2022年长喜英语大学四级考试模拟试题答案及录音文本.doc

长喜英语大学四级考试模拟试题

答案及录音文本

答案
Part I Writing
范文略
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
1. A) 2.D) 3. D) 4. B) 5. D) 6. C) 7. B)
8. too dangerous or too costly
9. restrict enrollment
10. half / 50%

Part III Listening Comprehension
Section A
11. B) 12. C) 13. A) 14. D) 15. B) 16. D) 17. A) 18. B)
19. D) 20. A) 21. A) 22. C) 23. C) 24. D) 25. A)
Section B
26. C) 27. A) 28. D) 29. D) 30. A) 31. B) 32. C) 33. D) 34. A) 35. B)
Section C
36. challenge
37. capable
38. reason
39. increase
40. performing
41. automatically
42. satisfaction
43. consequence
44. Either way, the reasons need to be strong enough to move you into action
45. you will need to start designing a more compelling future for yourself
46. When you have a strong purpose and constantly feed your mind with self-improvement motivation
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Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Section A
47. M) 48. H) 49. A) 50. I) 51. N) 52. G) 53. F) 54. D) 55. L) 56. B)
Section B
57. C) 58.D) 59. C) 60. A) 61. D) 62. B) 63. C) 64. C) 65. A) 66. D)

Part V Cloze
67. A) 68. C) 69. D) 70. B) 71. A) 72. C) 73. B) 74. B) 75. C) 76. C)
77. D) 78. D) 79. B) 80. D) 81. A) 82. B) 83. A) 84. A) 85. D) 86. C)
Part VI Translation
87. keep pace with the increasing / rising prices
88. would have telephoned / phoned / called him
89. before they could sign the contract
90. the more likely you will pass the exam
91. the audience couldn’t help yawning

录音文本
Section A
11. M: Please reconsider — what have you got against keeping a dog for a month?
W: You know I’d like to help. But it’s just that dogs are a lot more trouble than they’re worth.
Q: What is the woman most probably going to do?

12. M: You’re not looking very cheerful. What’s the matter with you?
W: Oh, nothing special. I’m just a bit fed up.
Q: What do we learn about the woman?

13. W: I can’t believe the school could have a power out just before our finals. How are we ever going to begin our exams?
M: Don’t worry. It’ll be postponed till Thursday.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

14. W: You lined up for concert tickets on Sunday, didn’t you? Were there a lot of people?
M: Were there? I just wish I’d brought a book to fill my time.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

15. W: How do you like the coat I bought at the big Thanksgiving sale yesterday?
M: Oh, I can’t like it better! The color is perfect for people of all ages.
Q: What does the man mean?

16. W: I thought of going for a bite but nothing seems to be open.
M: Oh, that’s because it’s after 12. Why don’t you follow me and I’ll show you one that’s open all hours?
Q: What does the man suggest they should do?

17. W: I’m not sure whether Professor Brown’s test will cover the second part of the course or not.
M: Well, from what’s been going around, perhaps you shouldn’t throw these notes away quite yet.
Q: What can we infer from the conversation?

18. M: Could you please tell me what Mr. Smith asked us to do? You see I was absent last time.
W: Well, he gave us a special assignment on the influence of advertisement.
Q: What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?

Now you will hear the two long conversations.
Conversation One
M: Can you tell me about the university shuttle bus system? This is such a large campus, and I have classes all over the campus. I need to take the shuttle bus from one class to another, or I’ll never make it on time.
W: What do you need to know? I think it’s a really great system.
M: First of all, where does it go?
W: The university shuttle bus system goes all over campus. It doesn’t leave the campus; if you want to travel off campus, you’ll need to take the city bus system. But the university shuttle bus system will get you from one class to the next very efficiently.
M: And how much does it cost?
W: It’s free. Can you believe it? So you don’t have to pay a cent to get all around the university campus.
M: That’s really great. And how do I catch the shuttle bus?
W: Just look for one of the bright yellow shuttle bus signs, and go stand next to it. You can see the yellow shuttle bus signs all over campus. A shuttle bus will come along approximately every five minutes, so you shouldn’t have to wait long.
M: That all sounds good. Thanks for your help.
W: No problem.
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
19. What are the man and woman discussing?
20. What area does the university shuttle bus cover?
21. How much does the shuttle bus cost?
22. What color are the shuttle bus signs?

Conversation Two
W: Good morning, Doctor Sherman Alexie. Let’s talk about your life. Where do you come from?
M: I come from the Rez, an Indian reservation. I grew up there, lived there until 18. I lived on and off the reservation for the next 6 or 7 years during college. I left there after I graduated, worked at a high school exchange program. I thought I do that kind of job to support my writing. Day jobs that require no emotional investment beyond 8 hours a day where I wouldn’t need to bring work home. I didn’t want to be part of management or anybody important at the job. I wanted to be completely replaceable, that is what I thought I would be doing for most of my life and writing. Then I got a ground and my first book got a front-page review in the New York Times Book Review.
W: When did writing enter your life?
M: Books are always being in my life. My dad love books and most of what he read were westerners’ spy novels, mysteries. I grew up loving books, copying my father’s love for books. But nobody has showed me a book written by an Indian, not even one piece of poem. Nothing. At that time I was going to be a physician. I loved math and science. I got to college, couldn’t handle physiology, and was looking around for options and took a poetry-writing class for fun.
W: Poetry was your way in?
M: Yes, that’s where I started. I took the class and honestly, I just thought it would be an easy grade. But I completely underestimated poetry and what it would do to me and the realm of possibility for it. I took the class and was hooked about ten minutes after reading my first contemporary poem.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
23. Why did Sherman Alexie only take day jobs?
24. What was his original goal at college?
25. Why did he take the poetry-writing class?

