英语四级考试预测试卷(2)

英语四级考试预测试卷 英语四级考试预测试卷 2 2 试卷一 Paper One Part Listening Comprehension 20 minutes Directions In this section you will hear ten short conversations At the end of each conversation a question will be asked about what was said Both the conversation and the question 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center Example You will hear You will read A At the office B In the waiting room C At the airport D In a restaurant From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening This is most likely to have taken place at the office Therefore A At the office is the best answer You should choose A on the Answe r Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center JY Sample Answer A KG 1 5 B C D 1 A 10 30 B 11 20 C 10 45 D 10 50 2 A He is a farmer B He is a clerk C He is a salesman D He is a grocer 3 A He persuaded the woman not to take the course B He asked the woman to give a talk on psychology C He gave a talk to the psychology class D He convinced the woman to study psychology 4 A He really doesn t want to buy a color TV B He doesn t have enough money for a color TV C He will soon have enough money for a color TV D He plans to buy a color TV 5 A He wants to see a film on TV B He thinks the film shown on TV is good C He wants to watch a football game on Channel 8 D He has already seen the film on Channel 8 6 A The doctor told him not to drink tea B The doctor likes tea very much C The doctor also wants a cup of tea D The doctor wants him to drink a cup of tea 7 A Stop and take a rest B Wait for the rest of the people to come up C Keep going D Rest when she is tired 8 A Somebody is going to call him up B He will join the woman C He is not hungry D He isn t going to the cafeteria with them 9 A She hasn t seen Tom and the baby B She wants to see Tom and the baby C Tom has given up smoking D Tom has never smoked 10 A Sally would come again to see the woman B Sally left too early C The man asked Sally to wait for the woman D The woman returned home too late to see Sally SECTION B Directions You re going to hear three short passage Each will be read only once At t he end of each passage you will hear some questions After you hear the question you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A B C and D Then mark you answer Passage 1 Questions 11 and 12 are based on the passage you ve just heard 11 A A North American tends to come for his her appointments a little bit late B There is a common standard to determine what is early and what is late C North Americans value punctuality more than Latin Americans D To be late for an appointment is not an appropriate behavior in a Latin Americ an cultur 12 A Appointments B Americans and Latin Americans C Different Attitudes towards Time D Different Points of View on Appointments Passage 2 Questions 13 to 16 are based on the passage you ve just heard 13 A He wanted to buy some jewels for his wife in celebration of his success in business B He wanted to see what new jewelry the shop had got recently C He wanted to buy his wife a black pearl necklace D He wanted to buy his wife a birthday present 14 A The size of the pearl B The color of the pearl C The price of the pearl D The quality of the pearl 15 A The pearl she inherited from her mother B A family jewel C An imitation of the original pearl D The very pearl that the man had bought from the jewelry shop 16 A 5 000 B 25 000 C 20 000 D 30 000 Passage 3 Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you ve just heard 17 A He should reach the age of 17 B He should learn to drive in a driving school C He should pass a driving test D He should get a full licence 18 A Drive a car fit for the road B Drive round for over an hour C Be asked some question about driving askils D Be asked to drive in the driving school 19 A One has to take a driving test before he s allowed to have a full licence B One must drive alone for at least an hour before he s allowed to have a full licence C Everyone was allowed to drive in Britain before 1940 D In 1970 a 100 year old woman passed her 40th test 20 A Driving tests in Britain B Driving lessons in Britain C Driving schools in Britain D Driving licences in Britain Part Reading Comprehension 35 minutes Directions There are 4 passages in this part Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements For each of them there are four choices marked A B C and D You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center Passage 1 Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage The three main types of secondary education in the United States have been provided by the Latin grammar school the academy and the public high school The first of these was a colonial institution It began in New England with the establish ment in 1635 of the Boston Free Latin School The curriculum 课程 consisted mainly of the classical languages and the purpose of this kind of school was the preparation of boys for college where most of them would be fitted for the ministry The academy began in the early 1750 s with Benjamin Franklin s school in Philadelphia which later became the University of Pennsylvania It extended generally to about the middle nineteeth century except in the southern states where the public high school was late in developing and where the academy continued to be a principal means of secondary education even after 1900 The academy was open to girls as well as to boys and it provided a wider curriculum than what the Latin grammar school had furnished It was designed not only as a preparation for college but also for practical life in commercial and business activities Although its wide educational values are evident and are recognized as important contributions to secondary education in this country the academy has never been considered a public institution as the public high school has come to be The public high school had its origin in