2011英语四级模拟试卷及答案解析(7)

One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from "Smoot State University". The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the "University of Purdue". As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
　　57. The main idea of this passage is that ________ .
　　[A] employers are checking more closely on applicants now
　　[B] lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem
　　[C] college degrees can now be purchased easily
　　[D] employers are no longer interested in college degrees
　　58. According to the passage, "special cases" refers to cases that ________.
　　[A] students attend a school only part-time
　　[B] students never attended a school they listed on their application
　　[C] students purchase false degrees from commercial firms
　　[D] students attended a famous school采集者退散
　　59. We can infer from the passage that ________ .
　　[A] performance is a better judge of ability than a college degree
　　[B] experience is the best teacher
　　[C] past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees do
　　[D] a degree from a famous school enables an applicant to gain advantage over others in job competition
　　60. This passage implies that ________ .
　　[A] buying a false degree is not moral
　　[B] personnel officers only consider applicants from famous schools
　　[C] most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from school
　　[D] society should be greatly responsible for lying on applications
　　61. The word "phony" (Line 13, Para. 2) means ________ .
　　[A] thorough [C] false
　　[B] ultimate [D] decisive
　　Passage Two
　　Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
　　Material culture refers to what can be seen, held, felt, used—what a culture produces. Examining a culture’s tools and technology can tell us about the group’s history and way of life. Similarly, research into the material culture of music can help us to understand the music culture. The most vivid body of material culture in it, of course, is musical instruments. We cannot hear for ourselves the actual sound of any musical performance before the 1870s when the phonograph was invented, so we rely on instruments for important information about music cultures in the remote past and their development. Here we have two kinds of evidence: instruments well preserved and instruments pictured in art. Through the study of instruments, as well as paintings, written documents, and so on, we can explore the movement of music from the Near East to China over a thousand years ago, or we can outline the spread of Near Eastern influence to Europe that resulted in the development of most of the instruments in the symphony orchestra.