大学英语四级考试改革题型710分试题.doc

Part III: Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will 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 2 with a single line through the centre.11. A) The man has to fill in another form. B) The man has to pay $200 per night for the room. C) The man should pay $200 as security for the room. D) The man doesnt have $200.12. A) At a bank. B) On the street. C) At home. D) In a cafe.13. A) Frank always comes on time. B) Frank will be late again. C) Frank will arrive on time. D) Frank wont come.14. A) A housewife. B) A secretary. C) A waitress. D) An air hostess.15. A) The train will arrive on time. B) The train is late due to the storm. C) The woman will take next train. D) The woman has to wait for the train.16. A) Boating. B) Running. C) Walking. D) Driving.17. A) Fifty minutes. B) Twenty-five minutes. C) An hour and a quarter. D) An hour and five minutes.18. A) The two persons are talking about a lost wallet. B) The woman is asking the way. C) The man is not from around here. D) The man is showing the woman around.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 19. A) The girls father B) The girls teacher. C) The girls friend. D) An interviewer. 20. A) Separating different types of garbage. B) Disposing of trash properly. C) Having a family clean-up party. D) Placing more trashcans on the streets. 21. A) Save money. B) Cut down on waste. C) Protect the forests. D) Keep the environment clean.22. A) Visit a recycling center. B) Clean a neighbourhood park. C) Collect newspapers. D) Meet her friends in her neighbourhood.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. A) Leisure sporting activities. B) Average age of athletes. C) Durability of sporting equipment. D) Publics impression of the company.24. A) Target the 18-to-26-year-old age group. B) Sell tennis rackets. C) Carry more athletic shoes. D) Make an appealing slogan.25. A) Because they have more buying power. B) Because they enjoy sports more than young people. C) Because they become more health conscious. D) Because they are less energetic than young people.Section CDirections: 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 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage One estions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.26 A) 5 million. B) 38.6 million. C) 3.2 million. D) 41.8 million.,A) Because they are too weak to work.i B) Because they need to seek treatment. C) Because people are prejudiced against them.D) Because they are embarrassed to face others.28. A) Lack of money, discrimination, and people s education. B) Childrens infection. C) The threat of AIDS to people of the developing world. D) The unemployment of the people infected with HIV.Passage TwoQuestions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.29. A) To give a lecture to all the students in a large class one or two times a week. B) To give tests and read any homework or reports students may be required to write. C) To meet individual students seeking help. D) To attend teaching meetings.30. A) They are required to take two English speaking tests. B) They must take one English speaking test. C) They are required to write an application. D) They must squeeze out enough time each week.31. A) The state government. B) The local government. C) The college or university. D) A foreign students native country.Passage ThreeQuestions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you heave just heard.32. A) The child seems sad. B) The child occasionally feels blue or down. C) His or her sadness lasts for a rather long period of time. D) He or she feels life has its ups and downs.33. A) Because psychologists and related persons can almost always cure it. B) Because its a period almost every childe must experience. C) Because it lasts a short period of time. D) Because more and more parents and doctors begin to attach importance to it.34. A) The child becomes angry easily. B) The child has trouble getting along with other kids. C) The childs performance in school is poor. D) The child talks too much in class.35. A) When your child occasionally complains about a physical discomfort like headache. B) When your child exhibits all the symptoms of depression. C) When the symptoms interfere with your childs ability to function at home or in school. D) When your child grieves over a loss for days at a time.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 numbered from 36 to . 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. Women in the United States and in many other countries (36)_ in a growing numberof sports and games. This has not always been the (37)_, however. In fact, women have notbeen as active in sports as men. Only in (38)_ years have women begun to catch up with menin this area. Until the twentieth century, women did not often take part in sports. Part of the (39)_ for this is that women simply didnt have time. Many women cooked,cleaned, and took care of children. They were so busy that they didnt have time for sports. A secondreason, especially in the late (40)_ century, is that a womans (41) _ at that timewas one of frailty, illness, and (42)_. In the Victorian era, people thought that it was unlady-like for a woman to be (43)_ in any sports activity. There have been changes, in the view of women in the modem world, and also changes within the world of sports. (44)_ The general view of women has changed substantially since the Victorian era. (45) _. Women who win in sports activities highly are regarded. (46) _. This development is partly the result of a change of women in the modern world. Test 6 11. A) The man cant afford the high taxes. B) The man wants to move to a villa. C) The woman doesnt want the man to move. D) The man is living with other people now. 12. A) At a hotel. B) At a bank. C) At a movie theater. D) At a post office. 13. A) 9 yuan. B) 11 yuan. C) 13 yuan. D) 15 yuan. 14. A) Because driving is too dangerous. B) Because buying a car is too expensive. C) Because getting a drivers licence is too difficult. D) Because taking a bus is more convenient. 15. A) She thinks Alex made mistakes in the exam. B) She thinks Alex should be dismissed. C) She doesnt believe Alex had cheated on the exam. D) She doesnt believe Alex had been dismissed.16. A) The woman is wearing straight hair now. B) The man didnt want the woman to have her hair permed. C) The woman followed the mans advice. D) The man doesnt care if the woman had her hair permed or not.17. A) A taxi-driver. B) A policewoman. C) A clerk at the railway station. D) A clerk at the airport.18. A) She will not go skiing since its too cold. B) She will not go skiing since she is not feeling well. C) She will go skiing in spite of the cold weather. D) She will go skiing when she feels better.