大学英语四级考试新题型预测卷(三)

大学英语四级考试新题型预测卷（三）

Part ⅠWriting(30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic of My View on Online Promotion. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words following the outline given below in Chinese:

1. 网络促销形式多种多样；

2. 你对此有什么看法？

My View on Online Promotion

注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。

Part ⅡListening Comprehension(30 minutes)

Section A

Directions: In 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), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line

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through the centre.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

1. A) Going to the football game. B) Watching television.

C) Nothing right now. D) Studying.

2. A) 9:00 B) 9:10 C) 9:20 D) 9:30

3. A) Because she is sick.

B) Because she has to work.

C) Because she has to go to the International Students Association.

D) Because she does not want to go.

4. A) The students will be attending the meeting.

B) The teacher postponed the meeting.

C) There wont be a test this afternoon.

D) The students took a math test that afternoon.

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5. A) There was nothing wrong with the old one.

B) They hadn’t enough money to buy it.

C) The washing machine is more expensive than the racing bicycle.

D) They both wanted to buy a racing bicycle.

6. A) She doesn’t usually get calls here.

B) She wants a telephone of her own.

C) She is looking for a new place to work.

D) She doesn’t know the man’s name.

7. A) He isn’t sure. B) He well go by train.

C) He well go by plane. D) He well go by bus.

8. A) He wanted a job. B) He’s very important.

C) He has important evidence. D) He wanted to make a impression.

Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

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9. A) The woman’s husband. B) The owner of the apartment.

C) The apartment manager. D) The tenant who occupies the apartment now.

10. A) One. B) Two. C) Three. D) Four.

11. A) Because she thought the apartment was too small.

B) Because it was the first apartment she had seen.

C) Because the rent was too high.

D) Because her husband had not seen it.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

12. A) Three. B) Four. C) Five. D) Six.

13. A) It was given in notes. B) It was given verbally.

C) The topics of the assignment were written on the board.

D) The topics were printed on the handouts.

14. A) Because the woman has a moral objection.

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B) Because the woman didn’t write down all of it.

C) Because the woman never takes notes.

D) Because the woman remembers it well enough.

15. A) Because he is interested in the subject.

B) Because he has already written a paper on it.

C) Because he doesn’t know anything about it.

D) Because it is very abstract.

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.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

Passage One

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Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16. A) The influence of Japan on American society.

B) The influence of the US on Japanese society.

C) The mixing of two cultures seen in both societies.

D) Disney characters in Japan.

17. A) American food.

B) Japanese food.

C) The brand of a Japanese car.

D) A name of one of the Disney’s famous characters.

18. A) It’s about Japanese history.

B) It’s about the restaurants under the sea.

C) It’s about the famous Disney characters under the sea.

D) It’s about the scene at the bottom of the sea around Japan.

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Passage Two

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.

19. A) Fifty people were killed.

B) A lot of people were injured.

C) Nothing was damaged.

D) Properties worth more than 50,000 dollars were lost.

20. A) Someone deliberately put explosives in the laboratory.

B) Gas leaked from underneath into the laboratory.

C) The authorities were not anxious to better the laboratory conditions.

D) Some dangerous chemicals started the explosion.

21.A)The defects in gas pipes should have been found and repaired, and the laboratory inspected regularly.

B) The university should have more responsible person on holiday.

C) The laboratory should have been used every day.

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D) There should have been a warning system.

Passage Three

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

22. A) It resembles the biological virus.

B) It works the same way as the human virus.

C) It influences the human as the biological viruses do.

D) It spreads to people who use the infected computers.

23. A) They invade the computer and make it a place for manufacturing.

B) They spread throughout the whole system by quickly copying themselves.

C) They infect the hard disc and the whole system.

D) They spread viruses inside the computer system.

24. A) It is a virus that causes great damage.

B) It is a virus that once infected the IBM’s computer system.

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C) It is a virus that carries a Christmas greeting.

D) It is a virus that causes no harm to the computer systems.

25. A) It can cause no damages at all.

B) It can cause damages to the computer systems.

C) It can copy your files in computers.

D) It can format your hard drive.