Section B
Passage One
Getting rid of dirt, in the opinion of most people, is a good thing. However, there is nothing fixed about attitudes to dirt.
In the early 16th century, people thought that dirt on the skin was a means to block out disease, as medical opinion had it that washing off dirt with hot water could open up the skin and let ills in. A particular danger was thought to lie in public baths. By 1538, the French king had closed the bath houses in his kingdom. So did the king of England in 1546. Thus began a long time when the rich and the poor in Europe lived with dirt in a friendly way. Henry IV, King of France, was famously dirty. Upon learning that a nobleman had taken a bath, the king ordered that, to avoid the attack of disease, the nobleman should not go out.
Though the belief in the merit of dirt was long-lived, dirt has no longer been regarded as a nice neighbor ever since the 18th century. Scientifically speaking, cleaning away dirt is good to health. Clean water supply and hand washing are practical means of preventing disease. Yet, it seems that standards of cleanliness have moved beyond science since World War Ⅱ. Advertisements repeatedly sell the idea; clothes need to be whiter than white, cloths ever softer, surfaces to shine. Has the hate of dirt, however, gone too far?
Attitudes to dirt still differ hugely nowadays. Many first-time parents nervously try to warn their children off touching dirt, which might be responsible for the spread of disease. On the contrary, Mary Ruebush, an American scientist, encourages children to play in the dirt to build up a strong immune system. And the latter position is gaining some ground.
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. Why did the kings of France and England in the 16th century close bath houses?
27. What’s Henry IV’s attitude to bathing?
28. What is the purpose of the speaker’s talk?

Passage Two
There was a gardener who looked after his garden with great care. To water his flowers, he used two buckets. One was a shiny and new bucket. The other was a very old and worn-out one, which had seen many years of service, but was now past its best.
Every morning, the gardener would fill up the two buckets. Then he would carry them along the path, one on each side, to the flowerbeds. The new bucket was very proud of itself. It could carry a full bucket of water without a single drop spilled. The old bucket felt very ashamed because of its holes: before it reached the flowerbeds, much water had leaked along the path.
Sometimes the new bucket would say, “See how capable I am! How good it is that the gardener has me to water the flowers every day! I don’t know why he still bothers with you. What a waste of space you are!”
And all that the old bucket could say was, “I know I am not very useful, but I can only do my best. I am happy that the gardener still finds a little bit of use in me, at least.”
One day, the gardener heard that kind of conversation. After watering the flowers as usual, he said, “You both have done your work very well. Now I am going to carry you back. I want you to look carefully along the path.”
Then the two buckets did so. All along the path, they noticed, on the side where the new bucket was carried, there was just bare earth; on the other side where the old bucket was carried, there was a joyous row of wild flowers, leading all the way to the garden.
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29. What was the old bucket ashamed of?
30. What was the new bucket’s main purpose of making conversations with the old one?
31. Why was the old bucket still kept by the gardener?

Passage Three
Arthur Miller (1915-) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Miller’s father had moved to the USA from Austria Hungary, drawn like so many others by the “Great American Dream”. However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early l930s.
Millers’s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with his worth. Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment: if he can’t do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.
When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics’Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for a Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards.
Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10,,the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32. Why did Arthur Miller’s father move to the USA?
33. What does the speaker say about the play Death of a Salesman?
34. What do we learn about Death of a Salesman after it was first staged?
35. What is the passage mainly about?

Section C
Self-motivation is basically the ability to get yourself to take action whether you feel like it or not. Many people have a (36) challenge when it comes to motivation in general. It can be seen as being lazy or unproductive, but in actuality, no one is really lazy. If you are not (37) capable of getting yourself to do certain things that you know you should be doing, it’s because you don’t have a strong enough (38) reason to do it.
What can you do to help (39) increase your self-motivation? One thing you can do is to start giving yourself stronger reasons to be (40) performing certain things such as taking action towards your goals. Once you have a goal and strong enough reasons to take action, your self-motivation will (41) automatically start to increase. Your reasons can be both positive and negative. You can either do something because you want to get (42) satisfaction out of completing a task or you want to avoid the (43) consequence of not completing the task. (44) Either way, the reasons need to be strong enough to move you into action.
The bottom line is that if you want to increase your self-motivation, (45) you will need to start designing a more compelling future for yourself. Come up with powerful reasons why you should take action. (46) When you have a strong purpose and constantly feed your mind with self-improvement motivation material, you will start to become more and more powerful and will begin to take more action.