2015年6月英语四级考试预测试题一.docx

英语四级考试网 /cet4 2015年6月英语四级考试预测试题（一）Part IWriting (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 Internet and the distance among people. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1._Internet and the Distance among PeoplePart H Listening Comprehension(30 minutes)Section ADirections: n 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, Cand D ), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.1.AHell help the woman move them.BHell keep them for the woman.CHe can carry them with one hand.DHe has a few more of them for the woman.2.AHe spends too much money. BHe seems to love watching television. CHe has bought an expensive watch.DHe should watch more television.3.ABooking a flight to Spain.BPaying for private lessons. CGiving Spanish tests to students.DStudying continually for two days.4.AThey should be prepared for the possible rain. BIt will rain much later in the week.CThey need to buy another umbrella.DThe weather forecast is often unreliable.5.AHe is humorous.BHe is careless.CHe is thoughtful.DHe is helpful.6.AHes unable to appear on the court.BHe should have become a better student.CHe plays tennis better than she does.DHes not so enthusiastic about academics.7.AThe woman didnt like cold weather. BThe snow would get dirty quickly. CIt wouldnt snow.DAll the snow would soon melt.8.AHes already spoken to the technician. BThe woman should make the repairs herself.CThe woman should explain what needs to be repaired.D. The technician hasnt called yet.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.AIts variety of colors. BIts unusual texture.CThe way it is sold.DIts main ingredient.10. AIts low purchase price.BIts good nutritional value. CIts wide availability.DIts high water content.11. AIn a few weeks. BIn two or three months.CIn several years.DIn ten years.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. AHe has a lot of free time.BMany of his friends are actors.CShe knows he likes acting.DHes looking for an acting job.13. AOne night a week. BEvery Wednesday for three hours.CEvery other Thursday.DThree times a week.14. AHe has to rearrange his evening schedule.BHis schoolwork takes up most of his time.CHe hasnt been in a play for a long time.DHe might not like the way the group works.15. ASee her on Wednesday. BLearn his part quickly.C. Enjoy the rehearsal.DPick her up on Thursday.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, Cand D ). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Passage One Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. ASummer vacation. BThe housing office.CResident advisers.DCheck-out procedures.17. ARegister for summer school.BRepair holes in room walls.CRemovepersonalproperty.DCall the housing office.18. ATheir summer addresses.BAny damage to their rooms.CWhen they plan to leave.DQuestions for the housing office.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. AYour heart rate is lowered.BIt becomes harder for you to relax.CYou become too tired to sleep.DYour sleeping rhythms are disrupted.20. AFailure to rest during the day.BLack of sleep on weekends.CVigorous exercise in the evening.DEating cheese before going to bed.21. AThey might eventually cause you to lose sleep.BThey help produce a neurotransmitter in the brain.CYou must not drink milk if you take them.DThey make it unnecessary to take naps.Passage ThreeQuestions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. ACharacteristics of sand. BHow animals live in the desert. CA snakes special way of moving:DTechniques of skiing.23. ATo climb hills.BTo gain traction. CTo fool its enemies.DTo rest as it moves.24. AWavy lines.BCircular lines.CPerpendicular lines.DParallel lines.25. ALower body temperatures. BDecreased energy consumption.CGreater ability to conceal itself.DWider range of vision.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.The northern Italian city of Milan banned all traffic from its streets for 10 hours on Sunday (26)reduce smog.The measure which was first imposed on a trial basis in theyear 2007 is (27)_whenever pollution exceeds the statutory limit for 12 (28)_ days.Satellite imagery shows Milan to be one of the most polluted cities in Europe. An estimated 120,000 (29) will be affected by the move, according to the major daily newspaper in the city.The most polluting vehicles have (30) _ driving through the city center since Thursday. But on Sunday, there was supposed to be no traffic between 8:00 and 18:00.The ban is imposed when pollution (31)_50 micrograms of particulates per cubic meter of air over 12 days. The last time the full ban was (32) _ was in February.The move is not popular with all environmentalists, who argue that the citys public transport system should be improved to (33)_people from using their cars. Local Green Party councilor Enrico Fedrighini said cars with three or four people inside should be offered free parking, for example. One or two car-free Sundays each month will not do anything to (34)_ the smog crisis, he