大学英语四级模拟测试(一)(附答案)

听力（略）

Part II Reading Comprehension

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), and you should decide which is the best choice. (40 points)

Passage 1

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:

The United States is full of automobiles. There are still many families without cars, but some families have two or even more. However, cars are used for more than pleasure. They are necessary part of life.

Cars are used for business. They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to get to their jobs. When salesmen are sent to different parts of the city, they have to drive in order to carry their products. Farmers have to drive into the city in order to get supplies.

Sometimes small children must be driven to school. In some cities school

buses are used only when children live more than a mile from the school. When the children are too young to walk that far, their mothers take turns driving them

to school. One mother drives on Mondays, taking her own children and neighbors' children as well. Another drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesdays, and so on. This is called forming a car pool. Men also form car pools, with three or four men taking turns driving to the place where they all work.

More car pools should be formed in order to put fewer automobiles on the

road and to use less gasoline. Parking is a great problem, and so is the traffic in and around cities. Too many cars are being driven. Something will have to be done about the use of cars.

26. Many families in the U.S. own cars because ________.

A) cars are a source of pleasure for them

B) they need a car to form a car pool

C) they live more than a mile away from the school

D) cars form necessary part in their life

27. Which of the following groups is NOT mentioned though they certainly drive cars?

A) Office workers.

B) Police and mail carriers.

C) Salesmen and farmers.

D) Factory workers.

28. Paragraph 3 suggests that in the United States ________.

A) children have to walk to school

B) school buses take all the children to school

C) mothers drive children to school

D) families usually live within a mile from the school

29. \"A car pool\" most probably means ________.

A) a number of people sharing the use of a car

B) a place for parking cars

C) a group of tourists driving alternatively

D) a place for learning to drive

30. What is the author's advice about the use of cars?

A) To provide larger parking spaces.

B) To build better roads.

C) To produce fewer automobiles.

D) To form more car pools.

Passage 2

Question 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:

Recent fires have destroyed much of Indonesian forests and pose the latest threat to the survival of the endangered orangutans（红毛猿）. Thirty orangutans fleeing their burning forest home have been killed by villagers, who see the animals as crop raiders. Orangutan mothers have been killed so that their young can be captured and sold into the illegal wildlife pet trade. Orangutan experts continue to receive orangutan infants whose mothers have been killed while searching for food in plantations and fields.

The fires, caused by drought and coupled with fire-setting methods to

clear forests, have destroyed more than two million acres. When fire gets into the rainforests' layer of dry peat (partly decayed plant material which covers the soil), it can burn slowly off and on for months or years after the original fire. These fires continue until heavy rainfall soaks the peat through and through. Orangutans

once numbered in the hundreds of thousands, but their population has dropped to roughly 25 000 due to fire, the destruction of forests from felling trees for timber and agriculture, and losses linked to the live-animal trade. Before the fires, only 40 percent of the orangutans' original habitat remained, and now, their habitat has become even smaller.

31. What can be the best title for this passage?

A) Fires Drive Orangutans to Danger.

B) Orangutans Are Precious Animals.

C) Fires in Indonesia Keep on Flaming.

D) Orangutans Endanger the Crops of Indonesia.

32. Which of the following is true about villagers?

A) They set fire in order to kill orangutans for food.

B) They are ignorant of wild life pets trade.

C) They dislike orangutans because they destroy crops.

D) They continue to receive orangutans infants.

33. According to this passage, fires in Indonesia ________.

A) will not end until it starts to rain

B) will be eventually put out by human effort

C) will die out when the winds stop blowing

D) will only stop when the peat is totally wet

34. Some people buy orangutans because ________.

A) they want to save orangutans

B) they want to keep orangutans as pets

C) they want to build new homes for orangutans

D) they want to take care of orangutan infants

35. Which of the following is NOT a reason for the decreasing of orangutans in Indonesia?

A) The forests have been burned to make land for agriculture.

B) Most of orangutans' forests have been destroyed.

C) Mother orangutans have been caught and sold in pet-animal market.

D) Trees have been cut down for human profits.

Passage 3

Question 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:

Don't try kicking the tires on a very modern and strange car developed by

students at Coventry University. Not only does the car have no tires, it has no steering wheel, either.

The Coventry Concept Car, as it is called is a completely new design that

looks more like a snail（蜗牛）than an automobile. No working model, or functional form of the vehicle exists yet, but its designers recently introduced a life-sized model and explained how a real one would work.

Electric motors would move rapidly undulating pad（形成波浪状气垫）

underneath the car; moving the vehicle in any direction at speeds up to 480 km per hour. The motion would be a much faster way of crawling ? the way snails move. (Muscles in the bottom of a snail's flat foot contract（收缩）in waves that push the snail along the ground.)

