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1999年英语专业四级考试全真试卷4

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Part Ⅵ READING PREHENSION [30 MIN.]

SECTION A READING PREHENSION[25 MIN.]

In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished stat ements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D.Choose the one th at you think is the correct answer.Mark your choice on your answer sheet.

TEXT A

Surprisingly, no one knows how many children receive education in English hospit als, still less the content or quality of that education.Proper records are jus t not kept. We know that more than 850.000 children go through hospital each year, and that every child of school age has a legal right to continue to receive education wh ile in hospital.We also know there is only one hospital teacher to every 1,000 children in hospital.

Little wonder the latest survey concludes that the extent and type of hospital t eaching ailable differ a great deal across the country.It is found that half the hospitals in England which admit children he no teacher.A further quarter he only a part-time teacher.The special children's hospitals in major cities do best; general hospitals in the country and holiday areas are worst off. From this survey, one can estimate that fewer than one in five children he som e contact with a hospital teacher—and that contact may be as little as two hour s a day.Most children interviewed were surprised to find a teacher in hospital at all.They had not been prepared for it by parents or their own school.If the re was a teacher they were much more likely to read books and do math or number work; without a teacher they would only play games.

Reasons for hospital teaching range from preventing a child falling behind and m aintaining the habit of school to keeping a child occupied, and the latter is of ten all the teacher can do.The position and influence of many teachers was summ ed up when parents referred to them as “the library lady” or just “the helper”.Children tend to rely on concerned school friends to keep in touch with school w ork.Several parents spoke of requests for work being ignored or refused by the school.Once back at school children rarely get extra teaching, and are told to catch up as best they can.

Many short-stay child-patients catch up quickly.But schools do very little to e ase the anxiety about falling behind expressed by many of the children interview ed.

66.The author points out at the beginning that___.

A.every child in hospital receives some teaching

B.not enough is known about hospital teaching

C.hospital teaching is of poor quality

D.the special children's hospitals are worst off 

67.It can be inferred from the latest survey that___.

A.hospital teaching across the country is similar

B.each hospital has at least one part-time teacher

C.all hospitals surveyed offer education to children

D.only one-fourth of the hospitals he full-time teachers 

68.Children in hospital usual1y turn to___in order to catch up with the ir school work.

A.hospital teachers B.schoolmates

C.parents D.school teachers 

69.We can conclude from the passage that the author is___.

A.unfourable towards children receiving education in hospitals

B.in four of the present state of teaching in hospitals

C.unsatisfied with the present state of hospital teaching

D.satisfied with the results of the latest survey 

TEXT B

puter people talk a lot about the need for other people to bee “puter-l iterate”, in other words, to learn to understand puters and what makes them t ick.Not all experts agree, however, that is a good idea.

One pioneer, in particular.who disagrees is Did Tebbutt, the founder of pu tertown UK.Although many people see this as a successful attempt to bring peopl e closer to the puter, Did does not see it that way.He says that putert own UK was formed for just the opposite reason, to bring puters to the people and make them “people-literate”.

Did first got the idea when he visited one of America's best-known puter “g uru” figure, Bob Albrecht,in the small university town of Palo Alto in Northern California.Albrecht had started a project called putertown USA in the local library, and the local children used to call round every Wednesday to borrow so me time on the puters there, instead of borrowing library books.Albrecht was always on hand to answer any questions and to help the children discover about puters in their own way.

Over here, in Britain,putertowns he taken off in a big way,and there are now about 40 scattered over the country.Did Tebbutt thinks they are most succ essful when tied to a puter club.He insists there is a vast and important di fference between the two, although they plement each other.The clubs cater f or the enthusiasts, with some puter knowledge already, who get together arid eventually form an expert puter group.This frightens away non-experts, who a re happier going to putertowns where there are puters ailable for them t o experiment on, with experts ailable to encourage them and answer any questions; they are not told what to do, they find out.

Did Tehbutt finds it interesting to see the two different approaches working s ide by side.The puter experts he to learn not to tell people about pute rs, but he to be able to explain the answers to the questions that people real ly want to know.In some putertowns there are question sessions, rather like radio phone-ins, where the experts listen to a lot of questions and then try to work out some structure to answer them.People are not hing to learn puter jargons, but the experts are hing to translate puter mysteries into easily understood terms; the puters are being “people-literate”.

70.According to Did Tebbutt, the purpose of putertown UK is to___

A.train people to understand how puters work

B.make more puters ailable to people

C.enable more people to fix puters themselves

D.help people find out more about puters 

71.We Learn from the passage that putertown USA was a ___.

A.town B.project C.library D.school 

72.Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

A.putertowns in the UK he bee popular.

B.putertowns and clubs cater for different people.

C.putertowns are more successful than clubs.

D.It's better that putertowns and clubs work together.

73.Which of the following is NOT an advantage of putertowns?

A.Experts give lectures and talks on puters.

B.Experts are on hand to answer people's questions.

C.People are left to discover puters on their own.

D.There are puters around for people to practise on.