told the daily newspaper in the city.Public transport was to be bolstered during the day, with an (35)_ metro trains and buses operating.Part HI 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.The festive break is fast becoming a distant memory and for many, New Year fitness regimes are too. Despite2.6m people starting diets on New Years Day, research suggests that by the end of the week 92 percent of dieters gave up,36exercise and gorging on comfort food. Findings37 by weightloss firm XLS-Medical, suggest that the 38 majority are unsuccessful at sticking to their diets for more than five days a week. Two out of l0 dieters 39 they have their first diet relapse (退步) just four to five days in, with hunger cited as the main cause. Boredom and alcohol were40 blamed for people failing to keep their health kick on track. Dr. Matt Capehorn, Clinical Director of the National Obesity Forum, 41 that just one day off from dieting can undo a weeks worth of hard work. He told Female First: A healthy diet, aimed at losing llb per week, relies on saving 3500 calories a week by having 500 calories less each day. A day off the diet should mean that you eat the correct amount, but many dieters see it as an excuse to binge (大吃大喝 ) and have thousands of calories more than they need. The results suggest that a 42590,000 could already have43to stick to New Year diet resolutions.And a vast majority are unaware of the negative impact a single day off can have on their weight loss efforts.Yet44it was found only 5 percent of women stick to their diets until theyve45their target weight.Amassive Breached Chighlighted DblamedEshunningFstill GreleasedHlostIalsoJadmittedKtreatedLdietedMoverallN vastOfailedSection BDirections: In this section, you 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. A University Degree No Longer Confers Financial SecurityAMillions of school-leavers in the rich world are about to bid a tearful goodbye to their parents and start a new life at university. Some are inspired by a pure love of learning. But most also believe that spending three or four years at university-and accumulating huge debts in the process-will boost their chances of landing a well-paid and secure job.BTheir elders have always told them that education is the best way to equip themselves to thrive in a globalised world. Blue-collar workers will see their jobs outsourced and automated, the familiar argument goes. School dropouts will have to cope with a life of cash-strapped (资金紧张的) insecurity. But the graduate elite will have the world at its feet. There is some evidence to support this view. A recent study from Georgetown Universitys Centre on Education and the Workforce argues thatobtaining a post-secondary credential ( 证书) is almost always worth it. Educational qualifications are tightly correlated with earnings: an American with a professional degree can expect to pocket $3.6m over a lifetime; one with merely a high- school diploma can expect only $1.3m. The gap between more- and less-educated earners may be widening. A study in 2002 found that someone with a bachelors degree could expect to earn 75% more over a lifetime than someone with only a high-school diploma. Today the disparity is even greater.CBut is the past a reliable guide to the future? Or are we at the beginning of a new phase in the relationship between jobs and education? There are good reasons for thinking that old patterns are about to change-and that the current recession-driven downturn (衰退) in the demand for Western graduates will morph (改变) into something structural. The strong wind of creative destruction that has shaken so many blue-collar workers over the past few decades is beginning to shake the cognitive elite as well.DThe supply of university graduates is increasing rapidly. The Chronicle of Higher Education calculates that between 1990 and 2007 the number of students going to university increased by 22% in North America, 74% in Europe, 144% in Latin America and 203% in Asia. In 2007 150m people attended university around the world, including 70m in Asia. Emerging economiesspecially China-are pouring resources into building universities that can compete with the elite of America and Europe. They are also producing professional- services firms snch as Tata Consulting Services and Infosys that take fresh graduates and turn them into world-class computer programmers and consultants. The best and the brightest of the rich world must increasingly compete with the best and the brightest from poorer countries who are willing to work harder for less money.E. At the same time, the demand for educated labor is being reconfigured (重新配置) by technology, in much the same way that the demand for agricultural labor was reconfigured in the 19th century and that for factory labor in the 20th. Computers can not only perform repetitive mental tasks much faster than human beings. They can also empower amateurs to do what professionals once did: why hire a flesh-and-blood accountant to