大學(xué)英語四級(jí)模擬試題(二)10

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81. what does the passage mainly discuss? 
    a) civil and criminal trial courts. 
    b) trial court cases. 
    c) the court system in the united states. 
    d) the appeal court process. 
    82. according to the passage district courts are also known as_______. 
    a) circuit courts          b) supreme courts 
    c) intermediate courts       d) trial courts 
    83. in the last sentence of the first paragraph, the phrase"engaged in" 
    could best be replaced by which of the following? 
    a) committed to.          b) involved in. 
    c) attentive to.          d) covered in. 
    84. the passage indicates that litigants who lose their cases in the state 
    trial court may take them to _______. 
    a) different trial court in the same state 
    b) court in a different geographic region 
    c) federal trial court 
    d) state supreme court 
    85. it can be inferred from the passage that typical court cases are _______. 
    a) always appealed 
    b) usually resolved in the district courts 
    c) always overlapping 
    d) usually settled by the supreme court 
    questions 86 to 90 are based on the following passage: 
    in the late 1960’s, many people in north america turned theirattention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skys-crapers were widely criticized. ecologists pointed out that a clusterof tall buildings in a city often overburdens public transportationand parking lot capacities. 
    skyscrapers are also lavish consumers, and wasters, of electricpower. in one recent year, the addition of 17 million square feet ofskyscraper office space in new york city raised the peak daily demandfor electricity by 120,000 kilowatts -- enough to supply the entirecity of albany, new york, for a day. 
    glass-walled skyscrapers can be especially wasteful. the heatloss (or gain) through a wall of half-inch plate glass is more thanten times that through a typical masonry wall filled with insulationboard. to lessen the strain on heating and air-conditioning equipment,builders of skyscrapers have begun to use double-glazed panels ofglass, and reflective glasses coated with silver or gold mirror filmsthat reduce glare as well as heat gain. however, mirror-walled skyscra-pers raise the temperature of the surrounding air and affect neighboringbuildings. 
    skyscrapers put a severe strain on a city’s sanitation(?àéú) facilities,too. if fully occupied, the two world trade center towers in new york citywould alone generate 2.25 million gallons of raw sewage(????) each year --as much as a city the size of stamford, connecticut, which has a populationof more than 109,000. 
    skyscrapers also interfere with television reception, block bird flyways,and obstruct air traffic. in boston in the late 1960’s, some people evenfeared that shadows from skyscrapers would kill the grass on boston common. 
    still, people continue to build skyscrapers for all the reasons that they have always built them -- personal ambition, civic pride, and the desire of owners to have the largest possible amount of rentable space.