Bbpprzu大学英语四级新题型考试预测试卷4
5 -29 plans include investment accounts that increase or decrease in value with the
investments they contain. Families must decide how they want to put money into stocks, or other investments.
Another kind of 5 - 29 plan lets parents begin to pay for their child s education in and long before their child starts college. This kind of savings program is called a prepaid tuition plan. The money goes into an account to pay for an education at a public college or university in the family s home state.
A) aggressively F) consumes K) free
B) estimates G ) costly
C) offer H) decline
D) automatically I) advise
E) rate J) capable L) majority M) advance N) governing O) general
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passages is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C), D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passages.
Most shoplifters agree that the January sales offer wonderful opportunities for the
hard-working thief. With the shops so crowded and the staff so busy, it does not require any
extraordinary talent to help yourself to one or two little things and escape unnoticed. It is known, in the business, as "hoisting".
But the hoisting game is not what it used to be. Even at the height of the sales, shoplifters today never know if they are being watched by one of those evil little balls that hang from the ceilings of so many department stores above the most desirable goods.
As if that was not trouble enough for them, they can now be filmed at work and obliged to attend a showing of their performance in court.
Selfridges was the first big London store to install closed-circuit video-tape equipment to watch its sales floors. In October last year the store won its first court case for shoplifting using as evidence a videotape clearly showing a couple stealing dresses. It was an important test case which encouraged other stores to install similar equipment.
When the balls, called sputniks, first make an appearance in shops it was widely believed that their only function was to frighten shoplifters. Their somewhat ridiculous appearance, the curious holes and red lights going on and off, certainly make the theory believable.
It did not take long, however, for serious shoplifters to start showing suitable respect. Soon after the equipment was in operation at Selfridges, store detective Brian Chadwick was sitting in the control room watching a woman secretly putting bottles of perfume into her bag.
"As she turned to go," Chadwick recalled, "she suddenly looked up at the sputnik and stopped. She could not possibly have seen that the camera was trained on her because it is completely hidden, but she must have had a feeling that I was looking at her.
"For a moment she paused, but then she returned to counter and started putting everything back. When she had finished, she opened her bag towards the camera to show it was empty and hurried
Bbpprzu大学英语四级新题型考试预测试卷4
out of the store.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
57. January is a good month for shoplifters because --
A) they don t need to wait for staff to serve Them
B) they don t need any previous experience as thieves
C) there are so many people in the store
D) there are more goods in the shops
58. The spumiks hanging from the ceiling are intended
A) as an amusing kind of decoration
B) to make films That can be used in evidence
C) to frighten shoplifters by their appearance
D) to be used as evidence against shoplifters
59. The case last October was important because --
A) the store got the dresses back
B) it repaid the investment on the equipment
C) other shops found out about the equipment
D) the kind of evidence supplied was accepted
60. The woman stealing perfume
A) guessed what the sputniks were for B) was frightened by its shape
C) could see the camera filming her r D) knew that the detective had seen her
61. The woman s action before leaving the store shows that she
A) was sorry for what she had done
B) was afraid she would be arrested
C) decided she didn t want what she had picked up
D) wanted to prove she had not intended to steal anything
Passage Two
Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
In a recent article, mathematician Aczel argues convincingly that the number of planets
suitable for life is extremely large. There are about 300 billion stars in our galaxy (银河系 ) and possibly 100 billion galaxies in the universe. Some may quarrel with Aczel s claim that as many as half of these stars can be presumed to have planets, and that on average one in nine of those planets is suitable for life; but few, I think, will disagree with his conclusion that there are a very large number of planets suitable for life.