2011年6月英语四级考试部分真题答案解析

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Online Shopping With the Internet becoming an increasingly closer friend to our daily life, online shopping is prevalent and pervasive among college students, white collars, and housewives. In the past, shopping could be an exhausting and time-consuming task for numerous people. However, now we can pick our desired items, compare the prices, and enjoy the service, with a cup of coffee on the table, by several clicks. Apparently, online shopping has become one of the most fashionable and trendy life styles for modern people.
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There are a series of merits for this kind of shopping. First of all, online shopping, to a large extent, helps us to save our valuable time, which can be invested into our work, leisure, and study. Moreover, When shopping on the e-mall, we are exposed to more options at the same time. This advantage enables us to select our desired product in a better price and quality. Further, shopping online is a more eco-friendly way of living because it tremendously reduces our use of traffic, plastic bags, and money, directly or indirectly contributing to the protection and preservation of the environment.

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However, it also gives rise to a serious of problems annoying and upsetting us. On the one hand, since it is impossible for us to see and check the goods online, some immoral sellers www.examｗ.com
may send us unsound and fake ones, resulting in bigger loss of our money and mood. On the other, when we fill in our personal information and the credit card number online, these privacy are at risk of being leaked and resold to more people, which would bring about some undesired and unexpected consequences.

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8 W, }" b& U8 m0 k( z0 u2 |) ~To conclude, every new-born phenomenon can be a double-bladed sword. I suggest that we be more cautious when we shop online. This can be achieved by more careful comparison, selection of higher-rated seller on the e-mall, and consultation with our more experienced friends.

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2011.6 - 四级阅读 - 选词填空部分真题解析
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The popular notion that older people need less sleep than younger adults is a myth, scientists said yesterday.
While elderly people 47.tend to sleep for fewer hours than they did when they were younger, this has a 48.negative effect on their brain's performance and they would benefit from getting more, according to research.
Sean Drummond, a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Diego, said that older people are more likely to suffer from broken sleep, while younger people are better at sleeping 49.efficiently straight through the night.
More sleep in old age, however, is 50.associated with better health, and most older people would feel better and more 51.alert if they slept for longer periods, he said.
"The ability to sleep in one chunk overnight goes down as we age but the amount of sleep we need to 52.function well does not change," Dr Drummond told the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in San Diego.
"It's 53.definitely a myth that older people need less sleep. The more healthy an older adult is, the more they sleep like they did when they were 54.younger. Our data suggests that older adults would benefit from 55.continuing to get as much sleep as they did in their 30s. That's 56.different from person to person, but the amount of sleep we had at 35 is probably the same amount we need at 75."
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