Massachusetts in 1821 when the English Classical School was established in Boston In 1827 the state enacted 制定 the first state wide public high school law in the United States By 1840 there were perhaps a dozen public high schools in Massachusetts and many in other eastern states by 1850 they could also be found in many other states Just as the curriculum of the academy grew out of that of the Latin grammar school the curriculum of the public high school developed out of that of the academy The public high school in the United States is a repudiation 推翻 of the aristocratic 贵族的 and selective principle of the European educational tradition Since 1890 enrollments 入学 in secondary schools mainly public high schools have practically doubled in this country every ten years 21 According to the passage which of the following sequences indicates the order in which the schools developed A Latin grammar school public high school academy B Latin grammar school academy public high school C Public high school Latin grammar school academy D Public high school academy Latin grammar school 22 It is the opinion of the author that the academy compared with the public high school was A obviously academically better B more discriminatory in student selection C coeducational D not generally considered as a public institution 23 The year 1827 marks the A enactment of the first state wide public high school law B founding of the Latin Grammar School in Boston C establishment of the English classical School in Boston D year when Massachusetts made free public education compulsory after the eighth grade 24 One can probably infer from his article that Latin grammar school refers to A the Boston Free Latin School B all the elementary schools in the United States C schools which taught Latin exclusive of all other subjects D a number of schools which developed in New England 25 It is implied but not stated in the passage that A European educational systems are not good B As high schools developed in the united states the decision was made to make them responsible to people from all classes of socitety C There was an aristocratic and selective principle in the European educaional tradition D public high schools in the United States embraced the European educational tradition Passage 2 Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage In the eighteenth century one of the first modern economists Adam Smith thought that the whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country provided revenue to three different orders of people those who live by rent those who live by wages and those who live by profit Each successive stage of the industrial revolution however made the social structure more complicated Many intermediate groups grew up during the nineteenth century between the upper middle class and the working class There were small scale industrialists as we ll as large ones small shopkeepers and tradesmen officials and salaried employees skilled and unskilled workers and professional men such as doctors and teachers Farmers and peasants continued in all countries as independent groups During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the possession of wealth inevitably affected a person s social position Intelligent industrialists with initiative made fortunes by their wits which lifted them into an economic group far higher than that of their working class parents But they lacked social training of the upper class who despised them as the new rich They often sent their sons and daughters to special school to acquire soical training Here their children mixed with the children of the upper classes were accepted by them and very often found marriage partners from among them In the same way a thrifty hardworking labourer though not clever himself might save for his son enough to pay for an extended secondary school education in the hope that he would move in a white collar occupation carrying with it a higher salary and a move up in the social scale In the twentieth century the increased taxation of higher incomes the growth of the social services and the wider development of educational opportunity have considerably altered the social outlook The upper classes no longer are the sole or even the main possessors of wealth power and education though inherited social position still carries considerable prestige 26 What criterion did Adam Smith seem to go by in his classification of social groups A The amount of wealthB The amount of money C The social statusD The way of getting money 27 If you compare the first and second paragraph what groups of people did Adam Smith leave out in his classification A Officials and employees B Peasants and farmers C Doctors and teachers D Tradesmen and landlords 28 Who were the new rich during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries A They were still the upper class people B They were owners of large factories C They were intelligent industrialists D They were skilled workers who made their fortune 29 According to the passage what did those people do who intended to make their children move up in the social ladder A They saved a lot of money for their children to receive higher education B They tried to find marriage partners from the children of the upper class C They made greater fortunes by their wits D They worked even harder to acquire social training 30 In the twentieth century class differences have been partly smoothed out by A increased income and decreased taxation B taxation social services and educational opportunities C education the increase of income and industrial development D the decrease of the upper class population Passage 3 Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage Attitudes differed to small errors of grammar and usage or inappropriateness of vocabulary and idiom with the native speakers finding such errors a little irksome 令人厌烦的 