1、15162大英四级模拟题第1套试题15-16-2大英四级模拟题第1套试题2015-2016-2大学英语四级模拟题第一套Part One Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the importance of reading literatur
2、e. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Part II Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, youwill hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be s
3、poken onlyonce. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with asingle line through the centre.Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.1. A) A rocket has been succe
4、ssfully launched. B) There was a rocket hitting the moon. C) A deep dark hole appeared on the moons South Pole. D) There was an amazing finding made by LRO.2. A) Some form of water existed on the moon.B) The water on the moon was as much as in the desert. C) There was a lot of rocket remaining on th
5、e moon surface.D) A large area has been affected by the rocket.Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.3. A) Babies. B) Old men. C) Young men. D) Doctors. C) In winter. D) On a windy day.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each
6、 conversation,you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken onlyonce. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with asingle line through the ce
7、ntre.Conversation OneQuestions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8. A) To make the man feel happy. B) To persuade the man to shop with his kids.C) To convince the man Christmas is worth spending.D) To prevent the man from spending too much shopping.9. A) At a Christmas party.
8、 B) Not long before Christmas. C) At the New Years Eve. D) On some day of April.10. A) Expectation. B) Complaint. C) Enjoyment. D) Indifference.11. A) Paying off Christmas bills. B) Trying to earn more money. C) Preparing for Christmas. D) Limiting his wifes expense.Conversation TwoQuestions 12 to 1
9、5 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12.A) He doesnt feel like doing it. B) He thinks it doesnt suit him. C) It will take too much time. D) It is not funny at all.13.A) Go hill walking. B) Go swimming. C) Go cycling. D) Dine out.14.A) It has existed for a long time. B) It enjoys very
10、good business. C) The owner of the restaurant is an Italian. D) It is located on a busy street.15. A) He cannot get the meal ready so early. B) He didnt want to get a table himself. C) He thinks its too early to have lunch. D) He has to go and see a relative before then.Section CDirections: In this
11、section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hearsome questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you heara question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on
12、Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.A) Cheap clothes. B) Expensive clothes. C) Fashionable clothes. D) Casual clothes.17.A) They enjoy loud music. B) They seldom lose their temper. C) They want to have chi
13、ldren. D) They enjoy modern dances.18. A) The speaker goes to bed very late and her sister gets up early. B) The speakers twin sister often brings friends home and his annoys her. C) The speaker likes to keep things neat while her twin sister doesnt. D) They cant agree on the color of the room and f
14、urniture.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A) The great number of people engaged in cigarette producing. B) The rapid development of cigarette-making machines. C) The rapid development of cigarette-making factories. D) The increasing output of tobacco.20.
15、 A) Forty-three. B) Thirty-one. C) Seventy-five. D) Forty-six.21. A) Income, years of schooling and job type. B) Family background and work environment. C) Education and mood. D) Occupation and influence of family members.22. A) City people smoke less than people living on farms. B) Better-educated
16、men tend to smoke more heavily than other men. C) Better-educated women tend to smoke more heavily than other women. D) A well-paid man is likely to smoke more packs of cigarettes per day.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A) The speed and journey of the
17、 fastest rocket soaring to the sun. B) The brightness of the sun and its distance from the earth. C) The size and heat of the sun compared with other stars. D) The total heat and time a column of ice needs to melt.24. A) 93 million degrees Centigrade. B) 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. C) 10,000 degrees
18、Centigrade. D) Over 2,000 degree Fahrenheit.25. A) The sun casts its light to millions of other stars. B) Most of the suns heat and light are received on the earth. C) More resources from the sun will make the earth even prosperous. D) Appropriate amount of heat and light makes life on the earth pos
19、sible.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word fore each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choi
20、ces. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage. Pearls are valuable w
21、hite gems from the ocean. Actually they are produced by oysters, small shell fish living on the bottom of the ocean. Only some oysters will make pearls. Oysters 26 _ pearls only when they are hurt, or injured, by sand. If a grain of sand enters the oysters shell, it becomes 27 _ because the rough gr
22、ain of sand irritates its 28 _, soft skin. The oyster tries to protect itself by producing a white 29 _ that looks like milk. The oyster covers the sand with a 30 _ fluid which protects itself. Later the white liquid becomes hard and forms a shell, or a bead, around the sand. At this time a pearl is
23、 beginning to 31 _. The white pearl grows slowly inside the oysters shell. Usually, it takes about six or seven years for the oyster to produce a pearl. Of course, not all oysters produce pearls even though most oysters 32 _ take sand into their shells. Only sand which the oyster cannot get rid of w
24、ill 33 _ it. In other words, if an oyster swallows some sand, it will try to split it out. If the oyster cannot get rid of the sand, then it will produce the white fluid to protect itself. 34 _, only about one in a thousand oysters will produce a pearl; fewer than 1 percent.35 _, some pearl manufact
25、urers have discovered how to make oysters produce pearls. These pearl manufacturers such as the Mikimoto Company in Japan try to produce pearls instead of finding them.A) HoweverB) ThereforeC) produceD) hurtE) ActuallyF) roughG) smoothH) liquidI) solidJ) milkyK) formL) irritateM) occasionallyN) comp
26、oseO) harmSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify theparagraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more thanonce. Each paragraph
27、 is marked with a letter. Write the corresponding letter for eachstatement on Answer Sheet 2.No, Seriously: No ExcusesA. In the early days of the education reform movement, a decade or so ago, youd often hear from reformers a powerful rallying cry, No excuses. For too long, they said, poverty had be
28、en used as an excuse by complacent (自满的) educators and bureaucrats who refused to believe that poor students could achieve at high levels. Reform-minded school leaders took the opposite approach, insisting that students in the South Bronx should be held to the same standards as kids in Scarsdale. Am
29、azingly enough, those high expectations often paid off, producing test results at some low-income urban schools that would impress parents in any affluent suburb,B. Ten years later, you might think that reformers would be feeling triumphant. Spurred in part by the Obama administrations Race to the T
30、op initiative, many states have passed laws reformers have long advocated: allowing for more charter schools, weakening teachers tenure (终生职 位) protections, compensating teachers in part based on their students performance. But in fact, the mood in the reform camp seems increasingly anxious and defe
31、nsive.C. Last month, Diane Ravitch, an education scholar who has emerged as the most potent critic of the reform movement, wrote an Op Ed for this newspaper arguing that raising high poverty schools to consistently high levels of proficiency is much more difficult and less common than reformers make it out to be. When politicians hold up specific schools in low income neighborhoods as success stories, Ravitch wrote, those successes often turn out, on closer
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