大学英语等级考试机考样卷

Internet-based College English Test Band 4(IB-CET4)The test consists of 3 sections with different types of tasks to test your abilities of English listening, speaking, writing, and reading. It will take approximately 2 hours to complete.Section A Listening Comprehension(Questions 1~18; 25~30 minutes)Directions:This section contains 18 multiple choice questions based on four audio and one video clips. You should select the best answer to each question. All audio and video clips will be played twice. When they are played for the first time, you should pay attention to the main idea and answer some general comprehension questions. When they are played for the second time, you should focus on the important details and answer some specific comprehension questions.Question 1 will be based on the following news item.GlossaryQuestion 1What is the news mainly talking about?(A) Venetians want to make Venice a Disneyland.(B) Venice is losing its residents and becoming only a tourist destination.(C) Officials are taking measures to develop tourism in Venice.(D) Venetians organize a funeral to attract the tourists.Now listen to the item again and answer Question 2.GlossaryQuestion 2Which of the following is not true according to the news?(A) The population in Venice is now below 60,000.(B) The real Venetians have become rare now.(C) A group of Venetian residents organized a mock funeral.(D) There are twenty billion tourists visiting Venice every year.Question 3 will be based on the following news item.GlossaryQuestion 3What’s the main topic of the news?(A) Young Latinos get a push for education.(B) Information is provided for the college students by the HCF.(C) The HCF supplies a scholarship to the students.(D) Students can get a double degree at university.Now listen to the item again and answer Question 4.GlossaryQuestion 4What are the two subjects of Karen Guzman’s double degree?(A) Computer science and mathematics.(B) Psychology and biology.(C) Computer science and psychology.(D) Biology and computer science.Question 5 will be based on the following news item.GlossaryQuestions 5What is this news item mainly about?(A) There are more armed officers patrolling subway stations in New York.(B) All New Yorkers express their deepest sympathy to the victims of the Moscow train bombings.(C) Two bomb attacks occurred in Moscow and many people were hurt badly.(D) New York mass transit boosts security following Moscow attacks.Now listen to the item again and answer Question 6.GlossaryQuestion 6Which of the following statements is not true about the bombings in Moscow?(A) The bombings occurred during Monday's busy morning rush to work.(B) The bombings were carried out by two women.(C) Two bomb attacks occurred in Moscow during night.(D) The attacks spurred transit officials in New York City to tighten security.Questions 7 to 8 will be based on the following conversation.GlossaryQuestion 7What is the interview mainly about?(A) Color of our dreams.(B) Meaning of our dreams.(C) The times that we make dreams during one night.(D) Ways to remember our dreams.Question 8Which of the following statements can’t be known from the conversation?(A) Most people dream in black and white color.(B) People who don’t remember their dreams well will probably not remember the color that was intheir dreams.(C) There’s still a lot of argument about where the brains working hardest during dreams.(D) If people dream that they hit the ground, they will encounter something bad.Now listen to the conversation again and answer Questions 9 to 12.GlossaryQuestion 9What is not true about the interviewee?(A) She is the founding President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams .(B) She is the author of All About Dreams.(C) She does research on dreams.(D) She is a psychologist to solve people’s dream problems.Question 10How many dreams do we certainly have during a night?(A) Four or five times.(B) Twenty times.(C) Five or six times.(D) Three or five times.Question 11Why will artists talk about their dreams with vivid color?(A) They have a good memory about their dreams.(B) They are so smart.(C) They are more sensitive to color.(D) They like to describe their dreams with drawings.Question 12What is true when people dream their teeth fall out?(A) Most people dreaming this have pretty teeth.(B) Most people feel that though they lose teeth in their dreams, they don’t look bad.(C) People dreaming this must have done something wrong before sleeping.(D) Most people will lose teeth after having this dream.Questions 13 to 14 will be based on the following video clip.GlossaryQuestion 13What is the main topic of this video clip?(A) American matchmaking companies.(B) Online dating.(C) Statistics on online dating websites.(D) People’s abuses of the Internet.Question 14Which of the following statements is not true according to the video clip?(A) There are over 1700 legitimate online dating sites in the US.(B) Internet dating is successful despite of people’s abuses of the system.(C) Ten years ago, cyber romance was almost nonexistent.(D) Online dating has become an less important way to meet people nowadays.Now watch the video again and answer Questions 15 to 18.GlossaryQuestion 15Why did not Mike expect any service in return at the beginning?(A) He thought he was lack of intelligence.(B) He was not confident in his appearance.(C) He did not pay for the service.(D) He did not believe in the Internet dating service.Question 16What is not true about Nikki according to the video clip?(A) She was looking for someone different ten years after her divorce.(B) She had a teenage son.(C) She played games during the one hour break.(D) She got married with Mike in 2003.Question 17Which of the followings is not the focus of the most popular matchmaking companies?(A) Study background.(B) Age, sex and race.(C) Religion and hobbies.(D) Age and politics.Question 18What was the most difficult test for Russ?