大学英语考试专业英语四级TEM4模拟题2020年(15)
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PART Ⅰ LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE
1. Tom said nothing at all, but his eyes spoke ______ him.
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2. It's quite late now and Mr. White ______ hasn't left his office.
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∙3. They overcame all the difficulties **pleted the task two months ahead of time, ______ is something we had not expected.
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4. Having no money but ______ to know, he simply said he would go without dinner.
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5. U. S. News ______ rankings of colleges since 1983. They are a very popular resource for students looking to apply to a university campus.
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PART Ⅱ CLOZE
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I．created J．passage K．material L．as
M．had swum N．then O．chains
We all know that a magician does not really depend on "magic" to perform his tricks, but on his ability to act at great speed. However, this does not prevent us from enjoying watching a magician 1 rabbits from a hat. Probably the greatest magician of all time was Harry Houdini who died in 1926. Houdini mastered the art of escaping. He could free himlf from the tightest knots or the most 2 locks in conds. Although no one really knows how he did this, there is no doubt that he had made a clo study of every type of lock ever 3 . He liked to carry a small steel needle-like tool strapped to his leg and he ud this in place of a key. Houdini once asked the Chicago police to lock him in prison. T
hey 4 him in chains and locked him up, but he freed himlf in an instant. The police accud him of having ud a tool and locked him up again. This time he wore no clothes and there were 5 round his neck, waist, wrists, and legs; but he again escaped in a few minutes. Houdini had probably hidden his "needle" in a wax-like 6 and dropped it on the floor in the 7 . He stepped on it so that it stuck to the bottom of his foot 8 he went past. His most famous escape, however, was altogether 9 . He was heavily chained up and enclod in an empty wooden chest, the lid of which was nailed down. The chest was waned into the a in New York harbor. In one minute Houdini 10 to the surface. When the chest was brought up, it was opened and the chains were found inside.
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PART Ⅲ READING COMPREHENSION
. SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
In this ction there are three passages followed by ten multiple-choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choo the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
PASSAGE ONE
(1) I ud to watch her from my kitchen window, she emed so small as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during recess. A a of children, and yet to me, she stood out from them all.
(2) I remember the first day I saw her playing basketball. I watched in wonder as she ran circles around the other kids. She managed to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the net. The boys always tried to stop her but no one could. I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone. She would practice dribbling and shooti
天津大学研究生ng over and over again, sometimes until dark. One day I asked her why she practiced so much. She looked directly in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation she said, "I want to go to college. The only way I can go is if I get a scholarship. I like basketball. I decided that if I were good enough, I would get a scholarship. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be the best. My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count."
(3) Then she smiled and ran towards the court to repeat the routine I had en over and over again. Well, I had to give it to her—she was determined. I watched her through tho junior high years and into high school. Every week, she led her team to victory. One day in her nior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head cradled in her arms.
(4) I walked across the street and sat down in the cool grass beside her. Quietly I asked what was wrong. "Oh, nothing," came a soft reply. "I am just too short." The coach told her that at 5'5" she would probably never get to play for a top ranked team—much less offered a scholarship—so she should stop dreaming about college. She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tighten as I nd her disappointment.
(5) I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She lifted her head from her hands and told me that her father said tho coaches were wrong. They just did not understand the power of a dream. He told her that if she really wanted to play for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship, that nothing could stop her except one thing—her own attitude. He told her again, "If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count." The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was en by a college recruiter. She was indeed offered a scholarship, a full ride, to a Division I, NCAA women's basketball team. She was going to get the college education that she had dreamed of and worked toward for all tho years.
(6) It's true: If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.
PASSAGE TWO
(1) Obrve a child; any one will do. You will e that not a day pass in which he does not find something or other to make him happy, though he may be in tears the next moment. Then look at a man; any one of us will do. You will notice that weeks and months can pass in which every day is greeted with nothing more than resignation, and e
ndured with polite indifference. Indeed, most men are as mirable as sinners, though they are too bored to sin—perhaps their sin is their indifference. But it is true that they so ldom smile that when they do we do not recogni their face, so distorted is it from the fixed mask we take for granted. And even then a man cannot smile like a child, for a child smiles with his eyes, whereas a man smiles with his lips alone. It is not a smile, but a grin; something to do with humour, but little to do with happiness. And then, as anyone can e, there is a point (but who can define that point?) when a man becomes an old man, and then he will smile again.
(2) It would em that happiness is something to do with simplicity, and that it is the ability to extract pleasure from the simplest things—such as a peach stone, for instance.
(3) It is obvious that it is nothing to do with success. For Sir Henry Stewart was certainly successful. It is twenty years ago since he came down to our village from London, and bought a couple of old cottages, which he had knocked into one. He ud his hou as a weekend refuge. He was a barrister. And the village followed his brilliant career with something almost amounting to paternal pride.
