四级模拟试题

1、Model TestTotal score:710 Total time allowed:130 minutesPart I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled Talent Show. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words according to the outline given below in Chinese. Write your

2、essay on Answer Sheet 1.1、 下图为X市抽样调查市民对选秀节目态度的结果，请简述该图；2、 请简述双方持各自观点的原因；3、 你对选秀节目的看法，是支持、反对，还是不置可否，总结全文。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 questio

3、ns 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 Ans

4、wer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center.1. A) Take the ten oclock bus. B) Come back in five minutes. C) Go to New York another day. D)Call the airport.2. A) She was using the wrong paint. B) She has run out of paintbrushes. C) She doesnt fell like going to class D) She has dropped out of a

5、rt and is now in drama.3. A) A concert. B) An art museum. C) A flower shop. D) A restaurant.4. A) The man could not wait to see Susan. B) Susan is eager to pass the information she knows. C) Susan talks to people only on the phone. D) The man always knows the latest news in town.5. A) Leave immediat

6、ely. B) Watch the game on TV. C) Start to play. D) Eat a sandwich.6. A) She loves walking to work. B) She has to save money for her journey. C) She doesnt like the company she worked with. D) It took her too much time to go to work.7. A) To put him through to the director. B) To have a talk with the

7、 director about his work. C) To arrange an appointment for him with the director. D) To go and see if the director can meet him right now.8. A) Detective stories. B) Stories about jail escapes. C) Love stories. D) Stories about royal families.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have

8、just heard.9. A) Hes explaining the language laboratory. B) He wants to know where the tapes are. C) Hes showing her a new tape recorder. D) Hes recording her voice on a tape.10. A) It needs to have more French lesson tapes. B) It needs to have its controls repaired. C) It is different from all the

9、other laboratories. D) It can be operated rather easily.11. A) Change her class schedule. B) Fill out a job application. C) Organize tapes on the shelves. D) Work on the French lessons.Questions12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) There arent enough cabinets. B) There is

10、 too much noise. C) Office supplies are taking up space. D) Some teaching assistants dont have desks.13. A) To get help with the course. B) To chat with Jack socially. C) To hand in their assignment. D) To practice giving interviews.14. A) Give Jack a different office. B) Complain to the department

11、head. C) Move the supplies to the storage room. D) Try to get a room to use for meetings.15. A) He thinks it is useless. B) He will think about it later. C) He thinks it might work. D) He has no idea about it.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each pa

12、ssages, 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 center.Pas

13、sage OneQuestions16 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard.16. A) She often practices taking notes. B) She often practices oiling the gate. C) She often practices singing high notes. D) She often practices overcoming her weakness.17. A) Because he had run out of gas. B) Because his

14、tires were stabbed. C) Because he had heard a noise. D) Because he was attracted by Mrs. Jones.18. A) The noise came from the tires. B) The noise came from the brakes. C) The noise came from Mrs. Jones singing. D) The noise came from another car passing by.Passage TwoQuestions19 to 21 are based on t

15、he conversation you have just heard.19. A) Hard work is the most important thing for ones success. B) Hard work may invite good luck.C) Gook luck plays an important role in ones success.D) Success has nothing to do with luck.20. A) Working hard may prepare yourself opportunity. B) Success always dep

16、ends on opportunity.C) Opportunity can replace hard work in job hunting.D) Working hard will ensure you success.21. A) Its Columbus pure luck. B) It proves that the earth is not round. C) It enriched the American people. D) Its one of the biggest lucky mistakes.Passage ThereQuestions 22 to 25 are ba

17、sed on the conversation you have just heard.22. A) He suffered a nervous breakdown. B) He was wrongly diagnosed. C) He was seriously injured. D) He developed a strange disease.23. A) He was able to talk again. B) He races to the nursing home. C) He could tell red and blue apart . D) He could not rec

18、ognize his wife.24. A)Twenty-nine days. B) Two and a half months. C) Several minutes. D) Fourteen hours.25. A) Twenty welcomed the publicity in the media. B) They avoided appearing on television.C) They released a video of his progress. D) They declined to give details of his condition.Section CDire

19、ctions:In this section ,you will hear hear a passage three.when the passage is read for the fist time,you should listen carefully for its general idea.When the passage is read for the second time ,you are required to full in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard .Finally,when the passa

