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1、（恩波英语研究所命题）COLLEGE ENGLISH TESTBand Six试题册（125分钟）恩波英语模考试卷-Part Writing（30 minutes）注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。Part Reading Comprehension（Skimming and Scanning）（15 minutes）Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions. For questions 1-7, choose the best

2、 answer from the four choices marked A）, B）, C） and D）. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Just Too LoudTed Rueter isnt joking about possibly moving to New Zealand. And if he does go, it wont be the rage or the expense of living in the U. S. that dri

3、ves him away. It will be the leaf blowers. Americans now own more than 90 million of the evil things, he says, each of them making the job of lawn clearing much easierand much, much louder. Rueter, a professor at UCLA who is head of the advocacy group Noise Free America, already fled Los Angeles to

4、get away from the leaf-blower bother, only to move to New Orleans and find the problem just as bad there. “Everywhere has turned into leaf-blower hell,” he says. Its not just the blowers that are driving Rueter daft. Its the boom carsthose high-decibel（高分贝）, low-frequency speakers on wheels that cau

5、se your windshield to buzz and your eardrums to pulse when they pull up next to you at a stoplight. Its the car alarms too, as well as the barking dogs and the banging garbage trucks and the screaming airplanes and the roaring highways. Its the explosion of ambient（周围的） noise that seems to be everyw

6、here, costing more and more people not only their sleep and their sanity but increasingly their hearing and health as well.According to the National Institutes of Health, more than 10 million Americans already suffer some permanent noise-induced hearing loss. They report that some 30 million are exp

7、osed to daily noise levels that will eventually reduce their ability to hear. One in eight children between the ages of 6 and 19 already have some degree of hearing loss, and adults who are going deaf are doing so earlier and earlier. “The greatest increase in noise-related hearing loss occurs for p

8、eople 45 to 64 years old,” says Dr. James Battey, director of the National Institute on Deafness. “This is almost 20 years younger than we would expect.”And its not just our ears the noise is hurting. It takes sounds in excess of 85 db （ decibel 的缩写） to damage hearing, but noise at less than 75 db m

9、ay be linked to hypertension, and that at just 65 db leads to stress, heart damage and depression. Think the noise in your environment doesnt rise to that level? Think again. A ringing telephone can reach 80 db; a hair dryer hits 90 db; an ambulance siren can top out at 120 db. “Noise pollution is t

10、ruly a public health threat,” says Representative Nita Lowey of New York, who has reintroduced a bill in Congress to turn down the volume. “Its critical,” she says, “that we work to diminish the impact noise has on our communities.”The booming of America has many causes. Population growth in city ce

11、nters, loss of rural land to suburban sprawl, and the searing number and size of cars on the highways all play a role. So too does the entertainment industry, with Walkmans, Pods and surround-sound theaters pouring noise into consumers ears. Even sports stadiums, always noisy places, have got louder

12、 as earsplitting commercials fill the comparatively quiet interludes that used to prevail during pauses in the action.Whatever the roots of the problem, the noise is now everywhereand the workplace may be the worst place of all. At least 20% of U.S. workers do their jobs in environments that could e

13、ndanger their hearing, according to NIOSH. The U. S. government estimates that more than 90% of coal miners suffer hearing impairment by age 50. Even farms are not exceptional: according to the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health, a staggering 75% of farmers now exhibit some hearing

14、 impairment, mostly as a result of noisy equipment. “Hearing loss is one of the most common workplace conditions,” says audiologist Ted Madison.For kids, the racket starts in the cradle. A squeaky toy held close to the earwhich is precisely where babies may put themcan reach 94 db. A toy xylophone（木

15、琴） can ring in at 92 db. And since babies ear canals are so small, a sound that gets in them may knock around harder than it does in an adults ears and do comparably more damage. Noise can be controlled to an extent, depending on the source. Some of the biggest sources of ambient noise are highways

16、and roads, but the cause is less honking（使鸣响） horns or gunning enginesthough those play a rolethan tires hitting pavement. Flexible rubber making contact with asphalt（沥青） doesnt seem as if it would produce a lot of noise but in fact it does. As any spot on the tire strikes the highway, it hits with the trunk of a little rubber hammer. Also, the patch of tire that s in contact with the ground at any instantt