2009年12月英語四級全國統(tǒng)一模擬沖刺試卷

　　58. How do theorists believe a person can remember more information in a short time?

　　A) By organizing it.

　　B) By repeating it.

　　C) By giving it a name.

　　D) By writing it down on paper.

　　59. Why does the author mention a dog’s bark?

　　A) To exemplify poor memory.

　　B) To analyze a type of interruption.

　　C) To compare human memory with dogs’ memory.

　　D) To illustrate the lack of efficiency of rote rehearsal.

　　60. Which of the following is true about retrieving information?

　　A) Elaborate rehearsal contributes to information retrieval.

　　B) The most efficient way of retrieving information is to assign semantic meaning to the information.

　　C) It’s impossible to retrieve forgotten information without picture prompts.

　　D) Encoding information is more efficient than chunking it.

　　61. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

　　A) One’s memory capacity can be enhanced by rote rehearsal.

　　B) Putting information to writing is suggested to improve memory.

　　C) Providing sufficient prompts helps information retrieval.

　　D) Multiple choice exams are the most difficult.

　　Passage Two

　　Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.

　　Before, whenever we had wealth, we started discussing poverty. Why not now? Why is the current politics of wealth and poverty seemingly about wealth alone? Eight years ago, when Bill Clinton first ran for president, the Dow Jones average was under 3,500, yearly federal budget deficits were projected at hundreds of billions of dollars forever and beyond, and no one talked about the “permanent boom” or the “new economy.” Yet in that more straitened time, Clinton made much of the importance of “not leaving a single person behind.” It is possible that similar “compassionate” rhetoric might yet play a role in the general election.

　　But it is striking how much less talk there is about the poor than there was eight years ago, when the country was economically uncertain, or in previous eras, when the country felt flush. Even last summer, when Clinton spent several days on a remarkable tour through impoverished areas from Indian reservations in South Dakota to ghetto neighborhoods in East St. Louis, the administration decided to refer to the effort not as a poverty tour but as a “new markets initiative.”