2016年六月大学英语四级第三套真题「部分」
46. What happen s when a new technology emerges?
A) It further widens the gap between the old and the young.
B) It often leads to innovations in other related fields.
C) It contributes greatly to the advance of society as a whole.
D) It usually draws different reactions from different age groups.
47. What does the author say about the driverless car?
A) It does not seem to create a generational divide.
B) It will not necessarily reduce road accidents.
C) It may start a revolution in the car industry.
D) It has given rise to unrealistic expectations.
48. Why does the driverless car appeal to some old people?
A) It saves their energy.
B) It adds to the safety of their travel.
C) It helps with their mobility.
D) It stirs up their interest in life.
49. What is likely to affect one‟s attitude toward the driverless car?
A) The location of their residence.
B) The field of their special interest.
C) The amount of training they received.
D) The length of their driving experience.
50. Who are likely to be the first to buy the driverless car?
A) The seniors.
B) The wealthy.
C) The educated.
D) The tech fans.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
In agrarian(农业的), pre-industrial Europe, “you‟d want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise,have a break to have the largest meal, and then you‟d go back to work,” says Ken Albala, a professor history at the University of the Pacific “Later, at 5 or 6, you‟d have a smaller supper.”
This comfortable cycle, in which the rhythms of the day helped shape the rhythms of the meals, gave rise to the custom of the large midday meal, eaten with the extended family, “Meals are the foundation of the family,” says Carole Counihan, a professor at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, “so there was a very important interconnection between eating together” and strengthening family ties.
Since industrialization, maintaining such a slow cultural metabolism has been much harder, with the long midday meal shrinking to whatever could be stuffed into a lunch bucket or bought at a food stand. Certainly, there were benefits. Modern techniques for producing and shipping food led to greater variety and quantity, including a tremendous increase in the amount of animal protein and dairy products available, making us more vigorous than our ancestors.
Yet plenty has been lost too, even in cultures that till live to eat. Take Italy. It‟s no secret that the Mediterranean diet is healthy, but it was also a joy to prepare and eat. Italians, says Counihan, traditionally began the day with a small meal. The big meal came at around 1 p.m. In between the midday meal and a late, smaller dinner came a small snack. Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices‟ closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can‟t make it home and back fast enough anyway. So the formerly small supper get together. “The evening meal carries the full burden that used to be spread over two meals.” says Counihan.
51.What do we learn from the passage about people in pre-industrial Europe?
A) They had to work from early morning till late at night.
B) They were so busy working that they only ate simple meals.
C) Their daily routine followed the rhythm of the natural cycle.
D) Their life was much more comfortable than that of today.
52.What does Professor Carole Counihan say about pre-industrial European families eating meals together?
A)It was helpful to maintaining a nation‟s tradition.
B)It brought family members closer to each other.
C)It was characteristic of the agrarian culture.
D) It enabled families to save a lot of money.
53.What does “cultural metabolism” (Line 1, Para. 3) refer to?
A)Evolutionary adaptation.
B)Changes in lifestyle.
C) Social progress.
D) Pace of life.
54.What does the author think of the food people eat today?
A)Its quality is usually guaranteed.
B)It is varied, abundant and nutritious.
C) It is more costly than what our ancestors ate.
D)Its production depends too much on technology.
55.What does the author say about Italians of the old days?
A)They enjoyed cooking as well as eating.
B) They ate a big dinner late in the evening.
C)They ate three meals regularly every day.
D) They were expert at cooking meals.
Part IV Translation (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET 2.
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