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 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) 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 IIIReading 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 \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 J) milky B) Therefore E) Actually H) liquid K) form C) produce F) rough I) solid L) irritate M) occasionally N) compose O) harm Section B 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,\ 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 \ can do,\ 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. \
\ accused her of \E. The Bruce Randolph school, Alter explained, \ schools in affluent neighborhoods\ middle class schools was like \ should be judged on the \ 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 metaphor, he wrote thatRavitch was comparing \ are almost all black males from low-income families, to the standards of \ across Chicago. \
Q. To point out the obvious: These are excuses. In fact, they are the very same excuses for failure that the education reform movement was founded to oppose. (If early reformers believed in anything, it was that every student is an apple. ) And not only are they excuses;they aren't even particularly persuasive ones. By any reasonable measure, students at Bruce Randolph are doing very badly. The average ACT score at Randolph last year was 14, the second lowest average of any high school in Denver, placing students in the bottom 10 percent of ACT test takers nationwide. In the middle school, composite scores on state tests put students at the first percentile(百分位) in reading and writing (meaning that at 99 percent of Colorado schools, students are scoring better, and at the fifth percentile in math.As for Urban Prep: demographic data show that the school's students are not, in fact, disadvantaged grapefruits among well to do apples when compared with the city's student population as a whole; 84 percent of its students are low income and 99. 8 percent arenonwhite, while in Chicago public schools, 86 percent of students are low income and 91 percent are nonwhite.