20139月份四级考试样卷6

Model Test Six

Part I Writing(30 minutes)

Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the

importance of finance management. Yon should write at least 120 words but no more

than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1.

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Part II Listening Comprehension (30 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 question

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 1 with a single line through the centre.

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1. A) Phone the Village Inn for a reservation. B) Ask her parents to come some other time.

C) Call each hotel in the area to check. D) Find a hotel close to the campus.

2. A) The interview is very important for him. B) He has never been to an interview.

C) He hasn't prepared for the interview. D) The interview is said to be quite demanding.

3. A) The woman is going out for supper. B) The woman wants to eat some chocolate.

C) The woman will go to a convenience store. D) The woman will go to a bar for a drink.

4. A) He needs some tomato juice. B) His pants are stained.

C) His pants need mending. D) His pants are missing.

5. A) The woman has to remain in the class. B) The woman will have to finish the report.

C) Dr. Brown enforces strict deadlines on work. D) He would like to drop the class too.

6. A) She is going to Venice. B) She travels around the world.

C) She likes to collect postcards. D) She is going on vacation.

7. A) Her notebook has got missing. B) Her handwriting is difficult to read.

C) She needs to attend more lectures. D) She has lent her notes to someone else.

8. A) She's bored with the present job. B) She is going to make a move.

C) She hates commuting to work. D) She has a bad sleep at night.

Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

9. A) At a bookstore. B) At a library. C) On the telephone. D) At the student center.

10. A) Return it as quickly as possible. B) Pay a fine because of the delayed return.

C) Return it within 7 days of the recall notice. D) Return it within 7days before the due date.

11. A) Send an email to him.

B) Impose an overdue fine on him.

C) Ask his roommates to give him a message.

D) Give the notice to his teacher of his department.

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

12. A) Poetry is popular among the general public. B) People there have no interest in poetry.

C) Poetry is the most popular literature. D) People have no passion for writing poems.

13. A) Flowery words are the most shining point of poetry.

B) Flowery words aren't an absolute necessity for poetry.

C) One can write poems easily after he has read much.

D) He prefers a long novel to a short poem.

14. A) He has more readers than other poets. B) He uses refined words in his poems.

C) His poems express deep thoughts. D) His poems are interesting and excellent.

15. A) Finding out a rhymed word with panda. B) Bringing the poem about panda to an end.

C) Adding the name "Amanda" into a poem. D) Replacing panda with another word.

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 1

with a single line through the centre.

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Passage One

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

16. A) To find the similarity of soybeans in the world. B) To protect soybeans against dry condition.

C) To collect materials for their papers. D) To study the impact of global warming.

17. A) China is the only. country to grow soybeans. B) China is the ancestral home of soybeans.

C) China has a long history of growing soybeans. D) China has different kinds of soybeans.

18. A) They produce the same yield in different locations.

B) They are suitable to grow only in the United States.

C) They produce better quality soybeans under dry weather.

D) They have better production under drought conditions.

Passage Two

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

19. A) They like mass produced things. B) They design things themselves and sell them.

C) They make clothes and tools for themselves. D) They use crafts to decorate their homes.

20. A) In shopping .centers or churches. B) In community or parking lots.

C) On playgrounds or country grounds. D) In public parks or on county grounds.

21. A) Candies and toys. B) Clothes and gifts. C) Rides and shows. D) Rides and foods.

22. A) Things in craft fairs have better quality than in stores.

B) They want to buy things that are different and original.

C) It is more convenient to buy things in craft fairs.

D) They can buy everything they want in craft fairs

Passage Three

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

23. A) It is the largest supplier of valuable minerals. B) It will disappear in about thirty years.

C) It is beginning to grow smaller and smaller. D) It offers many resources to help mankind survive.

24.A) Iron and copper. B) Gold and copper. C) Nickel and bronze. D) Iron and bronze

25. A) The sea level will be 20 centimeters higher than it is now

B) The sea will be empty if we continue fishing at this pace.

C) The problems to explore the sea will have been largely solved.

D) People will depend largely on sea foods and minerals.

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 with the exact words you have

just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time; you should check what

you have written.

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People whose jobs require them to sit for long periods of time suffer as much from back pain

as people who lift all day long.

Many researchers believe that the huge increase in back pain over the past couple of (26) _ has a lot to do with the fact that more and more of us are spending our work days in chairs.

