2013年12月英语四级新题型考前全套模拟试题二

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　　Part I Writing.(30 minutes)
        　　0、1.近年来，“微博”越来越流行，许多人利用“微博”来表达心声、交流想法、传递信息：
        　　2.“微博”流行的原因;
        　　3.目前“微博”中可能存在的问题。听力选择题
        　
        　　1、听录音，回答1-36题：
        　　A.She can use his car
        　　B.She can borrow someone else’S car
        　　C.She must get her car fixed
        　　D.She can’t borrow his car
        　　2、
        　　A.Because he doesn’t enjoy business trips as much as he used to.
        　　B.Because he doesn’t think he is capable of doing the job.
        　　C.Because he thinks the pay is too low to support his family.
        　　D.Because he wants to spend more time with his family.
        　　3、
        　　A.Go and see a doctor.
        　　B.Stop smoking at once.
        　　C.Take some medicine.
        　　D.Reduce the amount of smoking.
        　　4、
        　　A.She has confidence in him.
        　　B.She is surprised at the news.
        　　C.She has also won a scholarship.
        　　D.She isn’t interested in this news.
        　　5、
        　　A.He doesn’t like to talk.
        　　B.He is a very kind man.
        　　C.He is friendly.
        　　D.He is not a pleasant person.
        　　6、
        　　A.To the bank.
        　　B.To a restaurant.
        　　C.TO the grocer’S.
        　　D.To a book store.
        　　7、
        　　A.Try to help him to book another room in her hotel.
        　　B.Check his information to see if he has booked a room.
        　　C.Show him the way to the Grand Hotel.
        　　D.Help him to find rooms in another hotel.
        　　8、
        　　A.The man would rather have dinner than go shopping.
        　　B.The man is too tired to go shopping.
        　　C.The man wants to go shopping.
        　　D.The woman wants to go out for dinner.
        　　9、Conversation One.
        　　听材料，回答下列问题：
        　　A.He has difficulties going on with his research
        　　B.He doesn’t understand the workplace friendship
        　　C.He hasn’t read any literature.
        　　D.The literature on this content is complicated.
        　　10、
        　　A.It is positive.
        　　B.It is negative.
        　　C.It has two sides.
        　　D.The friendship has nothing to do with the workplace.
        　　11、
        　　A.There is seldom any friendship in the workplace.
        　　B.People want to be treated with special privileges.
        　　C.People are softer with others except their friends.
        　　D.The workplace isn’t pleasant for the friendship.
        　　12、
        　　A.It is difficult to have friendship in the workplace.
        　　B.It is difficult to have friendly environment in the organizations.
        　　C.The organizations are facing the dilemma：creating a friendly workplace
and having policies.
        　　D.It is hard to set policies in organizations.
        　　13、Conversation Two.
        　　听材料，回答下列各题：
        　　A.Leaky roof
        　　B.Thin walls.
        　　C.Parking places.
        　　D.Noisy music.
        　　14、
        　　A.A housewife.
        　　B.A nurse.
        　　C.A teacher.
        　　D.A student.
        　　15、
        　　A.Tum down the music.
        　　B.Talk with Jimmy.
        　　C.Design mles.
        　　D.Fight with Jimmy.
        　　16、Passage One.
        　　听材料，回答下列各题：
        　　A.Because foxes kill farm animals
        　　B.Because foxes look just like farm dogs.
        　　C.Because foxes are very cunning.
        　　D.Because foxes may harm farmers’children.
        　　17、
        　　A.Shooting them.
        　　B.Poisoning them.
        　　C.Asking the local hunt to hunt for them.
        　　D.All of the above.
        　　18、
        　　A.Because they don’t think foxes are harmful.
        　　B.Because they think fox hunting is cruel.
        　　C.Because they think fox hunting is expensive.
        　　D.Because they think the number of foxes has dropped a lot.
        　　19、Passage Two.
        　　听材料，回答下列各题：
        　　A.Studying yoga
        　　B.Adult education.
        　　C.Playing tennis.
        　　D.The search for physical fitness.
        　　20、
        　　A.The job market.
        　　B.Their former schools.
        　　C.Good schools.
        　　D.The local high school or colleges.
        　　21、
        　　A.Because they want to retum to the job market.
        　　B.Because they want to leam something new.
        　　C.Because they want to make up for the education they missed.
        　　D.Because they want to prove themselves to be useful.
        　　22、Passage Three.
        　　听材料，回答下列各题：
        　　A.Because London taxi drivers all have gone through a very tough training
period to get special taxi driving license.
        　　B.Because London taxi drivers all are very familiar with every street of
London.
        　　C.Because all London drivers are living in the comer of the Capital.
        　　D.Not given.
        　　23、
        　　A.Two years.
        　　B.Four years.
        　　C.Three years.
        　　D.Two to four years.
        　　24、
        　　A.To learn most direct route to every single road.
        　　B.To learn most direct route to every important building in London.
        　　C.To learn the most direct route to every single road and to every
important building in London.
        　　D.To go around the city on small motorbikes practicing.
        　　25、
        　　A.Because leamers have to pay for their own expenses on the tests and the
medical exam.
        　　B.Because for some learners，the training cost is too expensive.
        　　C.Because the training time is too long.
        　　D.Because leamers cannot get payment during the training period.
            
