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听力部分11-46.查看听力原文及答案/news-157-57820.html Question 47 to 56 are based on the following passage. A bookless life is an incomplete life. Books influence the depth and breadth of life. They meet the natural__47___for freedom, for expression, for creativity and beauty of life. Learners, therefore, must have books, and the right type of book, for the satisfaction of their need. Readers turn__48___to books because their curiosity concerning all manners of things, their eagerness to share in the experiences of others and their need to___49___from their own limited environment lead them to find in books food for the mind and the spirit. Through their reading they find a deeper significance to life as books acquaint them with life in the world as it was and it is now. they are presented with a___50___of human experiences and come to__51___other ways of thought and living. And while__52___their own relationships and responses to life, the readers often find that the__53___in their stories are going through similar adjustments, which help to clarify and give significance to their own.
Books provide___54___material for readers? imagination to grow
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A) abundant I) establishing B) characters J) narrow C) communicating K) naturally D) completely L) personnel E) derive M) properly F) desire N) respect G) diversity O) respect H) escape
选词填空A卷答案： 47. F) derive 48. K) naturally 49. H) escape 50. G) diversity 51. N) respect
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Directions There are 2 passages in this section, each passage is followed by some question or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A B C D.You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. Passage one
Question 57 to 61 based on the following passage.
If you are a male and you are reading this ,congratulations: you are a survivor .According to statistics .you are more than twice as likely to die of skin cancer than a woman ,and nine times more likely to die of AIDS. assuming you make it to the end of your natural term, about 78 years for men in Australia, you will die on average five years before a woman.
There are many reasons for this-typically, men take more risks
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“Men aren?t seeing doctors as often as they should, ” says Dr. Gullotta, “This is particularly so for the over-40s,when diseases tend to strike.”
Gullotta says a healthy man should visit the doctor every year or two. For those over 45,it should be at least once a year. Two months ago Gullotta saw a 50-year-old ma who had delayed doing anything about his smoker?s cough for a year.
“When I finally saw him it had already spread and he has since died from lung cancer” he says, “Earlier detection and treatment may not have cured him, but it would have prolonged this life”According to a recent survey, 95%of women aged between 15 and early 40s see a doctor once a year, compared to 70% of men in the same age group.
“A lot of men think they are invincible （不可战胜的）”Gullotta says “They only come in when
篇三：2008年12月20日英语四级A卷真题 2008年12月20日英语四级A卷真题 Part I Writing(30minutes)
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Part II 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 on Answer Sheet 1.For questions 1-7,choose the best 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. That’s enough, kids
It was a lovely day at the park and Stella Bianchi was enjoying the sunshine with her two children when a young boy, aged about four, approached her two-year-old son and pushed him to the ground. “I?d watched him for a little while and my son was the fourth or fifth child he?d shoved,” she says.” I went over to them, picked up my son, turned to the boy and said, firmly, ?No, we don?t push,” What happened next was unexpected.
“The boy?s mother ran toward me from across the park,” Stella says,” I thought she was coming over to apologize, but instead she started shouting at me for disciplining her child, All I did was let him know his behavior was unacceptable. Was I supposed to
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08年12月大学英语四级A卷(真题,答案)
