专业英语四级模拟试卷692

The increase in international business and in foreign investment / has created a need for professional executives / with knowledge of foreign languages and skills in cross-cultural communication. / Americans, however, have not been well trained in either area / and have not enjoyed the same level of success / as have their foreign counterparts in international business. / In many international business negotiations abroad, / Americans are perceived as wealthy and impersonal. / If Americans want to play a more effective role, / they must make more efforts to improve cross-cultural understanding.

Time-Saving Tech 1. The web - Turn the page - 【T1】______: hit the Space bar 【T1】______ - Scroll back up: hold down the 【T2】______and hit the Space bar 【T2】______ - Change the text size - Make it larger: hold down the Control key and 【T3】______【T3】______ - Make it smaller: hold down the Control key and 【T4】______【T4】______ 2. The cell phone - 【T5】______someone: hit the call button twice and dial 【T5】______ - Skip instructions while leaving a【T6】____: use a keyboard shortcut 【T6】______ 3. The camera - Avoid shutter lag - Tip: 【T7】______with a half-press and leave the finger down 【T7】______ - Cause: Time to calculate the 【T8】______【T8】______ 4. The slide - Shift the audience’s attention to the speaker - 【T9】______: hit the letter B key 【T9】______ - White it out: hit the 【T10】______【T10】______Time-Saving Tech I’ve noticed something interesting about society and culture. Everything risky requires a license, like, learning to drive, owning a gun, getting married. That’s true in everything risky, except technology. For some reason, there’s no standard syllabus, there’s no basic course. They just give you your computer. Nobody ever sits down and tells you, “This is how it works.“ So today I’m going to tell you six things that you thought everybody knows, but it turns out they don’t. First of all, on the web, if you want to scroll down, don’t pick up the mouse and use the scroll bar. That’s a terrible waste of time. Do that only if you’re paid by the hour. Instead, hit the Space bar. The Space bar scrolls down one page. Hold down the Shift key to scroll back up again. It works in every browser, in every kind of computer. Also on the web, when the text is too small, what you should do is to hold down the Control key and hit Plus, Plus, Plus. You make the text larger with each tap. Works on every computer, every web browser, or Minus, Minus, to get smaller again. When it comes to cell phones, on all phones, if you want to redial somebody that you’ve dialed before, all you have to do is to hit the call button, and it puts the last phone number into the box for you, and at that point you can hit call again to actually dial it. Something that drives me crazy: When I call you and leave a message on your voice mail, I hear you saying, “Leave a message,“ and then I get these 15 seconds of freaking instructions. It turns out there’s a keyboard shortcut that lets you jump directly to the beep like this. Shutter lag is the time between your pressing the shutter button and the moment the camera actually snaps. It’s extremely frustrating on any camera under $ 1,000. So, that’s because the camera needs time to calculate the focus and exposure, but if you pre-focus with a half-press, leave your finger down—no shutter lag! You get it every time. I’ve just turned your $50 camera into a $1,000 camera with that trick. And finally, it often happens that you’re giving a talk, and for some reason, the audience is looking at the slide instead of at you. So when that happens—this works in Keynote, PowerPoint, it works in every program—all you do is to hit the letter B key, B for blackout, to black out the slide, make everybody look at you, and then when you’re ready to go on, you hit B again, and if you’re really on a roll, you can hit the W key for “whiteout,“ and you white out the slide, and then you can hit W again to un-blank it. So I know I went super-fast. If you missed anything, I’ll be happy to send you the list of these tips. In the meantime, congratulations! You all get your California Technology License. Have a great day!

M: Hello Jessica. W: Hi Bob. M: Jessica, what’s wrong? You sound a bit miserable. W: Well Bob, I am. It’s raining again, and I’ve lost my wallet! M: Hmm. Well, I’ve got some news today that might put a smile on your face. It’s about a new study that tells us how we can make ourselves happier. W: Well, that sounds good and I’m feeling a lot happier already. Thank you, Bob! M: So Jessica, what are the things that make you feel happy? W: The finer things in life—good food, fine wine, things like that. And you Bob? M: For me, it’s got to be... everything! Nothing worries me and I always look for the positive things even in a bad situation. There’s been some good news from Holland—that’s where the World Happiness Database is, at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. W: It’s been collecting the results of studies about happiness from all over the world. M: Yes, and now all that information has been put together to produce some interesting results. W: But Bob, happiness is a state of mind—so different things make different people happy, depending on their mood or situation at the time. M: Yes, but this research has found some factors that we all share when we are searching for happiness. It also found what made people unhappy. W: So, maybe things like not having enough money or not going on holiday? M: Nothing like that, not materialistic values. Unhappy people are more aware of their life goals—things they want to achieve because they want to change their life for the better. Does that sound like you, Jessica? W: Not me, Bob. I lead such a busy life that I don’t always get time to think about the future! M: That’s good because the study found having an active life is most important for a happy and rewarding life. According to Professor Veenhoven, Director of the World Happiness Database, we can make ourselves happier because we see that happiness does change over time, and that these changes are not just a matter of better circumstances, but also better dealing with life. Elderly people tend to be wise and for that reason, happier. W: OK, our happiness changes over time. It’s older people who are the happiest because, as he says, they are wiser. They understand things more and have learnt to deal with the problems in life. M: That’s right. The study also says if you think you’re good looking, rather than if you actually are, makes you happier. So you might be really ugly but if you think you’re handsome then you’re happy. W: That’s interesting. M: Luckily for you, the study has also found that being sad for ten per cent of the time is actually good for you. Let’s face it—we can’t be happy all the time! W: That’s comforting to know. This is the end of Conversation One. Questions 1 to 5 are based on Conversation One. 1. Why is Jessica unhappy? 2. What makes Bob happy? 3. According to the research, what makes people unhappy? 4. According to Veenhoven, why are the elderly happier? 5. Being sad for how long is good for people? She has no money. She has lost her wallet. She has good food. She has no time for holiday.

