安顺裹卷2021年12月英语四级考试模拟试题及答案(3)
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Online Education. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chine:
1. 目前网络教育形成热潮
2. 我认为形成这股热潮的原因是……
3. 我对网络教育的评价
Online Education
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)
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雕刻时光 Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.
For questions 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.显生宙
For questions 8-10, complete the ntences with the information given in the passage.
The World in a Glass: Six Drinks That Changed History
Tom Standage urges drinkers to savor the history of their favorite beverages along with the taste.八大菜系是哪八大菜系
The author of A History of the World in 6 Glass (Walker & Company, June 2005), Stan
dage lauds the libations that have helped shape our world from the Stone Age to the prent day.
"The important drinks are still drinks that we enjoy today," said Standage, a technology editor at the London-bad magazine the Economist. "They are relics (纪念物)of different historical periods still found in our kitchens."
Take the six-pack, who contents first fizzed at the dawn of civilization.
Beer
The ancient Sumerians, who built advanced city-states in the area of prent-day lraq, began fermenting(发酵)beer from barley at least 6,000 years ago.
"When people started agriculture the first crops they produced were barley or wheat. You consume tho crops as bread and as beer," Standage noted. "It’s the drink associated with the dawn of civilization. It’s as simple as that."
Beer was popular with the mass from the beginning.
"Beer would have been something that a common person could have had in the hou and made whenever they wanted," said Linda Bisson, a microbiologist at the Department of Viticulture and Enology at the University of California, Davis.
"The guys who built the pyramids were paid in beer and bread," Standage added. "It was the defining drink of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Everybody drank it. Today it’s the drink of the working man, and it was then as well."
Wine
Wine may be as old or older than beer—though no one can be certain.
Paleolithic humans probably sampled the first "wine" as the juice of naturally fermented wild grapes. But producing and storing wine proved difficult for early cultures.
"To make wine you have to have fresh grapes," said Bisson, the UC Davis microbiologist. "for beer you can just store grain and add water to process it at any time."
内蒙古一本线 Making wine also demanded pottery that could prerve the precious liquid.
"Wine may be easier to make [than beer], but it’s harder to store," Bisson added. "For most ancient cultures it would have been hard to catch [fermenting grape juice] as wine on its way to [becoming] vinegar."
Such caveats and the expen of producing wine helped the beverage quickly gain more cachet(威望)than beer. Wine was originally associated with social elites and religious activities.家和万事兴
Wine snobbery may be nearly as old as wine itlf. Greeks and Romans produced many grades of wine for various social class.
乐于助人的近义词 The quest for quality became an economic engine and later drove cultural expansion.
"Once you had regions [like Greece and Rome] that could distinguish themlves as making good stuff, it gave them an economic boost," Bisson said. "Beer just wasn’t as special."