            

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        　　听力填空题
        　　26、听材料，回答下列各题：
        　　Directions：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 arerequired 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.
        　　Why does cream go bad faster than butter?Some researchers think that it
comes down to the structure of the food.not its chemical composition-a finding
that could help rid some processed foods of chemical preservatives.
        　　Cream and butter contain much the same(26)______，so why cream should sour
much faster has been a(27)______.Both are emulsions—tiny globules of one liquid
evenly(28)______throughout another.The difference lies in what’s in the globules
and what’s in the surrounding.In cream，fatty globules(29)______about in a sea of
water.In butter,globules of a watery(30)______are locked away in a sea of
fat.The bacteria which make the food go bad prefer to live in the watery regions
of the(31)______.This means that in cream，the bacteria are flee to grow
throughout the mixture.When the situation is(32)______，the bacteria are locked
away in(33)______buried deep in the sea of fat.
        　　Trapped in this way,(34)______colonies cannot spread and rapidly run out of
nutrients.They also slowly poison themselves with their waste products.
        　　In butter，there is a self-limiting system which stops the bacteria
growing.The researchers are already working with food companies keen to see if
their products can be made(35)______ to bacterial aRack through alterations to
the food’s structure.They believe that it will be possible to make the emulsions
used in salad cream，for instance，more like that in buRer.The key will be to do
this while keeping the salad cream liquid and not turning it into a solid
lump.
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        　　Section A
        　　36、Questions 36-46 are based on the following passage.
        　　The typical pre—industrial family not only had a good many children，but
numerous other dependents as well—grandparents，uncles，aunts and
cousins.Such“extended”families were suited for survival in slow paced
___36___societies.But such families are hard to___37___.They are immobile.
        　　Industrialism demanded masses of workers ready and able to move off the
land in pursuit of jobs，and to move again whenever necessary.Thus the extended
family38 shed its excess weight and the so called“nuclear”family emerged—a
stripped—down，portable family unit___39___0nly of parents and a small set of
children.
        　　This new style of family,far more___40___than the traditional extended
family，became the standard model in all the industrial
countries.Super-industrialism，however,the next stage of ec0—technological
development，___41___ even higher mobility.Thus we may expect many among the
people of the future to carry the streamlining process，a step further by
remaining children，cutting the family down to its more___42___components，a man
and a woman.Two people，perhaps with matched careers，will prove more efficient at
navigating through education and social status，through job changes and
geographic relocations，than the ordinarily child—cluttered family.A___43___maybe
the postponement of children，rather than childlessness.Men and women today are
often torn in___44___between a commitment to career and a commitment to
children.In the future，many___45___will side aside this problem by deferring the
entire task of raising children until after retirement.
       
