最新大学英语四级考试全真模拟试题一和答案

1、最新大学英语四级考试全真模拟试题一和答案Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of To Get along with Your Roommates. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below.1 室友之间的冲突在校园里常有发生2 冲突的主要原因3 室友之间如何和睦相处To Get along with

2、your RoommatePart II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(15minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer sheet 1.For questions 1-7, markY (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passa

3、ge,N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage,NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.For question 8-10,Complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Early Childhood EducationEducation To Be More was published last August

4、 I was the report of the New Zealand Governments Early Childhood Care and Education Working Group. The report argued for enhanced equity(公平) of access and better funding for childcare and early childhood education institutions. Unquestionably, thats a real need; but since parents dont normally send

5、children to preschools.Until the age of three, are we missing out on the most important years of all?A 13 yearStudy of early childhood development at Harvard University has shown that, by the age of three, most children have the potential to understand about 1000 words most of the language they will

6、 use in ordinary conversation for the rest of their lives. Furthermore, research has shown that while every child is born with a natural curiosity, it canbe suppressed dramatically during the second and third years of life. Researchers claim that the human personality is formed during the first two

7、years of life, and during the first three years children learn the basic skills they will use in all their later learning both at home and at school. Once over the age of three, children continue to expand on existing knowledge of the world. It is generally acknowledged that young people from poorer

8、 socioeconomic backgrounds tend to do less well in our education system. Thats observed not just in New Zealand, but also in Australia, Britain and America. In an attempt to overcome that educational underachievement, a nationwide program called Headstart was launched in the United States in 1965. A

9、 lot of money was poured into it. It took children into preschool institutions at the age of three and was supposed to help the children of poorer families succeed in school.Despite substantial funding, results have been disappointing. It is thought that there are twoexplanations for this. First, th

10、e program began too late. Many children who entered it at the age ofthree were already behind their peers in language and measurable intelligence. Second, the parentswere not involved. At the end of each day, Headstart children returned to the same disadvantagedhome environment.As a result of the gr

11、owing research evidence of the importance of the first three years of achilds life and the disappointing results from Headstart, a pilot program was launched inMissouri in the US that focused on parents as the childs first teachers. The Missouri programwas predicated on research showing that working

12、 with the family, rather than bypassing theparents, is the most effective way of helping children get off to the best possible start in life. Thefouryearpilot study included 380 families who were about to have their first child and whorepresented a crosssectionof socioeconomicstatus, age and family

13、configurations (结构). Theyincluded singleparentand twoparentfamilies, families in which both parents worked, andfamilies with either the mother or father at home.The program involved trained parent educators visiting the parents home and working withthe parent, or parents, and the child. Information

14、on child development, and guidance on things tolook for and expect as the child grows were provided, plus guidance in fostering the childsintellectual, language, social and motorskilldevelopment. Periodic checkupsof the childseducational and sensory development (hearing and vision) were made to dete

15、ct possible handicapsthat interfere with growth and development. Medical problems were referred to professionals.Parenteducatorsmade personal visits to homes and monthly group meetings were held withother new parents to share experience and discuss topics of interest. Parent resource centers,located

16、 in school buildings, offered learning materials for families and facilities for child.At the age of three, the children who had been involved in the Missouri program wereevaluated alongside a crosssectionof children selected from the same range of socioeconomicbackgrounds and family situations, and

17、 also a random sample of children that age. The resultswere phenomenal. By the age of three, the children in the program were significantly moreadvanced in language development than their peers, had made greater strides in problem solvingand other intellectual skills, and were further along in socia

18、l development. In fact, the averagechild on the program was performing at the level of the top 15 to 20 per cent of their peers in suchthings as auditory comprehension, verbal ability and language ability.Most important of all, the traditional measures of risk, such as parents age and education, orw

19、hether they were a single parent, bore little or no relationship to the measures of achievementand language development. Children in the program performed equally well regardless ofsocioeconomicdisadvantages. Child abuse was virtually eliminated. The one factor that wasfound to affect the childs dev

20、elopment was family stress leading to a poor quality of parentchildinteraction. That interaction was not necessarily bad in poorer families.These research findings are exciting. There is growing evidence in New Zealand that childrenfrom poorer socioeconomicbackgrounds are arriving at school less wel