Section C

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 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.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

It is interesting how NASA chose their astronauts for landing them on the moon. They chose men between the ages of twenty and thirty-five. There were about fifty of them. Many of them were (26) air pilots and others were scientists. NASA (27) each man they were going to choose; told him the plans

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and the (28) they might get in. And they then asked him if he was (29) to train as an astronaut. “How could any man refuse such an exciting (30) ?”One of them said, “Dangerous? Of course, it is dangerous, but most exciting!”The health and physical condition of the men were, of course, very important. Only those in very good health and physical condition were (31) . While training to be astronauts, they went through many (32) . They studied the stars and the moon, and they also studied (33) , the science of rocks. This was necessary because astronauts would have to look for rocks on the moon. They would try to find rocks which might help to tell the age of the moon. They were all trained to fly in helicopters. These helicopters (34) to give the men some experience of the way the spaceship would actually land on the moon. They were also taught all the known facts about conditions in space. They learned all the (35) of the spaceships and rockets. They learned how every part of a spaceship and its instruments work. They also learned every detail of the ground control system.

Part ⅢReading Comprehension(40 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

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once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

When you are sick, you often call a doctor. But if you have a very sick book, you might call Henry Richardson, a 36 bookbinder, who gives new life to old books that are yellowed and damaged. Many of these sick books are 37; some may be the only copies still existing. Henry Richardson has saved the lives of many books. He works with them very 38, as though he were touching a young baby. The first step is to wash the pages. Richardson removes the old book cover, 39 the pages, and places each one in water. Richardson fixes these while they are still wet, placing each one on a heavy piece of glass. The washed pages are now white and 40 repaired. They are 41 from the glass and placed between pieces of paper to dry. After drying, the pages are placed together again in the 42 book cover. Sometimes only the front and back parts of the old cover can be used with new pieces added to hold them together. Sometimes it is 43 to make a whole new cover. The final step is to return the stronger and cleaner 44 15th or 16th century book to the library so that once again it can be read with 45. For Henry Richardson this is the best and happiest part of his job—seeing sick books become well and useful again. “After all,” he says, “what is the use of a book if you can

t read it?”

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A) opportunities B) renewed C) perfectly D) replaced E) gently

F) original G) alternative H) unknown I) separates

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J) necessary

K) professional L) unique M) removed N) pleasure O) gracefully

Section B

Directions: 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.

Female Power

[A]The economic empowerment of women throughout the developed world is one of the most remarkable revolutions of the past 50 years. It is remarkable because of the extent of the change: millions of people who were once dependent on men have taken control of their own economic fates. It is remarkable also because it has produced so little friction: a change that affects the most intimate aspects of people’s identities has been widely welcomed by men as well as women.

[B]The rich world has seen a growing demand for women’s labour, and the demand has been matched by supply: women are increasingly willing and able to

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work outside the home. The vacuum cleaner has played its part. Improved technology reduced the amount of time needed for the traditional female work of cleaning and cooking.

[C]The expansion of higher education has also boosted job prospects for women, improving their value on the job market and shifting their role models from stay at home mothers to successful professional women. In 1963, 62% of college educated women in the United States were in the labour force, compared with 46% of those with a high school diploma. Today 80% of American women with a college education are in the labour force compared with 67% of those with a high school diploma and 47% of those without one.

[D]One of the most surprising things about this revolution is how little overt (公开的) celebration it has engendered. Most people welcome the change. But few are cheering. This is partly because young women take their opportunities for granted. It is partly because for many women work represents economic necessity rather than liberation. The rich world’s growing army of single mothers have little choice but to work. A growing proportion of married women have also discovered that the only way they can preserve their households living standards is to join their husbands in the labour market. In America families with stay at home wives have the same inflation adjusted income as similar families did in the early 1970s. But the biggest reason is that the revolution has brought plenty of problems in its wake.

[E]One obvious problem is that women’s rising aspirations have not been

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fulfilled. They have been encouraged to climb onto the occupational ladder only to discover that the middle rungs are dominated by men and the upper rungs are out of reach. Only 2% of the bosses of Fortune 500 companies and five of those in the FTSE 100 stockmarket index are women. Women make up less than 13% of board members in America. In America and Britain the typical full time female worker earns only about 80% as much as the typical male.

[F]This no doubt owes something to prejudice. But the biggest reason why women remain frustrated is more profound: many women are forced to choose between motherhood and careers. Childless women in corporate America earn almost as much as men. Mothers with partners earn less and single mothers much less. The cost of motherhood is particularly steep for fast track women. Traditionally “female” jobs such as teaching mix well with motherhood because wages do not rise much with experience and hours are relatively light. But at successful firms wages rise steeply and schedules are demanding. Future bosses are expected to have worked in several departments and countries. Professional services firms have an up or out system which rewards the most dedicated with lucrative (有利可图的) partnerships. The reason for the income gap may thus be the opposite of prejudice. It is that women are judged by exactly the same standards as men.

