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考前2天:09.12英语四级终极模拟Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Competition. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese: 1.竞争使人们充满创造力，使人们更有效率。2.竞争促使生产出更好的产品和提供更优质的服务。3.竞争促进了社会的进一步发展。Key to Model Test ThreePart I Writing【写作思路】要求写一篇关于竞争的议论文。要求从以下几个方面阐述：竞争使人们充满创造力，使人们更有效率；竞争促使生产出更好的产品和提供更优质的服务；竞争促进了社会的进一步发展。【参考范文】CompetitionCompetition makes people more creative and effective. It urges them to plan better, to try harder, and to achieve more. With a desire to excel in their work, people tend to perform more creatively and more efficiently。Competition helps produce better products and provide better services. In the present world of intense competition, every manufacture tries his best to outmatch his competitor by producing goods of better quality at lower costs. As a result, consumers pay less and receive better service。Competition promotes further development of society. If there were no competition, people would remain complacent and be unwilling to make any efforts or risk anything new. However, with fierce competition going on, they exert themselves to accomplish more. Their accomplishment will, in one way or another, contribute to the progress of society。 Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Earthquake Can Scientists Predict Killer Earthquakes?The date was November 23, 1980. People near Naples, in southern Italy, felt the Earth roll and shake. Earthquake! Suddenly buildings came tumbling down. Cracks appeared in the earth. Within minutes, entire towns were destroyed. Thousands of people were dead. Thousands more were injured。As rescuers searched through the rubble, many people must have wondered, of only the victims had known ahead of time, many lives could have been saved。Actually, an Italian scientist did predict that such a quake would happen. In 1977 Dr. M. Caputo of the Universite Degiles Studi i