2010年12月英語四級考試模擬試題八 2010年12月英語四級考試模擬試題八

2010年12月英語四級考試模擬試題及答案 八
Part I Writing (30 minutes)

　　Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Online Education. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese:

　　1. 目前網(wǎng)絡(luò)教育形成熱潮

　　2. 我認(rèn)為形成這股熱潮的原因是……

　　3. 我對網(wǎng)絡(luò)教育的評價

　　Online Education

　　Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)

　　Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.

　　For questions 1-7, mark

　　Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;

　　N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;

　　NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.

　　For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.

　　The World in a Glass: Six Drinks That Changed History

　　Tom Standage urges drinkers to savor the history of their favorite beverages along with the taste.

　　The author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Walker & Company, June 2005), Standage lauds the libations that have helped shape our world from the Stone Age to the present day.

　　"The important drinks are still drinks that we enjoy today," said Standage, a technology editor at the London-based magazine the Economist. "They are relics (紀(jì)念物)of different historical periods still found in our kitchens."

　　Take the six-pack, whose contents first fizzed at the dawn of civilization.

　　Beer

　　The ancient Sumerians, who built advanced city-states in the area of present-day lraq, began fermenting(發(fā)酵)beer from barley at least 6,000 years ago.

　　"When people started agriculture the first crops they produced were barley or wheat. You consume those crops as bread and as beer," Standage noted. "It’s the drink associated with the dawn of civilization. It’s as simple as that."

　　Beer was popular with the masses from the beginning.

　　"Beer would have been something that a common person could have had in the house and made whenever they wanted," said Linda Bisson, a microbiologist at the Department of Viticulture and Enology at the University of California, Davis.

　　"The guys who built the pyramids were paid in beer and bread," Standage added. "It was the defining drink of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Everybody drank it. Today it’s the drink of the working man, and it was then as well."