[外语类试卷]大学英语四级模拟试卷836及答案与解析.doc
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1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 836及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled On English Learning. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese: 1你认为在英语学习过程中存在的主 要问题是什么? 2导致这些问题的原因有哪些? 3对于解决这些问题,你有何建议? 二、 Part II Readin
2、g 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 (for NO)
3、if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 1 Time To Panic? Nobody needed to read George Bushs lips when he visited Russia recently as the guest of Goldman Sachs to mark the opening of the U.S. investment bank
4、s Moscow outpost. Bush declared his faith in “the power of freedom“ and of free markets. “I am optimistic,“ he proclaimed. “I believe Russia is going to thrive. “Bush may yet be proved right. But coming as the countrys stock market hit a new record low and interest rates leapt skyward, the former Pr
5、esidents speech was ill-timed. For anyone who has invested in Russia, this is the summer of sleepless nights as the dreaded word devalvatsiya-Russian for devaluation makes an unwelcome comeback. “Its taboo to say it,“ says one prominent Russian banker, “but this threat hangs over us like a nightmare
6、.“ Last week, Finance Minister Mikhail Zadornov declared devaluation unavoidable unless tax collection improves “by a third“ in the coming months. With billions of dollars in unpaid taxes, the government has launched yet another desperate crackdown on tax evaders, even freezing the assets of the cou
7、ntry s top debtor, gas giant Gazprom which owes some $ 2.5 billion. The showdown was dramatic, with the tax police storming Gazproms Moscow skyscraper and salivating over its vast collection of yachts, planes and holiday villas. But within hours, the confrontation was over. On Friday, Gazproms CEO R
8、em Vyakhirev won a private audience with President Boris Yeltsin, where he defused attempts to rip up the agreement granting him control of 35 % of the states 40% stake in Gazprom and promised, in due time, to pay off the debt. But as every sentient observer knows, the clock is ticking fast. “When t
9、reasury bill rates rise to 80 %, it means we re in a pre-collapse state,“ says Vladimir Potanin, so-called oligarch and founder of Unexim Bank, one of Russias largest. “Its logical what could come next: devaluation, the crash of the banking system, huge lines of people trying to get their money out,
10、 unpaid wages and heightened social tension.“ Everybody agrees that a devaluation would devastate Russia as it struggles to retain its fragile financial credibility earned over six years of haphazard reform. Particularly hard hit would be Russia s banking system, which has debts of at least $ ,200 b
11、illion and dangerously few assets. What assets the banks do have could be wiped out thanks to their exposure to so-called “dollar forward contracts“ signed with Western banks. “If there s a devaluation,“ says Potanin, “it s clear that there is this massive amount of future obligations that will have
12、 to be paid off, and of course the method will be by defaulting.“ Little wonder then that the crisis has reduced Russias financial elite, once a pride of chest-beating fat cats, to a threatened species screeching about the coming apocalypse. Their counterparts in the political arena are no less pani
13、cked. On June 23, Yeltsin warned his opponents in parliament that if an austerity package was not passed before they recessed on July 16, he would resort to “other means-a hint that he would rule by decree. Yet last week, the Russian President informed his subjects and stunned international observer
14、s: “We have no crisis.“ Yeltsin may be the only person in Russia who believes that, as devaluation rumors hit fever pitch. “This week,“ predicts a top financial journalist, who boasts close ties to the Central Bank. Even as they brace for the coming storm, many are looking to the International Monet
15、ary Fund to save the day. After twice delaying it, on June 25 the IMF, citing its faith in the cabinet of Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko, released a $ 670 million tranche of a previous $ 9.2 billion credit. But Russias chances for a world-class bailout-the $ 10-15 billion that Anatoli Chubais, Yelt
16、sins envoy to the IMF talks, deems the bare minimum Russia needs to escape catastrophe-look slim. In the meantime, Kiriyenko is fighting to hang on to his new job, and his blueprint for rescuing Russia. By midweek, the beleaguered Prime Minister had submitted his anti-crisis plan to the Duma includi
17、ng measures to cut corporate taxes and introduce a single value-added tax of 20%. The package, Western financial experts warned, is long on generalities, short on implementation. The Duma, however, has other ideas. Sergei Baburin, the Communist vice speaker, denounced the proposed laws as “lethal me
18、dicine cooked up by vengeful Western economists.“ Some optimists are looking to the long term. “We ve been able to get more cuts out of this new government,“ muses one IMF official in private, “than we did from the Chernomyrdin government in the last three years.“ But in the short term, the crisis t
19、hreatens to consume everything in its path. Among those clamoring loudest for a bailout are the Western bankers who find themselves embarrassingly exposed. Of Russia s $ 72.2 billion in outstanding loans, German banks alone hold $ 30.5 billion. At home, the so-called oligarchs are also running scare
20、d. With the conflagration encroaching, they have put aside personal rivalry to form a “cooperation council“ to advise Kiriyenko. But Yeltsin has yet to give his blessing to this “shadow cabinet.“ Although there have been no runs on Russian banks so far, there are reasons to fear a panic: the stock m
21、arket has plunged by 63% since January; Russias debt pyramid of compounding treasury bills has grown dangerously; interest rates hover above 80%; while more than a third of the budget goes to service the governments burgeoning debt. In July, Russia will have to pay out $ 6.5 billion to redeem maturi
22、ng loans, while cash reserves have sunk to $ 11.5 billion. The government is finding it difficult to raise new funds and has had to cancel its latest treasury bill auctions. “No one believes in this paper,“ says the head of one of Russias largest banks. Those fretting the loudest may be the foreigne
23、rs-the fund managers and deal makers who rail against the “fools in Washington“ who tend to Asia s woes while ignoring Russia s. They warn darkly of the danger of “losing Russia.“ Without help from abroad, they claim, the pro-reform Kiriyenko cabinet will fall and in the post-crash wake a “nationali
24、st-patriot will rise. A dark scenario, but one taken seriously of late. As a senior IMF official, whod love to see Western governments give large loans to Russia, puts it: “No doubt about it, a bailout is expensive, but it s our cheapest insurance policy.“ Maybe, but just the premiums on such a poli
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