英语专业四级模拟试卷

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS—GRADE FOUR—MODEL TEST ONEPART I DICTATION [10 MIN] Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION [20 MIN]SECTION A TALKIn this section you will hear a talk. You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY. While listening, you may look at the task on the ANSWER SHEETONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure what you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.Now, listen to the talk. When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to check your work.SECTION B CONVERSATIONSIn this section, you will hear two conversations. At the end of the conversion, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A, B, C and D, and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.You have THIRTY seconds to preview the questions.Now, listen to the conversations.Conversation OneQuestions 1 to 5 are based on Conversation One.1. A. A two-storied and four-bedroom house located in a small town.B. A town house with two floors, two bedrooms, and four bedrooms.C. A two-bedroom town house with four bathrooms, two floors.D. A two-storied house located in a street with an area of 1080m2 .2. A. $ 250,000.B. $ 260,000.C. $ 253,000.D. $ 263,000.3. A. His credit score is of average level.B. His credt score is of advanved level.C. He pays on time occasionally.D. He keeps records of the credit.4. A. His gross monthly income is sufficient.B. His preference of a moderate life of loan.C. The interest of the 30-year one is beyong his capacity.D. His unwillingness to pay much money.5. A. Credit.B. Life of the loan.C. Bank policy.D. Income.Conversation TwoQuestions 6 to 10 are based on Conversation Two.6. A. When you want to save more money.B. When you want to get a discount.C. When the gift is on your shopping list.D. When the gift is worth the money.7. A. Limit 1.B. Limit 3.C. Limit 5.D. Limit 6.8. A. If I buy the goods, I will save more money.B. If I don’t buy the goods, there will be no such goods.C. If I buy the goods, I will get a free gift.D. If I don’t buy the goods, they will raise the price.9. A. In order to let you conpare prices when buying.B. In order to let you ignore the high price.C. In order to let you buy things in advance.D. In order to let you wait to buy some better things.10. A. “Stay focused” are the key words when shopping.B. Kellt Grant tells us to make a shopping list and check it twice when shopping.C. Kelly Grant recommends the “shop now, save later” shopping way.D. Coupons are the things that the stores want you to come back again.PART III LANGUAGE USAGE [10 MIN]There are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers on Answer Sheet Two.11. Among the sentences below, it is sentence_____that denotes “future of present cause”.A. The hugely successful British boy band will split soon.B. The hugely successful British boy band may be splitting soon.C. The hugely successful British boy band is going to split soon.D. The hugely successful British boy band is splitting soon.12. The following determiners can be used with uncountable nouns EXCEPT _______.A. heaps ofB. lots ofC. umpteenD. quantities of13. Which of the italicized parts indicates CONTRAST?A. Mr White is principal of the school, and an expert in translation.B. He is not man enough, and that’s all.C. Jack grew wheat on his farm during the day, and he studied astrnomy at night.D. He didn’t stay up late, and he was tardy for school.14. There was a storm_______ I had never experienced before.A. such asB. as whichC. with whichD. for such15. This rule_______ to everyone who_______ for the post.A. will apply… will applyB. applies… will applyC. will apply… appliesD. applies…. is applying16. Who________ in but the President himself!A. is comingB. should comeC. cameD. has come17. Which of the following prepositional phrases can function as an adverbial?A. I don’t want a book with a torn cover.B. The grass was wet with rain.C. It is in bad taste to boost.D. Between four and six will suit me.18. Though the young lady was very pretty and gracious, she was none______ happier for her beauty.A. theB. muchC. moreD. enough19. Which of the following best explains the meaning of “Shall my daughter do your shopping for you?”A. Do you agree to my daughter doing your shopping for you?B. Are you willing to let my daughter do your shopping for you?C. Do you want my daughter to do your shopping for you?D. Am I willing to let my daughter do your shopping for you?20. There is no reason they should limit how much vitamin you take, ________ they can limit how much water you drink.A. norB. no more thanC. not more thanD. any more than21. Harry took a ______ of his drink and then put the glass down.A. tasteB. lickC. mouthD. sip22. As he made no_______ to our quarrel, I assumed he had forgiven me.A. referenceB. statementC. commentD. mention23. At the casualty department my brother had his injury________.A. curedB. healedC. relievedD. treated24. In the________ majority of cases, this is a vital operation.A. tremendousB. handsomeC. broadD. wide25. ________ caused the accident has not yet been found.A. WhatB. WhateverC. WhicheverD. Which26. What happens to her? She’s been behaving very strange______ late.A. byB. ofC. forD. till27. My young brother has really gotten under my skin. The underlined part means_______.A. made me angryB. made me tiredC. made me excitedD. made me annoyed28. —I’m glad to see you looking so well.