2018英语专四模拟题一及答案解析3

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>>英语专四模拟：2018英语专四模拟题一及答案解析3

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part Ⅲ language usage(10 MIN)

1.____native to North America, corn has now spread all over the world.

A. In spite of B. That it is C. It was D. Although

2. Our civilization cannot be thought of as____in a short period of time.

A. to have been created B. to be created C. having been created D. being created

3. We feel it is high time that the Government ____something to check the inflation.

A. did B. do C.should do D. would do

4. It has been proposed that we____our decision until the next meeting.

A.delayed B.delay C. can delay D. are to delay

5. Hurricanes are severe cyclones with winds over seventyfive miles an

hour ____originate over tropical ocean waters.

A. which B. who C. where D.how to

6.____is announced in the papers, our country has launched a largescale movement against smuggling and fraudulent activities in foreign currency exchange deals.

A. What B. As C. Which D. That

7. All the flights____because of the snowstorm, we had to take the train instead.

A.were canceled B. had been canceled C. having canceled D. having been canceled

8. Once ____, this power station will supply all the neighboring towns and villages with electricity.

A. it being completed B. it completed  C. completed D. it completes

9. He might have been killed ____the timely arrival of the ambulance.

A. but for B. except for C. besides D. except

10. If you have never planted anything, you won’t be able to know the pleasure of watching the thing you have planted ____.

A.grow B. to grow C. growing D. to be growing

11. He did me a ____turn by lending me ten pounds.

A. good B. nice C. fine D. pretty

12. Once our chickens started laying eggs, we had such a ____of eggs that we were giving many away to our neighbors.

A. output B. surplus C. production D. plenty

13. Following are comments about the behavior that people in Korea usually expect in various social ____.

A. occasions B. cases C.situations D. circumstances

14. They have considered their high standard of living a(n)____for practising their basic beliefs.

A. award B. reward C. result D. consequence

15. Mac’s close____to his brother made people mistake them for one another.

A. resemblance B. identity C. appearance D. relationship

16. The thieves____the waste paper all over the room while they were searching for the diamond ring.

A. spread B. scratched C.scattered D. burned

17. The sight of the fruit salad made our daughter Kit’s mouth ____.

A. wet B. water C. soak D. taste

18. The____problem of bring a spaceship back from the moon has been solved.

A. technical B. technological C. technique D. technology

19. A large part of a person’s memory is____words and combination of words.

A.by means of B. in terms of  C. in connection with D. by way of

20. At her word she stood up and walked away, stopping at the window to pull back the curtain and ____.

A.look round B. look out C. look up D. look on

part Ⅳ cloze(10 MIN)

ALTHOUGH he is still (1) things up at Dell, an ailing computer-maker, Carl Icahn has found time to tilt at another tech titan. On August 13th the veteran shareholder activist (2) that he had built up a stake in Apple, though he stayed mum about exactly how many shares he had bought. Mr Icahn’s intentions, however, are crystal clear: he wants the consumer-electronics behemoth to expand plans to return some of its whopping $147 billion of cash and marketable securities to shareholders.

Mr Icahn is also after more money at Dell, where he has been lobbying with allies against a (3) buy-out plan put forward by Michael Dell, the firm’s founder, and Silver Lake, a private-equity firm. His pressing has already forced the buy-out group to raise its initial offer by over $350m, to $24.8 billion and he has taken his (4) to the courts in a bid to extract an even higher price.

Other tech firms have been attracting the attention of activist investors too. Earlier this year Value Act Capital, an investment fund, said it had built up a $2 billion stake in Microsoft. Jaguar Financial, a Canadian bank, has been (5) fresh thinking at troubled BlackBerry, which announced on August 12th that it is exploring various (6) options, including alliances and a possible sale. And Elliott Management, a hedge fund, has been lobbying for change at Net App, a data-storage firm that it thinks could do more to improve returns to (7).

One reason tech firms have found themselves in activists’ crosshairs is that, like Apple, some built up big cash piles during the economic downturn and have been slow to use the money. Financiers hope to get them to loosen their purse-strings faster and to pocket some of the cash. Mr Icahn wants Apple to increase and (8) a share buy-back programme that is currently set to return $60 billion to shareholders by the end of 2015.

Another reason that tech firms make tempting targets for shareholder activists is that swift changes in technologies can trip up even the mightiest. Witness the case of Microsoft, which ruled the roost during the personal-computer era but has struggled to adapt to a world in which tablets and smartphones are all the rage. Investors hope to mint money by pushing companies to change more rapidly in response to such upheavals in their markets.

The rewards can be substantial. Egged on by Third Point, an activist hedge fund, Yahoo (9) Marissa Mayer as its new chief executive in July 2012. By the time she celebrated a year in the job last month, the troubled web giant’s share price had risen by over 70%. In July the hedge fund sold a big chunk of shares back to Yahoo. Mr Icahn thinks Apple’s share price, which closed at $499 on August 14th, could soar too if the firm follows his advice on buy-backs. He tweeted this week that he had had a “nice (10)” with Tim Cook, Apple’s boss, about his idea, though he did not say what Mr Cook thought of it. If Apple drags its feet, expect things to turn nasty.

A) shareholders

B) strategic

C) communication

D) battle

E) conversation

F) encouraging

G) exciting

H) stirring

I) appointed

J) race

K) revealed

L) method