40天攻克大学英语四级——模拟试题五套题

模拟试题1、模拟试题一
模拟试题一
试卷一
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
Directions: 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 center.
Example: You will hear:
You will read: A) At the office. B) In the waiting room.
C) At the airport. D) In a restaurant.
From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening. This conversation is most likely to have taken place at the office. Therefore, A) “At the office” is the best answer. You should choose [A] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.
Sample Answer [A] [B] [C] [D]
1. A) go to a Chinese restaurant B) go to a western restaurant
C) go to a pub for a change D) go to a food shop
2. A) She likes math very much.
B) She does not like math at all.
C) She wants to make the math interesting.
D) She likes math and thought it was interesting.
3. A) He wants to wash the dishes. B) He doesn’t want to wash the dishes.
C) He will help them wash the dishes. D) He will do anything for the woman.
4. A) She disagrees with the man.
B) She agrees with the man.
C) She thinks it is not the time we should turn our attention to the danger of drunk driving.
D) She only agrees with the man at one point.
5. A) His partner B) His teacher
C) His sister D) His boss
6. A) At a cigarette store. B) At a bus station.
C) At a gas station. D) At her parents’
7. A) Fifteen. B) Twenty-nine.
C) Sixteen. D) Sixty.
8. A) Do her housework. B) Clean the backyard.
C) Wash clothes. D) Enjoy the beautiful day.
9. A) Wife and husband B) Teacher and student
C) Mum and son D) Neighbors
10. A) The unsmiling faces B) The weather
C) The Londoners D) The color
Section B Compound Dictation
注意：听力理解的B节(Section B)为复合式听写(Compound Dictation)，题目印刷在试卷二上，现在请取出试卷二。
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.
The most fashionable trend in college sports celebrations today is as innocent as a letterman’s sweater, as old-fashioned as school pride, and reserved only for people who can wear the name of their school across their chest.
It can be spotted after any surprising victory, when the most jubilant player grabs the front of his jersey with both hands and displays it to the crowd, framing the college name as if in an advertisement for the school.
Popping the jersey, as it has become known, is becoming more and more common. When Donald Brown helped his team win an unlikely victory, he raised his jersey high enough to cover his chin. When Niagara won a major tournament this season, two players popped for the photograph.
“Our team doesn’t have names on the back of our jerseys,” Brown said. “So we play for the name on the front. You have to understand, college basketball is not like the N.B.A., where a team chooses you and then you have to play for them. Here, you choose where you want to go, and you go there for a good reason.”
“This is one thing I’ve never seen in the N.B.A., and I don’t think I ever will,” Erroll Knight said. “It is our way to represent where we’re from and tell people that we’re proud of it.”
Like most dance steps and slang words, no one really knows who started the latest thing. One of the first documented accounts of jersey-popping occurred in December 2000, when Earl Watson faced the student section and tugged at the front of his jersey after his team erased a 19-point deficit against their opponents.
“Basketball is an urban sport, a hip-hop sport, and what you’re seeing right now comes from that,” Knight said. “If a guy is wearing a really nice shirt on the street and he wants to show it off to everyone, he’ll do what’s called popping his collar — he’ll sort of flick his collar to demonstrate the value it has. What guys are doing now with their jerseys is the same thing, only they have taken it to another level.”
11. According to the passage, we can tell that Erroll Knight is a player for .
A) soccer B) tennis C) basketball D) field hockey
12. The trend in college sports celebrations today, as told in the text, is .
A) innocent but sophisticated B) as fashionable as in the old days
C) beloved by everyone D) pure as well as old-fashioned
13. Which of the following statement is true according to the author?
A) Popping the jersey is not in vogue any more.
B) The victory of Donald Brown’s team is out of expectation.
C) N.B.A and college basketball are much the same.
D) People pop their collars because they are dirty.
14. The word “pop” (Para 3, L1)in this passage is closest in meaning to which of the following word/phrase?
A) spank B) flick C) popular D) show off
15. The reason why college sports players pop the jerseys is because .
A) their jerseys are exquisitely designed
B) it is a rule of their colleges
C) they are very proud of their sports team
D) it is a form of demonstration of the value being the representative of their schools
Passage Two
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.
In the 16th century, Venetian and French glassmakers perfected a technique of coating glass with an alloy of silver to produce an effective mirror. Mirrors soon proliferated in public spaces and private homes, and owning a pocket or hand mirror became a marker of status. The mirror, you might say, was an early personal technology — ingenious, portable, effective — and like all such technologies, it changed its users. By giving us, for the first time, a readily available image of ourselves that matched what others saw, it encouraged self-consciousness and introspection and, as some worried, excesses of vanity.
By the 19th century, it was the machines of the Industrial Revolution — the power loom, the motor, the turbine — that prompted concern about the effects of technology on the person. Karl Marx argued that factory work alienated the worker from what he was toiling to produce, transforming him into “a cripple, a monster.” Men were forced to become more like machines: efficient, tireless and soulless.
Today’s personal technologies, particularly the cellphone and the digital video recorder, have not provoked similar worries. They are marvels of individual choice, convenience and innovation; they represent the democratization of the power of the machine. Our technologies are more intuitive, more facile and more responsive than ever before. In a rebuke to Marx, we have not become the alienated slaves of the machine; we have made the machines more like us and in the process toppled decades of criticism about the dangerous and potentially enervating effects of our technologies.
16. The word “coat” (Line 1, Para.1) means .
A) to cover sth. with a layer of sth. B) to combine two different things
C) to make sth. into the shape of a coat D) to put a coat on sth.
17. Which of the following statement is true according to the text?
A) Soon after being invented, mirrors became unpopular among people.
B) Mirrors were first invented by French and Vietnamese.
C) Karl Marx criticized that factory work had turned the workers into thoughtless monsters.
D) The motor is among the machines of ancient inventions.
18. Why did some people worried that the mirror might be excesses of vanity?
A) Because pocket and hand mirror became a marker of status.
B) Because mirrors were extremely expensive during that time.
C) Because only wealthy people can afford buying a mirror.
D) Because mirrors were invented for important figures.
19. The author’s purpose of writing this article is .
A) to give a definition on modern technology
B) to give evidence to the statement that today’s personal technologies are marvels of individual choice
C) to prove the rebuke of Karl Marx
D) to illustrate how modern technologies of different times affect people’s life
20. Compared with technologies in the 16th and 19th century, technologies today are more .
A) ingenious and portable B) marvelous and effective
C) intuitive and unreliable D) facile and responsive
Passage Three
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
BMW’s efforts to harness the creativity of its customers began two years ago when it posted a toolkit on its website. This toolkit let BMW’s customers develop ideas showing how the firm could take advantage of advances in telematics and in-car online services. From the 1,000 customers who used the toolkit, BMW chose 15 and invited them to meet its engineers in Munich. Some of their ideas (which remain under wraps for now) have since reached the prototype stage, says BMW. “They were so happy to be invited by us, and that our technical experts were interested in their ideas,” says Mr Reimann. “They didn’t want any money.”
Westwood Studios, a game developer now owned by EA, first noticed its customers innovating its products after the launch of a game, “Red Alert,” in 1996: gamers were making new content for existing games and posting it freely on fan websites. Westwood made a conscious decision to embrace this phenomenon. Soon it was shipping basic game-development tools with its games, and by 1999 had a dedicated department to feed designers and producers working on new projects with customer innovations of existing ones. “The fan community has had a tremendous influence on game design,” says Mr Verdu, “and the games are better as a result.”
Researchers call such customers “lead users.” GE’s healthcare division calls them “luminaries.” They tend to be well-published doctors and research scientists from leading medical institutions, says GE, which brings up to 25 luminaries together at regular medical advisory board sessions to discuss the evolution of GE’s technology. GE then shares some of its advanced technology with a subset of luminaries who form an “inner sanctum of good friends,” says Sholom Ackelsberg of GE Healthcare. GE’s products then emerge from collaboration with these groups.
21. Why does BMW post a toolkit on its website?
A) Because it wants to interest more customers.
B) Because it wants to improve their website.
C) Because it wants their customers to give advices or ideas on theirs products.
D) Because it wants to see if the customers’ ideas match their prototype.
22. We may conclude from the text that .
A) EA is a computer game producer
B) EA is the largest hi-tech company in the world
C) “Red Alert” made its first appearance before 1996
D) Westwood Studios used to be owned by EA for many years
23. Which of the following behavior does not reflect that we are now in a customer-driven market?
A) BMW posts a toolkit to collect customers’ ideas.
B) GE brings up 25 luminaries to discuss the evolution of GE’s technology.
C) Westwood establishes a department to deal with customers’ innovations.
D) GE’s healthcare division calls some of the well-published doctors and research scientists “luminaries”.
24. Which of the following can replace the word “customer-driven”?
A) customer-centered B) customer-satisfied
C) customer-analyzed D) customer-evaluate
25. Customers invited by BMW didn’t want any money, instead, they just want .
A) to be invited in a conference
B) their suggestions and ideas to be accepted by the company and be of use in the cars’ upgrade
C) take a look at BMW’s newest models
D) get together and exchange experience on driving the BMWs
Passage Four
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Half of literature concerns the perils of falling for a soul mate: the Victorian heroine runs off with the gardener; Romeo decides he can’t live without the daughter of a family with whom his is feuding. And these tales always end badly, with disgrace and death, so that the normal order of society can be soberly restored.
The new matchmakers take a traditional approach. They believe that people do and should marry within their tribes. The count’s daughter is not going to be happy as a gardener’s wife, no matter how mad she was for him at first, whereas a person from an affluent neighborhood will find comfort in a spouse who grew up in a similar area and went to the same tennis camp. They will speak the same dialect. They will move back to their hometowns and send their kids to that same tennis camp. The matchmakers themselves need not necessarily speak their — or any of their clients’— languages. Rather, matchmakers are like linguists who recognize the sounds and structure of many languages and then get the natives together. And if the clients protest that their hearts aren’t beating fast enough (That town? Near my parents?), the matchmakers will insist that the pairing is right. Once they commit and start building that long-delayed life, they’ll be happy — or happier, at least, than when they were single.
Of course, you wonder if these kinds of matches actually last, or whether a few months or years after that hefty wedding bonus has been paid, one of them starts saying: Do we really communicate? Sometimes I wonder if you really understand me. Does the man think, What about all that money I paid for you? Does the woman wonder, should I have a profitable divorce and marry for love the next time?