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) Its not so good as she expected. B) Its terrible. C) Its very good.D) Its just so-so.20. A) Los Angeles is a wonderful city. B) Theres a good subway system in Los Angeles. C) She visited some movie stars homes in Hollywood. D) She had a very good time in Disneyland.21. A) Because it used to be hot in the city. B) Because it is winter now. C) Because it is summer now. D) Because it is not like what the weather forecast said.22. A) Because San Francisco is much bigger than Los Angeles. B) Because San Francisco is cleaner than Los Angeles. C) Because there is no bay in Los Angeles. D) Because it is more convenient to get around in San Francisco than in Los Angeles.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. A) A computer sales negotiation. B) A preliminary interview. C) An Internet seminar meeting. D) A discussion about computer games.24. A) A kind of beverage. B) A web page authoring program. C) A computer game software. D) A computer game.25. A) The woman is quite satisfied with Mr. Taylor as an eligible candidate for the job. B) Mr. Taylor is experienced in operating systems. C) The woman will not contact Mr. Taylor for further consideration. D) Mr. Taylor doesnt know anything about computer games at. ail.Passage OneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.26. A) Seventy percent. B) Fifty-four percent. C) Seventeen percent. D) Fifty percent.27. A) More than six thousand million. B) More than two thousand million. C) More than one thousand million. D) More than three thousand million.28. A) They promised there would be one thousand million people without safe drinking water by 2015. B) They promised there would be one hundred million people without safe drinking water by 2015. C) They promised there would be only five hundred million people without safe systems to treat waste by 2015. D) They promised there would be only one thousand million people without safe systems to treat waste by 2015.Passage TwoQuestions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.29. A) Interests and salary. B) Education and skills. C) Experience and skills. D) Experience and educational background.30. A) Be clear about the places you have applied for and the persons you communicated with. B) Be clear about the salary you asked for and the answers others gave to you. C) Be clear about others attitude and spend enough time talking with them. D) Be clear about what you want to do.31. A) A support group can encourage you in job search. B) Even unpaid work experience is beneficial in your job search. C) You should allow for a reasonable amount of time in job search. D) Part-time work gives little help in your job search.Passage ThreeQuestions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.32. A) Because he lost his way and was hungry. B) Because he was a homeless child and it was the way he made a living. C) Because he didnt have much money left and felt hungry. D) Because all his money was given to the school.33. A) A glass of milk. B) Nothing. C) A meal. D) Kindness.34. A) She was seriously ill and there was no treatment in the town. B) She became critically ill and Dr. Howard Kelly came to her house to help her. C) She was ill and she thought of the boy she helped years ago. D) She was critically ill and no one helped her in the town.35. A) Tit for Tat B) No Pains, No Gains C) Practice Makes Perfect D) Kindness Pays You If 1999 was the year of e-commerce-and it was, oh, it was! -then the guy who built Amazon. . com must be the years (36)_ mover. Fearless multibillionaire (亿万富翁) leader of the Web sbiggest store, Bezos (37) _ a company that adds customers so fast that it doesnt have time tomake money. In the process, he has made life (38)_ for anyone else trying to sell goods online.Amazon has spent the past year using its (39) _ customer base- and its one-click orderingsystem, Amway-like network and here-every-one-knows-your-name customer service- to (40)_ Microsoft-like into nearly everyone elses business. Music and video competitors CDNowand N2k had to combine to fight off Amazons (41)_. A summer move into toys and (42)_ helps explain why the (43) company has been building a network of 75,000-sq-mwarehouses across the country. (44) _. Where Bezos doesnt build, he buys. (45)_. Once a Wall Street man who cooled upfinancial models for D. E. Shaw, Bezos set off for Seattle in 1994, writing the business plan for A on the plane. (46)_.Test 7Section A11, A) In the downtown. B) In the suburb. C) Near her office. D) Near the railway station.12, A) A waitress. B) A hostess. C) A landlady. D) A receptionist.13, A) He is studying Chinese in Beijing. B) He is having a vacation in Beijing. C) He is planning to go back to Beijing. D) He will return from Beijing in two weeks. 14. A) Do whatever has been planned. B) Have a picnic and go camping. C) Eat out and see a play. D) Go to the beach. 15. A) She has given the man much trouble. B) She is not interested in the article. C) She would like to have a copy of the article. D) She doesnt want to take the trouble to read the article. 16. A) The womans sister doesnt know the man. B) The woman asks the man to talk to her sister. C) The woman is very surprised to hear the mans words. D) The woman suggests that the man go on a diet. 17. A) The man doesnt know how to get to England. B) The man will pay a visit to England in the near future. C) The woman has been to England before. D) Thomas is a British. 18. A) Shes preparing for the exam tomorrow. B) Shes decorating the hall. C) She has many posters to print. D) Shes busy preparing for a party. Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 19. A) Teacher and student. B) Siblings. C) Friends. D) Relatives. 20. A) She feels sad at the bad news in her parents letter. B) She has felt homesick since she heard from her parents. C) She feels sad at the poor result of her math exam. D) She missed her old friends when she played with new ones. 21. A) A snack bar. B) A French restaurant. C) A cinema. D) A library. 22. A) The woman is tired of the man s complaints of math. B) The woman is not used to the mans bragging about math. C) The man used to forget to turn off the lights. D) The man is afraid of annoying his father.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. A) 5:30 a.m. B) 7:45 a.m. C) 5:30 p.m. D) 7:45 p.m.24. A) What clothes to wear. B) Which restaurant to go to. C) Whom to go with. D) Which cinema to go to.25. A) Indifferent. B) Reluctant. C) Cautious. D) Enthusiastic.Section B Passage One Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26. A) In the mid-1980s. B) In the mid- 1960s. C) In the mid-1970s. D) In the mid-1990s. 27. A) Tower. B) Touch. C) Torch. D) Tough. 28. A) How the Spice Girls became successful. B) How the Spice Girls renamed the group. C) How the manager found the Spice Girls. D) Why the Spice Girls could stand the test of