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20186月英语四级考试真题试卷附答案解析[(完整版)第2套]

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Part I Writing (30 minutes )

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Directions : For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay o

n the importanceof writing ability and how to develop it. You should write at l east 120 words but no more than180 words.

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Part II Listening Comprehension (25 minutes )

Section A

Directions : In this section, you will hear threenews reports. At the end of each news report, youwill hear two or three questions. Both the news report and t he questions will be spoken onlyonce. After you hear a question, you must ch oose the best answer from the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D). Then m ark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with asingle line through the centre.

Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard 1. A) Annoyed. B) Scared. C) Confused.

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D) Offended.

2. A) It crawled over the woman's hands. B) It wound up on the steering

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C) It was killed by the police on the spot. D) It was covered with large scales.

Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard 3. A) A study of the fast-food service. B) Fast food customer

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C) McDonald's new business strategies. D) Competition in the fast-food industry. .

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4. A) Customers' higher demands.

B) The inefficiency of employees. C)

Increased variety of products. D) The rising number of customers.

Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard .

5. A) International treaties regarding space travel programs. B) Legal issues involved in commercial space exploration . C) U.S.

government's approval of private space missions.

D) Competition among public and private space companies. 6. A) Deliver scientific equipment to the moon. B) Approve a new mission to travel into outer space. C) Work with federal agencies on space programs. to D) Launch a manned spacecraft

Mars.

7. A) It is significant. B) It is promising .

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D) It is unprofitable . Section B

Directions : In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation

, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation the questions will bespoken only once. After you hear a question, you must c hoose the best answer from the fourchoices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1with a single line through th e centre.

Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation

you have just heard

8. A) Visiting her family in Thailand. B) Showing friends

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around Phuket. C) Swimming around a Thai island. D) Lying in the sun on a Thai beach.

9. A) She visited a Thai orphanage. B) She met a Thai girl's parents. C) She learned some Thai words. D) She sunbathed on a Thai beach.

10. A) His class will start in a minute. .

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B) He has got an incoming phone call. C) Someone is knocking at his door. D) His phone is running out of power. 11. A) He is interested in Thai artworks. B) He is going to open a

souvenir

shop.

C) He collects things from different countries. D) He wants to know more about Thai culture. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation

you have just heard

12. A) Buying some

fitness

equipment for the new gym.

B) Opening a gym and becoming personal trainers. C) Signing up for a weight-loss course. D) Trying out a new gym in town. 13. A) Professional personal training. B) Free exercise for the first week.

C) A discount for a half-year membership.

D) Additional benefits for young couples. 14. A) The safety of weight-lifting.

B) The high membership fee. C) The renewal

of his membership.

D) The operation of fitness

equipment.

15. A) She wants her

invitation

renewed.

B) She used to do 200 sit-ups every day. C) She knows the basics of weight-lifting. D) She used to be the gym's personal trainer. Section C

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Directions : In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each p assage, you willhear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questi ons will be spoken only once.After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B), C) and D). Then mark the c orresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single linethrough the centre. Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard .

16. A) They tend to be nervous during interviews. B) They often apply for a number of positions. C) They worry about the results of their applications. .

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D) They search extensively for employers' information. 17. A) Get better

organized

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B) Edit their references. C) Find better-paid jobs. D) Analyze the searching process. 18. A) Provide their data in detail.

B) Personalize each application .

C) Make use of better search engines. D) Apply for more

promising

positions.

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard 19. A) If kids did not like school, real learning would not take place. B) If not forced to go to school, kids would be out in the streets.

C) If schools stayed the way they are, parents were sure to D) If teaching failed to improve, kids would stay away from school. 20. A) Allow them to play interesting games in class.

B) Try to stir up their interest in lab experiments. C) Let them stay home and learn from their parents. D) Design activities they now enjoy doing on holidays. 21. A) Allow kids to learn at their own pace.

B) Encourage kids to learn from each other. C) Organize kids into various interest groups. D) Take kids out of school to learn at first hand.

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard

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22. A) It is especially B) It is a major

popular in Florida and Alaska.

social activity among the young.

C) It is seen almost anywhere and on any occasion. D) It is even more

expressive

than the written word.

23. A) It is located in a big city in Iowa. B) It is really

marvelous

to look at.

C) It offers free dance classes to seniors. D) It offers people a chance to socialize. 24. A) Their state of mind improved.