20、ge is read foe the third time ,you should check what you have written.Half a century ago,most people lived in (26)_areas.However,according to the most recent estimate(27)_by the United Nations,more than half of all people will live in cities by 2012,for the first time in history.City life is not alw

21、ays a bad thing,but many experts worry about this process of (28)_.According to a new report from the Worldwatch Institute,an environmental research group in Washington,it is having a huge (29)_on human health and the (30)_of the environment.Of the three billion people who live in cites now,about on

22、e billion live in (31)_settlements. These are areas of poverty,slums,that generally lack basic services like clean water ,or even (32)_housing.More than 60 million people are added to cities and their (33)_areas each years, mostly in slums in developing countries. Molly OMeara Sheehan, (34)_ of the

23、Worldwatch report, believes that the international community has been too slow to recognize the growth of urban poverty. Policymakers, she says, need to increase investments in education, health care and other areas. The report talks about some successful efforts by local governments and community g

24、roups. For example, Freetown in Sierra Leone has establishes farming within the city limits to meet much of its growing food demands. In Bogota, the capital of Colombia, engineers have created a bus system that has helped reduce (35)_ and improve quality of life. Part III Reading Comprehension (40 m

25、inutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select on e 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

26、 by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Psychologists take opposing views of how external rewards, from w

27、arm praise to cold cash, affect motivation and creativity. Behaviorists, who study the relation between actions and their consequences, argue that rewards can (36)_ performance at work and school. Cognitive (认识派的)researchers, who study various aspects of mental life, maintain that rewards often dest

28、roy creativity by encouraging dependence on (37)_ and gifts from others.The latter view has gained many supporters, (38)_ among educators. But the careful use of small (39)_ rewards speaks creativity in grade school children, suggesting that properly presented inducements (刺激) indeed (40)_ inventive

29、ness, according to a study in the June Journal of Personality and Social Psychology."If kids know they're working for a reward and can focus on a relatively (41)_ task, they show the most creativity," says Robert Eisenberger of the University of Delaware in Newark, "But it's e

30、asy to (42)_ creativity by giving rewards for poor performance or creating too much anticipation for rewards."A teacher who continually draws attention to rewards or who hands out high grades for (43)_ achievement ends up with uninspired students, Eisenberger holds. As an example of the latter

31、point, he notes growing efforts at major universities to tighten grading standards and (44)_ failing grades.In earlier grades, the use of so-called token economies, in which students handle challenging problems and receive performance-based points toward valued rewards, shows (45)_ in raising effort

32、 and creativity, the Delaware psychologist claims.A) mental B) promise C) kill D) avoid E) hope F) especially G) aid H) ordinary I) approval J) monetaryK) generally L) improve M) challenging N) restore O) excellentSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten stateme

33、nts 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 os marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer

34、Sheet 2.Endangered peoplesA) today, it is not distance, but culture that separates the peoples of the world. The central question of our time may be how to deal with cultural differences. So begins the book, Endangered peoples, by Art Davidson. It is an attempt to provide understanding of the issues

35、 affecting the worlds native peoples. This book tells the stories of 21 tribes, cultures, and cultural areas that are struggling to survive. It tells each story through the voice of a member of the tribe. Mr. Davidson recorded their words. Art Wolfe and John Isaac took pictures of them. The organiza

36、tion called the Sierra Club published the book.B) The native groups live far apart in North America or South America, Africa or Asia. Yet their situations are similar,. They are fighting the march of progress in an effort to keep themselves and their cultures alive. Some of them follow ancient ways

37、most of the time. Some follow modern world. They hope to continue to balance between these two worlds. Yet the pressures to forget their traditions and join the modern world may be too great.C) Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala, the Noble Peace Prize winner in 1992, offers her thoughts in the beginning

38、of the book Endangered peoples. she notes that many people claim that native people are like stories from the past. They are ruins that have died. She disagrees strongly. She says native communities are not remains of the past. They have a future, and they have much wisdom and richness to offer the

39、rest of the world.D) Art Davidson traveled thousands of miles around the world while working on the book. He talked to many people to gather their thoughts and feelings. Mr. Davidson notes that their desires are the same. People want to remain themselves, he says. They want to raise their children t

