[外语类试卷]大学英语四级(2013年12月考试改革适用)模拟试卷159.doc

[外语类试卷]大学英语四级（2013年12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷

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一、Part I Writing

1 Write an essay commenting on the remark "The world is not only hungry but also thirsty." You can cite examples to illustrate your point and then explain what you can do to economize water resource. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

Section A

（A）He has decided to retreat from the talks.

（B）He has supported the talks.

（C）He has covered doubts about the talks.

（D）He has opposed the talks.

（A）The spread of nuclear weapons in the Middle East.

（B）The position taken by the Security Council.

（C）The pollution of nuclear plants.

（D）The tougher position of Iran on the nuclear issue.

（A）25.

（B）10.

（C）35.

（D）15.

（A）Every French voter wanted more Europe with better social protection.

（B）Every Dutch voter wanted less Europe which cost them less money.

（C）Some would cast their vote in protest against an unpopular government today. （D）There was also another cast in fear of an uncertain future tomorrow.

（A）United States.

（B）Iraq.

（C）Saudi Arabia.

（D）United Arab Emirates.

（A）The United Arab Emirates doesn't want to make enemy with America.

（B）The United Arab Emirates has its own resources and there are no mines in that waters.

（C）The United Arab Emirate is far from Iran.

（D）The United Arab Emirate is afraid of Iran.

（A）The United States.

（B）Iran.

（C）The United Arab Emirates.

（D）Not mentioned.

Section B

（A）He's explaining the language laboratory.

（B）He wants to know where the tapes are.

（C）He's showing her a new tape recorder. （D）He's recording her voice on a tape.

（A）It needs to have more French lesson tapes. （B）It needs to have its controls repaired. （C）It is different from all the other laboratories. （D）It can be operated rather easily.

（A）At ten o'clock.

（B）Monday through Friday from 4 to 6 a.m. （C）From 4 to 6 p.m. at workday.

（D）From 4 to 6 p.m. at weekend.

（A）Change her class schedule.

（B）Fill out a job application.

（C）Organize tapes on the shelves.

（D）Work on the French lessons.

（A）There aren't enough cabinets.

（B）There is too much noise.

（C）Office supplies are taking up space.

（D）Some teaching assistants don't have desks.

（A）To get help with the course.

（B）To chat with Jack socially.

（C）To hand in their assignments.

（D）To practice giving interviews.

（A）Give Jack a different office.

（B）Complain to the department head.

（C）Move the supplies to the storage room. （D）Try to get a room to use for meetings. （A）He thinks it is useless.

（B）He will think about it later.

（C）He thinks it might work.

（D）He has no idea about it.

Section C

（A）He obtained his philosophy degree.

（B）He sold his own life on the Internet.

（C）He became famous for his website.

（D）He requested to part with his girlfriend. （A）He intended to do something special. （B）He wanted to ask for donations for charities.

（C）He did not know the reason himself.

（D）He meant to offer some help to poor people.

（A）Driving license.

（B）Training course.

（C）Cooking skills.

（D）Australian passport.

（A）Because they had caught serious disease.

（B）Because they had been away from home for many years. （C）Because it was said they had died.

（D）Because they were put into prison.

（A）His bitter experience abroad.

（B）What he saw in the Asian countries.

（C）Made-up stories based on his imagination.

（D）The stories about his family.

（A）Where the countries are.

（B）How to make a travel around the world.

（C）What he told about is quite true.

（D）How to find the black stone for cooking.

（A）She was believed to be the last survivor after the big ship sank.

（B）She was reported to die at her own home in England on Sunday.

（C）She was the youngest passenger on board when the disaster happened.

（D）She was taking a journey with her family when the liner hit an iceberg.

（A）Her father.

（B）Her mother.

（C）Her brother.

（D）Her sister.

（A）Because it would make her feel uncomfortable.

（B）Because she was too sick to attend the ceremony.

（C）Because she didn't like being treated as a celebrity.

（D）Because she had to make some miserable speeches.

（A）Valuable prints taken from the ship.

（B）A suitcase filled with donated clothes.