B) They became better dancers. C) They enjoyed better health. D) Their relationship strengthened

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25. A) It is fun. B) It is life.

C) It is

exhausting. D) It is rhythmical.

Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes

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Section A

Directions : In this section, there is a passage withten blanks. You are require d to select one word foreach blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read thepassage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is

identified

by a letter. Please mark the cor

responding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with asingle line through t he centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Since the 1940s, southern California has had a

reputation

for smog. Things

are not as bad asthey once were but, according to the American Lung Associa tion, Los Angeles is still the worstcity in the United States for levels of 26 . Ga zing down on the city from the Getty Center, anart museum in the Santa Moni ca Mountains, one would find the view of the Pacific Oceanblurred by the haze

( 霾 ). Nor is the state's bad air 27 to its south. Fresno, in the centralvalley, co

pollutio

mes top of the list in America for year-round n . Residents' hearts and

as a 28 . All of which, combined with

lungsare affected California's reputati on as the home oftechnological 29 , makes the place ideal for developing and

pollutio

testing systems designed tomonitor n in 30 . And that is just what A clima, a new firm in San Francisco, has beendoing over the past few months. It has been trying out monitoring stations that are 31 to yield minute-to-minu te maps of 32 air pollution . Such stations will also be able to keep aneye on what is happening inside buildings, including offices. To this end, Aclima has been 33 with Google's Street View system. Davida He

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L) ou \"cycle to work\"days have done their job by 35 A) assisted B) collaborating C) ail G) domestic

pollution lows.

D) consumers E) creating F) det innovation

K) intended

highs on days when San

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H) frequently I) inhabitants J)

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Directions : In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statemen ts attached toit. Each

statement

contains information given in one of the par

agraphs. Identify theparagraph from which the information is derived. You ma y choose a paragraph more thanonce. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

A) On a recent fall morning, a large crowd blocked the steps at one of Venice' s main touristsites, the Rialto Bridge. The Rialto Bridge is one of

the four brid

ges spanning the Grand Canal.It is the oldest bridge across the

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As Tourists Crowd Out Locals

, Venice Faces 'Endangered' List

as the dividing line between the districts of SanMarco and San Polo. But on thi s day, there was a B)

\"People are cheering and holding their carts in the air,\" says Giovanni Giorgio, who helped organize

the march with a grass-roots organization called Gener

—the symbol of a tr

azione '90. The carts herefers to are small shopping carts ue Venetian. \"It started as a joke,\" hesays with a laugh.

\"The idea was to put blades on the wheels! You know? Like Ben Hur.Precisely like that, you just go around and run people down.\"

C) Venice is one of the hottest tourist destinations in the world. But that's a p roblem. Up to90,000 tourists crowd its streets and canals every day umbering the 55,000 ason the city's

permanent population

is downfrom 175,000 in the 1950s. The

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residents. The tourist increase is one key re

twist : it was filled with Venetians, nottourists.

ered Venetians have been steadily fleeing. Andthose who stick around are tir

ed of living in a place where they can't even get to the marketwithout swimmi ng through a sea of picture-snapping tourists. Imagine, navigating through50, 000 people while on the way to school or to work.

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D) Laura Chigi, a grandmother at the march, says the local and national gove rnments havefailed to do anything about the crowds for decades,

because the y're only interested in tourism

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cohan $3 billion in 2015. \"Venice is a cash w ,\"she says, \"and everyone wants a piece.\"

E) Just beyond St. Mark's Square, a cruise ship passes, one of hundreds ever y year thatappear over their medieval ( 中世纪

massive wake creates waves atthe bottom of the sea 的) surroundings. Their

, weakening the foundations of the centuries-old buildings themselves. \"Every time I see a cruise ship, I feel sad,\" Chigi says. \"You see the mud it drags; it leaves in its wake? That hurts the destruction t he ancient wooden poles holding up the cityunderwater. One day we'll see Ve nice break down.\"

F) For a time, UNESCO, the cultural wing of the United Nations, seemed to ag ree. Two yearsago, it put Italy on notice, saying the government was not prot

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ecting Venice. UNESCOconsiders the entire city a World Heritage Site, a great honor that means Venice, at thecultural level, belongs to all of the world's pe ople. In 2014, UNESCO gave Italy two years tomanage Venice's flourishing to

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urism or the city would be placed on another list Danger, j oining such sites as Aleppo and Palmyra, destroyed by the war in Syria. G) Venice's deadline passed with barely a murmur ( 嘟

represen 哝) this summer, just as UNESCO wasmeeting in Istanbul. Only one

, Jad Tabet from Lebanon, tried to raise

tative the issue . \"For several years, the situation of heritage in Venice has been worsening, an d it hasnow reached a dramatic situation,\" Tabet told UNESCO.

