2007年12月英语四级考试预测试题及答案详解(2)

出处：文都教育作者：日期：2007年12月18日 15时44分

　　【解析】C 当你的住房面积很小的时候，养一只小型狗是很好的选择。文中有明确地指出：If space is limited, a toy dog may be a good choice.

　　Passage Two

　　Everywhere we look, we see Americans running. They run for every reason anybody could think of. They run for health, for beauty, to lose weight, to feel fit, and because it is the thing they love to do. Every year, for example, thousands of people run in one race, the Boston Marathon, the best know long distance race in the United States. In recent years there have been nearly 5,000 official competitors and it takes three whole minutes for the crowd of runners just to cross the starting line.

　　You may have heard the story of the Greek runner, Pheidippides. He ran from Marathon to Athens to deliver the news of the great victory 2,500 years ago. No one knows how long it took him to run the distance. But the story tells us that he died of the effort. Today no one will die in a Marathon race. But at the finish line, we see what this race is about; not being first, but finishing. The real victory is not over one’s fellow runners, but over one’s own body. It is a victory of will power over fatigue. In the Boston Marathon, each person who crosses that finish line is a winner.

　　Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　29. How long does it takes for the runners to cross the starting line in recent Marathon race?

　　【解析】A 细节考察题。第一段提到在最近的比赛中，选手们穿过起跑线都需要3分钟的时间。

　　30. Why did the Greek runner run from Marathon to Athens?

　　【解析】C 细节考察题。见第二段， “He ran from Marathon to Athens to deliver the news of the great victory 2,500 years ago”由此可知，是为了传达胜利的消息。

　　31. Why is a person who crosses the finish line a winner?

　　【解析】C 判断推理题。见第二段，“The real victory is not over one’s fellow runners, but over one’s own body”真正的胜利不是战胜对手，而是战胜自己。

　　Passage Three

　　Of all the stars the sun is the nearest to the earth. Millions of other stars are even bigger and brighter than the sun. They look small only because they are much father away. You can’t see them in the daytime. But if you go out at night, you’ll be able to see thousands of them.

　　The earth is one of the sun’s planets, and the moon is the nearest to the earth in space, and men have visited it already. No man has traveled farther than the moon, but spaceships without people have reached other planets.

　　Many countries have sent up manmade satellites to circle the earth. With their help, people have done much research in many fields of science. Our countries sometimes have sent up man made satellites to send and receive TV programs. This has helped the people of China and other countries to understand each other better.

　　Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　32. What do we learn about the Sun?

　　【解析】 B细节考察题。见第一段第一句，所有的恒星中太阳是离地球最近的一个。

　　33. Which planet have some people reached?

　　【解析】A 细节考察题。见第二段第二句，没有人到达过比月球更远的地方，但人造卫星到达了其他的星球。

　　34. What can we do because of the manmade satellites?

　　【解析】C “归纳总结题。见第三段第二句和最后一句，由此可总结人造卫星既可以帮人们展开研究，也可以增进人们之间的了解”。

　　35. What do we learn from the passage?

　　【解析】A 细节考察题。见第二段第一句，“The earth is one of the sun’s planets”由此知，地球是一个行星。

　　Section C

　　36. 【答案】fun

　　【解析】假期购物对许多人来说是件令人兴奋而有趣的事，fun表示“有趣”。