（C）Her lifesaving sack in the disaster.

（D）Apology letters to her from the Fund.

Section A

26 The flood of women into the job market boosted economic growth and changed U.S. society in many ways. Many in-home jobs that used to be done【C1】______by women — ranging from family shopping to preparing meals to doing【C2】______work

— still need to be done by someone. Husbands and children now do some of these jobs, a 【C3】______that has changed the target market for many products. Or a working woman may face a crushing "poverty of time" and look for help elsewhere, creating opportunities for producers of frozen meals, child care centers, dry cleaners, financial services, and the like.

Although there is still a big wage【C4】______between men and women, the income working women【C5】______gives them new independence and buying power. For example, women now【C6】______about half of all cars. Not long ago, many cars dealers【C7】______women shoppers by ignoring them or suggesting that they come back with their husbands. Now car companies have realized that women are【C8】

______customers. It's interesting that some leading Japanese car dealers were the first to 【C9】______pay attention to women customers. In Japan, fewer women have jobs or buy cars—the Japanese society is still very much male-oriented. Perhaps it was the

【C10】______contrast with Japanese society that prompted American firms to pay more attention to women buyers.

A)scale B)retailed C)generate D)extreme E)technically

F)affordable G)situation II)really I)potential J)gap

K)voluntary L)excessive M)insulted N)purchase O)primarily

27 【C1】

28 【C2】

29 【C3】

30 【C4】

31 【C5】

32 【C6】

33 【C7】

34 【C8】

35 【C9】

36 【C10】

Section B

36 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. Indentify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

Creative Book Report Ideas

A)Are you at a loss for creative book report ideas for your students? If yes, then this article will help you make reading and reviewing books more creative for your class. In an age of PSPs, Xbox, an-ime and gaming arcades, reading has lost its foothold in the list of hobbies that children tend to cite. Most of the reading that kids do today, comes in the form of compulsory books that they need to read for school and maybe that is the reason they find reading to be an insurmountable and boring task. If you want to inculcate the love for languages and literary masterpieces in your students and want them to devour books everyone should read, then a good way of going about the same would be to get them to start working on creative book report ideas. While working on creative ideas for book reports, your students will have to understand the book in a way that allows them to come up with new ways to present to the class, the essence of the book.

B)As a teacher, while egging your students to activate their creative gray cells, you will have to help them out with basic ideas that they can work on. Depending on the age bracket that your students belong to, the creative book report ideas will vary. This is so, not just because of the varying attention spans that children of various age groups possess but also because of the amount of work that kids can put into the report. While a middle school student will be comfortable handling a handy cam, a student from elementary school will be more fascinated if he is working with paints and puppets. So do you want to know how to write a book report creatively? In this article, we will list out for you, a couple of good creative book report ideas for elementary students and for middle school students.

C)A book report sandwich is a good creative idea for book reports. As a teacher you can get drawings of a sandwich on sheets of paper that are of the color of the ingredients of your sandwich, for example, a cream sheet of paper to resemble mayonnaise, red to represent tomato and likewise. Obviously, each ingredient should be cut in a way that when assembled together, it looks like a sandwich. Now, give each of your students one of these book sandwiches to create their book report. It can start with the name of the book and the author's name on the top slice of the sandwich. The second ingredient can have the summary of the book on it. Each subsequent ingredient can have a description of the main characters, the setting of the book, the plot, and then his or her views about the

book. Once they are done with their book reports, they can staple the book sandwich together and then, you can create a class bulletin board with all the book report sandwiches on display.

D)One of the good techniques is to retell a story: it is also one of the favorite creative book report ideas among students. The job that the student will have is to read the book and then pick a few objects at his/her home which will allow him/her to retell the story in a way that makes it interesting for his/ her audience. Every time he/she picks out an object from the bag to report the book he/she has read, there has to be a valid connection between the book and the object, which the student can first ask the audience to guess and then go ahead and explain it. This idea is spin-off on the normal show and tells and allows for an interactive book report session.

