20139月份四级考试样卷6.doc

Model Test SixPart I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the importance of finance management. Yon should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 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 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 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. A) Phone the Village Inn for a reservation. B) Ask her parents to come some other time. C) Call each hotel in the area to check. D) Find a hotel close to the campus.2. A) The interview is very important for him. B) He has never been to an interview. C) He hasnt prepared for the interview. D) The interview is said to be quite demanding.3. A) The woman is going out for supper. B) The woman wants to eat some chocolate. C) The woman will go to a convenience store. D) The woman will go to a bar for a drink.4. A) He needs some tomato juice. B) His pants are stained. C) His pants need mending. D) His pants are missing.5. A) The woman has to remain in the class. B) The woman will have to finish the report. C) Dr. Brown enforces strict deadlines on work. D) He would like to drop the class too.6. A) She is going to Venice. B) She travels around the world. C) She likes to collect postcards. D) She is going on vacation.7. A) Her notebook has got missing. B) Her handwriting is difficult to read. C) She needs to attend more lectures. D) She has lent her notes to someone else.8. A) Shes bored with the present job. B) She is going to make a move. C) She hates commuting to work. D) She has a bad sleep at night.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A) At a bookstore. B) At a library. C) On the telephone. D) At the student center.10. A) Return it as quickly as possible. B) Pay a fine because of the delayed return.C) Return it within 7 days of the recall notice. D) Return it within 7days before the due date.11. A) Send an email to him. B) Impose an overdue fine on him.C) Ask his roommates to give him a message. D) Give the notice to his teacher of his department.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) Poetry is popular among the general public. B) People there have no interest in poetry. C) Poetry is the most popular literature. D) People have no passion for writing poems.13. A) Flowery words are the most shining point of poetry. B) Flowery words arent an absolute necessity for poetry. C) One can write poems easily after he has read much. D) He prefers a long novel to a short poem.14. A) He has more readers than other poets. B) He uses refined words in his poems. C) His poems express deep thoughts. D) His poems are interesting and excellent.15. A) Finding out a rhymed word with panda. B) Bringing the poem about panda to an end. C) Adding the name Amanda into a poem. D) Replacing panda with another word.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.16. A) To find the similarity of soybeans in the world. B) To protect soybeans against dry condition. C) To collect materials for their papers. D) To study the impact of global warming.17. A) China is the only. country to grow soybeans. B) China is the ancestral home of soybeans. C) China has a long history of growing soybeans. D) China has different kinds of soybeans.18. A) They produce the same yield in different locations. B) They are suitable to grow only in the United States. C) They produce better quality soybeans under dry weather. D) They have better production under drought conditions.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A) They like mass produced things. B) They design things themselves and sell them.C) They make clothes and tools for themselves. D) They use crafts to decorate their homes.20. A) In shopping .centers or churches. B) In community or parking lots.C) On playgrounds or country grounds. D) In public parks or on county grounds.21. A) Candies and toys. B) Clothes and gifts. C) Rides and shows. D) Rides and foods.22. A) Things in craft fairs have better quality than in stores.B) They want to buy things that are different and original.C) It is more convenient to buy things in craft fairs.D) They can buy everything they want in craft fairsPassage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A) It is the largest supplier of valuable minerals. B) It will disappear in about thirty years. C) It is beginning to grow smaller and smaller. D) It offers many resources to help mankind survive.24. A) Iron and copper. B) Gold and copper. C) Nickel and bronze. D) Iron and bronze25. A) The sea level will be 20 centimeters higher than it is nowB) The sea will be empty if we continue fishing at this pace.C) The problems to explore the sea will have been largely solved.D) People will depend largely on sea foods and minerals.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。 People whose jobs require them to sit for long periods of time suffer as much from back pain as people who lift all day long.Many researchers believe that the huge increase in back pain over the past couple of (26) _ has a lot to do with the fact that more and more of us are spending our work days in chairs. Many people have the (27) _ that if their back pain becomes very severe, they can always (28) _ surgery. Nothing could be further from the truth. The amount of pain someone suffers from has very little to do with whether or not he or she could (29) _ surgery. One British researcher has estimated that for every 10,000 people who experience back pain, only four need surgery. And yet, one of the most (30) _ asked questions that back pain sufferers ask is: Whos the best specialist in town?” Waste of time. Physicians today (31)_ physical activity and the use of posture(姿势)support clothes to (32)_ exercise while supporting back muscles. Not many years ago, back pain patients were put to bed, sometimes for weeks or months. Two or three days of bed rest is now the (33) _. Physically speaking, if you stay in bed, your muscle strength can decline by as much as three percent per day. At that rate, you will end up with no more energy left to (34) _ normal daily routines. A lot of attention has recently been paid to (35) _ links between depression and back pain. It is not rare.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. Over the last two years, in the PC business Michael Dell has been beaten like a rented mule. His company continues to lose market _ 36_ particularly in the U.S. Industry analysts would say that Dell has done a poor job of bringing out_ 37_and attractiveproducts. Apple Mac sales keep rising. HP, Sony, and Lenovo have _38_new product lines which have had warm39. Dells core business is being hit by three things. The first is that the company was fairly late at 40into retail outlets零售店) overseas. It 41 on its direct sales model for too long. The second problem is that the recession has 42 Dells sales. Dells final problem is that it cannot find the right people to run the company. It 43 dumped most of the senior management that it hired just over a year ago. It takes time for new people to get up to speed.Word has gotten out that Dell plans to launch its own high-end smartphone. Dell does not do well what it is supposed to do well. It has become a second rate PC company. It proposes to partially offset that by entering a business which is controlled by Apple and RIM, the maker of the Blackberry. Because smartphone margins are high, Nokia, the world largest cellphone company, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson are also 44into the market. The traffic jam is going to be 45. So Dell cant win in the handset business. What is ought to do is to try to improve its PC business.