2014年英语四级考试每日一练(5月20日)
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1、Questionsare based on the following passage. Many of us still tend to regard emotions as interfering with rational thought, and sometimes landing us in trouble. But in recent years psychologists have taken quite a different view. Keith Oatley, Professor of psychology at Glasgow University, is involved in the research which shows the fundamental importance of emotions. He believes we are very ambivalent about them: we think of our emotions as being irrational, but we also consider them as essential to being human.
For example, Mr. Spock, a character in the television series Startrek is super-intelligent, and he has no emotions at all!
However, he is never made captain of the spaceship. Maybe, this is because Mr. Spock is not the kind of person you can identify with a person who shows his emotions. As Professor Oatley points out, our emotions have very important functions,for example, fear. If we cross the road and a car approaches, we usually freeze or step back. We stop what we were doing, check what we have done, and pay very careful attention to the environment, The emotion of fear calls into readiness this small repertoire of actions which, on average, helps preserve our safety.
On the other hand, if things are going well and small problems come up, we find we can solve them with the resources we have to hand. As a consequence, we tend to feel happy and usually continue doing the job. Anger is an emotion that tends to occur when someone is preventing us from doing something. Then this small "kit" of reactions enables us to prepare ourselves to be quite aggressive to that person, or to try harder, and so on. Professor Oatley believes emotions generally occur at these junctures in actions. With fear and anger our emotions prompt us to start doing something else, whereas with happiness they "suggest" we continue what we are already doing.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 The author thinks that
A． emotions are rational
B． emotions help us
C． emotions interfere with rational thought
D． emotions get us into trouble
2、根据以下资料回答题
The greatest benefit of science has been __________.
3、根据下列材料请回答题：
What percentage of high school graduates were proficient in foreign languages 40 years ago?
A．Only 13 percent.
B．About 70 percent.
C．Less than 6.5 percent.
D．40 percent.
4、Questions are based on the following passage.
Amid a summer of record-setting heat, a new survey f'mds that most of Generation X's (20世纪60年代到70年代初出生的美国人) young and middle-age adults are tminformed and unconcerned about climate change.
Only about 5% of Gen Xers, now 32 to 52 years old, are "alarmed" and 18% "concerned" about climate change, reports the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research on Tuesday. Two-thirds, or 66% , of those surveyed last year said they aren't sure global warming is happening and 10% said they don't believe it's occurring.
"Most Generation Xers are surprisingly disengaged, dismissive or doubtful about whether global climate change is happening and they don't spend much time worrying about it," said author Jon D.Miller.
The report comes as several Obama administration officials have recently linked extreme weather to climate change. In a report last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration cited six weather events last year and said that atmospheric changes caused by the burning of fossil fuels made
Texas' heat wave, for example, 20 times more likely than it would have been in the 1960s.
The Generation X survey of about 3,000 adults, the fourth in a continuing series, found a small butstatistically significant decline in Gen Xer's attention to climate change. In 2011, 16% said they followed the issue very or moderately closely, down from 2296 in 2009.
Why are Gen Xere so indifferent? The report, funded by the National Science Foundation, citesclimate change's complexity, pressing economic concerns and "issue fatigue". It finds educated adults tend to be more concerned about the issue. It also finds partisan (党派的) differences; nearly half ofliberal Democrats were concerned or alarmed compared to zero percent of conservative Republicans.
Miller said he expected that, given climate change's expected impact on future generations, parents of young children would be more concerned than those without kids.
"Not so," he said. " Generation X adults without minor children were. slightly more alarmed aboutclimate change than were parents. The difference is small, but it is in the opposite direction than weexpected. "' Miller said the report suggests that while there's broad awareness of climate change, manyGen Xers prefer to focus on more immediate issues such as jobs and schools.
What do we know about the Generation X according to the passage?
A．They are a group of people receiving little education.
B．They don't believe global warming will affect them.
C．They don't care very much about climate change.
D．They never think that climate change will happen.
填空题
5、 He would not tell his parents what exactly happened，___________. (更不用说向他们求助了)．
6、
7、根据以下资料回答题
We can infer from this passage that the author comes from __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________.
8、根据下列材料，回答题：
请在（47）处填上答案。
9、What does the author think of green fashion?
A．Green products will soon go mainstream.
B．It has a very promising future.
C．Consumers have the final say.
D．It will appeal more to young people.