26. The sentence “…the normal order of society can be soberly restored.” (Line 4, Para.1) indicates that .
A) Romeo should marry Juliet even though she is the daughter of the family with whom his is feuding
B) it is totally OK for heroines run off with the gardener
C) Victorian heroine should fall in love with a hero
D) Romeo should marry a gardener’s daughter
27. The phrase “tennis camp ” in paragraph 2 means .
A) some certain place where poor people often go
B) the actual tennis court
C) a place where lovers like to go
D) certain places, especially places rich people often go
28. The sentence “their hearts aren’t beating fast enough” in paragragh 2 means .
A) there is something wrong with their hearts
B) their hearts should have been beating faster
C) the two people are not so attracted to each other
D) the two people fall in love with each other so passionately that their heart beats slow down a little
29. The writer claimed mainly in this article that .
A) The normal order of society should be soberly restored
B) The new matchmakers take a traditional approach nowadays
C) People will be much happier once they start a long-delayed life
D) Soul mates may not necessarily be people who share the same social status
30. According the writer, what is the most fundamental element in a relationship or marriage?
A) favorable communication B) similar family background
C) similar financial condition D) equal social position
Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
31. You may _______ of the extra books in our department library.
A) deposit B) enclose C) fade D) dispose
32. Although the traffic is not busy, he likes to drive at a _______ speed.
A) spare B) fast C) moderate D) moral
33. As a teacher, you should not _______ the students from asking questions in class.
A) ruin B) restrain C) import D) impose
34. If you have any problems during your study here, please do not ______ to call me for help.
A) hesitate B) despair C) urge D) request
35. He must be from Africa, _____ can be seen from his skin.
A) that B) as C) who D) what
36. It is not _______ for me to return all the books to the library now because I still need some of them for my research.
A) continuous B) difficult C) convenient D) sufficient
37. When traveling alone in the mountains, you’d better take a _______ with you in case you get lost.
A) compass B) compress C) compose D) campus
38. Both sugar and salt can ______in water.
A) desert B) absorb C) dissolve D) involve
39. Without a proper education, people could _______ all kinds of crimes.
A) conduct B) swear C) commit D) sweat
40. This boy was _______ for what he had done in the class.
A) scolded B) accused C) inclined D) displayed
41. After working for twenty hours without any rest, the doctors were _______.
A) exhausted B) mounted C) wrapped D) restored
42. He _______ to study harder in the future so that he could have more opportunities to find a better job.
A) resolved B) resorted C) requested D) reserved
43. This river forms a natural _______ between China and Korea.
A) boundary B) edge C) margin D) frontier
44. All the memories of his childhood had _______ from his mind by the time he was 65.
A) faded B) illustrated C) confined D) concerned
45. This river is so big that it is impossible to build a _______ under it without modern technology.
A) canal B) tunnel C) channel D) cable
46. _____ before we depart the day after tomorrow, we should have a wonderful dinner party.
A) Had they arrived B) Were they arriving
C) Would they arrive D) Were they to arrived
47. The _______ is nearly dead , so I can not start the car again.
A) bean B) beam C) bake D) battery
48. When making modern cameras , people began to _______ plastics for metal.
A) surround B) substance C) stretch D) substitute
49. He is easily _______ so I do not like to talk with him.
A) defended B) afforded C) created D) offended
50. After talking for nearly ten hours, he _______ to the government’s pressure at last.
A) expressed B) yielded C) decreased D) approved
51. My hands and feet were ________ with cold as I waited for the bus.
A) cliff B) still C) stiff D) stick
52. This year our university does not have any _______ to continue the international student exchange program.
A) function B) fundamental C) funeral D) funds
53. Many English words are _______ from Latin.
A) displayed B) spread C) lost D) derived
54. Many years ago, a lot of factories were _______ from big cities to the mountainous areas in case of war.
A) transferred B) transformed C) transmitted D) transported
55. When the fire ________ in the movies, the people lost their heads and ran in all directions.
A) broke in B) broke up C) broke out D) broke into
56. My throat is _______. I cannot speak any more.
A) sore B) purchase C) glow D) faint
57. ____ by the police, the kidnappers had no choice but to surrender.
A) Surrounded B) Surrounding
C) Having surrounded D) To be surrounded
58. The international situation is very _______ in the Middle East.
A) delicious B) perfect C) delicate D) permeate
59. Don’t hang ______ the window. It’s dangerous.
A) out B) out of C) off D) from
60. We _______ that it will take another four months to finish this plan.
A) grant B) estimate C. back D) guarantee
Part IV Cloze (15 minutes)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
If you stand a short distance away from a high wall and shout, your voice sometimes comes back to you as an echo. This happens because the 61 waves are reflected
62 the wall. This is the principle of radar, 63 instead of sound it is radio waves which are reflected. This 64 was made a few years before the last war, 65
radio waves from a transmitting station 66 reflected back from a distant aeroplane.
It was realized 67 an apparatus could be devised to send out radio waves
68 and record the 69 from any approaching aeroplanes, it would be a wonderful method of defense 70 war.
Scientists 71 solving the problem and radar was 72 . An apparatus was made which sent out waves in pulses, and the presence of a distant aeroplane was shown on the screen of a cathode(阴极)ray tube, (this is 73 we have in a television set).
74 this way radar stations could detect the approach of enemy aircraft.
After the war radar was put to peaceful uses. It is now installed at airports to 75
aeroplanes down safely in fog. It is fitted to ships so that they are warned 76 obstr- uctions ahead, 77 icebergs. It guides ships into port. It provides aeroplanes and ships 78 a magic eye, with 79 they can see 80 into the distance, in the dark or in fog.
61. A) voice B) sound C) shout D) echo
62. A) off B) on C) in D) against
63. A) so B) on C) but D) as
64. A) found B) discover C) knowledge D) discovery
65. A) when B) as C) until D) before
66. A) was B) were C) is D) are
67. A) if that B) if when C) that if D) when if
68. A) all time B) every time C) any time D) all the time
69. A) echoes B) voices C) sounds D) waves
70. A) on B) in C) at D) off
71. A) set off B) set aside C) set up D) set about
72. A) found B) seen C) made D) invented
73. A) what B) that C) which D) that
74. A) On B) Upon C) In D) Along
75. A) tell B) guide C) make D) warn
76. A) from B) of C) to D) in
77. A) so on B) so that C) such as D) as if
78. A) with B) of C) for D) in
79. A) which B) that C) this D) what
80. A) away B) along C) off D) far
试卷二
Section B Compound Dictation
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 numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from S8 to S10 you are required to fill in the missing information. You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
The United States is a “telephone land”. Almost every one uses the telephone to (S1)
social engagements, visit with friends, conduct business and (S2) all kinds of information. It is the chief method for sending and (S3) information in the United States. Some visitors (S4) to use telephone much at first, either because it is (S5) , because they think it is expensive (as it is in many countries), or because they fear they will be (S6) the person they call from more important business. In fact, local telephone calls are only 10 cents at public phones and less expensive still in (S7) homes, (S8) .
Within normal hours—after 9:00 A.M. and before 9:00 P.M. — (S9)
. You need never worry about calling a business office for information. (S10) .
If the person you are calling is out of the office, leave a message with his or her secretary.
Part V Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the title Should Olympic Athletes Get High Salaries according to the following OUTLINE given in Chinese. Your composition should have no fewer than 120 words.
Outline：1.雅典奥运会后，关于获奖运动员高薪的问题引起了社会的广泛关注。
2.有些人支持这种做法，认为运动员们付出了很多，应赢得回报;有些人则持反对意见。
3.我的观点。
模拟试题2、模拟试题二
模拟试题二
试卷一
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
Directions: 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 center.
Example: You will hear.
You will read: A) At the office. B) In the waiting room.
C) At the airport. D) In a restaurant.
From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening. This conversation is most likely to have taken place at the office. Therefore, A) “At the office” is the best answer. You should choose [A] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.
Sample Answer [A] [B] [C] [D]
1. A) No one on the bus was injured.
B) More than one student on the bus was injured.
C) Every one on the bus was injured.
D) Only one student on the bus was injured.
2. A) He didn’t like any juice.
B) He wanted other kind of juice.
C) He liked banana juice as well as apple juice and orange juice.
D) He liked all sorts of fruit except for apple juice and orange juice.
3. A) He will lend the bike to Tom. B) His bike has a flat type too.
C) He can not lend it to the woman. D) Tom will lend the bike to the girl.
4. A) Taking a walk everyday is not very good. B) She agrees with the man.
C) She disagree with the man. D) She want to take a walk today.
5. A) Go to the party. B) Work in the restaurant.
C) Do her homework. D) Study English.
6. A) Lily made the trip a lot of fun.
B) Lily spoiled the trip.
C) She like Lily to go with them.
D) She made a journey to China only with Lily.
7. A) Sue came to two parties. B) Sue missed most of the parties.
C) Sue has joint most of the parties. D) Sue missed all of their parties.
8. A)He is attending his sick mother at home . B) He is at home on sick leave.
C) He is on a vocation in Asia. D) He is in Asia to see his mother.
9. A) She can use his car. B) She can get a car somewhere else.
C) She must get her car fixed. D) She can’t borrow his car.
10. A) The man is too tired to go to the movies.
B) The woman does not want to go to the movies.
C) The man wants to go out for dinner.
D) The woman wants to go to the movies.
Section B Compound Dictation
注意：听力理解的B节(Section B)为复合式听写(Compound Dictation)，题目在试卷二上，现在请取出试卷二。
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.
Chaz Albert is a passionate “texter,” someone who loves to send and receive text messages via cell phone. He does it at home, at school and at work. He often prefers texting over talking on his cell phone.
In the last two years, text messages — which cell carriers generally limit to 160 characters — have become a rage among teenagers, who embrace the technology as yet another way to escape a boring class or stay in touch with friends.
But text-messaging, or texting for short, has a downside. It can be expensive. Many high school and college students accustomed to sending unlimited instant messages on their computers do not adapt easily to text messaging’s pay-per-message format, and end up with unexpectedly high bills when they get involved in keypad conversations that involve hundreds, even thousands, of messages a month. The results are angry confrontations with parents, long-term payment plans and the loss of cell phone privileges.
Text-messaging has flourished for years in Europe and Asia, where it is immensely popular among young people. In the United States, activity was limited until 2002, when a breakthrough in the wireless market allowed short text messages to be sent among customers of the major cellular carriers. Previously, customers could send messages only to those who used the same carrier.
The service, known as S.M.S. (for Short Message Service), has since taken off. According to a recent report Americans sent 2.5 billion text messages a month in mid-2004, triple the number sent in mid-2002.
Teenagers are clearly driving the trend. “Younger people do text messaging a lot more than older folks,” said Mr. Nogee. “They’re more used to it from instant messaging on the computer, from growing up with it. Older people would rather call up and talk.”
