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1、大英四题目问题 231. Increasingly, over the past ten years, people especially young people have become aware of the need to change their eating habits because much of the food they eat, particularly processed foods, is not good for the health. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in natural foods

2、.Natural foods, for example, are vegetable, fruit and grain which have been grown in soil that is rich in organic matter. In simple terms, this means that the soil has been nourished by unused vegetable matter, which provides it with essential vitamins and minerals. This in itself is a natural proce

3、ss compared with the use of chemicals and fertilizers, the main purpose of which is to increase the quantity but not the quality of foods grown in commercial farming areas.Natural foods also include animals which have been allowed to feed and move freely in healthy farms. Compare this with what happ

4、ens in the mass production of poultry: there are battery farms, for example, where thousands of chickens live crowded together in one building and are fed on food which is little better than rubbish. Chickens kept in this way are not only tasteless as food; they also produce eggs which lack importan

5、t vitamins.There are other aspects of healthy eating which are now receiving increasing attention from experts ondiet. Take, for example, the question of sugar. This is actually a non-essential food. Although a natural alternative, such as honey, can be used to sweeten food if this is necessary, we

6、can in fact do without it. It is not that sugar is harmful in itself. But the problem is that the quantity we use has grown steadily over the last two centuries and in Britain today each person consumes an average of 200 pounds a year! Yet all it does is provide us with energy, in the form of calori

7、es. There are no vitamins in it, no minerals and no fiber. （06-12-2）Why do people now prefer natural foods?A.Because they grow fast and cost less.B.Because they fit peoples eating habits.C.Because they are good to people health.D.Because they are simply processed foods.2 分 问题 241. Which of the follo

8、wing is true according to Paragraph 2?A.Fertilizers are important in growing natural foods.B.Soil for natural foods usually lacks organic matter.C.Natural foods are grown in commercial farming areas.D.Chemicals are used to increase the quantity of foods grown.2 分 问题 251. What is the writers attitude

9、 towards chickens fed on battery farms?A.Supportive.B.Doubtful.C.Hopeful.D.Negative.2 分 问题 261. What is the most important point the writer wants to make about sugar?A.People use it to sweeten food.B.It gives us much-needed energy.C.People take too much of it.D.It is actually a kind of honey.2 分 问题

10、271. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word “diet” (Para. 4)?A.Food.B.Rice.C.Animal.D.Agriculture.1 分 问题 231. Eye contact in a nonverbal (非语言的) technique that helps the speakers “sell” their ideas to an audience. Besides its persuasive powers, eye contact helps hold listeners inter

11、est. A successful speaker must maintain eye contact with an audience. To have good relation with listeners, a speaker should maintain direct eye contact for at least 75 percent of the time. Some speakers focus only on their notes. Others look over the heads of their listeners. Both are likely to los

12、e audiences interest and respect. People who maintain eye contact while speaking, whether from a podium or from across the table, are regarded not only as exceptionally friendly by theirtargetbut also as more believable and earnest.To show the power of eye contact in daily life, we have only to cons

13、ider how passers-by behave when their glances happen to meet on the street. At one extreme are those people who feel obliged to smile when they make eye contact. At the other extreme are those who feel uncomfortable and immediately look away. To make eye contact, it seems, is to make a certain link

14、with someone.Eye contact with an audience also lets a speaker know and monitor (观察) his listeners. It is, in fact, essential to analyze an audience during a speech. Visual feedback (视觉反馈) from the audience can indicate that a speech is boring, that the speaker is talking too much about a particular

15、point, or that a particular point requires further explanation. As we have pointed out, visual feedback from listener should play an important role in shaping a speech as it is delivered. （06-6-2）What does the writer believe about a speakers eye contact?A.It makes the speaker closer to his audience.