TEXT C

There must be few questions on which responsible opinion is so utterly divided a s on that of how much sleep we ought to he.There are some who think we can le e the body to regulate these matters for itself.“The

answer is easy,” says Dr .A.Burton.“With the right amount of sleep you should wake up fresh and alert five minutes before the alarm rings.” If he is right many people must be undersl eeping, including myself.But we must remember that some people he a greater i nertia than others.This is not meant rudely.They switch on slowly, and they a re reluctant to switch off.They are alert at bedtime and sleepy when it is time to get up, and this may he nothing to do with how fatigued their bodies are, or how much sleep they must take to lose their fatigue.

Other people feel sure that the present trend is towards too little sleep.To qu ote one medical opinion, thousands of people drift through life suffering from the effects of too little sleep; the reason is not that they can't sleep.Like a dvancing colonists, we do seem to be grasping ever more of the land of sleep for our waking needs, pushing the boundary back and reaching, apparently, for a poi nt in our evolution where we will sleep no more.This in itself, of course, need not be a bad thing.What could be disastrous, however, is that we should press too quickly towards this goal, sacrificing sleep only to gain more time in which to jeopardize our civilization by actions and decisions made weak by fatigue. Then, to plete the picture, there are those who believe that most people are persuaded to sleep too much.Dr H.Roberts, writing in Every Man in Health, asse rts: “It may safely be stated that, just as the majority eat too much, so the ma jority sleep too much.” One can see the point of this also.It would be a pity t o retard our development by holding back those people who are gifted enough to w ork and play well with less than the erage amount of sleep, if indeed it does them no harm.If one of the trends of evolution is that more of the life span i s to be spent in gainful waking activity, then surely these people are in the va n of this advance.

74.The author seems to indicate that___.

A.there are many controversial issues like the right amount of sleep

B.among many issues the right amount of sleep is the least controversial

C.people are now moving towards solving many controversial issues

D.the right amount of sleep is a topic of much controversy among doctors

75.The author disagrees with Dr.Burton because___.

A.few people can wake up feeling fresh and alert

B.some people still feel tired with enough sleep

C.some people still feel sleepy with enough sleep

D.some people go to bed very late at night 

76.In the last paragraph the author points out that___.

A.sleeping less is good for human development

B.people ought to be persuaded to sleep less than before

C.it is incorrect to say that people sleep too little

D.those who can sleep less should be encouraged 

77.We learn from the passage that the author___.

A.ments on three different opinions

B.fours one of the three opinions

C.explains an opinion of his own

D.revises someone else's opinion 

TEXT D

Migration is usually defined as “permanent or semipermanent change of residence.” This broad definition, of course, would include a move across the street or ac ross a city.Our concern is with movement between nations, not with internal mig ration within nations, although such movements often exceed international moveme nts in volume.Today, the motives of people who move short distances are very si milar to those of international migrants.

Students of human migration speak of “push” and “pull” factors, which influence an individual's decision to move from one place to another.Push factors are ass ociated with the place of origin.A push factor can be as simple and mild a matt er as difficulty in finding a suitable job.or as traumatic as war, or severe fa mine.Obviously, refugees who lee their homes with guns pointed at their heads are motivated almost entirely by push factors (although pull factors do influen ce their choice of destination).

Pull factors are those associated with the place of destination.Most often thes e are economic,such as better job opportunities or the ailability of good lan d to farm.The latter was an important factor in attracting settlers to the Unit ed States during the 19th century.In general, pull factors add up to an apparen tly better chance for a good life and material well-being than is offered by the place of origin.When there is a choice between several attractive potential de stinations, the deciding factor might be a non-economic consideration such as th e presence of relatives, friends, or at least fellow countrymen already establis hed in the new place who are willing to help the newers settle in.Considerat ions of this sort cad to the development of migration flow.

Besides push and pull actors, there are what the sociologists call “intervening obstacles” Even if push and(or) pull factors are very strong they still may be ou tweighed by intervening obstacles, such as the distance of the move, the trouble and cost of moving, the difficulty of entering the new country, and the problem s likely to be encountered on arrival. The decision to move is also influenced by “personal factors” of the potential m igrant.The same push-pull factors and obstacles operate differently on differen t people, sometimes because they are at different stages of their lives, or just because of their varying abilities and personalities.The prospect of packing u p everything and moving to a new and perhaps very strange environment may appear interesting and challenging to an unmarried young man and appallingly difficult to a slightly older man with a wife and small kids.Similarly, the need to lear n a new language and customs may excite one person and frighten another. Regardless of why people move, migration of large numbers of people causes confl ict.The United States and other western countries he experienced adjustment p roblems with each new we of immigrants.The newest arrivals are usually given the lowest-paid jobs and are resented by native people who may he to pete w ith them for those jobs.It has usually taken several decades for each group to be accepted into the mainstream of society in the host country.

78.The author thinks that pull factors___.

A.are all related to economic considerations

B.are not as decisive as push factors

C.include a range of considerations

D.are more important than push factors 

79.People's decisions to migrate might be influenced by all the follow ing EXC EPT___.

A.personalities.B.education.

C.marital status.D.abilities.

80.The purpose of the passage is to discuss___.

A.the problems of international migrants

B.the motives of international migrants

C.migration inside the country

D.migration between countries

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