Steering of the snail car would be handled automatically by an onboard

computer, which would receive signals from orbiting satellites. Those signals

would help guide the snail car along a preprogrammed route.

Even the car's color could be computer-controlled, the student designer

suggested. Instead of a painted out appearance, the snail car would sport an electronically sensitive film that changes color according to its surroundings.

36. The Coventry Concept Car is designed mainly based on ________.

A) the appearance of a snail

B) the movement of a snail

C) the life-size of a snail

D) the behavior of a snail

37. Which of the following is true about the Coventry Concept Car?

A) Its first working model can run at 480 km per hour.

B) Its direction is controlled by a steering wheel.

C) It moves in all directions on a pair of flat feet.

D) It travels automatically along preprogrammed routes.

38. The color of the car can be changed ______.

A) by applying different films onto its exterior

B) automatically in accordance with its surroundings

C) by signals received by the car computer

D) according to the customer's requirement

39. The word \"sport\" in the last but one line most probably means _______.

A) apply

B) wear

C) run

D) notice

40. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?

A) A Car at a Speed of a Snail

B) A Computer-Controlled Electronic Vehicle

C) A Car Without Tires and Steering Wheel

D) A Car with No Functional Form

Passage 4

Question 41 to 45 are based on the following passage:

Have you ever been afraid to talk back when you were treated unfairly? Have you ever bought something just because the salesman talked you into it? Are you afraid to ask someone for a date?

Many people are afraid to assert themselves（坚持自己的权利）. Dr. Alberti, author of Stand Up, Speak Out, and Talk Back, thinks it's because their self-respect is low. \"Our whole set-up is designed to make people distrust themselves,\" says Alberti. \"There's always a 'superior' around: a parent, a teacher, a boss who 'knows better'.\"

But Alberti and other scientists are doing something to help those people

assert themselves. They offer \"Assertiveness Training\" courses ? AT for short. In the AT course people learn that they have a right to be themselves. They learn to speak out and feel good about doing so. They learn to be aggressive without hurting other people.

In one way, learning to speak out is to overcome fear. A group taking an

AT course will help the timid person to lose his fear. But AT uses an even stronger motive ? the need to share. The timid person speaks out in the group because he wants to tell how he feels.

Whether or not you speak up for yourself depends on your self-image. If

someone you face is more \"important\" than you, you may feel less of a person. You start to doubt your own good sense.

You go by the other person's label. But, why should you? AT says you can

get to feel good about yourself. And once you do, you can learn to speak out.

41. The problem the writer talks about is that _______.

A) some people buy things they don't want

B) some people are afraid of arguing for themselves

C) there are too many \"superiors\" around us

D) there is too much pressure from our society

42. The cause of the problem discussed in this passage is that _______.

A) some people have a low self-image

B) there is always someone around who \"knows better\"

C) salesmen talk people into buying things they don't want

D) people don't share opinions in a group

43. The set-up of our society often _______.

A) makes people distrust themselves

B) makes things more favorable for \"superiors\"

C) keeps people from knowing as much as their \"superiors\"

D) helps people to learn to speak up for their rights

44. AT is one solution to the problem in this passage, but one thing AT doesn't promote is to help people ________.

A) to share their feelings

B) to have a right to be oneself

C) to overcome their fear before others

D) to be more aggressive

45. The title for this passage could be ________.

A) Assertiveness Training

B) Loss of Self-respect

C) The Importance of Human Rights

D) Share Your Feelings with Others

Part III Vocabulary and Structure

Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentences. (10 points)

46. Those high school students _____ to computer games will usually lose interest in their studies.

A) absorbed B) addicted C) approached D) adapted

47. What did you put in your suitcase? It's almost _____ mine.

A) four times as heavy as B) four times heavier as C) as four times heavy as D) as heavy as four times

48. In some countries today, it is still illegal for doctors to help a woman have a(n) _____.

A) pregnancy B) abortion C) miscarriage D) embryo

49. Metal _____ when cooled and expands when heated.

A) decreases B) reduces C) condenses D) contracts

50. The employees were afraid to ask for a salary raise _____ they should lose their jobs.

A) lest B) or else C) so that D) in order that

51. There has been a heated controversy over the new traffic _____ forbidding automobiles in downtown during the daytime.

A) laws B) bans C) alerts D) regulations

52. She has won a _____ prize for her poems published in the past 10 years.

A) privileged B) awarded C) prestigious D) rewarded

53. Each man and woman must sign _____ full names before entering the examination room.

A) his B) her C) their D) one's

49. Giving the child problems he can't solve will only ________ him.

A) frustrate B) challenge C) conquer D) press

. It is pleasant to see that the whole community has participated in this environmental action with great _____.

