四级模考试卷

1 全国大学英语四级模拟冲刺试卷全国大学英语四级模拟冲刺试卷 COLLEGE ENGLISH TEST Band Four Part I Writing 30 minutes Directions For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled On Students Physical Well being based on following materials given bellow You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words 材料一 当前大学生戴眼镜 豆芽菜 小胖墩的比例明显较 10 年前多 材料二 某大学女生 800 米跑 男生 1000 米跑测试较 2000 年分别下降 10 3 和 10 9 Your essay should cover the following outline 1 说明材料反应的情况 2 出现这种情况可能的原因 3 你认为应该采取的措施 QQ374289236 2 Part 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 are based on the news report you have just heard 1 A To attract the world s attention B To raise a large amount of money for development projects C To improve its financial situation D To attract capitals from other countries 2 A In a eastern city of Sierra Leone B In a northern mountain of Sierra Leone C In an eastern village of Sierra Leone D In a coal mine of Sierra Leone Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard 3 A In a private car B In a military checkpoint C In a truck D In a government building 4 A An American military base B A university found by the United States C A mosque D A commercial area in the capital of Somali Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard 5 A A famine B A political unrest C A skyrocketing price of food D A water shortage 6 A A power struggle between its two politicians B Life threatening hunger that millions of South Sudanese people face C Dispute over territory with other countries D People stand up against the tyranny of the government QQ374289236 3 7 A They shut down a lot of factories B They forbid women to get engaged in agricultural production C The fighting and violence caused by them worsen a catastrophe D Their agricultural reform turns out to be a failure Section B Directions In this section you will hear two long conversations At the end of each passage 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 the Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre Questions 8 to 11 are based on the news report you have just heard 8 A She is working in the library B She is reading history books in the library C She is working in the library as a volunteer D She is taking an interview in the library 9 A It requires a deposit to borrow books B It offers a training for new recruits C It has got many facilities D It has never been closed before 10 A He is going to organize a project B He is going to read magazines in the library C He is going to go to Greece D He is going to looking for a new job in the town 11 A The trip to Greece B The Internet C The history class she teaches at school D The new section with materials on the history of the town Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard QQ374289236 4 12 A He is planning to work for the jazz band during the festival B He is on holiday with his family C He is good at playing the flute D He isn t into jazz music at all 13 A In a secondary school B In a primary school C Beside the cinema D By the river 14 A Symphony orchestras B Jazz bands C Her husband D A singing group 15 A Next to the box office B Under the railway bridge C At the back of the secondary school D In the river behind the cinema Section C Directions In this section you will hear three passages At the end of each passage you will hear three or four 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 the Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard 16 A Encourage people to spend less time on their digital Gadgets B Governments around the world work sign more political agreements C More money should be invested in primary education D Great efforts should be made to invest in girls education 17 A They don t have basic internet skills B They don t have access to health care C There is no psychosocial support for them D They are too poor to get one 18 A Desktops B Mobile phones C Laptops D Tablets Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard 19 A To make sure all its people have access to government services B To make it more competitive in the international arena QQ374289236 5 C To secure for all Americans their unalienable rights D To win the support of its people 20 A Whenever a government went against the will of its people B When a government was unable to safeguard its own rights in international interactions C When a government failed to provide its people with satisfactory services D When a government continued to refuse to respect and secure the rights of its citizens after a lot of bad behaviors 21 A 50 B 56 C 60 D 48 Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard 22 A A tree B A Christmas tree C A building D A nursery 23 A In a park B By a roadside C Under the rubble D In the Central Park 24 A It was decapitated B It was in good condition C It was eight feet tall D It had no branches and leaves left 25 A Outside the Century 21 discount department store B In lower Manhattan C In front of the September 11 Memorial D In a nursery Part 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 centre You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once QQ374289236 6 Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage The students in my course were doing something new taking control over their love lives We grow up on fairy tales and movies in which 26 forces help people find their soul mates with whom they 27 live happily ever after The fairy tales leave us powerless putting our love lives into the hands of the Fates But