were closed and inflexible, in the nam
19、e of greater ease of use. Yet he also empowered millions of people by giving them access to cutting-edge technology. His insistence on putting users first, and focusing on elegance and simplicity, has become deep-rooted in his own company, and is spreading to rival firms too. It is no longer just at
20、 Apple that designers ask: “ What would Steve Jobs do?“ The gap between Apple and other tech firms is now likely to narrow. This weeks announcement of a new iPhone by a management team led by Tim Cook, who replaced Mr Jobs as chief executive in August, was generally regarded as competent but uninspi
21、ring. Without Mr Jobs to shower his star dust on the event, it felt like just another product launch from just another technology firm. At the recent unveiling of a tablet computer by Jeff Bezos of Amazon, whose company is doing the best job of following Apples lead in combining hardware, software,
22、content and services in an easy-to-use bundle, there were several attacks at Apple. But by doing his best to imitate Mr Jobs, Mr Bezos also flattered (抬举 ) him. With Mr Jobs gone, Apple is just one of many technology firms trying to arouse his uncontrollable spirit in new products. Mr Jobs was said
23、by an engineer in the early years of Apple to emit a “ reality distortion (扭曲 ) field“ , such were his powers of persuasion. But in the end he created a reality of his own, channelling the magic of computing into products that reshaped entire industries. The man who said in his youth (hat he wanted
24、to “put a ding in the universe“ did just that. 2 We learn from the first paragraph that nobody could match Steve Jobs in_. ( A) intelligence ( B) showmanship ( C) magic power ( D) persuasion skills 3 What did Steve Jobs do that most deeply affected peoples way of life? ( A) He invented lots of funct
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