Many people have the (27) _ that if their back pain becomes very severe, they can always (28) _ surgery. Nothing could be further from the truth. The amount of pain someone suffers from has very little to do with whether or not he or she could (29) _ surgery. One British researcher has estimated that for every 10,000 people who experience back pain, only four need surgery. And yet, one of the most (30) _ asked questions that back pain sufferers ask is: "Who's the best specialist in town?”Waste of time. Physicians today (31)_ physical activity and the use of posture(姿势)support clothes to (32)_ exercise while supporting back muscles.

Not many years ago, back pain patients were put to bed, sometimes for weeks or months. Two or three days of bed rest is now the (33) _. Physically speaking, if you stay in bed, your muscle strength can decline by as much as three percent per day. At that rate, you will end up with

no more energy left to (34) _ normal daily routines.

A lot of attention has recently been paid to (35) _ links between depression and back pain. It is not rare.

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 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 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

Over the last two years, in the PC business Michael Dell has been beaten like a rented mule. His company continues to lose market _ 36___ particularly in the U.S.

Industry analysts would say that Dell has done a poor job of bringing out__ 37_and attractive products. Apple Mac sales keep rising. HP, Sony, and Lenovo have __38____new product lines which have had warm＿39＿.

Dell's core business is being hit by three things. The first is that the company was fairly late at ＿40＿into retail outlets〔零售店) overseas. It＿41＿on its direct sales model for too long. The second problem is that the recession has＿42＿Dell's sales. Dell's final problem is that it cannot find the right people to run the company. It＿43＿dumped most of the senior management that it hired just over a year ago. It takes time for new people to get up to speed.

Word has gotten out that Dell plans to launch its own high-end smartphone. Dell does not do well what it is supposed to do well. It has become a second rate PC company. It proposes to partially offset that by entering a business which is controlled by Apple and RIM, the maker of the Blackberry. Because smartphone margins are high, Nokia, the world largest cellphone company, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson are also ＿44＿into the market. The traffic jam is going to be ＿45＿. So Dell can’t win in the handset business. What is ought to do is to try to improve its PC business.

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Section B

Directions:In this section, yon 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. Answer the questions by marking

the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

To Help the Kids, Parents Go Back to School

A) For a few years now, every parent of a newborn baby in the South Florida district has received a congratulations packet while still in the hospital that includes, among other things, a colorful animal picture book (in three languages) and a letter from something called the Parent Academy. "Keep in mind that you are, and will always be, your child's first and most important teacher," the letter reads. "Miami-Dade County Public Schools has many resources and opportunities for you to make the most of that awesome responsibility." You have to admit, it's a pretty genius interpretation of that old advertising saying "Get 'em while they're young."

B) While the concept of parent academies-in which towns or school districts offer what are essentially classes and workshops on parenting skills-has been around for more than a decade; several larger cities are starting or expanding such programs in an effort to engage parents who are otherwise uninvolved in their child's education. Philadelphia has invested heavily in this year's launch of a comprehensive and wide-ranging program for parents. Boston is restoring its Parent University following an earlier version's shutdown due to budget cuts. And Miami's Parent Academy, now in its fifth year, offers more than 100 workshops that range from Help Your Child Succeed in Math to Teaching Behavior Skills

C) Parent academies are particularly helpful for urban communities full of mothers and fathers who for various reasons are disengaged from their children's education. Many are single parents with second jobs that leave little time to help with schoolwork. Some are immigrants who don't understand much English. Some are parents uncomfortable with schoolwork-a survey released by Intel found that more than 50% of parents would rather talk to their kids about drugs or drunk driving than about math or science. And then there's the general confusion that often comes from dealing with a bureaucracy(官僚作风)as complicated as the typical American school district. "There are parents who are just not as well informed about the way schools work," says Karen Mapp, director of the Education Policy and Management Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. "The policies, the procedures, what state test scores mean-it's not that they don't care; they just don't know how."

D) Picture yourself in the following supposed situations: you're a parent who never graduated high school; you're a parent whose only interactions with schools have been negative ones; you're a parent who has zero recollection of how to divide fractions; you're a parent who has no clue as to what the important dates are on the college-application calendar. Now picture yourself experiencing all of the supposed situations at once, and then imagine how your child would suffer from your knowledge deficiency. For as much as the current wave of education reformers like to maintain that quality teachers and schools can help overcome environmental factors, a child's home life plays an undeniable role in how well they learn, says Mapp.

