英语四级2013年12月模拟题.doc

Model Test FivePart I 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 necessity of reducing waste on campus. You should write at Least 120 words but no more than180 words.Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1.注意:此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you wilt hear 8 short conversations and 2 Long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single Line through the centre.注意:此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。1、AShe copied another course guide.BShe decided to skip class.CShe went to the library instead.DShe shared a friends course guide.2、AHe forgot his office number.BHe went to the language laboratory.CHe doesnt want to work.DHe needs to think about it.3、AStart writing at once.BAsk for his friends suggestions.CCome up with another idea.DGet the professors approval.4、AHe has been on vacation the whole month.BHe finds the work as hard as ever.CHe has benefited from the womans help.DHes thinking of working for the woman.5、AShe will watch the movie later.BHer watch is broken.CHer television set isnt working.DShe will watch TV while she eats.6、AShe has done half of it already.BShe agrees that it is very long.CThey have all semester to do it.DTheres nothing wrong with it.7、AThe man couldnt attend the festival.BThe man would pick her up earlier.CThe festival would be celebrated for seven days.DThere would be thirty people attending the festival.8、AHe thinks children can be satisfied easily.BHe thinks the publishers shouldnt produce so many junk books.CHe thinks we are short of good childrens books.DHe thinks children have no taste at all.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9、AShe was invited only for the weekend.BThe weather was too hot.CShe had an appointment.DShe had schoolwork to do.10、AShe had to go home.BShe was too tired to continue.CShe had to finish her schoolwork.DShe was thirsty.11、AThe water was too cold. BThe water was too deep.CShe doesnt know how to swim.DShe didnt have enough time.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12、AWhether or not snowflakes can be analyzed.BHow snowflakes are formed.CWhat causes a snowstorm.DWhere the largest snowflakes can be found.13、AShe has never seen snow before.BShe is conducting a research on snow.CShe wants to make artificial snow.DShe has just read about snowflakes.14、AThe shape of the dust particles in the air.BThe relative humidity.CThe temperature of the air.DThe geography of the area.15、AInspect snowflakes more carefully.BMake a copy of the article.CWrite down more information.DDraw diagrams of the different shapes.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 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 1 with a single Line through the centre.注意:此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.ATo explain a new requirement for graduation.BTo interest students in a community service project.CTo discuss the problems of elementary school students.DTo recruit elementary school teachers for a special program.17、AHe advises students participating in a special program.BHe teaches part-time in an elementary school.CHe observes elementary school students in the classroom.DHe helps students prepare their resumes.18、AContact the elementary school.BSign up for a special class.CSubmit a resume to the dean.DTalk to Professor Howard.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19、AThe use of oversized freight containers.BSafety problems with railroad tracks.CThe growth of the automotive industry.DThe high cost of meeting environmental regulations.20、ATo make the railway operation safer.BTo offer passengers more comfortable journeys.CTo meet the demand of shipping larger loads.DTo connect the railway network with the highways.21、AIt contributes less to air pollution than truck industry.BIts competitors are inconsiderate of customers.CIt preserves a traditional way of doing business.DIt creates personal fortunes for investors.Passage ThreeQuestions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22、AThey took objective tests.BThey specialized in one subject.CThey spoke instead of writing.DThey were timed by electric clocks.23、AModem industry must have developed before the Middle Ages.BModem industry must have developed around the 19th century.CModem industry must have developed in Greece or Rome.DModern industry must have developed machines to take tests.24、AObjective tests.BSpoken tests.CPersonal tests.DSubjective tests.25、AThe features of the exams in the Middle Ages.BHow to perform well in both spoken and written exams,CHow did the forms of exams evolve.DThe different exams designed for people of different ages.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.注意:此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 The northern Italian city of Milan banned all traffic from its streets for 10 hours on Sunday in an attempt to reduce smog.The measure which was first _26 on a trial basis in the year 2007 is triggered whenever pollution exceeds the statutory limit for 12 consecutive days.Satellite _27 shows Milan to be one of the most polluted cities in Europe. An _ 28 120,000 vehicles will be affected by the move. according to the major daily newspaper in the city.The most polluting vehicles have been banned fiom driving through, the city center since Thursday. But on Sunday, there _29 be no traffic between 8:00 and 18:00.The ban is imposed when pollution exceeds 5030 of particulates per cubic meter of air over 12 days.The last time the full ban was in force was in February.The move is not popular with all_31 who argue that the citys public transport system should beimproved to _32 their cars. Local Green Party councilor Enrico Fedrighini said cars with three or four people inside should be offered 33_ , for example. One or two car-free Sundays each month will not do anythingto 34 _ the smog crisis, he told the daily newspaper in the city.Public transport was to be bolstered during the day, with an extra metro trains and buses 35_Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: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.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as silent, the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an 36 accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were 37 by piano improvisations(即兴创作) on popular tunes. At first, the music played 38 no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was 39 . Within a very short time, however, the incongruity (不协调) of playing lively music to a 40 film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in 41 their pieces to the mood of the film. As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain 42，and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed. For a number of years the selection of music for each film program 43 entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal 44 for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before they were to be shown, the musical arrangement was 45 improvised in the greatest hurry.注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。