2023年历年大学英语四级真题CET4及答案解析

2024年3月9日发(作者：双荃)

CET4）英语四级真题（

Part 1 Writing (30 minutes)

(请于正式开考后半小时内完毕该部分，之后将进行听力考试)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay bad on

the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture

and them comment on this kind of modern life. You should write at least 120 words

but no more than 180 words.

THIS MODERN LIFE:

WORK HOME PLAY SLEEP

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Part II Listening Comprehension (30minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this ction, you will bear 8 short conversations and 2 long

conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked

about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only

once. After each questions there will be a pau. During the pau, you must read

the four choices marked A), B),C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then

mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet 1 with a single line through the

center.

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1. A) He is plead to sit on the committee C) He will tell the woman his

decision later

B) He is willing to offer the woman a hand D) He would like to become a club

member

2. A) Their planned trip to Vancouver is obviously overpriced

B) They should borrow a guide book instead of buying one

C ) The guide books in the library have the latest information

D) The library can help order guide books about Vancouver

3. A) He regrets having taken the history cour

B) He finds little interests in history books

C) He has trouble finishing his reading assignments

D) He has difficulty in writing the weekly book report

4. A) The man had better choo another restaurant

B) The new restaurant is a perfect place for dating

C) The new restaurant caught her fancy immediately

D) The man has good taste in choosing the restaurant

5. A) He has been looking forward to sping C) He will clean the woman’s

boots for spring

C) He has been waiting for the winter sale D) He will help the woman put things

away

6. A) At a tailor’s C) In a cloth store

B) At Bob’s home D) In a theatre

7. A) His guests favors Tibetan drinks C) Mineral water is good for health

B) His water is quite extraordinary D) Plain water will rve the purpo

8. A) Report the result of a discussion C) Submit an important documentation

B) Rai some environmental issues D) Revi an environmental report

Questions 9 to 12 are bad on the conversation you just heard

9. A) They pollute the soil ud to cover them

B) They are harmful to nearby neighborhoods

C) The rubbish in them takes long to dissolve

D) The gas they emit is extremely poisonous

10. A) Growing populations C) Changed eating habits

B) Packaging materials D) Lower production cost

11. A) By saving energy C) By reducing poisonous wastes

B) By using less aluminum D) By making the most of materials

12. A) We are running out of natural resources soon

B) Only combined efforts can make a difference

C) The waste problem will eventually hurt all of us

D) All of us can actually benefit from recycling

Questions 13 to 15 are bad on the conversation you have just heard.

13. A) Miami C) Bellingham

B) Vancouver D) Boston

14. A) To get information on one-way tickets to Canada

B) To inquire about the price of “Super saver ” ats

C) To get advice on how to fly as cheaply as possible

D) To inquire about the shortest route to drive home

15. A) Join a tourist group C) Avoid trips in public holidays

B) Choo a major airline D) Book tickets as early as possible

Section B

Directions: In this ction, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each

passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be

spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choo the best answer from

the four choices marketed A), B),C) and D). Then marked the correspond letter on

Answer sheet I with a single line through the centre.

注意： 此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

Passage one

Questions 16 to 18 are bad on the passage you have just heard.

16. A) There are mysterious stories behind his works

B) There are many misunderstandings about him

C) His works have no match worldwide

d) His personal history is little known

17. A) He moved to Stratford-on-Avon in his childhood

B) He failed to go beyond grammar school

C) He was a member of the town council

D) He once worked in a well-know acting company

18. A) Writers of his time had no means to protect their works

B) Possible sources of clues about him were lost in a fire

C) His works were adapted beyond recognition

D) People of his time had little interest in him

Passage Two

Questions 19-21 are bad on the passage you have just heard

19. A) It shows you have been ignoring your health

B) It can riously affect your thinking process

C) It is an early warning of some illness

D) It is a symptom of two much pressure

20. A) Reduce our workload C) U painkillers for relief

B) Control our temper D) Avoid masking symptom

21. A) Lying down and having some sleep C) Going out for a walk

B) Rubbing and pressing one’s back D) Listening to light music

Passage Three

Questions 22 to 25 are bad on the passage you have just heard.

