2012大学英语四级考试52012大学英语四级考试5.doc

大学英语四级考试 标准预测试卷 CET-4 Model Test Five Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a poster about a new playlet Romeo and Juliet. You should write at least 120 words and base your composition on the outline given below. Outline:学校社团近期将推出一场英文短剧，是根据莎士比亚的著名悲剧《罗密欧与朱丽叶》（Romeo and Juliet）改编的。该剧将在下周与师生见面。 海报要点如下：该剧具有新意很值得一看。所有参与人员均由学生担任。 演出时间：5月15日下午3点。 地点：音乐厅。 届时将请所有观众评选出最佳演员。加入你的看法与最终评选结果一致，您将获得意外惊喜。请大家积极参与。 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer SheetⅠ. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. A Brief History of Online Shopping When A opened for business 15 years ago, it was nothing more than a few people packing and shipping boxes of books from a two-car garage in Bellevue, Wash. Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, had left New York City for the Pacific Northwest, using some of his time on the road to write the company’s business plan. Books were packed on a table made out of an extra door they found lying in the new home—a practice the company continues today in spirit by making many of the office’s desks out of doors. Now, on its 15th anniversary, Amazon can raise a toast to being one of the largest online retailers in the world, selling everything from trumpets and golf carts to dishwashers and clothes. Despite the economic recession, online retail in the U.S. grew 11% last year, according to a report released this March from Forrester Research. More than 150 million people—about two-thirds of all Internet users in the U.S.—bought something online last year. It’s a staggering leap for an industry used by 27% of the nation’s online population a decade a