简答题
10、Honesty Should Be Treasured
1、Questionsare based on the following passage. Many of us still tend to regard emotions as interfering with rational thought, and sometimes landing us in trouble. But in recent years psychologists have taken quite a different view. Keith Oatley, Professor of psychology at Glasgow University, is involved in the research which shows the fundamental importance of emotions. He believes we are very ambivalent about them: we think of our emotions as being irrational, but we also consider them as essential to being human.
For example, Mr. Spock, a character in the television series Startrek is super-intelligent, and he has no emotions at all!
However, he is never made captain of the spaceship. Maybe, this is because Mr. Spock is not the kind of person you can identify with a person who shows his emotions. As Professor Oatley points out, our emotions have very important functions,for example, fear. If we cross the road and a car approaches, we usually freeze or step back. We stop what we were doing, check what we have done, and pay very careful attention to the environment, The emotion of fear calls into readiness this small repertoire of actions which, on average, helps preserve our safety.
On the other hand, if things are going well and small problems come up, we find we can solve them with the resources we have to hand. As a consequence, we tend to feel happy and usually continue doing the job. Anger is an emotion that tends to occur when someone is preventing us from doing something. Then this small "kit" of reactions enables us to prepare ourselves to be quite aggressive to that person, or to try harder, and so on. Professor Oatley believes emotions generally occur at these junctures in actions. With fear and anger our emotions prompt us to start doing something else, whereas with happiness they "suggest" we continue what we are already doing.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 The author thinks that
A． emotions are rational
B． emotions help us
C． emotions interfere with rational thought
D． emotions get us into trouble
2、根据以下资料回答题
The greatest benefit of science has been __________.
3、根据下列材料请回答题：
What percentage of high school graduates were proficient in foreign languages 40 years ago?
A．Only 13 percent.
B．About 70 percent.
C．Less than 6.5 percent.
D．40 percent.
4、Questions are based on the following passage.
Amid a summer of record-setting heat, a new survey f'mds that most of Generation X's (20世纪60年代到70年代初出生的美国人) young and middle-age adults are tminformed and unconcerned about climate change.
Only about 5% of Gen Xers, now 32 to 52 years old, are "alarmed" and 18% "concerned" about climate change, reports the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research on Tuesday. Two-thirds, or 66% , of those surveyed last year said they aren't sure global warming is happening and 10% said they don't believe it's occurring.
"Most Generation Xers are surprisingly disengaged, dismissive or doubtful about whether global climate change is happening and they don't spend much time worrying about it," said author Jon D.Miller.
The report comes as several Obama administration officials have recently linked extreme weather to climate change. In a report last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration cited six weather events last year and said that atmospheric changes caused by the burning of fossil fuels made
Texas' heat wave, for example, 20 times more likely than it would have been in the 1960s.
The Generation X survey of about 3,000 adults, the fourth in a continuing series, found a small butstatistically significant decline in Gen Xer's attention to climate change. In 2011, 16% said they followed the issue very or moderately closely, down from 2296 in 2009.
Why are Gen Xere so indifferent? The report, funded by the National Science Foundation, citesclimate change's complexity, pressing economic concerns and "issue fatigue". It finds educated adults tend to be more concerned about the issue. It also finds partisan (党派的) differences; nearly half ofliberal Democrats were concerned or alarmed compared to zero percent of conservative Republicans.
Miller said he expected that, given climate change's expected impact on future generations, parents of young children would be more concerned than those without kids.
"Not so," he said. " Generation X adults without minor children were. slightly more alarmed aboutclimate change than were parents. The difference is small, but it is in the opposite direction than weexpected. "' Miller said the report suggests that while there's broad awareness of climate change, manyGen Xers prefer to focus on more immediate issues such as jobs and schools.
What do we know about the Generation X according to the passage?
A．They are a group of people receiving little education.
B．They don't believe global warming will affect them.
C．They don't care very much about climate change.
D．They never think that climate change will happen.
填空题
5、 He would not tell his parents what exactly happened，___________. (更不用说向他们求助了)．
6、
7、根据以下资料回答题
We can infer from this passage that the author comes from __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________.
8、根据下列材料，回答题：
请在（47）处填上答案。
9、What does the author think of green fashion?
A．Green products will soon go mainstream.
B．It has a very promising future.
C．Consumers have the final say.
D．It will appeal more to young people.
简答题
10、Honesty Should Be Treasured
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