though sometimes amusing while the Chinese panel members paid hardly any attention to such errors as for example misuse of phrasal verbs and similar usages When I saw the job description I decided to apply the position I expect to find out a lot of challenge in the job I can deal the emergen cy situations efficiently Errors of idiom or appropriateness caused more comment during the post interview discussion from the native speakers than from the Chinese panel members on whom the errors were sometimes lost For example one candidate when asked what salary he expected replied I don t care about it The message was clear enough namely that he was primarily interested in the job but the formulation of the message was not quite right Even such ribticklers 笑话 as I am a well planned person and I would like to expose myself in another field both actually heard at interviews tended to cause lipbiting among the expatriate rather than the Chinese interviewers Panels with two Chinese and one expatriate used to be more common but are becoming less common The reason is that with more of the interview now being conducted in Chinese the non Chinese speaker does not know what has already been asked and is liable to repeat in English questions that have already been covered in Chinese This caused naturally enough confusion in the interviewee and can adversely affect the whole interview The sensible procedure would seem to be to open the interview in the mother tongue of the candidates to put them at their ease then at a later stage turn to English to test English proficiency In practice however possibly because of the problem mentioned in the previous paragraph when the panel contains a foreigner it is often the reverse with a few fairly standard opening questions in English and if these are successfully answered then the job interview properly gets underway in Cantonese One of the worst interview scenarios 方案 is when a foreigner who thinks she he can speak Cantonese but does so in fact badly decides to question the interviewee in Cantonese In other circumstances of a social nature the interviewee would no doubt politely compliment the foreigner on his or her good Cantonese but in the seriousness of a job interview situation the Chinese is confused and slightly embarrassed for the foreigner These forays 初步 尝试 into Chinese usually end pretty quickly with one of the Chinese members of the panel rescuing the foreigner and continuing the interview in English 31 The word adversely in the last sentence of the third paragraph is closest in meaning to A positivelyB negativelyC hardD slightly 32 Concerning misuses of phrasal verbs A both Chinese and the native speakers of English find them amusing B the Chinese interviewers tend to be tolerant C the Chinese interviewers and the English native speaker interviewers often have a discussion ZK D might sometimes become a laughing stock to the native speakers of English but draw hardly any attention from the Chinese 33 It is implied in the passage that A Chinese are generally liable to make mistakes in English grammar and vocabular y usage B expatriate interviewers are generally more friendly with interviews C braver candidates can often get the upper hand D the candidates often deliver an improper message for the use of inappropriate expressions 34 Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage A The non Chinese speaking interviewer might ask the questions which have already been asked by the Chinese and hence cause confusion B It is more practicable to start an interview with a few fairly standard questions in English before switching to Chinese C The best procedure of an interview would seem to be beginning in Cantonese and then testing English proficiency D The Chinese interviewee often politely compliments the foreign interviewer if he or she speaks cantonese if it is not actually so good in the interview 35 This passage is mainly concerned with A whether language proficiency or work abuility counts in job interviews B how to avoid awkward situation in a job interview in HongKong C the language used in a job interview with both Chinese and expatriate panel members D the sensible procedure of getting on with an interview where the Chinese interviewee s English is to be tested Passage 4 Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage The concept of personal choice in relation to health behaviors is an important one An estimated 90 percent of all illnesses may be preventable if individuals would make sound personal health choice and do not like to see it restricted when it is within the legal and moral boundaries of society The structure of American society allows us to make almost all our own personal decisions that may concern our health If we so desire we can smoke drink excessively refuse to wear seat belts eat whatever foods we want and live a completely sedentary life style without any exercise The freedom to make such personal decisions is a fundamental aspect of our society although the wisdom of these decisions can be questioned Personal choices relative to health often cause a difficulty As one example a teenager may know the facts relative to smoking cigarettes and health but may be pressured by friends into believing it is the socially accepted thing to do A multitude of factors both inherited and environmental influence the development of health related behaviors and it is beyond the scope of this text to discuss all these factors as they may affect any given individual However the decision to adopt a particular health related behavior is usually one of personal choices There are healthy choices and there are unhealthy choices In discussing the morals of personal choice Fries and Grapo drew a comparison They suggest that to knowingly give onself over to a behavior that has a statistical probability of shortening life is similar to attempting suicid