11. The word “texter” (Line 1, Para 1) mainly refers to .
A. people who only call up and talk on cell phones
B. people who not only “tezting”, but also call up on cell phones
C. people who never call up but only send messages on cell phones
D.people who do a lot more messaging than calling with a cell phone
12. Why are teenagers so addicted to text-messaging?
A) texting is much cheaper than making calls
B) texting is regarded as another way of escape a boring class or stay in touch with friends
C) texting on a cell phone allows unlimited characters
D) texting has flourished for many years in Europe and Asia
13. One downside of text-messaging is .
A) it may be expensive if one are not so familiar with its paying format
B) it may be a waste of time
C) one may become less talkative on the phone
D) it usually has a limitation of 160 characters
14. Which of the following version is NOT true according to the article?
A) Younger people are more used to instant messaging on a computer than older folks.
B) Statistics has shown that text message business has proliferated over the past three years.
C) U.S’s S.M.S business in mid-2004 is four times larger than in mid-2002.
D) One of the punishment parents give to carelessly use of texting is kids may lose cell phone privileges.
15. The word “rage” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to .
A) anger B) fashion C) trend D) phenomenon
Passage Two
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.
More than 100 colleges in Beijing enrolled fewer than 40,000 students in total this year, 10,000 less than last year, according to the Beijing Star Daily. In 2002, they attracted 80,000 students in total.
The head of a private college in the capital told the newspaper that the cost of educating a student at one of these establishments was about 30,000 yuan a year. He said a college needed to enrol 2,000 students a year to make ends meet. But in Beijing, they had enrolled fewer than 400 on average this year.
“Some private colleges will go bankrupt in the coming years if the number of enrolments continues to drop,” the head was quoted as saying.
Wei Honglin , head of the Beijing Education Consulting and Complaint Centre, said private colleges had suffered huge losses during the SARs outbreak last year.
Education experts said private colleges were becoming less attractive to students because of rising unemployment among graduates. They said high school graduates, especially those from less-developed areas, were reluctant to pay money and spend years on private college education when there was no guarantee of a job.
For many private college students, graduation is often a guarantee of unemployment because they are less popular with employers than graduates from well-known public colleges and universities.
An expansion of public colleges and universities since 1999 has also made it difficult for private colleges to survive. There are more than 1,300 privately run colleges across the country and nearly all are struggling to attract enough interest to keep running. To attract more students, more than 1 billion yuan was spent on publicising private colleges last year. “For every student enrolled, the private colleges on average spent 3,000 yuan on publicity,” Mr Wei said.
16. What may be one of the results if a private college fails to enroll 2,000 students a year?
A) Students will leave to find another one.
B) The college will have to pay a certain penalty to the government.
C) The college will have to shut down because of bankrupt.
D) President of the college will be put in jail.
17. Why are students from less-developed areas reluctant to go to private colleges?
A) Fees of private colleges are too high for students from those areas.
B) It is more difficult for them to enroll private colleges.
C) Private colleges have a not so good repute.
D) After graduation from private colleges, the chance of getting a job is slimmer than from public colleges and universities.
18. What has been done in private colleges in order to survive?
A) Private colleges has gradually decrease their tuition in order to attract students from less-developed areas.
B) Private colleges has tried to use advertisements to promote themselves.
C) An expansion of private colleges has been undertaking.
D) Private colleges now employ more experienced teachers.
19. Based on the passage, what can be one of the reasons to cause losses to private colleges last year?
A) The outbreak of SARs.
B) The expansion of public colleges and universities.
C) The careless operation of the colleges.
D) The quality of the colleges’ faculty.
20. Which is the following statement is false on the grounds of the facts in the text?
A) Nearly all the private colleges are struggling to survive throughout the country.
B) For every student enrolled, 3,000 yuan a year is spent on all kinds of promotion on average.
C) Private colleges usually guarantee of a much better job than universities.
D) Private colleges in Beijing enrolled about 50,000 students last year.
Passage Three
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
In Elizabethan England, there were laws to prevent members of the rabble from dressing above their station. This was never really effective, but to understand how truly futile it is these days for the upper classes to try keeping the masses in their sartorial place, you need to know what a chav is. “Chav” — the champion buzzword of 2004 in Britain, according to one language maven there — refers to something between a subculture and a social class. The unofficial definition is a clueless suburbanite with appalling taste and a tendency toward track suits and loud jewelry.
In any case, there’s one aspect of chavness that almost every description mentions right away: Chavs love Burberry. The recognizable plaid pattern of Burberry, the venerable English luxury brand, has long since come to serve as a status signifier. Presumably it is status that chavs are looking for when they snap up anything and everything emblazoned with the plaid. The most popular element of the chav uniform is the Burberry plaid cap.
Stacey Cartwright, a Burberry executive, argues that this chav business is just a trivial tabloid story. The international brand continues to thrive in chav-free North America and Asia, she says. Responding to reports that Burberry discontinued one of its plaid caps in the U.K., she says that the “small” British market was slow anyway. “The chav issue won’t have helped, but it’s on top of what was already quite a sluggish market,” she says. Besides, she continues, “the caps that the so-called chavs wear are actually counterfeit products; they’re not our products.” Burberry still offers, for example, a $200 cashmere plaid cap in Britain. “That’s out of the price range of most of these individuals,” Cartwright says.
21. The best title of this article may be .
A) Burberry’s influence upon the chav business
B) The good, the plaid and the ugly
C) The definition of chavness
D) The laws to prevent members of the rabble from dressing above their station
22. From the text, we can infer that the most significant sign of Burberry is .
A) plaid pattern B) paisley pattern C) checked pattern D) striped pattern
23. What’s Stacey Cartwright’s attitude towards the chav business?
A) She thinks Burberry will thrive in chav-free areas.
B) She believes the chav business is of no great influence to Burberry.
C) She thinks the chavness business will soon be out of date.
D) She believes the chavness is the business of counterfeit products.
24. What can we infer from the passage?
A) People always wear the proper garment to their social positions in the Elizabethan England.
B) Track suits and loud jewelry always appeal to clueless suburbanite.
C) Production of all sorts of plaid caps is shut down now, according to a Burberry executive.
D) The chav issue has little effect on Burberry’s market in and outside England.
25. Which is the following statement is true according to the text?
A) Burberry is a local English brand and can be seen only in England.
B) Chav usually wear a special kind of uniform with a plaid cap.
C) Chavs are people of fancy taste.
D) What the so-called chavs wear now are not real products of Burberry.
Passage Four
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Each day, 50,000 shiny, fire-engine-red apples work their way through a sprawling factory in Swedesboro, N.J. Inside, 26 machines wash them, core them, peel them, seed them, slice them and chill them. At the end of the line, they are deposited into little green bags featuring a jogging Ronald McDonald.
From there, the bags make their way in refrigerated trucks to thousands of McDonald’s restaurants up and down the Eastern Seaboard. No more than 14 days after leaving the plant, the fruit will take the place of French fries in some child’s Happy Meal.
The apple slices, called Apple Dippers, are a symbol of how McDonald’s is trying to offer healthier food to its customers — and to answer the many critics who contend that most of its menu is of poor nutritional quality.
It remains to be seen whether these new offerings will assuage the concerns of public health officials and other critics of McDonald’s highly processed fat — and calorie — laden sandwiches, drinks and fries. So far, they have not — at least not entirely. But this much is already clear: Just as its staple burger-and-fries meals have made McDonald’s the largest single buyer of beef and potatoes in the country, its new focus on fresh fruits and vegetables is making the company a major player in the $80 billion American produce industry.
The potential impact goes beyond dollars and cents. Some people believe that McDonald’s could influence not only the volume, variety and prices of fruit and produce in the nation but also how they are grown.
26. According to the text, what will be found in some children’s Happy Meal in stead of French fries?
A) apple pies B) hamburger C) apple dippers D) apple flavor French
27. Why is McDonald using fruit production to take the place of traditional French fries?
A) Price of potato is increasing.
B) Apple are adored by more people.
C) McDonald wants to make their food diversified.
D) Fruit production, for instant, apple is of higher nutrition.
28. What can we infer from the text?
A) People can now feel relieved about the nutrition in McDonald’s food.
B) We can no longer find French fries in children’s Happy Meal.
C) Fries, drinks and sandwiches are regarded as fat-and-calories laden.
D) McDonald spend $80 billion on fresh fruits and vegetables.
29. Which of the following statement is true according to the text?
A) Health officials and other critics’ attitude towards McDonald’s food has changed magnificently.
B) Each year, McDonald consumes the largest amount of potatoes and beef throughout the U.S.
C) Rising price of fruits is the only aspect of McDonald’s action.
D) Carefully chosen fire-engine-red apples are made into McDonald food after 14 days leaving the plant.
30. Why could McDonald influence the grow of the fruits?
A) Because McDonald will supervise the process of fruits growing.
B) Because more high-quality fruits are needed to make nutritional McDonald food.
C) Because McDonald is going to run a orchard itself.
D) Because how the fruits are grown matters the cost of McDonald food.
Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
31. He read the paper several times but he still _______ some printer’s errors.
A) overlooked B) ignored C) noticed D) outlined
32. You have greatly _______us. What you have done is not what you told us about several weeks ago.
A) disappointed B) deserted C) clarified D) opposed
33. The financial support is decided not only according to your GRE score, but also according to your _______ in college.
A) performance B) policy C) smart D) statement
34. As a commander, you should not _______ the soldiers to unnecessary danger.
A) express B) explode C) exploit D) expose
35. Although in great danger, the wounded still did not want to _______ from the front.
A) feedback B) backward C) withdraw D) departure
36. In the class the teacher asked the students to _______ their bad habits.
A) weaken B) omit C) overcome D) overtake
37. When you study in the United States, usually you have to buy your own health _______.
A) insurance B) expense C) evidence D) payment
38. ____ in 1636, Harvard is one of the most famous universities in the United States.
A) Founding B) It was founded C) Being founded D) Founded
39. Chocolate and ice-cream have different _______.
A) favour B) favourites C) fever D) flavours
40. Though tired and hungry, the explorers had to _____ their walk through the forest.
A) carry off B) carry on C) carry out D) carry away
41. He made a rough _______ of the first floor of that building, showing us where his office was located.
A) painting B) illustration C) drawing D) sketch
42. He always leaves _______ for all the words he does not know in his translation.
A) blankets B) blind C) black D) blanks
43. If you just stay in this city for few days, we can give you a _______ library card and you can still make use of the books in the city library.
