四级英语考试试题(洛基英语提供).doc

最牛英语口语培训模式：躺在家里练口语，全程外教一对一，三个月畅谈无阻！ 洛基英语，免费体验全部在线一对一课程：/ielts/xd.html（报名网址） 　　Part I Listening Comprehension (略) 　　Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) 　　Directions: There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B),C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single ling through the centre. 　　Passage One 　　Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage: 　　Oceanography has been defined as The application of all sciences to the study of the sea. 　　　　 Before the nineteenth century, scientists with an interest in the sea were few and far between. 　　 Certainly Newton considered some theoretical aspects of it in his writings, but he was reluctant to go to sea to further his work. 　　For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travellers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it , let alone to ask what lay beneath the surface. The first time that the question what is at the bottom of the oceans? had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed. The engineers had to know the depth profile of the route to estimate the length of cable that had to be manufactured. 　　It was to Maury of the US Navy that the Atlantic Telegraph Company turned, in 1853, for information on this matter. In the 1840s, Maury had been responsible for encouraging voyages during which soundings　 were taken to investigate the depths of the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Later , some of his findings aroused much popular interest in his book The Physical Geography of the Sea. 　　The cable was laid, but not until 1866 was the connection made permanent and reliable. At the early attempts, the cable failed and when it was taken out for repa