DOC刘泽斌：《大声朗读轻松过级(CET4)》.doc

大声朗读轻松过级(CET4)

我赤竹笛(RBF, Red Bamboo Flute)是用《千万别学英语》(ADSE，Absolutely Don’t Study English)这个方法来练习英语技能的，通过近年来的网上宣传鼓噪，这个在特定圈子里恐怕已是众人皆知，并且我现在和今后也没有丝毫要动摇的意思！但是CET-4我不能再拖了，现在已经大四，按照学校的规定不通过Cet-4是没有学位证书的。因此呢，就在不违背ADSE各项原则的前提下，在今后四个月第三阶段每日至少两小时抄读柯林斯词典(Collins COBUILD English Dictionary)的同时，就利用网上随手找到的CET-4免费资源，历年十套真题把正确答案都直接填上(“[]”中即是)，制作了这么一个东西。我的方法嘛，就是一星期一套每日至少两小时大声朗读到琅琅上口，需要的话，也可以翻翻英英词典，之后尽量冥想复述。但不想语法、不去翻译、不要背诵、不求甚解……听力部分，自己找来相应音频，日日灌耳朵就是了，当然能够篇篇听写则是更扎实！原则亦同以上之“四不”！另外需要说明的是，卷子中所有的中文我都已经去掉了。而且网上的东西尽管我做了简单的校对，但错误恐怕还是会有一些。最后就是，如果相信我这个东西，就请每天起床的时候都对自己说“按照这个野路子我CET-4一定能考好！”当然不信的话也就没必要再多说了。OK，Let’s go！2003-8-29 9:06

INDEX

Cet-4 199706 1
Cet-4 199801 1
Cet-4 199806 1
Cet-4 199906 1
Cet-4 200001 1
Cet-4 200006 1
Cet-4 200106 1
Cet-4 200201 1
Cet-4 200206 1
Cet-4 200306 1

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Cet-4 199706 Page. 9
CET-4 199706

Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)

Section A
1. M: Boating and Skating are my favorite sports.
W: I like swimming, but not boating or skating.
Q: Which sport does the woman like?
A: [Swimming.]

2. W: Have you finished reading my research report? I put it on your desk last week.
M: Yes, but you have to revise some parts of it, I'm afraid, if you want to get it published.
Q: What does the man suggest that the woman should do?
A: [Improve some parts of her paper.]

3. M: Hi, Susan, I hear that you walk all the way to the office these days.
W: Yes, I've found great pleasure in walking. That's the type of exercise I enjoy very much.
Q: Why does the woman walk all the way to the office?
A: [She takes it as a kind of exercise.]

4. M: How about the food I ordered I've been waiting for 20 minutes already.
W: I'm very sorry, Sir. I will be back with your order in a minute.
Q: What's the woman's job?
A: [A waitress.]

5. W: Excuse me, Sir. I'm going to send this parcel to London. What's the postage for it?
M: Let me see, It's one pound and fifty.
Q: Who is the woman most probably speaking to?
A: [A postal clerk.]

6. M: I think it's high time we turned our attention to the danger of drunk driving now.
W: I can't agree with you more. You see, countless innocent people are killed by drunk drivers each year.
Q: What does the woman mean?
A: [People should pay more attention to the danger of drunk driving.]

7. W: Here's a 10-dollar bill, give me two tickets for tonight's show please.
M: Sure. Two tickets and here's $ 1,40 change.
Q: How much does one ticket cost?
A: [$ 4.30]

8. M: Are you sure you have corrected all the typing errors in this paper?
W: Perhaps, I'd better read it through again.
Q: What's the woman going to do?
A: [Check the paper for typing errors.]

9. M: Mary, would you like to go to the movies with me after dinner?
W: Well, I'll go if you really want me to. But 1'm rather tired.
Q: What can we conclude from this conversation?
A: [The woman does not want to go to the movies.]

10.M: If I were you, I'd ride a bike to work. Taking a crowded bus during rush hours is really terrible.
W: Thank you for your advice. But my bike has got a flat tyre.
Q: How would the woman most probably get to work?
A: [By bus]

Section B Compound Dictation
In police work, you can never predict the next crime or problem. No working day is identical to any other, so there is no [typical] day for a police officer. Some days are [relatively] slow, and the job is [boring]; other days are so busy that there is no time to eat. I think I can [describe] police work in one word:[variety]. Sometimes it's dangerous One day, for example, I was working undercover, that is, I was on the job, but I was wearing [normal] clothes, not my police [uniform]. I was trying to catch some robbers who were stealing money from people as they walked down the street. Suddenly, [seven bad men jumped out at me]. Another policeman arrived, and together, we arrested three of the men; but the other four ran away. Another day, I helped a woman who was going to have a baby. [she was trying to get to the hospital. But there was a bad traffic jam]. I put her in my police car to get her there faster. I thought she was going to have the baby right there in my car. But fortunately, [the baby waited to arrive until we got to the hospital].

Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

Passage One
The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label: "store in the refrigerator."
In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily. The milkman came daily, the grocer, the butcher, the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times a week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country.
The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation. A vast way of welltried techniques already existed--natural cooling, drying, smoking salting, sugaring, bottling...
What refrigeration did promote was marketing--marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the globe in search of a good price.
Consequently, most of the world's fridges are to be found, not in the tropics where they might prove useful, but in the wealthy countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically almost unnecessary. Every winter, millions of fridges hum away continuously, and at vast expense, busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside an artificially heated house-while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge.
The fridge's effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been insignificant, If you don't believe me, try it yourself, invest in a food cabinet and turn off your fridge next winter. You may miss the hamburger, but at least you'll get rid of that terrible hum.

