大学英语四级考试计划书

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今天是4月19日，距离20xx年6月份的大学英语四级考试仅剩56天的时间。这不禁又让我想起了去年备战高考的那段紧张而又不安的岁月，进入倒计时100天的时候，感觉时间走得异常地块。高考是我人生中的一件大事，是一道分水岭，其重要性不言而喻。现在同样如此，大学英语四级考试在整个大学生涯和以后的发展中都占有重要地位。而现在只有五十多天的时间了，紧张自不必说。俗话说：“不打无准备之仗”，“知己知彼，方能百战百胜”。因此制定一个切合自身实际，可行的计划显得尤为重要。

说实话英语并不是我的强项，在高考中吃过英语的亏，当时就是从来没有过的紧张，手一直在颤抖基本上已经没有办法写字了，这归根到底可能还是自身的基础不够扎实导致的。自从进入大学以后，由于大学的学习和高中的天壤之别，对于英语的学习反而没有高中那么认真了。大学英语四级总分是710分，结合自身实际，我今年6月英语四级的目标分数是520分左右，上下浮动不超过5分，当然超过的是多多益善。希望可以通过自己接下来五十多天的计划实施和努力奋斗，可以实现预期的目标。

为什么要制定这一计划和目标？第一点，大学英语四级证书是将来拿到学校所颁发的毕业证书和学位证书的基础之一，没有它只能拿到结业证书，换句话说就是大学四年白上了。所以这是一个很现实的问题，必须要拿到英语四级证书，没有商量的余地。第二点，作为学商科类的学生多学一点英语大有裨益，对于以后的发展也都是有好处的。可以说英语四级是我们将来企业应聘的敲门砖，一个拥有英语四级和一个没有英语四级的人相比显然前者的优势更大一些。第三点，是时代的要求，是自己不断进步的要求，这是一种大的趋势或是规律暂时还没有人可以去打破。第四点，就是要证明自己的能力，始终相信自己是最棒的。即便在今年的两会上有些代表建议取消大学的英语四六级考试，但是我觉得完全没有必要，英语学习已经深入人心了，就好像一日三餐，成为了必需品。在今天这个全球化的的国际社会里，不存在大学英语四级考试无用论的说辞。我想有总比没有要好得多的多。

我的学习计划将采取学与练相结合的方式。英语四级的题型有作文，阅读理解，听力，完形填空和翻译。我的计划如下：

一、 所有这些题型的基础当然就是单词了，因此首先应从单词着手。四级词汇一共是4750个，由于之前已经大致看过一遍，结合所剩余的时间，打算每天熟记60个单词（由于之前看过一遍，另外还有很多以前掌握的单词，问题应该不大），分50天背完，乃至熟练掌握。

二、 英语最让我头疼的是语法，大学里不再教授语法知识，而语法对于英语学习很重要。所以需要把高中学过的语法知识重新回过头再过一遍，名词性从句，定语从句，状语从句三大从句。冠词，名词（短语），动词（短语）等熟练掌握，能够运用语法知识正确分析句子结构，造句，翻译之类。可以一周复习一个重点语法知识。

三、 短语类一般在阅读理解，完形填空和作文中出现较多，掌握短语的前提还是单词，在此基础之上，熟练掌握短语，触类旁通。主要依托资料上

所列出的重点短语，大概每天熟记15个短语左右。能够正确运用，譬如造句，填空，翻译。

四、 听力是我的薄弱环节，这点主要通过多听来强化。计划每两天一份四级

真题听力限时练习，除此以外，还要多听一些如美国之音，学校发放的听力材料。当然平时在娱乐的同时可以通过看美剧，英语新闻来加强听力。在听的同时能够加强写的能力。

五、 阅读理解，完形填空主要通过做真题练习，每两天一份真题。从目前所

做的题目来看阅读理解问题稍大一点，所以要加强阅读理解的练习。此外可以关注一些外国的杂志《纽约时报》之类的，还有我们自己的《中国日报》等

六、 作文和翻译一方面通过词汇短语的积累，另一方面要掌握格式。加强背

诵，比如一些优秀的范文，现在我们每周抄一篇四级真题作文。我觉得这当然还不够，抄仅仅是表层的，没有实质进步。需要加强练习。计划每周一篇作文，主题自己挑选，尽量联系当前热点问题，展开合理的想象。写好后可以请老师、同学或网络帮助自己批改，然后再加以进一步修改，使之完善。