(4) I remember some ten years ago when he was made a King's Counl, Amos and I, eing him get off the London train, went to congratulate him. We grinned with pleasure; he merely looked as mirable as though he'd received a penal ntence. It was the same when he was knighted; he never smiled a bit, he didn't even bother to celebrate with a round of drinks at the "Blue Fox". He took his success as a child does his medicine. And not one of his achievements brought even a ghost of a smile to his tired eyes.
(5) I asked him one day, soon after he'd retired to potter about his garden, what it was like to achieve all one's ambitious. He looked down at his ros and went on watering them. Then he said, "The only value in achieving one's ambitious is that you then realize that they are not worth achieving." Quickly he moved the conversation on to a more practical level, and within a moment we were back to a safe discussion on the weather. That was two years ago.
(6) I recall this incident, for yesterday, I was passing his hou, and had drawn up my cart just outside his garden wall. I had pulled in from the road for no other reason than to l
et a bus pass me. As I t there filling my pipe, I suddenly heard a shout of sheer **e from the other side of the wall.
(7) I peered over. There stood Sir Henry doing nothing less than a tribal war dance, of sheer unashamed ecstasy. Even when he obrved my bewildered face staring over the wall he did not em put out or embarrasd, but shouted for me to climb over.
(8) "Come and e, Jan. Look! I have done it at last! I have done it at last!"
(9) There he was, holding a small box of earth in his hand. I obrved three tiny shoots out of it.
(10) "And there were only three!" he said, his eyes laughing to heaven.
(11) "Three what?" I asked.
(12) "Peach stones", he replied. "I've always wanted to make peach stones grow, even since I was a child, when I ud to take them home after a party, or as a man after a banquet. And I ud to plant them, and then forgot where I planted them. But now at last I have done it, and, what's more, I had only three stones, and there you are, one, two, three shoots," he counted.
(13) And Sir Henry ran off, calling for his wife to come and e his achievement—his achievement of simplicity.
PASSAGE THREE
(1) As unpleasant emotions go, anxiety is the sketchiest. It's a vague, pit-of-the-stomach dread that sneaks up to you—that unea you get when your boss says that she needs to talk to you right away, when the phone rings at 4:, or when your dentist looks into your mouth and says "Hmmmm" for the third time.
(2) Lingering anxiety can keep you up at night, make you irritable, undermine your ability to concentrate, and either ruin your appetite or cau Olympian eating binges. And the constant state of readiness generated by anxiety—adrenaline pumping, heart racing, palms sweating—may contribute to high blood pressure and heart dia.
How to prevent anxiety then?
(3) Meditate. Maybe you're just high-strung. If so, meditation is worth a try. It cultivates a calmness that eas anxious feelings and offers a n of control. A study at the University of Massachutts found that volunteers who took an 8-week meditation cour
were considerably less anxious afterward. People who are high-strung find that they are dramatically calmer with 20 minutes of meditation in the morning and another 20 minutes after dinner.
(4) If you've never done meditation, try this technique: Sit quietly in a comfortable position and take a few deep, cleansing breaths to relax your muscles. Then choo a calming word or phra. (Experts suggest either a word or short phra with religious significance, or the word one.) Silently repeat the word or phra for 20 minutes. As you find your thoughts straying, gently return your focus to your repeated word and continue to breathe deeply.
(5) Jog, walk, swim, or cycle. If you can't make time for meditation, be sure to make time for regular exerci. Exerci can have the same calming effect as meditation, particularly if it's something repetitive like running or swimming laps.
Treatment?
(6) Odds are that you can learn to handle anxiety better. Here's how.
(7) Remember to breathe. When you're anxious, you tend to hold your breath or breath
e too shallowly. That makes you feel more anxious. Breathing slowly and deeply can have a calming effect. To make sure that you're breathing correctly, place your hand on your diaphragm (横膈膜), just below your rib cage. Feel it ri with each inhalation and fall with each exhalation.
(8) Analyze and act. The antidote (矫正方法) to anxiety is analysis and action. To rid yourlf of that vague n of dread, you have to figure out exactly what it is that you dread. Then you can map a plan of action to do something about it. Usually the first step in this action plan is to fund out more about the problem.
(9) Let's say you are anxious about **petence on the job. Ask yourlf, "What, in particular, am I afraid that I'll muff?." Maybe you're afraid that you'll get further behind and miss your deadlines. Or maybe you're worried that you're blowing it whenever you prent your ideas in meetings. Are your worries founded? Have you had veral near miss with deadlines? Are your suggestions routinely vetoed? If not, the anxiety is needless. If there is a real problem, work on a solution: Pace yourlf to better meet deadlines, or join a public speaking class.
