2006年6月英語四級最新模擬試題(3)

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage: Time spent in bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book lover or merely there to buy a book as a present. Whatever the person , you can soon become totally in aware of your surroundings. You soon become engrossed（全神貫注) in some books, and usually it is only much later that you realize you have spent far too much time there and must dash off to keep some forgotten appointment --- without buying a book, of course. This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think,the main attraction of a bookshop. A music shop is very like a bookshop. You can wander round such places to your hearts content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will approach you with the inevitable greeting:" Can I help you, sir?" You Neednt buy anything you dont want. In a bookshop, an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing（游覽）.Then, and only then, are his services necessary. You have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a bookshop. It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the latest best-selling novel and perhaps a book about brass-rubbing -- something which had only vaguely interested you up until then. This volume on the subject, however, happened to be so well illustrated and the part of the text you read proved so interesting that you just had to buy it. This sort of thing can be very dangerous. Apart from running up a huge account, you can waste a great deal of time wandering from section to section. Booksellers must be both long-suffering and indulgent（寬容）.
 
11. You may be unaware of the time passing by in a bookshop because ______. 

 A) you want to escape the reality of everyday life    

 B) you have to finish browsing one of the books    

 C) you don't want to waste your money    

 D) you have to make sure you don't buy a dull book as a present    
 
12. In a good bookshop _______. 

 A) the shop assistant greets you in a friendly way    

 B) you feel obliged to buy one of the books    

 C) your heart is contented    

 D) no shop assistant will approach you unless his service is called    
 
13. It is very unwise to enter a bookshop and buy ______. 

 A) a best-selling novel on brass-rubbing    

 B) a book on ancient coins    

 C) a book on the subject that vaguely interests you    

 D) a book well illustrated and expensive    
 
14. According to the writer, the best way to escape the realities of routine life is _____. 

 A) to have a long chat with assistant in a bookshop    

 B) to stay in a bookshop, being absorbed in reading books of various kinds    

 C) to buy a best-selling novel to read    

 D) to wander about in the streets    
 
15. The best title of this selection would be632 

 A) On buying books    

 B) Bookshops and Assistants    

 C) Booklovers and Bookshops    

 D) How to Escape the Realities of Everyday Life in a Bookshop     

Questions 16 to 20 are on the following passage: Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society, There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. All these factors tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision. In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed. Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements. Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes readily on human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp dichotomies. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to black Americans as compared to other American minorities, because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.
 
16. According to the passage, one of the factors that tend
to promote social change is _____. 

 A) mutual interest    

 B) different points of view    

 C) more worldly people    

 D) advanced technology    
 
17. Social change is less likely to occur in a society where people are quite similar in many ways because______. 

 A) people there are always satisfied with their living conditions    

 B) people there have identical needs that can be met without much disputes    

 C) people there have got accustomed to their conditions that they seldom think it necessary to change    

 D) people there are less emotional and easy to please    
 
18. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? 

 A) Social values play an important role in social change.    

 B) Social change is more likely to occur in the material aspects of society.    

 C) Social change is more likely to occur if it comes gradually    

 D) Social change tends to meet with more difficulty in basic and emotional aspects of society.    
 
19. The expression "greater tolerance" in Paragraph 1 refers to ______. 

 A) greater willingness to accept social change    

 B) quicker adoption to changing circumstances    

 C) more respect for different beliefs and behavior    

 D) greater readiness to agree to different opinions and ideas    
 
20. The passage mainly discusses______. 

 A) two different societies    

 B) the necessary of social change    

 C) different social changes    

 D) certain factors that determine the ease with which social changes occur    
 
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part, For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C), and D) . Choose the ONE answer that best competes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the canter.
   
21. The presence of armed guards ______ us from doing anything disruptive.

 A) excited    

 B) irritated    

 C) prevented    

 D) encourage     
 
22. -- Do you know the girl with long hair? -- I don't think so, although she ______ me of someone I know.

 A) remembers    

 B) reminds    

 C) recalls    

 D) recollects     
 
23. When you read his books, you have to read between the lines; there's so much _____ in his writing.

 A) irony    

 B) vocabulary    

 C) grammar    

 D) idiom     
 
24. If the pressure is not _______ immediately, there may be an explosion.

 A) relieved    

 B) retreated    

 C) revealed    

 D) released