(A) Talking with Candy.(B) Having dinner with Candy’s parents.(C) Introducing Candy to his parents.(D) Meeting Candy’s mother.Section B Listening-based Integrated Tasks(Questions 19~44; 45~50 minutes)Directions: In this section, you’re going to complete a number of tasks based on the audio clips you listened to or the video clip you watched in section A.Task 1 Listening and Dictation (Questions 19~33)Directions: In this task, part of the video clip will be replayed twice and you are to fill in the blanks numbered 19 to 33 with the exact words you’ ve heard from the clip. At the end of the task, there will be a pause for you to check what you’ve written.If all those millions of love-seekers (19)_______________ too good to be true, they are. With the success of Internet (20)_______________ have come a lot of businesses and individuals that are interested in lust, not love. Do a Google (21)_______________ for “Internet dating”, and you get over 16 million (22)_______________.“Internet dating 11 200 000 sites, well this is just in Yahoo”.Dr. Ronald Goodstein is a (23)_______________ of Marketing in Georgetown University.“The number one (24)_______________ we have is that 10 percent of the people on online dating sites are (25)_______________. So that gives you a scent of the percentage of people trying to (26)_______________ the system.”But apart from people’s fantasies and (27)_______________ of the system, overall, Internet dating has been a success. Today, it’s a lot more than the (28)_______________. People of all (29)_______________ are meeting their match on the Web.“That’s the picture that I took with my cell phone (30)_______________.”Candy and Russ are (31)_______________ now. They are young, (32)_______________ and very active. They met through “hot or ”, a Web site (33)_______________ meeting friends and having fun. He paid $5 a month as a member, she was in for free.Task 2 Listening and Repeating(Questions 34~43)Directions: In this task, you’re going to listen to 10 sentences taken from Section A. You will hear each sentence twice. After hearing the sound of a bell, you are to repeat the sentence exactly as you hear it. In case you’re not satisfied with your first recording, you can click the RE-RECORD buttonand redo it once. If you don’t click the RE-RECORD button within five seconds, your recording is automatically submitted.Question 34Question 35Question 36Question 37Question 38Question 39Question 40Question 41Question 42Question 43Task 3 Listening and Writing（Question 44）Directions:In this task, you are to write an essay of no less than 120 words based on one of the items you’ve heard in Section A.Now listen to the item again before you start writing.1.Write a short summary of the video clip.2.Give your comments on the theme of online dating.Section C Reading Comprehension(Questions 45~74; 45 minutes)Directions:In this section, you’re going to read one long passage and three short passages, and answer a number of questions.Task 1 Skimming and Scanning(Questions 45~54; 15 minutes)Directions:In this task, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer questions 45~54.For questions 45~51, markY (for YES)if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.For questions 52~54, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.If you finish the task before the time limit, you can click the SUBMIT button and move on to the next task.Types of TestPlacemen tA placement test is designed to sort new students into teaching groups, so that they can start a course at approximately the same level as the other students in the class. It is concerned with the student’s present standing, and so relates to general ability rather than specific points of learning. As a rule the results are needed quickly so that teaching may begin. A variety of tests is necessary because a range of different activities is more likely to give an accurate overall picture of a student’s level than a single assessment. Sometimes one member of staff sees each student individually before the final class allocation is made. This procedure has several advantages. It helps to complete the assessment for each individual student by disclosing factors which are not revealed by the written tests, either positive ones such as a friendly, outgoing character or a higher level of production than a writing test suggests, or negative ones such as a slight stammer(口吃) or more than average shyness. Perhaps the greatest advantage of the interview is that there is now the opportunity to assess both oral production (the ability to make English sounds) and fluency (theability to sound English in a social situation) at one and the same time.DiagnosticA diagnostic test (sometimes called a formative or progress test) checks on student’s progress in learning particular elements of the course. It is used for example at the end of a unit in the course book or after a lesson designed to teach one particular point. These tests can take the form of an extension of the lesson from a practice phase into an assessment phase. They can provide information about progress which may be used systematically for remedial(补救的) work. The diagnostic test tries to answer the question “How well have the students learned this particular material?” If his learning has been successful, the results will give a considerable lift to the student’s moral and he is likely to approach t he next learning tasks with fresh enthusiasm. If he finds he has not mastered the point at issue, the test should give him clear indications of how he falls short, so that he can do some useful revision.AchievementAn achievement test (also called an attainment test) looks back over a longer period of learning than the diagnostic test, for example a year’s work, or a whole course, or even a variety of different courses. It is intended to show the standard which the students have now reached in relation to other students at the same