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1、tem4新题型样卷可编辑以下为2015年9月外语专业教指委官方公布的TEM4 新题型样卷。TEM 4 SAMPLE TEST （部分）TIME LIMIT: 130 MINPart I DICTATION 10 MINListen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning.

2、 For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 1 minute to check through your work once m

3、ore.Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.Part II LISTENING COMPREHENSION 20 MINSECTION A TALKIn this section you will hear a talk. You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY. While listening, you may look at ANSWEER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure the word(s)

4、 you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.Now listen to the talk. When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to complete your work.SECTION B CONVERSATIONSIn this sectio

5、n you will hear two conversations. At the end of each conversation, five question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A), B), C)

6、, and D), and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.You have thirty seconds to preview the questions.Now, listen to the conversations.Conversation One1. A. The return trip is too expensive.B. There is no technology to get people back.C. People dont want to return.D. The return tr

7、ip is too risky.2. A. Intelligence. B. Health. C. Skills. D. Calmness.3. A. The kind of people suitable for the trip. B. Interests and hobbies of the speakers. C. Recruitment of people for the trip. D. Preparation for the trip to Mars.Conversation Two6. A. Going to the high street. B. Visting everyd

8、ay shops. C. Buying things like electrical goods. D. Visiting shops and buying online.7. A. 3% B. 33% C. 42% D. 24%8. A. They want to know more about pricing. B. They can return the product later. C. They want to see the real thing first. D. They can bargain for a lower shop price.PART III LANGUAGE

9、KNOWLEDGE 10 MINThere are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words, phrases or statements marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word, phrase or statement that best completes the sentence.Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.11. When you have finished with that book, d

10、ont forget to put it back on the shelf, A. dont you B. do you C. will you D. wont you12. Which of the following statement is INCORRECTA. Only one out of six where present at the meeting.B. Ten dollars was stolen from the cash register.C. Either my sister or my brother is coming.D. Five miles seem li

11、ke a long walk to me.13. It is not so much the language the cultural background that makes the film difficult to understand.A. but B. nor C. like D. as14. There is no doubt the committee has made the right decision on the housing project. A. why B. that C. whether D. when15. If you explained the sit

12、uation to your lawyer, he able to advise you much better that I can. A. will be B. was C. would be D. were16. Which of the following is a stative verb A. Drink B. Close C. Rain D. Belong17. Which of the following italicized parts indicates a subject-verb relationA. The man has a large family to supp

13、ort.B. She had no wish to quarrel with her brother.C. He was the last guest to leave.D. Mary needs a friend to talk to. 18. Which of the following is INCORRECT A. Another tow girls. B. Few words. C. This work. D. A bit of flowers.19. When one has good health, should feel fortunate. A. you B. she C.

14、he D. we20. There nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an end half an hour earlier. A. to be B. to have been C. be D. being21. Bottles from this region sell at about $ 50 a case. A. entirely B. totally C. wholesale D. together22. The product contains no colours, flavours, or preservative

15、s. A. fake B. artificial C. false D. wrong23. and business leaders were delighted at the decision to hold the national motor fair in the city. A. Civil B. Civilized C. Civilian D. Civic24. The city council is planning a huge road-building programme to ease congestion. The underlined part means .A. c

16、alm B. relieve C. comfort D. still25. His unfortunate appearance was offset by an attractive personality. The underlined part means all the following EXCEPT . A. improved B. made up for C. balanced D. compensated for26. The doctor said that the gash in his cheek required ten stitches. The underlined

17、 part means . A. lump B. depression C. swelling D. cut27. During the economic crisis, they had to cut back production and workers.A. lay off B. lay into C. lay down D. lay aside28. To mark its one hundredth anniversary, the university held a series of activities including conferences, film shows, et

18、c. the underlined part means . A. signify B. celebrate C. symbolize D. suggest29. His fertile mind keeps turnning out new ideas. The underlined part means . A. abundant B. unbelievable C. productive D. generative30. These issues were discussed at length during the meeting. The underlined part means

19、. A. eventually B. subsequently C. lastly D. fullyPART IV CLOZE 10 MINDecide which of the words given in the box below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. The words can be used ONCE ONLY. Mark the letter for each word on ANSWER SHEET TWO.A. As B. aimless C. bothe

20、r D. fast E. flights F. helpless G. labor-saving H. levels I. money-saving J. pause K. quite L. stand by M. standstill N. traffic O. trappedElectricity is such a part of our everyday lives and so much taken for granted nowadays that we rarely think twice when we switch on the light or turn on the TV

21、 set. At night, roads are brightly lit, enabling people and (31) to move freely. Neon lighting used in advertising has become part of the character of every modern city. In the home, many (32) devices are powered by electricity. Even when we turn off the bedside lamp and are (33) asleep, electricity

22、 is working for us, driving our refrigerators, heating our water, or keeping our rooms air-conditioned. Every day, trains, buses and subways take us to and from work. We rarely (34) to consider why or how they rununtil something goes wrong. In the summer of 1959, something did go wrong with the powe

23、r-plant that provided New York with electricity. For a great many hours, life came almost to a (35) . trains refused to move and the people in them sat in the dark, powerless to do anything; lifts stopped working, so that even if you were lucky enough not to be between two floors, you had the unplea

24、sant task of finding your way down (37) of stairs. Famous streets like Broadway and Fifth Avenue in an instant became as gloomy and uninviting (38) the most remote back streets. People were afraid to leave their houses, for although the police had been ordered to (39) in case of emergency, they were

25、 just as confused and (40) as anybody else.PART V READING COMPREHENSION 35 MINSECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this section there are several passages followed by ten multiple-choice questions. For each question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that you th

26、ink is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.PASSAGE ONE Inundated by more information that we can possibly hold in our heads, were increasingly handing off the job of remembering to search engines and smart phones. Google is even reportedly working on eyeglasses that could one d

27、ay recognize faces and supply details about whoever youre looking at. But new research shows that outsourcing our memoryand expecting that information will be continually and instantaneously availableis changing our cognitive habits. Research conducted by Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psy

28、chology at Columbia University, has identified three new realities about how we process information in the Internet age. First, her experiments showed that even we dont know the answer to a question, we now think about where we can find the nearest Web connection instead of the subject of the questi

29、on itself. A second revelation is that when we expect to be able to find information again later on, we dont remember it as well as when we think it might become unavailable. And then there is the researchers final observation: the expectation that well be able to locate information down the line le

30、ads us to form a memory not of the fact itself but of where well be able to find it.But this handoff comes with a downside. Skills like critical thinking and analysis must develop in the context of facts: we need something to think and reason about, after all. And these facts cant be Googled as we g

31、o; they need to be stored in the original hard drive, our long-term memory. Especially in the case of children, “factual knowledge must precede skill,” says Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology, at the University of Virginiameaning that the days of drilling the multiplication table and memor

32、izing the names of the Presidents arent over quite yet. Adults, too, need to recruit a supply of stored knowledge in order to situate and evaluate new information they encounter. You cant Google context. Last, theres the possibility, increasingly terrifying to contemplate, that our machines will fail us. As Sparrow puts it, “The experience of losing our Internet connection becomes more and more liking losing a friend.” If youre going to