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公共英语二级考试(模拟试题一)(4)

公共英语等级考试   点击:次   发布时间:2006-8-9   【字体: 】   来源:Gzu521.com
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their art is governed by the cold of their surroundings, forcing them to say little but listen attentively.
ambrose started the festival in 1993, after several years of working with those reviving(coming back into use or existence)storytelling in wales.
"it came out of a group of people who wanted to reconnect with traditions and as all the welsh are storytellers, it was in good hands here." ambrose said.
61. ambrose believes that the art of storytelling.
[a] will be more popular than tv
[b] will be popular again
[c] started in wales
[d] are in the hands of some old people
62. from the tales told by the inuit, people can learn.
[a] about their life as early as thousands of years ago
[b] why they tell the stories in a throatsinging way
[c] how cold it has been where the inuit live
[d] how difficult it is to understand the inuit
63. according to the writer, which of the following is not true?
[a] storytelling once stopped in wales.
[b] storytelling has a long history in wales.
[c] storytelling is always well received in wales.
[d] storytelling did not come back until 1993 in wales.
64. the underlined phrase in good hands means.
[a] controlled by rich people
[b] grasped by good storytellers
[c] taken good care of
[d] protected by kind people
c
greek soldiers sent messages by turning their shields(盾)toward the sun. the flashes reflected light could be seen several miles away. the enemy did not know what the flashes meant, but other greek soldiers could understand the messages.
roman soldiers in some places built long rows of signal towers. when they had a message to send, the soldiers shouted it from tower to tower. if there were enough towers and enough soldiers with loud voices, important news could be sent quickly over distance.
in africa, people learned to send messages by beating on a series of large drums(鼓). each drum was kept within hearing distance of the next one. the drum beats were sent out in a special way that all the drummers understood. though the messages were simple, they could be sent at great speed for hundreds of miles.
in the eighteenth century, a french engineer found a new way to send short messages. in this way, a person held a flag in each hand and the arms were moved to various positions representing different letters of the alphabet. it was like spelling out words with flags and arms.
over a long period of time, people sent messages by all these different ways. however, not until the telephone was invented in america in the nineteenth century could people send speech sounds over a great distance in just a few seconds.
65. according to this passage, the roman way of communication depended very much upon .
[a] fine weather
[b] high tower
[c] the spelling system
[d] arm movements
66. which of the following statements is true?
[a] neither the greek soldiers nor their enemy could understand the message.
[b] african soldiers shouted from tower to tower to pass message.
[c] telephone was invented by a french engineer.
[d] only by using telephone could people send speech sounds quickly.
67. the african way of communication sent messages.
[a] in a special way
[b] over a very short distance
[c] by a musical instrument
[d] at a rather slow speed
68. the way of communication made use of visible signs.
[a] french
[b] roman
[c] african
[d] american
d
because we can feel that things are heavy, we think of weight as being a fixed quality in an object, but it is not really fixed at all. if you could take a onepound packet of butter 4, 000 miles out from the earth, it would weigh only a quarter of a pound.

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