A) terminal B) temporary C) regular D) chamber
44. These programs are designed for those young people who want to _______ higher education but do not have enough time to go to university.
A) insure B) purse C) purchase D) pursue
45. What she achieved in her research might _______ what she had been expecting.
A) exceed B) exclaim C) excess D) extend
46. Both O. J. Simpson and Jim Brown have been ______ as the greatest players in the history of football.
A) ranked B) recorded C) stocked D) stripped
47. What they produced has no any _______ value. But it is very useful to their research.
A) filter B) fold C) partial D) commercial
48. When talking about Chinese culture, people often _______ its origin with the Yellow River.
A) worship B) vain C) reveal D) associate
49. When he caught a _______ of his girl-friend in the rain, Jack asked the taxi driver to stop to pick her up.
A) stare B) glance C) glimpse D) peep
50. Without the _______ materials imported from abroad, Japan can hardly produce anything.
A) original B) cruel C) spare D) raw
51. We may be able to _______ you in some way if you can not finish your work on time.
A) resist B) insist C) assist D) disease
52. Even though he has lived in China for many years, Mark still can not _______ himself to the Chinese customs.
A) adopt B) adjust C) adapt D) accept
53. He tried to _______ with the manager for his salary.
A) evaluate B) object C) bargain D) pause
54. The news announcer ______ on the regular program to announce the election results.
A) cut away B) cut in C) cut off D) cut down
55. To some _______, Mary still does not understand this unit. But she herself does not believe so.
A) extend B) part C) extent D) content
56. If you want to see the chairman of the department, you’d better make an _______ with his secretary first.
A) admission B) agreement C) appointment D) date
57. She is narrow minded and always _______ what other people have.
A) jealous B) owes C) misses D) envies
58. You____ to town to see the film yesterday. It will be on TV tonight.
A) needn’t go B) had better not go
C) should not go D) needn’t have gone
59. When he woke up from his dream, the frightened boy tried to _______ his mother’s arm.
A) grape B) grey C) grip D) grave
60. He is a man of great experience, _____ much can be learned.
A) who B) that C) from which D) from whom
Part IV Cloze (15 minutes)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Niagara is an Indian word which means “roaring water”. Indeed, the roar of falling water of Niagara can be heard 61 a distance of 25 kilometers. Imagine 62
of water flowing over a cliff 90 feet high and you will get an idea of that terrible noise.
And 63 tremendous power the Niagara River has! It moves big rocks about and throws them into the boiling water below.
64 ago an old ship without a single person on board was put in mid-stream. It sailed down the river 65 a toy boat with great speed. Having reached the fall, the ship dropped into the boiling water, never 66 again.
There were some people who wanted to become famous 67 swimming across the most dangerous part of the Niagara River. One of them was Captain Webb. 68
that he would try to swim across the Niagara drew crowds of people. On the evening of July 21st, 1893, Captain Webb came up to the river and 69 a plunge. His having jumped into the water 70 many people with horror. Soon, he appeared in the middle of the river. A loud shout went up from the crowd, but a moment later there was
71 silence. The man had disappeared under the water. Thousands of eyes 72
on the river, but the man was drowned.
In 1902, a certain Miss Taylor decided to go over the falls in a barrel. There were different kinds of pillows inside the barrel to prevent her 73 . Having examined the barrel carefully, Miss Taylor got in. The barrel was closed and then 74 into the water. Having reached the falls, it overturned and was shot down by the terrible 75
of the water. When the barrel was finally caught and opened, Miss Taylor came out alive
76 with a frightened look in her eyes.
Once a crowd of visitors saw a rope 77 over them from one bank of the river to the other. Then they saw a man 78 the rope. The man was an actor, Blondin
79 . He managed to cross Niagara Falls on a tight rope. The people on the bank were surprised at his 80 it so well.
61. A) within B) inside C) at D) on
62. A) much B) a great number C) mass D) a mass
63. A) how much B) what C) so D) how
64. A) Sometimes B) Many times C) Much time D) Some time
65. A) as B) as if C) like D) likely
66. A) to appear B) appearing C) appeared D) appear
67. A) for B) by C) through D) from
68. A) He said B) His having said C) He says D) He had said
69. A) gave B) made C) did D) took
70. A) filling B) full C) filled D) was filled
71. A) dead B) dying C) died D) death
72. A) being stopped B) were fixing C) were fixed D) fixed
73. A) being hurt B) having hurt C) hurting D) hurt
74. A) being thrown B) throwing C) thrown D) threw
75. A) power B) strength C) force D) capacity
76. A) therefore B) however C) so D) but
77. A) being put B) put C) having put D) putting
78. A) step across B) step out onto C) step along D) step on
79. A) under the name of B) with the name of
C) by name D) to the name of
80. A) done B) having done C) having been done D) being done
试卷二
Section B Compound Dictation
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 numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from S8 to S10 you are required to fill in the missing information. You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Among the most powerful engines of modern economic growth have been technological changes that raise output (S1) to inputs. But compared with those of the nineteenth century, (S2) changes remained minor and sporadic in the colonial period. It preceded the era of the cotton gin, steam power, and the many metallurgical advances that vastly increased the tools (S3) to workers. In iron production, learning by doing and (S4) remained the key source of labor and fuel savings in the late colonial period—learning to (S5) the fuel input to minimal levels saved on labor needed to gather charcoal and work the forges. Technology remained static and forges sizes constant, however. The (S6) in agriculture also indicates no (S7)
leaps in technology—(S8)
In shipping, the same conclusion is reached. (S9)
, and both ship material and the power source of ships remained unchanged. Even increasingly complex sails and rigs and the alterations of hull shapes failed to increase ship speed and, in any case, (S10) .
Part V Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the title Immoral Behavior in Public according to the following OUTLINE given in Chinese. Your composition should be no fewer than 120 words.
Outline：1.我们经常在公共场合见到各种不道德的行为，叙述你的一次相关经历。
2.这些不文明行为会有哪些影响?
3.我们应该怎样改善这种现象?
模拟试题3、模拟试题三
模拟试题三
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
Directions: 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 center.
Example: You will hear.
You will read: A) At the office. B) In the waiting room.
C) At the airport. D) In a restaurant.
From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening. This conversation is most likely to have taken place at the office. Therefore, A) “At the office” is the best answer. You should choose [A] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.
Sample Answer [A] [B] [C] [D]
1. A) She has postponed going to the doctor’s.
B) She has almost recovered from her cold.
C) She saw the doctor four weeks ago.
D) Her doctor is away right now.
2. A) She is thinking of how to take exercise class.
B) Her new glasses fit better than the old ones.
C) She is unhappy about her exercise class.
D) The exercise class improved her health a lot.
3. A) The man wants to go shopping.
B) The man does not want to go shopping.
C) The man doesn’t want to go shopping with the woman.
D) The man wants to travel around the world instead.
4. A) Professor Smith’s physics course is not outstanding.
B) Professor Smith’s physics course used to be outstanding.
C) Professor Smith will not teach physics course any more.
D) Professor Smith will teach physics course but it will not outstanding.
5. A) in a shop B) in the barber’s
C) in the book store D) in the drug store
6. A) The man will never take a train B) The woman will never take a train
C) It is safer to take a train . D) Taking a bus is safer than taking a train .
7. A) draw a picture B) write a letter
C) hold the ladder D) help the woman write a letter
8. A) It is a new one .
B) It gives discount to the new customer.
C) It is an expensive one.
D) It gives discount to the old customer.
9. A) The teacher never met the woman.
B) The woman forgets the teacher.
C) They both forget each other.
D) The teacher forgets the woman.
10. A) to write the book on the newspaper.
B) to advertise free public announcement.
C) to advertise the book on the newspaper.
D) to write newspaper the on the book.
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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
11. A) Take the place of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund as one of most powerful economic organization in the world
B) have new rules covering trade in services and intellectual property.
C) make complete new rules in every area of international trade.
D) have more members and do much more to settle more problems.
12. A) 165 B) 30 C) 135 D) 105
13. A) WTO—another name for GATT.
B) WTO—an international service organization
C) WTO—one of the world’s most powerful economic organization.
D) WTO—the world’s most powerful economic organization.
Passage Two
14. A) The police want people to use it to report crimes.
B) They are very handy and useful.
C) They are much cheaper than those many years ago.
D) People in Florida can call others on their car phones.
15. A) Every person in thirty people has one.
B) Exactly 105,000 people have car phones.
C) There is one in every 30 cars in the FLorida States.
D) Every car in the State of Florida has one.
16. A) She drove after him and informed the police on her car telephone.
B) She telephoned to the police on her car phone all the time in her car.
C) She followed the gunman by walking who had shot at another man until he was caught.
D) She told the police about the robbery on her car phone as she had stopped his car.
Passage Three
17. A) Tom Brennan. B) An unknown person.
C) A Philadelphia magazine. D) Deborah Logan.
18. A) It was written in Philadelphia.
B) It tell stories about Philadelphia.
C) People in the city are interested in old things.
D) The British and the Americans once fought in Philadelphia.
19. A) $1,000 B) $2,000
C) $3,000 D) $4,000
20. A) I’m rich. B) I’m famous.
C ) I’m excited. D) I’m lucky.
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communications technologies, people in the poor world would be left stranded on the wrong side of a “digital divide.” Yet the debate over the digital divide is founded on a myth—that plugging poor countries into the internet will help them to become rich rapidly.
This is highly unlikely, because the digital divide is not a problem in itself, but a symptom of deeper, more important divides: of income, development and literacy. Fewer people in poor countries than in rich ones own computers and have access to the internet simply because they are too poor, are illiterate, or have other more immediate concerns, such as food, health care and security. So even if it were possible to wave a magic wand and cause a computer to appear in every household on earth, it would not achieve very much: a computer is not useful if you have no food or electricity and cannot read. Yet such wand-waving—through the construction of specific local infrastructure projects such as rural telecenters—is just the sort of thing for which the UN’s new fund is intended.
This sort of thing is the wrong way to go about addressing the inequality in access to digital technologies: it is treating the symptoms, rather than the underlying causes. The benefits of building rural computing centers, for example, are unclear. Rather than trying to close the divide for the sake of it, the more sensible goal is to determine how best to use technology to promote bottom-up development. And the answer to that question turns out to be remarkably clear: by promoting the spread not of PCs and the internet, but of mobile phones.
21. What is the main idea of this passage?
A) Plugging poor countries into the internet will help them to become rich rapidly.
B) Poor countries should be given more basic devices other than advanced ones.
C) Rich countries should help poor ones becoming rich.
D) People in poor countries cannot afford devices such as computer.