七、 在以上的计划实施结束时，在考试前两周把重心转向做四级真题和模拟

试题模仿考试场景，熟悉考试环境和考试流程安排。

以上计划的实施者是我，期间可以寻求老师和同学的相关帮助，计划实施的时间比如背单词和短语安排在早上7:00—7-50和下午16:30-17：30，听力的练习安排在早上8:00—8:30（没两天一次，有早课除外），语法的复习可以安排在中午12:30—13:00（一周一个语法知识点），作文的摘抄和自己写的作文放在每周五晚上。四级真题练习和模拟安排在周二和周四的晚自习时段。阅读和了解热点可以放在平时的娱乐中，比如上网、看电视的时候。以上计划从制定之日起开始执行，到四级考试结束止。

计划实施的地点主要包括教室、自习室、图书馆和宿舍，同时可以运用网络这个虚拟空间进行英语的学习。

“路漫漫其修远兮，吾将上下而求索。”计划已经制定好了，关键在于实施。希望通过真正地贯彻和落实此计划实现预期目标。切不可三天打鱼，两天晒网，忌三分钟热度，戒躁，静心，尽力，成功就在彼岸。

第二篇：20xx年6月大学英语四级考试真题

20xx年6月大学英语四级考试真题

Part 1 Writing (30 minutes)

(请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and them comment on this kind of modern life. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. THIS MODERN LIFE:

WORK HOME PLAY SLEEP

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Part II Listening Comprehension (30minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will bear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each questions there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A),

B),C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet 1 with a single line through the center.

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1. A) He is pleased to sit on the committee C) He will tell the woman his decision later

B) He is willing to offer the woman a hand D) He would like to become a club member

2. A) Their planned trip to Vancouver is obviously overpriced

B) They should borrow a guide book instead of buying one

C ) The guide books in the library have the latest information

D) The library can help order guide books about Vancouver

3. A) He regrets having taken the history course

B) He finds little interests in history books

C) He has trouble finishing his reading assignments

D) He has difficulty in writing the weekly book report

4. A) The man had better choose another restaurant

B) The new restaurant is a perfect place for dating

C) The new restaurant caught her fancy immediately

D) The man has good taste in choosing the restaurant

5. A) He has been looking forward to sping C) He will clean the woman?s boots for spring

C) He has been waiting for the winter sale D) He will help the woman put things away

6. A) At a tailor?s C) In a cloth store

B) At Bob?s home D) In a theatre

7. A) His guests favors Tibetan drinks C) Mineral water is good for health

B) His water is quite extraordinary D) Plain water will serve the purpose

8. A) Report the result of a discussion C) Submit an important documentation

B) Raise some environmental issues D) Revise an environmental report

Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you just heard

9. A) They pollute the soil used to cover them

B) They are harmful to nearby neighborhoods

C) The rubbish in them takes long to dissolve

D) The gas they emit is extremely poisonous

10. A) Growing populations C) Changed eating habits

B) Packaging materials D) Lower production cost

11. A) By saving energy C) By reducing poisonous wastes

B) By using less aluminum D) By making the most of materials

12. A) We are running out of natural resources soon

B) Only combined efforts can make a difference

C) The waste problem will eventually hurt all of us

D) All of us can actually benefit from recycling

Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just

heard.

13. A) Miami C) Bellingham

B) Vancouver D) Boston

14. A) To get information on one-way tickets to Canada

B) To inquire about the price of “Super saver ” seats

C) To get advice on how to fly as cheaply as possible

D) To inquire about the shortest route to drive home

15. A) Join a tourist group C) Avoid trips in public holidays

B) Choose a major airline D) Book tickets as early as possible Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marketed A), B),C) and D). Then marked the correspond letter on Answer sheet I with a single line through the centre.

