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1、2009年6月20日大学英语四级考试冲刺模拟卷新东方北京学校提供PartIWriting(30minutes)Directions:Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteashortessayentitledHowlongshouldthenationalholidaybe?Youshouldwriteatleast150wordsfollowingtheoutlinegivenbelow.1.有些人认为长假好,有些人认为短假好2.我认为......3.我建议有关部门……Howlongshouldthenationalholidaybe?
2、PartIIReading(skimmingandscanning)(15minutes)Directions:Inthispart,youwillhave15minutestogooverthepassagequicklyandanswerthequestionsonAnswerSheet1.Forquestion1—7,choosethebestanswerfromthefourchoicesmarkedA),B),C),andD).Forquestions8—10,completethesentenceswiththeinformationgiveninthepassage.
3、TheModernOlympicGamesTheModernOlympicGamesmighthaveremainedjustapartofhistorywithoutthedreamofoneFrenchman,PierredeCoubertin.Coubertinbelievedthatsportandexercisewereveryimportantforthehealthandhappinessofeverymanandalsoforthenation.Hethereforetried,in1892,tointerestotherFrenchmeninhisdreamofs
4、tartingamodernformoftheearlyGreekGames.Hisideaswerestronglycriticizedbymanypeople,whodidnotreallyunderstandwhathewastryingtodo.ItisperhapssadthatthegreatworkPierredeCoubertindidtobringbacktheGameswasneverproperlyrecognizedduringhislifetime.Gradually,however,peopleallovertheworldbecameintereste
5、dinhisideasandatameetinginParisin1894,withrepresentativesfromtwelvedifferentcountries;plansweremadetoholdthefirstmodernGamesinAthensin1899.OrganizingthefirstmodernGames,however,wasnotwithoutproblems.TheGreekgovernmentwasunhappywiththedecisiontoholdtheGamesinAthens,astheyhadseriouseconomicprobl
6、emsatthetimeanddidnotfeeltheywereinapositiontospendthenecessarymoney.ItseemedthereforethattheGameswouldbefinishedbeforetheyhadevenbegun.PrinceConstantineofGreece,however,gavehissupporttoCoubertinandthenewly-formedOlympicCommitteeandotherrichGreekssoonfollowedhisexample.Enoughmoneywascollectedi
7、nGreeceandabroadtobuildanewstadiumandpayalltheothercosts.On5thApril,1896,acrowdofover60000peoplewatchedtheKingofGreeceopenthefirstmodernOlympicGames.Therewere,however,veryfewcompetitors-onlytwohundredandeighty-five.Australia,Austria,Bri