— there isnot a moment to

\"We have to act quickly waste.\" H) But UNESCO didn't even hold a vote. \"It's been postponed until 2017,\" says Anna Somers,the founder and CEO of T he Art Newspaper and the former head of Venice in Peril, a group devoted to restoring Venetian art. She says the main reason the U.N. cultural organizatio

Venice a World Heritage Site In Danger is because ndidn't vote to declare UN ESCO hasbecome \"intensely politicized. There would have been some back-ro om

negotiations.\" I) Italy boasts more UNESCO World Heritage Sites than any other country in t he world,granting it considerable power and influence within the organizatio n. The former head of theUNESCO World Heritage Centre, which oversees her itage sites, is Francesco Bandarin, aVenetian who now serves as UNESCO's as sistant director -general for culture.

with UNESCO to establish a task

J) Earlier this year, Italy signed an accord fo rce of police artdetectives and archaeologists ( 考古学

terror groups, suc 家) to protect cultural heritage from natural disastersand

accorreputatio

h as ISIS. The d underlined Italy's global n as a goodstewar d of art and culture. K) But adding Venice to the UNESCO endangered list — which is dominated by

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conflict -ridden countries — would be an international e

profitabl

mbarrassment , andcould even hurt Italy's e tourism industry. The

of any government efforts

Italian Culture Ministry says it is unaware to press

declineure UNESCO. As for the organization itself, it d a request for an inter view .

mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, has ridiculed UNESCO and told

L) The city's current it to mind its ownbusiness, while continuing to support the cruise ship industry, which employs 5,000 Veniceresidents. M) As for Venetians, they're beyond frustrated and hoping for a solution n.

for me. Some situations are really difficult with tourists

\"It's a nightmare aro und,\" says Giorgio ashe navigates around a swelling crowd at the Rialto Bridg e. \"There are just so many of them.They never know where they are going, and

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do not walk in an y manner. Navigatingthe streets can be exhausting.\" .

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N) Then it hits him: This crowd isn't made up of tourists. They're Venetians. G iorgio says he'snever experienced the Rialto Bridge this way in all his 22 yea rs. \"For once, we are the oneswho are blocking the traffic,\" he says delightedly. \"It feels unreal. It feels like we're someform of endangered species . It's just nice. The feeling is just pure.\" But, he worries, iftourism isn't managed and hi s fellow locals continue to move to the mainland, his generationmight be the l ast who can call themselves native Venetians. 36. The passing cruise ships will undermine the foundations of the ancient b uildings inVenice. 37. The Italian government has just reached an agreement with UNESCO to t ake measures to protect its cultural heritage. 38. The heritage situation in Venice has been deteriorating in the past few ye ars. 39. The decrease in the number of permanent residents in Venice is mainly due to theincrease of tourists.

, native Venetians may desert the city

40. If tourism gets out of control altog ether one day. 41. UNESCO urged the Italian government to undertake its responsibility to p rotect Venice. 42. The participants in the Venetian march used shopping carts to show they were 100% localresidents.

43. Ignoring UNESCO's warning, the mayor of Venice maintains his support of the city'stourism industry.

44. One woman says that for decades the Italian government and local author ities have onlyfocused on the revenues from tourism. 45. UNESCO has not yet decided to put Venice on the list of World Heritage Si tes In Danger.

