2007年12月22日大学英语四级考试AB卷 - 完整篇

2007.12.22英语四级试卷 - 复合式听写
   
 More and more of the world's population are living in towns or
 cities. The speed at which cities are growing in the less developed
 countries is (36)_____ Between l920 and I960 big cities in developed
 countries (37)_____ two and a half times in size, but in other parts
 of the world the growth was eight times their size.

 The (38)_____ size of growth is bad enough, but there are now
 very(39)___sign of trouble in the (40)______ of percentages of
 people living in towns and percentages of people working in industry
 IN nineteenth century cities grew as a result of the growth of industry. In Europe the
 (41)_____ of people living in cities was always smaller than that of
 the(42)_____ working in factories. N0w however,the (43)_____ is
 almost always true in the newly industrialised world(44)_____

 Without a base of people working in industry, these cities cannot pay for their growth;  (45)_____ There has been little opportunity to build to bulid water
 supplies or other factilities(46)_____ a growth in the number of
 hopeless and despairing parents and starving children.

 参考答案：36 alarming
 37 increased
 38 sheer
 39 disturbing
 40 comparison
 41 proportion
 42 workforce
 43 reverse
 44 The percentage of people living in cities is much higher than the
 percentage working in industry
 45 there is not enough money to build adequate houses for the people
 that live there, let alone the new arrivals
 46 So the figure for the growth of towns and cities represent
 proportional growth of unemployment and underemployment

  2007.12.22英语四级试卷 - 选词填空
   
 Part IV Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth)

 Questions 47 t0 56 are based on the following passage.
 As was spreads to many corners of the globe, children sadly have
 been drawn into the cenrter of conflicts.In Afghanistan,Bosnia,and
 Colombia,however groups of children have been taking part in peace
 educate _47_. The children, after leaming to resolve conflicts,took
 on the _48_ of peacemakers. The Children's Movement for Peace in
 Colombia was even nomiated(提名)for the Noble Prize in 1998. Groups of
 children _49_ as peacemakers studiec human right and poverty issue in
 Colombia.eventually froming a group with five other schools in
 Bogota known as The Schools of Peace.

The classroom_50_opportunities for children to replace angry,violent behaviors
with_51_.peaceful ones.It is in the classroom that caring and respect for each person
empowers children to take a step _52_toward becoming peacemakers.Fortunately,educators
have access to many online resource that are_53_useful when helping children along the
path to peace.
The Young Peacemakers Club,started in 1992,provides a Website with resources for
teacher and _54_on starting a Kindness Campaign.The World Centers of Compassion for
Children International call attention to children's reghts and how to help the_55_of
war,Starting a Peacemakers'Club is a praise worthy venture for a class and one that
could spread to other classrooms and ideally affect the culture of the_56_school.

 A) victims
 B) technology
 C) role
 D) respectively
 E) projects
 F) offers
 G) information
 h) images
 I) forward
 J) especially
 K) entire
 L) cooperative
 M) comprehensive
 N) assuming
 O) acting

 答案：47-56 ECOFL IJGAK