文档介绍：2011英语四级预测题及答案详解（4）
　　Part I Writing (30 minutes)
　　Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Online Education. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese:
　　1. 目前网络教育形成热潮
　　2. 我认为形成这股热潮的原因是……
　　3. 我对网络教育的评价
　　Online Education
　　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 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 World in a Glass: Six Drinks That Changed History
　　Tom Standage urges drinkers to savor the history of their favorite beverages along with the taste.
　　The author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Walker & Company, June 2005), Standage lauds the libations that have helped shape our world from the Stone Age to the present day.
　　"The important drinks are still drinks that we enjoy today," said Standage, a technology editor at the London-based magazine the Economist. "They are relics (纪念物)of different historical periods still found in our kitchens."
　　Take the six-pack, whose contents first fizzed at the dawn of civilization.
　　Beer
　　The ancient Sumerians, who built advanced city-states in the area of present-day lraq, began fermenting(发酵)beer from barley at least 6,000 years ago.
　　"When people started agriculture the first crops they produced were barley or wheat. You consume those crops as bread and as beer," Standage noted. "It
’s the drink associated with the dawn of civilization. It’s as simple as that."
　　Beer was popular with the masses from the beginning.
　　"Beer would have been so