2000年1月大学英语四级考试真题与答案_第11页

Sections B
　　Passage one
　　Paul, a salesman from London, was driving past a sports car parked outside a supemarket, when he saw it start to rool slowly down the hill. Inside the car were two young girls on the passenger seat - but no driver Paul stpped quickly, jumped in front of the sports car and tried to stop it, pushing against the fron t of the car. Another man who was standing nearby got into the car and put on th e handbrake, saving the girls from injury.
　　It was at this point that Paul noticed his own car rolling slowly down the hill and going too fast for him to stop it. It crashed into a bus at the bottom of the hill and was so badly damaged that it had to be pulled away to a garage.
　　As if this was not bad enough, Paul now found he had no one to blame. He was so busy chasing his car that he didn't get the name of the driver of the sports car, who just came out of the supermarket and drove away without realizing what had happened.
　　11. Which car was badly damaged?
　　12. Where was the driver of the sports car when the accident happened?
　　13. Who did Paul think was to blame for the accident?
　　14. Who was injured in the accident?
　　Passage Two
　　My friend, Vemon Davies kept birds. One day he phoned and told me he was going away for a week. He asked me to feed the birds for him and said that he would leave the key to his front door in my mailbox.
　　Unfortunately, I forgot all about the birds until the night before Vemon was going to return. What was worse, it was already dark when I arrived at his hous e. I soon found the key Vernon gave me could not unlock either the front door or the back door. I was getting desperate. I kept thinking of what Vemon would say when he came back.
　　I was just going to give up when I noticed that one bedroom window was slightly open. I found a barrel and pushed it under the window. As the barrel was ver y heavy, I made a lot of noise. But in the end, I managed to climbe up and open the window.
　　I actually had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realized that someone was shining a torch up at me. I looked down and saw a policemna and an old lady, one of Verno's neighbours. "What are you doing up there?" said the policeman. Feeling lise a complete fool, I replied, "I was just going to feed Mr. Davies's birds."
　　15. Why couldn't the man open the door?
　　16. Why did the man feel desperate
　　17. Why did the man feel like a fool?
　　Passage Three
　　When Iragi troops blew up hundreds of Kuwaiti oil well at the end of Gulf War, scientists feared environmental disaster. Would black powder in the smoke from the fires circles the globe and block out the sun?
　　Many said "No way?; rain would wash the black pwder from the atmosphere. But in America, airsampling balloons have detected high concentrations of particles similar to those collected in Kuwait. didn't catch fire. It has formed huge lakes in the Kuwaiti dersert. They trap insects and birds, and poison a veriety of other desert animals and plants.
　　The only good news is that the oil lakes have not affected the underground water resources. So far, the oil has not been absorbed because of the hard sand just below the surface.
　　Nothing, however, stops the oil from evaporating. The resulting poisonous gases are choking nearby residents.
　　Officials are trying to organize a quick cleanup, but they are not sure how to do it. One possibillity is to burn the oil. Get those black-powder detectors ready.
　　18. What were the scientists worried about soon after the Gulf War?
　　19. What was the good news for scientists?
　　20. What are the officials trying to do at the moment?