15-16-2大英四级模拟题第1套试题教案资料

15-16-2大英四级模拟题第1套试题

2015-2016-2大学英语四级模拟题第一套

Part One Writing (30 minutes)

Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the importance of reading literature. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

Part II Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)

Section A

Directions:In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you

will hear two or three questions. Both the news report 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 1 with a

single line through the centre.

Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.

1. A) A rocket has been successfully launched.

B) There was a rocket hitting the moon.

C) A deep dark hole appeared on the moon’s South Pole.

D) There was an amazing finding made by LRO.

2. A) Some form of water existed on the moon.

B) The water on the moon was as much as in the desert.

C) There was a lot of rocket remaining on the moon surface.

D) A large area has been affected by the rocket.

Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.

3. A) Babies. B) Old men. C) Young men.

D) Doctors.

4. A) Because their babies are particularly weak.

B) Because the flu vaccines are too difficult to reach.

C) Because the flu vaccines can be lifesaving for them.

D) Because this is the decision made by the committee.

Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.

5. A) A lightning strike started the fire.

B) The Great Ocean Road attracted many tourists.

C) Traffic was very busy on Christmas Day.

D) Residents were forced to leave their homes.

6. A) The hot and windy weather might expand bushfires.

B) There will be a strong earthquake.

C) Their homes were destroyed by the fires on Christmas Day.

D) The temperatures will fall down soon.

7. A) On Christmas Day. B) On December 19th.

C) In winter. D) On a windy day. Section B

Directions:In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation,

you will hear four questions. Both the conversation 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 1 with a

single line through the centre.

Conversation One

Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

8. A) To make the man feel happy.

B) To persuade the man to shop with his kids.

C) To convince the man Christmas is worth spending.

D) To prevent the man from spending too much shopping.

9. A) At a Christmas party. B) Not long before Christmas.

C) At the New Year’s Eve.D) On some day of April.

10. A) Expectation. B) Complaint. C) Enjoyment. D) Indifference.

11. A) Paying off Christmas bills. B) Trying to earn more money.

C) Preparing for Christmas. D) Limiting his wife’s expense. Conversation Two

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

12. A) He doesn’t feel like doing it.B) He thinks it doesn’t suit him.

C) It will take too much time. D) It is not funny at all.

13. A) Go hill walking. B) Go swimming. C) Go cycling.

D) Dine out.

14. A) It has existed for a long time. B) It enjoys very good business.

C) The owner of the restaurant is an Italian. D) It is located on a busy street.

15. A) He cannot get the meal ready so early. B) He di dn’t want to get a table himself.

C) He thinks it’s too early to have lunch.D) He has to go and see a relative before then.

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear three 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 1 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16. A) Cheap clothes. B) Expensive clothes. C) Fashionable clothes. D) Casual clothes.

17. A) They enjoy loud music. B) They seldom lose their temper.

C) They want to have children. D) They enjoy modern dances.

18. A) The speaker goes to bed very late and her sister gets up early.

B) The speaker’s twin sister often brings friends home and his annoys her.

C) The speaker likes to keep things neat while her tw in sister doesn’t.

D) They can’t agree on the color of the room and furniture.

Passage Two

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

19. A) The great number of people engaged in cigarette producing.

B) The rapid development of cigarette-making machines.

C) The rapid development of cigarette-making factories.

D) The increasing output of tobacco.

20. A) Forty-three. B) Thirty-one.

C) Seventy-five. D) Forty-six.

21. A) Income, years of schooling and job type.

B) Family background and work environment.

C) Education and mood.

D) Occupation and influence of family members.

22. A) City people smoke less than people living on farms.

B) Better-educated men tend to smoke more heavily than other men.

C) Better-educated women tend to smoke more heavily than other women.

D) A well-paid man is likely to smoke more packs of cigarettes per day.

Passage Three

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

23. A) The speed and journey of the fastest rocket soaring to the sun.

B) The brightness of the sun and its distance from the earth.

C) The size and heat of the sun compared with other stars.

D) The total heat and time a column of ice needs to melt.