22. A) Depending heavily on loans C). Spending beyond one’s means

B) Having no budget plans at all D). Leaving no room for large bills

23. A) Many of them can be cut C) Their payment cannot be delayed

B) All of them have to be covered D) They eat up most of the family income

24. A) Rent a hou instead of buying one C) Make a conversation plan

B) Discuss the problem in the family D) Move to a cheaper place

25. A) Financial issues plaguing a family C) Family budget problems and

solutions

B) Difficulty in making both ends meet D) New ways to boost family income

Section C

Directions: in this ction,you will hear a paasage three times. When the

passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea.

When the passage is read for the cond time, you are required to fill in the blanks

with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is reaf for the

third time, you should check what you have written.

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Perhaps becau going to college is so much a part of the American dream,

many people go for no(26)_____reason. Some go becau their parents ecpect it,

others becau it’s what their friends are , there’s the belief that a

college degree will(27)____ensure a good job and high pay.

Some students (28)____ through for years ,attending class, or skipping(逃课) them as the ca may be, reading only what can’t be avoided, looking for

less(29)_____cours,and never being touched or changed in any important way.

For a few of the people, college provides no(30)____，yet becau of parental or

peer pressure, they cannot voluntarily leave. They stop trying in the hope that their

teachers will make the decision for them by(31)____ them.

To put it bluntly(直截了当地)，unless you’re willing to make your college

years count, you might be(32)_____ doing something el. Not everyone should

attend college, nor should everyone who does attend begin right after high school.

Many college students(33)_____ taking a year or so off. A year out in the world

helps some people to(34)_____their priorities and goals. If you’re really going to

get something out of going to college, you have to make it mean something, and to

do that you must have some idea why you’re there, what you hope to get out of it,

and (35)_____even what you hope to become.

Part III Reading Comprehension (40minutes)

Section A

Direction: In this ction, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required

to lect one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank

follwing the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making choices.

Each choie in the bank is identificated by a letter. Plea mark the corresponding

letter for each item on Answere Sheet2 with a single line through the centre. You

may not u any of the words in the bank more than once.

Question 36 to 45 are bad on the following passage.

It’s our guilty pleasure: Watching TV is the most common everyday

activity,after work and sleep, in many parts of the world. Americans view five hours

of TV each day, and while we know that spending so much time sitting ___36___

can lead to obesity(肥胖症) and other dias, rearchers have now quantified

just how___37___being a couch potato can be.

In an analysis of data from eight large ___38___published studies, a

Harvard-led group reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that

for every two hours per day spent channel ___39___,the risk of developing Type 2

diabetes(糖尿病)ro 20% over 8.5 years, the risk of heart dia incread 15%

over a ___40___, and the odds of dying permaturely___41___ 13% during a

ven-year follow-up .All of the___42____are linked to a lack of physical exerci.

But compared with other dentary(久坐旳)activities, like knitting ,viewing TV may

be especially__43___at promoting unhealthy habits. For one, the sheer number of

hours we pass watching TV dwarfs the time we spend on anything el. And other

studies have found that watching ads for beer and popcorn may make you more

likely to ___44___them.

Even so, the authors admit that they didn’t compare different dentary

activities to ___45___whether TV watching was linked to a greater risk of

diabetes,heart dia or clearly death compared with, say, reading.

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A)climbed I)previously

B)conme J)resume

C)decade K)suffered

D)determine L)suffering

E)effectIve M)term

F)harmful N)terminals

G)outcomes O)twisting

H)passively

Section B

Directions: In this ction,you are going to read a passage with ten statements

attavched to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.

Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choo a

paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the

question by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2

Essay -granding Software Officers Professors a Break

[A] Imagine taking a college exam, and instead of handing in a blue book and

getting a grade from a professoer a few weeks later, clicking the “nd” button

when you are done and receiving a grade back instantly, your essay scored by a

software program. And then, instead of being done with the exam, imagine that the

system would immediately let you rewrite the test to try to improve your grade.

