(3)大学英语四级考试模拟试题

大学英语四级考试模拟试题

Model Test Three

Part ⅠListening Comprehension

Directions: This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. Choose the correct answer---A, B, C or D, and then, mark your answer by writing the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

Section A

(D) 11. A) ＄5. B)＄6. C)＄4.8 D)＄5.40 (C) 12. A) As big as she expected. B) Much bigger than she expected.

C) Not as big as she expected. D) So small that she is not satisfied.

(A) 13. A) Jim asked some other people to paint the house.

B) Jim’s house was not painted because he was busy.

C) Jim’s house was painted by himself.

D) Jim’s house has already been painted.

(B) 14. A) The teacher finished the class at 4:30.

B) The class lasts longer than it is supposed to.

C) The time has changed.

D) The teacher has never thought of the time.

(C) 15. A) Check the time of high tide.

B) Go stand under the clock.

C) Wait a little longer.

D) Look for the traffic light.

(C) 16. A) The man attended the concert but he didn’t like it.

B) The man was sorry to miss the football game.

C) The man is more interested in football than classical music.

D) The man was sorry that he didn’t attend the concert.

(B) 17. A) The room is on fire.

B) The two persons are bothered by the smoke.

C) There is very little breeze.

D) The two persons are not permitted in the room.

(D) 18. A) He’s a boat builder. B) He smokes a pipe.

C) He paints in watercolors. D) He fixes pipes.

(C) 19. A) It was the wrong size. B) The fabric was coming apart.

C) It shrank a lot. D) It was the wrong color.

(D) 20. A) Give him a discount. B) Exchange the item.

C) Give him store credit. D) Return his money.

(D) 21. A) The man didn’t follow the washing instructions.

B) It’s a clearance item.

C) It’s more than six days.

D) The man washed it.

(C) 22. A) The store clerk eventually gave the customer a refund.

B) The customer was able to exchange the item.

C) The customer left the store without the item.

D) The customer accepted a store credit.

(D) 23. A) Go to summer school. B) Take a vacation.

C) Stay at home. D) Earn some money.

(A) 24. A) They hired someone to stay in their home.

B) They left their pets with their neighbors.

C) They rented their house to a student.

D) They asked their gardener to watch their home.

(C) 25. A) Watching the dog. B) Cutting the grass.

C) Watching the children. D) Feeding the fish.

Section B

Passage 1

(B) 26. A) The lack of a qualified sales force.

B) A decline in the number of customers.

C) Difficulty in transporting merchandise.

D) Increased transportation costs.

(C) 27. A) Job opportunities are better there.

B) Prices are lower in downtown stores.

C) Highway commuting has become unpleasant.

D) Property is more valuable in the cities.

(A) 28. A) Suggest method for reducing dependence on the automobile.

B) Evaluate ways to improve the economy of downtown areas.

C) Identify automobile designs that cause less pollution.

D) Chart population shifts from 1950 to the present.

Passage 2

(D) 29. A) Call on people to protect sharks.

B) Point out the living environment of sharks.

C) Explain why the sharks are dangerous.

D) An introduction to sharks.

(B) 30. A) By good sense of water waves made by quarries.

B) By good sense of smell, electrical and magnetic power.

C) By good sense of light.

D) By good sense of blood.

(C) 31. A) Bone structure. B) Smell ability.

C) Birth made. D) Recover ability against disease.

(B) 32. A) Their tasty meat.

B) The principle of their defense system against disease.

C) Their solid skin.

D) The principle of their birth modes.

Passage 3

(A) 33. A) It reduces the chance of death for heart surgery patients.

B) It is a possible cure for heart disease.

C) It can help lower high body temperature effectively.

D) It has been proven to be the best pain-killer.

(D) 34. A) It adjusts their blood pressure.

B) It speeds up their recovery after surgery.

C) It increases the blood flow to the heart.

D) It keeps blood vessels from being blocked.

(B) 35. A) It should not be taken by heart surgery patients before the operation.