A) validity B) vow C) vigor D) vision

55. As they can't have a child of their own, they're going to _____ a little girl.

A) adapt B) adopt C) adjust D) receive

56. It's no use _____ wit him. You might as well argue with a stone wall.

A) arguing B) of arguing C) in arguing D) to argue

57. The official figures of unemployment revealed that millions of citizens could hardly make a _____ living.

A) honest B) decent C) appropriate D) suitable

58. The company has been found guilty violating copyright laws _____ a regular _____.

A) for ... reason B) by ... way C) on ... basis D) to ... degree

59. Believe it or not, he arrived in America with only 25 dollars _____.

A) by his name B) to his name C) in his name D) with his name

60. _____ is no reason for dismissing her.

A) A few minutes late B) Owing to a few minutes late C) Because she was a few minutes late D) Being a few minutes late

61. I handed in the application two months ago, but I have not received any response _____.

A) in date B) out of date C) to date D) on date

62. In the course of a day our students do far more than just _____ classes.

A) attending B) attended C) to attend D) attend

63. The newspaper didn't mention its secret _____ who provided the information for the event.

A) resource B) source C) origin D) cause

. The clothes a person wears may express his _____ or social position.

A) state B) significance C) determination D) status

65. If I hadn't turned off the power before you touched the wires, you _____

now.

A) wouldn't have smiled B) didn't smile C) wouldn't be smiling D) couldn't have smiled

Part IV Translation

Section A:

Directions: Read the following passage and translate the 5 underlined sentences into Chinese. (5 points)

(66) To be successful at business, you not only have to be good at what you do, but you have to be good at letting others know how good you are at what you do. You have to come up with a plan to get your product or service in the market place. You have to come up with a marketing plan.

(67) This marketing plan involves two parts: you have to figure out who the market is; and you have to make the product or service known to that market. These two work together.

It is a rare case in marketing when a product has appeal to everyone regardless of sex, age, income level or special interests. (68) The more typical case is that a product will appeal to a limited group of people who are willing to put down their hard-earned dollars to buy what you have to sell.

(69) The basic question to keep in mind as you develop your marketing plan is: Who would want to buy the type of product I make and how can I develop it to be saleable to these special people? Once you define your market, you often have to modify your product to fit that market.

Sometimes the answer to this question is clear and logical. Often, however, a business person has to do some research and experimentation to find the answer. (70) Many a business has failed because people didn't consider this obvious but critical question: Who is the market?

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68. ____________________________________________________________________________

69. ____________________________________________________________________________

70. ____________________________________________________________________________

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will translate 5 sentences below into English. (10 points)

71. 一群科学家上周在一次新闻发布会上宣布的克隆计划在全世界引起了轩然大波。

72. 通过对竞争（对手）的分析可获得有关畅销产品的特点、适当的价位和必要的售后服务等方面的宝贵信息。

73. 一些工业国家不顾科学家们发出的紧急警告，仍不愿意大幅度减少对大气层排放的二氧化碳。

74. 诺贝尔奖是每年颁发的国际奖，奖励在物理、化学、医学、文学、和平领域取得的成就。

75. 由于人类活动正在改变地球的气候，全球变暖是我们在21世纪面临的最大的环境问题。

Write a short passage (100~120 words) with the title To Clone Or Not to Clone based on the following outline. (10 points)

1. Human cloning is a controversial issue.

2. Some people believe it is an advance in science and should be made use of to meet people's needs.

3. Others say it is against nature and must be banned.

4. Please state your view and justify it.

To Clone Or Not to Clone

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66. 要想在商业领域获得成功，你不仅精于做生意，还得要让别人知道你精于做生意。

67. 这个营销计划包括两部分：要弄清销售对象；还要让销售对象了解你提供的产品或服务。

68. 更为通常的情况是：一种产品只会对有限的一部分人有吸引力，他们情愿把艰难赚来的钱用来购买你要出售的东西。

69. 在制定营销计划时必须要牢记的一个根本问题是：谁会买我生产的这种产品？我要怎样开发这种产品才能使这些特定人群购买。

70. 不少商家失败的原因就是人们没有考虑这个显而易见的但却是至关重要的问题：谁是销售对象。

71. The cloning plan, announced by a group of scientists at a news conference

last week, has aroused quite a stir in the world.

72. By analyzing the competition, valuable information can be gained on the characteristics of products that will sell well, the appropriate price level and the necessary after-sale service.

73. Despite the urgent warnings of scientists, some industrialized countries are still reluctant in dramatically reducing carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere.

74. The Nobel Prize is the international award given yearly for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace.

75. As human activity is altering the Earth's climate, global warming is the biggest environmental problem that we'll face in the 21st century.