文档介绍：大学英语四级模拟题(1)
(最新710分)
PARTⅠ PREHENSION (占总分的35%)
PART Ⅱ PREHENSION (占总分的35%)
Section A prehension (占总分的25%)
Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage 1
While traveling abroad, Frank ran short of money. So he wrote to his brother,asking for $500.“Send the money by telegram,”he wrote,“to the Fisher Bank in P…”After a week he began calling at the Fisher showed his passport.“Nothing e for you,”he was went on for two weeks and got very sent a telegram to his brother,asking where the money was no reply,and no money arrived for him.
In the fourth week was arrested for failing to pay his hotel passport was taken from tried to explain the problem,but no one believed was sent to prison for six days. When he came out,he went immediately to the Fisher clerk he spoke to was a new man. “Have you received $500 for me?”he ask,“My name is Jackson Frank.” The clerk checked his books.“Yes,Jackson,it’s came by telegram.—let me see—oh,more than two months wondered where you were.”He showed the order. The order read:“Pay Jackson the sum of $500...”“But my name is Jackson Frank,not Frank Jackson.”“Oh,that’s all right, was in our books under the letter‘J’,but it’s your money.”The clerk laughed,“A human mistake,sir!We’re all human beings,aren’t we?And so we all make family name like Frank sounds strange to me.”Mr Frank was really wanted to hit last he said,“A human mistake——is that what you call it?I think some humans need kicking.”
didn’t just go to his brother and get some money because ____.
was afraid to s