2009年英语专业四级试题
PART I
DICTATION
(15 MIN)
Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more. Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE. PART II
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
(20 MIN)
In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your answer sheet Two. SECTION A CONVERSATIONS In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 3 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the conversation. 1. Mark is unhappy because of ______.
A. his Chemistry homework C. Linda’s words
B. a girl in his class D. Friday night’s party
2. Which of the following is CORRECT?
A. Linda is Jane’s friend.
B. Mark is Jane’s boyfriend.
C. John is Jane’s boyfriend. friends.
D. Mark and John are good
3. Did Mark eventually take Linda’s advice?
A. No.
B. Partly. D. Not mentioned.
C. Completely.
Questions 4 to 7 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the conversation.
Now listen to the conversation.
4. About the scratch on the product, the shop assistant thinks that ______.
A. the customer made it himself one then
C. the customer should have checked trouble
5. The customer was ______ when told he might not have worn the headphones properly.
A. annoyed
B. surprised
D. worried
D. the customer was making
B. there was definitely not
C. indifferent
6. How many complaints did the customer make about the product altogether?
A. Five. C. Three.
B. Four. D. Two.
7. The shop could exchange the product if the customer ______.
A. makes no more complaints C. is still unhappy with it week
B. can produce the receipt
D. brings it back within a
Questions 8 to 10 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the conversation.
Now listen to the conversation.
8. Joe Smith telephoned Victoria for ______.
A. the menu
B. the place D. the campaign
C. the reception
9. When will the lunch be held?
A. Friday next week. C. April 30th.
B. Thursday next week.
D. This week.
10. All the following information is new to Victoria EXCEPT ______.
A. how many people to attend it C. where to hold it SECTION B PASSAGES
B. why to hold it
D. what to cook
In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the passage. 11. People choose London for post-Christmas shopping because ______.
A. shops open early in the morning hours
C. they can buy really cheap things friends
12. We learn from the passage that ______.
D. they can shop with their B. shops stay open for longer
A. people are very keen on sales start at 3:30am
B. post-Christmas sales
C. post-Christmas sales last for a day items
D. sales include only a few
13. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. Some people buy Christmas presents in the sales. B. Some people shop online during the sales. C. Some people buy presents for next Christmas. D. Online retailers offer better post-Christmas sales.
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the passage.
14. Ballroom dancing used to be associated with ______.
A. TV shows
B. old people
D. professional dancers
C. celebrities
15. According to the passage, recent popularity of ballroom dancing is the result of ______.
A. the participation of celebrities costumes
C. the benefits it brings
D. a TV programme
B. the designing of colourful
16. Which of the following is NOT mentioned about the TV show?
A. Performers have to be formally dressed on the show. B. Each professional dancer dances with a celebrity. C. People on the show perform a different dance every week. D. The show runs for about four months.
17. According to the passage, the TV show has the greatest impact on ______.
A. old people
B. middle-aged people D. all of the above
C. kids and young people
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the passage.
18. According to New Zealand’s rules about naming children, which of the following
names is NOT acceptable? A. Spiderman. C. 2win.
B. Gandalf.
D. Arsenal.
19. According to the passage, unusual names come from ______.
A. popular culture C. sports
B. parents’ invention
D. all of the above
20. All of the following countries have strict roles about naming children EXCEPT ______.
A. Algeria C. Japan
B. Germany
D. Argentina
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
In this section, you will hear several news items. Listen to them carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 21 to 23 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. 21. Why were the fishing crew stranded on Oct. 10th?
A. They went to a remote area.
B. Their fishing boats collided.
C. They tried to repair their boats. boats.
D. They decided to stay in the
22. How did they survive during those three months?
A. On supplies they brought with them. B. On supplies sent to them by rescue teams. C. On supplies left at the military base. D. Not mentioned in the passage. 23. How were the crew rescued eventually?
A. By helicopter
B. By boat
D. By a search team
C. By radio contact
Questions 24 to 25 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. 24. Juan Carlos has been King of Spain ______.
A. since 1981 C. for 70 years
B. for 32 years
D. for 17 years
25. What is the news item mainly about?
A. The King’s birthday.
B. The stability of the monarchy.
D. The King’s public
C. Criticism from both the left and the right. defence of his reign.
Questions 26 to 27 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. 26. The three suicide bombings occurred in ______.
A. November and December
B. October and November
C. November D. December
27. Did people die in the bombings?
A. No one died in the bombings. C. Yes. In two of the bombings.
B. Yes. In one of the bombings. D. Yes. In all the bombings.
Questions 28 to 30 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. 28. What is the purpose of the national survey?
