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2004年英语专业四级考试试卷真题及答案(3)
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19.How did the lawyer defend for the journalist? 
A. He was an American journalist.    
B. He worked for a British newspaper. 
C. His story was published elsewhere.    
D. Foreigners are not subject to local laws. 

Questions 20 and 21 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. 

Now listen to the news. 

20.Afghanistan’s first match will be against ____. 
A. Mongolia.   B. South Korea.   C. Iran.   D. Qatar. 

21.Which of the following statements is NOT true? 
A. The announcement was made by AFA. 
B. Afghanistan was a founding member of AFC. 
C. Afghanistan had been in chaos  for long. 
D. The football player were under 23. 

Question 22 and 23 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 

Now listen to the news. 

22.The expected life-span of Beijing residents has gone up by ____ compared with that a decade earlier. 
A. 1.5 years    B. 1.4 years   C. 1.2 years   D. 1.1 years 
23.The ____ mortality rate had gone up greatly during the past 10 years. 
A. infant   B. maternal   C. male   D. middle-aged 

Questions 24 and 25 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. 

Now listen to the news. 

24.According to Pakistan’s President, the chances of the two countries going to war were ____. 
A. great   B. small   C. growing   D. greater than before 

25.Recent tensions between the two countries were a direct result of ____. 
A. their border conflicts   B. their military build-up 
C. killings in the two countries   D. their mutual distrust 

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Part Ⅳ CLOZE   [15 MIN.] 

Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your answer sheet. 

The normal human daily cycle of activity is of some 7-8 hours’ sleep alternation with some 16-17 hours’ wakefulness and that the sleep normally coincides(26) ____ the hours of darkness. Our present concern is with how easily and to what extent this(27)____ can be modified. 

The question is no mere academic one. The ease with which people can change from working in the day to working at night is a(28)____ of growing importance in industry where automation(29)____ round-the-clock working of machines. It normally(30)____ from five days to one week for a person to adapt to a(31)____ routine of sleep and wakefulness, sleeping during the day and working at night. (32)____, it is often the case in industry that shifts are changed every week. This means that no sooner has he got used to one routine(33)____ he has to change to another, (34)____ much of his time is spent neither working nor sleeping very(35) ____. 

One answer would seem to be(36)____ periods on each shift, a month, or even three months. (37)____, recent research has shown that people on such systems will revert to go back to their(38)____ habits of sleep and wakefulness during the week-end and that this is quite enough to destroy any(39)____ to night work built up during the week. The only real solution appears to be to hand over the night shift to those permanent night workers whose(40)____ may persist through all week-ends and holidays. 

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