2012英语四级模拟试题.doc

Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Competition. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese:1. 竞争使人们充满创造力，使人们更有效率。2. 竞争促使生产出更好的产品和提供更优质的服务。3. 竞争促进了社会的进一步发展。CompetitionPart Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)(25 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 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.What is it about Americans and food? We love to eat, but we feel 47 about it afterward. We say we want only the best, but we strangely enjoy junk food. Were 48 with health and weight loss but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity. Perhaps the 49 to this ambivalence lies in our history. The first Europeans came to this continent searching for new spices but went in vain. The first cash crop wasnt eaten but smoked. Then there was Prohibition, intended to prohibit drinking but actually encouraging more 50 ways of doing it.The immigrant experience, too, has been one of in harmony. Do as Romans do means eating what “real Americans” eat, but our nations food has come to be 51 by imports-pizza, say, or hot dogs. And some of the countrys most treasured cooking comes from people who arrived here in shackles.Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food has been a medium for the nations defining struggles, whether at the Boston Tea Party or the sit-ins at southern lunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of health and even morality whether one refrains from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat for political 52 .But strong opinions have not brought 53 . Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become 54 of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain.The 55 in food is still prosperous in the American consciousness.Its no coincidence,then,that the first Thanksgiving holds the American imagination in such bondage(束缚).Its what we eatand how we 56 it with friends.AanswerBresultCshareDguiltyEconstantFdefinedGvanishHadaptedIcreativeJbeliefKsuspiciousLcertaintyMobsessedNidentifyOidealsSection BDirections: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, B, Cand D.You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.It is not often realized that women held a high place in southern European societies in the 10th and 11th centuries. As a wife, the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry (嫁妆). Admittedly, the purpose of this was to protect her against the risk of desertion, but in reality its function in the social and family life of the time was much more important. The dowry was the wifes right to receive a tenth of all her husbands property. The wife had the right to with hold consent, in all transactions the husband would make, and more than just a right; the documents show that she enjoyed a real power of decision, equal to that of her husband. In no case do the documents indicate any degree of difference in the legal status of husband and wife.The wife shared in the management of her husbands personal property, but the opposite was not always true. Women seemed perfectly prepared to defend their own inheritance against husbands who tried to exceed their rights, and on occasion they showed a fine fighting spirit. A case in point is that of Maria Vivas. Having agreed with her husband Miro to sell a field she had inherited, for the needs of the household, she insisted on compensation. None being offered, she succeeded in dragging her husband to the scribe to have a contract duly drawn up assigning her a piece of land from Miros personal inheritance. The unfortunate husband was obliged to agree, as the contract says, “for the sake of peace.” Either through the dowry or through being hot-tempered, the wife knew how to win herself, with the context of the family, a powerful economic position.57.Originally, the purpose of a dowry is to_.Agive a woman the right to receive all her husbands propertyBhelp a woman to enjoy a higher position in the familyCprotect a woman against the risk of desertionDboth A and C58.According to the passage, the legal status of the wife in marriage was_.Ahigher than that of a single womanBhigher than that of her husbandClower than that of her husbandDthe same as that of her husband59. Why does the author give us the example of Maria Vivas?ATo show that the wife shared in the management of her husbands personal property.BTo show that the wife can defend her own inheritance.CTo prove that women have powerful position.DTo illustrate how women win her property.60.The compensation Maria Vivas got for the field is_.Asome of the land Miro had inheritedBa tenth of Miros landCmoney for household expensesDmoney form Miros inheritance61. The authors attitude towards Maria Vivas is_.AsympatheticBdisapproval Cindifferent DobjectivePassage TwoQuestions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.According to sociologists, there are several different ways in which a person may become recognized as the leader of a social group. In the family, traditional cultural patterns confer leadership on one or both of the parents. In other cases, such as friendship groups, one or more persons may gradually emerge as leaders, although there is no formal process of selection. In larger groups, leaders are usually chosen formally through election or recruitment.Although leaders are often thought to be people with unusual personal ability, decades of research have failed to produce consistent evidence that there is any category of “natural leaders”. It seems that there is no set of personal qualities that all leaders have in common; rather, virtually any person may be recognized as a leader if the person has qualities that meet the needs of that particular group.Research suggests that there are typically two different leadership roles that are held by different individuals. Instrumental leadership is leadership that emphasizes the completion of tasks by a social group. Group members look to instrumental leaders to “get things done”. Expressive leadership, on the other hand, is leadership that emphasizes the collective well-beings of a social groups members. Expressive leaders are less concerned with the overall goals of the group than with providing emotional support to group members and attempting to minimize tension and conflict among them.Instrumental leaders are likely to have a rather secondary relationship to other group members. They give others and may discipline group members who inhibit attainment of the groups goals. Expressive leaders cultivate a more personal or primary relationship to others in the group. They offer sympathy when someone experiences difficulties and try to resolve issues that threaten to divide the group. As the difference in these two roles suggest, expressive leaders generally receive more personal affection from group members; instrumental leaders, if they are successful in promoting group goals, may enjoy a more distant respect.62. What does the passage mainly discuss?AThe problems faced by leaders.BHow leadership differs in small and large groups.CHow social groups determine who will lead them.DThe role of leaders in social groups.63.The passage mentions all of the following ways by which people can become leaders EXCEPT_.ArecruitmentBformal election processCspecific leadership trainingDtraditional cultural patterns64. Which of the following statements about leadership can be inferred from Paragraph 2?AA person who is an effective leader of a particular group may not be an effective leader in another group.BFew people succeed in sharing a leadership role with another person.CA person can best learn how to be an effective leader by studying research on leadership.DMost people desire to be leaders but can produce little evidence of their qualifications.65. In mentioning “natural leaders” in Line 7, the author is making the point that_.Afew people qualify as “natural leaders”Bthere is no proof that “natural leaders” existC“natural leaders” are easily accepted by the members of a groupD“natural leaders” share a similar set of characteristics66. The passage indicates that instrumental leaders generally focus on_.Aensuring harmonious relationshipsBsharing responsibility with group membersCidentifying new leadersDachieving a goalPart Cloze (15 minutes)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, Cand Don the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.If you were to begin a new job tomorrow, you would bring with you some basic strengths and weaknesses. Success or 67 in your work would depend, to 68 great extent, 69 your ability to use your strengths and weaknesses to the best advantage. 70 the utmost importance is your attitude. A person 71 begins a job convinced that he isnt going to like it or is 72 that he is going to ail is exhibiting a weakness which can only hinder his success. On the other hand, a person who is secure 73 his belief that he is probably as capable 74 doing the work as anyone else and who is willing to make a cheerful attempt 75 it possesses a certain strength of purpose. The chances are that he will do well. 76 the prerequisite skills for a particular job is strength. Lacking those skills is obviously a weakness. A book keeper who cant add or a carpenter who cant cut a straight line with a saw 77 hopeless cases. This book has been designed to help you capitalize 78 the strength and overcome the 79 that you bring to the job of learning. But for your development, you must first 80 stock of where you stand now. 81 we get further along in the book, well be 82 in some detail with specific processes for developing and strengthening 83 skills. However, 84 begin with, you should pause 85 examine your present