[G]This Hobson’s choice (无选择余地) is imposing a high cost on both individuals and society. Many women reject motherhood entirely for their career. Some choose not to work at all, representing a loss to collective investment in talent. But a choice must be made. A study of graduates of the University of

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Chicago’s Booth School of Business by Marianne Bertrand and her colleagues found that, ten to 16 years after graduating, just over half of those who had chosen to have children were working full time. About a quarter were working part time and just under a quarter had left the labour force. It also leaves many former high flyers frustrated.

[H]Even well off parents worry that they spend too little time with their children, thanks to crowded schedules and the ever buzzing BlackBerry. For poorer parents, juggling (试图保持平衡) the twin demands of work and child rearing can be a nightmare. Child care eats a terrifying proportion of the family budget, and many childminders are untrained. But quitting work to look after the children can mean financial disaster. British children brought up in two parent families where only one parent works are almost three times more likely to be poor than children with two parents at work.

[I]The corporate world is doing ever more to address the loss of female talent and the difficulty of combining work with child care. Many elite companies are rethinking their promotion practices. Addleshaw Goddard, a law firm, has created the role of legal director as an alternative to partnerships for women who want to combine work and motherhood. Ernst & Yong and other accounting firms have increased their efforts to maintain connections with women who take time off to have children and then ease them back into work.

[J]Home working is increasingly fashionable. More than 90% of companies in Germany and Sweden allow flexible working. A growing number of firms are

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learning to divide the working week in new ways—judging staff on annual rather than weekly hours, allowing them to work nine days a fortnight, letting them come in early or late and allowing husbands and wives to share jobs. Almost half of Sun Microsystem’s employees work at home or from nearby satellite offices.

[K]Faster change is likely as women exploit their economic power. Many talented women are already hopping (离开) off the corporate treadmill to form companies that better meet their needs. In the past decade the number of privately owned companies started by women in America has increased twice as fast as the number owned by men. Women owned companies employ more people than the largest 500 companies combined. Eden McCallum and Axiom Legal have applied a network model to their respective fields of management consultancy and legal service: network members work when it suits them and the companies use their scale to make sure that clients have their problems dealt with immediately.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

46. A number of women give up motherhood completely for their career.

47. The biggest obstacle for many women to climb on the top of their career is their responsibility of looking after children.

48. The corporate world is making more effort to address the difficulty of combining work with child care.

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49. Women are encouraged to pursue professional goals, but their desire to reach the upper ranks is hard to meet.

50. The job prospects for women have been raised thanks to the progress of technology.

51. The economic empowerment of women across the rich world is considered remarkable partly in that it brings economic independence to millions of women.

52. Many talented women start their own companies to better meet their requirements.

53. The economic empowerment of women across the rich world gets little visible celebration.

. Working at home is becoming more and more popular.

55. It is even harder for the poor parents to balance work and childrearing.

Section C

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.

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Passage One

Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.

Perhaps no single monument in the USA is as famous as the Statue of Liberty. Standing on a small island in New York Harbor, the crowned lady, holding aloft in her right hand the torch of freedom and in her left hand a tablet which is inscribed “July 4th, 1776”, is a symbol of American democracy. She is colossal. She is 151 ft. high and the pedestal on which she stands is almost as much. An elevator takes visitors to the top of the pedestal, around which a balcony runs. A spiral staircase(楼梯间) goes up to the crown, and another to the torch. The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the USA from France in 1886, as a mark of friendship and also in memory of the aid France gave the Americans during the American Revolution. For millions of immigrants, the Statue was their first sight of the promised land, and for a few it was also the last, as they sailed back home again. About a mile from Liberty Island, there is another small island, called Ellis Island, which was looked upon with dread by the immigrants. For it was here that they had to wait their turn to be examined by doctors and officials. Most of the immigrants could not speak a word of English. But only two out of 100 immigrants were refused admission to New York City. Often the person refused turned out to be a grandmother or a weary, frightened girl mistakenly labeled “feeble

minded”（低能的）.

