大学英语(A)模拟试卷及答案2011Test04.doc

全国高校网络教育公共基础课统一考试 大学英语（A）模拟试卷（2010年修订版） Test 4 （根据全国高校网络教育考试委员会2011年1月新颁考试大纲和题型进行了相应调整） Information for the Examinees: This examination consists of FOUR parts. They are: Part Ⅰ: Reading Comprehension (30 points, 25 minutes) Part Ⅱ: Vocabulary and Grammar (30 points, 25 minutes) Part Ⅲ: Translation (20 points, 10 minutes) Part IV: Writing (20 points, 30 minutes) The total marks for this examination is 100 points. Time allowed for completing this examination is 90 minutes). Section I: Reading Comprehension [30 points] Instructions: ???????? This section will take approximately 25 minutes. ???????? There are TWO sections in this part. Part 1: Questions 1-5 are based on this part. (15 points) Read the following passage and choose the best answer from A, B, C and D. There’s a great story about an old Finnish woman who, without quite realizing it, was using her cell-phone to access the Internet and track her city’s public transit system. When asked why she used the wireless Internet so frequently, she replied, “What are you talking about? I don’t know anything about this wireless Internet stuff. I just know the bus is here.” Regardless of whether you want to admit it, a lot of us are like that old Finnish woman. When it comes to new mobile applications, many of us do not realize the capability and power that we hold, literally, in hour hands. What we are looking at today is the mobile Internet in its infancy. Now that using the Internet from home or work has saturated much of society, the next logical step is to be able to use the Net when you are far away from your desktop or laptop. Speech recognition is one way to do this, and there are a number of services, collectively called the “voice web”, that will make this possible. All you do is use a phone or wireless device to call a phone number, and speak commands to an intuitive system. It will then give you the information you’re seeking, using either a synthesized voice or an audio file. In the Unit