2000年英语专业四级真题解析听力原文

2000年英语专业四级真题解析听力原文内容摘要：

t modem work of munications is open to abuse. However, the mass media are with us 66. In the first paragraph the writer emphasizes the___ of facet oface contact in A. nature B. limitation C. usefulness 67. A. B. C. D. international news is the fastest transmitted 68. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? A. 2020 年英语专业四级真题 +解析 +听力原文 大家学习网 B. C. D. Information influen 69. A. B. C. pessimistic about the fut D. The men and women of AngloSaxon England normally bore one name only. Distinguishing epithets were rarely added. These might be patronymic, descriptive or occupational. They were, however, hardly surnames. Heritable names gradually became general in the three centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066. It was not until the 13th and 14th centuries that surnames became fixed, although for many years after that, the degree of stability in family names varied considerably in different parts of the country. British surnames fall mainly into four broad categories: patronymic, occupational, descriptive and local. A few names, it is true, will remain puzzling: foreign names, over fifty per cent of genuine British surnames derive from place names of different kinds, and so they belong to the last of our four main categories. Even such a name as Simpson may belong to this last group, and not to the first, had the family once had its home in the ancient village of that name. Otherwise, Simpson means “the son of Simon”, as might be expected. Hundreds of occupational surnames are at once familiar to us, or at least recognizable after a little thought: Archer, Carter, Fisher, Mason, Thatcher, Taylor, to name but a few. Hundreds of others are more obscure in their meanings and testify to the amazing specialization in medieval arts, crafts and functions. Such are “Day”, (Old English for breadmaker) and “Walker” (a fuller whose job it was to clean and All these vocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity, which descriptive names often lack. Some, it is true, like “Long”, “Short” or “Little”, are simple. They may be taken quite literally. Others require more thinking: their meanings are slightly different from the modem ones. “Black” and “White” implied dark and fair respectively. “Sharp” meant genuinely discerning, alert, acute rather than quickwitted or clever. names have a lasting interest since there is hardly a town or village in all England that has not at some time given its name to a family. They may be picturesque, even poetical。 or they may be pedestrian, even trivial. 2020 年英语专业四级真题 +解析 +听力原文 大家学习网 Among the moner names which survive with relatively little change from oldEnglish times ar 70. Surnames are said to be ___ in Anglo A. mon B. vocational C. unusual D. descriptiv 71. We learn from the first paragraph ___ for many years after the 13th and 14th A. B. C. D. 72. “Patronymic” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to “formed from A. the name of one‟s father” B. one‟s family home” D. 73. A. B. C. Vocational names carry with them a certain gravit D. TEXT C Since the early 1930s, Swiss banks had prided themselves on their system of banking secrecy and numbered accounts. Over the years, they had successfully withstood every challenge to this system by their own government who, in turn, had been frequently urged by foreign governments to reveal information about the financial affairs to certain account holders. The result of this policy of secrecy was that a kind of mystique had grown up around Swiss banking. There was a widelyheld belief that Switzerland was irresistible to wealthy foreigners, mainly because of its numbered accounts and bankers‟ reluctance to ask awkward questions of depositors. Contributing to the mystique was the view, carefully propagated by the banks themselves, that if this secrecy was ever given up, foreigners would fall over themselves in the rush to withdraw money, and the Swiss banking system would To many, therefore, it came like a bolt out of the blue, when, in 1977, the Swiss banks announced they had signed a pact with the Swiss National Bank (the Central Bank). The aim of the agreement was to prevent to improper use of the country‟s bank secrecy laws, and its effect was to curb severely the system of se 2020 年英语专业四级真题 +解析 +听力原文 大家学习网 The rules which the banks had agreed to observe made the opening of numbered accounts subject to much closer scrutiny than before. The banks would be required, if necessary, to identify the origin of foreign funds going into numbered and other accounts. The idea was to stop such accounts being used for dubious purposes. Also The pact represented essentially a tightening up of banking rules. Although the banks agreed to end relations with clients whose identities were unclear or who were performing improper acts, they were still not obliged to inform on a client to anyone, including the Swiss government. To some extent, therefore, the principle of secrecy had been maintained. 74. A. B. C. D. 75. According to the passage, the widelyheld belief that Switzerland w as A. denied B. criticized C. reviewed D. 76. A. plete changes h B. C. D. TEXT D Coketown was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and the ashes had allowed it。 but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out o。