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　 2009年12月份英语四级试题及答案 Part IWriting(30 minutes) 　　Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Should Smoking Be Completely Banned. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese: 　　1. 有人赞同完全禁止吸烟，理由是…… 　　2. 有人不赞同完全禁止吸烟，理由是…… 　　3. 我的看法。 　　Should Smoking Be Completely Banned 　　Part IIReading 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 Sheet 1. 　　For questions 1-7, mark 　　Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; 　　N (for NO)if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; 　　NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 　　For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. 　　Space 　　Our Future in Space: It Has Already Begun! 　　We are all space travelers. But we’ve stayed close to home until now. One day, we may leave our “mothership” Earth to make our home among the stars. 　　A giant, spherical “spaceship”, about 8,000 miles in diameter, is speeding through the solar system right now. It is cruising at an incredible 66,600 miles per hour. 　　It’s not a giant, Star Wars mother-ship. It’s spaceship Earth, the home of over four billion people. This watercoated spaceship has been traveling through the universe for about five billion years. Only within the past 25 years, however, have some of its passengers broken free of Earth’s gravity. 　　But 25 years from now, many people, including you, might live in an orbiting space station 200 miles above the Earth. 　　Space Cities 　　Scientists have already designed special space factories. These factories will take advantage of the absence of gravity (zero gravity) to produce everything from life-saving drugs to perfect ball bearings. 　　Other scientists have designed space colonies, complete with farms, schools, and artifici