14级A班四六级模拟题2.doc

2014级A班四六级模拟题（2）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay. Suppose a foreign friend of yours wants to buy a book, which book would you like to recommend to him/her and why? You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section A 1. A) Use the womans mobile phone.B) Buy a mobile phone. C) Borrow some changeD) Use a pay phone.2. A) She forgets what they have done.B) She has been sick. C) She will help the man.D) She missed some classes.3. A) It is very boring.B) It is very difficult.C) It is very special.D) It is very wonderful4. A) She doesnt want to help the man.B) She cant fix the computer. C) She cant send the e-mails now.D) She doesnt know how to send e-mails.5. A) Fix the power plug.B) Figure out the sound problem. C) Press the play button again.D) Make some sound.6. A) She wont have dinner until finishing the report.B) She is too busy to have dinner with them. C) She doesnt want to have dinner tonight.D) She wont finish the report until tomorrow.7. A) Having a restB) Going on with the work.C) Waiting another minute.D) Eating some snacks.8. A) It is very interesting. B) It is very easy.C) It is very boring.D) It is very difficult.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A) It has changed the flavor.B) It is spicy as usual. C) It is too expensive.D) It sells western food.10. A) The Italian restaurant.B) The Indian restaurant. C) The Chinese restaurant.D) The Thai restaurant.11. A) The man and the woman will not eat out.B) The man and the woman will go Dutch C) The man will pay for the dinner.D) The woman will pay for the dinner.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) Job hopping.B) Putting up a notice.C) Travel ling by plane.D) Learning a foreign language.13. A) It has a small size.B) It will fire some employees. C) It will give him a promotionD) It is an overseas company.14. A) He will learn English for it.B) He will work in another country. C) He will travel a lot.D) He will get a much higher salary.15. A) Recommend her to his new comany.B) Give her some advice on her work. C) Get her promoted to be the manager.D) Write her a letter of recommendation.Section BPassage OneQuestions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) They only receive money from businesses.B) They offer people news and entertainment. C) They are run by the government.D) They are mainly for education.17. A) They are not as popular as before.B) They are developing faster and faster. C) They are replaced by new media.D) They are controlled by more owners.18. A) Televisions have got wires.B) Broadcast television uses public airwaves. C) Cable television has gained popularity.D) Television programs are not paid any more.19. A) American people get more news and entertainment than before. B) There has been a considerable change in American media. C) Cable television has already taken place of traditional television. D) Business has controlled public media in America.Passage TwoQuestions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.20. A) People do not read as much as before.B) People are tired of the old reading materials. C) People have more choices in reading.D) People do not have enough time to read,21. A) Women used to read more than men,B) Men have a better taste in reading than women. C) Women read more than before but men dont.D) Men do not read as much literature as women.22. A) Young adults read more than before.B) Children read more than adults. C) Older people read more literature than before.D) Older people read more than young adults.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A) They offer a chance for children to make friends. B) Children from poor families cant join them. C) Children have to stay outside overnight. D) Only children above 6 are allowed to join them.24. A) Children stay there for one day and one night. B) The time period ranges from 1 week to 8 weeks. C) The cost is up to 700 dollars totally. D) Kids of 4-year- old are able to attend it.25. A) It earns money from the students.B) It organizes summer camps. C) It raises money from common peopleD) It is in New York StateSection C Businesses are structured in different ways to meet different needs. The _26_form of business is called an individual or sole business. The businessman owns all of the property of the business and is _27_everything. For legal purposes, with this kind of business,the owner and the company are the same. This means the businessman gets to keep all of the profits of the business,but must also _28_.Another kind of business is the partnership. Tow or more people go into business together. An _29_is usually needed to decide how much of the partnership each person controls. One kind of partnership is called a limited liability(责任) partnership. These have full partners and limited partners. Limited partners may not share as much in the profits, but they also have less responsibility for the business. Doctors, lawyers and _30_often form partnerships to share their risks and profits. A husband and wife can form a bossiness partnership together. Partnerships _31_only for as long as the owners remain alive. The same is true of individual business. But corporations are _32_to have an unlimited lifetime. A corporation is the most complex kind of business organization. Corporations can sell stock as a way to _33_. Stock represents shares of ownership in a company. Investors who buy stock can _34_their shares or keep them as long as the company is in business . A company might use some of its _35_to pay dividends(红利) as a reward to shareholders. Or the company might reinvest the money back into the business.Part III Reading Comprehension (30 