—Yes, I feel as______ as a fiddle.A. wellB. fitC. fineD. fresh29. The local wine is rather rough, but you’ll soon_______ a taste for it!A. receiveB. adoptC. acquireD. accept30. The rays of the morning sun begin to shine through_________ windows, casting a glow ofgold over the landscape.A. carved antique woodenB. antique carved woodenC. antique wooden carvedD. wooden antique carvedPART IV CLOZE [10 MIN]Decide which of the words given in the box below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blank. The words can be used ONCE ONLY. Mark the letter forPainting, the execution of forms and shapes on a surface by means of (31) _______, has been continuously practiced by humans for some 20,000 years. Together with other activities that may have been (32) ________ in origin but have come to be designated as artistic such as music or dance, painting was one of the earliest ways in which man (33)______ to express his own personality and his (34)______ understanding of an existence beyond the material world. Unlike music and dance, however, examples of early forms of painting have survived to the present day. The modern eye can derive aesthetic as well as antiquarian satisfaction from the 15,000-year-old-cave murals of Lascaux-- some examples (35)______ to the considerable powers of draftsmanship of these early artists. And painting, unlike other arts, exhibits universal qualities that make it easy for viewers of all nations and civilizations to understand and appreciate.The major (36)______ examples of early painting anywhere in the world are found in Western Europe and the Soviet Union. But some 5,000 years ago, the areas in which important paintings were executed (37)______ to the eastern Mediterranean Sea and neighboring regions. Therefore, Western shared a European cultural tradition the Middle East and Mediterranean Basin and, later, the countries of the New World.Western painting is (38)______ distinguished by its concentration on the representation of the human (39)______, whether in the heroic context of antiquity or the religious context of the early Christian and medieval world. The Renaissance extended this tradition through a(n) (40)______ examination of the natural world and an investigation of balance, harmony, and perspectives in the visible world, linking painting to the developing sciences of anatomy and optics.PART V READING COMPREHENSION [35 MIN]SECTION A MUTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this section there are three passages followed by ten multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D.Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.PASSAGE ONEGiven the lack of fit between gifted students and their schools, it is not surprising that such students often have little good to say about their school experience. In one study of 400 adults who had achieved distinction in all areas of life, researchers found that three-fifths of these individuals either did badly in school or were unhappy in school. Few MacArthur Prize fellows, winners of the MacArthur Award for creative accomplishment, had good things to say about their precollegiate schooling if they had not been placed in advanced programs.Anecdotal reports support this. Pablo Picasso, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Oliver Goldsmith, and William Butler Yeats all disliked school. So did Winston Churchill, who almost failed out of Harrow, an elite British school. About Oliver Goldsmith, one of his teachers remarked, "Never was so dull a boy. " Often these children realize that they know more than their teachers, and their teachers often feel that these children are arrogant, inattentive, or unmotivated.Some of these gifted people may have done poorly in school because their gifts were not scholastic. Maybe we can account for Picasso in this way. But most fared poorly in school not because they lacked ability but because they found school unchallenging and consequently lost interest. Yeats described the lack of fit between his mind and school: "Because I had found it difficult to attend to anything less interesting than my own thoughts, I was difficult to teach."As noted earlier, gifted children of all kinds tend to be strong-willed nonconformists. Nonconformity and stubbornness (and Yeats's level of arrogance and self-absorption) are likely to lead to Conflicts with teachers.When highly gifted students in any domain talk about what was important to the development of their abilities, they are far more likely to mention their families than their schools or teachers. A writing prodigy studied by David Feldman and Lynn Goldsmith was taught far more about writing by his journalist father than his English teacher. High-IQ children, in Australia studied by Miraca Gross had much more positive feelings about their families than their schools. About half of the mathematicians studied by Benjamin Bloom had little good to say about school. They all did well in school and took honors classes when available, and some skipped grades.41. The author quotes the remarks of one of Oliver Goldsmith's teachers______.A．to provide support for his argument.B．to illustrate the strong will of some gifted children.C．to explain how dull students can also be successful.D．to show how poor Oliver's performance was at school.42. Pablo Picasso is listed among the many gifted children who______.A．paid no attention to their teachers in class.B．contradicted their teachers much too often.C．could not cope with their studies at school successfully.D．behaved arrogantly and stubbornly in the presence of their teachers.43. Many gifted people attributed their success______.A．mainly to parental help and their education at home.B．both to school instruction and to their rparents' coaching.C．more to their parents' encouragement than to school training.D．