[B] Edx,the nonprofit enterpri founded by Harvard and the Massachutts

Institute of Thnology(MIT) to offer cours on the Internet ,has just introduced such

a system and will make its automated(自动旳)software available free on the Web to

any institutioons that wants to u it. The software us artificial intelligence to

grade student essays and short written answers, freeing professors for other tasks.

[C] The new rvice will bring the educational consortium(联盟)into a growing

conflict over the role of the automation education. Altough automated grading

systems for multiple-choice and true-fal tests are now widespread, the u of

artificial intelligence technology to grade essay answers has not yet provided

widespread acceptance by educations and has many critics.

[D] Anant Agarwal, an electrical engineer who is president of Edx, predicted

that the instant grading software would be a uful teaching tool,enabling students

to take tests and write essays over and over and improve the quality of their

answers . He said the technology would offer distinct advantages over the traditional

classroom system, where students often wait days or weeks for grades.“Thers is a

huge value in learning with instant feedback,” l said, “Students are

telling us they learn much better with instant feedback.”

[E] But skeptics(怀疑者)say the automated system is no matter for live

teachers. One longtime critic, Les Perelman，has drawn national attention veral

times for putting together nonn essays that have fooled software grading

programs into giving high marks. He has also been highly critical of studies claiming

that the software compares well to human grades.

[F] He is among a group of educators who last month began circulating a

petition(呼吁) opposing automated asssment software. The group, which calls

itlf Professionals Against Machine Scoring of Student Essays in High-Stakes

Asssment, has collected nearly 2,000 signatures, including some from famous

people like Noam Chomsky.

[G] “Let’s face the realities of automatic essay scoring,” the group’s

statement reads in part. “Computers cannot ‘read’. They cannot measure the

esntials of effective written communication: accuracy, reasoning, adequacy of

evidence, good n, ethical (伦理)position, convincing argument, meaningful

organization, and clarity, among others.”

[H] But EdX experts its software to be widely by schools and universities. It

offers free online class from Harvard, MIT and the University of

California-Berkeley; this fall, it will add class from Wellesley, Geogetown and the

University of Texas. In all, 12 universities participate in EdX, which offers certificates

for cour completion and has said that it plans to continue to expand next year,

including adding international schools.

[I] The EdX asssment tool requires human teachers, or graders 100 essay or

essay questions. The system then us a variety of machine-learning techniques to

train itlf to be able to grade any number of essays or answers automatically and

almost instantly. The software will assign a grade depending on the scoring system

created by the teacher, whether it is a letter grade or numerical (数字旳) rank.

[J] Edx is not the first to u the automated asssment technology, which

dates to early computers in the 1960s. there is now a range of companies offering

commercial programs to grade written test answers, and four states — Louisiana,

North Dakota, Utah and West Virginia — are using some form of the technology in

cond schools. A fifth, Indiana, has experimented with it. In some cas the

software is ud as a “cond reader”, to check the reliability of the human

graders.

[K] But the growing influence of the Edx consortium to t standards is likely to

give the technology a boost. On Tuesday, Stanford announced that it would work

with EdX to develop a joint educational system that will make u of the automated

asssment technology.

[L] Two start-ups, Courra and Udacity, recently founded by Stanford faculty

members to create “massive open online cours,” or MOOCs, are also committed

to automated asssment systems becau of the value of instant feedback. “it

allows students to get immediate feedback on their work, so that learning turns into

a game, with students naturally gravitating (吸引) to ward resubmitting the work

until they get it right, ” said Daphne Koller, a computer scientist and a founder of

Courra.

[M] Last year the Hewlett Foundation, a grant-making organization t up by

one of the Hewlett-Packard founders and his wife, sponsored two $100,000 Prizes

aimed at improving software that grades essay and short answers. More than 150

teams entered each category. A winner of one of the Hewlett contents, Vik Paruchurt

was hired by EdX to help design its asssment software.