B) It is harmful to heart surgery patients with stomach bleeding.

C) It will have considerable side effects if taken in large doses.

D) It should not be given to patients immediately after the operation life.

Section C

Current studies show that what goes on labels is an important consideration for manufacturers, since more than seventy percent of (36) ________ read food labels when considering whether to buy a product.

A recent controversy as to whether labels on (37) ________ foods should educate or merely

(38) ________ the consumer is over, and a consumer group got its way. The group had (39) _______ that product labels should do more than simply list how many grams of nutrients a food (40) _______. Their contention was that labels should also list the percentage of a day’s (41) _______ nutrients that the product will supply to the consumer, because this information is (42) _______ in planning a healthy diet.

A government agency disagreed strongly, favoring a label that merely informs the (43) _______, in other words, (44) __________________________. The agency maintained that consumers could decide for themselves if the food is nutritious and is meeting their daily needs.

(45) __________________________________________, and were then asked if they would need more or less of a certain nutrient after eating a serving of this product. (46) _____________. 答案：

36. shoppers 37. prepared 38. inform 39. maintained

40. contains 41. total 42. essential 43. consumer

44. a label that only lists the contents of the product

45. The consumer group, in supporting its case, had cited a survey in which shoppers were shown

a food label

46. The shoppers weren’t able to answer the questions easily when they were not given a specific

percentage

Part ⅠWriting (30 minutes) Directions: for this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Are Parents Demanding Too Much from Their Children? You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below in Chinese:

1.现在许多家长期望孩子成才心切;

2.这样是否过分;

3.家长应对于子女的成长持什么态度.

Are Parents Demanding Too Much from Their Children Most families demand too much from their children, because nearly all parents love their children and try to give them their best love. But the problem is, most of the time, their love may be painful for their children.

Usually, parents will say “I hope my child will become a musician or a scientist or something else”. Then imagine what will happen. No one is born to play the piano. No one is born a scientist. But the parents ignore the interests of their children, who could not do well because they have to do what they hate to do. Give them their own sky and space, children have to be themselves. Every child is different. Every child has his/her own position in the world. It is the parents’responsibility to give them the best advice.

Each child is born unique. Do not force them. Parents should love them with their heart and try to understand them, not just demand too much from them.

Part ⅡReading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)

Don’t Let Depression Ruin a Good Thing

Feeling down? Got the blues? You’re not alone. Everyone gets sad (yes, everyone you’ve ever met). Some people have sad feelings just once in a while, and others may have sad feelings pretty often. More than half of teenagers go through a sad period at least once a month and plenty of younger kids do, too.

When you’re in a sad mood, it may feel like it will last forever, but usually feelings of sadness don’t last very long—a few hours, or maybe a day or two. A deeper, more intense kind of sadness that lasts a lot longer is called depression. Each year millions of people are estimated to surfer from depression, a condition so widespread that it has been dubbed “the common cold of mental illness”.

Symptoms of Depression

Depression is associated with many symptoms and not everyone has the same ones. Some people have many symptoms, while others may only have a few. The symptoms below may signal that you or someone you love may be depressed:

●Appearance—sad face, slow movements, absentminded look

●Unhappy feelings—feeling sad, hopeless, discouraged, or listless

●Negative thoughts—“I’m a failurel,”“I’m no good,” “No one cares about me.”

●Reduced activity—“I just sit around and mope,” “Doing anything is just to o much of an

effort.”

●Reduced concentration.

●People problems—“I don’t want anybody to see me,” “I feel so lonely.”

●Guilt and low self-esteem—“It’s all my fault,” “I should be punished.”

●Physical problems—sleeping problems, weight loss or gain, decreased sexual interest, or

head aches.

●Suicidal thoughts or wishes—“I’d be better off dead,” “I wonder if it hurts to die.”Causes of Depression

The exact cause of depression remains unclear. The most probable explanation is that it is an imbalance in neurotransmitters (神经传递素) in the brain. But what triggers it in the first place?

