新理念网络学习大厅综合测试第四册 Unit4.docx

1、新理念网络学习大厅综合测试第四册 Unit4 1一 月二 月三 月产品名称数量金额利润产品名称数量金额利润产品名称数量金额利润合 计合 计合 计四 月五 月六 月产品名称数量金额利润产品名称数量金额利润产品名称数量金额利润合 计合 计合 计 全新版第二版综合B4U4-A Part I Listening Comprehension ( 15 minutes ) Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear ten statements. Numbers 1 to 6 are based on Text A while the rest

2、 are based on Text B. Each statement will be read ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and decide whether each statement is true or false. 1. A) T B) F Script: In 1998 William Browder gave up his American passport to become a British citizen, since his life is now centered in Europe. 正确答案： A 2. A) T B) F Scr

3、ipt: Alex Mandl is also a fervent believer in globalization, but he views himself very differently. 正确答案： A 3. A) T B) F Script: Despite all that globetrotting, Mandl, 55 years old, still identifies himself as a Canadian. 正确答案： B 4. A) T B) F Script: Although Browder and Mandl define their nationali

4、ty differently, both see their identity as a matter of personal choice, not an accident of birth. 正确答案： A 5. A) T B) F Script: As borders and national identities become more important, some find that threatening and even dangerous. 正确答案： B 6. A) T B) F Script: Global trade has been around for centur

5、ies; the corporations and countries that benefited from it were largely content to treat vast parts of the world as places to mine natural resources or sell finished products. 正确答案： A 7. A) T B) F Script: Text B contrasts Western skeptics with Eastern enthusiasts for globalization and reflects on th

6、e way economic integration can help promote greater political tolerance. 正确答案： A 8. A) T B) F Script: The developed world is beating a path to Chinas and Indias door and Chinese and Indian companies, in turn, have started to look overseas for some of their future growth. 正确答案： A 9. A) T B) F Script:

7、 China and India havent decided that opening their economies to trade in goods and services is the best way to lift their people out of abject poverty and are now focused simply on how to globalize in the most stable manner. 正确答案： B 10. A) T B) F Script: India is just beginning to realize that this

8、process of globalization is one where the Indian have an inherent advantage. 正确答案： A Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time

9、, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. This (11)_ wave of globalization has been driven by policies that have opened economies (12)_ and internationally. In the y

10、ears since the (13)_ , and especially during the past two decades, many governments have adopted free-market (14)_ , vastly increasing their own productive (15)_ and creating myriad new opportunities for (16)_ and investment. Governments also have (17)_ dramatic reductions in barriers to commerce an

11、d have established international agreements to promote trade in goods, services, and investment. (18)_ new opportunities in foreign markets, corporations have built foreign factories and established production and marketing arrangements with foreign partners. Globalization is deeply controversial, h

12、owever. Proponents of globalization argue that it allows poor countries and their citizens to develop economically and raise their (19)_ , while opponents of globalization claim that the creation of an unfettered international free market has benefited multinational corporations in the Western world

13、 at the expense of local enterprises, local cultures, and common people. Resistance to globalization has therefore (20)_ both at a popular and at a governmental level as people and governments try to manage the flow of capital, labor, goods, and ideas that constitute the current wave of globalizatio

14、n. To find the right balance between benefits and costs associated with globalization, citizens of all nations need to understand how globalization works and the policy choices facing them and their societies. Script: This current wave of globalization has been driven by policies that have opened ec

15、onomies domestically and internationally. In the years since the Second World War, and especially during the past two decades, many governments have adopted free-market economic systems, vastly increasing their own productive potential and creating myriad new opportunities for international trade an

16、d investment. Governments also have negotiated dramatic reductions in barriers to commerce and have established international agreements to promote trade in goods, services, and investment. Taking advantage of new opportunities in foreign markets, corporations have built foreign factories and establ

17、ished production and marketing arrangements with foreign partners. Globalization is deeply controversial, however. Proponents of globalization argue that it allows poor countries and their citizens to develop economically and raise their standards of living, while opponents of globalization claim th

18、at the creation of an unfettered international free market has benefited multinational corporations in the Western world at the expense of local enterprises, local cultures, and common people. Resistance to globalization has therefore taken shape both at a popular and at a governmental level as peop

19、le and governments try to manage the flow of capital, labor, goods, and ideas that constitute the current wave of globalization. To find the right balance between benefits and costs associated with globalization, citizens of all nations need to understand how globalization works and the policy choic

20、es facing them and their societies. 正确答案： current 正确答案： domestically 正确答案： Second World War 正确答案： economic systems 正确答案： potential 正确答案： international trade 正确答案： negotiated 正确答案： Taking advantage of 正确答案： standards of living 正确答案： taken shape Part II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes ) Section A D

21、irections: In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.

22、You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. A) define B) strengthen C) accident D) at least E) entitle F) politicians G) annual H) implications I) be committed to J) earnest K) increasingly L) witness M) World Economic Forum N) forum O) journalists 21. _ 正确答案： A 22. _ 正确答案： C 23. _

23、正确答案： G 24. _ 正确答案： M 25. _ 正确答案： F 26. _ 正确答案： O 27. _ 正确答案： J 28. _ 正确答案： H 29. _ 正确答案： D 30. _ 正确答案： K Section B Directions: There are several 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) a

24、nd D). You should decide on the best choice. Passage One Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. In such a changing, complex society formerly simple solutions to informational needs become complicated. Many of lifes problems which were solved by asking family members, friends or colle

25、agues are beyond the capability of the extended family to resolve. Where to turn for expert information and how to determine which expert advice to accept are questions facing many people today. In addition to this, there is the growing mobility of people since World War . As families move away from

26、 their stable community, their friends of many years, their extended family relationships, the informal flow of information is cut off, and with it the confidence that information will be available when needed and will be trustworthy and reliable. The almost unconscious flow of information about the

27、 simplest aspects of living can be cut off. Thus, things once learned subconsciously through the casual communications of the extended family must be consciously learned. Adding to societal changes today is an enormous stockpile of information. The individual now has more information available than

28、any other generation, and the task of finding that one piece of information relevant to his or her specific problem is complicated, time-consuming and sometimes even overwhelming. Coupled with the growing quantity of information is the development of technologies which enable the storage and deliver

29、y of more information with greater speed to more locations than has ever been possible before. Computer technology makes it possible to store vast amounts of data in machine-readable files, and to program computers to locate specific information. Telecommunications developments enable the sending of messag