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2010年12月英语四级考试模拟试题及答案(1) 　　Part I Writing (30 minutes) 　　Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: To Be a Small Fish in a Big Pond or a Big Fish in a Small Pond? You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese: 　　1. 在大企业工作的特点 　　2. 在小企业工作的特点 　　3. 我的选择 　　To Be a Small Fish in a Big Pond or a Big Fish in a Small Pond? 　　Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15minutes) 　 　　To Save Trees, Fighting One Alien Insect with Others 　　Rusty rhea sighs wistfully as he talks about the beauty and peace of standing amid a grove (小树林) of deep green hemlocks in Appalachia, some of them up to 160 feet (50 meters) tall and more than 500 years old. 　　This is a very special tree, said Rhea, an entomologist for the U.S. Forest Services Forest Health Protection program in Asheville, 　　The evergreen trees, a hallmark of southern Appalachias national parks, are under attack by an invasive inse4ct barely visible to the eye but potent enough to fell the giants of the eastern United States old-growth forests. 　　Already the tiny bug from Japan, known as the hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), has killed upward of 95 percent of the hemlocks in Virginias Shenandoah National Park. Now they are making their way through the half-million-plus-acre (200,000-plus-hectare) Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and 　　The hemlocks shade streams, keeping water temperatures just right for brook trout (鲑鱼) and other fish. They also house birds such as the black-throated green warbler, solitary vireo, and northern goshawk, all three of which mainly shelter in stands of hemlock trees. 　　Because of the insects broad impact on the entire ecosystem of southern Appalachia, HWA stands to cause wider damage than the American chestnut blight (枯萎病)of the early 1900s. That fungus from Europe killed off the once dominant chestnut trees from the northeast United States to the southern Appalachian Mountains. 　　In