E)This is one of the creative ideas for book reports in which, as the teacher, you will have to divide your class into groups and give them one book each. The students can then read the book and get together and write a play and act it out for the class. To give a deeper insight into the book, one of the students can play the role of the author and as a group, the students can try and recreate the thought process of the author. The student playing the role of the author can then interrupt the play at important junctures and talk about the reasons for these twists in the play and how he/she came up with these plot lines.

F)As a young adult, your student's fascination may go beyond the immediate concerns of the book. He/she may want to understand the circumstances in which the book was written, the times then, the events happening in the world and get the author's perspective about the book. Encourage your students to think on those lines. Divide the class into pairs and give each pair one book to read. Let them then do the roles of the author and a journalist. You can have an interview session in front of the class, enabling them to dissect the book and get a peek into the author's world.

G)In a technology-obsessed world, it may be a very tiny minority of your class that does not get excited with the prospect of shooting a film. It is one of the best creative book report ideas for middle school, and you will need to divide the class into groups and give them at least two months to adapt the book that they have been assigned, into a film. The movie should have a well-adapted screenplay, and all other prerequisites, like a lighting engineer, sound engineer, costume designer, etc. At the end of the given time, the film can be screened in front of the class and then discussed.

H)If you are on the lookout for good individual creative book report ideas, then this one could be for you. Assign every student a book and then ask them to start maintaining a diary, from the author's point of view. Ask them to come up with imaginary incidents from the author's life and use historical events to explain why the author wrote the book in a certain manner. Alternately, you can also ask your students to give a surrogate ending to the story.

I)These are just few of the options that you could use to inspire your students to come up with creative book report ideas. As kids we tend to be more imaginative and creative. Encourage your students to think out of the box and appreciate them for their efforts. This will help you have a class that is not only lively and inquisitive by nature but also a class that will cultivate a love for words.

37 Teachers can create a class bulletin board to display all the book report sandwiches after their students finish their reports.

38 Adopting the method of knowing your author, teachers can encourage students to think beyond the immediate concerns of the book.

39 Asking the students to write from their own point of view is suitable for teachers who are on the lookout for good individual creative book report ideas.

40 Retelling a story is one of the favorite creative book report ideas among students and it tells and allows for an interactive book report session.

41 Nowadays, most of book children read are those they need to read for school.

42 As kids teachers tend to be more imaginative and creative.

43 While working on creative ideas for book reports, students will have to understand the book.

44 The creative book report ideas vary according to ages because children in different age groups have different attention span.

45 If teachers ask their students to shoot a film about a book, they should give them no fewer than two months.

46 That teachers have to divide their class into groups and give them one book each is a good creative book report ideas.

Section C

46 Wouldn't it be great if you could just look up at the sky and read the weather forecast right away? Well, you can. The forecast is written in clouds. If you can read that writing, you can tell something about the atmosphere. With some practice, you can

become a pretty good weather forecaster. Who knows, you might even do as well as meteorologists.

Meteorologists use much more information than just the appearance of the clouds to make their forecast. They collect data from all over the world. Then they put it into powerful, high-speed computers. This does give the meteorologists an advantage, because they can track weather patterns as they move from west to east across the country. But you have an advantage, too. You can look at the sky and get your data directly. A meteorologist uses a computer forecast that's several hours old to make a local forecast.

What are you seeing when you look at a cloud? "A picture of moisture is doing in the atmosphere," says meteorologist Peter Leavitt. There's moisture throughout the atmosphere. Most of the time you don't see it, because it's in the form of an invisible gas called water vapor. Sometimes, the temperature of the air gets cold enough to cause the water vapor to change to liquid water. It's called condensation, and we see it happen all the time(for example, when humid air from the shower hits the cold glasses of a mirror). When enough water vapor condenses, droplets come in the air. These droplets scatter light. A cloud is seen.

Watching clouds over a day or two tells you a lot more than a single cloud about the weather to come. Changes in clouds show changes in the atmosphere. You should begin to notice patterns. Certain clouds, following each other in order, can signal an approaching storm. But don't take our word for it: see for yourself.