22. What did the author mean by referring “digital divide.” (Line 3, Para. 1)?
A) Digital technology will make the gap between rich world and poor world wider.
B) Digital technology will divide people into rich and poor world.
C) People can be divided digitally.
D) To divide people in digital world is wrong.
23. We can infer from the 2nd paragraph that
A) people in poor countries cannot use computer because of illiteracy.
B) poor people cannot use computers.
C) there would be no magic to cause a computer to appear in every household on earth.
D) people in poor countries need more basic living conditions than computers.
24. Considering the following sentences, which one would the author most agree?
A) Digital technology is useless.
B) Digital divide will help poor countries becoming rich.
C) Poor people need more immediate concerns, such as food, health care and security.
D) Mobile phones should be promoted firstly.
25. The following passage will probably be:
A) How to promote using of mobile phones.
B) How to use technology to promote bottom-up development.
C) The benefits of building rural computing centers.
D) How to meet the need of food, health and security in poor countries.
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
“Someday,” Andy Warhol once mused, “all department stores will become museums, and all museums will become department stores.” If this has not happened literally, it has practically. Look at the recent debut of a shop-within-a-shop at the SoHo branch of the MoMA Design Store: the first North American Muji outlet. A consumer-goods chain with 280 stores in Japan, Muji has managed to stake out space in something so presumably untouchable as a museum design boutique partly because the 270 or so objects for sale in the SoHo store are “appealing, useful and essential” items for the “design-savvy consumer.” These include office supplies and storage pieces, but also items like a very clever set of $42 cardboard speakers. The Muji style is sleek, clean, unfussy and, at least by some standards, affordable.
The name Muji is a shortening of Mujirushi Ryohin, which translates to “no-brand goods.” Emphasizing quality design, sensible use of materials and utilitarian practicality, Muji uses the slogan “Lower Priced for a Reason.” While the stereotype of the logo- obsessed Japanese consumer lingers, unadorned Muji has thrived. In fact, from the original line of 40 Muji products, the company now offers more than 5,000 — everything from clothing to bicycles to furniture to packaged food.
Museum stores have lately become more savvy about selling consumer furniture made by the same famous designers exhibited in actual museum shows. The MoMA-Muji collaboration takes this idea to the next logical step. The brand’s fine-design aura and exotic rarity are good for the shop — but the shop has an aura of its own, one that gives Muji goods a bit more sparkle than they might have if they were in an ordinary store.
26. The main purpose of author to write this passage is:
A) To introduce the museum like Muji company.
B) To forecast what a department store will become.
C) To promote the successful experience of Muji company.
D) To tell the readers how a department store becomes prosperous.
27. What did Andy Warhol mean by saying all department stores will become museums, and all museums will become department stores (Line 1, Para. 1) ?
A) There will be no department store in the future.
B) Department stores are becoming more and more like museums with the goods savvy-designed while museums are be coming more and more like department stores with fussy items.
C) All department stores will become museum.
D) All museums will be replaced by department stores in the future.
28. What dose savvy (Line 1, Para. 3) mean in this passage?
A) Wit B) Sensible
C) Cheap D) Stupid
29. The meaning of “While the stereotype of the logo-obsessed Japanese consumer lingers, unadorned Muji has thrived.” (Line 4, Para. 2) is
A) Japanese consumers believe in the logo of Muji and that’s why Muji has become flourished.
B) Japanese consumers always linger so Muji becomes thrive.
C) Muji stores are so unadorned that Japanese consumers can only linger.
D) Muji obsesses Japanese consumers by its logo in order to make them linger.
30. What is NOT correct according to this passage?
A) Reasonable price is a style of Muji, at least by some standards.
B) Now you can find most of the everyday stuffs in Muji stores.
C) In Muji stores, furniture designed by famous designers is now available.
D) Muji can thrive only because it has a fine-design aura.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors(流星)but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on earth. Light gets through, and this is essential for plants to make the food which we eat. Heat, too, makes our environment endurable. Various kinds of rays come through the air from outer space, but enormous quantities of radiation from the sun are screened off. As soon as men leave the atmosphere they are exposed to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, do prevent a lot of radiation damage.
Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in space. The unit of radiation is called “rem”. Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than 0.1 rem without being damaged; the figure of 60 rems has been agreed on. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about radiation damage — a person may feel perfectly well, but the cells of his or her sex organs may be damaged, and this will no be discovered until the birth of deformed children or even grandchildren.
Missions of the Apollo flights have had to cross belts of high amount of rems. So far, no dangerous amounts of radiation have been reported, but the Apollo missions have been quite short. We simply do not know yet how men are going to get on when they spend weeks and months outside the protection of the atmosphere, working in a space laboratory. Drugs might help to decrease the damage done by radiation, but no really effective ones have been found so far.
31. According to the first paragraph, the atmosphere is essential to man in that _______.
A) it protects him against the harmful rays from space
B) it provides sufficient light for plant growth
C) it supplies the heat necessary for human survival
D) it screens off the falling meteors
32. We know from the passage that _______.
A) exposure to even tiny amounts of radiation is fatal
B) the effect of exposure to radiation is slow in coming
C) radiation is avoidable in space exploration
D) astronauts in spacesuits needn’t worry about radiation damage
33. The harm radiation has done to the Apollo crew members _______.
A) is significant B) seems overestimated
C) is enormous D) remains unknown
34. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.
A) the Apollo mission was very successful
B) protection from space radiation is no easy job
C) astronauts will have deformed children or grandchildren
D) radiation is not a threat to well-protected space explorers
35. The best title for this passage would be _______.
A) The Atmosphere and Our Environment
B) Research on Radiation
C) Effects of Space Radiation
D) Importance of Protection Against Radiation
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
It has been thought and said that Africans are born with musical talent. Because music is so important in the lives of many Africans and because so much music is performed in Africa, we are inclined to think that all Africans are musicians.
The impression is strengthened when we look at ourselves and find that we have become largely a society of musical spectators(旁观). Music is important to us, but most of us can be considered consumers rather than producers of music. We have records, television, concerts, and radio to fulfill many of our musical needs.
In most situations where music is performed in our culture it is not difficult to distinguish the audience from the performers, but such is often not the case in Africa. Alban Ayipaga, a Kasena semiprofessional musician from northern Ghana, says that when his flute(长笛)and drum ensemble(歌舞团)is performing. “Anybody can take part”. This is true, but Kasena musicians recognize that not all people are equally capable of taking part in the music. Some can sing along with the drummers, but relatively few can drum and even fewer can play the flute along with the ensemble. It is fairly common in Africa for there to be an ensemble of expert musicians surrounded by others who join in by clapping, singing, or somehow adding to the totality of musical sound. Performing nucleus and the additional performers, active spectators, and passive spectators may be difficult to draw from our point of view.
36. The difference between us and Africans, as far as music is concerned, is that _______
A) most of us are consumers while most of them are producers of music
B) we are musical performers and they are semiprofessional musicians
C) most of us are passive spectators while they are active spectators
D) we are the audience and they are the additional performers
37. The word “such” (Para. 3, Line 2) refers to the fact that _______
A) music is perforated with the participation of the audience
B) music is performed without the participation of the audience
C) people tend to distinguish the audience from the performers
D) people have records, television sets and radio to fulfill their musical needs
38. The author of the passage implies that _______
A) all Africans are musical and therefore much music is performed in Africa
B) nor all Africans are born with musical talent although music is important in their lives
C) most Africans are capable of joining in the by playing musical instruments
D) most Africans perform as well as professional musicians
39. The word “nucleus” (Para. 3, Line 9) probably refers to _______
A) musicians famous in Africa
B) musicians at the outer circle.
C) musicians acting as the core in a performance
D) active participants in a musical performance
40. The best title for this passage would be _______
A) The Importance of Music to African People
B) Differences Between African Music and Music of Other Countries
C) The Relationship between Musicians and Their Audience
D) A Characteristic Feature of African Musical Performances
Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
41. While studying at U.C.L.A., Mr.Wang _______ his old friend, whom he has not seen for nearly twenty years.
A) encountered B) whispered C) swung D) maid
42. The _______ production of engines in our factory has doubled this year.
A) manual B) annual C) mass D) muss
43. The Foreign Minister made an excellent_______on the current international situation. A) committee B) command C) comment D) commission
44. Her father will never _______ of her going to study in the United States alone.
A) prove B) agree C) admit D) approve
45. If there is no other way to save a _______ person in a tall building on fire, fire fighters may spread a net into which the person can jump.
A) abandon B) wrapped C) trapped D) deserted
46. Since 1978, many new _______ have been developed in our university to meet the increasing demands of the students.
A) disciplines B) entrances C) discriminances D) principles
47. The question then ________: What are we going to do when we graduate from the university?
A) raises B) arouses C) arises D) rises
48. His speech _______ the young people to continue their study.
A) urged B) stimulated C) inspired D) promoted
49. The rebuilding plan was _______ to the committee.
A) transmit B) admitted C) transfer D) submitted
50. John’s score on the test is the highest in the class; he____ last night.
A) should study B) should have studied
C) must have studied D) must have to study
51. Jack is _______ of stealing the books from the library.
A) accused B) witnessed C) charged D) found
52. The manager promised to have _______ my complaint.
A) looked through B) looked over C) looked into D) looked after
53. Metals expand when they are heated and _______ when cooled.
A) minimize B) freeze C) shrink D) contract
54. In order to _______ a good knowledge of English, he gave up his job and went to study in an English school.
A) require B) inquire C) acquire D) address
55. He checked carefully to _______ the possible errors in his design.
A) eliminate B) exceed C) enlarge D) erase
56. This mountain range has many high _______ and fertile valleys.
A) peaks B) tops C) highlights D) climaxes
57. He gave us a good _______ of his experience.
A) demonstration B) frequency C) descripton D) instruction
58. Richard doesn’t think he could ever ______ what is called “free style” poetry.
A) take on B) take over C) take to D) take after
59. This sick man was _______ in a blanket.
A) input B) issued C) ensured D) wrapped
60. This is the military ________. Nobody is allowed to get in without permission.
A) bond B) zone C) butter D) area
61. Rock music usually _______ the young people in most countries.
A) applies to B) appeals to C) amazes D) actress
62. Milk,butter,and cheese are _______ here from the farms.
A) imported B) transferred C) transformed D) transported
63. We all _______ your coming to help us.
A) appropriate B) appreciate C) admit D) affect
64. Under no _______ will I go there again.
A) circumstances B) situation C) giant D) happen
65. During these ten years, many new methods have been _______ in the field of foreigh language teaching.
A) adopted B) adapted C) alarmed D) aided
66. Yesterday was such a _______ day we decided to go for a drive.
A) glorious B) dynamical C) glooming D) attractive
67. A general _______ is held in the United States every four years.
A) selection B) choice C) election D) choose
68. This is the Chinese _______, translated from English.
A) publication B) editor C) printing D) version
69. Acutual loss will depend upon the particular frequencies one is exposed.
A) of which B) for which C) to that D) to which
70. Your _______ in teaching is different from mine.
A) altitude B) approach C) impeach D) announce
Part IV Cloze (15 minutes)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Nobody likes insects. They are 71 and sometimes dangerous. Some of them bite us and give us 72 ; others bite us and give us big red 73 . Some do not bite,
74 they just fly round our heads or crawl round our houses and gardens. And we do not like any of them — 75 those lovely butterflies.
