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1、Model Test (Band 4) xjtu1Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are required to write a short passage about Teenagers Studying Abroad in three paragraphs. The composition should be about 120150 words.文中应包括的要点： 1. 现在有很多青少年出国留学； 2. 有些人认为这种做法是有益的； 3. 我的看法。Teenagers Studying Abroad_ _
2、 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, mark Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information
3、 given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.The port provides a fascinating and rich unders
4、tanding of the movement of people and goods around the world. We understand a port as a center of land-sea exchange, and as a major source of 2livelihood and a major force for cultural mixing. But do ports all produce a range of common urban characteristics which justify classifying port cities toge
5、ther under a single generic label? Do they have enough in common to warrant distinguishing them from other kinds of cities?A port must be distinguished from a harbor. They are two very different things. Most ports have poor harbors, and many fine harbor see few ships. Harbors is a physical concept,
6、a shelter for ships; port is an economic concept, a center of land-sea exchange which requires good access to hinterland(内地) even more than a sea-linked foreland 前陆(与内地相对而言). It is landward access, which is productive of goods for export and which demands imports, that is critical. Poor harbors can
7、be improved with breakwaters(防浪堤), and dredging(挖泥)if there is a demand for port. Madras and Colombo are examples of harbors expensively improved by enlarging, dredging and building breakwaters.Port cities become industrial, financial and service centers and political capitals because of their water
8、 connections and the urban concentration which arises there and later draws to its railways, highways and air routes. Water transport means cheap access, the chief basis of all port cities. Many of the worlds biggest cities, for example, London, New York, Shanghai, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Jak
9、arta, Calcutta, Philadelphia and San Francisco began as ports that is, with land-sea exchange as their major function but they have since grown disproportionately in other respects so that their port functions are no longer dominant. They remain different kinds of places from non- port cities and th
10、eir port functions account for that difference.Port functions, more than anything else, make a city cosmopolitan. A port city is open to the world. In it races, cultures, and ideas, as well as goods from a variety of places, mix and enrich each other and the life of the city. The smell of the sea an
11、d the harbor, the sound of the boat whistles or the moving tides are symbols of their multiple links with a wide world samples of which are present in microcosm(微观世界) within their own urban areas. Sea ports have been transformed by the advent of powered vessels, whose size and draught have increased
12、. Many formerly important ports have become economically and physically less accessible as a result. By passed by most of their former enriching flow of exchange, they have become cultural and economic backwaters or have acquired the character of museums of the past.Much domestic port trade has not been recorded. What evidence we have suggests that domestic trade was greater at all periods tha