Section C

Directions : There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by s ome questionsor

unfinished

statements. For each of them there are four cho

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Passage One

Questions 46 and 50 are based on the following passage Living in an urban area with green spaces has a long- t on people's mental

. lasting

positive impac

well-being, a study has suggested. UK researchers found

sustained

positive effect, unlike pay rises or

boost . Co-author Mathew Whit

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moving to a green spacehad a

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e, from the University of Exeter, UK, explained that thestudy showed people li ving in greener

urban areas were displaying fewer signs of

depression

xiety . \"There could be a number of reasons,\" he said, for promotion

\"for example,people do many things to make themselves happier: they

or pay rises,or they get married. But the trouble with those t

origina

hings is that within six months to a year,people are back to their l bas

eline levels of well-being. So, these things are notsustainable; they don't mak e us happy in the long term. We found that for some lottery ( 彩 票) winners who had won more than

£500,000 the positive effect was definit

ely there, butafter six months to a year, they were back to the baseline.\"

Dr. White said his team wanted to see whether living in greener

urban areas

had a lasting positive effect on people's sense of well-being or whether the ef fect also disappeared after aperiod of time. To do this, the team used data fro m the British Household Panel Surveycompiled by the University of Essex. Explaining what the data revealed, he said:

health is still better, \"What you see is that even after three years, mental whi ch is unlike many other things that we think will make ushappy.\" He observed that people living in green spaces were less stressed, and less stressedpeopl

decisions and communicated

e made more sensible better.

With a growing body of

evidence

establishing a link between

urban green sp

aces and apositive impact on human well-being, Dr. White said,

\"There's growing interest among publicpolicy officials, but the trouble is who unds it. What we really need at a policy level is todecide where the money wi ll come from to help support good quality local green spaces.\"

46. According to one study, what do green spaces do to people? A) Improve their work

efficiency

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B) Add to their sustained

happiness.

C) Help them build a positive attitude towards life. D) Lessen their concerns about material well-being.

47. What does Dr. White say people usually do to make themselves happier? A) Earn more money.

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C) Gain fame and D) Live in a green

48. What does Dr. White try to find out about living in a greener A) How it affects different people.

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B) How strong its positive effect is.

C) How long its positive effect lasts. D) How it benefits people physically. 49. What did Dr. White's enviresearch reveal about people living in a green

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onment ?

A) Their stress was more apparent

than real.

B) Their decisions required less deliberation . C) Their memories were greatly strengthened .

D) Their communication

with others improved.

50. According to Dr. White, what should the government do to build more gre en spaces incities?

A) Find financial support. B) Improve urban planning. C) Involve local residents in the effort. D) Raise public awareness

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Passage Two

Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage

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You probably know about the Titanic, but it was actually just one of three stat e-of-the-art (

先进

的 ) ocean ships back in the day. The Olympic class ships were built by the Har land &Wolff ship makers in Northern Ireland for the White Star Line com pany. The Olympic classincluded the Olympic, the Britannic and the Titanic. W hat you may not know is that the Titanicwasn't even the flagship of this class. All in all, the Olympic class ships were marvels of seaengineering, but they s eemed cursed to suffer disastrous fates.

The Olympic launched first in 1910, followed by the Titanic in 1911, and lastly

the Britannic in1914. The ships had nine decks, and White Star Line decided

to focus on making them themost

luxurious

ships on the water.

Stretching 269.13 meters, the Olympic class ships were wonders of naval tec

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hnology, andeveryone thought that they would continue to be so for quite so me time. However, allsuffered terrible accidents on the open seas. The Olymp ic got wrecked before the Titanic did,but it was the only one to

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aftesink r

maintain a successful career of 24 years. The Titanicwas the first to famously hitting a huge iceberg in 1912. Following this disaster ,the Britanni c hit a naval mine in 1916 and subsequently sank as well. .

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Each ship was coal-powered by several boilers constantly

kept running by ex

hausted crewsbelow deck. Most

recognizable

of the ship designs are the shi

p's smoke stacks, but thefourth stack was actually just artistic

in nature and

served no functional purpose. While twoof these ships sank, they were all de

signed with double hulls (

体 ) believed to make them\"unsinkable\he Titanic's and the Britannic's tragic end.

The Olympic suffered two crashes with other ships and went on to serve as a hospital ship andtroop

transport

in World War I. Eventually, she was taken o

ut of service in 1935, ending theera of the luxurious

Olympic class ocean lin

ers.

51. What does the passage say about the three Olympic class ships? A) They performed marvellously on the sea.

B) They could all break the ice in their way. C) They all experienced

terrible misfortunes.

D) They were models of modern engineering.

52. What did White Star Line have in mind when it purchased the three ships? A) Their capacity of sailing across all waters.

B) The utmost

comfort passengers could enjoy. C) Their ability to

survive disasters of any kind.