E) "I've been doing research on family engagement for about 16 years now," she says. "And there's

40 years of research that indicates a pretty positive relationship between families being engaged in their children's education and positive effects on students in terms of their academic achievement.”Mapp is currently helping write a case study on Miami's Parent Academy program, which is one of the nation's most successful big-city attempts in this area. Privately funded by local

philanthropists(慈善家)and businesses, the Parent Academy has seen more than 120,000 people participate in its workshops during the past half-decade. It has taught parents everything from how to reinforce reading lessons at home to how to deal with threat and the dangers of sexing.

F) The county has partly adjusted its approach to serve its large non-English-speaking community. "Many of our newly arrived immigrants don't understand what they can do to support their child's success, and they don't understand the system-there's no point in going to the school board when you're concerned about your child's homework," says Anne Thompson, director of the Miami-Dade program Because of language issues, she often sees students having to do their parents’ jobs in terms of navigating school bureaucracy.

G) In Philadelphia, superintendent Arlene Ackerman set up a Parent University this year after expressing concern over low literacy rates for parents and children, as well as a general lack of parental engagement among low-income families, especially among African-American men. Tasked with cherry-picking the best elements from other programs around the country (and tossing the worst), Karren Dunkley, deputy of the Philadelphia School District's Office of Parent, Family and Community Services, and her colleagues realized that they needed to ground the program within the context of adult continuing education. That is, if you're trying to teach adults something, give them the respect of having it resemble a real class, which meets more than once, reinforces lessons and allows parents to form learning-centered relationships with instructors and fellow students一just as their kids do. "When we looked around the country, we found one-hit wonders, where parents would come into schools for daylong workshops," says Dunkley. "That really didn't produce transformative results, nor did it sustain interest or truly give support to parents.”

H) Supported primarily by federal funds, the Philadelphia Parent Academy's "curriculum" runs the scope from a 10-week math-literacy course to a multipart social-etiquette(社交礼仪)class to a one-day session on attendance and truancy(逃课)that teaches parents about "compulsory education and attendance law.”It’s all targeted toward families in need: parents of children at low-performing schools and residents of housing projects and emergency shelters. Of course, there's no guarantee that the people who need these programs the most will actually take advantage of them-you can't force parents to care, no matter how many free classes you offer. Still, says Harvard's Mapp, you have to make progress where you can. "Family engagement is a shared, mutual partnership between educators and parents," she says. "It's a two-way conversation between home and school."

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46. Some students have to navigate school bureaucracy by themselves, because their parents don’t know English.

47. Some big cities are launching parent academies programs to engage parents in their child's education.

48. The letter in the congratulations packet intends to persuade parents to go back to school

49. Mapp believes that besides teachers and schools, the parents' help at home is essential for children's study.

50. A government official realized that the parent academic program should be on the basis of adult continuing education.

51. Educators and parents should work in a shared, mutual partnership to help the kids, says a university staff member.

52. The survey by Intel found that more than half of parents were unwilling to deal with schoolwork.

53. Miami's Parent Academy program is as a great success.

54. The Philadelphia Parent Academy's "curriculum" is funded primarily by federal funds.

55. A Parent University was set up in Philadelphia partly due to the high illiteracy rates for parents and children.

Section C

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 ore

Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.

Earlier this year I met with a group of women in Matela, a small farming village in Tanzania, and we discussed something that's been on all of our minds lately: finding a safe place to save money. The women said their babies were getting sick from malaria(疟疾)，and they could afford the drugs if they saved money over time-but with no access to formal savings accounts, they had a hard time safeguarding cash. So they saved in risky and inefficient ways. They made loans to each other, or bought goats or jewelry, then sold them if they suddenly needed money.

The success of microloans has opened new opportunities for many poor people and has been a crucial factor in reducing poverty. But loans are not enough. Savings accounts could help people in the developing world with unexpected events, accumulate money to invest in education, increase their productivity and income, and build their financial security. Fortunately, this is a moment of opportunity. New policy ideas are uniting in ways that will lower the cost of savings and bring safe financial services to the doorsteps of the poor.

One exciting trend is agent banking, in which stores and post offices serve as banking outlets. Banks still manage and guarantee the deposits, but they rely on the infrastructure(基础设施)of other outlets to deal with clients where there are no bank branches.