But insects are interesting. First, they are very 76 animals. Three hundred and twenty million years ago there were no men or other 77 in the world but there were insects. Today, 78 every square mile of land there are millions of them flying and crawling 79 . Second, insects are very 80 to their habitat, to their food and to the weather. Now there are about a million different 81 in the world. Then
82 do people use insecticides?
Not many insects 83 us. In many cases we do not see the insects and we do not think much about them. The 84 is that insects eat so much of man’s food,
85 there are so many billions of them. So we must use insecticides to 86
them.
An insecticide is simply a special chemical 87 with some poisonous elements. Farmers 88 their crops very often and the insects die quickly. Of course some poisonous chemicals 89 on the crops or in the 90 , and that is also dangerous to our health.
71. A) wicked B) shocked C) troubling D) annoying
72. A) wounds B) diseases C) hurts D) cuts
73. A) places B) points C) spots D) scraps
74. A) and B) but C) or D) because
75. A) besides B) let alone C) except for D) except
66. A) old B) young C) small D) weak
77. A) mammals B) cats C) reptiles D) birds
88. A) on B) with C) throughout D) in
79. A) over B) above C) about D) up
80. A) suitable B) adaptable C) agreeable D) changeable
81. A) species B) samples C) models D) examples
82. A) when B) how C) where D) why
83. A) stab B) wound C) hurt D) pin
84. A) difference B) condition C) method D) reason
85. A) so that B) due to C) and D) owing to
86. A) put an end to B) get rid of C) take care of D) get hold of
87. A) medicine B) sections C) compound D) material
88. A) spray B) cover C) clean D) splash
89. A) drop B) stay C) disappear D) leave
90. A) soil B) dirt C) earth D) mud
Part V Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the title Global Warming according to the following OUTLINE given in Chinese. Your composition should be no fewer than 120 words.
Outline：1.全球性变暖的原因。
2.提出解决的建议。
模拟试题4、模拟试题四
模拟试题四
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
Directions: 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 center.
Example: You will hear.
You will read: A) At the office. B) In the waiting room.
C) At the airport. D) In a restaurant.
From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening. This conversation is most likely to have taken place at the office. Therefore, A) "At the office" is the best answer. You should choose [A] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.
Sample Answer [A] [B] [C] [D]
1. A) She missed the school. B) She has a lot of work to catch up.
C) She missed her friend. D) She looks better.
2. A) She did not go swimming last year. B) She does not travel very often.
C) She is just learning to swim. D) She enjoyed his travel very much.
3. A) He spoke to a well-known expert on reform.
B) He does not know when the group will stop.
C) He did not have time to prepare for the discussion.
D) He expect the discussion to be shorter.
4. A) His sister is worry about the man’s birthday.
B) His sister gave him a birthday present.
C) The man expects to hear from his sister.
D) His sister is coming to him.
5. A) He can not attend a three-day conference.
B) Nobody will attend the meeting.
C) He is available all of the days.
D) He has another meeting.
6. A) Ask Lily where is the text book. B) Ask Lily when she can borrow it.
C) Ask Lily how can she get it. D) Ask Lily if she has an extra one.
7. A) Give Bob a phone call. B) Go and pick Bob up.
C) Go look for Bob. D) Wait for Bob.
8. A) In a printing shop. B) At a publishing house.
C) At a bookstore. D) In a library.
9. A) Sending an E-mail. C) Talking on the phone.
B) Working in an office. D) Doing spelling practice.
10. A) He likes the weather in Beijing very much.
B) He will stay in Beijing a long time.
C) He is planning to visit Beijing.
D) He thought it is quite cold in Beijing.
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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
11. A) The problem of preserving the air condition.
B) The problem of preserving the river pollution.
C) The problem of preserving the environment.
D) The problem of preserving the birds.
12. A) Because of the technological progress. B) Because of the countermeasures.
C) Because of the insecticides. D) Because of the noise.
13. A) The large-scale use of insecticides. B) The noise.
C) The pollution. D)The smog.
14. A) Clean Air Act. B) Clean Smog Act.
C) Clean Insecticides Act. D) Clean Noise Act.
15. A) The crossword puzzle first appeared at the beginning of the twentieth.
B) It first appeared in the New York World magazine.
C) It was first made by Arthur Wind.
D) People like it as soon as it appeared for the first time.
16. A) They are easy to do. B) They are much cheaper.
C) They do not need a partner. D) people want something new.
17. A) They do them for fun. B) They do them for educational value.
C) They do them for new challenge. D) They do them for money.
18. A) celebrated the new year. B) celebrated his 85th birthday.
C) celebrated the national day. D) celebrated his 75th birthday.
19. A) 27 years. B) 26 years.
C) 28 years. D) 37 years.
20. A) Winston Churchill in Britain. B) Washington in US.
C) John F. Kennedy in US. D) George bush in US.
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it’s painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.
During the hours when you labour through your work you may say that you’re “hot”. That’s true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues as “Get up, John! You’ll be late for work again!” The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.
You can’t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you’re sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning, but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won’t change your cycle, but you’ll get up steam and work better at your low point.
Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.
21. If a person finds getting up early a problem, most probably .
A) he is a lazy person
B) he refuses to follow his own energy cycle
C) he is not sure when his energy is low
D) he is at his energy peak in the afternoon or evening
22. Which of the following may lead to family quarrels according to the passage?
A) Unawareness of energy cycles.
B) Familiar monologues.
C) A change in a family member’s energy cycle.
D) Attempts to control the energy cycle of other family members.
23. If one wants to work more efficiently at his low point in the morning, he should .
A) change his energy cycle B) overcome his laziness
C) get up earlier than usual D) go to bed earlier
24. You are advised to rise with a yawn and stretch because it will .
A) help to keep your energy for the day’s work
B) help you to control your temper early in the day
C) enable you to concentrate on your routine work
D) keep your energy cycle under control all day
25. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
A) Getting off to work with a minimum effort helps save one’s energy.
B) Dr. Kletman explains why people reach their peaks at different hours of day.
C) Habit helps a person adapt to his own energy cycle.
D) Children have energy cycles, too.
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Where do pesticides fit into the picture of environmental disease? We have seen that they now pollute soil, water, and food, that they have the power to make our streams fishless and our gardens and woodlands silent and birdless. Man, however much he may like to pretend the contrary, is part of nature. Can he escape a pollution that is now so thoroughly distributed throughout our world?
We know that even single exposures to these chemicals, if the amount is large enough, can cause extremely severe poisoning. But this is not the major problem. The sudden illness or death of farmers, farm workers, and others exposed to sufficient quantities of pesticides are very sad and should not occur. For the population as a whole, we must be more concerned with the delayed effects of absorbing small amounts of the pesticides that invisibly pollute our world.
Responsible public health officials have pointed out that the biological effects of chemicals are cumulative over long periods of time, and that the danger to the individual may depend on the sum of the exposures received throughout his lifetime. For these very reasons the danger is easily ignored. It is human nature to shake off what may seem to us a threat of future disaster. “Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious signs,” says a wise physician, Dr. Rene Dubos, “yet some of their worst enemies slowly approach them unnoticed.”
26. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the sentence “Man, …is part of nature.” (Line 3-4, Para.1)?
A) Man appears indifferent to what happens in nature.
B) Man acts as if he does not belong to nature.
C) Man can avoid the effects of environmental pollution.
D) Man can escape his responsibilities for environmental protection.
27. What is the author’s attitude towards the environmental effects of pesticides?
A) Pessimistic. B) Indifferent. C) Defensive. D) Concerned.
28. In the author’s view, the sudden death caused by exposure to large amounts of pesticides .
A) is not the worst of the negative consequences resulting from the use of pesticides
B) now occurs most frequently among all accidental deaths
C) has sharply increased so as to become the center of public attention
D) is unavoidable because people can’t do without pesticides in farming
29. People tend to ignore the delayed effects of exposure to chemicals because ______.
A) limited exposure to them does little harm to people’s health
B) the present is more important for them than the future
C) the danger does not become apparent immediately
D) humans are capable of withstanding small amounts of poisoning
30. It can be concluded from Dr Dubos’ remarks that _______.
A) people find invisible diseases difficult to deal with
B) attacks by hidden enemies tend to be fatal
C) diseases with obvious sighs are easy to cure
D) people tend to overlook hidden dangers caused by pesticides
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Oceanography has been defined as “The application of all sciences to the study of the sea”. Before the nineteenth century, scientists with an interest in the sea were few and far between.
Certainly Newton considered some theoretical aspects of it in his writings, but he was reluctant to go to sea to further his work.
For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travelers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it, let alone to ask what lay beneath the surface. The first time that the question “what is at the bottom of the oceans? ”had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed. The engineers had to know the depth profile of the route to estimate the length of cable that had to be manufactured.
It was to Maury of the US Navy that the Atlantic Telegraph Company turned, in 1853, for information on this matter. In the 1840s, Maury had been responsible for encouraging voyages during which soundings were taken to investigate the depths of the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Later, some of his findings aroused much popular interest in his book The Physical Geography of the Sea.
The cable was laid, but not until 1866 was the connection made permanent and reliable. At the early attempts, the cable failed and when it was taken out for repairs it was found to be covered in living growths, a fact which defied contemporary scientific opinion that there was no life in the deeper parts of the sea.
Within a few years oceanography was under way. In 1872 Thomson led a scientific expedition, which lasted four years and brought home thousands of samples from the sea. Their classification and analysis occupied scientists for years and led to a five-volume report, the last volume being published in 1895.
31. The proposal to lay a telegraph cable from Europe to America made oceanographic studies take on _______.
A) an academic aspect B) a military aspect
C) a business aspect D) an international aspect
32. It was _______ that asked Maury for help in oceanographic studies.
A) the American Navy
B) some early intercontinental travelers
C) those who earned a living from the sea
D) the company which proposed to lay an undersea cable
33. The aim of the voyages Maury was responsible for in the 1840 was _______.
A) to make some sounding experiments in the oceans
B) to collect sample of sea plants and animals
C) to estimate the length of cable that was needed
D) to measure the depths of the two oceans
34. “defied” in the 5th paragraph probably means “_______”.
