专四专八考试

【单选题】Flying across the country the other day, I sat next to a retiredAir Force colonel, and we had a pleasant conversation about love of flying, travel and grandchildren and for him, of retirement itself. "Yeah," he said, "there’s only one thing that would make me give this up. "
"What’s that "
"If Hillary or Jan Fonda runs for president, I’m going to work full time to beat her. "
I told him I knew Hillary. She doesn’t even need a last name now.And she’s no Jane Fond
A、
"Well," I concluded before we began talking about planes and kids again, "I think you are going to get your chance. I think she’s going to run. "
I once wrote, with total sincerity, that I thought Hillary RodhamClinton had the political instincts of a stone. I also wrote that I thought she had marginalized her husband’s chances of being an important president.
He blew that by naming his wife to head the task force to work out a national plan, and she decided to work in secret with battalions of "experts" who came up with a plan four times as long as theEuropean constitution.
Then, after taking her lumps for that, she decided to run, as aDemocrat, for the US Senate from New York, a state she had always thought was a nice place to visit.
She is now far and away theDemocratic front-runner for president in 2008. Her national numbers are getting better, inch by inch, day by day. Now, a slight majority—52 percent in a couple of polls—say they are likely or very likely to vote for Hillary for president. True, 47 percent, including my friend the colonel, still say "Never. "But her national approval-disapproval rate is now about 55 to 39, compared with 46 to 48 for PresidentBush.
The odds are still against her. So are most of the odds-makers, beginning with Joe Klein of Time Magazine, chronicler of theClintons in fact and fiction. He believes a Hillary candidacy will polarize the country the way the reign of theClintons polarized us in the 1990s.
The word "polarize" in the last paragraph probably means ______.
A、personalize
B．popularize
C．unite into one group
D．divide into opposing sides

【单选题】wE ArE All AgrEED thAt thE plAn is prACtiCAl AnD FEAsiBlE, But hE thinks______ .
A．not
B．thE rEvErsE
C．ContrArily
D．othErwisE

【单选题】whiCh CAnnot BE lEArnED ABout thE CrAsh
A．thErE wErE 115 pAssEngErs on BoArD.
B．thE plAnE CrAshED on tuEsDAy.
C．thE plAnE CrAshED shortly AFtEr tAkEoFF.
D．only onE pAssEngEr survivED thE CrAsh.

【单选题】thE AmEriCAns put ForwArD thE rEsolution BECAusE oF
A．Anti-AmEriCAn BiAs in ovErsEAs opErAtions
B．rEstriCtions in ovErsEAs opErAtions
C．FEAr oF politiCAl pErsECutions
D．FEAr oF mr. AnnAn’s intErvEntion

【单选题】you hAvE no right ______ to rEAD whAt is writtEn insiDE.
A．inDEED
B．ACtuAlly
C．whAtsoEvEr
D．Anyhow

【单选题】whEn thE CrowD sAw thE prizE-FightEr strEtChED out on thE CAnvAs, shouts AnD ChEErs ______ From it.
A．BrokE up
B．BrokE Forth
C．BrokE through
D．BrokE upon

【单选题】i only got rounD to ______ this A FEw DAys Ago.
A．Do
B．Doing
C．hAving DonE
D．hAvE DonE

【单选题】
A．BACkgrounD
B．situAtion
C．CirCumstAnCE
D．ConDition

【单选题】though it wAs lEss AttrACtivE, rAlph knEw thE mEtAl Box woulD BE morE ______ thAn thE wooDEn Box.
A．tErminAl
B．DurABlE
C．pErsistEnt
D．ultimAtE

【单选题】AFtEr thE rAlly in Bonn, mrs. mErkEl movEs to FrAnkFurt to ______.
A．AttEnD A nEws ConFErEnCE
B．AttEnD An EConomiC Forum
C．CAmpAign For ElECtion
D．AttEnD A motor show