2023年级一下四级训练答案R.doc

2023级二下四级训练(一)
答案：
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. B 5. C 6. A 7. A 8. C 9. A 10. C
11.D 12.D 13.C 14.B 15.B 16.A 17.C 18.D 19.C 20.D
21.C 22.D 23.D 24.B 25.C
26. typical 27. rarely 28. retreated 29. avoided 30. intimates
31.figure 32.unknown 33. According to 34. obligation 35. Not until
36. L 37.M 38.D 39.N 40.E 41.G 42.A 43.H 44.K 45.J
46. C 47. I 48. A 49. D 50. G 51. J 52. B 53. F 54. E 55. H
56.D 57. A 58.A 59. B 60. B 61.A 62.C 63.B 64. D 65.C
Passage 1
The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the Chinese traditional festivals held on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. It’s said that the moon is at its brightest and roundest on that day. There are many legends about this festival, among which Chang Er flying to the moon is the most well-known. Although customs differ in different districts, enjoying the beautiful moon is the most popular activity. On that day when the moon rises, all the family members will sit around the table to talk and enjoy the glorious full moon as well as the fruits and desserts such as moon cakes, pomegranates and dates.

Passage 2
China is time-honored multi-ethnics nation with a vast territory and abundant resources and every ethnic group has its unique abundant dishes. Regional cuisines have taken shape after long-history evolution under the influence of geographical environment, climate, cultural tradition, folk customs and other factors. The most influential and representative ones are Lu, Chuan, Min, Su, Zhe, Xiang and Hui Cuisines, which are commonly known as “Eight Major Cuisines.” Dishes in the ?Eight Major Cuisines” in China are characterized by diversified cooking skills, with each having its strong points.

Passage 3
For global app developers, entering China, the world’s largest smart phone market is proving to be vexing. App makers must navigate dozens of app retail stores with looser rulers than in the U.S., fend off a proliferation of cloned apps, and steer around a ticket of regulations and intense competition from local developers.

（二）

Tape scripts for Listening 1
Short Conversation (略)
Passage One
The Worldwide Organization of the Red Cross stems from the ideal of Henri Dunant, a Swiss Banker. In 1838, at the age of ten, Dunant was taken by his father to visit a prison there he saw prisoners chained together exercising in the yard and breaking stones along the road. This experience left a deep impression on him and made him determined to do something for convicts and slaves and for all those who were oppressed and deprived of their liberty. On 4th June, 1859, while on his way from Geneva to France, Dunant witnessed the battle between the French and Austrian armies. It was one of the fiercest battles of the 19th century. Shocked by the lack of medical supplies and attention given to the wounded, Dunant decided that volunteer service had to be organized. He gathered together a number of women who attended the hundreds of wounded soldiers of all nationalities and helped the surgeons as best they could. From that battle Dunant determined to form a body of people who would rally together in times of war and attend to the needs of wounded and dying. Dunant held that a suffering human being should be helped for his own safe only and without regard to race, religion or political beliefs. Many European states supported him. And 22nd August 1964 the first Geneva Convention was signed. This lays down that once a soldier is wounded he and everyone else who comes to his help ceases to be an enemy. A symbol by which the relief workers could be recognized was devised. As a tribute to Switzerland, the symbol was the Swiss flag which was reversed. This is a red cross on a white ground. So the Red Cross was born.
Passage Two
You can tell the age of a tree by counting its rings but these records of trees’ life really say a lot more. Scientists are using tree rings to learn what’s being happening on the sun’s surface for the last ten thousand years. Each ring represents a year of growth. As the tree grows, it adds a layer to its trunk taking up chemical elements from the air. By looking up the elements in the rings for a given year, scientists can tell what elements were in the air that year. Doctors Stevenson is analyzing one element---carbon-14 in ring from both living and dead trees. Some of the rings go back almost ten thousand years to the end of the Ice Age. When Stevenson followed the carbon-14 trail back in time, he found carbon-14 levels change with the intensity of solar burning. You see the sun has cycles. Sometimes it burns fiercely and other times it’s relatively clam. During the sun’s violent periods, it throws off charged particles in fast moving strings called solar winds. The particles interfere with the formation of carbon-14 on earth. When there’s more solar wind activity, less carbon-14 is produced. Ten thousand years of tree rings show that the carbon-14 level rises and falls about every 420 years. The scientists concluded that the solar wind activity must follow the same cycle.
Passage Three
When you learn a foreign language you must learn more than just the words and the grammar. To communicate successfully in speech, you must also learn the non-verbal language, or “body language” of that culture. Body language refers to facial expression, gestures, and movements of the body that send messages. This means of communicating is so important that we may actually say more with our movement than we do with our words.
Speaking a foreign language is sometimes difficult because we may not understand the non-verbal signals of another culture, or that may mean something very different from what they mean in our culture. For example, in Spanish-speaking countries, children show respect to an older person by not looking directly into the person’s eyes during a conversation. In other countries, looking into a person’s eyes is expected. For example, if you don’t do it in the U.S., people may think you are afraid or angry.

