大学英语四级新题型模拟试题及答案

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2007年英语四级新题型模拟试题(1)

大学英语4级考试

College English Model Test Two —Band Four—

PartⅠWriting（30 minutes）

Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic: Colleges Have Opened Their Doors Wider. You should write at least 120 words, and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:

1． 高校扩招是一件好事；

2． 高校扩招会带来一些问题；

3． 我的观点。

提示:在实考试卷中，该试题在答题卡1上。

Colleges Have Opened Their Doors Wider

PartⅡReading Comprehension（Skimming and Scanning）（15 minutes）

Directions:In this part,you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7,mark

Y （for YES）if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;

N （for NO）if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;

NG （for NOT GIVEN）if the information is not given in the passage.

For questions 8-10,complete the sentences with information given in the passage.

Theft deterrent system

To deter the vehicle theft, the system is designed to give an alarm and keep the engine from being started if any of the front, sliding and back doors and hood is forcibly unlocked or the battery terminal is disconnected and then reconnected when the vehicle is locked.The alarm blows the horn intermittently and flashes the headlights, tail lights and other exterior lights. The engine cannot be started because the starter circuit will be cut.

III.Listening(35 Minutes)

Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 10 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 centre.

11. A） Steve cannot hear.
B） Steve has some problems with his ears.
C） Steve doesnt listen to him.
D） Steve forgot about the meeting.

12. A） She loved the people in Africa.
B） She loved the tour in some places.
C） Three weeks is just like a few minutes.
D） The whole tour is quite interesting.

13. A） Bill cannot afford a house.
B） Bill decided to buy a house.
C） Bill doesn't mean to buy a house.
D） Bill goes beyond the house.

14. A） Susan Evans rings a bell.
B） The name sounds familiar to the man.
C） The man never heard of the name.
D） The man is not sure about the bell.

15. A） To a movie.
B） On a two—week trip.
C） To work.
D） On a short visit to their neighbor.

16. A） ＄18.50.
B） ＄19.50.
C） ＄15.50.
D） ＄14.50.

17. A） He went mountain climbing last year.
B） He hasn't traveled around the world yet.
C） He'd like to climb that mountain.
D） He definitely does not want to go.

18. A） The woman's doctor.
B） The woman's husband.
C） A shoe buyer.
D） A shoe salesman.

Question 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

19. A） Reading newspapers.
B） Reading advertisements.
C） Doing housing business.
D） Looking for a suitable house.

20. A） The price is too high.
B） The house is far from his company.
C） The place is noisy.
D） There is no shopping nearby.

21. A） It has a garden.
B） It is not in the city center.
C） It is not very expensive.
D） It is very far from the place the man works in.

Question 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

22. A） To find out if he has the flu.
B） To find out how to maintain a nutritious diet.
C） To find out how to prevent illness.
D） To find out the results of a blood test.

23. A） He gets ill at the same time every year.
B） He doesn't get enough exercise.
C） He often has difficulty sleeping.
D） He's sick with influenza throughout the winter.

24. A） He's unwilling to be immunized.
B） He doesn't get enough rest.
C） He forgets to take his medicine.
D） He doesn't dress warmly enough.

25. A） Physical examinations are given free there.
B） He can get an influenza vaccination there.
C） He'll be able to get a prescription for medication there.
D） He'll find literature on nutrition there.

Section B

Directions: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）,C） and D） .Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

26. A） They can do better than others.
B） It is expensive to hire labour.
C） They don't like to be helped.
D） They don't trust others.

27. A） It publishes books only for children.
B） It publishes books about people's pets.
C） It uses computers to make up stories.
D） It makes the young readers the leading characters in the stories.

28. A） Written by children themselves.
B） Telling stories about the reader himself.
C） Printed with standard things.
D） Published with the help of computers.

Passage Two

Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

29. A） Their flying ability improved greatly.
B） They became warm—blooded.
C） They began to lay eggs.
D） They changed their migration patterns.

30. A） On the ground.
B） In cold places.
C） On the highest branches of trees.
D） Inside three trunks.

31. A） To avoid predators.
B） To expose the eggs to stronger sunlight.
C） To have a better view of predators.
D） To save labor.

32. A） How birds learn to build nests.
B） Why birds lay eggs.
C） How birds'nests have evolved.
D） Why some birds'nests are considered primitive.

Passage Three

Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

33. A） To find out how clever monkeys were.
B） To test intelligence of different animals.
C） To tell the difference between man and the monkeys.
D） To find out how monkeys search food.

34. A） To give the monkey a surprise.
B） To see how the monkey ate from the box.
C） To see how soon the monkey could find it.
D） To find out how the monkey would open the box.

35. A） By looking through the keyhole.
B） By looking through the window.
C） By taking pictures of the monkey.
D） By hiding himself behind the box.

After retiring from 30 years of teaching, Ethbell Pepper could easily have decided to sit back and （36）and enjoy a peaceful （37）. But that kind of life is not for Ethbell Pepper. “I just wanted to do something different. If you are going to （38）in life, do it. Dont just sit down and look out the window.” She says. At 68, she decided to become one of the

（39） participants in a program at the University of California. The program offers（40）housing and classes to people over （41）. She （42）in a class called Human Relationships and（43）Society.（44）. “But in this course, I found out a lot about other cultures I didnt know then.（45）.”

