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2019

6
月大学生英语四级真题试题

Part I
Writing
(30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an a short easy
on the importance of speaking ability and how to develop should write
at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
Part


Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)

Section A

An office tower on Miller Street in Manchester is completely covered in solar
panels. They are used to create some of the energy used by the insurance
company inside. When the tower was first
(26)
_______ in 1962

it was covered
with thin square stones. These small square stones became a problem for the
building and continued to fall off the face for 40 years until a major renovation
was
(27)
_______. During this renovation the building 's owners, CIS

(28)
_______the solar panel company, Solarcentury. They agreed to cover the
entire building in solar panels. In 2004

the completed CIS tower became
Europe 's largest
(29)
_______ of vertical solar panels. A vertical solar project on
such a large
(30)
_______has never been repeated since.
Covering a skyscraper with solar panels had never been done before, and the
CIS tower was chosen as one of the

10 best green energy projects

. For a
long time after this renovation project, it was the tallest building in the United
Kingdom, but it was
(31)
_______overtaken by the Millbank Tower.

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Green buildings like this aren 't
(32)
_______ cost-efficient for the investor, but
it does produce much less pollution than that caused by energy
(33)
_______
through fossil fuels. As solar panels get
(34)
_______

the world is likely to see
more skyscrapers covered in solar panels

collecting energy much like trees do.
Imagine a world where building the tallest skyscraper wasn 't a race
of
(35)
_______

but rather one to collect the most solar energy.
A) cheaper



B) cleaner
C) collection
D) competed
E) constructed
F) consulted
G) dimension
H) discovered

I) eventually
J) height
K) necessarily
L) production
M) range
N) scale
O) undertaken



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Section B

As Tourists Crowd Out Locals, Venice Faces

Endangered


List
[A]
On a recent fall morning, a large crowd blocked the steps at one of
Venice's main tourist sites, the Rialto Bridge. The Rialto Bridge is one of the
four bridges spanning the Grand Canal. It is the oldest bridge across the canal,
and was the dividing line between the districts of San Marco and San Polo. But
on this day, there was a twist


it was filled with Venetians, not tourists.
[B ]


People are cheering and holding their carts in the air, says Giovanni
Giorgio, who helped organize the march with a grass-roots organization
called Generazione

90. The carts he refers to are small shopping carts

the
symbol of a true Venetian.

It started as a joke,


he says with a laugh.

The
idea was to put blades on the wheels! You know? Like Ben Hur. Precisely like
that, you just go around and run people down. ''
[C]
Venice is one of the hottest tourist destinations in the world. But that's a
problem. Up to 90,000 tourists crowd its streets and canals every day

far
outnumbering the 55 ,000 permanent residents. The tourist increase is one
key reason the city's population is down from 175,000 in the 1950s. The
outnumbered Venetians have been steadily fleeing. And those who stick
around are tired of living in a place where they can 't even get to the market
without swimming through a sea of picture-snapping tourists. Imagine,
navigating through 50,000 people while on the way to school or to work.

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[D ]
Laura Chigi, a grandmother at the march, says the local and national
governments have failed to do anything about the crowds for decades,
because they 're only interested in tourism

the primary industry in Venice,
worth more than $$3 billion in 2015.

Venice is a cash cow,


she says,

and
everyone wants a piece. ''
[E]
Just beyond St. Mark

s Square, a cruise ship passes, one of hundreds every
year that appear over their medieval (
中世纪的)
surroundings. Their massive
wake creats waves at the bottom of the sea, weakening the foundations of the
centuries-old buildings themselves.


Every time I see a cruise ship, I feel
sad,


Chigi says.

You see the mud it drags


the destruction it leaves in its
wake? That hurts the ancient wooden poles holding up the city underwater.
One day we '11 see Venice break down.


