2015年12月英语四级模拟题及答案(3)

　　Questions61-65are based on the followingpassage.

　　Language is, and should be, a livingthing, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expression. Butthere isa vital distinction between good developments, which add to the language,enabling us to say things wecould not say before, and bad developments, whichsubtract from the language by rendering it less precise. Avivacious, colorfuluse of words is not to be confused with mere slovenliness. The kind ofslovenliness in whichsome professionals deliberately indulge is perhaps akin tothe cult ( 迷信. of theunfinished work, which haseroded most of the arts in our time. And the trueanswer to it is the same that art is enhanced, not hindered, bydiscipline. Youcannot carve satisfactorily in butter.

　　The corruption of written English hasbeen accompanied by an even sharper decline in the standard of spoken

　　English. We speak very much less well than wascommon among educated Englishmen a generation or two ago.

　　The modem theatre has played a baneful (有害的) part in dimming our appreciation oflanguage. Instead ofthe immensely articulate dialogue of, for example, Shaw(who was also very insistent on good pronunciation.,audiences are now subjectedto streams of barely literate trivia, often designed, only too well, toexhibit'laek ofcommunication', and larded (夹杂. with theobscenities (下流的话. and grammatical errors of theintellectually impoverished. Emily Post once advised her readers: "Thetheatre is the best possible place to hear correctly-enunciated speech. "Alas, no more. One young actress was recently reported to be taking lessons inhow to speakbadly, so that she should fit in better.

　　But the BBC is the worst traitor. Aideryears of very successfully helping to raise the general standard ofspokenEnglish, it suddenly went into reverse. As the head of the Pronunciation Unitcoyly (含蓄地. put it, "In the1960s the BBC opened thefield to a much wider range of speakers." To hear a BBC disc jockeytalking to thelatest ape-like pop idol is a truly shocking experience of verbalsqualor. And the prospect seems to be of evenworse to come. School teachers areactively encouraged to ignore little Johnny's incoherent grammar,atrociousspelling and haphazard punctuation, because worrying about such thingsmight inhibit his creative genius.

　　61、The writer relateslinguistic slovenliness to tendencies in the arts today in that they both_________

　　A.occasionally aim at acertain fluidity

　　B.appear to shunperfection

　　C.from time to time showregard for the finishing touch

　　D.make use of economical shortcuts

　　62、"Art is enhanced, nothindered, by discipline" (Lines 6-7, Paragraph 1 ) means_________

　　A.an artist's work will befiner if he observes certain aesthetic standards

　　B.an unfinished work is boundto be comparatively inferior

　　C.the skill of certain artistsconceals their slovenliness

　　D.artistic expression isinhibited by too many rules

　　63、Many modem plays, theauthor finds, frequently contain speech which _________

　　A.is incoherent andlinguistically objectionable

　　B.is far too ungrammatical formost people to follow

　　C.unintentionally shocks theaudience

　　D.tries to hide the author'sintellectual inadequacies

　　64、The author says that thestandard of the spoken English of BBC _________

　　A.is the worst among allbroadcasting networks

　　B.has taken a turn for theworse since the 1960s

　　C.has raised English-speakingup to a new level

　　D.is terrible because of a fewpopular disc jockeys

　　65、Teachers are likely tooverlook the linguistic lapses in their pupils since_________

　　A.they find that children nolonger respond to this kind of discipline nowadays

　　B.they fear the children maybecome less coherent

　　C.more importance is nowattached to oral expression

　　D.the children may bediscouraged from expressing their ideas

　　Part IV Translation.(30minutes)

　　66、中国的传统节庆膳食是节日必不可少的伴侣。例如，我国的端午节(theDragonBoatFestival)是纪念古代诗人屈原的日子。那一天，人们通常要赛龙舟、吃粽子(zongzi)。中秋节是观赏满月的日子。圆圆的月亮象征着圆满，象征着家庭团聚。因此，中秋节(T11e Mid.auttunn Festival)的特制食品是一种圆形的月饼。春节是中国的农历新年(the Chinese lunar New Year's holiday)，除了常见的家禽和肉类之外，人们还要按各自的也方习俗烹制传统食物，如饺子和年糕。