[外语类试卷]国家公共英语（四级）笔试模拟试卷249及答案与解析.doc

1、国家公共英语（四级）笔试模拟试卷 249及答案与解析 PART A Directions: For Questions 1-5, you will hear a conversation. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you have heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twi

2、ce. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. 1 PART B Directions: For Questions 6-10, you will hear a passage. Use not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and the questions below. 6 PART C Directions: You will he

3、ar three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear eac

4、h piece ONLY ONCE. 11 Why Sonora Louise Smart Dodd wanted to celebrate Fathers Day? _ （ A） Because she thought man and woman should be equal. （ B） Because the president Washington asked her to do so. （ C） Because she wanted to show respect to her father who brought up six children. （ D） Because she

5、could not celebrate Mothers Day. 12 What day did Sonora choose as Fathers Day? _ （ A） June 19th. （ B） the third Sunday in June. （ C） the second Sunday in June. （ D） June 13th. 13 Which president in the United States establish Fathers Day as a permanent national observance? _ （ A） George Washington.

6、（ B） Calvin Coolidge. （ C） Richard Nixon. （ D） Lybdon Johnson. 14 Which of the following is covered in BCD International programs? _ （ A） interviews with radio producers. （ B） a large variety of pop songs. （ C） news from the music library. （ D） stories about the good old days. 15 Which program gives

7、 us the ideas behind the pop songs?_ （ A） The History of Pop. （ B） The Road to Music. （ C） Pop Words. （ D） About the Big Hits. 16 For native speakers understanding English pop songs is_. （ A） effortless （ B） impossible （ C） difficult （ D） unnecessary 17 What does Professor Morgan do? （ A） He is a fi

8、lm director of Science Fiction. （ B） He is a writer of Science Fiction. （ C） He is a scientist who researches on how to freeze a body and bring it back to life later. （ D） He is a doctor who treats terminal illnesses. 18 According to Professor Morgan, what enables animals to freeze themselves? （ A）

9、A certain chemical in their bodies. （ B） The change of certain circumstances around them. （ C） A certain temperature. （ D） A certain season in the year. 19 How long will Professor Morgan be able to freeze human beings for as long or as short a time as he would like to? （ A） About ten years. （ B） Abo

10、ut two years. （ C） About twenty years. （ D） About thirteen years. 20 What is true about the application of Professor Morgans research? （ A） It .can be used to prolong everyones life. （ B） It can help find cures for terminal illnesses. （ C） It can cure cancer and Aids. （ D） It can help freeze people

11、with terminal illnesses and bring them back to life when the cure appears. 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. 20 College sports in the United States are a huge deal. Almo

12、st all major American universities have football, baseball, basketball and hockey programs, and 21 millions of dollars each year to sports. Most of them earn millions 22 as well, in television revenues, sponsorships. They also benefit 23 from the added publicity they get via their teams. Big-name un

13、iversities 24 each other in the most popular sports. Football games at Michigan regularly 25 crowds of over 90,000. Basketballs national collegiate championship game is a TV 26 on a par with (与 相同或相似 ) any other sporting event in the United States, 27 perhaps the Super Bowl itself. At any given time

14、 during fall or winter one can 28 ones TV set and see the top athletic programs from schools like Michigan, UCLA, Duke and Stanford 29 in front of packed houses and national TV audiences. The athletes themselves are 30 and provided with scholarships. College coaches i-dentify 31 teenagers and then g

15、o into high schools to 32 the countrys best players to attend their universities. There are strict rules about 33 coaches can recruit no recruiting calls after 9 p. m. , only one official visit to a campus but they are often bent and sometimes 34 . Top college football programs 35 scholarships to 20

16、 or 30 players each year, and those student-athletes, when they arrive 36 campus, receive free housing, tuition, meals, books, etc. In return, the players 37 the program in their sport. Football players at top colleges 38 two hours a day, four days a week from January to April. In summer, its back t

17、o strength and agility training four days a week until mid-August, when camp 39 and preparation for the opening of the September-to-December season begins 40 . During the season, practices last two or three hours a day from Tuesday to Friday. Saturday is game day. Mondays are an officially mandated

18、day of rest. （ A） attribute （ B） distribute （ C） devote （ D） attach （ A） out （ B） by （ C） in （ D） back （ A） directly （ B） indirectly （ C） apart （ D） indirect （ A） compete for （ B） compete in （ C） compete against （ D） compete over （ A） draw （ B） amuse （ C） govern （ D） handle （ A） spectator （ B） spect

19、acle （ C） spectrum （ D） spectacles （ A） save （ B） saving （ C） saved （ D） to save （ A） flip on （ B） flap at （ C） fling away （ D） flush out （ A） battle （ B） to battle （ C） battling （ D） battled （ A） recruited （ B） reconciled （ C） rectified （ D） reserved （ A） promising （ B） pleasing （ C） prominent （ D）

20、 professional （ A） contrive （ B） convince （ C） convert （ D） convict （ A） which （ B） what （ C） how （ D） whether （ A） ignored （ B） neglected （ C） remembered （ D） noticed （ A） offer （ B） afford （ C） award （ D） reward （ A） in （ B） on （ C） at （ D） around （ A） commit themselves to （ B） commit themselves o

21、n （ C） commute themselves to （ D） comply themselves to （ A） work in （ B） work out （ C） work over （ D） work off （ A） recalls （ B） enlists （ C） convenes （ D） collects （ A） in principle （ B） in confidence （ C） in name （ D） in earnest Part B Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the question

22、s below each text by choosing A, B, C or D . Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 40 To understand how astrology works, we should first take a quick look at the sky. Although the stars are at enormous distances, they do indeed give the impression of being affixed to the inner surface of a great holl