First, genetic factors. There is a growing interest in genetic approaches to understanding a variety of diseases and depression is no exception. Some people certainly seem to be more vulnerable to depression than others and there is growing evidence that some genes could make individuals susceptible to the disease. Some studies have shown that people who have relatives with depression have a one in four chance of developing it themselves, compared with only one in fourteen for the general population.

Second, external triggers. In most cases just having these genes is probably not enough to cause depression on its own. Depression can be triggered by a number of factors such as unemployment, bereavement (丧亡), social isolation or even a severe physical illness.

Victims of Depression

Anyone may suffer from depression, regardless of age, gender, race and belief. It is “normal”for certain people to feel depressed—such as women, older people, employees with work-related stress, or people with chronic illness.

Women are more than twice as likely as men to experience depression. Although the reasons for this difference are not known, research suggests that biological differences in women—such as hormonal changes and genetics—may contribute to depression. Additionally, social reasons, such as greater stresses from work and family responsibilities, and even the increased rates of sexual abuse and poverty among women, may lead to higher rates of clinical depression.

Depression affects employees at all levels of the corporate ladder. One in every 20 employees experiences the illness. An estimated 200 million workdays are lost each year due to employee depression. Depression tends to affect people in their prime working years and if left untreated it may last a lifetime.

Clinical Depression and Treatment

Unfortunately, many employees with depression don’t seek the treatment they need. Some people are embarrassed to get help for depression, or are reluctant to talk about how they are feeling. Others believe that depression will simply go away on its own, and that they should just “tough it out.” Such views are simply wrong, like any other medical illness, depression requires professional treatment. Talking to friends, family members can often give you the support needed when going through life’s difficulties. However, for those with clinical depression, such support is no substitute for the care of a health professional. Clinical depression is a serious illness that you cannot treat on your own.

Clinical depression is one of the most treatable of all medical illnesses. In fact, more than 80% of people with depression can be treated successfully with medication, psychotherapy or a combination of both. Many people believe that psychological therapies make more sense than the use of antidepressants, but this ignores the fact that depression is a genuine physical illness.

However, the choice of right treatment depends on a variety of factors, such as severity of illness, presenting symptoms, age, etc. Only a qualified healthcare professional can decide if someone has clinical depression. As with many illnesses, if treatment is needed, the earlier it begins, the more effective it can be. Furthermore, early treatment decreases the likelihood of recurrence.

The commonest forms of psychotherapy aim to help the depressed person replace negative thoughts and attitudes with a more realistic view of themselves and the world about them. Interpersonal psychotherapy focuses more on past and present relationships and examines how they affect the patient’s current functioning.

Antidepressant therapies (抗抑郁症药物疗法) began in 1956. now, there is a wide choice of antidepressants available. They are the recognized treatment for all forma of moderate and sever depression regardless of cause. About 70 per cent of patients with depression respond to treatment with antidepressants. Antidepressants are useful and effective, they are not addictive and do not lose efficacy with continued use.

Visit www. depression-screening. org/screeningest/screeningtest. htm, you can determine

whether you have symptoms of depression. The website may help identify any depressive symptoms and determine whether a further evaluation by a medical or mental health professional is necessary.

Talk with your doctor or a qualified mental health professional if you think you may have symptoms of clinical depression. With recognition and treatment, depression can be overcome!

Life can be enjoyable again!

(Y)Always with the thought of being a loser, a person might suffer from depression.

(Y)Causes of depression can be divided into two categories: internal factors and external ones.

(N)Women, older and poor people are more easily to get depressed.

(NG)Blue-collar workers generally have a smaller chance to have depression than white collars.

(N)Whether depression is a physical disease has not been confirmed yet.

(Y)If the treatment of depression is postponed, the patients may have more chances of recurrence.

(Y)The author wants to convey his/her idea that depression is a kind of normal disease which can be recognized and cured.