21、l developed and that ourschool system tends to perpetuate (使永存) that disadvantage. The initiative outlined above couldbreak that cycle of disadvantage. The concept of working with parents in their homes, or at theirplace of work, contrasts quite markedly with the report of the Early Childhood Care a

22、nd EducationWorking Group. Their focus is on getting children and mothers access to childcare andinstitutionalized early childhood education. Education from the age of three to five is undoubtedlyvital, but without a similar focus on parent education and on the vital importance of the first threeyea

23、rs, some evidence indicates that it will not be enough to overcome educational inequity.1. The skills learned by children at age of three will be used in all their later learning in life.2. The Headstart program finally succeeded in its aim.3. The Missour program supplied many forms of support and t

24、raining to parents.4. Most Missouri program threeyearoldsscored highly in areas such as listening, speaking,reasoning and interacting with others.5. Missouri program children of young, uneducated, single parents scored less highly on thetests.6. The richer families in the Missouri program had higher

25、 stress levels.7. Educational inequity cannot be overcome for children from different family backgrounds.8. The aim of Headstart program is to help children from poor families overcome_.9. The most effective way of helping children get off to the best possible start in life is_.10. The concept of wo

26、rking with parents in their homes contrasts quite markedly with the reportof the Early Childhood Core and _.Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At theend of each conversation, one or more que

27、stions will be asked about what was said. Both theconversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each section there will be apause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decidewhich is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Ans

28、wer Sheet 2 with a singleline through the centre.11. A) To order some medicine for Aunt Margaret.B) To get some exercise.C) To buy some items.D) To see their aunt.12. A) Anyone can do it.B) No one can do it.C) Alex can probably do it.D) Alex probably shouldnt do it.13. A) Tea is better than coffee.B

29、) The man should switch to tea.C) There are two reasons not to drink coffee.D) The man shouldnt drink either.14. A) At a hairdressers. B) At a tailors.C) At a butchers. D) At a photographers.15. A) Angry. B) Tired. C) Hungry. D) Disappointed.16. A) She would like some soup.B) Shes inviting the man t

30、o lunch.C) She wants to know if the man likes chicken.D) She ate lunch earlier.17. A) Very few people come to it.B) A good name hasnt been found for it.C) People dont like climbing the stairs to get there.D) She has decided to phone the ticket office.18. A) It was designed by modern artists.B) It wi

31、ll color black and white prints.C) Its merchandise must be carefully sorted through.D) Its best selection is of modern art prints.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) A class presentation theyre preparing.B) A television program the man is watching.C) Visiting

32、a close fiend of theirs.D) Studying for a test.20. A) Hes taking a break from studying.B) He has already finished studying.C) He was assigned to watch a program by his professor.D) Hes finding out some information for a friend.21. A) He didnt know that she was enrolled in a mathematic course.B) He t

33、hought she preferred to study alone.C) He thought she had made arrangements to study withD) He had told her that he had done poorly on a recent test.22. A) He and Elizabeth argued recently.B) He heard Elizabeth did poorly on the last test.C) He doesnt want to bother Elizabeth so late in the evening.

34、D) Hed rather study in his own dormitory.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. A) They look darker.B) They look smaller.C) They look clearer.D) They look cloudier.24. A) It stops working.B) It becomes sharper.C) It confuses odors.D) It defects fewer odors.25. A) Th

35、ey both have leg injuries.B) Theyre too tired to walk any farther.C) They have no umbrella with them.D) Theyve seen no signs to give them directions.Section B:Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you willhear some questions. Both the passage and th

36、e questions will be spoken only once. After youhear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) andD). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through thecentre.Passage OneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have jus

37、t heard.26. A) To do as much as you can.B) To do only what is necessary.C) To act carefully and quickly.D) To do what is necessary as carefully and quickly as possible.27. A) Leave him lying where he is.B) Do as much as you can to save him.C) Put his arms and legs in place.D) Roll him up in a blanke

38、t.28. A) Stop the flow of blood if the person is bleeding.B) Perform the operation whenever necessary.C) Do artificial respiration if the person has stopped breathing.D) Do the best you can until a doctor arrives.Passage TwoQuestions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.29. A) A few

