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大学英语四级考试模拟试题

Model Test Two

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

B) She doesn't want to go to the disco party.

C) Work is more important.

D) To go to the disco party is more important.

(D) 12. A) It will take about one month to repair the watch.

B) The woman should have saved more money.

C) It is a good idea to keep the old watch.

D) The watch is no longer worth repairing.

(B) 13. A) She does not agree with the man.

B) She thinks that it is better to wait.

C) She thinks that it is better to drive at night.

D) She does not think the man made a wise decision.

(B) 14. A) Do some shopping. B) Watch another TV program.

C) Leave immediately. D) Leave after the meal.

(D) 15. A) The history book. B) The English book.

C) The math book. D) The chemistry book.

(A) 16. A) They had no money.

B) They couldn't find one.

C) There was nothing wrong with the old one.

D) They both wanted to buy a motorbike.

(A) 17. A) He is ready to help Prof. Wang.

B) He will congratulate Prof. Wang.

C) He will pay a visit to Prof. Wang.

D) He will tell Prof. Wang the good news.

(A) 18. A) An operator. B) A salesgirl. C) A clerk. D) A waitress.

(B) 19. A) Read newspapers from Chicago. B) Turned on the computer.

C) Checked his e-mail. D) Went to his office.

(A) 20. A) She lives in San Francisco. B) She is going to celebrate her birthday.

C) She will meet her brother at the station. D) She works in Chicago.

C) He got the news from his brother. D) He read it from the newspaper.

(B) 22. A) At the man's home. B) In the man's office.

C) At the airline reservation agency. D) At an Internet site.

(D) 23. A) Because the hotel manager is one of her relatives.

B) Because she could get free room and board.

C) Because she could get some discount.

D) Because she could gain some practical experience in her major. (C) 24. A) The working place is far away from the campus.

B) The working conditions are not good at all.

C) She could not earn as much money as before.

D) She has to work in the summer.

(B) 25. A) Jane should go on with her current job.

B) Jane should take up the new job.

C) Jane should go out for a summer vacation.

D) Jane should ask her relatives for advice.

Section B

Passage 1

B) The role of supermarkets in the coffee business.

C) A new trend in the United States.

D) The advertising of a new product.

B) Regular brands of coffee have too much caffeine.

C) Gourmet coffee tastes better.

D) Gourmet coffee is grown in the United States.

(D) 28. A) They will run out of coffee.

B) They will successfully compete with gourmet coffee sellers.

C) They will introduce new regular brands of coffee.

D) They will lose some coffee business.

Passage 2

B) A laboratory experiment.

C) The workbook for the laboratory course.

D) A piece of equipment.

B) The students must follow all instructions exactly.

C) The students will be able to make choices about the laboratory work.

D) A great deal of equipment is available.

(D) 31. A) The activities are to be done during class.

B) The activities take less time.

C) Students are not required to do the activities.

D) Few instructions are given for the activities.

(A) 32. A) At the beginning of the semester.

B) When the students need to be maturated.

C) After the first laboratory session.

D) When the students have done good work.

Passage 3

(D) 33. A) To make recommendations on sensible dieting.

B) To report the latest advances in physical therapy.

C) To relate an experiment combining sleep and exercise.

D) To offer advice about sleeping problem.

(B) 34. A) Your heart rate is lowered. B) It becomes harder to relax.

C) You become too tired to sleep. D) Sleep rhythms are disrupted.

C) Vigorous exercise in the evening. D) Eating cheese before going to bed. Section C

Welcome to Yellowstone National Park. Before we begin our (36) _____ walk today, I'd like to give you a short (37) _____ of our National Park Service. The National Park Service began in the late 1800's. a small group of (38) ______ had just completed a month-long exploration of the region that is now Yellowstone. They (39) _______ around a campfire, and after hours of discussion, they decided that they should not claim this land for themselves. They felt it should be (40) ______ to everyone.

So they began a (41) _______ to preserve this land for everyone's enjoyment. Two years later, in the late nineteenth century, an act of Congress (42) ______ by President Ulysses S. Grant proclaimed the Yellowstone region a (43) _______ park. (44) _____________________________. After Yellowstone became a public park, many other areas of great scenic importance were set aside and in 1916 the National Park Service was established to manage these parks.

(45) _________________________________________. In a national park, park rangers are on duty at all times to answer questions and help visitors in any difficulty. (46) ______________________. The park service also protects the animals and plants within the parks. 答案:

36. nature 37. history 38. explorers 39. gathered

40.accessible 41. campaign 42. signed 43. public

44. It was the first national park in the world

45. As a park ranger, I am an employee of the National Park Service

46. National walks, guided tours, and campfire talks are offered by specially trained staff members

Part ⅠWriting (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Computer Games on Campus. You should write at 120 words according to outline given below in Chinese:

1. 计算机游戏对大学生有一定一处;

2. 但是现在有太多的人沉迷其中;

3. 你的看法.