11. The statement "In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily." ( Line 1, Para. 2) suggests that [there was no fridge in the author's home in the 1950s.]

12. Why does the author say that nothing was wasted before the invention of fridges? [People had effective ways to preserve their food.]

13. Who benefited the least from fridges according to the author? [Consumers]

14. Which of the following phrases in the fifth paragraph indicates the fridge's negative effect on the environment? ["Hum away continuously"]

15. What is the author's overall attitude toward fridges? [Critical]

Passage Two
The human brain contains 10 thousand million cells and each of these may have a thousand connections. Such enormous numbers used to discourage us and cause us to dismiss the possibility of making a machine with human-like ability, but now that we have grown used to moving forward at such a pace we can be less sure. Quite soon, in only 10 or 20 years perhaps, we will be able to assemble a machine as complex as the human brain, and if we can we will. It may then take us a long time to render it intelligent by loading in the right software or by altering the architecture, but that too will happen.
I think it certain that in decades, not centuries, machines of silicon will arise first to rival and then exceed their human ancestors. Once they exceed us they will be capable of their own design. In a real sense they will be able to reproduce themselves. Silicon will have ended carbon's long control. And we will no longer be able to claim ourselves to be the finest intelligence in the known universe.
As the intelligence of robots increases to match that of humans and as their cost declines through economies of scale we may use them to expand our frontiers, first on earth through their ability to withstand environments, harmful to ourselves. Thus, deserts may bloom and the ocean beds be mined. Further ahead, by a combination of the great wealth this new age will bring and the technology it will provide, the construction of a vast, man-created world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be within our power.

16. In what way can we make a machine intelligent? [By either properly programming it or changing its structure.]

17. What does the writer think about machines with human-like ability? [He believes they will be useful to human beings.]

18. The word carbon( Line 4, para. 2) stands for " [human beings]"

19. A robot can be used to expand our frontiers when [its intelligence and cost are beyond question].

20. It can be inferred from the passage that[with the rapid development of technology, people have come to realize the possibility of making a machine with human-like ability.]

Passage Three
After the violent earthquake that shook Los Angeles in 1994, earthquake scientists had good news to report; The damage and death toll could have been much worse.
More than 60 people died in this earthquake. By comparison, an earthquake of similar intensity that shook America in 1988 claimed 25, 000 victims:
Injuries and deaths were relatively less in Los Angeles because the quake occurred at 4:31 a.m. on a holiday, when traffic was light on the city's highways. In addition, changes made to the construction codes in Los Angeles during the last 20 years have strengthened the city's buildings and highways, making them more resistant to quakes.
Despite the good news, civil engineers aren't resting on their successes. Pinned to their drawing boards are blueprints for improved quake-resistant buildings. The new designs should offer even greater security to cities where earthquakes often take place.
In the past, making structures quake resistant meant firm yet flexible materials, such as steel and wood, that bend without breaking. Later, people tried to lift a building off its foundation, and insert rubber and steel between the building and its foundation to reduce the impact of ground vibrations. The most recent designs give buildings brains as well as concrete and steel supports, called smart buildings, the structures respond like living organisms to an earthquake's vibrations. When the ground shakes and the building tips forward, the computer would force the building to shift in the opposite direction.
The new smart structures could be very expensive to build. However, they would save many lives and would be less likely to be damaged during earthquakes.

21. One reason why the loss of lives in the Los Angeles earthquake was comparatively low is that [improvements had been made in the construction of buildings and highways.]

22. The function of the computer mentioned in the passage is to [counterbalance an earthquake's action on the building].

23. The smart buildings discussed in the passage [would be worthwhile though costly].

24. It can be inferred from the passage that in minimizing the damage caused by earthquakes attention should be focused on [the reduction of the impact of ground vibrations].

25. The author's main purpose in writing the passage is to [report new developments in constructing quake resistant building].

Passage Four
Even plants can run a fever, especially when they're under attack by insects or disease. But unlike humans, plants can have their temperature taken from 3,000 feet away straight up. A decade ago, adapting the infrared scanning technology developed for military purposes and other satellites, physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick way to take the temperature of crops to determine which ones are under stress. The goal was to let farmers precisely target pesticide spraying rather than rain poison on a whole field, which invariably includes plants that don't have pest problems.
Even better, Paley's Remote Scanning Services Company could detect crop problems before they became visible to the eye. Mounted on a plane flown at 3,000 feet at night ,an infrared scanner measured the heat emitted by crops. The data were transformed into a color-coded map showing where plants were running "fevers". Farmers could then spot-spray, using 50 to 70 percent less pesticide than they otherwise would.
The bad news is that Paley's company closed down in 1984, after only three years. Farmers resisted the new technology and long-term backers were hard to find. But with the renewed concern about pesticides on produce, and refinements in infrared scanning, Paley hopes to get back into operation. Agriculture experts have no doubt the technology works. "This technique can be used on 75 percent of agricultural land in the United States, "says George Oerther of Texas A&M. Ray Jackson, who recently retired from the Department of Agriculture, thinks remote infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade. But only if Paley finds the financial backing which he failed to obtain 10 years ago.

26. Plants will emit an increased amount of heat when they are [in poor physical condition]

27. In order to apply pesticide spraying precisely, we can use infrared scanning to [locate the problem area].

28. Farmers can save a considerable amount of pesticide by [resorting to spot-spraying].

29. The application of infrared scanning technology to agriculture met with some difficulties [the lack of financial].

30. Infrared scanning technology may be brought back into operation because of [growing concern about the excessive use of pesticides on crops].

Part Ⅲ Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes)

31. The medicine is on sale everywhere. You can get it at [any] chemist's.

32. You cannot be [too] careful when you drive a car.

33. In general, the amount that a student spends for housing should be held to on