23、ow sphere surrounding the earth. Ancient people, in fact, literally believed in the existence of such a celestial sphere. As the earth spins on its axis, the celestial sphere appears to turn about us each day, pivoting at points on a line with the earths axis of rotation. This daily turning of the s

24、phere carries the stars around the sky, causing most of them to rise and set, but they, and constellations they define, maintains fixed patterns on the sphere, just as the continent of Australian maintains its shape on a spinning globe of the earth. Thus the stars were called fixed stars. The motion

25、 of the sun along the ecliptic is, of course, merely a reflection of the revolution of the earth around the sun, but the ancients believed the earth was fixed and the sun had an independent motion of its own, eastward among the stars. The glare of sunlight hides the stars in daytime, but the ancient

26、s were aware that the stars were up there even at night, and the slow eastward motion of the sun around the sky, at the rate of about thirty degrees each month, caused different stars to be visible at night at different times of the year. The moon, revolving around the earth each month, also has an

27、independent motion in the sky. The moon, however, changes it position relatively rapidly. Although it appears to rise and set each day, as does nearly everything else in the sky, we can see the moon changing position during as short an interval as an hour or so. The moons path around the earth lies

28、nearly in the same plane as the earths path around the sun, so the moon is never seen very far from the ecliptic in the sky. There are five other objects visible to the naked eye that also appear to move in respect to the fixed background of stars on the celestial sphere. These are the planets Mercu

29、ry, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and the Saturn. All of them revolve around the sun in nearly the same plane as the earth does, so they, like the moon, always appear near the ecliptic. Because we see the planets from the moving earth, however, they behave in a complicated way, with their apparent motions o

30、n the celestial sphere reflecting both their own independent motions around the sun and our motion as well. 41 The ancient people believed that_. （ A） the earth was spinning on the axis of the sky （ B） the sky was a hollow sphere spinning around the earth （ C） the patterns of stars on the sky would

31、never change （ D） the stars around the sky were not stationary 42 Which of the following is true about the motion of the moon? （ A） The moon and the sun are moving in the same plane. （ B） The moon revolves along the ecliptic. （ C） The moon moves faster than the sun. （ D） The position of the moon can

32、 be found changed in an hours time. 43 It is stated in astrology that_. （ A） the sun is so distant from us that it is hard to follow its motion （ B） the sun is moving westward around the sky （ C） the motion of the sun is at the rate of about thirty degrees every week （ D） the motion of the sun is si

33、milar to the revolution of the earth around the sun 44 All the other five planets_. （ A） always appear near the path of the sun （ B） are moving in a way more complicated than the earth does （ C） arent moving around the sun as independently as the earth does （ D） are moving around the sun at the same

34、 speed as the earth does 45 According to the passage which of the following is true? （ A） A fixed star refers a star that is always stationary on the sky. （ B） Scientists can tell the motion of the earth from the motions of other five planets. （ C） Ancient people had scanty knowledge about the movem

35、ent of the stars. （ D） All the stars on the sky can be seen all the year around. 45 The Supreme Courts decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right

36、to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of “double effect“, a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect. Do

37、ctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient. Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who “u

38、ntil now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death.“ George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical p

39、urpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death. “Its like surgery,“ he says. “We dont call those deaths homicides because the doctors didnt intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If youre a physician, you can risk your patients

40、 suicide as long as you dont intend their suicide. “ On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying. Just three weeks before the Courts

41、ruling on physician-assisted suicide, the National Academy of Science (NAS) released a two-volume report, Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. It identifies the under-treatment of pain and the aggressive use of “ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dis

42、honor the period of dying“ as the twin problems of end-of-life care. The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospices, to test knowledge of aggressive pain management therapies, to develop a Medicare billing code for hospital-based care, and to develop new standards for a

43、ssessing and treating pain at the end of life. Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning medical initiatives translate into better care. “Large numbers of physicians seem unconcerned with the pain their patients are needlessly and predictably suffering,“ to the exte

44、nt that it constitutes “systematic patient abuse.“ He says medical licensing boards “must make it clear. that painful deaths are presumptively ones that are incompetently managed and should result in license suspension. “ 46 From the first three paragraphs, we learn that_. （ A） doctors used to incre

45、ase drug dosages to control their patients pain （ B） it is still illegal for doctors to help the dying end their lives （ C） the Supreme Court strongly opposes physician-assisted suicide （ D） patients have no constitutional right to commit suicide 47 Which of the following statements is true accordin

46、g to the text? （ A） Doctors will be held guilty if they risk their patients death. （ B） Modern medicine has assisted terminally ill patients in painless recovery. （ C） The Court ruled that high-dosage pain-relieving medication should be prescribed. （ D） A doctors medication is no longer justified by

47、 his intentions. 48 According to the NASs report, one of the problems in end-of-life care is_. （ A） prolonged medical procedures （ B） inadequate treatment of pain （ C） systematic drug abuse （ D） insufficient hospital care 49 Which of the following best defines the word “aggressive“ (line 3, paragrap

48、h 7)? （ A） Bold （ B） Harmful （ C） Careless （ D） Desperate 50 George Annas would probably agree that doctors should be punished if they_. （ A） manage their patients incompetently （ B） give patients more medicine than needed （ C） reduce drug dosages for their patients （ D） prolong the needless sufferi

49、ng of the patients 50 A weather map is an important tool for geographers. A succession of three of four maps presents a continuous picture of weather changes. Weather forecasts are able to determine the speed of air masses and fronts; to determine whether an individual pressure area is deepening or becoming shallow and whether a front is increasing or decreasing in intensity. They are also able to determine whether an air mass is retaining its original characteristics or taking on those