Older adults can add to the educational resources of the university by bringing with them a lot of valuable experience. Their presence on campus helps break some long beliefs about aging. Young students may have fears of growing older.（46）. The younger students can begin to see aging as a natural part of living.

PartⅣReading Comprehension（Reading in Depth）（25 minutes）

Section A

Directions: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 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.

There's no question that the Earth is getting hotter. The real questions are: How much of the warming is our fault, and are we 47 to slow the devastation by controlling our insatiable 48 for fossil fuels?

Global warming can seem too 49 to worry about, or too uncertain—something projected by the same computer 50 that often can't get next week's weather right. On a raw winter day you might think that a few degrees of warming wouldn't be such a bad thing anyway. And no doubt about it: Warnings about 51 change can sound like an environmentalist scare tactic, meant to force us out of our cars and restrict our lifestyles.

Comforting thoughts, perhaps. Unfortunately, however, the Earth has some discomforting news.

From Alaska to the snowy peaks of the Andes the world is heating up right now, and fast. Globally, the 52 is up 1°F over the past century, but some of the coldest, most remote spots have warmed much more. The results aren't pretty. Ice is 53 , rivers are running dry, and coasts are 54 , threatening communities.

The 55 are happening largely out of sight. But they shouldn't be out of mind, because they are omens of what's in store for the56 of the planet.

A. remote B. techniques C. consisting D. restE. willing

F. climate G. skill H. appetite I. melting J. vanishing

K. eroding L. temperature M. curiosity N. changes O. skillful

Section B

Directions:There are 2 passages in this section.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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

My father's reaction to the bank building at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York city was immediate and definite: “You wont catch me putting my money in there!” he declared, “Not in that glass box!”

Of course, my father is a gentleman of the old school, a member of the generation to whom a good deal of modern architecture is upsetting, but I am convinced that his negative response was not so much to the architecture as to a violation of his concept of the nature of money.

In his generation money was thought of as a real commodity（实物） that could be carried, or stolen. Consequently, to attract the custom of a sensible man, a bank had to have heavy walls, barred windows, and bronze doors, to affirm the fact, however untrue, that money would be safe inside. If a buildings design made it appear impenetrable, the institution was necessarily reliable, and the meaning of the heavy wall as an architecture symbol dwelt in the prevailing attitude toward money.

But the attitude toward money has, of course, changed. Excepting pocket money, cash of any kind is now rarely used; money as a tangible commodity has largely been replaced by credit. A deficit（赤字） economy, accompanied by huge expansion, has led us to think of money as product of the creative imagination. The banker no longer offers us a safe: he offers us a service in which the most valuable element is the creativity for the invention of large numbers. It is in no way surprising, in view of this change in attitude, that we are witnessing the disappearance of the heavywalled bank.

Just as the older bank emphasized its strength, this bank by its architecture boasts of imaginative powers. From this point of view it is hard to say where architecture ends and human assertion（人们的说法） begins.

57. The main idea of this passage is that .

A） money is not as valuable as it was in the past
B） changes have taken place in both the appearance and the concept of banks
C） the architectural style. of the older bank is superior to that of the modern bank
D） prejudice makes the older generation think that the modern bank is unreliable

58. How do the older generation and the younger one think about money?

A） The former thinks more of money than the latter.
B） The younger generation values money more than the older generation.
C） Both generations rely on the imaginative power of bankers to make money.
D） To the former money is a real commodity but to the latter the means of producing more money.

59. The word “tangible” （Line 2, Para. 4 ） refers to something .

A） that is precious
B） that is usable
C） that can be touched
D） that can be reproduced

60. According to this passage, a modern banker should be .

A） ambitious and friendly
B） reliable and powerful
C） sensible and impenetrable
D） imaginative and creative

61. It can be inferred from the passage that the author's attitude towards the new trend in banking is .

A） cautious B） regretful C） positive D） hostile

PartⅤError Correction

Direction:This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark （∧） in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash （/） in the blank.

We live in a society in there is a lot of talk about 67

science, but I would say that there are not 5 percent of

the people who are equipped with schooling, including

college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are

more ignorant of science as people with comparable 68

educations in Western Europe.

There are a lot of kids who know everything about

computers—how to build them, how to take them apart,

how to write programs for games. So if you ask them 69

to explain about the principles of physics that have gone 70

into creating the computer, you don't have the faintest idea. 71

The failure to understand science leads to such

things like the neglect of the human creative power. 72

It also takes rise to a blurring（模糊） of the distinction 73

between science and technology. Lots of people don't

differ between the two. Science is the production 74

of new knowledge that can be applied or not, since 75

technology is the application of knowledge to the

production of some products, machinery or the like.

The two are really very different, and people who have

the faculty for one very seldom have a faculty for the other.

Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as

soon as it can provide technology, it is not necessarily

harmful.No society has yet learned how to forecast the 76

consequences of new technology, which can be enormous.

PartⅥTranslation（5 minutes）

Direction:Complete the sentences on Answer Sheet 2 by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.

提示:在实考试卷中，该试题在答题卡2上。

77. The beauty of the West Lake in Hangzhou is （我无法用言语来描述）.

78. Last week, Tom and his friends celebrated his twentieth birthday, （尽情地唱歌跳舞）.

79. Why is she looking at me （像是她认识我似的）? Ive never seen her before in my life.

80. Mr. Johnson made full preparation for the experiment （以便实验能顺利进行）.

81. I avoided mentioning the sensitive subject lest （触犯他）.