大学英语四级模拟试卷(听力已改革)

2016年5月大学英语四级考试模拟试卷

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on Group Purchasing. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words following the outline given below in Chinese.

1. 现在团购很流行。

2. 团购有很多好处，但也有不少问题。

3. 我的建议是……

Group Purchasing

（作文在答题卡1作答）

Part II Listening Comprehension (30 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 o 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 l with n single line through the centre.

Questions l and 2 will be based on the following news item.

1．A) In a jewelry shoo. C) Near a lorry.

B) In the City Mall. D) In a parking lot.

2.A) They left the lorry together. C) They run back to the lorry separately.

B) They left the lorry without hoods. D) They run back to the lorry without hoods.

Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.

3.A) The heart of London was flooded.

B) An emergency exercise was conducted.

C) 100 people in the suburbs were drowned.

D) One of the bridges between north and south London collapsed.

4.A)A flood wall was built. C) An alarm system was set up.

B ) Rescue teams were formed. D) 50 underground stations were made waterproof.

Questions 5 t0 7 will be based on the following news item

5.A) Through the School of Design and Visual Arts. C) Through the School of Business.

B) Through the School of Social Work. D) Through the Arts and Sciences program.

6. A) About 20,000 dollars. C) About 38,000 dollars.

B) About 27,000 dollars. D) About 50,000 dollars.

7.A) Federal loans. C) Scholarships.

B) Private loans. D) A monthly payment plan.

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 o 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 l with a single line through the centre.

Conversation One

Questions 8 t0 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

8.A) Colleagues. C) Neighbors.

B ) Instructor and student. D) Anchor and guest.

9.A) Baby-sitting the children. C) Complaining about the difficulty of living.

B) Documenting the children. D) Teaching teenagers.

10.A) Sensitive groups. C)Rich groups,

B ) Disadvantaged groups. D) Complicated groups.

11.A) Kids are facing big issues in life. C) Kids can not earn the living.

B) Life is moving fast recently. D) Kids are growing up quickly.

Questions 12 t0 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

12.A He has a lot of free time．C)She knows he likes acting.

B ) Many of his friends are actors. D) He’s looking for an acting job.

13．A) One night a week. C) Every other Thursday.

B) Every Wednesday for three hours. D)Three times a week.

14.A) He has to rearrange his evening schedule. C) He hasn’t been in a play for a long time.

B ) His schoolwork takes up most of his time. D ) He might. Not like the way the group works.

15. A) See her on Wednesday. C)Enjoy the rehearsal.

B ) Learn his part quickly. D) Pick her up on Thursday.

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear three 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 l with a single line Through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 16 t0 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16.A) Summer vacation. C) Resident advisers.

B ) The housing office. D) Check-out procedures.

17.A) Register for summer school. C) Remove personal property.

B) Repair holes in room walls. D) Call the housing office.

18. A) Their summer addresses. C) When they plan to leave.

B ) Any damage to their rooms. D) Questions for the housing office.

Passage Two

Questions 19 t0 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.

19.A) Your heart rate is lowered. C) You become too tired to sleep.

B) It becomes harder for you to relax. D) Your sleeping rhythms are disrupted.

20.A) Failure to rest during the day. C) Vigorous exercise in the evening.

B) Lack of sleep on weekends. D) Eating cheese before going to bed.

21.A) They might eventually cause you to lose sleep.

B ) They help produce a neurotransmitter in the brain.

C) You must not drink milk if you take them.

D) They make it unnecessary to take naps.

Passage Three

Questions 22 t0 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

22.A) Characteristics of sand. C) A snake’s special way of moving

B) How animals live in the desert. D)Techniques of skiing.

23.A) To climb hills. C) To fool its enemies.

B) To gain traction. D) To rest as it moves.

24.A) Wavy lines. C) Perpendicular lines.

B) Circular lines. D) Parallel lines.

25.A) Lower body temperatures. C) Greater ability to conceal itself.

B) Decreased energy consumption. D) Wider range of vision.