39、 inches above the knee.B) A little below the knee.C) Down to the ankle.D) Floorlength.30. A) Boots. B) Sneakers. C) Slippers. D) Leather shoes.31. A) Fashions change overtime.B) Men are thriftier than women.C) Skirts and shoes are more important than other clothing.D) Some clothing may suit all occa

40、sions.Passage ThreeQuestions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.32. A) Energy conservation.B) Transportation of the future.C) Strip cities.D) Advantages of air transportation over railroads.33. A) A lack of available flights.B) Long delays at the airport.C) Tiredness on long fligh

41、ts.D) Long trips to and from airports.34. A) It uses nuclear energy.B) It rests on a cushion of pressurized air.C) It flies over magnetically activated tracks.D) It uses a device similar with engine35. A) They are subject to fires.B) They become less fuelefficient.C) They produce too much noise.D) T

42、hey have trouble staying on the tracks.Section C:Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for thefirst time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for thesecond time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbere

43、d from 36 to 43 with the exactwords you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in themissing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heardor write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read fo

44、r thethird time, you should check what you have written.Doctors are starting to believe that laughter not only improves your state of mind, butactually affects your entire physical wellbeing.Britains first (36) _ therapist, RobertHolden says: “Instinctively we know that laughing help us feel healthy

45、 and alive. Each time welaugh we feel better and more (37) _.”A French newspaper found that in 1930 the French laughed on average for nineteen minutesper day. By 1980 this had fallen to six minutes. Eight per cent of the people (38) _ saidthat they would like to laugh more. Other (39) _ suggests tha

46、t children laugh on averageabout 400 times a day, but by the time they reach (40) _ this had been (41) _to about fifteen times. Somewhere in the process of growing up we lose an (42) _ 385laughs a day.William Fry, a psychiatrist from California studied the (43) _of laughter on thebody. He got patien

47、ts to watch funny films, and monitored their blood pressure, heart rate andmuscle tone. He found that laughter has a similar effect to physical exercise. (44) _. It alsomakes our facial and stomach muscles work. Fry thinks laughter is a type of jogging on the spot.Laughter can even provide a kind of

48、 pain relief. Fry had proved that laughter producesendorphinschemicalsin the body that relieve pain. Researchers divided forty university studentsinto four groups. The first group listened to a funny cassette for twenty minutes. The other threegroups (45) _. Researchers found that if theyproduce pai

49、n in the students, (46) _. Some doctors are convinced thathumor should be a part of every medical consultation, as there is evidence to suggest that laughterstimulates the immune system.Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a pass

50、age with ten blanks. You are requested to select oneword for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Readthe passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank isidentified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each ite

51、m on Answer Sheet 2with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank morethan once.Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.For many environmentalists, the world seems to be getting worse. They have developed ahitlistof our main fears: natural resources

52、 are 47 ; the population is ever growing,leaving less and less to eat; species are becoming 48 in vast numbers, and the planetsair and water are becoming ever more polluted.But a quick look at the facts shows a different picture. First, energy and other naturalresources have become more 49 not less

53、so, since the book The Limits to Growth waspublished in 1972 by a group of scientists. Second, more food is now produced per 50 ofthe worlds population than at any time in history. Fewer people are 51 . Third, althoughspecies are indeed becoming extinct, only about 0.7% of them are expected to disap

54、pear in thenext 50 years, not 2550%, as has so often been 52 . And finally, most forms ofenvironmental pollution either appear to have been 53 , or are transient associated withthe early stages of industrialization and therefore best cured not by restricting economic growth,but by 54 it. One form of

55、 pollution the release of greenhouse gases that causes globalwarming does appear to be a phenomenon that is going to extend well into our future, but itstotal impact is unlikely to 55 a devastating (令人心神不安的) problem. A biggerproblem may well turn out to be an inappropriate response to it.Yet opinion

56、 polls suggest that many people nurture the belief that environmental standardsare declining and some factors seem to cause this disjunction between 56 and reality.A) pose I) starvingB) exaggerated J) headC) accelerating K) runningD) extinct L) predictedE) exist M) abundantF) perception N) conceptionG) wealthy O) reducingH) magnifiedSection BDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions orunfinished statements. For each of them there