Passage 1
As the origin of chopsticks, China is the first country in the world to use chopsticks and has a history of at least 3000 years to have meals with them. Chopsticks seem quite simple with only two small and thin sticks, but it is in possession of many functions, such as picking, moving, nipping, mixing and digging; moreover, it is convenient for use and cheap in price. Besides, chopsticks are also unique tableware in the world. Anyone using chopsticks, no matter Chinese or foreigners, would without exception admire the inventor of chopsticks.
Passage 2
China is the homeland of tea. It is believed that China has tea-shrubs as early as five to six thousand years ago, and human cultivation of tea plants can date back two thousand years. Tea from China, along with her silk and porcelain, began to be known the world over more than a thousand years ago and had since always been an important Chinese export. At present more than 40 countries in the world grow tea with Asian countries producing 90% of the world’s total output. All tea trees in other countries have their origin directly or indirectly in China.
Passage 3
China’s urbanization will release the full potential of domestic demand. Some economists point out that urbanization is a process that is occurring in nearly every developing city in the country. It will lead to a better quality of life for many people, and provide individuals with more job opportunities. The construction of housing and city infrastructure, including water and energy supplies, will be a focal point of urban development as more people migrate to cities. Urbanization means better access to educational and medical resources in the city. The fast, free flow of goods and services is a basic trait of an urbanized society. Expanding cities require more retail outlets to serve customers.
Tape scripts for Listening 2
Short Conversation (略)
Conversation One
M: Hi, I am going door to door tonight to tell people about the students action union. Do you have a few minutes?
W: Sure. You know, I think I read something in the newspaper last week.
M: Yeah, there was an article about us since the last issue. See, we are trying to protect some of the open spaces on campus.
W: That’s right. You are the group that is opposing the extension of the parking lot next to Smith Hall, right?
M: That’s us. We just feel it is important to save some of the natural beauty of the campus, ;like those precious trees. Some of those trees are hundreds of years old.
W: It is a pretty place. My friends and I had picnics over there.
M: The you understand hoe we feel. We are organizing a meeting on Thursday afternoon to get the administration to reconsider the parking lot plan.
W: Well, I have a class on Thursday afternoon.
M: But maybe you could sign your name on this paper. We’re going to summit to the administration to show how the students feel about it.
W: Sure, let me get a pen and I will sign it.
M: I have a pen right here. And let me leave you this handout about the student action union. Maybe you could come to some of our meetings. We get together once a month.
W: Yeah, I’d like to know more about your group. Let me know when the next meeting is and I’ll try to be there.
Conversation Two
W: Well, John, how was your vacation? Did you visit all the places you wanted to see?
M: oh, hardly, but we had a good time just the same. We managed to stop at the old Ghost Town near Virginia City. That’s what Jimmy was all excited about.
W: Did you go to Denver like your wife wanted to?
M” Yes, we stayed with her cousin for two days. We had to pass up the Grand Crayon though, because Jimmy got sick from eating too many grapes.
W: How about the stop at India Falls? Did you have any time for that?
M: Yes, but we almost didn’t. We left Denver on Highway 14 when we should have taken Highway 90. When we realized it, it was almost dark. Still we got there in time to take a few pictures.
M: Where else did you go?
W: Well, we went through Phoenix, Arizona. We all liked that. But we had some trouble with the car there. We had to stay an extra day because of that.
M: I bet that made you made.
M: It sure did, especially because I had the guy at the garage give the car a checkup just before we left home, and he said the car was in excellent condition. Uh, still I didn’t complain. I was able to get in some extra fishing because of the delay. I went out with the man who was staying in the hotel we were at.
