2021年度四川大学英语考试考前冲刺卷（3）新整理版.doc

四川大学英语考试考前冲刺卷（3） 本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。 严格遵守考试纪律，维护考试秩序！ 一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1. {{B}}Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.{{/B}} A．Men need not do the job.B．Men can also do the job as well as women.C．Men should not do the job.D．Men can not do the job. 参考答案：B[听力原文] What does Tom mean by saying Why not men [听前预测] 四个选项均为陈述句，而且都是以“Men”开头，推测本题是考查男性观点或看法。[答案详解] 语意理解题[考频：3]。文章最后举了个例子，Tony的女友在生下孩子之后就消失了，因此他就担负起了抚养孩子的任务，因此男人也能跟女人一样抚养孩子。故正确答案为B)。 2. {{B}}How to Retire Earlier{{/B}}It’s every working staff’s dream: saying goodbye to the daily grind while you still have your own teeth. In our early retirement fantasies, we’re traveling the world, healthy and in the prime of our lives, visiting those hard-to-pronounce countries we’ve always talked about and sampling the finest local fare.{{B}}Retirement-related Problems{{/B}}Surveys show that more than half of workers between the ages of 30 and 50 plan to retire before they’re 60. But there’s only one problem with this wishful thinking: Retiring early is easy, but making your money last is hard.One problem with saving up for early retirement is that we tend not to think beyond those first few glorious years of good health and full checking accounts—we don’t do the long-term math. If the average male life expectancy is 75.2 and we retire at 55, then our savings, and stock market investments need to last for 20 years. And what if we live even longer than average And don’t forget that life can get tricky during those last five or ten years. Very few fortunate souls drift away in their sleep at age 88 without ever having major surgeries, hospitalizations or chronic (and ex- pensive) conditions to manage—not to mention the ever-increasing costs of medical insurance and prescription drugs.While we tend to overestimate our health, we underestimate our post-retirement financial needs. A 2002 survey found that only 17 percent of workers thought they’d need 80 percent of