综合测试

出版时间：2008-9  出版社：武汉理工大学出版社  作者：王璨，吴华松 编  页数：202  

前言

　　《全新四级710分快速突破丛书：综合测试（第2版）》为710分制大学英语四级考试模拟试题集，共有仿真试题十套及答案精解、听力原文。第一版出版后，受到读者的充分肯定，认为：《全新四级710分快速突破丛书：综合测试（第2版）》题型覆盖全面，难度把握准确，听力录音资料音质好，语速合理，特别是可网上免费下栽，惠及学生、方便使用。　　这次再版，作者又对近年四级考试的试题进行了认真分析，在第一版的基础上进一步完善，力争更优。我们深信，本版将会得到广大任课老师和学生的更广泛认同。

内容概要

　　《全新四级710分快速突破丛书：综合测试（第2版）》为710分制大学英语四级考试模拟试题集，共有仿真试题十套及答案精解、听力原文。第一版出版后，受到读者的充分肯定，认为：《全新四级710分快速突破丛书：综合测试（第2版）》题型覆盖全面，难度把握准确，听力录音资料音质好，语速合理，特别是可网上免费下栽，惠及学生、方便使用。

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　　Appointment Time　　In social life，time plays a very important part．In the United States，guests tend to feel they are not highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date．But this is not true in all countries．In other areas of the world，it may be considered fool ish to make an appointment too far in advance because plans which are made for a date more than a week away tend to be forgotten．　　The meanings of time differ in different parts of the world．Thus，misunderstandings arise be tween people from cultures that treat time differently．Promptness is valued highly in American life．For example，if people are not prompt，they may be regarded as impolite，or not fully responsi ble．In the U．S．，no one would think of keeping a business associate waiting for an hour；it would be too impolite．When equals meet，a person who is five minutes late is expected to make a short apolo gY．If he is less than five minutes late，he will say a few words of explanation，though perhaps he will not complete the sentence．　　This way of treating time is quite different from that of several other cultures．This helps to explain the unfortunate experience of a certain agricuhurist from the United States，assigned to duty in another country．After what seemed to him a suitable waiting period，he announced that he would like to call on the minister of agriculture．For various reasons the suggested time did not suit the minister； there were indirect indications that the time was not yet suitable．The merican，however，pressed for an appointment，which was finally granted．　　Arriving a little before the appointed hour（according to the American way of showing respect），the agriculturist waited．The hour came and passed，five minutes，ten minutes，and fifteen minutes．At this point he suggested to the secretary that perhaps the minister did not know he was waiting in the outer office．This gave him the feeling of having done something to solve the problem，but he had not．Twenty minutes passed，then thirty，then forty-five．To an American，that is the beginning of the “insult period”．No matter what is said in apology，there is little that can remove the damage done by an hour’s wait in an outer office．Yet in the country where this story took place，a forty-five-minute　　waiting period was not unusual．Instead of being the very end of the allowable waiting scale，it was just the beginning．Thus，when the American agriculturist left the office（after giving the secretary an angry message for the minister），his action seemed as unreasonable as it was impolite．