A) supported B) gave proof to C) challenged D) agreed to
35. This passage is mainly about _______.
A) the beginnings of oceanography
B) the laying of the first undersea cable
C) the investigation of ocean depths
D) the early intercontinental communications
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40are based on the following passage.
People tend to be more impressed by evidence that seems to confirm some relationship. Thus many are convinced their dreams are prophetic(预言的)because a few have come true; they neglect of fail to notice the many that have not.
Consider also the belief that “the phone always rings when I’m in the shower.” If it does ring while you are in the shower, the event will stand out and be remembered. If it doesn’t ring while you are in the shower, that nonevent probably won’t even register(留下印象).
People want to see order, pattern and meaning in the world. Consider, for example, the common belief that things like personal misfortunes, plane crashes, and deaths “happen in threes.” Such beliefs stem from the tendency of people to allow the third event to define the time that counts as their “happening together” is one month; if three crashes occur in a year, the period of time is stretched. Flexible end points reinforce such beliefs.
We also tend to believe what we want to believe. A majority of people thinks they are more intelligent, more fair-minded and more skilled behind the wheel of an automobile than the average person. Part of the reason we view ourselves so favorably is that we use criteria that work to our advantage. As economist Thomas Schelling explains, “Everybody ranks himself high in qualities he values: careful drivers give weight to care, skilled drivers give weight to skill, and those who are polite give weight to courtesy.” This way everyone ranks high on his own scale.
Perhaps the most important mental habit we can learn is to be cautious(谨慎的)in drawing conclusions. The “evidence” of every day life is sometimes misleading.
36. In the first paragraph the author states that _______.
A) dreams cannot be said to be prophetic even though a few have come true
B) dreams are prophetic because some of them did come true
C) dreams may come true if clearly remembered
D) dreams and reality are closely related
37. By “things like…” “happen in threes” (Para.3,Line2), the author indicates that people believe _______.
A) personal misfortunes tend to happen every now and then
B) personal misfortunes, plane crashes, and deaths usually happen together
C) misfortunes tend to occur according to certain patterns
D) misfortunes will never occur more than three times to a person in his lifetime
38. The word “courtesy” (Para.4,Line 6) probably means _______.
A) good manners B) friendly relations
C) appropriate speech D) satisfactory service
39. What can be inferred from the passage?
A) Happenings that go unnoticed deserve more attention.
B) In a series of misfortunes the third one is usually the most serious.
C) People tend to make use of evidence that supports their own beliefs.
D) Believers of misfortunes happening in threes are cautious in interpreting events.
40. It can be concluded from the passage that _______.
A) there is some truth even in the wildest dreams
B) one should take notice of other people’s merits
C) there is no order or pattern in world events
D) we should not base our conclusions on accidental evidence
Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
41. Glass may _______ at high temperature.
A) dissolve B) disappear C) soften D) melt
42. Everyone is encouraged to _______ food or clothing for those who suffered a great deal in the flood.
A) attribute B) distribute C) contribute D) drift
43. White teeth are a sharp _______ to black skin.
A) content B) contract C) contrast D) contain
44. It is kind of you to ________ my children when I am away.
A) look after B) take after C) look in D) take in
45. Tom is _______ about photography. He spends nearly all his money on it.
A) justice B) innocent C) fierce D) crazy
46. Careful planning and hard work will _______ our final success.
A) enclose B) ensure C) discharge D) deny
47. There are _______ approaches to English teaching. But not all of them are equally efficient for our Chinese students.
A) double B) joint C) original D) diverse
48. I could have _______ such a situation but I didn’t.
A) forecast B) overcome C) shed D) urged
49. I prefer a _______ typewriter to an automatic one.
A) mechanic B) manual C) merchant D) mental
50. Professor Smith _______the most important part in his paper.
A) omitted B) disputed C) designed D) chased
51. Physically we feel comfortable. But _______, we suffer a lot.
A) psychologically B) moderately C) naturally D) precisely
52. When he retired, his son _______ the business.
A) took over B) took off C) took in D) took up
53. They _______ our house at $10,000.
A) count B) estimate C) value D) assess
54. When he studied at college, Jack was supported by a _______.
A) treatment B) assistance C) scholarship D) award
55. You are very _______ to take the trouble to help me. I can not thank you enough.
A) reasonable B) essential C) thoughtful D) considerable
56. He wants to _______ his appointment from Monday to Wednesday.
A) transfer B) decay C) advance D) postpone
57. This is what I could do. There is no other _______ for me.
A) change B) shift C) alternate D) alternative
58. Please be _______. Your question is too general.
A) limited B) narrow C) specific D) thorough
59. ____ to meet anybody, he went in from the back door.
A) Not wishing B) Wishing C) Not wished D) No wishing
60. _____ right now, she would get there on Sunday.
A) Would she leave B) Were she to leave C) If she leaves D) If she had left
61. She was eager to persuade him to go with her but met with flat _______.
A) disapproval B) rejection C) refusal D) decline
62. He has two sons, _____ work as chemists.
A) two of whom B) both of whom C) both of which D) all of whom
63. When you buy the spare parts for your car, try to get the _______ ones from the authorized dealer.
A) genuine B) generous C) genius D) gentle
64. Great Britain and France will hold a _______ regarding some European economic problems.
A) conference B) reference C) conversion D) cooperation
65. They ______ in writing a book on radioactive substance.
A) cooperated B) collaborated C) collapsed D) operated
66. A man makes ______ for his old age by putting aside enough money to live on when he is old.
A) foundation B) discipline C) deposit D) provision
67. It is free for the ________ citizens to visit the museums in this city.
A) senior B) resemble C) guilty D) gravity
68. The _______ of the population in this city has become a heavy burden for the local government.
A) frame B) density C) average D) extend
69. Our teacher has a _______ against popular music.
A) interruption B) doubt C) prejudice D) presume
70. Crude ores are mined and shipped overseas or _______ long distances by land to refineries and mills.
A) transported B) transformed C) transferred D) transmitted
Part IV Translation
Directions: The five sentences below are chosen from the Reading Comprehension. Translate these sentences into Chinese according to the texts.
1. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.
2. Responsible public health officials have pointed out that the biological effects of chemicals are cumulative over long periods of time, and that the danger to the individual may depend on the sum of the exposures received throughout his lifetime.
3. Their classification and analysis occupied scientists for years and led to a five-volume report, the last volume being published in 1895.
4. Thus many are convinced their dreams are prophetic(预言的)because a few have come true; they neglect of fail to notice the many that have not.
5. A majority of people thinks they are more intelligent, more fair-minded and more skilled behind the wheel of an automobile than the average person.
Part V Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: The summer vacation is drawing near. You want to find a part-time job. Write an application letter of about 120-150 words within 30 minutes. You may use the following outline in Chinese.
Outline：1.介绍自己的情况和求职目标;
2.介绍自己的资历;
3.争取面试机会并表示感谢。
模拟试题5、模拟试题五
模拟试题五
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
Directions: 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 center.
Example: You will hear:
You will read: A) At the office. B) In the waiting room.
C) At the airport. D) In a restaurant.
From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they will start at 9 o’ clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon. Therefore, A) “At the office” is the correct answer. You should choose [A] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.
Sample Answer [A] [B] [C] [D]
1. A) She’s flying to Hong Kong.
B) She’s going to buy an air ticket.
C) She’s going to say good-bye to Tom.
D) She’s leaving for Hong Kong with Tom
2. A) Buy something for the picnic.
B) Go shopping with the man.
C) Go for a ride around town.
D) Have a picnic.
3. A) In the side pocket of her jacket.
B) In the top pocket of her jacket.
C) In the side pocket of her trousers.
D) In the back pocket of her tight trousers.
4. A) $6 B) $4 C) $7 D) $11
5. A) On Sunday afternoon. B) On Saturday afternoon.
C) On Sunday evening. D) On a weekday.
6. A) On a plane. B) On an island. C) At a store. D) In a car.
7. A) Lisa’s friends. B) Lisa’s colleagues
C) Lisa’s parents. D) Lisa’s cousins.
8. A) They received Bob’s letter at six. B) Bob will arrive by train.
C) The man will meet Bob at the airport. D) Bob is expected to be here by plane.
9. A) Lily will be late. B) She hopes Lily won’t come.
C) She thinks Lily will arrive on time. D) Lily can’t come.
10. A) Help the man. B) Talk to Mr. Smith.
C) Go home D) Type some letters.
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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
11. A) He was born on May 6, 1953. B) He was born on May 7 ,1963.
C) He was born on May 7 ,1943. D) He was born on May 6 ,1963.
12. A) at Tsinghua University B) at Oxford University
C) at Cambridge University D) at New York University
13. A) In 1980. B) In 1985. C) In 1965. D) In 1975.
Passage Two
14. A) about 25,000 kilometers B) about 2,500 kilometers
C) about 35,000 kilometers D) about 3,500 kilometers
15. A) Visit museums in the big city.
B) Go to theater in the town.
C) Cheap Day Excursion trains.
D) See the beautiful scenery in the countryside.
16. A) building carriages B) guiding the tourist
C) repairing the tracks D) running the railways
Passage Three
17. A) 1940 B) 1941 C) 1959 D) 1971
18. A) to make body strong B) it is his interest
C) fight at school D) defend himself
19. A) studied at the University of Washington
B) get married
C) development of his own martial arts style
D) he took part in three movies
20. A) producer B) actor C) driver D) broker
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. All these factors tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision.
In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed.
Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements. Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes readily on human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp dichotomies(分歧). This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to black Americans as compared to other American minorities, because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.
21. According to the passage, one of the factors that tend to promote social change is .
A) mutual interest B) different points of view
C) more worldly people D) advanced technology
22. Social change is less likely to occur in a society where people are quite similar in many ways because .
A) people there are always satisfied with their living conditions
B) people there have identical needs that can be met without much disputes
C) people there have got accustomed to their conditions that they seldom think it necessary to change
D) people there are less emotional and easy to please
23. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A) Social values play an important role in social change.
B) Social change is more likely to occur in the material aspects of society.
C) Social change is more likely to occur if it comes gradually.
D) Social change tends to meet with more difficulty in basic and emotional aspects of society.