Computer Games on Campus

Today, many college students are absorbed in playing computer games. I understand that computer games are fun, but they may do more harm than good to you.

First, it is very time-consuming to play computer games. If you spend too much time on them, you will have no time to attend classes, to take exercises, or even to date. Upon graduation many will regret that they have wasted the precious college time on nothing. Second, those who play computer games excessively would easily fall victim to various illnesses. For example, game fans always fix their eyes on the screen, therefore they are likely to be near-sighted. Third, the games fans, who spend their time before the lifeless computers, usually overlook their relationship with others.

Computer games are fun, but do not spend too much time on them. There are simply a lot of more important things in life.

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

Global Water Problem

The UN's World Summit on Sustainable Development to be held in Johannesburg from August 26 to September 4 is supposed to result in plans to reduce global poverty and the North-South income gap without causing irreparable damage to the environment. As a follow-up to the Earth Summit of 1992, it is using the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) as a guide. These are part of the UN's2000 Millennium Declaration, which resolved to cut the proportion of people who are unable to get safe drinking water in half by 2015.

Following are some facts and figures on the state of the world's water supplies and the UN's goals regarding water.

Water Supply and Shortage

A new study warns that about thirty per cent of the world's people may not have enough water by the year 2025. A private American organization called Population Action International did the new study. It says more than three-hundred-thirty-five-million people lack enough water now. The people live in twenty-eight countries which are mostly in Africa or the Middle East.

PAI researcher Robert Engelman says by the year 2025, about three billion people may lack water. At least 18 more countries are expected to have severe water problems. The demand for water keeps increasing. Yet the amount of water on Earth stays the same.

Mr. Engelman says the population in countries that lack water is growing faster than in other parts of the world. He says population growth in these countries will continue to increase. Freshwater ecosystems cover less than 1 per cent of the Earth's surface. Ice-mostly in the form of glacier-comprises 69 per cent of the world's freshwater supplies and groundwater is 30 per cent. Wetlands, which include marshes and swamps, comprise 0.3 per cent, lakes 0.3 per cent, and rivers 0.06 per cent. However, many experts argue that the world's wells are not about to run dry. They say that on a global level we have enough water but must use it more wisely and attempt to address uneven distribution around the globe which is related partly to different rainfall patterns. Problem/issue

Lack of water in the future may result in several problems. It may increase health problems. Lack of water often means drinking water is not safe. Mr. Engelman says there are problems all over the world because of diseases such as cholera which are carried in water. Lack of water may also result in more international conflicts. Countries may have to compete for water in the future. Some countries now get sixty per cent of their fresh water from other countries. This is true of Egypt, the Netherlands, Cambodia, Syria, Sudan, and Iraq. Water shortage would affect the ability of developing to improve their economies. This is because new industries often need a large amount of water when they are beginning.

Moreover, there are many problems with the world's fresh water supplies, including pollution from industry, agriculture and untreated sewage. The World Bank says inefficient infrastructure means that water that does not reach customers is not only wasted but ultimately not paid for. This can lead to infrastructure decay because of a lack of funding for maintenance. Tariffs are often kept low by politicians seeking to woo voters, leading many to advocate the privatization of water

services-95 per cent of municipal water services are publicly run-but this is controversial because of concerns that the very poor could be denied access. Privatization advocates argue that services will improve at a lower cost as a result because the contracted operators will have an incentive to improve their product.

Dams

Dams have brought huge benefits to more than 140 countries but the social and environmental costs have often been high. Perhaps 40 to 80 million people have been displaced globally by dam projects. Dams have damaged aquatic habitats and blocked migration routes. According to a 2000 report by the World Commission on Dams, China and India have half of the world's 45,000 dams. Dams account for only 19 per cent of electricity generated worldwide, but 24 countries generate more than 90 per cent of their power from dams.

Species at Risk

According to the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), of 10,000 species of freshwater fish, 20 per cent are threatened by pollution, habitat destruction, damming, over-fishing and the introduction or invasion of alien species. The WWF says that 81 freshwater fish species have become extinct over the past century. The major proportion of known extinctions resulted from the huge Nile perch in Africa's Lake Victoria, which caused the loss of 50 species. But scientists say the state of knowledge about freshwater fish is incomplete so many unknown to us may have become extinct already.

In addition to fish, the WWF says that four of the five species of river dolphins, two of the three manatee species, about 40 freshwater turtles and more than 400 types of freshwater crustaceans are at risk.