A. To collect data on sources of pollution. B. To identify pollution in rivers and lakes.
C. To help control environmental pollution. D. To help control industrial wastes.
29. According to the news item, efforts of environmental protection are especially affected by ______. A. lack of technology
B. rapid economic growth
D. shortage of manpower
C. unknown pollution sources
30. Which of the following details is CORRECT according to the news item?
A. Census offices are set up by government departments. B. A main centre receives reports from provinces. C. A database is set up for each province.
D. Data will be reviewed and analyzed in mid-2009. PART III
CLOZE
(15 MIN)
Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your answer sheet. Scientists around the world are racing to learn how to rapidly diagnose, treat and stop the spread of a new, deadly disease. SARS — Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome — was (31) ______ for the first time in February 2003 in Hanoi, (32) ______ since then has infected more than 1,600 people in 15 countries, killing 63. At this (33) ______, there are more questions than answers surrounding the disease.
Symptoms start (34) ______ a fever over 100.4 degrees F, chills, headache or body (35) ______. Within a week, the patient has a dry cough, which might (36) ______ to shortness of breath. In 10% to 20% of cases, patients require (37) ______ ventilation to breathe. About 3.5% die from the disease. Symptoms (38) ______ begin in two to seven days, but some reports suggest it (39) ______ take as long as 10 days. Scientists are close to (40) ______ a lab test to diagnose SARS. In the meantime, it is diagnosed by its symptoms. There is no evidence (41) ______ antibiotics or anti-viral medicines help, (42) ______ doctors can offer only supportive care. Patients with SARS are kept in isolation to reduce the risk of (43) ______. Scientists aren’t sure yet, but some researchers think it’s a (44) ______ discovered coronavirus, the family of viruses that cause some common colds.
Most cases appear to have been passed (45) ______ droplets expelled when infected patients cough or sneeze. Family members of infected people and medical workers who care (46) ______ them have been most likely to (47) ______ the illness. But recent developments in Hong Kong suggest that the (48) ______ might spread through air, or that the virus might (49) ______ for two to three hours on doorknobs or other (50) ______. Health experts say it is unlikely, though, that sharing an elevator briefly with an infected person would be enough to pass the virus. (31) A. detected B. caught (32) A. but
B. and
C. disclosed D. revealed C. or
D. yet
(33) A. time B. point (34) A. from B. over (35) A. hurt B. sore
C. aspect C. upon
D. instance D. with D. feelings D. convert
C. aches C. progress
(36) A. process B. advance
(37) A. automatic B. artificial C. mechanical D. controlled (38) A. regularly B. ordinarily C. traditionally D. generally (39) A. will B. might
C. should
D. must
(40) A. cultivating B. fostering C. developing D. designing (41) A. which B. that (42) A. so
B. but
C. whether C. still
D. what D. yet
(43) A. communication B. transportation C. transformation D. transmission (44) A. lately B. newborn (45) A. under B. through (46) A. for
B. over
C. newly C. beneath C. after C. obtain
D. renewed D. from D. about D. contract D. infection D. persist D. coverings
(47) A. acquire B. receive
(48) A. ailment B. ill-health C. disease (49) A. continue B. linger C. delay (50) A. exteriors B. outside PART IV
C. surfaces
(15MIN)
GRAMMER &VOCABULARY
There are thirty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentences. Mark your answers on your answer sheet. 51. What a nice day! How about the three of us ______ a walk in the park nearby?
A. to take taking
B. take C. taking D. to be
52. If there were no subjunctive mood, English ______ much easier to learn.
A. could have been C. will be
B. would be D. would have been
53. She ______ fifty or so when I first met her at a conference.
A. had been C. has been
B. must be D. must have been
54. ______ the boss says, it is unreasonable to ask me to work overtime without pay.
A. Whatever B. Whenever C. Whichever D. However 55. A new laptop costs about ______ of a second-hand one.
A. the price of three times B. three times the price C. as much as the three times price price
56. I was very interested in ______ she told me.
A. all that that
57. We consider ______ he should have left without telling anyone beforehand.
A. strange why that strange
58. It is going to be fine tomorrow.
A. So is it. So does it.
59. Little ______ about her own safety, though she herself was in great danger.
B. So it is. C. So it does.
D.
B. it strange what C. it strange that D. B. all which
C. all what
D.