points)Section AQuestions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. At age 17, as a senior in high school, Kavita Shukla filed for her second patent: a piece of paper that would transform how food is stored and keptfresh. Ten years later, her product is being used in 35 countries, has beencalled the 36 paper and was recently launched in Whole Foods. FreshPaper is infused with organic spices that inhibit 37 and fungal growth; when stored with produce, itcan keep food fresh two to four times longer than normal-like refrigeration without electricity. The spice mixture comes from an old family recipe passed along by Shuklas grandmother, who once gave it to her after she 38 drank tap water on a visit to India. Drink this and you wont get sick, she was told.On Friday, Shukla was joined onstage at the Women in the World Summit in New York by Rula Jebreal, a 39 and foreign-policy expert at MSNBC (微软全国有线广播电视公司). Jebreal lamented the fact that while the worlds farmers actually produce enough food to feed the worlds hungry, 13 billion tons of food are lost annually to spoilage. Whats more, some 1.6 billion people currently living without40 to refrigeration struggle to keep their diets healthy. Shuklas company, Fenugreen, which she started in 2010,41 these people, along with food banks and small-scale farmers. For so many people, this was about so much more than a piece of paper, she said. It was about empowerment. Jebreal praised a low-tech solution in an era when many 42 are relying on high-tech innovation.What if I had 43 it as too simple? Shukla asked. Simple ideas are the ones that have the power to change things., and they have the power to 44 For Fresh Paper, simplicity meant accessibility, which was key to 45 the product reached anyone who could benefit from it. As the discussion drew to a close, Shukla reminded inventors everywhere that complicated isnt always better: Dont ever discount your own simple idea. Section B Why the Super-Rich Arent Leaving Much of Their fortunes to Their KidsA) What do Sting, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have in common? All three have huge fortunes, and none of them are giving them to their kids. Sting just revealed that most of his $300 million would not end up with his six adult children. The musician said that he certainly didnt want to leave them trust funds that are obstacles round their necks. “They have to work. All my kids know that and they rarely ask me for anything, which I really respect and appreciate.”B) Bill and Melinda Gates are giving a reported 76 billion. Buffetts three kids each have a $2 billion foundation funded by Dear Old Dad. The rest of his money goes to charity, just like Gates and several other billionaires who have invested their vast fortunes in improving the world. As Buffett famously put it, the perfect amount to leave children is “enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.”C) All those spoiled rich kids with more money than sense wont make smart choices or live healthy, productive lives if they have unlimited access to the money they inherit. Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has stated she has no intention of leaving a substantial inheritance:”I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.”D) Wealthy families have always struggled with this issue.But the same drama is now playing out on a smaller scale for millions of baby boomers(婴儿潮时期出生的人),who hesitate to give away $30 trillion over the next 30 years-the largest transfer of wealth in American history. What used to be a private family matter has become a public discussion about wealth,privilege and personal responsibility. Who gets the big money? Should it be the heirs? Or are they better off without it?E) “We probably struggled over this more than any other issue,”says a local self-made multimillionaire.The businessman and his wife, worth hundreds of millions, grew up modestly in middle-class families and wanted to create a financial plan that would take care of their childrenbut not spoil themif the couple died suddenly.”We were fearful of what might happen if they had control of a large amount of money at a young age,”he says. “The more we stared at that,the more we became uncomfortable.”F) Inspired by Buffetts example, they created trusts for each of their now college-age children.Each kid has $2.5 million controlled by trustees, who can release money only for education, health care, a home purchase or a business start-up. Any unspent money in the trust will continue to be invested and grow. Those restrictions remain in place until each child reaches age 40; after that, the money is all theirs to do as they please. By 40,their parents assume they will be mature enough to use the money wisely or save it as a safety net. The rest of the multimillion-dollar family fortune is going to a foundation, which will eventually be managed by the children and can be used only for charity. The kids are aware of the trusts and the planning that went into them. “They really are thrilled with it,”their father says.”They want to be their own persons .” A huge inheritance, he believes, can be a lifelong trap for children of rich parents. ”I didnt want them to look in the mirror and say, Who am I? ”G) Whether having so much money is good or bad for trust-fund babies depends on how the family has prepared the kids, their personal qualities and how well they handle the pressures of great wealth and the fear of not inheriting. For every party girl like Paris Hilton, theres an Ivanka Trump, who got a business degree from Wharton and has made her familys money and famous name valuable into a prosperous career. Johnson used his inheritance to