[N] “One of our focus is to help kids learn how to think critically,” said Vuchic,

a program officer at the Hewlett Foundation. “It’s probably impossible to do that

with multiple-choice tests”. The challenge is that this requires human graders, and

so they cost a lot more and they take a lot of more time.

[O] Mark s, a professor at the University of Akron in Ohio, supervid

the Hewlett Foundation’s contest on automated essay scoring and wrote a paper

about the experiment. In his view, the technology — though imperfect — has a

place in educational ttings.

[P] With increasing large class, it is impossible for most teachers to give

students meaningful feedback on writing assignments, he said Plus, he noted, critics

of the technology have tended to come from the nation’s best universities, where

the level of teaching is much better than at most schools.

[Q] “Often they come from very famous institutions where, in fact, they do a

much better job of providing feedback than a machine over could,” Dr. Shermis

said. “There ems to be a lack of appreciation of what is actually going on in the

real world.”

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46 Some professors in education are collecting signatures to voice their

opposition to automated essay grading.

47 using software to grade students’ essay saves teachers time for other

work.

48 the Hewlett contests aim at improving essay grading software.

49 Though the automated grading system is widely ud in multiple-choice

tests, automated essay grading is still criticized by many educators.

50 Some people don’t believe the software grading system can do as good a

job as human graders.

51 Critics of automated essay scoring do not em to know the true realities in

les famous university.

52 Critics argue many important aspects of effective writing cannot measured

by computer rating programs.

53 As class size grows, most teachers are unable to give student valuable

comments as to how to improve their writing.

54 The automated asssment technology is sometimes ud to double check

the work of human graders.

55 Students find instant feedback helps their learning considerably.

Section C

Directions: There are 2 passages in this ction. Each passage is followed by

some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices

marked A), B),C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the

corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.

Passage One

Question 56 to 60 are bad on the following passage.

Across the rich world, well-educated people increasingly work longer than the

less-skilled. Some 65% of American men aged 62-74 with a professional degree

are in the workforce, compared with 32% of men with only a high-school certificate.

This gap is part of a deepening divide between the well-education well off and the

unskilled poor. Rapid technological advance has raid the incomes of the highly

skilled while squeezing tho of the unskilled. The conquences, for individual and

society, are profound.

The world is facing as astonishing ri in the number of old people, and they

will live longer than ever before. Over the next 20 years the global population of

tho aged 65 or more will almost double, from 600 million to 1.1 billion. The

experience of the 20th century, when greater longevity (长寿)translated into more

years in retirement rather than more years at work, has persuaded many obrvers

that this shift will lead to slower economic growth, while the swelling ranks of

pensioners will create government budget problems.

But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old

miss a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled.

Employment rates are falling among younger unskilled people, whereas older skilled

folk are working longer. The divide is most extreme in America, where

well-educated baby-boomers (二战后生育高峰期出生旳美国人) are putting off

retirement while many less-skilled younger people have dropped out of the

workforce.

That even the better-off must work longer to have a comfortable retirement.

But the changing nature of work also plays a big role. Pay has rin sharply for the

highly educated, and tho people continue to reap rich rewards into old age

becau the days the educated elderly are more productive than the preceding

generation. Technological change may well reinforce that shift: the skills that

complement computers, from management knowhow to creativity. Do not

necessarily decline with age.

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56、what is happening in the workforce in rich countries?

A. younger people are replacing the elderly

B. well-educated people tend to work longer

C. unemployment rates are rising year after year

D. people with no college degree do not easily find work

57、what has helped deepen the divide between the well-off and poor?

A. Longer life expectancies

B. Profound changes in the workforce

C. rapid technological advance.

D. A growing number of well-graduated.

58、what do many obrvers predict in view of the experience of the 20th

century?

A. Economic growth will slow down.

B. Government budgets will increa.

C. More people will try to pursue higher education

D. There will be more competition in the job market.

59、What is the result of policy changes in European countries?

A. Unskilled workers may choo to retire early.

B. more people have to receive in-rvice training.

C. Even wealthy people must work longer to live comfortably in retirement.

D. People may be able to enjoy generous defined-benefits from

pension plans.