W: Two million high school seniors are gearing up this fall to apply to nearly 3,500 US colleges. So, which are the strongest academically that’re toughest to get into, and yah, of course top party schools. We all need to know that, right? Well, the Princeton Review ranks The Best 361 Colleges, The Smart Students Guide to Colleges. Robert Franck is the lead author. Rob, good morning, good to see you again. M: Well. Thanks for having me back. W: Look at the size of this thing. I mean this is a lot of information here. And... M: It’s a lot of information, you’re right. We’ve reached up to so many students—110,000 students to put the best 361 colleges this year. W: So this is a survey of just the students then with their feedback on their campuses? M: Exactly. We think we know a lot about schools at Princeton Review, but we went directly to whom we considered power experts. W: To the source? How does, how does this differ to US News and World Report rankings, and Newsweek along with Kaplan’s rankings? M: Yah, it is just that. It’s a qualitative survey of the students’ experience both academically, as well as outside the classroom. W: All right. So let’s take a look at some of the strongest schools academically talking first here. And usually of course we expect the Harvard, Princeton, Yale, which they’re up there as well, but this year, kind of a little bit of surprise is, Reed College in Portland, Oregon scores the highest marks. M: Yeah! No. 1. Ur... Best overall... W: Why is it? You surprised? M: Actually not surprised. I mean, ur, Reed college is a great school. It’s got great regional reputation, and growing national reputations, only 1,300 students, but a wonderful liberal arts, ur, liberal arts school. We went directly to students. They told us that their professors were great, both inside as well as outside the classroom. W: Tiny school! M: Tiny school. Yeah! But survey... W: About ten students per class? M: Yeah! Well. It’s averaged ten to one, student to faculty ratio. So certainly small and they pride themselves on that relationships with the professors. W: All right! Ivy Leagues did very well in other categories as well, like toughest schools to get into and top in that list. MIT was first, followed then by Yale, Princeton, ur, and Harvard, second, third, fourth respectively. So any surprises there with them? M: There are some unusual suspects on that list. We reach directly out to school administrators through our website Princetonreview.com , and finding out information on schools specifically, where they’re looking from the SAT, ACT, GPA coming into a high school, so that’s how we come up with our list. W: All right! This is the end of Conversation Two. Questions 6 to 10 are based on Conversation Two. 6. Who is Robert Franck? 7. What makes it different from the other rankings? 8. Which school ranks No. 1 academically? 9. What is the student-faculty ratio in Reed College? 10. How did they work out the toughest school list? A high school student. Chief editor of Princeton Review. Author of The Best 361 Colleges. A TV host.

Among the four sentences below, it is sentence______that expresses the concepts of incompleteness and current relevance. He has been revising his term paper. He was revising his term paper. He has revised his term paper. He revised his term paper.

“The plane is taking off at 10:30.“ The verb phrase “is taking off“ in the sentence expresses______. future of present intention future of present cause future happening anticipated in the present future as a matter of course

“It’s strange that she should wear her evening dress for such an informal party.“ The modal auxiliary verb “should“ in the sentence______. indicates a tentative inference denotes a sense of obligation expresses a feeling or an opinion conveys hypothetical meaning

We agree to accept_____they thought was the best tourist guide. whatever whomever whichever whoever

It’s______of you to miss______chance. mistake...such good a mistaken... so good a mistaken.. .such good mistakes.. .a such good

Their library is______ours. three times larger as three times the size as three times the size of three times as the size of

Could you tell me______the population of our city is? how much how many how many people what

Before the first non-stop flight made in 1949, it______necessary for all planes to land for refueling. would be has been had been would have been

Having no money but______to know, he simply said he would go without dinner. not to want anyone not wanting anyone wanted no one to want no one

Fond of singing as she is, she is______a good singer by profession. everything but anything but nothing but something but

Some children display an______curiosity about every new thing they encounter. incredible infectious incompatible inaccessible

In the present economic______, we can safely invest our money into the stock and bond market. air mood condition climate

The application of this new system would______a huge increase in education spending. result confer entail accomplish

The new version gives the user quick and easy______ to the required information access allowance occasion privilege

The continuous intense heat______the already serious shortage of food. agonized agitated aggregated aggravated

Jimmy couldn’t eat hard food for at least half a week as he had his wisdom tooth______today. plucked fragmented extracted picked