[外语类试卷]大学英语四级模拟试卷684及答案与解析.doc
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1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 684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 Knowledge and Diploma. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below: 1目前社会上存在着这样一种观点:文凭越高越吃香 2而有 些人则认为文凭不等同于知识 3我的看法 Knowledge and Diploma 二、 Part
2、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 questions 1-7, mark: Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N
3、(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 Farewell, Libraries? Amazon, corns recent announcement that sales of e-books at the online megastore had overtaken sales of hardcover books came as no surp
4、rise. It had to happen sometime. But the news did conjure quite an interesting mental image: libraries that from now on will look smaller and less crowded. For the moment, lets not argue with the proposition that people will read as much as they ever have, no matter whether they read an actual book
5、or a book on a screen. The habits of readers may not change (if anything, people may read more, or at least buy more several stories have quoted e-book owners who say they buy more titles for their e-readers than they did when they were buying hardcover books). But if readers arent changing, their e
6、nvironments will. Rooms that once held books willwell, whatever they hold from now on, it wont be books, or not as many books. Theoretically, your space will be more spare, more serenely uncluttered. Thats the theory, at least. My experience is that stuff expands to fill the space available. But you
7、 can dream. All of this has already happened big time in the music business, where downloads have gradually but surely replaced CDs. I dont know how many people Ive overheard crowing because they managed to transfer their entire music collections onto their computers. All those CDs taking up space o
8、n the wall have goneAll those CDs that travel from car to kitchen to bedroom to living room, with the CD and the case getting separated somewhere along the waya problem no more in the digital age. From now on, well own what might be described as the idea of stuff, since the actual physical thingsrec
9、ords, tapes, photographs, CDs, and now bookshave been as good as vaporized, with the information contained therein stored away on a hard drive. This, of course, is merely collateral (并行的 ) damage in the digital revolution, if damage it is. Theres as yet no way to tell if this transition is good, bad
10、, both, or neither, but surely the absence of a physical library, be it musical or literary, marks a fundamental shift in the way we live and think about things. In music, for example, the rise of iTunes, Pandora, YouTube, and all the other online music players has quickly eroded our devotion to the
11、 long-playing album as the principal means of organizing music. After a half century of neglect, the lowly single is back on top. Most immediately this has consequences for artists, maybe not so much for the people who buy their music. But who knows? With books, the absence of packaging does nothing
12、 to the contents. I can buy a hardcover copy of Moby-Dick or download it onto an e-reader, and Melville is still Melville. But I grew up loving Rockwell Kents illustrations of that novel, and later Barry Mosers. Its hard to think of the book without them. I can do that, certainly, but some little th
13、ing is lost. Paperbacks and public libraries made books cheap or free but certainly available to millions who might otherwise not have been able to afford them, and all that happened long before I was born. Nevertheless, I was brought up by people who had been taughtand who taught methat books were
14、valuable things, things to be cared for and cherished, and I have owned some volumes for close to half a century (almost none of them, I should point out, qualify as “collectible“ or valuable to an antiquarian book collector; owning a rare book makes me nervous. I like books I can hold, read, and ev
15、enhere my mother is spinning in her grave write in). I come from a generation for whom the books and records on the shelf signaled, in some way, who you were (starting with the fact that you were a person who owned books or records or CDs). If you visited a friend, you took the first chance you had
16、to secretly scan that friends shelves to get a handle on the person. I suppose I could sneak a peek at a friends Kindle, but is that the same? And try that kind of snooping on a bus or in a coffee shop and youll probably get arrested. The stuff of our lives is a comfort. We look up at the shelves an
17、d we see old friends. Yes, there are books on my shelves that arent my friends, that I havent finished or even started, but someday I will, I promisemy home library is a physical manifestation of ambivalence. There is comfort in the continuity of seeing the same books year after year. I guess there
18、might be some of the same pleasure in scrolling through a digital library or music play list, but somehow I think something will be lost. For years audiophiles (音响爱好者 ) have tried to persuade more casual music fans that a vinyl record played on a decent sound system sounds better than a digital reco
19、rding played on the same system. Digital sound is not as warm, not as seductive to the ear. The resurgence, albeit modest, of vinyl, especially among young listeners and musicians, proves that this argument is not generational. Its not, in other words, just old fogies versus young hipsters. Somethin
20、g of the same argument might be made for books, or for the tactile (触觉的 ) pleasure of holding and reading a well-made book. At its simplest, a book is a tool, or an information-delivery system, if you will, and it does what it does supremely well. To conceive of a world without physical books is to
21、conceive of a world somehow diminished. It may be more efficientyes, you can take a “stack“ of books on vacation with an e-reader. It may spare quite a few forests from the ax. But efficiency is no substitute for pleasure. The future may be less cluttered. It may also be less fun. 2 What does A anno
22、unce? ( A) Libraries will be smaller and less crowded. ( B) E-books will be sure to replace hardcover books. ( C) It is not a surprise for e-books to share a larger market. ( D) Sales of e-books exceeded that of traditional books. 3 The popularity of e-books may make e-book owners_. ( A) buy more e-
23、books for their readers ( B) read more books on the screen ( C) eventually give up traditional books ( D) change the mind of readers 4 According to the authors experience, what happens to the rooms originally for books? ( A) They are not larger than before. ( B) They are filled with other things. (
24、C) They give way to CDs. ( D) They are cleaner and more spare. 5 What can we learn about the CDs in music business? ( A) They will take up much room of their collectors. ( B) They will become cheaper because of less popularity. ( C) They will be replaced by online music finally. ( D) They will no lo
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