大学英语四级考试新题型及答案4.docx

1、大学英语四级考试新题型及答案4大学英语四级考试新题型及答案Part I Listening Comprehension ( 20 minutes )Section ADirections: In this section ,you will hear 10 short conversations .At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said .Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once .After

2、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

3、 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 is most likely to have taken place at the office .Therefore ,A)At the office is the best answer .You should choose on the Answer Sheet

4、 and mark it with a single line through the center.A1. A) Go out to work C) Be calm and patientB) Listen carefully to John D) Do the easiest thing2. A) He doesnt like to talk C) He is friendlyB) He is a very kind man D) He is not a pleasant person3. A) The doctor wont see her tomorrowB) The doctor i

5、s busy tomorrowC) The doctor is busy all day todayD) The doctor will see her today4. A) Young people are too quick in making decisionsB) Young people seldom stay long on the same jobC) Young people lose their jobs easilyD) Young people are too eager to succeed5.A) She felt it was tiring. C) She thou

6、ght it took less time.B) She felt it was very nice. D) She thought it was expensive6. A) They are having breakfast C) They are preparing a hot soupB) They are eating some fruit D) They are drinking cold milk7. A) The woman doesnt want to spend Christmas with the man.B) The woman is going home for Ch

7、ristmas.C) The woman has not been invited to the Christmas party.D) The woman is going to spend Christmas abroad.8. A) By car C) By planeB) By bus D) By train9. A) It closes at four on weekdays C ) It isnt open on SundaysB) He doesnt know its business hours D) It is open till four on Sundays10. A) T

8、ennis shoes C) Nothing yetB) Some clothes D) Music recordsSection BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage ,you will hear some question. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once ,After you hear a question, you must choose the best an

9、swer 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 OneQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) In about 20 years C) In a couple of weeksB) Within a week D) As early as po

10、ssible12. A) Yes ,of course C) Not mentionedB) Possibly not D) Definitely not13. A) Her complaint was ignoredB) The store sent her the correct orderC) The store apologized for their mistakeD) The store picked up the wrong itemsPassage 2Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.

11、14. A) The prison gates are always open. C) The prison has no armed guardsB) Its prisoner can work outside D) The prison is open to the public15. A) The prisoners are provided with jobs on releaseB) Its prisoners are seldom made to work overtimeC) It is run on the principle of trusting prisonersD) I

12、t has no security measures16. A) One years C) Thirteen yearsB) Thirteen years D) Fourteen years17. A) Doubtful C) CriticalB) Positive D) IndifferentPassage 3Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.18. A) Its good for training ones character but not good for ones healthB) It c

13、annot prepare pupils to be good citizens.C) It has less effect on a childs character than sports and games.D) Its as important as after-class activities19. A) Because pupils there have to spend most of the time studyingB) Because the school authorities insist on traditional ways of teachingC) Becaus

14、e the school authorities have neglected disciplineD) Because pupils there are too fond of playing20. A) Practical work B) Collective activitiesC) Teachers encouragement D) Book knowledgePart II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Direction: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed b

15、y 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.Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:I believ

16、e very strongly that our overproduction of cheap grain in general, and corn in particular, has a lot to do with the fact that three-fifths of Americans are now overweight. The obesity crisis is complicated in some ways, but its very simple in another way. Basically, Americans are on average eating 2

17、00 more calories a day than they were in the 1970s. If you do that and dont get correspondingly more exercise, youre going to get a lot fatter. Many demographers are predicting that this is the first generation of Americans whose life span may be shorter than their parents. The reason for that is ob

18、esity, essentially, and diabetes specifically.Where do those calories come from? Except for seafood, all our calories come from the farm. Compared with the mid-to-late 1970s, American farms are producing 500 more calories of food a day per American. Were managing to pack away 200 of them, which is p

19、retty heroic on our part. A lot of the rest is being dumped overseas, or wasted, or burned in our cars.Overproduction sooner or later leads to over-consumption, because were very good at figuring out how to turn surpluses into inexpensive, portable new products. Our cheap, value-added, portable corn

20、 commodity is corn sweetener, specifically high-fructose(高糖) corn syrup. But we also dispose of overproduction in corn-fed beef, pork, and chicken. And now were even teaching salmon to eat corn, because theres so much of it to get rid of.There is a powerful industrial logic at work here, the logic o

21、f processing. We discovered that corn is this big, fat packet of starch(淀粉) that can be broken down into almost any basic organic molecules and reassembled as sweeteners and many other food additives. Of the 37 ingredients in chicken nuggets, something like 30 are made, directly or indirectly, from

22、corn.11. Which of the following best summarizes the passage?A. Overproduction of corn products leads to overweight.B. Corn is the most popular portable product in America.C. Corn processing is a powerful industrial logic at work.D. A balanced diet of corn is beneficial to ones life span.12. The word

23、 “obesity”(Line 3, Para. 1) most probably means _.A. having much nutritionB. becoming too fatC. abundance in caloriesD. shortening of life span13. Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. Americans standard of living is relatively low in the 1970s.B. Americans are on average consum

24、ing 200 calories every day.C. Farms are responsible for American over-consumption of calories.D. Diabetes is the unavoidable result of Americans consuming corn.14. Overproduced corn in American farms has been converted to _.A. feed cattle, pigs and poultryB. manufacture automobile componentsC. make

25、artificial beef, pork, and chickenD. become high-fructose low fat products15. The reason why corn can be processed into other food additives is that _.A. it can serve as sweeteners during cookingB. it contains an unparalleled amount of starchC. its basic organic molecules can be broken downD. its ch

26、emical composition can be changed and reorganizedPassage TwoQuestions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:In California the regulators, the utilities and the governor all want the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to cap spot (现货的) market prices. The Californians claim it will rein in out

27、rageous prices. Federal regulators have refused. The battle is on.Governor Gray Davis says, “Im not happy with the Federal Regulatory Commission at all. Theyre living in an ivory tower. If their bills were going up like the people in San Diego, they would know that this is a real problem in the real

28、 world.”As part of deregulation, price caps were removed to allow for a free market. Timing is everything; natural gas prices had already skyrocketed. Demand was high from Californias booming economy. No new power plants had been built here in ten years, and power producers had the right to hike pri

29、ces along with demand. And hike them they did.Loretta Lynch of the Public Utilities Commission says, “This commission and all of California was beating down the door of federal regulators to say help us impose reasonable price caps to help to keep our market stable.”Federal regulators did ask for lo

30、nger-term contracts between power producers and the utilities to stabilize prices. The federal commission, unavailable for comment on this story, released a recent statement defending its position not to re-regulate.Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Dec. 15, 2000: “The commissions intention is to

31、 enable the markets to catch up to current supply and demand problems and not to reintroduce command and control regulation that has helped to produce the current crisis.”Some energy experts believe that, without temporary price caps, the crisis will continue.Severin Borenstein of the U.C. Energy Institute says, “Some federal regulators have a blind commitment to making the market work and I think part of the problem is they really dont understand whats going on.”Gary Ackerman of