stage. This standard may be established for a country, as with school-leaving certificates; or it may relate to an individual school or group of schools which issues certificates to students attending courses. But the important point which is common to all these situations is that the standard remains constant as far as possible from course to course and from year to year and is external to the individual class or textbook.ProficiencyThe aim of a proficiency test is to assess the student’s ability to apply in actual situations what he has learnt. It seeks to answer the question: “Having learnt this much, what can the student do with it?” This type of test is not usually related to any particular course because it is concerned w ith the student’s current standing in relation to his future needs. Efforts must be made to use in the tests the kind of language which actually occurs in the situations the student will meet. For example, a test which sets out to assess the proficiency of a student hoping to follow a university course in an English-speaking country would need to take into account not only his level of skills in listening to lectures, but also his ability to take notes, to make full use of what is written on the blackboard or projected, and finally to use the information he has gained from the lecture in his subsequentwriting.An important element in proficiency testing is to assess in some way the student’s ability to repair breakdowns in communication, by asking for a repetition or an explanation, for example, or by rephrasing(改述) what he has just tried to say. A rather typical example of a standardized proficiency test is the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). It is used by nearly 1 000 institutions of higher education in the United States as an indicator of a prospective student’s ability to undertake academic work in English. The TOEFL consists of the following sections:—Listening Comprehension measures the ability to understand English as it is spoken in the United States. —Structure and Written Expression measures mastery of important structural and grammatical points in standard written English. —V ocabulary and Reading Comprehension tests the ability to understand the meanings and uses of words in written English as well as the ability to understand a variety of reading materials.Proficiency tests sometimes add sections that involve free writing and/or oral production. This division of tests into separate categories is clearly rather arbitrary(武断的), and though it is convenient to say that the purpose of any test can be defined in this way, there are in practice several different purposes for every test. For example, it has been argued above that an achievement test assesses the learning that has gone before, and is therefore concerned with the past, but a student taking this kind of test usually does so because he needs the qualification to convince someone else of his future potential, either as a student in a more advanced course or as an employee. In the same way, although a proficiency test is not in theory concerned with how the student’s present stage of competence has been arrived at, he may well have prepared for it by taking a course designed to help him to pass.45. Placement test can provide inf ormation about students’ specific points of learning.46. The interview has an advantage of reducing the workload of faculty members.47. A diagnostic test checks on students’ ability to communicate.48. A test for school leaving certificates can be regarded as an achievement test.49. A proficiency test aims to assess students’ ability to apply in actual situation what they havelearned.50. The author chooses the TOEFL as an example of proficiency tests because it is a well-knowntest.51. An import ant element in proficiency testing is to assess in some way the examinee’s ability tocontinue a broken down communication by asking for a repetition or an explanation.52. To see each student individually helps to find the positive factors not revealed in a written test,such as a _______________________________ than a writing test suggests.53. Diagnostic tests can take the form of an extension of the lesson from a practice phase into______________________________.54. There is an argumentation that an achievement test is designed to be involved the knowledge ofthe past, but the aim of an examinee is to get the qualification to ______________________________.Task 2 In-depth Reading (Questions 55~64; 20 minutes)Directions: There are 2 passages in this task. Each passage is followed by five questions. You should read carefully the four choices following each question and decide on the best answer. If you finish the task before the time limit, you can click the SUBMIT button and move on to the next task.Passage OneQuestions 55 to 59 are based on the following passage.Although monkeys and chimpanzees are weaker and less fierce than many other animals, they possess brains that are much developed along the evolutionary road. Birds can catch insects on the wing with unparalleled skill—but they cannot think and reason. In technical terms it can be said that they are lacking in insight. The abilities that they do possess are built-in instincts derived from their genetic inheritance. Monkeys can reason. They can easily remember a lighted door indicating the presence of food. A monkey can reach a banana hanging high up in its cage by piling up boxes to stand on and then knocking down it with a stick.Wolfgang Kobler had provided various boxes and other apparatuses by which he proposed to test a chimpanzee’s ability to think out a method of reaching a fruit hung nine feet in the air. The animal looked about it and sized up the problem. Then it took Kobler by the hand, led him to a position immediately under the banana, jumped up on to his shoulder and reached it down from there. But evolution, although it has brought monkeys to a remarkable degree of cleverness, has stopped short at a crucial ability, the possession of which places man at a clearly superior level.Their minds cannot cope with abstract ideas. For example, an ape can be taught to fill a can with water from a barrel and take the can of water to put out a fire so that it can reach into a box and get food. But if the whole set-up is arranged on a raft the animal will continue to draw its water only from the barrel. It cannot grasp that any water, taken more, conveniently, say, from the pond on which the raft is floating, will put out the fire just as well. The abstract idea that water puts out fire is beyond it.55. Birds owe their remarkable abilities to______________.