A) sufficient B) incredible C) accompaniedD) comparatively E) matching F) restedG) normally H) occasions I) boreJ) qualification K) solemn L) indispensableM) severe N) according O) casesSection BDirections: 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 marking the corresponding Letter on Answer Sheet 2. It Aint Easy Being GreenGreen stories of hotelsA) Over the summer, I stayed at four hotels in the United States. They were all owned by different companies, but they had one thing in common: A little card on the bathroom counter telling me that the establishment was very concerned about the environment, and appealing to me to do my part to help them save the earth by hanging up my wet towels and using them again the next day. Two of the hotels also placed a card next to the bed informing me that housekeeping would not change the sheets unless I left the card on the pillow.B) It is true that keeping all those towels clean requires an enormous amount of electricity and water and soap, and that cutting down on the number of loads of laundry would be more eco-friendly than my insisting on a new towel each day. But am I a heartless cynic for doubting that a collective environmental anxiety has seized the hotel industry?C) Here is an alternative explanation: All that water, soap, and electricity costs a lot of money and eats into the hotels profits. A little card on the counter telling customers that they wont get new towels because the hotel doesnt want to pay for laundry wouldnt go over very well. But by couching it as a green campaign, the hotels actually get credit for providing less service to their customers, while pocketing the difference.D) Industry groups that advise hotels on becoming more environmentally friendly tend to stress the money theyll save just as much as the benefits to the planet. Why should hotels be green? asks the Green Hotels Associations Web site. Havent you heard? Being green goes directly to your bottom line. The site explains that by getting guests to recycle towels and sheets, hotels can save 5 percent on utility bills. Some days, housekeeping workers, who usually clean 15 rooms a day, dont change a single bed, said one satisfied hotel owner, who estimates that 70 percent of people staying more than one night participate in the program. Another member reports that far fewer guests ask for new towels.E) So lets review: We give .up a nice luxury to save the hotel money; the hotel congratulates itself on being green for peer pressuring us into giving up the luxury under the excuse of environmental consciousness; the hotel keeps the money. Nice work. After all, even if profit is the motive, the net result is a reduction in the hotels carbon footprint. But heres what gets me: the hotels I stayed in this sunmer didnt seem all that interested in being green when it came to other things. The lobby of the big resort was air conditioned to meat locker temperatures. All day long, that frosty air rushed out the vast double doors, which were left open in the July heat. The resort also had a fleet of big, gas guzzling(耗油)vans idling at the curb to transport guests around the grounds.Green stories of companiesF) Hotels are not the only offenders in this kind of green fakery. Some companies have embraced conservation for real. They build headquarters with solar panels and rainwater collection systems; they think of the environmental impact of every aspect of their businesses and actually change the way they do things to reduce waste. But this is labor intensive, often expensive, and takes commitment. Faced with that, many corporations take a different approach: They dont do much of anything to change the way they do business, but make a big show of their contribution to Mother Earth.G) Its usually easy to spot these companies: They make their customers do the work, and then take the credit. In the name of saving the planet,. my cable TV operator keeps asking for permission to stop sending paper statements in the mail each month. Instead, fm supposed to check my statement online.The real reason, of course, is that doing so would save them paper, printing and postage. This is a perfectly reasonable reason for them to want me to switch. But when they pretend that its all about the environment, it just makes me hate my cable company even more than I already do.Green stories of ad campaignsH) Sometimes a good ad campaign does a better job of enhancing a companys green reputation than going through the expense and difficulty of adopting actual environmentally sound practices. Billboards in Washington appeal to me to join the cause. I will unplug stuff more, reads one. Another says, I will at least consider buying a hybrid(合成物).”These ads are the work of Chevron, the giant oil company, whose Will You Join Us? ads try to convince people that saving the planet is at the top of their fist. You might think that if Chevron was really worried about problems like global warming, they would spend some of those dollars lobbying Congress to adopt stricter gas mileage(英里数) requirements for automobiles. They do not do this. Instead, fm apparently supposed to praise them as environmental heroes because they tell me to unplug my toaster and think about getting a Toyota PriusI)Yet ad campaigns like these work. Chevron lands at No. 371 out of 500 companies on Newsweeks green ranlangs. But it claims the No. 62 spot when it comes to green reputation thanks in part to those pretty, polished ads. Green marketing has also helped Wal-Mart appear kinder and gentler in recent years. To be fair, the retailing giant has done more than redesign its logo. The company, which ranks 59th on Newsweeks list, has embraced a series of in-house green initiatives and is demanding its suppliers do the same. The result: Wal-Mart scores first place in our reputation survey:J) Given the power of positive marketing, its easy to see why those little towel cards are so popular-enough so that there are now a lot of companies that market them to hotels, along with all manner of products intended to make customers feel good about themselves while helping the hotels feel good about their bank balances. I suppose it is time that I step up and do my part. On behalf of the planet I will dutifully sleep on day-old sheets. But please, for the love of all that is good and right, keep the towels coming. 注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。46. Industry groups tend to emphasize the money hotels can save along with the benefits to the environment when they persuade hotels into being eco-friendly.47. Some companies take the real actions to embrace conservation, while others are just green fakeries48. Cutting down the number of loads of laundry can save a large amount of electricity and water for the hotels49. One way to spot. the green fakery is to see whether the company makes its customers do the work, and then takes the credit itself.50. Ad campaigns help companies like Chevron raise their ranks of green reputation.51. In America, it is common for hotels to appeal to customers to recycle towels.52. It is estimated that seventy percent of the hotel guests are willing to participate in the green program launched by the hotels.53. As for enhancing a companys green reputation, it is more effective to set up an ad campaign with eco-friendly slogans than to take up actual green programs.54. The hotels purpose of not changing the to