大学英语考试大学英语四级CET4模拟题2020年(32) (总分100, 做题时间125分钟)
Reading Comprehension
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
. Housing officials say that lately they are noticing something different: students seem to lack the will, and skill, to address these ordinary conflicts. "We have students who are mad at each other and they text each other in the same room," says a teacher. "So, many of our roommate conflicts are because kids don't know how to negotiate a problem."
And as any pop psychologist will tell you, bottled emotions lead to silent seething (不满) t
hat can boil over into frustration and anger. At the University of Florida, emotional outbursts occur about once a week, the university's director of housing and residence education says. "It used to be: 'Let's sit down and talk about it,'" he says. "Over the past five years, roommate conflicts have intensified. The students don't have the person-to-person discussions and they don't know how to handle them." The problem is most dramatic among freshmen; housing professionals say they see improvement as students move toward graduation, but some never seem to catch on, and they worry about how such students will deal with conflicts after college.
Administrators speculate that reliance on cell phones and the Internet may have made it easier for young people to avoid uncomfortable encounters. Why express anger in person when you can vent in a text? Facebook creates even more friction as complaints go public. "Things are posted on someone's wall on Facebook: 'Oh, my roommate kept me up all night studying,'" says Dana Pysz, an assistant director in the office of residential life at the University of California, Los Angeles. "It's a different way to express their conflict to each other." In recent focus groups at North Carolina State University, dor
m residents said they would not even confront noisy neighbors on their floor.
Administrators point to parents who have fixed their children's problems their entire lives. Now in college, the children lack the skills to attend to even modest conflicts. Some parents continue to intervene on campus.
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1.
1. What does the word "address" (Para. 1) mean? ______
∙** speak to.
∙** make a formal speech.
∙** mark with destination.
** deal with.
A A
B B
C C
D D
2.
2. What is the main reason of roommate conflicts? ______
∙粗脉石仙桃** are always mad at each other. ∙** text each other in the same room.
∙** are not good at negotiating.
** of housing are responsible for that.
A A
B B
C C
D D
3.
3. According to the passage, we can conclude that cell phones and the Internet ______.
∙** our life more convenient
∙** it easier to have person-to-**munications
** it easier to take frustration out
** students to avoid uncomfortable meetings
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B B
C C
D D
4.
4. What should parents do according to the passage? ______
∙** should deal with their children's problems their whole lives.
∙** should teach their children how to deal with the smallest conflicts.
∙** should intervene their children's life on campus.
** should cultivate the independence of their children.
A A
B B
C C
D D
5.
5. Which of the following is the best title for the passage? ______
∙**' Life in college.
∙**' Failure to Communicate.
∙**' Intervention in Their Children's Life.
**' Concerns about Students.
A A
B B
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C C
D D
. Each year millions of Americans with old, inefficient refrigerators in their kitchens buy new, energy-saving ones. That may sound like an efficiency boon (好处，利益), but what's vexing (令人烦恼的) efficiency advocates is that an increasing number of consumers don't actually get rid of the old fridge. Instead, they move it to another area of the house and keeping using it—increasing their energy usage over all.
America's secondary fridge trend is highlighted in "Energy Vision 2010: Towards a More Energy-Efficient World", a new report by the World Economic Forum and HIS Cambridge Energy Research Associates. The report noted that while the average refrigerator in the United States uses three-quarters less energy than in 1975, despite being 20 percent larger, "the number of U.S. households with two or more refrigerators has increased, and the secondary refrigerators are typically older and less efficient than p
rimary models." Every year about 10 percent of households that purchase new refrigerators keep their old units, a practice that is adding as many as one million secondary units to homes annually.
Jennifer Thorne Amann, building program director at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, explained that secondary units are often kept for convenience in larger homes and that owners aren't always aware of how much a "bear and deer" fridge, as they're called in parts of the country where hunting is popular, can cost them. "You are not saving any money on efficiency if you are keeping that old one plugged in," she said.
Unplugging the 29.6 million secondary units nationwide that are candidates for retirement would save 25 million megawatt (兆瓦特) hours of electricity, or about $2.8 billion, the energy department study noted. Individual owners could save from $420 to $750 in energy costs over the lifetime of an older unit by retiring it, depending on the age of the unit. Some utilities and state agencies have launched programs that offer financial incentives and free pick-up services to entice customers to give up secondary fridges. An
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继续教育d some will not issue rebates (折扣) to purchasers of new energy efficient refrigerators unless they provide proof that their old one was recycled.
"This doesn't mean the efficiency efforts have been in vain or were not worth undertaking," she added, "it means that we should continue improving efficiency and undertake a series of parallel efforts to recycle old units, discourage upsizing and measure the right things if we want to turn absolute consumption downward."
6.
6. According to the passage, the goal to save energy can't be realized because ______.
∙** new refrigerators still need a lot of energy to work
∙** old fridges consuming more energy are still being used
∙** are not too many families buying the new type of fridges
** whole number of fridges is on the rise despite the efficiency
A A
B B
C C
D D
7.
7. What kind of change has happened to the refrigerators according to the passage? ______
∙** have more advanced functions.
∙** are cheaper enough for most people to afford.
∙** turn to be big in size but consume less energy.
** update at a much higher speed than ever before.
A A
B B
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D D
8.
8. The "'bear and deer' fridge" (Para. 3) refers to ______.
∙** fridge
∙** than one fridge
∙** and expensive fridge
** fridge
A A
B B
C C
D D
9.
9. The significance of unplugging secondary units nationwide lies in ______.
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