       

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        　　Section B
        　　46、回答46-56题：
        　　A)Are you at a loss for creative book report ideas for your students?If
yes.then this article will help you make reading and reviewing books more
creative for your class.In an age of PSPs，Xbox，anime and gaming arcades，reading
has lost its foothold in the list of hobbies that children tend to cite.
        　　Most of the reading that kids do today,comes in the form of compulsory
books that they need to read for school and maybe that is the reason they find
reading to be an insurmountable and boring task.If you want to inculcate the
love for languages and literary masterpieces in your students and want them to
devour books everyone should read，then a good way of going about the same would
be to get them to start working on creative book report ideas.While working on
creative ideas for book reports，your students will have to understand the book
in a way that allows them to come up with new ways to present to the class，the
essence of the book.
        　　B)As a teachel while egging your students to activate their creative gray
cells.you will have to help them out with basic ideas that they can work
on.Depending on the age bracket that your students belong to，the creative book
report ideas will vary.This is so，not just because of the varying attention
spans that children of various age groups posses but also because of the amount
of work that kids can put into the report.While a middle school student wiIl be
comfortable handling a handy cam，a student from elementary school will be more
fascinated if he is working with paints and puppets.So do you want to know how
to write a book report creatively?In this article.we will list out for you，a
couple of good creative book report ideas for elementary students and for middle
school students.
        　　C)A book report sandwich is a good creative idea for book reports.As a
teacher you can get drawings of a sandwich on sheets of Paper that are of the
color of the ingredients of your sandwich，for example，a cream sheet of paper to
resemble mayonnaise，red to represent tomato and likewise.Ob.
        　　viously,each ingredient should be cut in a way that when assembled
together,it looks like a sandwich.Now,give each of your students one of these
book sandwiches to create their book report.
        　　It can start with the name of the book and the author’s name on the top
slice of the sandwich.The second ingredient can have the summary of the book on
it.Each subsequent ingredient can have a description of the main characters，the
setting of the book，the plot，and then his or her views about the book.Once they
are done with their book reports，they can staple the book sandwich together and
then，you can create a class bulletin board with all the book report sandwiches
on display.
        　　D)One of the good techniques to retell a story,it is also one of the
favorite creative book report ideas among students.The job that the student will
have is to read the book and then pick a few objects at his/her home which will
allow him/her to retell the story in a way that makes it interesting for his/
her audience.Every time he/she picks out an object from the bag to report the
book he/she has read， there has to be a valid connection between the book and
the object，which the student can first ask the audience to guess and then go
ahead and explain it.This idea is spin—off on the normal show and tells and
allows for an interactive book report session.
        　　E)This is one of the creative ideas for book reports in which.as the
teacher, you will have to divideyour class into groups and give them one book
each.The students can then read the book and get together and write a play and
act it out for the class.To give a deeper insight into the book，one of the
students can play the role of the author and as a group，the students can try and
recreate the thought Drocess of the author.The student playing the role of the
author can then interrupt the play at lmportant iunctllres and talk about the
reasons for these twists in the play and how he/she came up with these plot
lines.
        　　F)As a voung adult，your student’s fascination may go beyond the immediate
concerns of the book.
        　　He/she may want to understand the circumstances in which the book was
written，the times then，the events happening in the world and get the author’s
perspective about the book.Encourage your students to mink on those lines.Divide
the class into pairs and give each pair one book to read.Let them then do the
roles of the author and a journalist.You can have an interview session in front
of the class.enabling them to dissect the book and get a peek into the author’s
world.
        　　G)In a technology—obsessed world，it maybe a very tiny minority of your
class that does not get excited with the Drospect of shooting a film.One of the
best creative book report ideas for middle school， you will need to divide the
class into groups and give them at least two months to adapt the book that thev
have been assigned，into a film.The movie should have a well—adapted
screenplay,and allother prerequisites，like a lighting engineer,sound engineer,
costume designer,etc.At the end of the given time，the film can be screened in
front of the class and then discussed.
        　　H)If you are on the lookout for good individual creative book report
ideas，then this one could be for you.Assign every student a book and then ask
them to start maintaining a diary,from the author’sDoint of vie w.Ask them to
come up with imaginary incidents from the author’s life and use historical
events to explain why the author wrote the book in a certain manner.Alternately,
you can also ask your students to give a surrogate ending to the story.
            
