英语专四考试真题及答案（4）
TEXT C
Graduation speeches are a bit like wedding toasts. A few are memorable. The rest tend to trigger such thoughts as, "Why did I wear such uncomfortable shoes?"
But graduation speeches are less about the message than the mesnger. Every year a few colleges and universities in the US attract attention becau they've managed to book high-profile speakers. And, every year, the media report some of the speakers' wi remarks.
Last month, the following words of wisdom were spread:
"You really haven't completed the circle of success unless you can help somebody el move forward." (Oprah Winfrey, Duke University).独立显卡与集成显卡的区别
"There is no way to stop change; change will come. Go out and give us a future worthy of the world we all wish to create together." (Hillary Clinton, New York University).
"'This really is your moment. History is yours to bend." (Joe Biden, Wake Forest University).
Of cour, the real "get" of the graduation ason was first lady Michelle Obama's appearance at the University of California, Merced. "Remember that you are blesd," she told the class of 2009, "Remember that in exchange for tho blessings, you must give As advocate and activist Marian Wright Edelman says, 'Service is the rent we pay for living ... it is the true measure, the only measure of success'."
Calls to rvice have a long, rich tradition in the speeches. However, it is possible for a graduation speech to go beyond cliche and say something truly compelling. The late writer David Foster Wallace's 2005 graduation speech at Kenyon College in Ohio talked about how to truly care about other people. It gained something of a cult after it was widely circulated on the Internet. Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs' address at Stanford University that year, in which he talked about death, is also considered one of the best in recent memory.
But when you're sitting in the hot sun, fidgety and freaked out, do you really want to be lectured about
the big stuff?. Isn't that like trying to maintain a smile at your wedding reception while some relative gives a toast that amounts to "marriage is hard work"? You know he's right; you just don't want to think about it at that particular moment. In fact, as is the ca in many major life moments, you can't really manage to think beyond the blisters your new shoes are causing.
That may em anticlimactic. But it also gets to the heart of one of life's greatest, saddest truths: that our most "memorable" occasions may elicit the fewest memories. It's probably not something most graduation speakers would say, but it's one of the first lessons of growing up.
91. According to the passage, most graduation speeches tend to recall ____ memories.
A. great
B. trivial
C. unforgettable
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分词作状语D. unimaginative
92. "But graduation speeches are less about the message than the mesnger" is explained
A. in the final paragraph.
B. in the last but one paragraph.
C. in the first paragraph.
D. in the same paragraph.
93. The graduation speeches mentioned in the passage are related to the following themes EXCEPT
A. death.
B. success.
C. rvice.
吃瓜子会不会长胖D. generosity.
94. It is implied in the passage that at great moments people fail to
A. remain clear-headed.童年的发现
B. keep good manners.
C. remember others' words.
D. recollect specific details.
95. What is "one of the first lessons of growing up"?
A. Attending a graduation ceremony.
B. Listening to graduation speeches.学习雷锋活动总结
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C. Forgetting details of memorable events.
D. Meeting high-profile graduation speakers.
TEXT D
Cultural rules determine every aspect of food consumption. Who eats together defines social units. For example, in some societies, the nuclear family is the unit that regularly eats together. The anthropologist Mary Douglas has pointed out that, for the English, the kind of meal and the kind of food that is rved relate to the kinds of social links between people who are eating together. She distinguishes between regular meals, Sunday meals when relatives may come, and cocktail parties for acquaintances. The food rved symbolizes the occasion and reflects who is prent. For example, only snacks are rved at a cocktail party. It would be inappropriate to rve a steak or hamburgers. The distinctions among cocktails, regular meals, and special dinners mark the social boundari
es between tho guests who are invited for drinks, tho who are invited to dinner, and tho who come to a family meal. In this example, the type of food symbolizes the category of guest and with whom it is eaten.
In some New Guinea societies, the nuclear family is not the unit that eats together. The men take their meals in a men's hou, parately from their wives and children. Women prepare and eat their food in their own hous and take the husband's portion to the men's hou. The women eat with their children in their own hous. This pattern is also widespread among Near Eastern societies.
Eating is a metaphor that is sometimes ud to signify marriage. In many New Guinea societies, like that of the Lesu on the island of New Ireland in the Pacific and that of the Trobriand Islanders, marriage is symbolized by the couple's eating together for the first time. Eating symbolizes their new status as a married couple. In U.S. society, it is just the rever. A couple may go out to dinner on a first date.
