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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.
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.
D)
Doctors.
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
didn’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 twin sister doesn’t.
D) T
hey 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
some
sand,
it
will
try
to
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 Japan
—
try
to produce pearls instead of finding
them.
A) However
D) hurt
G)
smooth
B)
Therefore
E)
Actually
H)
liquid
C) produce
F) rough
I)
solid
J) milky
M) occasionally
Section B
K)
form
N) compose
L) irritate
O)
harm
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,
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
schools
can do,
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
the
hardworking
teachers,
principals
and
students
all
across
the
country
who
are
proving her
wrong every day.
she was
reformers
and
later,
when
he
and
Ravitch
appeared
together
on
a
Denver
radio show,
accused her of
test scores.
E. The Bruce Randolph school, Alter
explained,
Colorado
schools in affluent
neighborhoods
those of white,
middle
class
schools
was
like
apples
and
oranges.
Instead,
he
argued,
the
school
should
be
judged
on
the
fact
that
its
ninth
grade
writing
proficiency
rates had
doubled
since
2007,
improving
to
15
percent
of
the
class
from
7
percent,
and
that
its
ninth
grade
math
proficiency
rates
had
risen
to
14
percent
of
the
class
from
5
percent.
F. A
week later, the founder of Urban Prep, Tim King,
took to the Huffington Post
to defend
his
school
against
Ravitch's
charges.
King
acknowledged
that
just
17
percent
of
his
11th grade
students passed the
statewide achievement test last year, while in the
Chicago
public schools
as a whole, the comparable figure
was 29 percent. But echoing Alter's fruit
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