D. three times more than the
A. she cared did she care
B. she may care C. may she care D.
60. The couple had no sooner got to the station ______ the coach left.
A. when B. as C. until
D. than
61. Aren’t you tired? I ______ you had done enough for today.
A. should have thought C. might have thought
B. must have thought D. could have thought
62. “It seems that she was there at the conference.” The sentence means that ______.
A. she seems to be there at the conference. B. she seemed to be there at the conference. C. she seems to have been there at the conference. D. she seemed to being there at the conference.
63. Which of the following adverbs can NOT be used to complete “______ everybody
came”?
A. Nearly B. Quite C. Practically
D. Almost
64. In “How much do you think he earns?” how much is ______ of the sentence.
A. the subject C. the object
B. the adverbial D. the complement
65. “The man preparing the documents is the firm’s lawyer” has all the following
possible meanings EXCEPT ______.
A. the man who has prepared the documents... B. the man who has been preparing the documents... C. the man who is preparing the documents... D. the man who will prepare the documents...
66. During the TV interview, the singer announced that he was going to ______ his
new album soon. A. release rehearse
67. After working for the firm for ten years, he finally ______ the rank of deputy director.
A. achieved B. approached C. attained
D. acquired
B. renew C. relieve
D.
68. Winter is the ______ season at most hotels in this seaside town, because very
few tourists come to stay.
A. slow B. slack C. low D. quiet 69. Come on, Jack, tell me the story. Don’t keep me in ______.
A. suspense B. suspending C. suspension suspender
70. The football match was ______ because of the heavy rain.
A. called over called off
71. We had a good time there, and the food was plentiful and ______.
A. conducive B. wholesome C. helpful appreciative
72. It was strange that she would ______ such an absurd idea.
A. allow B. stick entertain
73. The scientists have made an ______ study of the viruses that cause the disease.
A. exhausted B. exhausting exhaustion
C. exhaustive
D.
C. take D.
D.
B. called up
C. called out
D.
D.
74. Do you own your apartment or are you a ______?
A. tenant B. customer C. client proprietor
75. Representatives from the companies indicated that they should go on working
together in ______.
A. unity B. entity partnership
76. We all know that Mary has had a strict ______.
A. growth B. upbringing cultivation
77. The drink was packaged in champagne bottles and was being ______ as the real stuff.
A. passed out passed off
78. Last Sunday she came to visit us out of the blue. The italicized phrase means ______.
A. unexpectedly unofficially
79. The person he interviewed was ______ his former schoolmate.
A. no other than none the less
80. The young employee has a(n) ______ quality — he is totally honest.
A. respectable approachable PART V
READING COMPREHENSION
(25MIN)
B. admirable C. decent D. B. no more than
C. none other than
D.
B. unhappily C. untidily
D.
B. passed by
C. passed over
D.
C. development D. C. partners
D. D.
In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answers on your answer sheet. TEXT A
Do you realize that every time you take a step, the bones in your hip are subjected to forces between four and five times your body weight? When you are running, this force is increased further still. What happens if through disease a hip-joint ceases to be able to resist such forces? For many years hip-joints and other body joints have been replaceable either partially or completely. It is after all a simple ball and socket joint; it has certain loads imposed on it; it needs reliability over a defined life; it must contain materials suitable for the working environment. Any engineer will recognize these as characteristic of a typical engineering problem, which doctors and engineers have worked together to solve, in order to bring a fresh lease of life to people who would otherwise be disabled.
This typifies the way in which engineers work to help people and create a better quality of life. The fact that this country has the most efficient agricultural industry in the world is another good example. Mechanical engineers have worked with farmers and biologists to produce fertilizers, machinery and harvesting systems.
This team effort has now produced crops uniformly waist high or less so that they
are better suited to mechanical harvesting. Similar advances with other crops have released people from hard and boring jobs for more creative work, whilst machines harvest crops more efficiently with less waste. Providing more food for the rapidly increasing population is yet another role for the mechanical engineer.
81. According to the passage, when would most weight be imposed on hip-joints?
A. When one is walking.
B. When one is running. D. When one is lying down.
C. When one is standing.
82. Engineers regard the replacement of hip-joints as a(n) ______ problem.
A. mechanical C. health
B. medical
D. agricultural
83. According to the passage, how do engineers contribute to increasing efficiency of the agricultural industry?
A. By working with farmers.
B. By working in teams.
D. By making agricultural
C. By growing crops of the same height. machinery.
84. According to the context, “This team effort” in Paragraph Two refers to ______.
A. mechanical engineers
B. doctors and engineers
D. farmers, biologists and
C. biologists, doctors and farmers engineers TEXT B
Nowadays, a cellphone service is available to everyone, everywhere. Probably thousands of people have already been using it, but I just discovered it, so I’m going to claim it and also name it: Fake Foning.
