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1、大学英语四级考试（CET4）（恩波英语研究所命题）COLLEGE ENGLISH TESTBand Four试题册（125分钟）恩波英语模考试卷-Part Writing(30 minutes)注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。Part 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.Fo
2、r questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Breakfast or InternetKarl and Dorsey Gude of East Lansing, Michigan, USA, can remember simpler mornings, not too long ago. They
3、 sat together and chatted as they ate breakfast at home. They read the newspapers and competed only with the television for the attention of their two teenage sons.That was so last century. Today, Mr. Gude wakes at around 6 a.m. to check his work e-mail and his Facebook(脸谱网站) and Twitter(微型博客) accou
4、nts. The two boys, Cole and Erik, start each morning with text messages, video games and Facebook.The new routine in the morning quickly became a source of conflict in the family, with Ms Gude complaining that technology was eating into family time. But ultimately, even she partially yielded, cracki
5、ng open her laptop after breakfast.“Things that I thought were unacceptable a few years ago are now commonplace in my house,” she said, “like all four of us starting the day on four computers in four separate rooms.”Technology has shaken up plenty of lifes modes, but for many people it has completel
6、y altered the once predictable routines at the start of the day.This is morning in America in the Internet age. After six to eight hours of network deprivationalso known as sleeppeople are increasingly waking up and heading for cellphones and laptops, sometimes even before moving their legs to the f
7、loor and tending to more biologically urgent activities.“It used to be you woke up, went to the bathroom, maybe brushed your teeth and picked up the newspaper,” said Naomi S. Baron, a professor of linguistics (语言学) at American University, who has written about technologys push into everyday life. “B
8、ut what we do first now has changed so dramatically. Ill be the first to admit: the first thing I do now is to check my e-mail.” The Gudes sons sleep with their phones next to their beds, so they start the day with text messages in place of alarm clocks. Mr. Gude, an instructor at Michigan State Uni
9、versity, sends texts to his two sons in order to wake up.“We use texting as an in-house phone,” he said. “I could just walk upstairs, but they always answer their texts.” The Gudes recently began shutting their devices down on weekends so as to hold back the decrease in family time.In other househol
10、ds, the impulse to go online before getting out the door adds an extra layer of chaos to the existing morning disorder. Weekday mornings have long been busy and chaotic. Families that used to fight over the shower or the newspapers now fight over access to the household computeror about whether they
11、 should be using the gadgets(小器具，小玩意) at all, instead of communicating with one another.“They used to have blankets; now they have phones,” said Liz Perle, a mother in San Francisco who recently feels annoyed at the earlymorning technology immersion(沉浸,用心) of her two teenage children. “If their beds
12、 were far from the power outlets, they would most probably sleep on the floor. ”The increase of early risers is reflected in online and wireless traffic patterns. Internet companies that used to watch traffic levels rise only when people started working, but now they find the up-tick much earlier.Ar
13、bor Networks, a Boston company that analyzes Internet use, says that Web traffic in the United States gradually declines from midnight to around 6 a.m. on the East Coast and then gets a huge morning swing. “Its a rocket ship that takes off at 7 a. m,” said Craig Labovitz, Arbors chief scientist.Akam
14、ai, which helps some web-sites like Facebook and Amazon keep up with visitor demand, says traffic takes off even earlier nowadays, at around 6 a. m. on the East Coast. Verizon Wireless Company reported the number of text messages sent between 7 and 10 a.m. jumped by 50 percent in July, compared with
15、 a year earlier.Both adults and children have good reasons to wake up and go on line. Morn and Dad might need to catch up one mail from colleagues in different time zones. Children check text messages and Facebook posts from friends with different bedtimesand sometimes forget their own duties in the
16、 process.In May this year, Gabrielle Glaser of Montclair, N. J., bought her 14-year-old daughter, Moriah, an Apple laptop for her birthday. In the weeks after, Moriah missed the school bus three times and went from walking the family Labradoodle dog for 20 minutes each morning to only briefly letting the dog outside.Moriah admits that she neglected the bus and dog, and blames Facebook, where the pos
