某大学---20xx年9月cet-4a真题(编辑修改稿)

某大学---20xx年9月cet-4a真题(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

e as popular in five years39。 time as they are now D) in five people will fet about the degree the MBA graduates have got 28. According to Scheetz39。 s statement (Lines 45. Para. 4), panies prefer ________. A) people who have a strategic mind B) people who are talented in fine arts C) people who are ambitious and aggressive D) people who have received training in mechanics 29. David Birch claims that he only hires liberalarts people because ________. A) they are more capable of handling changing situations B) they can stick to established ways of solving problems C) they are thoroughly trained in a variety of specialized fields D) they have attended special programs in management 30. Which of the following statements does the author support? A) Specialists are more expensive to hire than generalists. B) Formal schooling is less important than job training. C) Onthejob training is, in the long run, less costly. D) Generalists will outdo specialists in management. Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table, I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked: So, how have you been? And the boy— who could not have been more than seven or eight years old — replied. Frankly, I39。 ve been feeling a little depressed lately.39。 39。 This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were “depressed” until we were in high school. The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to. Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists, Why? Human development is based not only on innate (天生的 ) biological states, but also on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from one social rote to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new status. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages: traditio nally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders. In the last 30 years. however, a secretrevelation (揭示 ) machine has been installed in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television, Television passes information, and indiscriminately (不加区分地 ), to all viewers alike, be they children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures. Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information to which children have access. Reading and writing involve a plex code of symbols that must be memorized and practices. Children must read simple books before they can read plex mate rials. 31. According to the author, feeling depressed is ________. A) a sure sign of a psychological problem in a child B) something hardly to be expected in a young child C) an inevitable has of children39。 s mental development D) a mental scale present in all humans, including children 32. Traditionally, a child is supposed to learn about the adult world ________. A) through contact with society C) naturally and by biological instinct B) gradually and under guidance D)through exposure to social information 33. The phenomenon that today’s children seem adultiike is attributed by the author to ________. A) the widespread influence of television B) the poor arrangement of teaching content C) the fast pace of human intellectual development D) the constantly rising standard of living 34. Why is the author in favor of munication through print for children? A) It enables children to gain more social information. B) It develops children39。 s interest in reading and writing. C) It helps children to memorize and practice more. D) It can control what children are to learn. 35. What does the author think of the change in today’s children? A) He feels amused by chair premature behavior. B) He thinks it is a phenomenon worthy of note. C) He considers it a positive development. D) He seems to be upset about it. Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. Opinion is a word that is used carelessly today. It is used to refer to matters of taste, belief, and judgment. This casual use would probably cause little confusion if people didn’t attach too much importance to opinion. Unfortunately, most to attach great importance to it. I have as much right to my opinion as you to yours, 39。 39。 and 39。 39。 Everyone’s entitled to his opinion, 39。 39。 are mon expressions. In fact, anyone who would challenge another39。 s opinion is likely to be branded intolerant. Is that label accurate? Is it intolerant to challenge another39。 s opinion? It depends on what definition of opinion you have in mind. For example, you may ask a friend 39。 39。 What do you think of the new Ford cars? And he may reply, In my opinion, they39。 re ugly. In this case, it would not only be intolerant to challenge his statement, but foolish. For it39。 s obvious that by opinion he means his personal preference, a matter of taste. And as the old saying goes, 39。 39。 It39。 s pointless to argue about matters of taste. But consider this very different use of the term, A newspaper reports that the Supreme Court has delivered its opinion in a controversial case. Obviously the justices did not shale their personal preferences, their mere likes and dislikes, They stated their considered judgment, painstakingly arriv。