The technology has been working well for me at the office, but there are infinite applications. Virtually in any public space.
Say you work at a big university with lots of talky faculty members buzzing about. Now, say you need to use the restroom. The trip down the hall will take approximately one hour, because a person can’t walk into those talky people without getting pulled aside for a question, a bit of gossip, a new read on a certain line of Paradise Lost.
So, a cellphone. Any cellphone. Just pick it up. Don’t dial. Just hold that phone to your face and start talking. Walk confidently down the hall engaged in fake conversation, making sure to tailor both the topic and content to the person standing before you whom you are trying to evade.
For standard colleague avoidance, I suggest fake chatting about fake business: “Yes, I’m glad you called, because we really need to hammer out the details. What’s that? Yes, I read Page 12, but if you look at the bottom of 4, I think you can see the problem begins right there.”
Be animated. Be engaged in your fake fone conversation. Make eye contact with the people passing, nod to them, gesture keen interest in talking to them at a later time, point to your phone, shrug and move on.
Shoppers should consider fake foning anytime they spot a talky neighbor in the produce department pinching (用手捏) unripe peaches. Without your phone at your face, you’d be in for a 20-minute speech on how terrible the world is.
One important caution about fake foning. The other day I was fake foning my way past a colleague, and he was actually following me to get my attention. I knew he wanted to ask about a project I had not yet finished. I was trying to buy myself some time, so I continued fake foning with my doctor. “So I don’t need the operation? Oh, doctor, that is the best news.”
And then: Brrrrrmg! Brrrrrmg! Brrrrrmg! My phone started ringing, right there while it was planted on my face. My colleague looked at me, and I at him, and naturally I gasped. “What is the matter with this thing?” I said, pulling the phone away to look at it, and then putting it back to my ear.
“Hello? Are you still there?” Oops.
85. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
A. Cellphone service is popular among people. B. Cellphone has much use in office.
C. Fake foning is a new cellphone service. D. Fake foning is a new discovery.
86. What is fake foning?
A. A strategy to avoid people.
B. A device newly produced. D. A skill of communication.
C. A service provided everywhere.
87. In the author’s opinion, in order to make fake foning look real one has to ______.
A. talk about interesting matters passing by
C. hold the phone while walking conversation
88. What does the last example show?
A. One effective way is to fake fone one’s doctor. B. One has to be careful while fake foning. C. Fake foning may not deceive people. D. Fake foning is always quite successful.
89. After his phone suddenly began ringing, the author ______.
A. immediately started talking to the caller B. immediately started talking to his colleague C. put the phone away and stopped talking D. continued with his fake conversation 90. What is the tone of the passage?
A. Critical.
B. Humorous.
D. appear absorbed in
B. behave politely to people
C. Serious. TEXT C
D. Unclear.
It was late in the afternoon, and I was putting the final touch on a piece of writing that I was feeling pretty good about. I wanted to save it, but my cursor had frozen. I tried to shut the computer down, and it seized up altogether. Unsure of what else to do, I yanked (用来猛拉) the battery out.
Unfortunately, Windows had been in the midst of a delicate and crucial undertaking. The next morning, when I turned my computer back on, it informed me that a file had been corrupted and Windows would not load. Then, it offered to repair itself by using the Windows Setup CD.
I opened the special drawer where I keep CDs. But no Windows CD in there. I was forced to call the computer company’s Global Support Centre. My call was answered by a woman in some unnamed, far-off land. I find it annoying to make small talk with someone when I don’t know what continent they’re standing on. Suppose I were to comment on the beautiful weather we’ve been having when there was a monsoon at the other end of the phone? So I got right to the point.
“My computer is telling me a file is corrupted and it wants to fix itself, but I don’t have the Windows Setup CD.”
“So you’re having a problem with your Windows Setup CD.” She has apparently been dozing and, having come to just as the sentence ended, was attempting to cover for her inattention.
It quickly became clear that the woman was not a computer technician. Her job was to serve as a gatekeeper, a human shield for the technicians. Her sole duty, as far as I could tell, was to raise global stress levels.
To make me disappear, the woman gave me the phone number for Windows’ creator, Microsoft. This is like giving someone the phone number for, I don’t know, North America. Besides, the CD worked; I just didn’t have it. No matter how many times I repeated my story, we came back to the same place. She was calm and resolutely polite.
