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常熟理工学院大学英语四级模拟考试试题一 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 注意：此部分在答题卡1上 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 ns on Answer Sheet 1. 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. Bird Flu: Communicating the Risk The recommendations listed below are grounded in two convictions (信念) : that motivating people to start taking bird flu seriously should be a top priority for government health departments, and that risk communication principles provide the best guidance on how to do so. Start where your audience starts. Telling people who believe X that they ought to believe Y naturally provokes resistance. You can’t ignore X and just say YY-Y-Y-Y. You can’t simply tell people they’re wrong. You’ve got to start where they are, with X, and empathically explain why X seems logical, why it’s widely believed, why you used to believe it too . . . and why, surprisingly, Y turns out to be closer to the truth. The biggest barrier to sounding the alarm about bird flu is that it’s flu usually seen as a ho-hum (漠不关心的) disease. It would help if people stopped calling every minor respiratory infection a touch of the flu but that’s not going to happen. Empathy is the only answer. Instead of ignoring the fact that people think flu is minor, or berating people for thinking that flu is minor, acknowledge that even some public health authorities use the term flu in ways that minimize its seriousness. After making common cause with the public—we have all ignored influenza for too long —talk about how horrific the next flu pandemic ( 流行病) may be compared with the annual flu. Don’t be afraid to frighten people. For most of the world right now, though, apathy (漠不关心) is the problem—not denial. We can’t scar