here is a 28 most of the world has never heard of those fairy tales Instead more than half of marriages on our globe are brokered by parents or professional matchmakers whose main 29 are long term suitability and family harmony In India an 30 95 percent of the marriages are arranged and although divorce is legal India has one of the lowest divorce rates in the world Young couples in India generally have a choice about whether to proceed and the combination of choice and sound guidance probably 31 for the fact that studies of arranged marriages in India indicate that they measure up well in for example longevity satisfaction and love against Western marriages Indeed the love experienced by Indian couples in arranged marriages appears to be even more 32 than the love people experience in love marriages A careful look at arranged marriage combined with the knowledge 33 in relationship science has the 34 to give us real control over our love lives without practicing arranged marriage Americans want it all the freedom to choose a partner and the deep lasting love of fantasies and fairy tales We can achieve that kind of love by learning about and practicing techniques that build love over time And when our love is 35 we can use such techniques to rebuild that love The alternative leaving it to chance makes little sense A accounts B stimulating C magical D statistics E accustomed F robust G restlessly H concerns I fading J potential K estimated L surprise M effortlessly N accumulating O benefits Section B Directions In this section you will 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 marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 Education Study Finds U S Falling Behind QQ374289236 7 A Teachers in the United States earn less relative to national income than their counterparts in many industrialized countries yet they spend far more hours in front of the classroom according to a major new international study B The salary differentials are part of a pattern of relatively low public investment in education in the United States compared with other member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development a group in Paris that compiled the report Total government spending on educational institutions in the United States slipped to 4 8 percent of gross domestic product in 1998 falling under the international average 5 percent for the first time C The whole economy has grown faster than the education system Andreas Schleicher one of the reports authors explained The economy has done very well but teachers have not fully benefit The report due out today is the sixth on education published since1991 by the organization of 30 nations founded in 1960 and now covering much of Europe North America Japan South Korea Australia and New Zealand D In addition to the teacher pay gap the report shows the other countries have begun to catch up with the United States in higher education college enrollment has grown by 20 percent since 1995across the group with one in four young people now earning degrees For the first time the United States college graduation rate now at 33percent is not the world s highest Finland the Netherlands New Zealand and Britain have surpassed it E The United States is also producing fewer mathematics and science graduates than most of the other member states And the report says a college degree produces a greater boost in income here while the lack of a high school diploma imposes a bigger income penalty The number of graduates is increasing but that stimulates even more of a demand there is no end in sight Mr Schleicher said The demand for skill clearly is growing faster than the supply that is coming from schools and colleges F The report lists the salary for a high school teacher in the United States with 15 years experience as 36 219 above the international average of 31 887but behind seven other countries and less than 60 percent of Switzerland s 62 052 Because teachers in the Unites States have a heavier classroom load teaching almost a third more hours than their counterparts abroad their salary per hour of actual teaching is 35 less than the international average of 41 Denmark Spain and Germany pay more than 50 per teaching hour South Korea 77 In 1994 such a veteran teacher in the United States earned 1 2 times the average per capita income whereas in 1999 the salary was just under the national average Only the Czech Republic Hungary Iceland and Norway pay their teachers less relative to national income in South Korea teachers the actual teaching salary earn 2 5 times the national average Teacher pay accounts for 56 percent of what the United States spends on education well below the 67 percent average among the group of countries G The new data come as the United States faces a shortage of two million teachers over the next decade with questions of training professionalism and salaries being debated by politicians local and national Joost Yff an international expert at the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education said training for teachers is comparable among most of the nations in the study and that they are all dealing with similar issues of raising standards and increasing professionalism QQ374289236 8 H Though the United States lags behind in scores on standardized tests in science and mathematics students here get more instruction in those subjects the report shows The average 14 year oldAmerican spent 295 hours in math and