中国人民大学外国语学院大学英语部 2006级2007-2008-2大学英语四级课程期末考试 A卷 2008-06 Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled To get along with your roommates. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese. 室友之间的冲突在校园里时常发生。 冲突的主要原因。 室友之间如何和睦相处。 Part II prehension (Skimming and Scanning) (12 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. A mobile phone is an electronic munications device. Most current mobile phones connect to a work of base stations, which is in turn interconnected to the public switched work (PSTN) (the exception are satellite phones). works were first introduced in the early to mid l980s. Prior mobile phones operating without a work, such as Mobile Telephone Service, dated back to 1946. Until the mid to late l980s, most mobile phones were so large that they were often permanently installed in vehicles as car phones. With the advance of smaller phones, currently the vast majority of mobile phones are hand-held. In addition to the standard voice function of a telephone, a mobile phone can support many additional services such as text messaging, access to the , and sending and receiving photos and video. Worldwide Use Pictures of the “portable phone of the future” from a mid-1960s Bell System advertisement show a device not too different from today’s mobile telephones. Radio phones have a long and varied history that stretches back to the l950s , with hand-held cellular radio devices being available since l983. Due to their low establishment
