2009年12月大學英語四級考試模擬試題(六)

　　33. A) A lack of available flights.

　　B) Long delays at the airport.

　　C) Tiredness on long flights.

　　D) Long trips to and from airports.

　　34. A) It uses nuclear energy.

　　B) It rests on a cushion of pressurized air.

　　C) It flies over magnetically activated tracks.

　　D) It uses a device similar with engine

　　35. A) They are subject to fires.

　　B) They become less fuelefficient.

　　C) They produce too much noise.

　　D) They have trouble staying on the tracks.

　　Section C:

　　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, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

　　Doctors are starting to believe that laughter not only improves your state of mind, but actually affects your entire physical wellbeing.

　　Britain’s first (36) ________ therapist, Robert

　　Holden says: “Instinctively we know that laughing help us feel healthy and alive. Each time we

　　laugh we feel better and more (37) __________.”

　　A French newspaper found that in 1930 the French laughed on average for nineteen minutes

　　per day. By 1980 this had fallen to six minutes. Eight per cent of the people (38) _________ said

　　that they would like to laugh more. Other (39) _________ suggests that children laugh on average

　　about 400 times a day, but by the time they reach (40) __________ this had been (41) _________

　　to about fifteen times. Somewhere in the process of growing up we lose an (42) _______ 385 laughs a day.

　　William Fry, a psychiatrist from California studied the (43) _________of laughter on the