Sometimes husbands and wives were parted because one of them happened to have a bad cough and was suspected of having tuberculosis（结核病）.New York City was a bitter disillusionment（幻想破灭） to some immigrants. Far from being a city paved with gold, it was a city teeming with overcrowded, unhealthy and unsafe

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ghettos. The immigrants looked for earlier immigrants of their own nationality or religion. So Italian, Polish, Irish, Jewish neighborhoods grew up. Because they could not speak English, the newcomers found it difficult to get work at once, and their living quarters were of ten slums. However, they found in the USA opportunities of bettering themselves. Today immigrants no longer have to endure the indignities of Ellis Island. The grim buildings were closed down in 1924. In 1976, Ellis Island became an historic monument.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

56. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A) Statue of Liberty. B) Gateway to the USA.

C) Ellis Island. D) Immigrants of the USA.

57. What is the possible meaning of the word “colossal”?

A) miniature. B) colorful.

C) enormous. D) beautiful.

58. Why did immigrants looked upon Ellis Island with dread?

A) Because they might be denied admission to the USA.

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B) Because they could not speak a word of English.

C) Because husbands and wives might be recognized.

D) Because they were suspected.

59. What is implied in paragraph 4?

A) New York City was paved with gold.

B) Immigrants of the same nationality or religion lived in the same buildings.

C) Immigrants lived everywhere.

D) Some immigrants were disappointed at New York City.

60. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A) The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France.

B) The Statue of Liberty is the symbol of American freedom and individualism.

C) The Statue of Liberty is the monument in the USA.

D) The Statue of Liberty is the symbol of American democracy.

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Passage Two

Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.

Negotiations between the United States and Canada over air pollution may put the American government at odds with another ally. The Canadians are quietly but firmly preparing to take up an opponent role in protecting their air quality. They want to press American to join with Canada in limiting sulfur（硫） and nitrogen（氮） emissions, which contribute to acid rain. US officials have resisted, saying that the scientific data are too weak to justify the enforcement of tough new air pollution controls.Much work has been done already at the technical level. Several groups of US and Canadian scientists agreed on and published seconddraft documents before the June diplomatic meeting. The third, that is, the final draft was nearly completed this year when, according to the Canadian side, the American government replaced some technical members with new experts who disagreed with the wording. Now, eight months after the final documents were due, most of the disagreements have been smoothed over. However, one critical group, the committee reporting on the impacts of acid rain, still has not come to an agreement. The problem is that the Canadians would like to specify a maximum tolerable “loading” of pollutant in the atmosphere. The US delegates argue that there is no scientific basis for setting limits, despite the fact that earlier drafts did just that. The group plans one last meeting in September to try to resolve differences, but a compromise may not be achievable. There are signs that the Canadians will adopt their scientific text as the next

to

the

final draft, the

one agreed by both sides before the new American team arrived. That paper

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specified a yearly loading target of 11 kilograms of wet sulfate（硫酸盐） per hectare（公顷） of surface water, equivalent to 50 to 80 percent or so of present emission, according to one recent estimate. Apart from this, the Canadians have said in diplomatic meetings that they would like a “significant” reduction of sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions—something like a 50 percent reduction. The US delegates label this “premature”. Although the Canadians clearly would be satisfied with a less goal, either side has suggested none.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

61. The differences between the Americans and the Canadians lie in .

A) the deadline of the negotiations

B) the limit of pollutant emission

C) the date to implement the agreement

D) the share that each side should take in solving the problem

62. The passage implies that.

A) the Canadians would be willing to compromise

B) the Americans would be willing to compromise

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C) neither the Canadians nor the Americans would be willing to compromise

D) the negotiations made no progress

63. The Canadians would like to use the draft as their negotiation basis.

A) first B) second C) third D) final

. The present yearly emission of wet sulfate per hectare of surface water is about .

A) 11 kilograms B) 22 kilograms C) 14 to 22 kilograms D) 14 kilograms

65. Which of the following would be best used for the title of the passage?

A) Compromises Have to Be Made to Reach an Agreement.

B) Negotiations over Air Pollution.

C) The Americans Tough Stand in Negotiations.

D) Air Pollution Clouds US Canadian Relations.

Part ⅣTranslation(30 minutes)

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Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.

京剧起源于200年前清朝时期的北京，是一种集歌剧表演、歌唱、音乐、舞蹈和武术于一体的表演艺术。自1919年京剧大师梅兰芳先生东渡日本演出后，至今京剧越来越受世界各地人民喜爱。北京京剧院也已经应邀在许多国家演出，得到了外国观众的高度评价。这些表演对中外文化交流和促进世界人民友好来往作出了卓越的贡献。

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

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