2013年英语四级考试每日一练(7月26日)
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1. Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. 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 centre.
Questions27-11are based on the following passage.
Now the Bush team is pushing hard an idea which is inherited from the Clinton administration and which, in some way, builds on the debt-relief initiative. For the very poorest countries, America strongly favors moving from loans to grants, though other industrial-country donors are still doubtful of the wisdom of this. Giving grants, they argue, will cut future aid flows because some of the funding for loans on generous terms comes from money which has been repaid to donors.
America takes the view that, since many developing-country loans will never be repaid, main- ly because the recipients (接受者)cannot afford to make large payments to their creditors, it makes more sense to treat them as grants in the first place. The Bush administration has threatened to hold up the provision of the funds used for this sort of aid, International Development Assistance(IDA), if it cannot persuade everyone else to come on board. All members talked about having made progress in this area, but it remains a stumbling block.
Work is also under way in the IMF and the G7 to reform the international financial system. This now has two objectives. One is to make it harder for terrorist organizations to obtain funding by cracking down on money laundering and increasing financial transparency. The other is to reduce the occurrence and severity of financial crises in emerging-market countries. On this, American views seem to have prevailed. The G7 meeting on April 19th and 20th ended with an unexpected decision to proceed with an American plan to include collective action clauses in future loans taken out by emerging-market governments. The idea is that in the event of a delay of payment -- such as that by Argentina last December -- a government could negotiate with a "super majority" of its creditors to restructure its debts, rather than, as now, have a small minority of creditors able to weaken such attempts.
This market-based approach is still controversial, and implementing it could be difficult given the previous reluctance of governments to include such clauses in loan contracts ( lest they appear to be signaling a readiness to default (拖欠) even as they borrow). Work on IMF plans for more far-reaching reforms of supreme debt, on which the Bush team recently appeared to pour cold water, is to proceed at the same time. The two approaches, said the G7, are "complementary".
According to the passage, America favors moving from loans to grants on the purpose of_________
A．making more money for the donors
B．relieving debt of the poorest countries
C．solvin
2. 点击按钮开始播放听力音频
Questions 11-2are based on the conversation you have just heard．
根据听到的内容作答_____.
A) He enjoys reading letters.
B) He has been job-hunting.
C) He is offering a job.
D) He is working for a factory.
3. 回答{TSE}题
Bad behavior incockpit has proven deadly
Terrifying incidents of bad pilot behavior like a JetBlue pilot'smeltdown this week are not unprecedented in the history of commercial aviationand have sometimes caused deadly crashes.
Nevertheless, the list of incidents resulting from unprofessionalpilot behavior over a 50-year history and millions of flights show that"it's a very rare thing," says aviation safety expert Aaron Gellmanof the Kellogg
School of Management at Northwestern University. "And evenwith what's happened in the past, it's the safest mode of transportation byfar."
Tuesday's JetBlue incident, where the FBI alleges captain Clayton Ｏsbon started Speaking nonsense tohis first officer and was later tackled and restrained by passengers, isextremely unusual. But airline procedures, which require two pilots and lockedcockpit (驾驶座舱)doors, protected the public, Gellmansays.
Some previous incidents of bad behavior by pilots have been fatal,showing that airline procedures cannot save lives when pilots choose to ignorethem.
On Feb. 12, 2009, Colgan Air Flight 3407 iced up and crashed inBuffalo, N.Y., after a series of mistakes by tired pilots, according to theNational Transportation Safety Board. Both the captain and first officer had traveledfor hours before taking controls of the plane in Newark, and the young firstofficer, Rebecca Lynne Shaw, was heard on the flight recorder saying she hadlittle experience dealing with icy conditions. When ice caused the flight tostall(失速)，captain Marvin Renslow erred and made the stall worse, crashing theplane and killing 50 people,according to the NTSB. The board also concludedthat Shaw and Renslow had been chitchatting in the cockpit.
"They weren't properly trained and weren't able to handle thesituation," Gellman says.
In 2008, an Air Canada co-pilot was forcibly removed from aToronto-to-London flight, restrained andsedated(给服镇静剂)after having a mental breakdown andspeaking to God while behind the controls at 30,000 feet. The plane landed safelyin Ireland.
