2007年6月英语四级模拟试卷附答案(三)

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Part Ⅳ Cloze (15 minutes)
Directions:there are 20 blanks in the following passage.For each blank there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D).You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.Then w ark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

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For thousands of years,people thought of glass as something beautiful to look at. 1  recently have they come to think of it as something tolook  2 .Stores display their goods in large  3 windows.Glass bottles and jars that hold food and drink allow us to see the  4 .Glass is used to  5  spectacles,microscopes,telescopes,and many other extremely useful and necessary objects.Spectacles,or glasses,are used by people who cannot see perfectly 6  by people who want to protect their eyes  7 bright light.Microscopes make tiny things  8  so that we can examine  9 .Telescopes make objects that are far away appear much  10  to us.

Glass was  11  a very long time ao.The Roman historian Pliny  12  the discovery this way:the crew of a Phoenician boat landed  13  the mouth of a river in Syria.The crew could not find any stones to support their kettle,so the used lumps(块) of nitre,a sodium(纳) compound,from the ship.When the heat of the fire melted the nitre,it mixed  14  the sand under it and the mixture  15  liquid glass. 16  this discovery the glass factories at Tyre and Sidon became quite famous,and the phoenicians(腓尼基人) learned 17  to blow glass.

The Egyptians also knew how to make glass thousands of years  18 .The glass they made was green  19  the sand contained iron.They found they could change the color by  20  other minerals to the sand.
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1.A) Only B) To C) Then D) But
2.A) into B) over C) by D) through
3.A) shop B) beautiful C) glass D) attractive
4.A) containers B) bottom C) contents D) base
5.A) do B) make C) discover D) invent
6.A) and B) or C) but D) therefore
7.A) off B) from C) away D) around
8.A) clearer B) brighter C) larger D) cleaner
9.A) them B) us C) animals D) everything
10.A) wider B) closer C) farther D) further
11.A) created B) invented C) discovered D) pro duced
12.A) says B) tells C) describes D) speaks
13.A) in B) at C) on D) before
14.A) with B) up C) to D) by
15.A) turned B) grew C) was D) became
16.A) After B) With C) For D) By
17.A) why B) when C) how D) what
18.A) before B) later C) earlier D) ago
19.A) when B) while C) once D) because
20.A) pulling B) increasing C) taking D) adding

Part Ⅴ Writing (20 minutes)
Directions:For this part.You are alowed 30 minutes to write a composition about "Mutual Understanding Is Important" in three paragraphs.You are given the first sentence or part of the first sentence of each paragraph in Chinese and are required to translate it into English.Your part of the composition should be no less than 100 words.not induding the words given.Remember to write clearly.You should write this composition on the Composition sheet.

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mutual Understanding Is Important
Parents and teenagers often disagree about the amount of freedom and responsibility that the Young people are to have.
1.青少年往往想要。
2.另一方面，大多数父母不理解他的孩子们。
3.我个人认为。