专四考试模拟题（十）
发布时间：2019-03-07
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Now to the Pope's historic visit to Cuba and the US. Pope Fransis was arriving in eastern Cuba this morning for the next leg of this trip. He has been greeted by huge crowds as you know, excitement boiling for his arrival here, T files this before leaving Havana. Here is where the Pope. This is the Pope's last day in Cuba, before he headed to US. He is leaving Havana for a couple of cities Santiago, and Holguin. This was a trip that was supposed to be purely1 inspiritional for Cuba, but it has been tucked by protest and controversy2. And unforgetable moment, the Pope met with Phidel Catoral. The 89 year old revolutionary and a Pope who shaking up the world too. A jubilant welcome for the Pope from hundreds of young Cubans here in Havana last night. And Francis spoke3 to them off the cuff4, sharing his very untraditional vision of a church that must never become too insolent5. When a religion becomes a convent, it loses the best thing it has. He said. It becomes about I am good, You are bad, moral prediction. Earlier Sunday, Revolution square, thousands greeted Francis in the swelting heat, waving flags, reaching out to him. But as Francis arrived at the square, a dramatic scene of protestor tries to reach the Pope up * counter, and he gets dragged away. He celebrated6 mass with a huge image of Che Guevara, the famed 8 years' communist rival moving on above it all. An profoundly moving experience for so many, and the kids love thattoo. I was not, I want to see the Pope. I am excited, she says, I was like Hoorays the Pope, we have a lot of fun.
It was a lot of fun, for them, and for so many Cuban Catholics. The Pope will travel just ninty miles from here in Cuba, across the Florida Straits, to the US, but really it should be a world away from here.
单词例句解析：
1 purely
adv.纯粹地，完全地
参考例句
I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。
2 controversy
n.争论，辩论，争吵
参考例句：
That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
3 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句：
They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
4 cuff
n.袖口;手铐;护腕;vt.用手铐铐;上袖口
参考例句：
She hoped they wouldn't cuff her hands behind her back.她希望他们不要把她反铐起来。
Would you please draw together the snag in my cuff?请你把我袖口上的裂口缝上好吗?
5 insolent
adj.傲慢的，无理的
参考例句：
His insolent manner really got my blood up.他那傲慢的态度把我的肺都气炸了。
It was insolent of them to demand special treatment.他们要求给予特殊待遇，脸皮真厚。
6 celebrated
adj.有名的，声誉卓著的
参考例句：
He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
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Currently, every college student knows that ability is important. They would like to attend various training programs and apply for different certificates so that they are more competent. Do you think that attending training programs and getting more certificates can improve competence? Write an essay of about 400 words entitled: Do More Certificates Stand for Better Ability?
Do More Certificates Stand for Better Ability? This is the very hot season for the college graduates to hunt for jobs in the market. You may see a lot of graduates holding a variety of certificates indicating their versatile skills. Every college student knows that ability is important. They would like to attend various training programs and apply for different certificates so that they are more competent. However, can attending training programs and getting more certificates improve their competence? As far as I am concerned, the certificates do not really mean competence. First of all, the certificates are simply several pieces of papers proving that you have attended some training programs. Whether you are competent or not really depends upon your cleverness and experience. For example, many English majors have passed the TEM-8, an English test specific for the language students. Does that mean their English is perfect once getting such a certificate? Not exactly. The fact is you may find, more often than not, that many students speak broken English and write poor English. The reason is that they may assume that a certificate can prove their English is very good. So they stop their daily exercises and training and rest on the satisfaction of getting their certificates. Secondly, the ability must be obtained through hard work and long practice. The students should attach more importance to obtaining the ability rather than getting the certificates. The social practices help them make the book knowledge become their own. The certificates should stimulate them to study hard and become more excellent and competent. As for the recruiting companies, they prefer the students who can put their book knowledge into daily use, which is far more practical than the certificates. Finally, the students should try to make themselves more marketable. They need to give up the unrealistic assumption and realize the true fact. To sum up, the certificates do not really mean competence. What we need to do is integrate the certificates with the development of our competence. The two should go hand in hand to make us capable persons. 解析：文章题目紧贴大学生活，相信每个人都会有这样的经历：考取各种各样的证书。但是社会认可的是大学生的实践能力而不是学历，一纸证书并不能说明什么，人们应该走出这个认识误区。证书并不能代表个人能力，这就是本文的基本论点。第一段应该申明这个基本论点，第二段可以从证书并不能反映一个人的真实能力这一角度出发论证文章的观点，论据要具有说服力。第三段可以从一个人的能力是需要通过实践才能得来的这一点出发，结合实例展开论述。最后再重申和强调本文的论点。整篇文章要有条理、有逻辑，层次清楚。
Ask an American schoolchild what he or she is learning in school these days and you might even get a reply, provided you ask it in Spanish. But don't bother, here's the answer: Americans nowadays are not learning any of the things that we learned in our day, like reading and writing. Apparently these are considered fusty old subjects, invented by white males to oppress women and minorities.
What are they learning? In a Vermont college town I found the answer sitting in a toy store book rack, next to typical kids' books like Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy Is Dysfunctional. It's a teacher's guide called Happy To Be Me, subtitled Building Self Esteem.
Self-esteem, as it turns out, is a big subject in American classrooms. Many American schools see building it as important as teaching reading and writing. They call it "whole language" teaching, borrowing terminology from the granola people to compete in the education marketplace.
No one ever spent a moment building my self-esteem when I was in school. In fact, from the day I first stepped inside a classroom my self-esteem was one big demolition site. All that mattered was "the subject", be it geography, history, or mathematics. I was praised when I remembered that "near", "fit", "friendly", "pleasing", "like" and their opposites took the dative case in Latin. I was reviled when I forgot what a cosine was good for. Generally I lived my school years beneath a torrent of castigation so consistent I eventually ceased to hear it, as people who live near the sea eventually stop hearing the waves.
Schools have changed. Reviling is out, for one thing. More important, subjects have changed. Whereas I learned English, modern kids learn something called "language skills." Whereas I learned writing, modern kids learn something called "communication". Communication, the book tells us, is seven per cent words, 23 per cent facial expression, 20 per cent tone of voice, and 50 per cent body language. So this column, with its carefully chosen words, would earn me at most a grade of seven per cent. That is, if the school even gave out something as oppressive and demanding as grades.
The result is that, in place of English classes, American children are getting a course in How to Win Friends and Influence People. Consider the new attitude toward journal writing: I remember one high school English class when we were required to keep a journal. The idea was to emulate those great writers who confided in diaries, searching their souls and honing their critical thinking on paper.
"Happy To Be Me" states that journals are a great way for students to get in touch with their feelings. Tell students they can write one sentence or a whole page. Reassure them that no one, not even you, will read what they write. After the unit, hopefully all students will be feeling good about themselves and will want to share some of their entries with the class.
There was a time when no self-respecting book for English teachers would use "great" or "hopefully" that way. Moreover, back then the purpose of English courses (an antique term for "Unit") was not to help students "feel good about themselves." Which is good, because all that reviling didn't make me feel particularly good about anything.
Which of the following is the author implying in paragraph 5?
A．Self-criticism has gone too far.
B．Communication is a more comprehensive category than language skills.
C．Evaluating criteria are inappropriate nowadays.
D．This column does not meet the demanding evaluation criteria of today.
In this passage, "optical" can be understood as related to ______.
A．light
B．audio
C．electronics
D．multimedia
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