The definition of depression is ___________________. (a kind of long-standing deep and tense sadness/a deeper, more intense kind of sadness that lasts a lot longer)

Social reasons for trigging depression are __________________. (greater work stress and family responsibilities)

“Tough it out”in Paragraph 10 means _________________ . (to get through despite hardship)

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

Having no language infants cannot be told what they need to learn. Yet, the first years of life is believed to be the most 1(M) time of learning the mother tongue and moreover, by the age of three they will have mastered the basic 2(J) f their native language and will be well on their way to communicate. 3(B) their language is a most impressive intellectual ability. Studies of how children learn language generally agree that the most 4(K) aspect of this ability is the rapid acquisition of grammar.

Nevertheless, the ability of children to 5(E) to grammatical rules is only slightly more wonderful than their ability to learn 6(D) . It has been reckoned that the average high school 7(H) in the United States has a reading vocabulary of 80,000 words, which includes 8(I) expressions and proper names of people and places. This vocabulary must have been learned over a period of 16 years. From the figures, it can be 9(L) that the average child learns at a rate of about 13 new words per day. Clearly learning process of great 10(C) _ goes on at a rapid rate in children.

Passage One

The rise of English is a remarkable success story. When Julius Caesar landed in Britain nearly two thousand years ago, English did not exist. Five hundred years later, English, incomprehensible to modern ears, was probably spoken by about as few people as currently speak Cherokee (an American Indian language)—and with about as little influence. Nearly a thousand years later, at the end of sixteen century, when William Shakespeare was in his prime, English was the native speech of between five and seven million English people and it was, in the words of a contemporary, “of small reach, it stretched no further than this island of ours, never not there over all.”

Four hundred years later, the contrast is extraordinary. Between 1600 and the present, in armies, navies, companies, and expeditions, the speakers of English—including Scots, Irish, Welsh, American, and many more traveled into every corner of the globe, carrying their language and culture with them. Today English is used by at least 750 million people, and barely half of those speak it as a mother tongue. Some estimates have put that figure closer to one billion. Whatever the total, English at the end of the twentieth century is more widely scattered, more widely spoken and written, than any other language has ever been. It has become the language of the plant, the first truly global language.

The statistics of English are astonishing. Of al the world’s languages, it is arguably the richest in vocabulary. The Compendious Oxford English Dictionary lists about 500,000 words; and a further half million technical and scientific terms remain uncatalogued. About 350 million people use English as a mother tongue—about one-tenth of the world’s population, scattered across every continent and surpassed, in numbers, though not in distribution, only by the speakers of the many varieties of Chinese. Three-quarters of world’s mail, and its telexes and cables, are in English. So are more than half the world’s technical and scientific periodicals: it is the language of technology from Silicon Valley to Shanghai.

(D) When did English appear as a language spoken by few people?

A) Julius Caesar’s time. B) Shakespeare’s time.

C) 2,000 years ago. D) 1,500 years ago.

(D) The word “contemporary” (Para. 1) most likely means ______.

A)person in modern time

B) a person who studies old English

C) a person who studies Shakespeare

D) a person in Shakespeare’s time

(A) By saying “the contrast is extraordinary”, the author means ______.

A)English becomes a global language.

B)native speakers of English have reached the number of at least 750 million

C)there might be one billion native speakers of English

D)many other nations have accepted the English language as their mother tongue

(D) Statistics show that English has a vocabulary of about ______.

A) 500,000 words B) 350,000 words

C) 750,000 words D) 1,000,000 words

(A) Which of the following statements is not true?

A)English has the largest number of native speakers in the world.

B)English has the largest number of technical and scientific terms in the world.

C)English is probably the richest in vocabulary.

D)English is the most widely spoken and written language in the world.

Passage Two

This is a new type of advertisement becoming increasingly common in newspaper classified columns. It is sometimes placed among “situations vacant”, although it doesn’t offer anyone job, and sometimes it appears “situations wanted”, although it is not placed by someone looking for a job either. What it does is offer help in applying for a job.

