大学英语四级模拟试题及答案

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Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of To Get

along with Your Roommates. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given

below.

1. 室友之间的冲突在校园里常有发生

2. 冲突的主要原因

3. 室友之间如何和睦相处

To Get along with Your Roommate

注意:此部分试题在答题卡 1 上。

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 17,

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 810,

complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Early Childhood Education

‘Education To Be More? was published last August. It was the report of the New Zealand

Government?s Early Childhood Care and Education Working Group. The report argued for

enhanced equity (公平) of access and better funding for childcare and early childhood education

institutions. Unquestionably, that?s a real need; but since parents don?t normally send children to

preschools

until the age of three, are we missing out on the most important years of all?

A 13year

study of early childhood development at Harvard University has shown that, by the

age of three, most children have the potential to understand about 1000 words – most of the

language they will use in ordinary conversation for the rest of

their lives. Furthermore, research has shown that while every child is born with a natural curiosity, it can

be suppressed dramatically during the second and third years of life. Researchers claim that the

human personality is formed during the first two years of life, and during the first three years

children learn the basic skills they will use in all their later learning both at home and at school.

Once over the age of three, children continue to expand on existing knowledge of the world.

It is generally acknowledged that young people from poorer socioeconomic

backgrounds

tend to do less well in our education system. That?s observed not

just in New Zealand, but also in

Australia, Britain and America. In an attempt to overcome that educational underachievement,

a

nationwide program called …Headstart? was launched in the United States in 1965. A lot of money

was poured into it. It took children into preschool

institutions at the age of three and was

supposed to help the children of poorer families succeed in school. Despite substantial funding, results have been disappointing. It is thought that there are two

explanations for this. First, the program began too late. Many children who entered it at the age of

three were already behind their peers in language and measurable intelligence. Second, the parents

were not involved. At the end of each day, …Headstart? children returned to the same disadvantaged

home environment.

As a result of the growing research evidence of the importance of the first three years of a

child?s life and the disappointing results from …Headstart?, a pilot program was launched in

Missouri in the US that focused on parents as the child?s first teachers. The …Missouri? program

was predicated on research showing that working with the family, rather than bypassing the

parents, is the most effective way of helping children get off to the best possible start in life. The

fouryear

pilot study included 380 families who were about to have their first child and who

represented a crosssection

of socioeconomic

status, age and family configurations (结构). They

included singleparent

and twoparent

families, families in which both parents worked, and

families with either the mother or father at home.

The program involved trained parent educators visiting the parents? home and working with

the parent, or parents, and the child. Information on child development, and guidance on things to

look for and expect as the child grows were provided, plus guidance

in fostering the child?s

intellectual, language, social and motorskill

development. Periodic checkups

of the child?s

educational and sensory development (hearing and vision) were made

to detect possible handicaps

that interfere with growth and development. Medical problems were referred to professionals.

Parenteducators

made personal visits to homes and monthly group meetings were held with

other new parents to share experience and discuss topics of interest. Parent resource centers,

located in school buildings, offered learning materials for families and facilities for child.

At the age of three, the children who had been involved in the …Missouri?

program were

evaluated alongside a crosssection

of children selected from the same range of socioeconomic backgrounds and family situations, and also a random sample of children that age. The results

were phenomenal. By the age of three, the children in the program were significantly more

advanced in language development than their peers, had made greater strides in problem solving

and other intellectual skills, and were further along in social development. In fact, the average

child on the program was performing at the level of the top 15 to 20 per cent of their peers in such

things as auditory comprehension, verbal ability and language

ability. Most important of all, the traditional measures of …risk?, such as parents? age and education, or

whether they were a single parent, bore little or no relationship to the measures of achievement

and language development. Children in the program performed equally well regardless of

socioeconomic

disadvantages. Child abuse was virtually eliminated. The one factor that was

found to affect the child?s development was family stress leading to a poor quality of parentchild

interaction. That interaction was not necessarily bad in poorer families.

These research findings are exciting. There is growing evidence in New Zealand that children

from poorer socioeconomic

backgrounds are arriving at school less well developed and that our school system tends to perpetuate (使永存) that disadvantage. The initiative outlined above could

break that cycle of disadvantage. The concept of working with parents in their homes, or at their

place of work, contrasts quite markedly with the report of the Early Childhood Care and Education

Working Group. Their focus is on getting children and mothers access to childcare and

institutionalized early childhood education. Education from the age of three to five is undoubtedly

vital, but without a similar focus on parent education and on the vital importance of the first three

years, some evidence indicates that it will not be enough to overcome educational inequity.

