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1、决战四3【决战2010年12月四级】大学英语四级考试押题试卷（含答案）Part WritingDirections: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Buying and Selling Stocks as a Student. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:1. 在校大学生炒股的现象在一些地方很普遍2. 有人认为这种行为不利于学生的学习，也有人认为这种行为能让学生有所收

2、获3. 你的观点 Buying and Selling Stocks as a Student这道题您没有回答答案:范文 Buying and Selling Stocks as a Student At present, there are many students engaged in buying and selling stocks. Some of them are equipped with updated device so as to get the latest information and seize golden chances for transaction. Pe

3、oples opinions vary on this issue. The reasons why some people oppose it are as follows. For one thing, students have to sacrifice their learning hours to focus on stocks, only to fail in exams. For another, students are too inexperienced to make wise investment. Some spend their tuition on stocks.

4、If they fail, they will be under massive financial pressure. But then, supporters believe that stock exchange is a good way to improve students ability to manage money as well as a precious chance to put theory into practice. To my mind, in a world of opportunities and challenges, the stock exchange

5、 should not be a forbidden place for college students. Meanwhile, what they must keep in mind is learning first, for knowledge is most valuable.写作点拨 文章题目要求讨论大学生炒股这一热点问题。根据提纲，我们可以把第二点作为文章的重点段落，运用总一分的段落模式进行写作；同时把第一点和第三点作为略写段落。第一段简要地说明这种现象普遍存在即可；第二段可以用一个主题句，表明不同的人对此有不同的看法，并说明原因；第三段阐述自己的观点，可以是赞同其中之一，也可以

6、是自己独特的见解。Part Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)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, compl

7、ete the sentences with the information given in the passage. So Near and Yet So Far In many examinations, 90% is an excellent score, deserving a prize and a handshake from the headmaster. In Geneva this week, only full marks would do, and the worlds trade ministers failed. No matter that they came c

8、loser to a deal than anyone should have expected. No matter that they stuck at it for nine days and several nights, in the longest ministerial meeting in the history of the World Trade Organization (WTO). No matter, too, that this time they parted in stunned disbelief, heads shaking, rather than in

9、acrimony(刻薄), quarrel and spite, as at Cancun in 2003. They managed convergence on 18 of the 20 topics set before them by Pascal Lamy, the WTOs director-general, but they stumbled on the 19th, a device for protecting farmers in developing countries against surges in imports. They never reached the 2

10、0th, cotton. Failed. You can construct a plausible argument that the collapse of yet another set of talks on the Doha round, which is now coming up to seven years old, is of little importance. While the worlds trade ministers have alternated between talking and not talking to one another about Doha,

11、 the worlds businesspeople have carried on regardless: the growth of global commerce has outstripped the hitherto (到前为止) healthy pace of global GDP. Developing countries in particular have continued to open up to imports and foreign investment. You might say that not much was on offer in Geneva anyw

12、ay: one study put the eventual benefits at maybe $70 billion, a drop in the ocean of the worlds GDP. Global stock markets, with so much else on their minds, either didnt notice or didnt care. On July 29th, the day the talks broke up, the S&P 500 index rose by 2.3%. Plausible, but wrong. For a start,

13、 the lowish estimates of the economic benefits of the round miss out two things. One is the value of the unpredictable dynamic benefits of more open markets. Access to more customers allows exporters to exploit economies of scale. Competition encourages not only specialization, the classic result of

14、 more open trade, but also increased productivity. The other is what you might call the option value of the Doha round. The WTO inhabits a sort of parallel universe in which countries negotiate not on what tariffs and subsidies will actually be, but on maximum (or bound) rates and amounts. Although

15、many countries have cut tariffs and farm. subsidies - if only, in the latter case, because of rising food prices - too few have turned these cuts into commitments. Tighter binding would cramp their ability to turn back to protection. It would have made up the bulk of a Doha deal.Do you care about th

16、e beans or the beings? Also on offer were benefits that are easier to visualize. Some cuts in bound tariffs would have bitten into actual rates. There would have been much less tariff escalation(增加) - a nasty practice, by which higher tariffs are levied on successive stages of production. Raw coffee

17、 beans may be tariff-free, but roasted beans incur a higher levy, and so on as they are ground, getting rid of caffeine and so forth. Move up the value chain, and you pay. Some developing countries - in Latin America, especially Brazil, and in Africa too - are seething that a deal slipped away. Give