40、he way they were raised. They want their children to speak their mother tongue, their own language. They want them to have their parents values and customs. Mr. Davidson says the peoples cries are the same:”Does our culture have to die? Do we have to disappear as a people?”E) Art Davidson lived for

41、more than 25 years among native people in the American state of Alaska. He says his interest in native peoples began his boyhood when he found an ancient stone arrowhead. The arrowhead was used as a weapon to hunt food. The hunter was an American Indian, long dead. Mr. Davidson realized then that In

42、dians had lived in the state of Colorado, right where he was standing. And it was then, her says, that he first wondered:”Where are they? Where did they go?” he found answers to his early question. Many of the native peoples had disappeared. They were forced off their lands. Or they were killed in b

43、attle. Or they died from diseases brought by new settlers. Other native peoples remained, but they had to fight to survive the pressures of the modern world.F) The Gwichin are an example of the survivors. They have lived in what is now Alaska and Canada for 10,000 years. Now about 5,000 Gwichin rema

44、in. They are mainly hunters. They hunt the caribou, a large deer with big horns that travels across the huge spaces of the far north. For centuries, they have used all part of the caribou: the meat for food, the skins for clothes, the bones for tools. Hunting caribou is the way of live of the Gwichi

45、n.G) One Gwichin in told Art Davidson of memories from his childhood. It was a time when the tribe lived quietly in its own corner of the wold. He spoke to Mr. Davidson in these words:”As long as I remember, someone would sit by a fire on the hilltop every spring and autumn. His job was to look for

46、caribou. If he saw a caribou, he would wave his arms or he would make his fire to give off more smoke. Thus the village would come to life! People ran up to the hilltop. The tribes seemed to be at its best at these gatherings. Er were all filled with happiness and sharing!”H) About ten years ago, th

47、e modern world invades the quiet world of the Gwichin. Oil companies wanted to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve. This area was the place where the caribou gave birth to their young. The Gwichin feared the caribou would disappear. One Gwichin woman describes the situation in the

48、se words:”Oil development threatens the caribou. If the caribou are threatened, then the people are threatened. Oil company official and American lawmakers do nt seem to understand the feeling expressed in our songs and our prayers. They have not seen the old people cry. Our elders have seen parts o

49、f our culture detroyed. They worry that our people may disappear forever.”I) A scientist with a British oil company dismisses(驳回，打消) the fear of the Gwichin. He also says they have no choice. They will have to change.The Gwich'in, however, are resisting. They took legal action to stop the oil co

50、mpanies. But they won only a temporary ban on oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve.Pressures continue on other native peoples, as Art Davidson describes in his book. The pressures come from expanding populations, dam projects that flood tribal lands, and political and economic co

51、nflicts threaten the culture, lands, and lives of such groups as the Quechua of Peru, the Malagasy of Madagascar and the Ainu of Japan.J) The organization called Cultural Survival has been in existence for 22 years. It tries to protect the rights and cultures of peoples throughout the world. It has

52、about 12，000 members. And it receives help from a large number of students who work without pay.Theodore MacDonald is director of the Cultural Survival Research Center. He says the organization has three main jobs. It does research and publishes information. It works with native peoples directly. An

53、d it creates markets for goods produced by native communities.K) Late last year, Cultural Survival published a book called State of the Peoples: A Global Human Rights Report on Societies in Danger. The book contains reports from researchers who work for Cultural Survival, from experts on native peop

54、les, and from native peoples themselves.The book describes the conditions of different native and minority groups. It includes longer reports about several threatened societies, including the Penan of Malaysia and the Anishinabe of North American. And it provides the names of organizations similar t

55、o Cultural Survival for activists, researchers and the press.L) David Maybury-Lewis started the Cultural Survival organization. Mr. Maybury-Lewis believes powerful groups rob native peoples of their lives, lands, or resources.Theodore MacDonald says Cultural Survival works to protect the rights of g

56、roups, not just individual people. He says the organization would like to develop a system of early warnings when these rights are threatened.Mr. MacDonald notes that conflicts between different groups within a country have been going on forever and will continue. Such conflicts, he says, cannot be prevented. But they do not have to become violent. What Cultural Survival wants is to help set up methods that lead to peaceful negotiations of traditional differences. These methods, he says, are a lot less costly than war