24. The expression “greater tolerance” in Paragraph 1 refers to .
A) greater willingness to accept social change
B) quicker adoption to changing circumstances
C) more respect for different beliefs and behavior
D) greater readiness to agree to different opinions and ideas
25. The passage mainly discusses .
A) two different societies
B) the necessary of social change
C) different social changes
D) certain factors that determine the ease with which social changes occur
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Climate, more than any other single factor, determines the distributions of life on Earth. Climatic boundaries establish the limits within which organisms can survive.
Plants, even more than animals, must be well adapted to climate in order to survive. They cannot move about or take shelter but must be equipped to endure whatever weather conditions are likely to occur.
In the harsh conditions of tundra, for example, low growing mosses, lichens, and a few flowering plants all hug the ground for shelter from icy winds.
Animals, despite their ability to move about and find shelters, are just as much influenced by climate as plants are. Creatures such as the camel and the penguin are so highly specialized that they have as extremely limited distribution. Others, such as bears, are flexible enough to adapt to a broad range of climates. Ocean-dwelling organisms are just as sensitive to climatic changes — in this case temperature and salinity(含盐量)— as land animals. Reef corals can survive only in clear warm seawater. Certain foraminifers are so sensitive to changes in their environment that their presence can be taken as an index of sea temperature. Human beings are among the least specialized of all animals and can live almost anywhere. Their clothes and their homes act as a sort of “miniature climate” that can be taken with them everywhere.
26. Which of the following is neither plant nor animal?
A) Tundra B) Reef coral C) Penguin D) Camel
27. According to the passage, the tundra grow close to the ground .
A) to avoid being eaten by arctic animals
B) because fertilizer is not readily available
C) to minimize exposure to the cold
D) because unfrozen water plants are very scarce
28. According to the passage, which of the following can be found in the greatest number of different climate areas on Earth?
A) Reef corals B) Penguins C) Bears D) Camels
29. It can be inferred from the passage that foraminifers (Line 6, Para 4) are a .
A) kind of weather pattern B) species of tundra plant
C) form of sea life D) type of miniature penguin
30. According to the passage, human beings can survive almost everywhere on Earth because .
A) they have developed advanced forms of transportation
B) they have learned how to process seawater for drinking
C) their body temperature can vary considerably
D) their shelters and clothing help them to adapt to the environment
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
One of the most widely discussed subjects these days is the energy crisis. Automobile drivers cannot get gasoline, homeowners may not get enough heating oil, factories are threatened by a fuel shortage.
The crisis has raised questions about the large oil companies and windfall(意外收获)profits. Critics of the oil industry charge that the major companies are getting richer because of the oil shortage. Shortage, of course, drives prices up. As oil prices rise, the critics say, the oil companies will make more and more money — windfall profits — without doing a thing to earn the extra cash.
“Windfall” profits are sudden unearned profits — profits made because of luck, or some special turn of events. The word itself tells what “windfall” means — something blown down by the wind, such as trees, or fruit blown from trees. But the word has taken on a special meaning. This meaning — getting something unearned — was first used in medieval(中世纪的)England. This is how it started: At that time much of the land was in the hands of a few barons(贵族). The rest of the people, commoners, lived and worked on their vast estates(领地). They planted the seed, cared for the farm animals and harvested the crops. Not all the land, however, was used for farming. Every land baron kept a large private forest for hunting deer and wild boar(野猪). When hungry, the people sometimes would like kill the animals in the lords forest for food. And there were times when they might cut down trees for fuel. So, strong laws were passed to protect the forest and the animals. Violations were severely punished. But there was one way people could get wood from the forest. If they found trees blown down by the wind – “windfall” — they were free to take them for use as fuel in their homes. And that is the meaning that has come down to us — something gotten by luck or accident.
The poor common people of old England must often have prayed for a good strong wind. Critics today complain that the oil industry has also been praying for something just like it — some political or military storm that might produce a windfall — a rise in oil prices and profits. The oil companies deny that this is so. In congress, critics of the oil companies have proposed a tax on such profits. The debate on rising oil prices will go on for some time, and most likely we will hear more and more about windfall profits.
31. “Critics of the companies” in the last paragraph means .
A) persons from the oil companies who are criticizing others
B) persons criticizing the oil companies
C) critical opinions from the oil companies
D) critical opinions to the oil companies
32. Which of the following couldn’t the commoners do in the medieval English?
A) Do farm work. B) Raise animals.
C) Live on baron’s land. D) Kill animals for food.
33. Which word (s) should be stressed?
A) `windfall profits B) windfall `profits
C) `windfall `profits D) windfall profits
34. The author’s attitude towards the “windfall profits” made by the major oil companies seems to be ______.
A) sympathetic B) objective C) indistinct D) critical
35. Which do you think would be the best title for the article?
A) A Story in Medieval England. B) Energy Crisis.
C) Windfall Profits. D) The Origin of Windfall.
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
The appeal of advertising to buying motives can have both negative and positive effects. Consumers may be convinced to buy a product of poor quality or high price because of an advertisement. For example, some advertisers have appealed to peoples desire for better fuel economy for their cars by advertising automotive products that improve gasoline mileage. Some of the products work. Others are worthless and a waste of consumers money. Sometimes advertising is intentionally misleading. A few years ago a brand of bread was offered to dieters with the message that there were fewer calories in every slice. It turned out that the bread was not dietetic, but just regular bread. There were fewer calories because it was sliced very thin, but there were the same number of calories in every loaf.
On the positive side, emotional appeals may respond to a consumers real concerns. Consider fire insurance. Fire insurance may be sold by appealing to fear of loss. But fear of loss is the real reason for fire insurance. The security of knowing that property is protected by insurance makes the purchase of fire insurance a worthwhile investment for most people. If consumers consider the quality of the insurance plans as well as the message in the ads, they will benefit from the advertising. Each consumer must evaluate her or his own situation. Are the benefits of the product important enough to justify buying it?
Advertising is intended to appeal to consumers, but it does not force them to buy the product. Consumers still control the final buying decision.
36. Advertising can persuade the consumer to buy worthless products by .
A) stressing their high quality
B) convincing him of their low price
C) maintaining a balance between quality and price
D) appealing to his buying motives
37. The reason why the bread advertisement is misleading is that .
A) thin slices of bread could contain more calories
B) the loaf was cut into regular slices
C) the bread was not genuine bread
D) the total number of calories in the loaf remained the same
38. The passage tells us that .
A) sometimes advertisements really sell what the consumer needs
B) advertisements occasionally force consumers into buying things they don’t need
C) the buying motives of consumers are controlled by advertisements
D) fire insurance is seldom a worthwhile investment
39. It can be inferred from the passage that a smart consumer should .
A) think carefully about the benefits described in the advertisements
B) guard against the deceiving nature of advertisements
C) be familiar with various advertising strategies
D) avoid buying products that have strong emotional appeal
40. The passage is mainly about .
A) how to make a wise buying decision
B) ways to protect the interests of the consumer
C) the positive and negative aspects of advertising
D) the function of advertisements in promoting sales
Part III Vocabulary (20 Minutes)
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
41. He said he is my friend but I don’t think so.
A) intensive B) imitate C) intimate D) intimidate
42. I you’ve decided against taking my advice.
A) express B) declare C) assume D) exclude
43. Our plan when it proved too costly.
A) fell through B) got through C) broke through D) went through
44. Some strange customs have from earlier times.
A) evolved B) survived C) involved D) suspended
45. You don’t have to pay any on personal belongings.
A) price B) duty C) expense D) fare
46. Food is a big industry in this area.
A) projecting B) promising C) processing D) promoting
47. We never that John would become a doctor.
A) respected B) wondered C) suspected D) estimated
48. Heavy taxed are on wines imported from the other countries.
A) imposed B) impacted C) dispose D) compact
49. This factory is planning to build a new line this year.
A) resemble B) assembly C) collection D) assessment
50. He his success to the good education he has received.
A) distributes B) contributes C) attributes D) owns
51. They spent many years for oil in this small island.
A) exploring B) exploding C) exposing D) exploiting
52. We can’t the fact that we are still a developing country.
A) ignore B) neglect C) imagine D) impress
53. Can you the man who robbed you of your watch?
A) illustrate B) exhibit C) damage D) identify
54. This rock has to be in order to build a road.
A) blasted B) explored C) splited D) cracked
55. He did not go to the party last night, which her feelings deeply.
A) wounded B) injured C) hurt D) injury
56. When they returned to the river, they found that the boat had away.
A) framed B) frosted C) frowned D) floated
57. If you need further information, please our office.
A) detach B) construct C) contact D) contain
58. The light is too for me to read. I can not stand any more.
A) bright B) ripe C) slim D) dim
59. The water from the tap and damaged all the books in my study.
A) sprayed B) puzzled C) inclined D) exported
60. He gave up his study in college in .
A) relief B) eager C) anxious D) despair
61. Several people the car accident.
A) witnessed B) viewed C) glimpsed D) glanced
62. He was sent to London on a special .
A) missing B) missile C) mission D) mistress
63. Our university has an international student exchange with the University of Wyoming in the United States.
A) procession B) provision C) profession D) program
64. three times in a row, the boxer decide to give up fighting.
A) Having defeated B) To have defeated
C) Having been defeated D) To have been defeated
65. As far as I see, this book has its own .
A) merit B) signal C) feature D) characteritic
66. This tree is too to be planted in this area.
A) tremendous B) slender C) mild D) tender
67. Professor Li his success to his mother.
A) owns B) ruins C) owes D) roars
68. The election for the State governor has begun this year.
A) campaign B) combat C) conflict D) battle
69. It took me a long time to the disappointment of losing the match..
A) get through B) get over C) get off D) get down
70. Anyone without illness can do this simple job.
A) mild B) mind C) mental D) mend
Part IV Translation
Directions: The five sentences below are chosen from the Reading Comprehension. Translate these sentences into Chinese according to the texts.
1. In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same.
2. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to black Americans as compared to other American minorities, because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.
3. They cannot move about or take shelter but must be equipped to endure whatever weather conditions are likely to occur.
4. As oil prices rise, the critics say, the oil companies will make more and more money — windfall profits — without doing a thing to earn the extra cash.
5. If consumers consider the quality of the insurance plans as well as the message in the ads, they will benefit from the advertising.
Part V Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: The following table shows the Candidates and Passers of the Post-graduate Entrance Examination in city X of China the past 5 years. Write a composition of about 120-150 words within 30 minutes.
Candidates and Passers of the Post-graduate Entrance Examination in city X
Year 2002 2003 2004 2005
Candidates 24000 25700 32000 42800
Passers 12700 13000 13400 14200
1.分析和说明图表。
2.解释图表反映的社会现象和原因。