D) The long voyages they were able to undertake. 53. What is said about the fourth stack of the ships?

A) It was a mere piece of decoration .

B) It was the work of a famous artist. C) It was designed to let out extra smoke. D) It was easily

identifiable

from afar.

54. What might have led to the tragic end of the Titanic and the Britannic? A) Their unscientific

designs.

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that they were built with the latest technology.

sink with a double-

layer body.

D) The belief that they could never

55. What happened to the ship Olympic in the end? A) She was used to carry troops.

B) She was sunk in World War I. C) She was converted into a hospital ship. D) She was retired after her naval service.

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Directions : For this part, you are allowed 30 minutesto translate a passage fr om

Chineseinto English. You should write your answer onAnswer Sheet 2.

公交车曾是中国人出行的主要交通近年来, 由于私家车数量不断增多, 城市的交工具。 通问 题越来越严重。 许多城市为了鼓励更多人乘坐公交车一直在努力改善公交车的服出行, 务质 量。车辆的设施不断更新,车速也有了显著提高。然而,公交车的票价却依然相当低廉。现

在,在大多数城市,许多当地老年市民都可以免费乘 坐公交车。

年 6 月四级部分真题参考答2018 案 ( 完整版 )

Part Writing The Importance of Writing Ability and How toDevelop It As the most productive and communicative way to express ourselves, writin g is attachedgreat importance in all ages. Whether we want to improve our wr iting skills as a creative writer or simply perfect our skills for schoolwork, we can take some steps to learn how to bea better writer. Firstly, in order to make our writing creative and imaginative, brainstormin g is one of thekey elements to build up topic. Don't hesitate to a unique take down all the ideas that comeinto our mind. Secondly, a good development of our writing is based on a clear structure orparagraph organization. Even a si

will help us see the big picture and save ushours of rewriting.

mple outline Fi

diversitnally, y of vocabulary and grammar used in writing is highlyrecomme nded for the reason that one of the most common manifestations of bad writi ng isoveruse or reuse of simple language. To sum up, we should take practice our knowledge to become and expand a great writer.With enough hard work and scientific techniques, we will amaze n ot only ourselves but alsoanybody else.

Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension 1. B) Scared.

2. D) It was covered with large scales. 3. A) A study of the fast-food service. 4. C) Increased

variety

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of private space approval missions.

6. A) Deliver scientific equipment to the moon.

8. D) Lying in the sun on a Thai beach. 9. A) She visited a Thai orphanage. 10. D) His phone is running out of power. 11. C) He collects things from different countries. .

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12. D) Trying out a new gym in town.

for a half-year 13. C) A discount membership. 14. A) The safety of weight-lifting.

15. C) She knows the basics of weight-lifting. 16. B) They often apply for a number of positions. 17. A) Get better

organized

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18. B) Personalize each application

19. B) If not forced to go to school, kids would be out in the streets. 20. D) Design activities they now enjoy doing on holidays. 21. D) Take kids out of school to learn at first hand. 22. C) It is seen almost anywhere and on any occasion. 23. D) It offers people a chance to socialize. 24. A) Their state of mind improved. 25. B) It is life.

Part III Reading Comprehension 26-35: MNCJF KLBIE 36-45: EJGCN FBLDH 46-55: BACDA CBADD Part IV Translation

Buses used to be the main means of

transportation

for the Chinese people.

In recent years,with the number of private cars increasing, cities have been f acing increasingly

severe trafficproblems. To

encourage

more people to trav

el by bus, many cities have been makingefforts to improve bus services. Bus f acilities have been continuously

renovated

, and busspeed has also increased

dramatically. However, bus fares are still cheap. Now, in mostcities, many loc al elderly citizens can take a bus for free.

根据企业发展战略的要求,有计划地对人力、资源进行合理配置,通过对企业中员工的招聘、培训、使用、考核、评价、激励、调整等一系列过程,调动员工地积极性,发挥员工地潜能,为

企业创造价值,确保企业战略目标的实现。

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读书是一种感悟人生的艺术读杜甫的诗使人感悟人生的辛酸, 读李白的诗使人领悟官场的腐败, 读鲁迅的文章使人认清社会的黑暗,读巴金的文章使人感到未来的希望每一本书都是一个朋友,

教会我们如何去看待人生读书是人生的一门最不缺少的功课,阅读书籍,感悟人生,助我们走好人生的每一步

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