When my voice hit a certain decibel (分贝), I was passed along, like a hot, irritable potato, to a technician.
“You don’t have the Windows Setup CD, ma’am, because you don’t need it,” he explained cheerfully. “Windows came preinstalled on your computer!”
“But I do need it.”
“Yes, but you don’t have it.” We went on like this for a while. Finally, he offered to walk me through the use of a different CD, one that would erase my entire system. “Of course, you’d lose all your e-mail, your documents, your photos.”
It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache. “You might
be able to recover them, but it would be expensive.” He sounded delighted. “And it’s not covered by the warranty (产品保证书) !” The safe began to seem like a good idea, provided it was full.
I hung up the phone and drove my computer to a small, friendly repair place I’d heard about. A smart, helpful man dug out a Windows CD and told me it wouldn’t be a problem. An hour later, he called to let me know it was ready. I thanked him, and we chatted about the weather, which was the same outside my window as it was outside his.
91. Why did the author shut down her computer abruptly?
A. She had saved what she had written. cursor.
B. She couldn’t move the
C. The computer refused to work. itself.
D. The computer offered to repair
92. Which of the following is the author’s opinion about the woman at the Global Support Centre?
A. She sounded helpful and knowledgeable. B. She was there to make callers frustrated. C. She was able to solve her computer problem. D. She was quick to pass her along to a technician.
93. According to the passage, the solution offered by the technician was ______.
A. effective C. unpractical
B. economical
D. unacceptable
94. “It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache” in the last but one paragraph means that ______.
A. the technician’s proposal would make things even worse B. the technician’s proposal could eventually solve the problem C. files stored on her computer were like a safe D. erasing the entire system was like curing a headache
95. It can be inferred from the passage that the differences between the Global Support Centre and the local repair shop lie in all the following EXCEPT ______.
A. efficiency C. setup CDs
B. location D. attitude
TEXT D
Not long ago, a mysterious Christmas card dropped through our mail slot. The envelope was addressed to a man named Raoul, who, I was relatively certain, did not live with us. The envelope wasn’t sealed, so I opened it. The inside of the card
TEXT D ◎ 内容大意 本文是一篇记叙文，记叙了作者被索取节日小费的事情。 ◎ 全文翻译 不久以前，一封神秘的圣诞卡片投到我的邮箱。信封上写着寄给一个叫拉奥的男子，我比较清楚这个人不和我们住在一起。信封没有密封，因此我把它打开了。卡片里面是空白的。（96）我的丈夫爱德解释说，这张卡片既来自也寄给报纸投递员。他的名字显然是拉奥，而且拉奥想要一份假期小费。我们打算把一张支票放在卡片里面，然后把信封放在邮箱里。当凌晨4点的时候有人要你为服务付款，就像旅店的行李服务员期待小费一样，你不能仅仅观望等待。你要直接给他。 因此，我给拉奥写了句友好的节日问候，在我的想象里面，他是个从自行车上将《纽约时报》瞄准我们前门扔的人，仅仅用新闻用纸就能制造出比复杂工艺的黑市烟火还大的噪音。 （97）我吃惊地认识到，也许凌晨4点钟的叫醒噪音不是普通的粗蛮无礼，而是小心谨慎的恶意：我在之前的圣诞都没有给拉奥小费。我实在是没有意识到我应该这么做。这是他第一次使用卡片策略。因此我拿出了支票簿。（98）有些地方的假期小费是为感谢这一年的服务随意给出的，有些则是黑手党形式的保护费收取。 几天以后，我把家里的垃圾桶从边石旁边拿回来的时候，我注意到有其中一个盖子上粘着一封信。信封上面写着“米奇”。这是另一封索要小费的信，这次来自我们的垃圾收集工。和拉奥不一样的是，米奇没有随信附上我要寄给他的圣诞卡片。在某种程度上，我感激这种率直。“我知道你不在乎我的圣诞有多愉快，这很好。”它写着。“我想要30美元，不然的话某个炎热的夏天我会忘记清空你家的垃圾箱。” 我把一张支票放在信封里面，又把它捆在垃圾桶上面。第二天，爱德注意到信封没有了，然而垃圾还没有清理：“有人偷走了米奇的小费！”爱德很确定。他让我打电话给银行取消了支票。 但是爱德错了。（99）两个星期后，米奇在我们的台阶上留下了一封来自银行的信。信上通知米奇，那张他试图兑现的支票，被取消了。接下来的星期二早晨，当爱德在外面看到一辆卡车，他带着钱包跑了出去。“你是米奇吗？” 那个人鄙视地看着他。“米奇是垃圾收集工。我是再利用物品收集工。”