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 center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century. 36 in the 1900s most American towns and cities had a Main Street. Main Street was always the heart of a town. This street was lined on the both sides with many 37 businesses. Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandise: clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries. In addition, some shops offered 38 . There shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops. But in the 1950s, a change began to 39 place. Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street while too few parking places were 40 to shoppers. Because the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces outside the city limits. Open space is what their car driving customers needed. And open space is what they got when the first shopping center was built. Shopping centers, or rather malls, 41 as a collection of small new stores away from crowded city centers. 42 by hundreds of free parking space, customers were drawn away from 43 areas to outlying malls. And the growing 44 of shopping centers led in turn to the building of bigger and better stocked stores. By the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves. In addition to providing the 45 of the stop shopping, malls were transformed into landscaped parks, with benches, fountains, and outdoor entertainment.

［A］designed ［F］convenience ［K］cosmetics

［B］take ［G］services ［L］started

［C］Early ［H］fame ［M］downtown

［D］Attracted ［I］various ［N］available

［E］though ［J］popularity ［O］cheapness

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. Answer the questions by making the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

The Art of Friendship

A) One evening a few years ago I found myself in an anxiety. Nothing was really wrong my family and I were healthy, my career was busy and successful -- I was just feeling vaguely down and in need of a friend who could raise my spirits, someone who would meet me for coffee and let merant until the clouds lifted. I dialed my best friend, who now lives across the country in California, and got her voice mail. That's when it started to dawn on me -- lonesomeness was at the root of my dreariness. My social life had dwindled to almost nothing, but somehow until that moment I'd been too busy to notice. Now it hit me hard. My old friends, buddies since college or even childhood, know everything about me; when they left, they had taken my context with them.

B) Research has shown the long-range negative consequences of social isolation on one's health. But my concerns were more short-term. I needed to feel understood right then in the way that only a girlfriend can understand you. I knew it would be wrong to expect my husband to replace my friends: He couldn't, and even if he could, to whom would I then complain about my husband? So I resolved to acquire new friends -- women like me who had kids and enjoyed rolling their eyes at the world a little bit just as I did. Since I'd be making friends with more intention than I'd ever given the process, I realized I could be selective, that I could in effect design my own social life. The down side, of course, was that I felt pretty frightened.

C) After all, it's a whole lot harder to make friends in midlife that it is when you’re younger -- a fact woman I've spoken with point out again and again. As Leslie Danzig, 41, a Chicago theater director and mother, sees it, when you're in your teens and 20s, you're more or less friends with everyone unless there's a reason not to be. Your college roommate becomes your best pal at least partly due to proximity. Now there needs to be a reason to be friends. "There are many people I'm

comfort-able around, but I wouldn't go so far as to call them friends. Comfort isn't enough to sustain a real friendship," Danzig says.

D) At first, finding new companions felt awkward. At 40 I couldn't run up to people the way my4-year-old daughters do in the playground and ask, "Will you be my friend? Every time you start anew relationship, you're vulnerable again," agrees Kathleen Hall, D Min, founder and CEO of the Stress Institute, in Atlanta. "You're asking, 'Would you like to come into my life?' It makes us self-conscious."

E) Fortunately, my discomfort soon passed. I realized that as a mature friend seeker my vulnerability risk was actually pretty low. If someone didn't take me up on my offer, so what: I wasn't in junior high, when I might have been rejected for having the wrong clothes or hair. At my age I have amassed enough self-esteem to realize that I have plenty to offer.

F) We're all so busy, in fact, that mutual interests -- say, in a project, class, or cause that we already make time for -- become the perfect catalysts for bringing us in contact with candidates for camaraderie. Michelle Meters, 35, a teacher and mother of two in Wausau, Wisconsin, says anew friend she made at church came as a pleasant surprise. "In high school I chose friends based on their popularity and how being part of their circle might reflect on me. Now's it's our shared values and activities that count." Meters says her pal, with whom she organized the church's youth programs, is nothing like her but their drive and organizational skills make them ideal friends.