18、n all this, the inability of ministers to agree, having come so close, seems unfathomable(难解 ). Belief is all the more beggared when you look at the wider world. The global economy is slowing, possibly horribly: under such conditions, protectionism thrives. It would be silly to say that the sky is a

19、bout to fall in: too much has been agreed in the past, and too many countries and businesses value an open trading system, to suppose that the 2010s will be a rerun of the 1930s. But trade has too few friends these days - notably in Americas Congress and the Elys6e Palace. Ministers picked a poor ti

20、me to fail. The ultimate cause of failure only deepens the sense of puzzlement. When talks started, the likeliest deal-breaker seemed to be the ceiling on American farm subsidies, which is far higher than America actually spends. In the end, the deal fell over protection not for Americas farmers but

21、 for those of the developing world: a special safeguard mechanism, to kick in when imports surged. America wanted the trigger set high; India, joined by China, wanted it low. Both developing countries, it is said, also wanted to be able to jack tariffs up above existing ceilings, not merely those se

22、t in a Doha deal. After 60 hours of talk by Mr. Lamys count, there was deadlock; and that was that. Meanwhile, believe it or not, food is pricier than ever.Indias mountain ,Americas molehill You could call this a collective failure, as some ministers did. You could also be more specific. Indias will

23、ingness to open its economy in reality is in lamentable contrast to its inability to commit itself at the WTO. Its stubbornness is explained by the ferocity of Indias politics on this subject and the desperate, even suicidal, poverty of many of its farmers. But it and China must have known that they

24、 were asking too much. America has some answering to do, too. It seems to have misread the big story: in the WTO, rich countries no longer call the shots, as they did in its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. China and India, infuriating though they may be, are as powerful as A

25、merica and the EU. The United States also fumbled with the details. It might have tied up a deal on cotton, and left the Chinese and Indians isolated on safeguards. And the ultimate stumbling-block, though a mountain to India, was surely a molehill to a country of Americas wealth. America has 1 mill

26、ion farmers, India over 200 million. In the WTO, there is a saying: nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. But all the effort of nine days - or seven years - should not be lost. Mr. Lamy should publish what has been agreed so far. Ideally, the ministers would then meditate over the summer on

27、what they have lost - and he could then ask for a final push. That, alas, seems a vain hope. With American elections looming, India heading for the polls by next May and a new European Commission due late next year, it may be 2010 before much can be done. There is a risk that by then, as Peter Mande

28、lson, the EUs trade commissioner, once put it, the caravans have moved on in different directions. The world will have to wait for a Doha deal, if it ever gets one. After coming so close, it should not have had to.1. The longest ministerial conference in the history of WTO lasts for _. A) nine days

29、B) ten days C) eighteen days D) twenty days这道题您没有回答 【回答错误】答案:A定位 根据题干中的The longest ministerial conference in the history of WTO可以定位到第一段第四句 No matter that they stuck at it for nine days and several nights，in the longest ministerial meeting in the history of the World Trade Organization(WTO)精解 本题在文章中很

30、容易定位。根据题干在文章中的定位，可以看到文章直接给出了答案，即they stuck at it for nine days and several night，in the longest所以本题答案为A)。2. What was the 19th topic related with on the ministerial meeting of WTO? A) Cotton importation and exportation. B) Protecting farmers in developing countries. C) The elimination of trade protec

31、tion. D) Food safety and the environment.这道题您没有回答 【回答错误】答案:B定位 根据题干中的the 29th topic和the ministerial meeting of WTO可以定位到第一段的倒数第二句 but they stumbled on the 19th，a device for protecting farmers in developing countries against surges in imports精解 文章中的a device for protecting farmers in developing countri

32、es against surges in imports是对the 19th topic的解释说明，所以本题答案为B)。3. The S&P 500 index rose by 2.3% on July 29th as a result of _. A) interruption of the ministerial talks B) the healthy pace of globe GDP C) the growth of the worlds GDP by $70 billion D) other factors这道题您没有回答 【回答错误】答案:D定位 根据题干中的The S&P 500 index rose by 2.3% on July 29th可以定位到文章的第二段最后一句话On July 29th，the day the talks broke up，the S&P 500 index rose by 2.3%精解 在文章的第二段最后一句话确实给出了the S&P 500 index rose by 2.3%，并且给出了时间，即on July 19th；在这句话中还有一句话the day