注意： 此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

Passage one

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16. A) There are mysterious stories behind his works

B) There are many misunderstandings about him

C) His works have no match worldwide

d) His personal history is little known

17. A) He moved to Stratford-on-Avon in his childhood

B) He failed to go beyond grammar school

C) He was a member of the town council

D) He once worked in a well-know acting company

18. A) Writers of his time had no means to protect their works

B) Possible sources of clues about him were lost in a fire

C) His works were adapted beyond recognition

D) People of his time had little interest in him

Passage Two

Questions 19-21 are based on the passage you have just heard

19. A) It shows you have been ignoring your health

B) It can seriously affect your thinking process

C) It is an early warning of some illness

D) It is a symptom of two much pressure

20. A) Reduce our workload C) Use painkillers for relief

B) Control our temper D) Avoid masking symptom

21. A) Lying down and having some sleep C) Going out for a walk

B) Rubbing and pressing one?s back D) Listening to light music Passage Three

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

22. A) Depending heavily on loans C). Spending beyond one?s

means

B) Having no budget plans at all D). Leaving no room for large bills

23. A) Many of them can be cut C) Their payment cannot be delayed

B) All of them have to be covered D) They eat up most of the family income

24. A) Rent a house instead of buying one C) Make a conversation plan

B) Discuss the problem in the family D) Move to a cheaper place

25. A) Financial issues plaguing a family C) Family budget problems and solutions

B) Difficulty in making both ends meet D) New ways to boost family income

Section C

Directions: in this section,you will hear a paasage 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 with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is reaf for the third time, you should check what you have written.

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Perhaps because going to college is so much a part of the American dream, many people go for no(26)_____reason. Some go because their

parents ecpect it, others because it?s what their friends are doing.Then, there?s the belief that a college degree will(27)____ensure a good job and high pay.

Some students (28)____ through for years ,attending classes, or skipping(逃课) them as the case may be, reading only what can?t be avoided, looking for less(29)_____courses,and never being touched or changed in any important way. For a few of these people, college provides no(30)____，yet because of parental or peer pressure, they cannot voluntarily leave. They stop trying in the hope that their teachers will make the decision for them by(31)____ them.

To put it bluntly(直截了当地)，unless you?re willing to make your college years count, you might be(32)_____ doing something else. Not everyone should attend college, nor should everyone who does attend begin right after high school. Many college students(33)_____ taking a year or so off. A year out in the world helps some people to(34)_____their priorities and goals. If you?re really going to get something out of going to college, you have to make it mean something, and to do that you must have some idea why you?re there, what you hope to get out of it, and (35)_____even what you hope to become. Part III Reading Comprehension (40minutes)

Section A

Direction: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are

required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank follwing the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making choices. Each choie in the bank is identificated by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answere Sheet2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Question 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

It?s our guilty pleasure: Watching TV is the most common everyday activity,after work and sleep, in many parts of the world. Americans view five hours of TV each day, and while we know that spending so much time sitting ___36___ can lead to obesity(肥胖症) and other diseases, researchers have now quantified just how___37___being a couch potato can be.

In an analysis of data from eight large ___38___published studies, a Harvard-led group reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that for every two hours per day spent channel ___39___,the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes(糖尿病)rose 20% over 8.5 years, the risk of heart disease increased 15% over a ___40___, and the odds of dying permaturely___41___ 13% during a seven-year follow-up .All of these___42____are linked to a lack of physical exercise. But compared with other sedentary(久坐的)activities, like knitting ,viewing TV may be especially__43___at promoting unhealthy habits. For one, the sheer

number of hours we pass watching TV dwarfs the time we spend on anything else. And other studies have found that watching ads for beer and popcorn may make you more likely to ___44___them.