爱德不仅通过暗示他是垃圾收集工来侮辱他，而且还显然忽视了要给他小费。爱德跑进家里拿了更多的钱。接着，他注意到，卡车司机正注视着整个交易。他掏出另外20美元，四处张望，挥着纸币说，“还有其他人吗？” 如果我们咨询了艾米丽·波斯特协会，这种令人尴尬的对礼节的违背本该可以避免。该协会《节日小费指南》里“垃圾/再利用收集工”的词条下有这么一句话：“每人10到30美元。”你也许希望或者不希望知道，你的宠物美容师、发型师、邮差和联合包裹递送者都期待一份节日小费。 ▼ 试题分析 96. C) 细节题。(Lines3~5, Para.1) Ed, my husband, explained that the card was both from and to the newspaper deliveryman. His name was apparently Raoul, and Raoul wanted a holiday tip. 我的丈夫爱德解释说，这张卡片既来自也寄给报纸投递员。他的名字显然是拉奥，而且拉奥想要一份假期小费。 97. B) 判断推理题。(Lines1~3, Para.3) With a start, I realized that perhaps the reason for the 4 a.m. wake-up noise was not ordinary rudeness but carefully executed spite: I had not tipped Raoul in Christmases past. I honestly hadn’t realized I was supposed to.我吃惊地认识到，也许凌晨4点钟的叫醒噪音不是普通的粗蛮无礼，而是小心谨慎的恶意：我在之前的圣诞都没有给拉奥小费。我实在是没有意识到我应该这么做。 98. D) 判断推理题。(Lines4~5, Para.3) Somewhere along the line, holiday tipping went
from an optional thank-you for a year of services to a Mafia-style protection racket. 有些地方的假期小费是为感谢这一年的服务随意给出的，有些则是黑手党形式的保护费收取。根据上下文，作者把拉奥索要节日小费的方法归位后面一种：黑手党形式的收取保护费。因此可以推断，作者感觉是被迫要给拉奥小费。
99. B) 细节题。(Lines1~2, Para.6) Two weeks later, Mickey left a letter from the
bank on our steps. The letter informed Mickey that the check, which he had tried to cash, had been cancelled.两个星期后，米奇在我们的台阶上留下了一封来自银行的信。信上通知米奇，那张他试图兑现的支票，被取消了。
100. A) 判断推理题。根据本文第六段和第七段可知，爱德以为有人偷走了他们给垃圾收集
工米奇的支票而让他的妻子去银行取消了这张支票。然而，支票是被米奇本人拿走的。米奇没有拿到钱。爱德为了弥补自己犯下的错误，走出门去询问，给了再利用物品收集工和卡车司机等人一些小费。从文中语言可知，爱德极于想要弥补自己的错误。
PART Ⅵ WRITING SECTION A COMPOSITION
Will Tourism Bring Harm to the Environment?
In recent years, tourism has developed rapidly in China. Many people believe that tourism produce positive effects on economic growth and we should try our best to promote tourism. But what these people fail to see is that tourism may bring about a disastrous impact on our environment. As for me, I’m firmly convinced that too much tourists bring harm to the environment.
The bad impact of tourism on the environment has mainly expressed itself in various ways. One way is the process of exploiting a new scenic spot. In order to attract tourists, a lot of artificial facilities have been built, which have certain
unfavorable effects on the environment. This process usually breaks the ecological balance of the area. In some mountainous places, trees are being cut down to build hotels for others to see and explore the beauty of the mountains. Then land slides and mud-rock flows come up. Another way the development of tourism has damaged the environment occurs when tourists go to scenic spots. Some tourists don’t have the awareness to protect the environment, and ignorantly throw their garbage here and there. Some people even kill the local wildlife to eat, which badly damages the balance of the natural environment.
It is wrong to sacrifice the environment for the growth of tourism. We must keep in mind that too much tourists bring harm to the environment. We need to find a balance between satisfying the needs of tourists and reducing to a minimum the pollution they cause.
SECTION B NOTE-WRITING
April 18, 2009
Dear Lily,
I know you’re looking for a part-time job in the coming summer vacation. And I have just seen an ad for a private English tutor for a schoolboy on the campus. Since you’re good at English and like teaching, I think this job is very suitable for you. It will help you both earn some money and practice yourselves. So please think about it.
Sincerely
yours, Anne