1. The skills learned by children at age of three will be used in

all their later learning in life.

2. The …Headstart? program finally succeeded in its aim.

3. The …Missour? program supplied many forms of support and training to

parents.

4. M ost …Missouri? program threeyearolds

scored highly in areas such as listening, speaking,

reasoning and interacting with others.

5. …Missouri? program children of young, uneducated, single parents scored less highly on the

tests.

6. The richer families in the …Missouri? program had higher stress levels.

7. Educational inequity cannot be overcome for children from different family backgrounds.

8. The aim of …Headstart? program is to help children from poor families overcome

____________________.

9. The most effective way of helping children get off to the best possible

start in life is

____________________.

10. The concept of working with parents in their homes contrasts quite markedly with the report

of the Early Childhood Core and ____________________.

Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the

end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the

conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each section there will be a

pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide

which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single

line through the centre.

11. A) To order some medicine for Aunt Margaret. B) To get some exercise.

C) To buy some items.

D) To see their aunt.

12. A) Anyone can do it.

B) No one can do it.

C) Alex can probably do it.

D) Alex probably shouldn?t do it.

13. A) Tea is better than coffee.

B) The man should switch to tea.

C) There are two reasons not to drink coffee. D) The man shouldn?t drink either.

14. A) At a hairdresser?s. B) At a tailor?s.

C) At a butcher?s. D) At a photographer?s.

15. A) Angry. B) Tired. C) Hungry. D) Disappointed. 16. A) She would like some soup.

B) She?s inviting the man to lunch.

C) She wants to know if the man likes chicken.

D) She ate lunch earlier.

17. A) Very few people come to it.

B) A good name hasn?t been found for it.

C) People don?t like climbing the stairs to get there.

D) She has decided to phone the ticket office. 18. A) It was designed by modern artists. B) It will color black and white prints. C) Its merchandise must be carefully sorted through. D) Its best selection is of modern art prints. Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

19. A) A class presentation they?re preparing.

B) A television program the man is watching. C) Visiting a close fiend of theirs.

D) Studying for a test.

20. A) He?s taking a break from studying.

B) He has already finished studying.

C) He was assigned to watch a program by his professor. D) He?s

finding out some information for a friend.

21. A) He didn?t know that she was enrolled in a mathematic course.

B) He thought she preferred to study alone. C) He thought she had made arrangements to study with D) He had told her that he had done poorly on

a recent test. 22. A) He and Elizabeth argued recently.

B) He heard Elizabeth did poorly on the last test. C) He doesn?t

want to bother Elizabeth so late in the evening.

D) He?d rather study in his own dormitory.

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

23. A) They look darker.

B) They look smaller.

C) They look clearer.

D) They look cloudier.

24. A) It stops working.

B) It becomes sharper.

C) It confuses odors.

D) It defects fewer odors.

25. A) They both have leg injuries.

B) They?re too tired to walk any farther.

C) They have no umbrella with them.

D) They?ve seen no signs to give them directions.

Section B:

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will

hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you

hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and

D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the

centre.

Passage One

Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26.

A) To do as much as you can.

B) To do only what is necessary.

C) To act carefully and quickly.

D) To do what is necessary as carefully and quickly as possible. 27.

A) Leave him lying where he is.

B) Do as much as you can to save him.

C) Put his arms and legs in place.

D) Roll him up in a blanket.

28. A) Stop the flow of blood if the person is bleeding. B) Perform the operation whenever necessary.

C) Do artificial respiration if the person has stopped breathing. D) Do the best you can until a doctor arrives.

Passage Two

Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard. 29.

A) A few inches above the knee.

B) A little below the knee.

C) Down to the ankle.

D) Floorlength.

30. A) Boots. B) Sneakers. C) Slippers. D) Leather shoes. 31. A) Fashions change overtime.

B) Men are thriftier than women.

C) Skirts and shoes are more important than other clothing.

D) Some clothing may suit all occasions. Passage Three

Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

32. A) Energy conservation.

B) Transportation of the future.

C) Strip cities.

D) Advantages of air transportation over railroads. 33. A) A lack of available flights.

B) Long delays at the airport.

C) Tiredness on long flights.

D) Long trips to and from airports.