An Example of Misuse

The land-locked Aral Sea, which straddles the former Soviet Central Asian republics of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, is actually salty, but its tragedy highlights the potentially disastrous consequences of poor freshwater use. In the 1960s, Soviet planners built a network of canal to divert the waters of the river that river that fed the sea to irrigate cotton fields in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. As a result, the sea's life source was reduced to a trickle, and it is shrinking and dying as a result. Once the world's fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea has shrunk so much that it is now split into two separate bodies of water-the northern or little Aral Sea and a larger southern body. Aralsk, once a thriving port town, is now 95 kilometers from the coast.

Tackling the Water Problem

The Population Action International Study gives several solutions to the water problem. One way, it says, is to find ways to use water for more than one purpose. Another way is to teach people to be careful not to waste water. A third way is to use less water of agriculture. The report also says long-term solutions to the water problem must include controls on population growth. It says countries cannot provide clean water unless they slow population growth by limiting the number of children people have.

(Y)The UN's World Summit on Sustainable Development and Rio Earth Summit of 1992 contribute to solving water supply problem.

(Y)Africa and Middle East are the districts facing most severe water shortage.

(N)The main reason for severe water problem in the near future is pollution.

(N)According to the experts, the amount of water storage is far from sufficient.

(N)The author argues that privatization of the publicly-run water services will solve the current

water supply problem.

(NG)Climate deterioration should take partial responsibility for the extinction of freshwater fish. (N)Actually the water in Aral Sea isn't salt.

Two of the results of lacking water mentioned in the passage are _________. (health problem and international conflicts)

The main reason for the reduction of the species of freshwater fish is ___________________________. (introduction of a huge Nile perch)

__________ is an effective long-term solution to water problem. (Controls population growth/Controlling population growth)

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

The printed word is just about the most important way we have of communication with one another. Look around you at the 1(I) in school, at the newspapers at home, at the posters on walls and the stamps you 2(F) on envelopes before posting them.

Consider too, the 3(E) of being able to understand the instructions 4(B) on packets of food and medicine sold in shops. In these and in many other ways, the printed word has become so important that it is easy to imagine how life could go on without it, in everyday life there are hundreds of situations in which people need to 5(K) with one another, and the printed word is nearly 6(G) the best method of communication where large numbers of people are involved.

7(D) you may know, communication intended to reach a large number of people is called "mass communication". The main present-day 8(H of mass communication using the printed word are newspapers, magazines and books. The best known dorms of 9(J) mass communication which do not use the printed word are television and radio. Television or radio 10(M) , like newspapers, may also reach millions of people at a time.

A) libraries

B) printed

C) easy

D) as

E) instance

F) stick

G) always

H) forms I) books

J) modern

K) communicate

L) advancing

M) broadcasts

N) movement

O) progressing

Section B

Passage One

The chant of "digital, digital, digital" continues to grow in volume worldwide. Digital cameras, digital video camcorders, video CD Players, DVD, cellular phones, and a host of computer peripherals (外部设备) are moving the trend along at a breathtaking rate. For the average person,

it may seem like a remote and puzzling phenomenon meant only for the technologically adept. Virtually every aspect of our lives could be affected by the digital revolution. Here is a hypothetical concept (设想) to show the possibilities: A real estate agent in Seattle uses a digital still camera to take some pictures of a house she's trying to sell. She transfers them to her computer, digitally retouches and enhances them, and posts them on her company's Internet Web site. In Singapore, a buyer sees the pictures and asks via electronic mail for more information. The agent replies via e-mail and attaches the text and a digital video clip to her message. Later the buyer flies to Seattle, inspects the property, and seals the deal.

One of the biggest marketing surprises of the current age is the digital still camera. Once prohibitively expensive, these cameras have radically dropped in price while gaining in resolution (分辨率) and other features. Although they often resemble traditional cameras, they don't use film. Instead, they store images on either a small removable memory card or on the memory chip inside the camera.

The beauty of digital photography is that while you'll spend relatively more for a digital camera, you'll save a lot on film processing costs, because there aren't any. You can also discard digital pictures and keep shooting. Better yet, you can use software to enhance or alter the image. In quality, the images consumer-level digital cameras produce do not compare to ones you'd get from a 35 mm camera. For the most part, though, digital photos are meant to be viewed on a computer monitor, and so their resolution is more than acceptable. In a world where the speed at which you distribute information often means the difference between success and failure, and immediacy supersedes quality in importance, many people are finding a sue for digital camera.

(D)From the first paragraph we know the average person thinks ______.

A) the digital age is far away B) digital is too complicated for him

C) digital age is terrifying D) both A and B

(D)In the second paragraph the writer used an example to show that ______.

A) digital still camera is easy to use

B) digital still camera should be used together with the Internet

C) people could use digital still camera to earn money

D) digital age is developing rapidly

(A)The word "discard" (Para.4) probably means ______.