Ｏn Oct. 31, 1999, Egypt Air Flight 990 crashed into the AtlanticOcean off the Massachusetts coast due,according to the NTSB, to the deliberateaction of first officer Gameel Al-Batouti. The Boeing 767 crashed with dozensof Egyptian military officers aboard who were returning from helicopter flighttraining in the USA at a time when the Egyptian government was at war withradical Islamists. Al-Batouti, an Islamist sympathizer, "wanted to get ridof the helicopter pilots and crashed the airplane," Gellman says.
Ｏn Oct. 14, 2004, two pilots taking an empty airliner from LittleRock, Ark., to Minneapolis decided to explore the limits of their PinnacleAirlines plane. Captain Jesse Rhodes and first officer Peter Cesarz took the planeto 41,000, the maximum approved altitude for the plane, and then failed tofollow proper procedure when the plane stalled and the engines shut down,according to the NTSB; After trying unsuccessfully to restart the engines whilegliding, they crashed behind several homes 2.5 miles from an airport. Bothcrewmembers were killed.
A 1956 mid-air collision that investigators blamed on pilotstrying to give passengers better views of the Grand Canyon resulted in arevamping(改写)of the role of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA．in patrolling the airways.
The pilots were maneuvering around cloud formations over thecanyon and collided, killing 128 people."It was a watershed(分水岭) event because it changed thewhole approach to air traffic control," Gellman says. Congress reacted byincreasing funding for the FAA, giving it the capability to monitor aircraft"in the airways not just in the terminal," Gellman says.
Investigations of deadly accidents over the years have resulted insafety procedures, such as requiring two pilots and locking cockpit doors,which helped preserve lives in the JetBlue incident, Gellman says.
"Even if the captain had insisted on making trouble in thecockpit, I think the first officer would have been able to handle it,"Gellman says. "That's why we have two people in there."
Dave Funk, a retired Northwest Airlines captain now an aviationconsultant with Laird & Associates, says the JetBlue flight might have beensaved by the co-pilot, who barred an incapacitated (不胜任的 ) Ｏsbonfrom the cockpit. "The first officer recognized the gravity of thesituation and solved the problem," Funk says.
The co-pilot's quick thinking on that flight is analogous tocaptain "Sully" Sullenberger landing a US Airways flight on New York'sHudson River with no lives lost, Funk says. "We gave him a bunch of brokeneggs.
He made scrambled eggs. He didn't make eggs over medium. "
Funk says pilots today face more worries than they did years ago,when airlines like TWA and now-defunct Pan Am projected an image of employees who have"this wonderful life, have great benefits, fly around the world,fall inlove, all in their 20s. "
Instead, he says, pilots today are dealing with "the crappyeconomy, the political fights each day. Is Washington going to get attackedThat's going to create stress. "Pilots, in particular, have to deal with alot more stresses in their job because of the intense security situation,Funksays.
"It's the greatest job in the world when you get to the endof the runway," Funk says. "All the crap you have to get through to make it to therunway doesn't make it worth it to a lot of us anymore."
Tuesday's JetBlue incident is __________.
A．an incident of unprofessional pilot behavior
B．the major cause of a plane crash
C．an example showing that the air travel is still the safest mode oftransportation by far
D．an example showing how the airline proceduresprotect the public
4. What information could be found from the black box on the Yemeni airliner?
A．The scene of the crash and extent of the damag
B．Data for analyzing the cause of the cras
C．The total number of passengers on boar
D．Homing signals sent by the pilot before the cras
翻译题
5. His business was very successful, but it was _________ (以他的家庭生活为代价的).
6. It seems to the boy that____________________________(没有什么比打篮球更重要).
7. No one had told Smith about__________(第二天有一场讲座)．
8. _________(给我印象深的)were her liveliness and sense ofhumor．
9. 87、Soon after he transferred to the new school,Ali found that he had ___(很难跟上班里的同学)in math and english。
88、if she had returned an hour earlier, mary __(就不会被大雨淋了)。
89、It is said that those who are stressed or working overtime are ________（更有可能增加体重）。
90、________（很多人所没有意识到的）is that Simon is a lover of sports,and football in particular。
91、The study shows that the poor functioning of the human body is_________（与缺乏锻炼密切相关）。
翻译
10. Since my childhood I have found that ________ （没有什么比读书对我更有吸引力）.
1. Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. 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 centre.