“Contact us before writing your application”, or “Make use of our long experience in preparing your curriculum vitae (job history) or job history”, is how it is usually expressed. The growth and apparent success of such a specialized service is, of course, a reflection on the current high levels of unemployment. It is also an indication of the growing importance of the curriculum vitae, with the suggestion that it may now qualify as an art form in its own right.

There was a time when job seeker simply wrote letters of application. “Just put down your name, address, age and whether you have passed any exams”, was about the average level of advice offered to young people applying for their first jobs when I left school. The letter was really just for openers, it was explained, and everything else could and should be saved for the interview. And in those days of full employment the technique worked. The letter proved that you could write and were available for work. Your eager face and intelligent relies did the test.

Later, as you loved up the ladder, something slightly more sophisticated was called for. The advice then was to put something in the letter which would distinguish you from the rest. It might be the aggressive approach. “Your search is over. I am the person you are looking for,”was a widely used trick that occasionally succeeded. Or it might be some feature specially designed for the job in view.

There is no doubt, however, that it is the increasing number of applicants with university education at all points in the process of engaging staff that has led to the greater importance of the curriculum vitae.

(C) The new type of advertisement mentioned in the first paragraph is _______.

A) classified ads in newspapers B) to offer jobs

C) to offer help in applying for a job D) to offer help in looking for a job (C) Nowadays this specialized type of service appeared because _______.

A)art and technology developed quickly

B)there are so many jobs available

C)there are more people out of work than before

D)the job history is considered to be a work of art

(A) The word “sophisticated” (Para. 4) probably means ________.

A) complicated B) simple C) special D) common

(A) What is suggested that should be included in one’s letter of application for a more important

job?

A)Something that would make you different from others.

B)Basic information including your name, age, etc.

C)Something about your education background.

D)Both B and C.

(B) The job history has become more important than before because _______.

A)there has been an increase in the number of jobs advertised

B)there has been an increase in the number of applicants

C)it requires to be an art form today

D)the requirement is becoming more strict than before

Part ⅤCloze (15 minutes) Reading involves looking at graphic symbols and formulating mentally the sounds and ideas they represent. Concepts of reading have changed 1 over the centuries. During the 1950’s and 1960’s especially, increased attention has been devoted to 2 the reading process. 3 specialists agree that reading 4 a complex organization of higher mental 5 , they disagree 6 the exact nature of the process. Some experts, who regard language primarily as a code using symbols to represent sounds, 7 reading as simply the decoding of symbols into the sounds they stand 8 .

These authorities 9 that meaning, being concerned with thinking, must be taught independently of the decoding process . Others maintain that reading is inexplicably 10 to thinking, and that a child who pronounces sounds without 11 their meaning is not truly reading. The reader, 12 some, is not just a person with a theoretical ability to read but one who 13 reads.

Many adults, although they have the ability to read, have never read a book in its 14 . By some experts they would not be 15 as readers. Clearly, the philosophy, objectives, methods and materials of reading will depend on the definition one uses. By the most 16 and satisfactory definition, reading is the ability to 17 the sound-symbols code of the language, to interpret meaning for various 18 , at various rates, and at various levels of difficulty, and to do 19 widely and enthusiastically. 20 , reading is the interpretation of ideas through the use of symbols representing sounds and ideas

Part ⅥTranslation (5 minutes)

___________________________________________ (提前晚成了所有的人务)，they decided to go on holiday for a week. (All the tasks having been fulfilled/Having completed all the tasks/After they had completed all the tasks)

Though we had not met for 20 years, ____________________ (我一眼就人出了她). (I recognized her the moment I saw her)

_____________________(揣摩字里行间的意思), I concluded that the author of the book was unsympathetic to the project. (Reading between the lines)

I am talking to you as your friend, ___________________ (不是以作为你的上级身份). (not in my capacity as your supervisor)

The European Community has imposed restrictions on the shoes made in China __________________ (进入欧洲市场). (to access the European market/to enter the European market)

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