less to their systematic education than to their talent.PASSAGE TWOA controversy erupted in the scientific community in early 1998 over the use of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid ) fingerprinting in criminal investigations. DNA fingerprinting was introduced in 1987 as a method to identify individuals based on a pattern seen in their DNA, the molecule of which genes are made. DNA is present in every cell of the body except red blood cells. DNA fingerprinting has been used successfully in various ways, such as to determine paternity where it is not clear who the father of a particular child is. However, it is in the area of criminal investigations that DNA fingerprinting has potentially powerful and controversial uses.DNA fingerprinting and other DNA analysis techniques have revolutionized criminal investigations by giving investigators powerful new tools in the attempt to trove guilt, not just establish innocence. When used in criminal investigations, a DNA fingerprint pattern from a suspect is compared with a DNA fingerprint pattern obtained from such material as hairs or blood found at the scene of a crime. A match between the two DNA samples can be used as evidence to convict a suspect.The controversy in 1998 stemmed form a report published in December 1991 by population geneticists Richard C. Lewontin of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and Daniel L. Hartl called into question the methods to calculate how likely it is that a match between two DNA fingerprints might occur by chance alone. In particular, they argued that the current method cannot properly determine the likelihood that two DNA samples will match because they came from the same individual rather than simply from two different individuals who are members of the same ethnic group. Lewontin and Hartl called for better surveys of DNA patterns methods are adequate.In response to their criticisms, population geneticists Ranajit Chakraborty of the University of Texas in Dallas and Kenneth K.Kidd of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., argued that enough data are already available to show that the methods currently being used are adequate. In January 1998, however, the federal Bureau of Investigation and laboratories that conduct DNA tests announced that they would collect additional DNA samples form various ethnic groups in an attempt to resolve some of these questions. And, in April, a National Academy of Sciences called for strict standards and system of accreditation for DNA testing laboratories.44. Before DNA fingerprinting is used, suspects____.A. would have to leave their fingerprints for further investigationsB. would have to submit evidence for their innocenceC. could easily escape conviction of guiltD. could be convicted of guilt as well45. The attitude of the Federal Bereau of Investigation shows that ____.A. enough data are yet to be collected form various ethnic groups to confirm theunlikelihood of two DNA samples coming from two individual membersB. enough data of DNA samples should be collected to confirm that only DNA samplesform the same person can matchC. enough data are yet to be collected from various ethnic groups to determine thelikelihood of two different DNA samples coming form the same personD. additional samples from various ethnic groups should be collected to determine thattwo DNA samples are unlikely to come from the same person46. The National Academy of Sciences holds the stance that ____.A. DNA testing should be systematizedB. only authorized laboratories can conduct DNA testingC. it is authorized to work out standards for testingD. it has the right to accredit laboratories for DNA testingPASSAGE THREEA few months ago I was nominated for Governor of the great State of New York, to run against Stewart L. Woodford and John T. Hoffman, on an independent ticket. I somehow felt that I had one prominent advantage over these gentlemen, and that was, good character. It was easy to see by the newspapers, that if ever they had known what it was to bear a good name, that time had gone by. It was plain that in these latter years they had become familiar with all manner of shameful crimes. But at the very moment that I was exalting my advantage and joying in it in secret, there was a muddy undercurrent of discomfort "riling" the deeps of my happiness -- and that was, the having to hear my name bandied about in familiar connection with those of such people.But after all, I could not recede. I was fully committed and must go on with the fight. As I was looking listlessly over the papers at breakfast, I came across this paragraph, and I may truly say I never was so confounded before:PERJURY. -- Perhaps, now that Mr. Mark Twain is before the people as a candidate for Governor, he will condescend to explain how he came to be convicted of perjury by thirty-four witnesses, in Wakawak, Cochin China, in 1863, the intent of which perjury was to rob a poor native widow and her helpless family of a meagre plantain patch, their only stay and support in their bereavement and their desolation. Mr. Twain owes it to himself, as well as to the great people whose suffrages he asks, to clear this matter up. Will he do it?I thought I should burst with amazement! Such a cruel, heartless charge -- I never had seen Cochin China! I never had beard of Wakawak! I didn't know a plantain patch from akangaroo! I did not know what to do. I was crazed and helpless. I let the day slip away without doing anything at all.