week6四级笔试模拟试卷3.doc

week6四级笔试模拟试卷3 Part I???Writing1. 目前人们是否真的越来越少使用手写了 2. 打字在哪些方面能代替手写，哪些方面不能 3. 练习手写字（或书法）是否还有必要Part II???Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions. For the first seven questions, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For the last three questions, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. A Healthy Mix of Rest and Motion ? Some gym goers are tortoises (乌龟). They prefer to take their sweet time, leisurely riding or walking along on a track. Others are rabbits, impatiently racing through miles at high speed. But new findings suggest that for at least one exercise a week it pays to be both tortoise and rabbit—changing between short bursts of hard exercise and easy easy-does-it recovery. ? Weight watchers and those who simply want to increase their fitness (健康)?all stand to gain. This fast-slow changing technique, called interval training, is hardly new. For decades, serious athletes have used it to improve performance. But new evidence suggests that an exercise with steep peaks and valleys can greatly improve heart fitness and raise the bodys potential to burn fat. ? Best of all, the benefits become evident in a matter of weeks. ? Theres definitely renewed interest in interval training, said Ed Coyle, the director of the human performance laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin. ? A 2005 study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology (生理学) found that after just two weeks of interval training, six of the eight college-age men and women doubled their endurance, or the amount of time they could ride a bicycle at moderate speed before getting very tired. ? Eight volunteers in a control group, who did not do any interval training, showed no improvement in endurance. ? Researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, had the exercisers run for 30 seconds, then either stop or ride gently for