Even so, the authors admit that they didn?t compare different sedentary activities to ___45___whether TV watching was linked to a greater risk of diabetes,heart disease or clearly death compared with, say, reading.

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A)climbed I)previously

B)conseme J)resume

C)decade K)suffered

D)determine L)suffering

E)effectIve M)term

F)harmful N)terminals

G)outcomes O)twisting

H)passively Section B

Directions: In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attavched to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the question by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2

Essay -granding Software Officers Professors a Break

[A] Imagine taking a college exam, and instead of handing in a blue book and getting a grade from a professoer a few weeks later, clicking the “send” button when you are done and receiving a grade back instantly, your essay scored by a software program. And then, instead of being done with the exam, imagine that the system would immediately let you rewrite the test to try to improve your grade.

[B] Edx,the nonprofit enterprise founded by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Thnology(MIT) to offer courses on the Internet ,has just introduced such a system and will make its automated(自动的)software available free on the Web to any institutioons that wants to use it. The software uses artificial intelligence to grade student essays and short written answers, freeing professors for other tasks.

[C] The new service will bring the educational consortium(联盟)into a growing conflict over the role of the automation education. Altough automated grading systems for multiple-choice and true-false tests are now widespread, the use of artificial intelligence technology to grade essay answers has not yet provided widespread acceptance by educations and has many critics.

[D] Anant Agarwal, an electrical engineer who is president of Edx, predicted that the instant grading software would be a useful teaching

tool,enabling students to take tests and write essays over and over and improve the quality of their answers . He said the technology would offer distinct advantages over the traditional classroom system, where students often wait days or weeks for grades.“Thers is a huge value in learning with instant feedback,” Dr.Agarwal said, “Students are telling us they learn much better with instant feedback.”

[E] But skeptics(怀疑者)say the automated system is no matter for live teachers. One longtime critic, Les Perelman，has drawn national attention several times for putting together nonsense essays that have fooled software grading programs into giving high marks. He has also been highly critical of studies claiming that the software compares well to human grades.

[F] He is among a group of educators who last month began circulating a petition(呼吁) opposing automated assessment software. The group, which calls itself Professionals Against Machine Scoring of Student Essays in High-Stakes Assessment, has collected nearly 2,000 signatures, including some from famous people like Noam Chomsky.

[G] “Let?s face the realities of automatic essay scoring,” the group?s statement reads in part. “Computers cannot ?read?. They cannot measure the essentials of effective written communication: accuracy, reasoning, adequacy of evidence, good sense, ethical (伦理)position, convincing argument, meaningful organization, and clarity, among others.”

[H] But EdX experts its software to be widely by schools and universities. It offers free online classes from Harvard, MIT and the University of California-Berkeley; this fall, it will add classes from Wellesley, Geogetown and the University of Texas. In all, 12 universities participate in EdX, which offers certificates for course completion and has said that it plans to continue to expand next year, including adding international schools.

[I] The EdX assessment tool requires human teachers, or graders 100 essay or essay questions. The system then uses a variety of machine-learning techniques to train itself to be able to grade any number of essays or answers automatically and almost instantly. The software will assign a grade depending on the scoring system created by the teacher, whether it is a letter grade or numerical (数字的) rank.

[J] Edx is not the first to use the automated assessment technology, which dates to early computers in the 1960s. there is now a range of companies offering commercial programs to grade written test answers, and four states — Louisiana, North Dakota, Utah and West Virginia — are using some form of the technology in second schools. A fifth, Indiana, has experimented with it. In some cases the software is used as a “second reader”, to check the reliability of the human graders.

[K] But the growing influence of the Edx consortium to set standards is likely to give the technology a boost. On Tuesday, Stanford

announced that it would work with EdX to develop a joint educational system that will make use of the automated assessment technology.

[L] Two start-ups, Coursera and Udacity, recently founded by Stanford faculty members to create “massive open online courses,” or MOOCs, are also committed to automated assessment systems because of the value of instant feedback. “it allows students to get immediate feedback on their work, so that learning turns into a game, with students naturally gravitating (吸引) to ward resubmitting the work until they get it right, ” said Daphne Koller, a computer scientist and a founder of Coursera.