            

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        　　I)These are just few of the options that you could use to inspire your
students to come up with creative book report ideas.As kids we tend to be more
imaginative and creative .Encourage your students to mink om of the box and
appreciate them for their efforts.This will help you have a class that is not
only lively and inquisitive by nature but also a class that will cultivate a
love for words.
        　　Teachers can create a class bulletin board to display all the book report
sandwiches after their students finish their reports.
        　　47、 Adopting the method of knowing your author,teachers can encourage
students to think beyond the immediate concerns of the book.
        　　48、 Asking me students to write from their own point of view is suitable
for teachers who are on the lookout for good individual creative book report
ideas.
        　　49、 Retelling a story is one of the favorite creative book report ideas
among students and it tells and allows for an interactive book report
session.
        　　50、 Nowadays，most of book children read are those they need to read for
school.
        　　51、 Teachers tend to be more imaginative and creative as kids.
        　　52、 While working on creative ideas for book reports，students will have to
understand the book.
        　　53、 The creative book report ideas vary according to ages because children
in different age groups have different attention span.
        　　54、 If teachers ask their students to shoot a film about a book，they should
give them no fewer than two months.
        　　55、 Teachers have to divide their class into groups and give them one book
each is a good creative book report ideas.
        　　Section C
        　　56、Questions 56-61 are based on the following passage.
        　　The ownership of pets brings a variety of benefits that the uninitiated
would never believe.For every tale of shredded cushion，flattened plants，and chew
slippers，there is another testimony of intelligence，sympathy and undying
devotion.Now the gowing body of research into the medical and social advantages
of pet ownership has confirmed what pet owners have always intuitively known
that pets are not just loving companions but actually do us good.Researchers
have established the value of pets in soothing and reassuring
humans，particularly when ill，lonely or in distress.Perhaps the unquestioning
love and approval pets give us is something we don’t always get from out human
nearest and dearest.
        　　Our makeshift understanding psychology leads many of us to view very close
relationships with pets with suspicion.Childless couples in particular give rise
to speculation，but a consultant in animal behavior says，“There is no evidence
that a pet is a direct substitute for child.”And while many adults feel foolish
if caught talking to their pets，they have no need to.The experts say you cannot
have a close relationship with a pet without treating it as a person and that
talking to a pet is notun healthy.—simply a way of establishing camaraderie.
        　　The shaking helplessness of a young puppy or fluffy kitten stirs protective
instincts deep within us and prompts many parents to buy pets for their children
in the hope of instilling a sense of responsibility and caring and acceptance of
the facts of life and death.Hut animals don’t have to besoft and fond to bring
out the best in us.A social worker encouraged aggressive boys to handle
ferrets—“if handled correctly they respond with friendship;if incorrectly they
bite.”
        　　There seems to be no doubt that，emotionally and physically,our pets do us
good—there is a Drice to be paid.When loved animal dies，it is often a traumatic
event—and then where do we tum for comfort?
        　　Pets are sometimes criticized because they_______.
        　　A.lack intelligence
        　　B.are destructive
        　　C.need considerable care
        　　D.demand affection
        　　57、 The idea that animals are a substitute for children is_______.
        　　A.supported by research
        　　B.encouraged by psychologists
        　　C.an argument for keeping a pet
        　　D.a common prejudice
        　　58、 Talking to animals is_______.
        　　A.silly
        　　B.suspicious
        　　C.beneficial
        　　D.stimulating
        　　59、 A ferret is probably a kind of_______.
        　　A.tame animal
        　　B.fierce anitaal
        　　C.lovely animal
        　　D.tamable animal
        　　60、 The writer believes that pets are valuable to children because
they_______.
        　　A.return affection
        　　B.are comforting
        　　C.need looking after
        　　D.are protective
        　　61、Questions {TSE} are based on the following passage.
        　　Politics is an emotional business.Still，many people found themselves
unusually moved by the historic presidential inauguration.Watching the huge
crowds，we saw laughter,cheers，hugs—but also many tears.
        　　It made us wonder ,why do people cry ?It is believed that tears must be
good for us—a way to calm the mind and cleanse the soul.Yet studies show that
crying sometimes makes people feel worse.
        　　Three researchers in Florida and the Netherlands recently looked more
deeply into the subject.
        　　They examined detailed descriptions of crying experiences.Psychologist
Jonathan Rottenberg at the University of South Florida says they wanted to study
crying as it happens in everyday life，not in a laboratory.The team analyzed
information from the International Study on Adult Crying.As Dart of that
study,3，000 people in different countries，mostly college students，wrote about
recent crying experiences.They noted causes，surroundings and any people involved
in the event.They also reported how they felt after they cried.
        　　Professor Rottenberg says the research showed that all crying experiences
are not created equally.
        　　Crying does not always make a person feel better,he says.About lo percent
of people reported feeling worse after they cried.But a third felt better after
crying.And a majority reported the experience was helpful.The research showed
that people who cry alone may not do as well as those with others around.
        　　People who reached out for emotional support at the time——and received
it——reported better resuIts from the crying experience.But those who felt shame
or embarrassment while crying were less likely to report that crying had been
helpful.
        　　Research has shown that women cry more often and more intensely than
men，but it mav not be to better effect.The new findings did not show that a
person’s sex was a predictor of beneficial crying.
        　　In other words，just because women cry more does not mean they are more
likely to have a"good"cry.
        　　The paper entitled/s Crying Beneficial?appeared in December in Current
Directions in Psychologica，Science.Scientists say the science of crying is still
in its infancy.
            