complete your tax return when Turbotax (a software package ) will do the job at a fraction of the cost? And the variety of jobs that computers can do is multiplying as programmers teach them to deal with tone and linguistic ambiguity.F.Several economists, including Paul Krugman, have begun to argue that post-industrial societies will be characterized not by a relentless rise in demand for the educated but by a great hollowing out, as mid-level jobs are destroyed by smart machines and high-level job growth slows. David Autor, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), points out that the main effect of automation in the computer era is not that it destroys blue-collar jobs but that it destroys any job that can be reduced to a routine. Alan Blinder of Princeton University, argues that the jobs graduates have traditionally performed are if anything more offshorable than low-wage ones. A plumber or lorry-drivers job cannot be outsourced to India. A computer programmers can.G. A university education is still a prerequisite for entering some of the great industries, such as medicine, law and academia (学术界), that provide secure and well-paying jobs. Over the 20th century these industries did a wonderful job of raising barriers to entry-sometimes for good reasons (nobody wants to be operated on by a barber) and sometimes for self-interested ones. But these industries are beginning to bend the roles. Newspapers are fighting a losing battle with the blogosphere. Universities are replacing tenure-track professors with non-tenured staff. Law firms are contracting out routine work such asdiscovery (digging up documents relevant to a lawsuit) to computerized-search specialists such as Blackstone Discovery. Even doctors are threatened, as patients find advice online and treatment in Walmarts new health centers.H.Thomas Malone of MIT argues that these changes-automation, globalizafion and deregulation-may be part of a bigger change: the application of the division of labor to brain-work. Adam Smiths factory managers broke the production of pins into 18 components. In the same way, companies are increasingly breaking the production of brain-work into ever tinier slices. TopCoder chops up IT projects into bite-sized chunks and then serves them up to a worldwide workforce of freelance coders.I.These changes will undoubtedly improve the productivity of brain-workers. They will allow consumers to sidestep (规避 ) the professional industries that have extracted high rents for their services. And they will empower many brain-workers to focus on what they are best at and contract out more tedious tasks to others. But the reconfiguration of brain-work will also make life far less cozy and predictable for the next generation of graduates.46. The creative destruction that has happened to blue-collar workers in the past also starts to affect the cognitive elite.47. For the next generation of graduates, life will be far less comfortable and predictable with brain-work reconfigured.48. After computers are taught by programmers to deal with tone and linguistic ambiguity, the variety of jobs they can do will increase dramatically.49. Most school-leavers believe that, despite the huge debts they owe, going to university will increase their chances of getting secure jobs with high salaries.50. Modern companies are more likely to break the production of intellectual work into ever tinier slices.51. A scholar of Princeton University claims that the jobs traditionally taken by graduates are more likely to be offshored than low-wage ones.52. The income gap between an American professional degree holder and an American high-school graduate shows income is closely related to educational qualifications.53. The changes in the division of brain-work will save consumers some high service fees the professional organizations charge.54. Some students have always been told that. to achieve success in a globalised world, it is most advisable to equip themselves with education.55. Emerging economies are providing a lot of resources to build universities to compete with the elite of America and Europe.Section CDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each 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 56 to 60 are based on the following passage. Peoples tastes in recreation differ widely. At a recent festival of pop-music in the Isle of Wight, crowds of teenagers flocked to listen to their favorite singers and musicians. They went with single railway tickets and slept in the open, a very risky thing to do in the climate of Britain, even in August. They were packed together like sardines for four days. There were innumerable thieves, a gang of roughs tried several times to break things up, and police were everywhere. At the end of the festival many young fans found themselves broke, with no money left,and they had difficulty in getting back home. Most people would consider these conditions a nightmare of discomfort; the fans appeared to enjoy it a