(A) inheritance(B) insight(C) intelligence(D) navigation56. The superior intelligence of monkeys, compared with other creatures, apart from man, isdemonstrated by______________.(A) the possession of brains(B) the ability to reason and think(C) the memory(D) the ability to cope with abstract ideals57. Which of the following can NOT show the intelligence of monkeys?(A) Being less fierce.(B) Piling up boxes to get food.(C) Remembering lighted doors.(D) Developing their own methods for solving problems.58. Monkeys are differentiated from man because they lack our ability to______________.(A) draw water from a pond(B) understand abstract ideas(C) stop short and consider difficult problems(D) use water in the pond to put out fires59. Kobler’s chimpanzee is clever because it______________.(A) chose Kobler himself as the quickest route(B) successfully completed the experiment(C) took Kobler by the hand(D) used all the gear providedPassage TwoQuestions 60 to 64 are based on the following passage.There are three basic ways in which individual economic units interact with one another. They are the market system, the administered system, and the traditional system. In a market system, individual economic units are free to interact among each other in the market place. Transactions may take place through barter or money exchange. In a barter economy, real goods such as automobiles, shoes, and pizzas are traded against each other. Obviously, finding somebody who wants to trade an old car in exchange for a sailboat may not always be an easy task. Hence the introduction of money as a medium of exchange eases transactions considerably.An alternative to the market system is administered control by some agency over alltransactions. This agency will issue laws or commands as to how much each goods and service should be produced, exchanged, and consumed by each economic unit. Central planning may be one way of administering such an economy. The central plan drawn up by the government shows the amount of each commodity produced by the various firms and distributed to different households for consumption.In a traditional society, production and consumption patterns are governed by tradition. Each person’s place with the economic system is fixed by parentage, religion, and custom. Transactions take place on the basis of tradition, too. People belonging to a certain group or caste may have an obligation to care for other persons, provide them with food and shelter, care for their health, and provide for their education. Clearly, in a system where every decision is made on the basis of tradition alone progress may be difficult to achieve.60. What is the main purpose of the passage?(A) To explain the science of economics.(B) To outline types of economic systems.(C) To argue for the superiority of one economic system.(D) To compare barter and money-exchange markets.61. Which of the following could best replace the word “real” (Line 2, Para. 2)?(A) High quality.(B) Concrete.(C) Utter.(D) Essential.62. According to the passage, a barter economy can lead to_________.(A) rapid speed of transactions(B) misunderstandings(C) inflation(D) difficulties for the traders63. According to the passage, who has the greatest degree of control on an administered system?(A) Individual households.(B) Small businesses.(C) Major companies.(D) The government.64. Which of the following statements is TRUE?(A) The central plan drawn up by the government is mainly based on the needs of the state as awhole.(B) The economic system in China is based on the traditional system.(C) In a market system, transactions are controlled by the government.(D) In a traditional society, economy develops very fast.Task 3 Grammar and Structure(Questions 65~74; 10 minutes) Directions: There are ten blanks in the following passage.Read the passage carefully and fill in each blank with the most appropriate function word or with the most proper form of the word given in brackets.After two divorces and six children, Mike Shields refused to spend his life alone. So he tried again to find the right woman. He joined an Internet dating service, （65）____________ (hope) to find a mature and pretty Asian woman. “I like Asian women; I find them (66) ____________(attract), so anyway I just wrote this ad up, includeda picture and sent it off. Being that I didn’t pay (67) ____________ the service, I really didn’t expect any service(68) ____________ return,” he said.In Beijing, Hui Jie, or Nikki — now her American name, was working (69) ____________ the Chinese newspaper Economy Daily. Ten years after her divorce, and (70) ____________ a teenage son, she was looking for someone different. “Every day I had one hour for break, I sat in the office and checked, seem like that people like to play games, and I don’t play games, I just checked,” she said.A year of e-mails later, Mike made a trip to Beijing, (71) ____________ meet Nikki. It was enough — he proposed, she (72) ____________(accept) , they got married in June 2003, and so far, they have no regrets.“I am thinking I am really lucky and happy.”(73) ____________ Mike and Nikki Shields, millions of people around the world are using the Internet (74) ____________ search of friends and romantic encounters.。