[M] Last year the Hewlett Foundation, a grant-making organization set up by one of the Hewlett-Packard founders and his wife, sponsored two $100,000 Prizes aimed at improving software that grades essay and short answers. More than 150 teams entered each category. A winner of one of the Hewlett contents, Vik Paruchurt was hired by EdX to help design its assessment software.

[N] “One of our focus is to help kids learn how to think critically,” said Vuchic, a program officer at the Hewlett Foundation. “It?s probably impossible to do that with multiple-choice tests”. The challenge is that this requires human graders, and so they cost a lot more and they take a lot of more time.

[O] Mark D.Shermis, a professor at the University of Akron in Ohio,

supervised the Hewlett Foundation?s contest on automated essay scoring and wrote a paper about the experiment. In his view, the technology — though imperfect — has a place in educational settings.

[P] With increasing large class, it is impossible for most teachers to give students meaningful feedback on writing assignments, he said Plus, he noted, critics of the technology have tended to come from the nation?s best universities, where the level of teaching is much better than at most schools.

[Q] “Often they come from very famous institutions where, in fact, they do a much better job of providing feedback than a machine over could,” Dr. Shermis said. “There seems to be a lack of appreciation of what is actually going on in the real world.”

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46 Some professors in education are collecting signatures to voice their opposition to automated essay grading.

47 using software to grade students? essay saves teachers time for other work.

48 the Hewlett contests aim at improving essay grading software. 49 Though the automated grading system is widely used in multiple-choice tests, automated essay grading is still criticized by many educators.

50 Some people don?t believe the software grading system can do as

good a job as human graders.

51 Critics of automated essay scoring do not seem to know the true realities in leses famous university.

52 Critics argue many important aspects of effective writing cannot measured by computer rating programs.

53 As class size grows, most teachers are unable to give student valuable comments as to how to improve their writing.

54 The automated assessment technology is sometimes used to double check the work of human graders.

55 Students find instant feedback helps their learning considerably. Section C

Directions: There are 2 passages in this 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 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.

Across the rich world, well-educated people increasingly work longer than the less-skilled. Some 65% of American men aged 62-74 with a professional degree are in the workforce, compared with 32% of men with only a high-school certificate. This gap is part of a deepening divide

between the well-education well off and the unskilled poor. Rapid technological advance has raised the incomes of the highly skilled while squeezing those of the unskilled. The consequences, for individual and society, are profound.

The world is facing as astonishing rise in the number of old people, and they will live longer than ever before. Over the next 20 years the global population of those aged 65 or more will almost double, from 600 million to 1.1 billion. The experience of the 20th century, when greater longevity (长寿)translated into more years in retirement rather than more years at work, has persuaded many observers that this shift will lead to slower economic growth, while the swelling ranks of pensioners will create government budget problems.

But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled. Employment rates are falling among younger unskilled people, whereas older skilled folk are working longer. The divide is most extreme in America, where well-educated baby-boomers (二战后生育高峰期出生的美国人) are putting off retirement while many less-skilled younger people have dropped out of the workforce.

That even the better-off must work longer to have a comfortable retirement. But the changing nature of work also plays a big role. Pay has risen sharply for the highly educated, and those people continue to reap

rich rewards into old age because these days the educated elderly are more productive than the preceding generation. Technological change may well reinforce that shift: the skills that complement computers, from management knowhow to creativity. Do not necessarily decline with age. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

56、what is happening in the workforce in rich countries?

A. younger people are replacing the elderly

B. well-educated people tend to work longer

C. unemployment rates are rising year after year

D. people with no college degree do not easily find work

57、what has helped deepen the divide between the well-off and poor?

A. Longer life expectancies

B. Profound changes in the workforce

C. rapid technological advance.

D. A growing number of well-graduated.

58、what do many observers predict in view of the experience of the 20th century?