47 The word "meteorologists" in the first paragraph means______.

（A）people who broadcast weather on TV

（B）people who are in charge of weather forecast

（C）experts who study the earth's atmosphere and its changes

（D）experts who study the earth's crust, rocks, strata and the history of its development

48 According to the passage, an ordinary person might do as well as meteorologist in weather forecast______.

（A）with some simple practice looking up at the sky

（B）with the help of the high-speed computers

（C）through a complex instruments

（D）consulting a weather station

49 Meteorologists can make their weather forecast______.

（A）by using information of the appearance of the clouds only

（B）by collecting data from parts of the world

（C）by calculating and analyzing this data

（D）by watching the sky

50 According to the passage, your advantage in weather forecasts is that______. （A）you have a high-speed computer

（B）you observe the sky and obtain your data directly

（C）you have more instruments at home

（D）you can track weather patterns as they move from west to east across the country 51 This passage mainly tells us about how to______.

（A）train yourself as a meteorologist

（B）be an assistant to a meteorologist

（C）forecast the weather by ourselves

（D）broadcast the weather forecast

51 Acid rain, which is a form of air pollution, currently becomes a subject of great debate because of widespread environmental damage for which it has been blamed. It forms when oxides of sulfur(硫)and nitrogen(氮)combine with atmospheric moisture to

yield sulfuric and nitric acids, which may then be carried long distances from their source before they drop in the form of rain. The pollution may also take the form of snow or fog or fall down in dry forms. In fact, although the term "acid rain" has been in use for more than a century — it is derived from atmospheric studies that were made in the region of Manchester, England — the more accurate scientific term would be "acid deposition". The dry form of such deposition is just as damaging to the environment as the liquid form. The problem of acid rain originated with the Industrial Revolution, and it has been growing ever since. The severity of its effects has long been recognized in local settings, as exemplified by the spells of acid smog in heavily industrialized areas. The widespread destructiveness of acid rain, however, has become evident only in recent decades. One large area that has been studied extensively is northern Europe, where acid rain has eroded structures, injured crops and forests, and threatened life in freshwater lakes. In 1984, for example, environmental reports indicated that almost half of the trees in Germany's Black Forest had been damaged by acid rain. The northeastern United States and eastern Canada have also been particularly affected by this form of pollution. Damage has also been detected in other areas of these countries and other regions of the world.

Industrial emissions have been blamed as the major cause of acid rain. Because the chemical reactions involved in the production of acid rain in the atmosphere are complex and as yet little understood, industries have tended to challenge such assessments and to stress the need for further studies and because of the cost of pollution reduction, governments have tended to support this attitude. Studies released by the USA government in the early 1980s, however, strongly indicated industries as the main source of acid rain, in the eastern USA and Canada.

52 From the first sentence of the passage, we learn that______.

（A）acid rain has caused air pollution

（B）acid rain has caused widespread environmental damage

（C）acid rain has become a much-studied subject

（D）acid rain travels in all directions before it rains down

53 According to the passage, acid fog______.

（A）falls down when the atmosphere is moist

（B）is not as frequent as acid rain

（C）often falls in the region of Manchester, England （D）is as damaging as acid rain

54 The second paragraph is mainly about______.

（A）the origin of acid rain

（B）the cause of acid rain

（C）the formation of acid rain

（D）the widespread damage of acid rain

55 Why is acid rain little understood?

（A）Because it is a new phenomenon.

（B）Because it is not frequent enough.

（C）Because its formation is complex.

（D）Because it is difficult to study it.

56 According to the passage, Governments______. （A）deny that industries causes acid rain

（B）admit that they are only partly responsible

（C）claim that they are the main sources of pollution （D）think that the cause of acid rain needs further study 二、Part Ⅳ Translation

57 孔子(Confucius)是一位思想家、政治家、教育家，中国儒学(the Ru School)思想的创始人。儒学(Confucianism)这个道德和宗教哲学的大系统建立在孔圣人(Master Kung)的教学上。冯友兰，中国思想史上20世纪伟大的权威之一，把孔子在中国历史上的影响比作西方的苏格拉底(Socrates)。