16、B.It makes the audience lose the interest in his speech.C.It makes the audience frightened of him.D.It makes listeners see the speaker more clearly.2 分 问题 241. What does the word “target” (Para.1) refer toA.Speakers.B.Listeners.C.Friends.D.Objects.2 分 问题 251. Why does the writer give the example of

17、passers-by in Paragraph 2?A.To show that people are not comfortable with eye contact from strangers.B.To show that strangers can get to know each other easily through eye contact.C.To prove the point that people look more friendly with direct eye contact.D.To prove the point that eye contact plays a

18、 role in social communication.2 分 问题 261. What does the writer imply about visual feedback in the last paragraph?A.It can make the speaker adjust his speech.B.It can make the speech more informative.C.It may discourage and stop the speaker.D.It may cause the speaker make less eye contact.2 分 问题 271.

19、 What is the main point of the passage?A.Eye contact is a good way to attract the audience.B.It is necessary to maintain direct eye contact with the audience.C.Eye contact is important to a successful speech.D.A speakers eye contact is more important than his notes.1. The weather inHangzhoumakes it

20、impossible to live without air-conditioners and people have got _ to living in an air-conditioned room.A.accusedB.accustomedC.appealedD.appreciated1 分 问题 21 分 问题 231. The whole industrial process, which makes many of the goods and machines we need and use in our daily lives, will unavoidably create

21、a number of waste products which upset the environmental balance. Many of these waste products can be prevented or disposed of (处置) properly, but clearly while more and more new goods are produced and made complex, there will be new, dangerous waster to be disposed of, for example, the waste product

22、s from unclear power stations. Many people see pollution as only part of a larger and more complex problem, that is, the whole process of industrial production and consumption of goods. Others see the problem mainly in connection with agriculture, where new methods are helping farmers grow more and

23、more on their land to feed our ever-increasing population.Whatever reasons behind it, there is no doubt that much of the pollution caused could be controlled if only companies, governments and people would make more efforts. In the home there is an obvious need to control litter (乱扔的废物) and waste. F

24、ood comes wrapped up three or four times in packages that all have to be disposed of; drinks are increasingly sold in bottles or tins which cannot be reused. This not only causes a litter problem, but also is a great waste of resources, in terms of glass, metals and paper. Advertising has helped thi

25、s process by persuading many of us not only to buy things we neither want nor need, but also to throw away much of what we do buy. Pollution and waste combine to be a problem everyone can help to solve by cutting out unnecessary buying and careless disposal of the products we use in our daily lives.

26、 （06-6-3）What will happen if the industrial process continues according to the passage?A.Environment balance will be achieved easily.B.Less land will be used for agriculture.C.New environmental problems will have to be dealt with.D.World population will be reduced.2 分 问题 241. Why does the writer men

27、tion food and drinks in Paragraph 2A.To show the problem of litter and waste.B.To show the problem of overproduction.C.To show how they are consumedD.To show how they are wrapped.2 分 问题 251. What does the writer say about advertising?A.It causes pollution directly.B.It wastes energy.C.It puts litter

28、 under control.D.It brings about waste.2 分 问题 261. What is the writers attitude towards the solution to environmental problems?A.Doubtful.B.Excited.C.Hopeful.D.Disappointed.2 分 问题 271. Which of the following best describes the structure of the passage?A.Question and answer.B.Problem and solution.C.S

29、ituation and explanation.D.Statement and conclusion.问题 231. Testing has replaced teaching in most public schools. My own childrens school week is focused on pretests, drills, and retests. I believe that my daughter Erica, who gets excellent marks, has never read a chapter of any her school textbooks

30、 all the way through. And teachers are often heard to state proudly and openly that they teach to the state test.Teaching to the test is a curious phenomenon. Instead of deciding what skills students ought to learn, helping students learn them, and then using some sensible methods of assessment (评估)

31、 to discover whether students have mastered the skills, teachers are encouraged to reverse the process. First one looks at a test. Then one draws the skills needed not to master, say, reading, but to do well on the test. Finally, the test skills are taught.The ability to read or write or calculate might imply the ability to do reas