The phenomenal growth of mobile phones in the developing world presents another opportunity. M-Pesa, the mobile-phone cash-transfer service in Kenya, has signed up more than 5 million subscribers , in two years and recently expanded to Tanzania. This new idea is opening markets and transforming lives. A split-second M-Pesa transaction costs as little as 30 cents and replaces a day of risk and expense just to send someone money or carry earnings home.

At the Gates Foundation, it has been committed more than $350 million to make financial services widely accessible to the poor because safe places to save can help break the cycle of poverty. If action is taken on this moment, then within a generation, billions of people will have the chance to build up their savings and live the healthy, productive lives that they deserve.

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56. According to the first paragraph, people in Matela are most likely to expect that_·

A) they can afford the cure for malaria B) they can save their cash efficiently

C) they can live safely in the village D) their can get rid of poverty soon

57. What can help the poor build financial security?

A) Getting microloans. B) Lower cost of savings.

C) Chances for education. D) Savings services.

58. What is the role of post offices in "agent banking"?

A) They are subordinate to banks. B) They are cooperative with banks.

C) They are taking the place of banks. D) They are being changed into banks.

59. Compared with agent banking, M-Pesa most probably_.

A) is less practical for poor people B) is more popular among clients

C) costs less except transaction fees D) provides safer savings accounts

60. Gates Foundation intends to make financial services____

A) affordable B) widely recognized C) influential D) easily obtained

Passage Two

Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.

The inner voice of people who appear unconscious can now be heard. For the first time, researchers have struck up a conversation with a man diagnosed as being in a vegetative(植物的)state. All they had to do was monitor how his brain responded to specific questions.

"They can now have some involvement in their destiny," says Adrian Owen of the University of Cambridge, who led the team doing the work.

In an earlier experiment, Owen's team asked a woman previously diagnosed as being in a vegetative state to picture herself carrying out one of two different activities. The resulting brain activity suggested she understood the commands and was therefore conscious

Now Owen's team has taken the idea a step further. A man also diagnosed with VS was able to answer yes and no to specific questions by imagining himself engaging in the same activities.

The results suggest that it is possible to give a degree of choice to some people who have no other way of communicating with the outside world. "We are not just showing they are conscious, we are giving them a voice and a way to communicate," says neurologist(神经病学家)Steven Laureys of the University of Liege in Belgium, Owen's partner.

Doctors traditionally base these diagnoses on how someone behaves: for example, whether they can glance in different directions in response to questions. The new results show that you don't need behavioural indications to identify awareness and even a degree of cognitive proficiency. All you need to do is tap into brain activity directly.

The work "changes everything", says Nicholas Schiff, a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, who is carrying out similar work on patients with consciousness disorders. "Knowing that someone could persist in a state like this and not show evidence of the fact that they can answer yes/no questions should be extr emely disturbing to our practice”

One of the most difficult questions you might want to ask someone is whether they want to carry on living. But as Owen and Laureys point out, the scientific, legal and ethical challenges for doctors asking such questions are formidable.

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61. "They" in the second paragraph can be replaced by “＿＿”.

A) patients in a VS B) researchers C) monitoring machines D) specific questions

62. What did Owen's team find about the woman in the first experiment?

A) Her brain was active. B) She gave creative responses.

C) She gave conditioned responses. D) Her brain was damaged.

63. Owen's team can communicate with people in a VS b y＿＿＿.

A) enabling them to think B) enabling them to speak

C) providing them with choices D) providing them with activities

64. Nicholas Schiff looks at the findings by Owen's team with____.

A) caution B) approval C) amazement D) annoyance

65. Owen and Laureys would most probably agree that__.

A) patients with VS should not give up their lives

B) patients with VS should enjoy legal rights too

C) doctors should leave the choice between life and death to patients

D) doctors should not ask a patient whether he wants to live or die

Part IV Translation (30 minutes)

Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.

蹴鞠(Cuju)是中国古代的一项球类运动。它是竞技运动，要把球踢进球网内。该运动是为了训练士兵而发明的。在汉代(the Han Dynasty), 从军队到皇室，乃至贵族阶层，蹴鞠都很盛行。由于社会经济的发展，蹴鞠在宋代(the Song Dynasty)甚至风靡社会各阶层。当时，职业蹴鞠球员十分普遍。这些球员分为两类：一类是由皇室训练并为皇室表演，而另一类则由靠蹴鞠谋生的平民百姓组成。

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