2023年四级模拟卷.doc

四级模拟卷6
Part I 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 environmental protection. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After 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 Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
1. A) By seeking information from the interviewers.
B) By acting out the role again and again at home.
C) By playing an active role in the interview.
D) By working hard to understand the role.
2. A) He is always optimistic about everything.
B) He is extremely careful in his diet.
C) He sees his doctor as soon as he falls ill.
D) He takes a lot of exercise every day.
3. A) The man is interviewing the woman for a job.
B) The two speakers first met each other eight years ago.
C) The two speakers once taught in the same college.
D) The woman is qualified for her job as a teacher.
4. A) Walk the dog every one week or two.
B) Try to overcome her own depression.
C) Be at ease with her pet dog.
D) Bring her pet dog to the countryside.
5. A) She is hosting a radio program.
B) She is at an interview for a job.
C) She is interviewing the man.
D) She works as an engineer.
6. A) People will feel happy when daydreaming.
B) People should not daydream at any time.
C) Daydreaming does more good than harm for most people.
D) Hard work is the key to accomplishing goals.
7. A) The man has a job related to dress design.
B) Both of the speakers went to the Oscar ceremony.
C) Stars had a chance to show off at the ceremony.
D) The man was involved in the ceremony.
8. A) He was stuck in heavy traffic.
B) He was away from home a little late.
C) He gave aid to a man in need of help.
D) He got involved in a serious accident.
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
9. A) She wants to ask some information about Bali.
B) She wants to find an assistant from the agency.
C) She wants some advice on vacation.
D) She calls to confirm her reservation.
10. A) The couple can enjoy a cool summer there.
B) It will cost the woman the least.
C) It is an excellent place for newly-married couple.
D) The couple won't be interrupted by terrible weather.
11. A) They can enjoy a well-planned trip.
B) They can get the accurate price of travel immediately.
C) They can enjoy a happy vacation.
D) They can know a lot about the native customs.
12. A) Pay for it right away.
B) Provide the credit card number.
C) Confirm her personal information.
D) Promise in words.
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
13. A) She is unwilling to go on the business trip.
B) She is not well prepared for her seminar yet.
C) She doesn’t know how to apply for a corporate card.
D) She doesn’t have experience in business negotiation.
14. A) It will have to be paid by the woman herself.
B) It will be limited to a maximum per day.
C) Items with receipt will be paid by the company.
D) It can be paid by using the corporate card.
15. A) Stay at home waiting for further notice.
B) Fill in a form to get a corporate card.
C) Keep in mind what the man has told her.
D) Make sure her work will be handled properly.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A) The lack of courage in his career.
B) The fact that he was a villager.
C) The experience that made him isolated.
D) The life that he led in a crowded city.
17. A) He was more intelligent than others.
B) He had closer touch with the river.
C) He was quite ambitious at young age.
D) He was cut off from the outside world.
18. A) It is connected with poverty and hunger.
B) It is well known for the poetic beauty.
C) It has great reputation for its great poets.
D) It is full of hopes and opportunities.
19. A) It is something inherited from ancestors.
B) It reminds him of childhood memories.
C) It concerns the daily life of the village.
D) It provides the material for his writing.
Passage Two
Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
20. A) They are more direct than Britons.
B) They are more responsible for their lives.
C) They often look down upon losers.
D) They work too much but get too little.
21. A) Feel disappointed rather than excited.
B) Never celebrate success too soon.
C) Be more confident of their actions.
D) Celebrate success immediately.
22. A) Traditions in English speaking countries.
B) Characteristics of American people.
C) The humor of British people.
D) Differences between Americans and Britons.
Passage Three
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
23. A) Its genetic advantage.
B) Its cultural factors.
C) Its better diet.
D) Its universal health care.
24. A) They are overtaken by Swede in longevity.
B) They still have the longest life span.
C) Most Japanese youngsters quit smoking.
D) Japanese pay attention to their health.
25. A) The worsening lifestyle.
B) More aging population.
C) Ineffective health care programs.
D) Natural disasters recently.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Last year, Christmas was the biggest single day for e-book sales by HarperCollins. And (26)___________ are that this year’s Christmas Day total will be even higher, given the extremely strong sales of e-readers like the Kindle and the Nook. Amazon (27)___________ that it had sold one million of its Kindles in each of the three previous weeks. But we can also guess that the number of visitors to the e-book sections of public libraries’ websites is about to (28)___________, too. And that is a (29)___________ of great worry for publishers. In their eyes, borrowing an e-book from a library has been too easy. It is worried that people will (30)___________ to borrow an e-book from a library rather than buy it. Almost all major publishers in the United States now block libraries’ (31)___________ the e-book form of either all of their titles or their most recently published ones. Borrowing a printed book from the library imposes an (32)___________ upon its patrons. “You have to walk or drive to the library, and then walk or drive tack to return it,” says Maja Thomas, a senior vice president of the Hachettte Book Group. And print copies don’t last forever, and the ones that are much (33)___________ will have to be replaced. “Selling one copy that could be lent out an infinite number of times with no friction is not a (34)___________ business model for us,” Ms. Thomas says. E-lending is not without some friction. Software (35)___________ that only one patron can read an e-book copy at a time, and people who see a long waiting list for a certain title may decide to buy it instead.

Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. 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 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
Getting a university degree isn’t just good for your mind—it’s good for your heart, says a new study in the journal BMC (British Medical Council) Public Health. The longer you spend in education, the lower your blood pressure is likely to be. This is (36)___________ true for women.
Scientists from the US, Canada, UK and Australia examined 30 years of (37)___________ from 3 890 people who were being followed as part of the Framingham Offspring Study, which (38)___________ the education and medical histories of 3 890 people. Researchers divided subjects into three groups, low education (12 years or less), (39)___________ education (13 to 16 years) and high education (17 years or more). They then (40)___________ the average Systolic(收缩) blood pressure for the 30-year period.
Women with low education had a blood pressure 3. 26 mmHg higher than those with a high (41)___________ of education. In men the difference was 2. 26 mmHg. Lead author Erie Loucks, assistant professor of (42)___________ health at Brown University, said the analysis may (43)___________ a well-known association in the developed world between education and heart disease. Uneducated people tend to (44)___________ up in demanding jobs that give workers little control, which have been associated with high blood pressure, said researchers. The effect is greater in women, said Loucks, because “women with (45)___________ education are more likely to be experiencing depression, they are more likely to be single parents, more likely to be living in impoverished areas and more likely to be living below the poverty line.”
A) tracked I) pressure
B) explain J) community
C) data K) strangely
D) life L) end
E) level M) middle
F) calculated N) study
G) essential O) particularly
H) less

Section B
Directions: 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 the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
How Should Teachers Be Rewarded?
A) We never forget our best teachers—those who inspired us with a deeper understanding or an enduring passion, the ones we come back to visit years after graduating, the educators who opened doors and altered the course of our lives.
B) It would be wonderful if we knew more about such talented teachers and how to multiply their number. How do they come by their craft? What qualities and capacities do they possess? Can these abilities be measured? Can they be taught? Perhaps above all: How should excellent teaching be rewarded so that the best teachers—the most competent, caring and compelling—remain in a profession known for low pay and low status?
C) Such questions have become critical to the future of public education in the U.S. Even as politicians push to hold schools and their faculty members responsible as never before for student learning, the nation faces a shortage of teaching talent. About 3.2 million people teach in U.S. public schools, but, according to an estimate made by economist William Hussar at the National Center for Education Statistics, the nation will need to recruit an additional 2.8 million over the next eight years owing to baby-boomer retirement, growing student enrollment and staff turnover(人员调整)—which is especially rapid among new teachers. Finding and keeping high-quality teachers are key to America’s competitiveness as a nation. Recent test results show that U.S. 10th-graders ranked just 17th in science among peers from 30 nations, while in math they placed in the bottom five. Research suggests that a good teacher is the single most important factor in boosting achievement, more important than class size, the dollars spent per student or the quality of textbooks and materials.
D) Across the country, hundreds of school districts are experimenting with new ways to attract, reward and keep good teachers. Many of these efforts borrow ideas from business. They include signing bonuses for hard-to-fill jobs like teaching high school chemistry, housing allowances and what might be called combat pay for teachers who commit to working in the most distressed schools. But the idea gaining the most motivation—and controversy—is merit pay, which attempts to measure the quality of teachers’ work and pay teachers accordingly.
E) Traditionally, public-school salaries are based on years spent on the job and college credits earned, a system favored by unions because it treats all teachers equally. Of course, everyone knows that not all teachers are equal. Just witness how hard parents try to get their kids into the best classrooms. And yet there is no universally accepted way to measure competence, much less the great charm of a truly brilliant educator. In its absence, policy-makers have focused on that current measure of all things educational: student test scores. In districts across the country, administrators are devising systems that track student scores back to the teachers who taught them in an attempt to assign credit and blame and, in some cases, target help to teachers who need it. Offering bonuses to teachers who raise student achievement, the theory goes, will improve the overall quality of instruction, retain those who get the job done and attract more highly qualified candidates to the profession—all while lifting those all-important test scores.
F) Such efforts have been encouraged by the government, which in started a program that awards $99 million a year in grants to districts that link teacher compensation to raising student test scores. Merit pay has also become part of the debate in Congress over how to improve the No Child Left Behind Act. Last summer, Barack Obama signed merit pay at a meeting o