34. A) It uses nuclear energy.

B) It rests on a cushion of pressurized air. C) It flies over magnetically activated tracks. D) It uses a device similar with engine

35. A) They are subject to fires.

B) They become less fuelefficient.

C) They produce too much noise.

D) They have trouble staying on the tracks.

Section C:

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the

first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the

second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact

words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the

missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard

or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the

third time, you should check what you have written.

Doctors are starting to believe that laughter not only improves your state of mind, but

actually affects your entire physical wellbeing.

Britain?s first (36) ________ therapist, Robert

Holden says: “Instinctively we know that laughing help us feel healthy and alive. Each time we

laugh we fee l better and more (37) __________.”

A French newspaper found that in 1930 the French laughed on average for nineteen minutes

per day. By 1980 this had fallen to six minutes. Eight per cent of the people (38) _________ said

that they would like to laugh more. Other (39) _________ suggests that children laugh on average

about 400 times a day, but by the time they reach (40) __________ this had been (41) _________

to about fifteen times. Somewhere in the process of growing up we lose an (42) _______ 385

laughs a day.

William Fry, a psychiatrist from California studied the (43)

_________of laughter on the

body. He got patients to watch funny films, and monitored their blood pressure, heart rate and

muscle tone. He found that laughter has a similar effect to physical exercise. (44) _________

____________________________________________________________________ _____. It also

makes our facial and stomach muscles work. Fry thinks laughter is a type of jogging on the spot.

Laughter can even provide a kind of pain relief. Fry had proved that laughter produces

endorphinschemicals

in the body that relieve pain. Researchers divided forty university students

into four groups. The first group listened to a funny cassette for twenty minutes. The other three

groups (45)

____________________________________________________________________ _

______________________________________________________.

Researchers found that if they

produce pain in the students, (46)

___________________________________________________

________________________________________________. Some

doctors are convinced that

humor should be a part of every medical consultation, as there is evidence to suggest that laughter

stimulates the immune system.

Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes) Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are requested to select one

word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read

the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is

identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item

on Answer Sheet 2

with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more

than once.

Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.

For many environmentalists, the world seems to be getting worse. They have developed a

hitlist

of our main fears: natural resources are 47 out; the population is ever growing,

leaving less and less to eat; species are becoming 48 in vast numbers, and the planet?s

air and water are becoming ever more polluted.

But a quick look at the facts shows a different picture. First, energy and other natural

resources have become more 49 not less so, since the book …The

Limits to Growth? was

published in 1972 by a group of scientists. Second, more food is now produced per 50 of

the world?s population than at any time in history. Fewer people are 51 . Third, although

species are indeed becoming extinct, only about 0.7% of them are expected to disappear in the

next 50 years, not 25~50%, as has so often been 52 . And finally, most forms of

environmental pollution either appear to have been 53 , or are transient –

associated with

the early stages of industrialization and therefore best cured not by restricting economic growth,

but by 54 it. One form of pollution – the release of greenhouse gases that

causes global

warming – does appear to be a phenomenon that is going to extend well into our future, but its

total impact is unlikely to 55 a devastating (令人心神不安的) problem. A

bigger

problem may well turn out to be an inappropriate response to it.

Yet opinion polls suggest that many people nurture the belief that environmental standards

are declining and some factors seem to cause this disjunction between 56 and reality.

A) pose I) starving

B) exaggerated J) head

C) accelerating K) running

D) extinct L) predicted

E) exist M) abundant

F) perception N) conception

G) wealthy O) reducing

H) magnified

Section B

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. 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

Answer Sheet 2 with a

single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

Most conceptions of the process of motivation begin with the assumption that behavior is, at

least in part, directed towards the attainment of goals or towards the satisfaction of needs or

motives. Accordingly, it is appropriate to begin our consideration of motivation in the work place

by examining the motives for working. Simon points out that an organization should be able to

secure the participation of a person by offering him inducements(引诱)

which contribute in some

way to at least one of his goals. The kinds of inducements offered by an organization are varied,

and if they are effective in maintaining participation they must necessarily be based on the needs

of the individuals.

Maslow examines in detail what these needs are. He points out not only that there are many

needs ranging from basic physiological drives such as hunger to a more abstract desire for

selfrealization,

but also that they are arranged in a hierarchy( 等级制度)w hereby the

lowerorder

needs must to a large degree be satisfied before the higherorder ones come into play.

One of the most obvious ways in which work organizations attract and retain members is

through the realization that economic factors are not the only inducement for working as indicated

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