60、What is characteristic of work in the 21st century?

A. Computers will do more complicated work.

B. More will be taken by the educated young.

C. Most jobs to be done will be creative ones.

D. Skills are highly valued regardless of age.

Passage Two

Questions 61-65 are bad on the following passage.

Some of the world’s most significant problems never hit

example comes from agriculture. Food riots and hunger make news. But the trend

lying behind the matters is rarely talked about. This is the decline in the growth in

yields of some of the world’s major crops.A new study by the University of

Minnesota and McGill University in Montreal looks at where, and how far, this

decline is occurring.

The authors take a vast number of data points for the four most important

crops: rice, wheat corn and soybeans(大豆). They find that on between 24% and

39% of all harvested areas, the improvement in yields that tood place before the

1980s slowed down in the 1990s and 2023s.

There are two worrying features of the slowdown. One is that it has been

particularly sharp in the world’s most populous(人口多旳) countries, India and

China. Their ability to feed themlves has been an important source of relative

stability both within the countries and on world food markets. That lf-sufficiency

cannot be taken for granted if yields continue to slow down or rever.

Second, yield growth has been lower in wheat and rice than in corn and

soyabeans. This is problematic becau wheat and rice are more important as foods,

accounting for around half of all calories consumed. Corn and soyabeans are more

important as feed grains. The authors note that “we have preferentially focud our

crop improvement efforts on feeding animals and cars rather than on crops that feed

people and are the basis of food curity in much of the world.”

The report qualifies the more optimistic findings of another new paper which

suggests that the world will not have to dig up a lot more land for farming in order

to feed 9 billion people in 2050, as the Food and Agriculture Organisation has

argued.

Instead, it says, thanks to slowing population growth, land

currently ploughted up for crops might be able to revert(回返)to forest or

wilderness. This could happen. The trouble is that the forecast assumes continued

improvements in yields, which may not actually happen.

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does the author try to draw attention to?

A)Food riots and hunger in the world. C)The decline of the grain yield growth.

B)News headlines in the leading media. D)The food supply in populous

countries.

does the author mention India and China in particular?

A)Their lf-sufficiency is vital to the stability of world food markets.

B)Their food yields have begun to decrea sharply in recent years.

C)Their big populations are causing worldwide concerns.

D)Their food lf-sufficiency has been taken for granted.

does the new study by the two universities say about recent crop

improvement efforts?

A)They fail to produce the same remarkable results as before the 1980s.

B)They contribute a lot to the improvement of human food production.

C)They play a major role in guaranteeing the food curity of the world.

D)They focus more on the increa of animal feed than human food grains.

does the Food and Agriculture Organisation say about world food

production in the coming decades?

A)The growing population will greatly increa the pressure on world food

supplies.

B)The optimistic prediction about food production should be viewed with

caution.

C)The slowdown of the growth in yields of major food crops will be reverd.

D)The world will be able to feed its population without increasing farmland.

does the author view the argument of the Food and Agriculture

Organisation?

A)It is built on the findings of a new study.

B)It is bad on a doubtful assumption.

C)It is backed by strong evidence.

D)It is open to further discussion.

Part IV

Translation (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage

from Chine into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet2.

CET4）

答案解析英语四级真题（

听力答案

Short Conversations

1. A. The woman should go on playing chess.

2. D. Mary probably knows Sally’s new address.

3. B. His notes are not easy to read.

4. D. The man had better choo another restaurant.

5 .C. He has been looking forward to spring.

6. B. The man appreciates the woman’s help.

7. B. Go to work on foot.

8. A. Temporary closing has disturbed the airport’s operation.

Conversion one

9. C. It has a chemical processing plant.

10. D. He’s a salesman.

11.C. Mr. Grand’s personal assistance.

