【正文】 表面理解，排除?！　?由題干中的人名Al Gore 可定位到第二段第一句…as it merely recognizing it could put us on a path to a solution to relieve global warming. 題目問(wèn)的是Al Gore 對(duì)全球變暖的看法。迅速鎖定答案為D。之2009年12月大學(xué)英語(yǔ)四級(jí)模擬試題及答案解析2009年12月英語(yǔ)四級(jí)考試最新模擬試題及答案一、選詞填空題第1題：Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are requested to select on word for each black 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 blank is indentified by a letter.　　Please mark the correcsponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centtre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.　　　　The American patent system, provided for in the Constitution, was designed to encourage the creation and use of new technology. An inventor would describe the invention, both in writing and with drawings, and __1__ the description with a model to a government official. If the invention was judged to be ___2__ and beneficial, the official would give the inventor a patent. The patent meant that for 14 years the inventor owned the new invention. Inventors could ___3__ their ideas to manufacturers or just use them themselves. The government would not ___4__ any other patent for the same idea, and the inventor could ___5__ anyone of using the patented idea with out paying the owner of the patent for ___6__ to use it.　　A useful patent meant that the inventor could make a lot of money. In exchange for this gover nmental protection, the government published the patent __7___ , which had to provide enough information so that other people could understand the invention—thus adding to the general__8_technological knowledge. And at the end of the 14 years, anyone could use the invention idea behind the patent system was twofold: it would increase the amount of technology, by providing a way for people to make money out of new ideas, and it would make new technology widely available, by publicizing ideas that might ___10__ be kept as trade secrets.　　A) license I ) specifications　　B) however J ) yield　　C) accuse K) issue　　D) submit L) charge　　E) convenient M) availabe　　F) permission N) otherwise　　G) enable O) original　　H) free 【參考答案】：DOAKCFIMHN二、閱讀理解第2題：Gobal warming may or may not be the great environmental crisis of the 21 st century, but—regardless of whether it is or isn’t—we won’t do much about it. We will agrue over it and may even, as a nation, make some fairly solemnsounding mitments to avoid it. But the more dramatic and meaningful these mitments seen, the less likely they are to be observed.　　Al Gore calls global warming an “inconvenient truth”, as if merely recognizing it could put us on a path to a solution. But the real truth is that we don’t know enough to relieve global warming, and—without major technological breakthroughs we can39。A選項(xiàng)所說(shuō)全球變暖根本不可能引起環(huán)境危機(jī)，是對(duì)文章第一句話的片面理解，故排除。好像只要意識(shí)到它，就可以找到解決這一問(wèn)題的方法。 D是作者的看法，不是Al Gore 的看法。C項(xiàng)“貧富之間差距的加大”文章中所涉及的讓窮人維持現(xiàn)狀，實(shí)際上是表明經(jīng)濟(jì)的停滯，而非意在表明貧富之間的差距加大，當(dāng)然也不會(huì)有題干的結(jié)果。B中few nations have adopted real tough measures 和本段最后一句中didn’t adopt enough policies意義相符。　　 本題為主旨?xì)w納題，由題干中的convey一詞可以定位到文章倒數(shù)第二段conclusion一詞，此處是作者得出結(jié)論之處，也就是撰寫(xiě)本文的意圖。第四段認(rèn)為政府行為收效甚微。作者提到現(xiàn)在我們爭(zhēng)論的焦點(diǎn)往往集中在這一問(wèn)題的解決上，而沒(méi)有提到這一爭(zhēng)論會(huì)促進(jìn)科技的進(jìn)步，排除C。s like health。d done more to protect it. 1. What does the author mean by saying the 21st century equivalent of being caught naked (Lines 34,) ? 　　A) People39。s identities.　　4. What do most Americans do with regard to privacy protection?　　A) They change behaviors that might disclose their identity.　　B) They use various loyalty cards for business transactions.　　C) They rely most and more on electronic devices.　　D) They talk a lot but hardly do anything about it.　　 to the passage, privacy is like health in that _________.　　A) people will make every effort to keep it. B) its importance is rarely understood　　C) it is something that can easily be lost D) people don39。文章中雖然提到我們的個(gè)人隱私很容易被別人竊取，但這不是在表明21世紀(jì)的我們?cè)谙氡M一切辦法來(lái)窺探別人的隱私，因此排除B。在適合的時(shí)候，不同的程度地向朋友、家人傾訴是很重要的。D項(xiàng)中說(shuō)明朋友間該減少爭(zhēng)執(zhí)，這與心理學(xué)家所說(shuō)的彼此保持界限不相符合，故排除。無(wú)論喜歡與否，我們正生活在一個(gè)連秘密都不能保守的世界?！　?people say one thing and do 。優(yōu)惠卡的使用是在說(shuō)美國(guó)人會(huì)因?yàn)樾±嘎秱€(gè)人隱私，而不是說(shuō)明他們總是在商業(yè)交易中使用該卡，故排除B。拿隱私與健康相比僅是為了說(shuō)明對(duì)失去東西的后悔之意，而不是表明我們保護(hù)隱私就像保護(hù)健康一樣，排除A。t support __9__ their teachers told them: people see the sun “moving __10__ the sky as morning turns to night, and the earth seems stationary (靜止的) __11__ that is happeningStudents can learn the right answers __12__ heart in class，and yet never bined them __13__ their working models of the world. The objectively correct answer the professor accepts and the __14__ personal understanding of the world can__15__side by side，each unaffected by the other. 　　Outside of class，the student continues to use the __16__ model because it has always worked well __17__ that circumstance. Unless professors address __18__ errors in students39。s D) student39。 the others died out.【參考答案】：adaptable to coping with