Questions27-11are based on the following passage.
Now the Bush team is pushing hard an idea which is inherited from the Clinton administration and which, in some way, builds on the debt-relief initiative. For the very poorest countries, America strongly favors moving from loans to grants, though other industrial-country donors are still doubtful of the wisdom of this. Giving grants, they argue, will cut future aid flows because some of the funding for loans on generous terms comes from money which has been repaid to donors.
America takes the view that, since many developing-country loans will never be repaid, main- ly because the recipients (接受者)cannot afford to make large payments to their creditors, it makes more sense to treat them as grants in the first place. The Bush administration has threatened to hold up the provision of the funds used for this sort of aid, International Development Assistance(IDA), if it cannot persuade everyone else to come on board. All members talked about having made progress in this area, but it remains a stumbling block.
Work is also under way in the IMF and the G7 to reform the international financial system. This now has two objectives. One is to make it harder for terrorist organizations to obtain funding by cracking down on money laundering and increasing financial transparency. The other is to reduce the occurrence and severity of financial crises in emerging-market countries. On this, American views seem to have prevailed. The G7 meeting on April 19th and 20th ended with an unexpected decision to proceed with an American plan to include collective action clauses in future loans taken out by emerging-market governments. The idea is that in the event of a delay of payment -- such as that by Argentina last December -- a government could negotiate with a "super majority" of its creditors to restructure its debts, rather than, as now, have a small minority of creditors able to weaken such attempts.
This market-based approach is still controversial, and implementing it could be difficult given the previous reluctance of governments to include such clauses in loan contracts ( lest they appear to be signaling a readiness to default (拖欠) even as they borrow). Work on IMF plans for more far-reaching reforms of supreme debt, on which the Bush team recently appeared to pour cold water, is to proceed at the same time. The two approaches, said the G7, are "complementary".
According to the passage, America favors moving from loans to grants on the purpose of_________
A．making more money for the donors
B．relieving debt of the poorest countries
C．solvin
2. 点击按钮开始播放听力音频
点击播放
Questions 11-2are based on the conversation you have just heard．
根据听到的内容作答_____.
A) He enjoys reading letters.
B) He has been job-hunting.
C) He is offering a job.
D) He is working for a factory.
3. 回答{TSE}题
Bad behavior incockpit has proven deadly
Terrifying incidents of bad pilot behavior like a JetBlue pilot'smeltdown this week are not unprecedented in the history of commercial aviationand have sometimes caused deadly crashes.
Nevertheless, the list of incidents resulting from unprofessionalpilot behavior over a 50-year history and millions of flights show that"it's a very rare thing," says aviation safety expert Aaron Gellmanof the Kellogg
School of Management at Northwestern University. "And evenwith what's happened in the past, it's the safest mode of transportation byfar."
Tuesday's JetBlue incident, where the FBI alleges captain Clayton Ｏsbon started Speaking nonsense tohis first officer and was later tackled and restrained by passengers, isextremely unusual. But airline procedures, which require two pilots and lockedcockpit (驾驶座舱)doors, protected the public, Gellmansays.
Some previous incidents of bad behavior by pilots have been fatal,showing that airline procedures cannot save lives when pilots choose to ignorethem.
On Feb. 12, 2009, Colgan Air Flight 3407 iced up and crashed inBuffalo, N.Y., after a series of mistakes by tired pilots, according to theNational Transportation Safety Board. Both the captain and first officer had traveledfor hours before taking controls of the plane in Newark, and the young firstofficer, Rebecca Lynne Shaw, was heard on the flight recorder saying she hadlittle experience dealing with icy conditions. When ice caused the flight tostall(失速)，captain Marvin Renslow erred and made the stall worse, crashing theplane and killing 50 people,according to the NTSB. The board also concludedthat Shaw and Renslow had been chitchatting in the cockpit.
"They weren't properly trained and weren't able to handle thesituation," Gellman says.
In 2008, an Air Canada co-pilot was forcibly removed from aToronto-to-London flight, restrained andsedated(给服镇静剂)after having a mental breakdown andspeaking to God while behind the controls at 30,000 feet. The plane landed safelyin Ireland.