G) Happily, as awkward as making new friends can be, self-esteem issues do not factor in -- or if they do, you can easily put them into perspective. Danzig tells of the mother of a child in her son's pre-school, a tall, beautiful woman who is married to a big-deal rock musician. "I said to my husband, she's too cool for me,'" she jokes. "I get intimidated by people. But once I got to know her, she turned out to be pretty laid-back and friendly." In the end there was no chemistry between them, so they didn't become good pals. "I realized that we weren't each other's type, but it wasn't about hierarchy." What midlife friendship is about, it seems, is reflecting the person you've become (or are still becoming) back at yourself, thus reinforcing the progress you've made in your life.

H) Harlene Katzman, 41, a lawyer in New York City, notes that her oldest friends knew her back

when she was less sure of herself. As much as she loves them, she believes they sometimes respond to is-sues in light of who she once was. An old chum has the goods on you. With recently made friends, you can turn over a new leaf.

I) A new friend, chosen right, can also help you point your boat in the direction you want to go. Hanna Dershowitz, 39, an attorney and mother in Los Angeles, found that a new acquaintance from work was exactly what she needed in a friend. In addition to liking and respecting Julia, Dershowitz had a feeling that the fit and athletic younger woman would help her to get in shape.

J) While you're busy making new friends, remember that you still need to nurture your old ones. We asked Marla Paul, author of The Friendship Crisis: Finding, Making, and Keeping Friends When You "re Not a Kid Anymore, for the best ways to maintain these important relationships. Keep in touch. Your friends should be a priority; schedule regular lunch dates or coffee catch-up sessions, no matter how busy you are. Know her business. Keep track of important events in a friend's life and show your support. Call or to let her know you're thinking of her. Speak your mind. Tell a friend (politely) if something she did really upset you. If you can't be totally honest, then you need to reexamine the relationship. Accept her flaws. No one is perfect, so work around her quirks --she's chronically late, or she's a bit negative -- to cut down on frustration and fights. Boost her ego. Heartfelt compliments make everyone feel great, so tell her how much you love her new sweater or what a great job she did on a work project.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答

46. Leslie Danzig thought making friends at one's middle age needed some reasons.

47. A well-chosen new friend can help you go in the direction that you like.

48. A few years ago the author felt lonely and depressed when she phoned her best friend in another city who was much wanted then but unavailable.

49. According to Kathleen Hall, one might feel sensitive in the first curse of making new friends.

50. Midlife friendship can help you realize your direction of life and reinforce the progress you've

made in your life.

51. In Mafia Paul's book, to be a better friend, you should keep track with your friends, care for your friend's job, express yourself, accept her flaws and compliment your friend for her/his good dressing and job.

52. For the author, a girl friend might be the right person to under "stand her and erase her negative feeling.

53. According to Michelle Metes, midlife friendship is based on the shared values and activities

54. As a mature friend seeker, the author finds herself with enough confidence to offer and take rejection with grace.

55. With newly made friends, you can have a chance to take on a new look in your life.

Section C

Directions: There are two 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 on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.

Passage One

Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.

Culture is one of the most challenging elements of the international marketplace. This system of learned behavior patterns characteristic of the members of a given society is constantly shaped by a set of dynamic variables: language, religion, values and attitudes, manners and customs, aesthetics, technology, education, and social institutions. To cope with this system, an international

manager needs both factual and interpretive knowledge of culture. To some extent, the factual knowledge can be learned; its interpretation comes only through experience.

The most complicated problems in dealing with the cultural environment stem from the fact that one cannot learn culture one has to live it. Two schools of thought exist in the business world on how to deal with cultural diversity. One is that business is business the world around, following the model of Pepsi and McDonald’s. In some cases, globalization is a fact of life; however, cultural differences are still far from converging.

The other school proposes that companies must tailor business approaches to individual cultures. Setting up policies and procedures in each country has been compared to an organ transplant; the critical question centers around acceptance or rejection. The major challenge to the international manager is to make sure that rejection is not a result of cultural myopia or even blindness.

Fortune examined the international performance of a dozen large companies that earn 20 percent or more of their revenue overseas. The internationally successful companies all share an important quality: patience. They have not rushed into situations but rather built their operations carefully by following the most basic business principles. These principles are to know your adversary, know your audience, and know your customer.

56. According to the passage, which of the following is true?

［A］All international managers can learn culture.

［B］Business diversity is not necessary.

［C］Views differ on how to treat culture in business world.

