2007年6月英语四级模拟试卷附答案(三)

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Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

Directions:There are four passages in this part.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statement.For each of them there are fo ur choices marked A),B),C) and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
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Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:

Eye contact is a nonverball technique that helps the speaker "sell" his or her ideas to an audience.Besides its persuasive powers,eye contact helps hold listener interest.A successful speaker must maintain eye contact with an audience.To have good rapport(关系) with listeners,a speaker should maintain direct eye contact for at least 75 percent of the time.Some speakers focus exclusively on their notes.Others gaze over the heads of their listeners.Both are likely to lose audience interest and esteem.People who maintain eye contact while speaking,whether from a pdoium(演讲台) or from across the table,are "regarded not only as exceptionally well-disposed by their target but also as more believable and earnest."

To show the potency of eye contact in daily life,we have only to consider how passers-by behave when their glances happen to meet on the street.At one extreme are those people who feel obliged to smile when they make eye contact.At the other extreme are those who feel awkward and immediately look away.To make eye contact,it seems,is to make a certain link with someone.
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Eye contact with an audience also lets a speaker know and monitor the listeners.It is,in fact,essential for analyzing an audience during a speech.Visual cues(暗示) from audience members can indicate that a speech is dragging,that the speaker is dwelling on a particular point for too long,or that a particular point requires further explanation.As we have pointed out,visual feedback from liteners should play an important role in shaping a speech as it is delivered.

21.This passage is mainly concerned with_____ .
A) the importance of eye contact
B) the potency of nonverbal techniques
C) successful speech delivery
D) an effective way to g ain visual feedbacks

22.According to the passage,a good speaker must_____ .
A) "sell" his or her ideas to an audience
B) maintain direct eye contact with listeners
C) be very persuasive and believable
D) be exceptionally well-disposed

23.The word "target" in the last sentence of the first paragraph can best be replaced by _______.
A) "destination"B) "goal"C) "audience"D) "followers"

24.In daily life,when the glances of two passers-by happen to meet,these two persons will inevitably________ .
A) smile to each other
B) feel awkward and look away immediately
C) try to make a conversation with each other
D) none of the above

25.Eye contact with an audience,according to the author,has all the following benefits for the speaker EXCEPT that it doesn't .
A) help the speaker to control the audience
B) help the speaker to gain audience interest and esteem
C) help the spekaer to know whether he is talking too much about a certain point
D) help the speaker to analyze his audience when he is beginning his speech

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Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:
The American Revolution was a citizen's revolution.Ordinary men took a large part in it.One of them was Paul Revere,a silver worker.He lived in Boston many years ago during the time when many people in the British colonies in America felt that they were being used for Britain's gain.They felt that they were being taxed without fair representation in the British government.The people of Boston were especially angry,and additional British troops had been sent there to keep theexcited colonists under control.Paul Revere was one of those who believed that the British would soon be on the march against the villages and farms near Boston.

On the night of the eighteenth of April,1775,Revere rowed across the Charles River to a place opposite Boston where his saddled horse was ready to ride.if the British soldiers came, he was to ride to warn the people.A friend in Boston was hidden near the British troops in a place where he could watch what they did.If they marched by land,he was to hang one Lantern high in the tower of the old North Church in Boston where Paul could see it.If they came by sea,he would hang up two lanterns.
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Toward morning Revere saw two lights in the tower.The British must be coming by sea!He jumped on his horse and rode through the countryside before dawn in order to warn the farmers and villagers that they must fight at daybreak.he rode all night,and in the morning,by the time the troops arrived,the farmers were hidden all along the roads with their guns loaded.When the British came,the Americans drove them back.These first battles of the American Revolution were fought at Concord and at Lexington,Massachusetts,on April 19,1775.In 1776 the colonies signeda declaration of independence.
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26.What is the author's main purpose in the passage?
A) To provide information about the childhood of paul Revere.
B) To discuss the war between the British and the Americans.
C) To tell the reader a story aout Paul Revere in the American Revolution.
D) To describe the courage of the farmers and villagers in the Amercian Revolution.

27.Which of the following is TRUE of Paul Revere?
A) He was very interested in polities.
B) He got a relative to help him.
C) He fought the British himself.
D) He told the people about the coming enemy.

28.All of the following is mentioned in the passage Except_______ .
A) the American Revolution was a revolt
B) Paul's friend signalled from a church
C) the British troops were sent to control the colonists
D) Panl's friend was serving in the British army

29.It can be infeered from the passage that_________ .
A) The British colonies in America were very much aroused.
B) The farmers and villagers were good at fighting their anemy.
C) It was the first battle that Paul Revere had ever taken part in.
D) Paul Revere had a strong sense of pride of being American.

30.The author's attitude toward Paul Revere is_________ .
A) amused
B) respectable
C) distant
D) serious.