[F]
For a time, UNESCO, the cultural wing of the United Nations, seemed to
agree. Two years ago, it put Italy on notice, saying the government was not
protecting Venice. UNESCO considers the entire city a World Heritage Site, a
great honor that means Venice, at the cultural level, belongs to all of the
world's people. In 2014, UNESCO gave Italy two years to manage Venice, s
flourishing tourism or the city would be placed on another list

World
Heritage In Danger, joining such sites as Aleppo and Palmyra, destroyed by
the war in Syria.
[G]
Venice's deadline passed with barely a murmur (
嘟哝
)this summer, just as
UNESCO was meeting in Istanbul. Only one representative, Jad Tabet from

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Lebanon, tried to raise the issue.

For several years, the situation of heritage
in Venice has been worsening, and it has now reached a dramatic situation,


Tabet told UNESCO.

We have to act quickly, there is not a moment to waste.
''
[H]
But UNESCO didn't even hold a vote.

It's been postponed until 2017

''says Anna Somers, the founder and CEO of The Art Newspaper and the
former head of Venice in Peril, a group devoted to restoring Venetian art. She
says the main reason the U. N. cultural organization didn 't vote to declare
Venice a World Heritage Site In Danger is because UNESCO has become


intensely politicized. There would have been some back-room
negotiations.
[I]
Italy boasts more UNESCO World Heritage Sites than any other country in
the world, granting it considerable power and influence within the
organization. The former head of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, which
oversees heritage sites, is Francesco Bandarin, a Venetian who now serves as
UNESCO's assistant director-general for culture.
[J]
Earlier this year, Italy signed an accord with UNESCO to establish a task
force of police art detectives and archaeologists (
考古学家)
to protect cultural
heritage from natural disasters and terror groups, such as ISIS. The accord
underlined Italy 's global reputation as a good steward of art and culture.
[K]
But adding Venice to the UNESCO endangered list

which is dominated by
sites in developing and conflict- ridden countries

would be an international

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embarrassment, and could even hurt Italy 's profitable tourism industry. The
Italian Culture Ministry says it is unaware of any government efforts to
pressure UNESCO. As for the organization itself, it declined a request for an
interview.
[L]
The city 's current mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, has ridiculed UNESCO and told it
to mind its own business, while continuing to support the cruise ship industry,
which employs 5,000 Venice residents.
[M]
As for Venetians, they're beyond frustrated and hoping for a solution soon.

It's a nightmare for me. Some situations are really difficult with tourists
around
,”

says Giorgio as he navigates around a swelling crowd at the Rialto
Bridge.

There are just so many of them. They never know where they are
going, and do not walk in an orderly manner. Navigating the streets can be
exhausting.


[N]
Then it hits him: This crowd isn

t made up of tourists. They're Venetians.
Giorgio says he

s never experienced the Rialto Bridge this way in all his 22
years.

For once, we are the ones who are blocking the traffic
,”

he says
delightedly.

It feels unreal. It feels like we 're some form of endangered
species. It's just nice. The feeling is just pure. n But, he worries, if tourism isn't
managed and his fellow locals continue to move to the mainland, his
generation might be the last who can call themselves native Venetians.


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36. The passing cruise ships will undermine the foundations of the ancient
buildings in Venice.
37. The Italian government has just reached an agreement with UNESCO to
take measures to protect its cultural heritage.
38. The heritage situation in Venice has been deteriorating in the past few
years.
39. The decrease in the number of permanent residents in Venice is mainly
due to the increase of tourists.
40. If tourism gets out of control, native Venetians may desert the city
altogether one day.
41. UNESCO urged the Italian government to undertake its responsibility to
protect Venice.
42. The participants in the Venetian march used shopping carts to show they
were 100% local residents.
43. Ignoring UNESCO 's warning, the mayor of Venice maintains his support of
the city 's tourism industry.
44. One woman says that for decades the Italian government and local
authorities have only focused on the revenues from tourism.
45. UNESCO has not yet decided to put Venice on the list of World Heritage
Sites In Danger.
Section C

Passage One


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