24. A) 93 million degrees Centigrade. B) 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

C) 10,000 degrees Centigrade. D) Over 2,000 degree Fahrenheit.

25. A) The sun casts its light to millions of other stars.

B) Most of the sun’s heat and light are received on the earth.

C) More resources from the sun will make the earth even prosperous.

D) Appropriate amount of heat and light makes life on the earth possible.

Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word fore 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 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.

Pearls are valuable white gems from the ocean. Actually they are produced by oysters, small shell fish living on the bottom of the ocean.

Only some oysters will make pearls. Oysters 26 _____ pearls only when they are hurt, or injured, by sand. If a grain of sand enters the oyster's shell, it becomes 27

_____ because the rough grain of sand irritates its 28 ______, soft skin.

The oyster tries to protect itself by producing a white 29 ______ that looks like milk. The oyster covers the sand with a 30 ______ fluid which protects itself. Later the white liquid becomes hard and forms a shell, or a bead, around the sand. At this time a pearl is beginning to 31 _____.

The white pearl grows slowly inside the oyster's shell. Usually, it takes about six or seven years for the oyster to produce a pearl.

Of course, not all oysters produce pearls even though most oysters 32 _____ take sand into their shells. Only sand which the oyster cannot get rid of will 33 ______ it. In other words, if an oyster "swallows" some sand, it will try to "split it out". If the oyster cannot get rid of the sand, then it will produce the white fluid to protect itself.

34 ______, only about one in a thousand oysters will produce a pearl; fewer than 1 percent.

35 ______, some pearl manufacturers have discovered how to make oysters produce pearls. These pearl manufacturers — such as the Mikimoto Company in

Directions:In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.

Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than

once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Write the corresponding letter for each

statement on Answer Sheet 2.

No, Seriously: No Excuses

A.In the early days of the education reform movement, a decade or so ago, you'd often hear from

reformers a powerful rallying cry, "No excuses." For too long, they said, poverty had been

used as an excuse by complacent (自满的) educators and bureaucrats who refused to believe

that poor students could achieve at high levels. Reform-minded school leaders took the

opposite approach, insisting that students in the South Bronx should be held to the same

standards as kids in Scarsdale. Amazingly enough, those high expectations often paid off,

producing test results at some low-income urban schools that would impress parents in any

affluent suburb,

B. Ten years later, you might think that reformers would be feeling triumphant. Spurred in part by

the Obama administration's Race to the Top initiative, many states have passed laws reformers

have long advocated: allowing for more charter schools, weakening teachers' tenure (终生职

位) protections, compensating teachers in part based on their students performance. But in

fact, the mood in the reform camp seems increasingly anxious and defensive.

C. Last month, Diane Ravitch, an education scholar who has emerged as the most potent critic of

the reform movement, wrote an Op Ed for this newspaper arguing that raising high poverty

schools to consistently high levels of proficiency is much more difficult and less common than

reformers make it out to be. When politicians hold up specific schools in low income

neighborhoods as success stories, Ravitch wrote, those successes often turn out, on closer

examination, to be less spectacular than they appear. She mentioned the Bruce Randolph

School in Denver, which President Obama singled out as an example of "what good schools

can do," and the Urban Prep Academy in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. Each school

graduates a very high percentage of its seniors, but, Ravitch said, test scores at those schools

suggested that students were below average in the basic academic skills necessary for success

in college and in life.

D. The backlash(激烈反应) was quick and intense. Duncan said that Ravitch was "insulting all of

the hardworking teachers, principals and students all across the country who are proving her

wrong every day. " Jonathan Alter, a columnist for Bloomberg View, wrote that she was

"sliming reformers" and later, when he and Ravitch appeared together on a Denver radio show,

accused her of "abusing statistics" in her analysis of the schools achievement test scores.

E. The Bruce Randolph school, Alter explained, "should not be compared to other Colorado

schools in affluent neighborhoods" ; to consider Randolph's scores alongside those of white,

middle class schools was like "comparing apples and oranges." Instead, he argued, the school

should be judged on the "stunning" fact that its ninth grade writing proficiency rates had