注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。A) receptions B) depended C) share D) extraordinaryE) targeting F) innovative G) launched H) declinedI) comprehensive J) recently K) rushing L) expressionsM) expanding N) consequently O) cutSection BDirections: In this section, yon 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. To Help the Kids, Parents Go Back to SchoolA) For a few years now, every parent of a newborn baby in the South Florida district has received a congratulations packet while still in the hospital that includes, among other things, a colorful animal picture book (in three languages) and a letter from something called the Parent Academy. Keep in mind that you are, and will always be, your childs first and most important teacher, the letter reads. Miami-Dade County Public Schools has many resources and opportunities for you to make the most of that awesome responsibility. You have to admit, its a pretty genius interpretation of that old advertising saying Get em while theyre young.B) While the concept of parent academies-in which towns or school districts offer what are essentially classes and workshops on parenting skills-has been around for more than a decade; several larger cities are starting or expanding such programs in an effort to engage parents who are otherwise uninvolved in their childs education. Philadelphia has invested heavily in this years launch of a comprehensive and wide-ranging program for parents. Boston is restoring its Parent University following an earlier versions shutdown due to budget cuts. And Miamis Parent Academy, now in its fifth year, offers more than 100 workshops that range from Help Your Child Succeed in Math to Teaching Behavior SkillsC) Parent academies are particularly helpful for urban communities full of mothers and fathers who for various reasons are disengaged from their childrens education. Many are single parents with second jobs that leave little time to help with schoolwork. Some are immigrants who dont understand much English. Some are parents uncomfortable with schoolwork-a survey released by Intel found that more than 50% of parents would rather talk to their kids about drugs or drunk driving than about math or science. And then theres the general confusion that often comes from dealing with a bureaucracy(官僚作风)as complicated as the typical American school district. There are parents who are just not as well informed about the way schools work, says Karen Mapp, director of the Education Policy and Management Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The policies, the procedures, what state test scores mean-its not that they dont care; they just dont know how.D) Picture yourself in the following supposed situations: youre a parent who never graduated high school; youre a parent whose only interactions with schools have been negative ones; youre a parent who has zero recollection of how to divide fractions; youre a parent who has no clue as to what the important dates are on the college-application calendar. Now picture yourself experiencing all of the supposed situations at once, and then imagine how your child would suffer from your knowledge deficiency. For as much as the current wave of education reformers like to maintain that quality teachers and schools can help overcome environmental factors, a childs home life plays an undeniable role in how well they learn, says Mapp.E) Ive been doing research on family engagement for about 16 years now, she says. And theres 40 years of research that indicates a pretty positive relationship between families being engaged in their childrens education and positive effects on students in terms of their academic achievement.” Mapp is currently helping write a case study on Miamis Parent Academy program, which is one of the nations most successful big-city attempts in this area. Privately funded by local philanthropists(慈善家)and businesses, the Parent Academy has seen more than 120,000 people participate in its workshops during the past half-decade. It has taught parents everything from how to reinforce reading lessons at home to how to deal with threat and the dangers of sexing.F) The county has partly adjusted its approach to serve its large non-English-speaking community. Many of our newly arrived immigrants dont understand what they can do to support their childs success, and they dont understand the system-theres no point in going to the school board when youre concerned about your childs homework, says Anne Thompson, director of the Miami-Dade program Because of language issues, she often sees students having to do their parents jobs in terms of navigating school bureaucracy.G) In Philadelphia, superintendent Arlene Ackerman set up a Parent University this year after expressing concern over low literacy rates for parents and children, as well as a general lack of parental engagement among low-income families, especially among African-American men. Tasked with cherry-picking the best elements from other programs around the country (and tossing the worst), Karren Dunkley, deputy of the Philadelphia School Districts Office of Parent, Family and Community Services, and her colleagues realized that they needed to ground the program within the context of adult continuing education. That is, if youre trying to teach adults something, give them the respect of having it resemble a real class, which meets more than once, reinforces lessons and allows parents to form learning-centered relationships with instructors and fellow students一just as their kids do. When we looked around the country, we found one-hit wonders, where parents would come into schools for daylong workshops, says Dunkley. That really didnt produce transformative results, nor did it sustain interest or truly give support to parents.”H) Supported primarily by federal funds, the Philadelphia Parent Academys curriculum runs the scope from a 10-week math-literacy course to a multipart social-etiquette(社交礼仪)class to a one-day session on attendance and truancy(逃课)that teaches parents about compulsory education and attendance law.” Its all targeted toward families in need: parents of children at low-performing schools and residents of housing projects and emergency shelters. Of course, theres no guarantee that the people who need these programs the most will actually take advantage of them-you cant force parents to care, no matter how many free classes you offer. Still, says Harvards Mapp, you have to make progress where you can. Family engagement is a shared, mutual partnership between educators and parents, she says. Its a two-way conversation between home and school.注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。46. Some students have to navigate school bureaucracy by themselves, because their parents dont know English.47. Some big cities are launching parent academies programs to engage parents in their childs education.48. The letter in the congratulations packet intends to persuade parents to go back to school49. Mapp believes that besides teachers and schools, the parents help at home is essential for childrens study.50. A government official realized that the parent academic program should be on the basis of adult continuing education.51. Educators and parents should work in a shared, mutual partnership to help the kids, says a university staff member.52. The survey by Intel found that more than half of parents were