2010年6月英語四級全真預測試卷及答案詳解(1)

　　Light and soft blue makes us feel quiet and protected from the bustle(喧鬧)and 54 of the day. Blue bedrooms are restful. Blue bath rooms are appropriately watery. Blue 55 depth with greens and reds. Dark blue represents the night making us calm. Its apparently calming effect makes it the perfect tone for the quieter 56 of your living space.

　　[A] represented [I] activity

　　[B] engage [J] zones

　　[C] refreshing [K] foolish

　　[D] surround [L] line

　　[E] curved [M] acquires

　　[F] dominant [N] associated

　　[G]lower [O] rash

　　[H] balanced

　　Section B

　　Directions: There are 2 passages in the 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 and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.

　　Passage One

　　Question 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

　　Most shoplifters (商店扒手)agree that the January sales offer wonderful opportunities for the hard-working thief. With the shops so crowded and the staff so busy, it does not require any extraordinary talent to help you to take one or two little things and escape unnoticed. It is known, in the business, as "hoisting".

　　But the hoisting game is not what it used to be. Even at the height of the sales, shoplifters today never know if they are being watched by one of those evil little balls that hang from the ceilings of so many department stores above the most desirable goods.

　　As if that was not trouble enough for them, they can now be filmed at work and obliged to attend a showing of their performance in court.

　　Selfridges was the first big London store to install closed-circuit videotape equipment to watch its sales floors. In October last year the store won its first court case for shoplifting using a evidence a videotape clearly showing a couple stealing dresses. It was an important test case which encouraged other stores to install similar equipment.

　　When the balls, called sputniks, first make an appearance in shops, it was widely believed that their only function was to frighten shoplifters. Their somewhat ridiculous appearances, the curious holes and red lights going on and off, certainly make the theory believable.

　　It did not take long, however, for serious shoplifters to start showing suitable respect. Soon after the equipment was in operation at Selfridges, store detective Brian Chadwick was sitting in the control room watching a woman secretly putting bottles of perfume into her bag.

　　"As she turned to go," Chadwick recalled, "she suddenly looked up at the 'sputnik' and stopped. She could not possibly have seen that the camera was trained on her because it is completely hidden, but she must have had a feeling that I was looking at her."

　　"For a moment she paused, but then she returned to counter and started putting everything back. When she had finished, she opened her bag towards the camera to show it was empty and hurried out of the store."

　　57. January is a good month for shoplifters because ________.

　　[A] they don't need to wait for staff to serve them

　　[B] they don't need any previous experience as thieves

　　[C] there are so many people in the store

　　[D] January sales offer wonderful opportunities for them

　　58. The sputniks hanging from the ceiling are intended ________.

　　[A] to watch the most desirable goods [C] to frighten shoplifters by their appearance

　　[B] to make films that can be used as evidence [D] to be used as evidence against shoplifters

　　59. The case last October was important because ________ .

　　[A] the store got the dresses back

　　[B] the equipment was able to frighten shoplifters

　　[C] other shops found out about the equipment

　　[D] the kind of evidence supplied was accepted by court

　　60. The woman stealing perfume ________.

　　[A] guessed what the sputniks were for [C] could see the camera filming her

　　[B] was frightened by its shape [D] knew that the detective had seen her

　　61. The woman's action before leaving the store shows that she ________.

　　[A] was sorry for what she had done

　　[B] was afraid she would be arrested

　　[C]decided she didn't want what she had picked up

　　[D] wanted to prove she had not intended to steal anything

　　Passage Two

　　Questions 62 to 66 are based in the following passage.

　　The largest shark known to us, Megalodon, is extinct. Or is it? Carcharodon Megalodon, commonly known as Megalodon, is believed to have lived between 1 million and 5 million years ago and thought to have been 52 feet long. It is (or was) a shark that had a jaw 7 or more feet wide. Fairly recently, there has been some speculation about whether it is extinct or just out of reach. But few people believe that Megalodon has found a home deep in the ocean.

　　There are many known "Living Fossils": Coelacanth, Sea Cucumbers, Sea Urchins, Lobsters, Sea Stars. The common ones like lobsters and sea urchins are not really looked on as anything amazing. They've been around for thousands of years or more, and are easily accessible to us. What if they weren't accessible and yet still existed? We would label them extinct. The discovery of a live Coelacanth, a fish long believed extinct, challenged some scientists' long-held beliefs on extinction. There have been recent discoveries of incredibly large squid, and deep-sea fish never before seen by scientists.

　　In the 1960s the U.S. Navy set up underwater microphones around the world to track Soviet submarines. The network, known as the Sound Surveillance System, still lies deep below the ocean's surface in a layer of water known as the "deep sound channel". The temperature and pressure of the channel allow sound waves to travel undisturbed. NOAA's Acoustic Monitoring Project has been using the Sound Surveillance System to listen for changes in ocean structure like ocean currents or volcanic activity. Most of the sounds recorded are common and of no concern. One sound, identified in 1977 by U.S. Navy "spy" sensors, was odd. It was obviously a marine animal but the call was more powerful than any of the calls made by any other reported sea creature. It was too big for a whale. Could it be a deep-sea monster? One possibility was a giant squid, but no one is sure. It was named "Bloop". Could it be Megalodon? If Megalodon is still alive down in the bottom of the ocean, we may some day soon discover it. Then what? Deep sea diving will never be the same, that's for sure!