12月英語四級答案

Home, sweet home" is a phrase that expresses an essential attitude

in the United States. Whether the reality of life in the family

house is sweet or no sweet. The cherished ideal of home has great S1.________

importance for many people.

This ideal is a vital part of the American dream. This dream,

dramatized in the history of nineteenth-century European settlers of the

American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house for one's S2.________

family, and started a farm. These small households were portraits of S3.________

independence: the entire family--mother, father, children, even

grandparents—live in a small house and working together to support S4.________

each other. Anyone understood the life and death importance of family S5.________

cooperation and hard work.

Although most people in the United States no longer live on

farms, but the ideal of home ownership is just as strong in the twentieth S6.________

century as it was in the nineteenth.

When U.S, soldiers came home before World War II, for S7.________

example, they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there S8.________

was a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically

in the suburbs, were often small and more or leidentical, but it S9.________

satisfied a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of S10.________

their way of life.

03.12

Thomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principle of

Population" almost 200 years ago. Ever since then, forecasters

have being warning that worldwide famine was just around the S1________

next corner. The fast-growing population's demand for food,

they warned, would soon exceed their supply, leading to S2________

widespread food shortages and starvation.

But in reality, the world's total grain harvest has risen

steadily over the years. Except for relative isolated trouble spots S3________

like present-day Somalia, and occasional years of good harvests, S4________

the world's food crisis has remained just around the corner.

Most experts believe this can continue even as if the population S5________

doubles by the mid-21st century, although feeding 10 billion

people will not be easy for politics, economic and environmental S6________

reasons. Optimists point to concrete examples of continued

improvements in yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, S7________

more fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more than

double corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere, rice S8________

experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few stems S9_________

and more seeds. There is no guarantee that plant breeders can

continue to develop new, higher-yielding crop, but most

researchers see their succeto date as reason for hope. S10________

04.6

Culture refers to the social heritage of a people - the

learned patterns for thinking, feeling and acting that characterize

a population or society, include the expression of these S1._______

patterns in material things. Culture is compose of non-material S2._______

culture -abstract creations like values, beliefs, customs

and institutional arrangements and material culture -

physical object like cooking pots, computers and bathtubs. S3._______

In sum, culture reflects both the ideas we share or everything S4._______

we make. In ordinary speech, a person of culture is

the individual can speak another language - the person who S5._______

is unfamiliar with the arts, music, literature, philosophy, or S6._______

history. But to sociologists, to be human is to be cultured,

because of culture is the common world of experience we S7._______

share with other members of our group.

Culture is essentially to our humanness. It provides a S8._______

kind of map for relating to others. Consider how you find

your way about social life. How do you know how to act in a

classroom, or a department store, or toward a person who

smiles or laugh at you? S9._______

Your culture supplies you by broad, standardized, S10._______

ready-made answers for dealing with each of these situations.

Therefore, if we know a persons culture, we can understand

and even predict a good deal of his behavior.

05.1

The World Health Organization (WHO) says its ten-year

campaign to remove leprosy (麻風病) as a world health

problem has been successful. Doctor Brundtland, head of the

WHO, says a number of leprosy cases around the world has S1._______

been cut of ninety percent during the past ten years. She says S2._______

efforts are continuing to complete end the disease. S3._______

Leprosy is caused by bacteria spread through liquid from

the nose and mouth. The disease mainly effects the skin and S4._______

nerves. However, if leprosy is not treated it can cause permanent

damage for the skin, nerves, eyes, arms or legs. S5.________

In 1999, an international campaign began to end leprosy.

The WHO, governments of countries most affected by the

disease, and several other groups are part of the campaign.

This alliance guarantees that all leprosy patients, even they S6._______

are poor, have a right to the most modern treatment.

Doctor Brundtland says leprosy is no longer a disease

that requires life-long treatments by medical experts. Instead,

patients can take that is called a multi-drug therapy. This S7._______

modern treatment will cure leprosy in 6 to 12 months,

depend on the form of the disease. The treatment combines S8.________

several drugs taken daily or once a month. The WHO has

given multi-drug therapy to patients freely for the last five S9.________

years. The members of the alliance against leprosy plan to

target the countries which still threatened by leprosy. Among S10_______

the estimated 600,000 victims around the world, the WHO

believes about 70% are in India. The disease also remains a

problem in Africa and South America.