大学英语四级模拟试卷(听力已改革)(2)

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When You \Keep in touch. Your friends should be a priority; schedule regular lunch dates or coffee catch-up sessions, no matter how busy you are. Know her business. Keep track of important events in a friend's life and show your support. Call or e-mail to let her know you're thinking of her. Speak your mind. Tell a friend (politely) if something she did really upset you. If you can't be totally honest, then you need to reexamine the relationship. Accept her flaws. No one is perfect, so work around her quirks --she's chronically late, or she's a bit negative -- to cut down on frustration and fights. Boost her ego. Heartfelt compliments make everyone feel great, so tell her how much you love her new sweater or what a great job she did on a work project. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答

46. Leslie Danzig thought making friends at one's middle age needed some reasons.

47. A well-chosen new friend can help you go in the direction that you like.

48. A few years ago the author felt lonely and depressed when she phoned her best friend in another city who was much wanted then but unavailable.

49. According to Kathleen Hall, one might feel sensitive in the first curse of making new friends.

50. Midlife friendship can help you realize your direction of life and reinforce the progress you've made in your life.

51. In Mafia Paul's book, to be a better friend, you should keep track with your friends, care for your friend's job, express yourself, accept her flaws and compliment your friend for her/his good dressing and job.

52. For the author, a girl friend might be the right person to under \her and erase her negative feeling.

53. According to Michelle Metes, midlife friendship is based on the shared values and activities

54. As a mature friend seeker, the author finds herself with enough confidence to offer and take rejection with grace.

55. With newly made friends, you can have a chance to take on a new look in your life.

Section C

Directions: There are two 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 center.

Passage One

Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.

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Culture is one of the most challenging elements of the international marketplace. This system of learned behavior patterns characteristic of the members of a given society is constantly shaped by a set of dynamic variables: language, religion, values and attitudes, manners and customs, aesthetics, technology, education, and social institutions. To cope with this system, an international manager needs both factual and interpretive knowledge of culture. To some extent, the factual knowledge can be learned; its interpretation comes only through experience.

The most complicated problems in dealing with the cultural environment stem from the fact that one cannot learn culture one has to live it. Two schools of thought exist in the business world on how to deal with cultural diversity. One is that business is business the world around, following the model of Pepsi and McDonald’s. In some cases, globalization is a fact of life; however, cultural differences are still far from converging.

The other school proposes that companies must tailor business approaches to individual cultures. Setting up policies and procedures in each country has been compared to an organ transplant; the critical question centers around acceptance or rejection. The major challenge to the international manager is to make sure that rejection is not a result of cultural myopia or even blindness.

Fortune examined the international performance of a dozen large companies that earn 20 percent or more of their revenue overseas. The internationally successful companies all share an important quality: patience. They have not rushed into situations but rather built their operations carefully by following the most basic business principles. These principles are to know your adversary, know your audience, and know your customer.

56. According to the passage, which of the following is true?

［A］All international managers can learn culture. ［B］Business diversity is not necessary.

［C］Views differ on how to treat culture in business world. ［D］Most people do not know foreign culture well. 57. According to the author, the model of Pepsi__________ .

［A］is in line with the theories of the school advocating the business is business the world around.

［B］is different from the model of McDonald’s ［C］shows the reverse of globalization ［D］has converged cultural differences 58. The two schools of thought___________ .

［A］both propose that companies should tailor business approaches to individual cultures ［B］both advocate that different policies be set up in different countries ［C］admit the existence of cultural diversity in business world ［D］Both A and B

59. This article is supposed to be most useful for those___________ .

［A］who are interested in researching the topic of cultural diversity ［B］who have connections to more than one type of culture ［C］who want to travel abroad

［D］who want to run business on International Scale

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60. According to Fortune, successful international companies__________ .

［A］earn 20 percent or more of their revenue overseas ［B］all have the quality of patience

［C］will follow the overseas local cultures ［D］adopt the policy of internationalization

Passage Two

Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.

There are people in Italy who can’t stand soccer. Not all Canadians love hockey. A similar situation exists in America, where there are those individuals you may be one of them who yawn or even frown when somebody mentions baseball. Baseball to them means boring hours watching grown men in funny tight outfits standing around in a field staring away while very little of anything happens. They tell you it’s a game better suited to the 19th century, slow, quiet, and gentlemanly. These are the same people you may be one of them who love football because there’s the sport that glorifies “the hit”.

By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent, still.

On TV the game is fractured into a dozen perspectives, replays, closeups. The geometry of the game, however, is essential to understanding it. You will contemplate the game from one point as a painter does his subject; you may, of course, project yourself into the game. It is in this projection that the game affords so much space and time for involvement. The TV won’t do it for you.

Take, for example, the third baseman. You sit behind the third base dugout and you watch him watching home plate. His legs are apart, knees flexed. His arms hang loose. He does a lot of this. The skeptic still cannot think of any other sports so still, so passive. But watch what happens every time the pitcher throws: the third baseman goes up on his toes, flexes his arms or bring the glove to a point in front of him, takes a step right or left, backward or forward, perhaps he glances across the field to check his first baseman’s position. Suppose the pitch is a ball. “Nothing happened,” you say. “I could have had my eyes closed.”

The skeptic and the innocent must play the game. And this involvement in the stands is no more intellectual than listening to music is. Watch the third baseman. Smooth the dirt in front of you with one foot; smooth the pocket in your glove; watch the eyes of the batter, the speed of the bat, the sound of horsehide on wood. If football is a symphony of movement and theatre, baseball is chamber music, a spacious interlocking of notes, chores and responses.

61.The passage is mainly concerned with__________ . ［A］the different tastes of people for sports ［B］the different characteristics of sports ［C］the attraction of football ［D］the attraction of baseball

62.Those who don’t like baseball may complain that__________ . ［A］it is only to the taste of the old ［B］it involves fewer players than football ［C］it is not exciting enough

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［D］it is pretentious and looks funny 63.The author admits that__________ .

［A］baseball is too peaceful for the young

［B］baseball may seem boring when watched on TV ［C］football is more attracting than baseball ［D］baseball is more interesting than football

64.By stating “I could have had my eyes closed.” the author means_________ (4th paragraph last sentence).

［A］The third baseman would rather sleep than play the game

［B］Even if the third baseman closed his eyes a moment ago, it could make no different to the result

［C］The third baseman is so good at baseball that he could finish the game with eyes closed all the time and do his work well

［D］The consequent was too bad he could not bear to see it 65.We can safely conclude that the author___________ . ［A］likes football ［B］hates football ［C］hates baseball ［D］likes baseball

Part VI Translation (30 minutes) Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.

端午节，又叫龙舟节，是为了纪念爱国诗人屈原。屈原是一位忠诚和受人敬仰的大臣（minister）,他给国家带来了和平和繁荣。但最后因为受到诽谤（vilify）而最终投河自尽。人们撑船到他自尽的地方，抛下粽子，希望鱼儿吃粽子，不要吃屈原的身躯。几千年来，端午节的特色在于吃粽子（glutinous dumplings）和赛龙舟，尤其是在一些河湖密布的南方省份。

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