A. Economic growth will slow down.

B. Government budgets will increase.

C. More people will try to pursue higher education

D. There will be more competition in the job market.

59、What is the result of policy changes in European countries?

A. Unskilled workers may choose to retire early.

B. more people have to receive in-service training.

C. Even wealthy people must work longer to live comfortably in retirement.

D. People may be able to enjoy generous defined-benefits from pension plans.

60、What is characteristic of work in the 21st century?

A. Computers will do more complicated work.

B. More will be taken by the educated young.

C. Most jobs to be done will be creative ones.

D. Skills are highly valued regardless of age. Passage Two Questions 61-65 are based on the following passage.

Some of the world?s most significant problems never hit headlines.One example comes from agriculture. Food riots and hunger make news. But the trend lying behind these matters is rarely talked about. This is the decline in the growth in yields of some of the world?s major crops.A new study by the University of Minnesota and McGill University in Montreal looks at where, and how far, this decline is occurring.

The authors take a vast number of data points for the four most important crops: rice, wheat corn and soybeans(大豆). They find that on between 24% and 39% of all harvested areas, the improvement in yields

that tood place before the 1980s slowed down in the 1990s and 2000s. There are two worrying features of the slowdown. One is that it has been particularly sharp in the world?s most populous(人口多的) countries, India and China. Their ability to feed themselves has been an important source of relative stability both within the countries and on world food markets. That self-sufficiency cannot be taken for granted if yields continue to slow down or reverse.

Second, yield growth has been lower in wheat and rice than in corn and soyabeans. This is problematic because wheat and rice are more important as foods, accounting for around half of all calories consumed. Corn and soyabeans are more important as feed grains. The authors note that “we have preferentially focused our crop improvement efforts on feeding animals and cars rather than on crops that feed people and are the basis of food security in much of the world.”

The report qualifies the more optimistic findings of another new paper which suggests that the world will not have to dig up a lot more land for farming in order to feed 9 billion people in 2050, as the Food and Agriculture Organisation has argued.

Instead, it says, thanks to slowing population growth, land currently ploughted up for crops might be able to revert(回返)to forest or wilderness. This could happen. The trouble is that the forecast assumes continued improvements in yields, which may not actually happen.

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61.What does the author try to draw attention to?

A)Food riots and hunger in the world. C)The decline of the grain yield growth.

B)News headlines in the leading media. D)The food supply in populous countries.

62.Why does the author mention India and China in particular?

A)Their self-sufficiency is vital to the stability of world food markets.

B)Their food yields have begun to decrease sharply in recent years.

C)Their big populations are causing worldwide concerns.

D)Their food self-sufficiency has been taken for granted.

63.What does the new study by the two universities say about recent crop improvement efforts?

A)They fail to produce the same remarkable results as before the 1980s.

B)They contribute a lot to the improvement of human food production.

C)They play a major role in guaranteeing the food security of the world.

D)They focus more on the increase of animal feed than human food grains.

64.What does the Food and Agriculture Organisation say about world food production in the coming decades?

A)The growing population will greatly increase the pressure on world food supplies.

B)The optimistic prediction about food production should be viewed with caution.

C)The slowdown of the growth in yields of major food crops will be reversed.

D)The world will be able to feed its population without increasing farmland.

65.How does the author view the argument of the Food and Agriculture Organisation?

A)It is built on the findings of a new study.

B)It is based on a doubtful assumption.

C)It is backed by strong evidence.

D)It is open to further discussion. Part IV

Translation (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet2.

在西方人心目中，和中国联系最为密切的基本食物是大米。长期以来，大米在中国人的饮食中占据很重要的地位，以至于有谚语说“巧

妇难为无米之炊”。中国南方大多种植水稻，人们通常以大米为主食;而华北大部分地区因为过于寒冷或过于干燥，无法种植水稻，那里的主要作物是小麦。在中国，有些人用面粉做面包，但大多数人用面粉做馒头和面条。

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