A) delete B) store C) alter D) move

(B)All the following are the advantages of digital still camera EXCEPT ______.

A) no need of film B) too expensive to own

C) the image can be changed D) high resolution

(A)The best title for this passage is ______.

A) New Digital Age of Interactivity B) Digital Still Camera

C) Ways of Using Digital Still Camera D) Hello Digital

Passage Two

People have been painting pictures for at 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures. About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as a

kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet. The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were pained and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.

By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign or letter represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used all over the world. These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawing, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting.

(D)According to the first paragraph, pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves because ______.

A) the pictures were thought to be helpful

B) the painters wanted to tell stories in pictures

C) the painters wanted to paint their hunted animals

D) both A and B

(C)The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasons EXCEPT that ______.

A) the former was easy to write B) there were fewer signs in the former

C) the former was easy to spell D) each sign stood for only one sound

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

A) The Egyptians used to record information by putting writing and pictures together.

B) The Greeks developed the alphabet system from the Mediterranean Sea.

C) The Roman alphabet was developed from the Egyptian one.

D) The Romans copied their writing system from the Greeks.

(B)In the last paragraph, the author thinks all those except that pictures _______.

A) are useful in every aspect of our life B) should be made interesting

C) are of much use in our life D) have different forms

(B)The best title for this passage is _______.

A) History of Pictures B) Pictures and Alphabet System

C) Origin of Pictures D) The Ancient Egyptians

Part ⅤCloze (15 minutes) From childhood to old age, we all use language as a means of broadening our knowledge of ourselves and the world about us. When humans first 1 , they were like newborn children, unable to use this 2 tool. Yet once language developed, the possibilities for human kind's future 3 and cultural growth increased.

Many linguists believe that evolution is 4 for our ability to produce and use language. They 5 that our highly evolved brain provides us 6 an innate language ability not found in lower 7 . Proponents of this innateness theory say that our 8 for language is inborn, but that language itself develops gradually, 9 a function of the growth of the brain during childhood. Therefore there are critical 10 times for language development.

Current 11 of innateness theory are mixed, however, evidence supporting the existence of some innate abilities is undeniable. 12 , more and more schools are discovering that foreign languages are best taught in 13 grades. Young children often can learn several languages by being 14 to them, while adults have a much harder time learning another language once the

15 of their first language have become firmly fixed.

16 some aspects of language are undeniably innate, language does not develop automatically in a vacuum. Children who have been 17 from other human beings do net possess language. This demonstrates that 18 with other human beings is necessary for proper language development. Some linguists believe that this even more basic to human language 19 than any innate capacities. These theorists view language as imitative, learned behavior. 20 , children learn language from their parents by imitating them. Parents gradually shape their child's language skills by positively reinforcing precise imitations and negatively reinforcing imprecise ones.

(B) 1. A) generated

(A) 2. A) valuable

(A) 3. A) attainments

(D) 4. A) essential

(D) 6. A) for

(B) 7. A) organizations

(A) 8. A) potential

(A) 9. A) as

(B) 10. A) ideological

(A) 11.A) reviews

(D) 13. A) various

(B) 14. A) revealed

(A) 16. A) Although

(D) 17. A) distinguished

(D) 18. A) exposition

(A) 19. A) acquisition

B) appropriate

B) feasibility

B) available

B) inform

B) from

B) organisms

B) performance

B) just as

B) biological

B) reference

B) In a sense

B) different

B) exposed

B) formations

B) Whether

B) different

B) comparison

B) appreciation

B) After all C) born

C) convenient

C) entertainments

C) reliable

C) claim

C) of

C) humans

C) preference

C) like

C) social

C) reaction

C) Indeed

C) the higher

C) engaged

C) rules

C) Since

C) protected

C) contrast

C) requirement

C) In other words D) originated

D) favorite

D) evolution

D) responsible

D) convince

D) with

D) children

D) passion

D) unlike

D) psychological

D) recommendation

D) In other words

D) the lower

D) involved

D) constitutions

D) When

D) isolated

D) interaction

D) alternative

D) Above all

Part ⅥTranslation (15 minutes)

________________ (如果在上学时再努一把力), I would be sitting in a comfortable office now. (If had worked harder at school (Had I worked harder at school))

___________________(似乎他的老板老是找他麻烦), which makes him quite upset. (It seems that his boss is constantly finding faults with him)

_________________ (除了照顾两个孩子), she also has a full time job. (Apart from caring for her two children (Apart from taking care of her two children))

The police has been trying to _______________________ (查出死于车祸的女人的身份). (identify the woman killed in the traffic accident/establish the identity of the woman killed in the traffic accident)

Mother was reading a novel, ____________________ (对周围的事情全然不觉). (completely lost to the outside world/completely unaware of what was going on around)

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