Ｏn Oct. 31, 1999, Egypt Air Flight 990 crashed into the AtlanticOcean off the Massachusetts coast due,according to the NTSB, to the deliberateaction of first officer Gameel Al-Batouti. The Boeing 767 crashed with dozensof Egyptian military officers aboard who were returning from helicopter flighttraining in the USA at a time when the Egyptian government was at war withradical Islamists. Al-Batouti, an Islamist sympathizer, "wanted to get ridof the helicopter pilots and crashed the airplane," Gellman says.
Ｏn Oct. 14, 2004, two pilots taking an empty airliner from LittleRock, Ark., to Minneapolis decided to explore the limits of their PinnacleAirlines plane. Captain Jesse Rhodes and first officer Peter Cesarz took the planeto 41,000, the maximum approved altitude for the plane, and then failed tofollow proper procedure when the plane stalled and the engines shut down,according to the NTSB; After trying unsuccessfully to restart the engines whilegliding, they crashed behind several homes 2.5 miles from an airport. Bothcrewmembers were killed.
A 1956 mid-air collision that investigators blamed on pilotstrying to give passengers better views of the Grand Canyon resulted in arevamping(改写)of the role of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA．in patrolling the airways.
The pilots were maneuvering around cloud formations over thecanyon and collided, killing 128 people."It was a watershed(分水岭) event because it changed thewhole approach to air traffic control," Gellman says. Congress reacted byincreasing funding for the FAA, giving it the capability to monitor aircraft"in the airways not just in the terminal," Gellman says.
Investigations of deadly accidents over the years have resulted insafety procedures, such as requiring two pilots and locking cockpit doors,which helped preserve lives in the JetBlue incident, Gellman says.
"Even if the captain had insisted on making trouble in thecockpit, I think the first officer would have been able to handle it,"Gellman says. "That's why we have two people in there."
Dave Funk, a retired Northwest Airlines captain now an aviationconsultant with Laird & Associates, says the JetBlue flight might have beensaved by the co-pilot, who barred an incapacitated (不胜任的 ) Ｏsbonfrom the cockpit. "The first officer recognized the gravity of thesituation and solved the problem," Funk says.
The co-pilot's quick thinking on that flight is analogous tocaptain "Sully" Sullenberger landing a US Airways flight on New York'sHudson River with no lives lost, Funk says. "We gave him a bunch of brokeneggs.
He made scrambled eggs. He didn't make eggs over medium. "
Funk says pilots today face more worries than they did years ago,when airlines like TWA and now-defunct Pan Am projected an image of employees who have"this wonderful life, have great benefits, fly around the world,fall inlove, all in their 20s. "
Instead, he says, pilots today are dealing with "the crappyeconomy, the political fights each day. Is Washington going to get attackedThat's going to create stress. "Pilots, in particular, have to deal with alot more stresses in their job because of the intense security situation,Funksays.
"It's the greatest job in the world when you get to the endof the runway," Funk says. "All the crap you have to get through to make it to therunway doesn't make it worth it to a lot of us anymore."
Tuesday's JetBlue incident is __________.
A．an incident of unprofessional pilot behavior
B．the major cause of a plane crash
C．an example showing that the air travel is still the safest mode oftransportation by far
D．an example showing how the airline proceduresprotect the public
4. What information could be found from the black box on the Yemeni airliner?
A．The scene of the crash and extent of the damag
B．Data for analyzing the cause of the cras
C．The total number of passengers on boar
D．Homing signals sent by the pilot before the cras
翻译题
5. His business was very successful, but it was _________ (以他的家庭生活为代价的).
6. It seems to the boy that____________________________(没有什么比打篮球更重要).
7. No one had told Smith about__________(第二天有一场讲座)．
8. _________(给我印象深的)were her liveliness and sense ofhumor．
9. 87、Soon after he transferred to the new school,Ali found that he had ___(很难跟上班里的同学)in math and english。
88、if she had returned an hour earlier, mary __(就不会被大雨淋了)。
89、It is said that those who are stressed or working overtime are ________（更有可能增加体重）。
90、________（很多人所没有意识到的）is that Simon is a lover of sports,and football in particular。
91、The study shows that the poor functioning of the human body is_________（与缺乏锻炼密切相关）。
翻译
10. Since my childhood I have found that ________ （没有什么比读书对我更有吸引力）.
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