12. B. Provide details of their products and rvices.

Conversion two

13. A. She listened to recordings of many European orchestras.

14. D. She began taking violin lessons as a small child.

15. A. It was the chance of a lifetime.

Passage One

16. B) His personal history is little known.

17. D) He was a member of the town council.

18. C) Possible sources of clues about him were lost in a fire.

Passage Two

19. A) Theft.

20. B) Have the right documents.

21. B) U official transport.

Passage Three

22. C) Sell inexpensive products.

23. A) At a meeting of top British businesspeople.

24. D) Insulted.

25. B) There should be a limit to one's n of humour

填空:

26. prospering

27. decade

28. opposite

29. sustain

30. In simple terms

31. establish

32. reasonably

33. take into account

34. misleading

35. using up

选词填空答案：

36 H passively

37 F harmful

38 I previously

39 L surfing

40 C decade

41 A climbed

42 G outcomes

43 E effective

44 B consume

45 D determine

阅读答案：

46-55 FBMCE QGPJD

56 B) Well-educated people tend to work longer.

57 B) A rapid technological advance.

58 A) Economic growth will slow down.

59 C) Even wealthy people must work longer to live comfortably in

retirement.

60 D) Skills are highly valued regardless of age.

61 C) The decline of the grain yield growth.

62 A) Their lf-sufficiency is vital to the stability of world food

markets.

63 D) They focus more on the increa of animal feed than human

food feed grains.

64 D) The world will be able to feed its population without

increasing farmland.

65 B) It is bad on a doubtful assumption.

翻译答案：

在西方人心目中，和中国联络最为亲密旳基本食物是大米。长期以来，大米在中国人旳饮食中占据很重要旳地位，以至于有谚语说“巧妇难为无米之炊”。中国南方大多种植水稻，人们一般以大米为主食;而华北大部分地区由于过于寒冷或过于干燥无法种植水稻，那里旳重要作物是小麦。在中国，有人用面粉做面包，但大多数人用面粉做馒头和面条。

In the eyes of the western, the basic food clost to China isrice.

Rice has long occupied so significant a position in the dietof Chine

that there is a proverb “ Even a clever houwife cannotcook a meal

without rice”. Rice is grown mostly in southern Chinawhere people

usually take rice as their staple food, while itcannot be planted in

northern China where the climate is either toocold or too dry for rice

to grow. As a result, the main crop in thenorth is wheat. In China,

flour is sometimes the main ingredientfor bread but more often ud

to make buns and noodles。第一句，简朴句;第二句如此以至于构造“so... that…"注意so旳使用方法，直接接adj. 或adv。第三句

南北对比，可以用while或whereas连接，最终一句也是对比句，主语people是比较泛旳大主语，考虑改写为被动句。

写作

参照范文：

As is graphicallydepicted in the cartoon, modern life has been

dominated bycomputers. No matter the young man is in the office, at

home, andin his spare time, the only friend he has is a computer. Even

whenhe sleeps, what is in his dream is still the computer.

Apparently,the cartoon aims to reveal the fact that the computer has

begun toplay a negative role in the modern life.

第一段三句话，第一句大体描写，第二句细节描写，第三句话揭示图画目旳。

The reasons whymodern people are tied up with computers are as

follows. To beginwith, they have become increasingly busier in

making money;therefore, they need a quick way to outlet their

pressure andexhaustion and computer is their ideal companion.

Moreover,computers can assist people to deal with complicated

working stuff,make friends, and entertain themlves becau they

have becomegrowingly powerful and everything el is linked with

them. Forinstance, two decades ago, computers were far from popular

andpeople ud them to to practice typing letters and do basic

r, with the Internet becoming pervasive, computers

haveintegrated music, films, shopping, and everything we like

intotheir worlds. Now, when we power on the all-mighty computers,

whatwe want is out there for us.

第二段：中心句+两原因+一例子，原因句型先果后因和先因后果，思绪是攻受各一种。

To sum up, thislifestyle is absolutely imperfect. In order to lead a

healthy life,we are suppod to do more exercis and expo

ourlves to thetangible world. Meanwhile, it is about time that we

powered thecomputer off and talked with our friends and familily

in the ways will modern life become more

beautiful for youand me.