[Mem. -- During the rest of the campaign this paper never referred to me in any other way than as "the infamous perjurer Twain."]Next came the "Gazette," with this:WANTED TO KNOW. -- Will the new candidate for Governor deign to explain to certain of his fellow-citizens (who are suffering to vote for him!) the little circumstance of his cabin-mates in Montana losing small valuables from time to time, until at last, these things having been invariably found on Mr. Twain's person or in his "trunk" (newspaper he rolled his traps in), they felt compelled to give him a friendly admonition for his own good, and so tarred and feathered him and rode him on a rail, and then advised him to leave a permanent vacuum in the place he usually occupied in the camp. Will he do this?Could anything be more deliberately malicious than that? For I never was in Montana in my life.[After this, this journal customarily spoke of me as "Twain, the Montana Thief."]I got to pick up papers apprehensively -- much as one would lift a desired blanket which he had some idea might have a rattlesnake under it.By this time anonymous letters were getting to be an important part of my mail matter. This form was common:How about that old woman you kicked of...Shortly the principal Republican journal "convicted" me of wholesale bribery, and the leading Democratic paper "nailed" an aggravated case of blackmailing to me.[In this way I acquired two additional names: "Twain, the Filthy Corruptionist," and "Twain, the Loathsome Embracer."]There was no possible way of getting out of it, and so, in deep humiliation, I set about preparing to "answer" a mass of baseless charges and mean and wicked falsehoods. But I never finished the task, for the very next morning a paper came out with a new horror, a fresh malignity, and seriously charged me with burning a lunatic asylum with all its inmates, because it obstructed the view from my house. This threw me into a sort of panic. And at last, as a due and fitting climax to the shameless persecution that party rancor had inflicted upon me, nine little toddling children of all shades of color and degrees of raggedness were taught to rush on to the platform at a public meeting and clasp me around the legs and call me PA!I gave up. I hauled down my colors and surrendered. I was not equal to the requirements of a Gubernatorial campaign in the State of New York, and so I sent in my withdrawal from the candidacy, and in bitterness of spirit signed it,"Truly yours,"Once a decent man, but now MARK TWAIN, I. P., M. T., B. S., D. T., F. C., and L. E."47. According to Para.1, Twain felt uncomfortable probably because_______.A. he was afraid that his good fame would be blackenedB. he felt reluctant to associate with the evil peopleC. it brought no honor to the victor in an unequal contestD. it was too late to recede from a problematic competiton48. The Gazatte accused Twain of_______.A. throwing away his friend’s belongingsB. making a practical joke of his enemiesC. stealing and hiding a mate’s precious stuffD. occupying the camp of another person49. To injure Twain’s reputation, his rivals tried all the following EXCEPT_______.A. media disinformationB. letters if false accusationC. anonymous blackmailsD. humiliation in publicSECTION B SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONSIn this section, there are five short answer questions based on the passages in Section A. Answer the questions with NO more than TEN words in the space provided on ANSWER SHEET TWO.PASSAGE ONE50. What makes gifted students often have little good to say about their school experience?PASSAGE TWO51. What is the main idea of the passage?PASSAGE THREE52.What does the word “ apprehensively” probably mean in Para.10?53.What may be the title for the passage?PART VI WRITING [45 MIN]Read carefully the following excerpt, and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should:·summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then·comment on whether surveillance cameras are beneficial or not.You should support yourself with information from the excerpt.Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.Write your response on ANSWER SHEET THREE.——THE END ——ANSWER SHEET 1PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSIONCoral ReefsI. Coral reefs facing a precarious situation1) Warmer oceans due to (1)2) Death of corals: Temperatures rise (2) than average summer maximum3) Reasons why coals die at high temperatures: (3) between corals and algaedestroyed.II. New study on corals in the Persian Gulf1) Phenomenon:Algae there can bear as hot as (4)2) Findings:A. Algae inside the Persian Gulf corals is (5)B. Survival of corals in the Persian Gulf: dependent on the (6) of the algae3) Method:Step 1: Samples from (7) within the Persian Gulf, the (8) Gulf of Oman, and the Red SeaStep 2: (9) the samples for the (10) associated with the peculiar algae Step 3: (11) of the peculiar algae itself examined4) (12) :Algae in the Perish Gulf gradually (13) the extreme heat of the Persian Gulf5) Conclusion: The traits remain (14)6) Implication: The finding may help maintain the (15) of algae in oceansKeyPART I DICTATIONPART II LISTENING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A TALK(1) climate change(2) a degree higher(3) the symbiotic relationship(4) 35 ℃(5) a different species(6) heat tolerance(7) 23 reefs(8) adjacent(9) Screen(10) unique DNA signature(11) Analyze the genetics(12) Explanation :(13) adapt to/ tolerate(14) to be identified(15) bio-diversitiesSECTION B CONVERSATIONS1~5 B B C D A6~10 C D B B CPART III LANGUAGE USAGE11~15 C C D A C16~20 B B A B D21~25 D A D B B26~30 B A B C BPART IV CLOZE31~35 G L C A B36~40 N O E M JPART V READING COMPREHENSION41~43 A C B44~46 C B B47~49 A C C50. The lack of fit between gifted students and their schools.51. The controversial use of DNA fingerprinting.52. With anxiety and worry.53. Running / Campaigning for Governor.。