W: Generally, you did quite a lot.
M: Yes, we certainly did. But after we got home, it took us two days to rest up. All that driving around was murder.
Passage One
Nicael Holt is a philosophy student from the southern coastal city of Wollongong in Australia. The 24-year old young man who sold his life, including baggage from a painful break-up, on e-Bay becomes famous recently. Holt sold his name, phone number and all his possessions, including clothes, CDs, a surfboard, a laptop, childhood photos, friends and a “nice lamp” given to him by an ex girlfriend, on the Internet auction site. The successful applicant bid 7,500 dollars last week to become Holt. Holt, who had set up a website to explain his actions and ask for donation to charity, said he was unable to explain why he sold his life. In his sales pitch, Holt said the winner would be entitled to four-week training course in how to be him----including lessons on how to surf, climb, skateboard and do handstands----as well as two months of on-call support afterward. He also promised to introduce the winner to all his friends and potential lovers, including eight people he had been flirting with. “Lifestyle is very social. It includes a lot of going out,” he noted on his eBay advert. “Friends will treat you exactly as they have treated me. This includes friends who take me surfing, running, climbing and cook for me. All of these features will be transferred over to the winning applicant.” His legal identity, passport, qualifications and future inheritance were not for sale.
Passage Two
Macro Polo was an Italian man, born in 1254. He was a world traveler. When he was around 16 years old, he travelled with hid father and his uncle a long way from Europe to China. After staying nearly twenty years in the East, they returned home at last. Their friends were surprised to see them again. They had been away from twenty-four years and everybody thought that they must have died a long time ago. But Marco Polo didn’t stay at home for long. He was taken as a prisoner in a sea battle. Time passed slowly in prison. Marco Polo was not in the least lonely. Every day he told the other prisoners about his travels. The stories he told of the countries of Asia were so interesting that one of the prisoners started to put them down in a book. In the book Marco Polo told about all the things he had seen and heard. He told of how the Chinese burned a kind of black stone for cooking, and how the heat it gave was much bigger and lasted much longer than a wood fire. People read it, but they said, “ This book can not be true.” When he was an old man, he was ill and dying. Some of his friends came to see Marco Polo. Marco Polo said to them, “ Everything in my book is true. I went to all those countries, and I saw all those strange things. It’s all true.” So his friends believed him. Soon his stories got around and his name is remembered to this day.
Passage Three
Elizabeth Galdys Dean, the last remaining survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, died Sunday in a private nursing home in England. Dean, who was only nine weeks old, was the youngest passenger on board when the liner hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. Dean’s family had boarded the Titanic at Southampton, heading for a new life in Kansas where her father hoped to open a tobacconist shop. She survived after being bundled up in a sack and carried to safety. Her mother Georgette Eva and brother Bertram also made it, but her father, Bertram Frank, was among those who died. Dean was taken back to Southampton with her family after the disaster. In 1997, Dean was invited to complete her family’s ill-fated journey to the United States, and accepted, although she turned down an offer to attend the premier of the movie ”Titanic” because it would be too upsetting. She moved into a private nursing home in Hampshire after breaking her hop three years ago, and after struggling to pay the bills was forced to sell off some of her memorabilia. At the auction in October 2023 she raised 31.150 pounds, selling off rare prints of the liner signed by the artists as well as compensation letters sent to her mother by the Titanic Relief Fund. Dean was also forced to sell a 100-year-old suitcase filled with clothes donated to her family by the people of New York when they arrived after being rescued.