launch a film making career and to live, all things considered, a relatively normal life in New York.”In my case,it turned out to be a great benefit,”he says.H) Most parents want to protect their children from the dark excesses of moneydrugs, legal troubles,and so onand preserve the family fortune for future generations. That usually doesnt work out: The first generation makes the money, the second spends the majority of it, and the third drains the rest. Hence the old saying goes like “Shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations.”Traditionally, the wealthy gave all their money to their children and grandchildren, and then hoped for the best. Baby boomers, says consulting firm Accenture managing director Bob Gach, are living longer and struggling to balance their own retirement needs and interests with their childrens welfare. Boomers are different from previous generations: more likely to give away money while theyre still alive, more concerned about their adult children finding and keeping jobs. Excess properties typically go into tax-protected trusts.I) There are really good reasons to leave a legacy(遗产) in a thoughtful way-ways that promote the production and healthy lifestyles. Many trusts are structured to distribute inheritances at the specific ages determined in advance. A common practice is to give a third at 25, a third at 30 and the rest at 35. Some inheritances are set up encourage the heirs to graduate from college, marry or hold a job for a specific amount of years before any money will be released.J) A lot of people dont like to talk about money because they dont want the kids to know how much theyre actually worth or what they might inherit. Although adult children in the United States have no legal rights to their parents money, its rare for heirs to get cut off with nothing. But that doesnt mean they get everything. Bill Gates, the worlds richest man, wont disclose the exact amount each of his three kids will inherit, but he said theyll get an “unbelievable” education and health care and the reported $10 million, which still puts them firmly in the One Percentbut not even close to their self-made fathers billions. For that, theyll have to found their own empire. In terms of their income, they will have to pick a job they like and go to work.46. If rich kids are well cultivated and prepared for the trust fund, it will be beneficial to their future.47. A great many wealthy people tend to keep the amount of their possessions secret from their children.48. Sting felt satisfied that all his children seldom requested anything from him and earned their living by themselves.49. Traditionally, once you make a big fortune and it is spent within three generations, the family will lose it all.50. How to deal with the big property has turned into a public concern instead of a private issue.51. The inheritance is commonly given out in portions at a certain age of the heirs decided in advance. 52. If an abundant inheritance is at the disposal of spoiled rich children, they wont choose or lead their lives wisely.53. Baby boomers having longer life spans care both about their retirement requirements and about their kids well-being.54. A local businessman from rags to riches and his wife established a detailed plan about their hundreds of millions of money for their children.55. Several billionaires have devoted a large sum of money to making the world better and better.Section CPassage OneQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage. For years, high school students have received identical textbooks as their classmates. Even as students have different learning styles and abilities, they are force-fed the same materials. “Imagine a digital textbook where because Im a different person and learn differently, my book is different than your book,”said Richard Baraniuk, founder of OpenStax. OpenStax will spend two years developing the personalized books and then test them on Houston-area students. The books will also go through a review and evaluation process similar to traditional textbooks. Baraniuk expects 60 people to review each book before publication to ensure its quality. The idea is to make learning easier, so students can go on to more successful careers and lives. Baraniuk isnt just reproducing physical textbooks on digital devices, a mistake e-book publishers have made. Hes seriously rethinking that the educational experience should be in a world of digital tools. To do this means involving individuals with skills traditionally left out of the textbook business. Baraniuk is currently hiring cognitive scientists and machine learning experts. Baraniuk wants to use the tactics(策略)of Google, Netflix and Amazon to deliver a personalized experience. These Web services all rely on complex algorithms(算法)to automatically adjust their offerings for customers. Just as Netflix recommends different movies based on your preferences and viewing history, a textbook might present materials at a different pace. The textbookwhich will be stored on a range of digital deviceswill automatically adjust itself thanks to machine learning. As a student learns about a topic, he or she could be interrupted bu brief quizzes that evaluate whether he or she masters the area.Depending on how the student does, the subject could be reinforced with more material. Or a teacher could be automatically e-mailed that the student is struggling with a certain concept and could use some one-on-one attention. This personalized learning experience is possible thanks to the wealth of data a digital textbook can track. This data can be used to better track students progress during a course.Parents and teachers