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大学英语四级考试（CET-4） Part Ⅰ Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Holiday Economy. You should write at least 120 words, and base your composition on the outline given below. 1. 节假日消费高涨； 2. 一些人认为有利处，另一些人认为有弊端； 3. 谈谈你对此现象的看法。 注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上作答。 Part ⅡReading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. 注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上作答。 What If Author Stephen Baxter hopes that an imaginary account of a global flood will persuade people to engage with the realities of climate change. The sea is rising, driven by melting ice and the expansion of warmer water梐 conseqcuence of climate change. Already on islands like Tuvalu in the Pacific Ocean, the trees are poisoned by salt, and children’s football games have to be abandoned as high tide approaches and the water bubbles out of the ground. Global sea levels are predicted to rise a meter or so by the end of the century. If that happens, the resulting flooding, accompanied by extreme climatic events, will affect us all. Many of the world’s great cities are situated on coasts and river estuaries (港湾) and they will all be threatened, even those we think of as well protected. In London, for example, the Thames Barrier was built after a terrible flood in 1953. Half a century later, some 1.25 million people live on the capital’s flood plain, and the sea level rise that is now predicted invalidates (使失效) some of the assumptions on which the barrier’s design was based. There is a fundamental horror in the disappearance of the very land beneath your feet. It’s a theme that has been worked out in many fictional dramas of judgment and cleansing. The fear of London