science classes in 1999 far more than the 229 international average only Austria 370 hours Mexico 367 and New Zealand 320 have more instruction in those subjects Middle schoolers here spend less time than their international counterparts studying foreign languages and technology but far more hours working on physical education and vocational skills High school students in the United States are far more likely to have part time jobs 64 percent of Americans ages 15 to19 worked while in school compared with an international average of 31 percent only Canada and the Netherlands with 69 percent and Denmark with 75 percent were higher I One place the United States spends more money is on special services for the disabled and the poor More than one in four children here are in programs based on income only five other countries serve even 1 in 10 and nearly 6 percent get additional resources based on physical or mental handicaps twice or three times the rate in other countries J The report shows a continuing shift in which the United States is losing its status as the most highly educated among the nations The United States has the highest level of high school graduates ages 55 to 64 but falls to fifth behind Norway Japan South Korea the Czech Republic and Switzerland among ages 25 to 34 Among college graduates it leads in the older generation but is third behind Canada and Japan in the younger cohort 一群 While the portion of Americans with high school diplomas remains at 88 percent across age groups the average age among member countries is rising It has gone from 58 percent of those ages 45 to 54 to 66percent of those ages 35 to 44 and 72 percent of those ages 25 to 34 A higher percentage of young people in Norway Japan South Korea the Czech Republic and Switzerland have degrees than in the United States K The U S has led the development in college education and making education sort of accessible for everyone Mr Schleicher said It s now becoming the norm 36 Compared with their counterparts in many industrialized countries the U S teachers work longer 37 The U S government spent 4 8 of its GDP on education in 1998 38 From the passage we learn about Finland surpasses the U S in college graduation rate 39 When the number of graduates in the U S increases the demand for them is rising 40 The new study shows that the actual teaching salary per hour in the U S is 35 41 In the report the U S students study of science and mathematics get most instruction in those subjects in the OECD 42 Compared with those in other OECD countries high school students in the U S spend more time in physical education and vocational skills 43 It is for the special services for the disabled and the poor that the United States pays more money than QQ374289236 9 other OECD countries 44 Those who have high school diplomas in the U S account for 88percent of the Americans of all ages 45 According to Mr Schleicher the U S is becoming the norm in making education accessible for everyone and college education Section C Directions There are 2 passages in this section Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements For each of them there are four choices marked A and You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre Passage One Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage Communications technologies are far from equal when it comes to conveying the truth The first study to compare honesty across a range of communication media has fund that people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails The fact that emails are automatically recorded and can come back to haunt 困扰 you appears to be the key to the finding Jeff Hancock of Cornell University in Ithaca New York asked 30 students to keep a communications diary for a week In it they noted the number of conversations or email exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes and confessed to how many lies they told Hancock then worked out the number of lies per conversation for each medium He found that lies made up 14 per cent of emails 21 per cent of instant messages 27 per cent of face to face interactions and an astonishing 37 per cent of phone calls His results to be presented at the conference on human computer interaction in Vienna Austria in April have surprised psychologists Some expected emailers to be the biggest liars reasoning that because deception makes people uncomfortable the detachment 非直接接触 of emailing would make it easier to lie Others expected people to lie more in face to face exchanges because we are most practised at that form of communication But Hancock says it is also crucial whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread and whether it occurs in real time People appear to be afraid to lie when they know the communication could later be used to hold them to account he says This is why fewer lies appear in email than on the phone People are also more likely to lie in real time in a instant message or phone call say than if they have time to think of a response says Hancock He found many lies are spontaneous 脱口而出的 responses to an unexpected demand such as Do you like my dress Hancock hopes his research will help companies work our the best ways for their employees to communicate For instance the phone might be the best medium foe sales where employees are encouraged to stretch the truth But given his result work assessment where honesty is a priority might be best done using email QQ374289236 10 46 Hancock