［D］Most people do not know foreign culture well.

57. According to the author, the model of Pepsi__________ .

［A］is in line with the theories of the school advocating the business is business the world around.

［B］is different from the model of McDonald’s

［C］shows the reverse of globalization

［D］has converged cultural differences

58. The two schools of thought___________ .

［A］both propose that companies should tailor business approaches to individual cultures

［B］both advocate that different policies be set up in different countries

［C］admit the existence of cultural diversity in business world

［D］Both A and B

59. This article is supposed to be most useful for those___________ .

［A］who are interested in researching the topic of cultural diversity

［B］who have connections to more than one type of culture

［C］who want to travel abroad

［D］who want to run business on International Scale

60. According to Fortune, successful international companies__________ .

［A］earn 20 percent or more of their revenue overseas

［B］all have the quality of patience

［C］will follow the overseas local cultures

［D］adopt the policy of internationalization

Passage Two

Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.

There are people in Italy who can’t stand soccer. Not all Canadians love hockey. A similar situation exists in America, where there are those individuals you may be one of them who yawn or even frown when somebody mentions baseball. Baseball to them means boring hours watching grown men in funny tight outfits standing around in a field staring away while very little of anything happens. They tell you it’s a game b etter suited to the 19th century, slow, quiet, and gentlemanly. These are the same people you may be one of them who love football because there’s the sport that glorifies “the hit”.

By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent, still.

On TV the game is fractured into a dozen perspectives, replays, closeups. The geometry of

the game, however, is essential to understanding it. You will contemplate the game from one point as a painter does his subject; you may, of course, project yourself into the game. It is in this projection that the game affords so much space and time for involvement. The TV won’t do it for you.

Take, for example, the third baseman. You sit behind the third base dugout and you watch him watching home plate. His legs are apart, knees flexed. His arms hang loose. He does a lot of this. The skeptic still cannot think of any other sports so still, so passive. But watch what happens every time the pitcher throws: the third baseman goes up on his toes, flexes his arms or bring the glove to a point in front of him, takes a step right or left, backward or forward, perhaps he glances across the field to check his first baseman’s position. Suppose the pitch is a ball. “Nothing happened,” you say. “I could have had my eyes closed.”

The skeptic and the innocent must play the game. And this involvement in the stands is no more intellectual than listening to music is. Watch the third baseman. Smooth the dirt in front of you with one foot; smooth the pocket in your glove; watch the eyes of the batter, the speed of the bat, the sound of horsehide on wood. If football is a symphony of movement and theatre, baseball is chamber music, a spacious interlocking of notes, chores and responses.

61.The passage is mainly concerned with__________ .

［A］the different tastes of people for sports

［B］the different characteristics of sports

［C］the attraction of football

［D］the attraction of baseball

62.Those who don’t like baseball may complain that__________ .

［A］it is only to the taste of the old

［B］it involves fewer players than football

［C］it is not exciting enough

［D］it is pretentious and looks funny

63.The author admits that__________ .

［A］baseball is too peaceful for the young

［B］baseball may seem boring when watched on TV

［C］football is more attracting than baseball

［D］baseball is more interesting than football

64.By stating “I could have had my eyes closed.” the author means_________ (4th paragraph last sentence).

［A］The third baseman would rather sleep than play the game

［B］Even if the third baseman closed his eyes a moment ago, it could make no different to the result

［C］The third baseman is so good at baseball that he could finish the game with eyes closed all the time and do his work well

［D］The consequent was too bad he could not bear to see it

65.We can safely conclude that the author___________ .

［A］likes football

［B］hates football

［C］hates baseball

［D］likes baseball

Part VI 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.

端午节，又叫龙舟节，是为了纪念爱国诗人屈原。屈原是一位忠诚和受人敬仰的大臣（minister）,他给国家带来了和平和繁荣。但最后因为受到诽谤（vilify）而最终投河自尽。人们撑船到他自尽的地方，抛下粽子，希望鱼儿吃粽子，不要吃屈原的身躯。几千年来，端午节的特色在于吃粽子（glutinous dumplings）和赛龙舟，尤其是在一些河湖密布的南方省份。