            

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        　　According to the passage，which of the following statements about crying is
TRUE?
        　　A.Crying is absolutely good for people’s health.
        　　B.Those crying with others around will feel better than those crying
alone.
        　　C.Crying will help a lot for those who felt shame or embarrassment while
crying.
        　　D.The benefits of crying are related to a person’s sex.
        　　62、 Shedding tears is believed to do good to us because______.
        　　A.it enables us to recover an easy mind
        　　B.it helps us solve the problem
        　　C.it arouses others’sympathy
        　　D.it can wash our body
        　　63、 Studies show that one will not feel better after crying when______.
        　　A.shedding tears with others around
        　　B.receiving emotional support from others
        　　C.feeling embarrassed or ashamed during crying
        　　D.the person who cries is female
        　　64、 That women cry more does not mean they are more likely to have
a“good”cry implies that_______.
        　　A.women like crying more than men
        　　B.a person’S sex is a predictor of beneficial crying
        　　C.crying does not necessarily make women feel better
        　　D.women look pitiful while crying
        　　65、 What do scientists mean by saying that the science of crying is still
in its infancy?
        　　A.There is still more to learn about crying.
        　　B.People have known a lot about crying.
        　　C.The science of crying is a subject needed to be learned.
        　　D.The study of crying meets difficulties.
        　　Part IV Translation.(30minutes)
        　　66、　　中国经济的高速发展，带来了消费文化的日益流行，同时也催生了一批具有高学历，充分享受资本主义消费模式的年轻人，他们习惯于当月工资当月花。
        　　因而被称为“月光族”(the moonlight
group)。“月光族”一词出现于20世纪90年代后期，是用来讽刺那些出身富裕、接受高等教育、充分享受快餐文化(fast food
culture)的年轻人。