[外语类试卷]大学英语四级模拟试卷882及答案与解析.doc

1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 882及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition entitled Parental Hopes and Personal Desires. You are given the first sentence of each paragraph. You should write at least 120 words, not including the words given. 1. Obligations

2、to our parents are very important. 2. Sometimes, obligations to parents cause people much distress. 3. Wed better find a way which can make ourselves happy while pleasing our parents at the same time. 二、 Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions: In this part, you

3、 will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions attached to the passage. For questions 1-7, mark： Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIV

4、EN) if the information is not given in the passage. 1 Take to the Hills! The rider galloped at top speed down the hill and on into the valley, through the pouring rain. “The dam is going!“ A few residents of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, took the riders advice and lived. Thousands of people, however, eit

5、her never got the riders message or chose to disregard it. Many of those who didnt heed the warning paid with their lives. The citizens of Johnstown in 1889 had good reason for ignoring the advice. Once a year the old South Fork Dam seemed about to burst. The cry, “Take to the hills.“ had become an

6、annual false alarm. This time, however, the riders warning should have been taken in earnest. The rider was John G. Parke, a civil engineer who was in charge of the dam. The Great South Fork Dam was a huge earthen dike holding back the waters of an artificial lake. The dam had been constructed witho

7、ut any stone or cement. It had been built by piling up layer upon layer of soil, until the dam was 100 feet high. It was 90 feet wide at its base. The dam had passed through the hands of a series of owners. In recent years the dam and the lake behind it had been bought by a group of millionaires. Th

8、e millionaires called themselves the Great South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club. They spent thousands of dollars stocking the lake with fish. They also added screens to prevent the fish from getting out through the dams drainage holes. Fishing was good, and the lake had never been higher than that sp

9、ring of 1889. May had been an unusually rainy month. The streets in the lower parts of Johnstown were already flooded with six feet of water. Behind the dam, the lake had been rising at the rate of one foot per hour. The owners of the fishing club sent workers to pile more dirt on top of the dam to

10、keep it from overflowing. The owners also ordered the workers to remove the screens, which had become jammed with fish, sticks, and other debris. The workers tried hard to clear the jam, but John Parkes trained engineers eye could see that their efforts would be useless. Parke saddled a horse and be

11、gan his ride through the valley warning people of the arriving floodwater. The rain continued to pour. At noon, the water washed over the top of the dam. Almost immediately a big notch developed in the top of the dike. Then, according to witnesses, the whole dam simply disappeared. One minute there

12、was a dam, and the next minute nothing. The lake moved into the valley like a living thing. In little more than half an hour, the dam emptied completely, sending 45 billion gallons of water down the valley toward Johnstown. A wave of water reaching 125 feet high raced toward the city, leaping forwar

13、d at the rate of 22 feet per second. The huge wall of water approached East Conemaugh, a suburb of Johnstown. As it did, railroad engineer John Hess looked up from the string of freight cars his locomotive was pushing. He saw the water bearing down on him, now moving at 50 miles per hour. Hess moved

14、 the locomotives throttle to wide open. Still pushing a string of freight cars before him, he raced the advancing flood into East Conemaugh. Hess tied down the locomotives whistle, and its screaming blast preceded the train into the village. Johnstown was a railroad city. People in the whole Johnsto

15、wn area knew that a tied-down whistle could only mean a disaster. And the already flooded streets told them what kind of disaster it was. Many people who had ignored earlier warnings now headed for the hills. Unable to reach the center of Johnstown, railroader Hess jumped from the locomotive cab in

16、East Conemaugh, ran into his house, and roused his family. The Hesses made their way up the side of a hill just before the flood hit the village. As the great tumbling hill of water roared on toward the center of Johnstown, it ran into the East Conemaugh rail yard. In the yard was a roundhouse (机车库

17、) containing 37 locomotives. The onrushing flood swept away both roundhouse and engines. The rush of waters was so forceful that it carried the locomotives, weighing 40 tons each, on top of the flood. The rolling mountain of water, now filled with locomotives, freight cars, houses, trees, horses, an

18、d humans, rushed on. A great cloud of dust and moisture rolled before the racing floodwaters. The dust cloud was so heavy that many residents of Johnstown never saw the rolling floodwaters behind it. The cloud was quickly named the death mist. The mountain of water continued its headlong rush. Just

19、before it reached Johnstown, it destroyed the Gautier Wire Works.The buildings of the wire works and its hundreds of miles of flesh-piercing barbed wire were added to the swirling debris. The giant rolling hill of water rushed into the heart of Johnstown. The flood swept into two distinct parts like

20、 the arms of the letter Y. One arm of the flood roared through the residential part of town. Churches, schools, and houses gave way before its power; 800 homes were flushed away. The second arm of the flood, a rumbling mass of houses, trains, people, and animals, swept up to a stone bridge that span

21、ned the valley. The debris caught in the bridges stone arches and became wedged there. A collection of hundreds of parts of buildings and thousands of residents became hopelessly bound in coils of barbed wire. The water formed a great swirling whirlpool behind them. Hundreds of additional people had

22、 approached the whirlpool on makeshift (临时代用的 ) rafts (木筏 ) made from pieces of wreckage. They leaped onto the swirling debris, joining the people already trapped there. Then a new horror broke out. Many stoves, their fires still burning floated into and ignited the mass of debris. Residents on the

23、bridge overhead and on the nearby shore managed to rescue some people by reaching for them with long poles and ropes.Thousands of victims found themselves trapped between the still rising water and the flames. Some accounts of the flood claim that 200 people committed suicide by deliberately jumping

24、 into the flames. They were just a few of the 2,000 to 7,000 people believed to have lost their lives at Johnstown. A week after the flood, a demolition (爆破 ) expert placed nine 50-pound cases of dynamite in the debris and cleared the jam. The waters were free to pass under the bridge and continue t

25、he 75-mile trip down the valley to Pittsburgh. The people of that city made an astounding find. The floodwaters had carried a piece of wooden flooring from Johnstown to Pittsburgh. On that bit of wreckage, completely unhurt by the wild tide, was a healthy five-month-old baby. 2 All around the world,

26、 floods cause loss of life and destruction of property. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 Few people believed the dam had been burst because there had been too many false alarms. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 The millionaires of the Great South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, who were more concerned with their fishi

27、ng club than with the safety of the people of Johnstown, did nothing effective to prevent the flood. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 Putting screens over the dams drainage holes turned Out to be a fatal mistake a major error that led to the bursting of the dam. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 Hundreds of people tri

28、ed to escape the Johnstown flood by making rafts from pieces of wreckage but none of them survived. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 7 If John Hess hadnt raced his locomotive into town with the whistle tied down, the flood would not have swept away the other locomotives in the rail yard. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG

29、8 The second part of the flood, carrying people, houses, and other things with it, moved swiftly to a bridge that crossed the valley. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 9 According to the article,_caused the mass of the debris to ignite and the effect was that_. 10 The Johnstown flood is described as an example

30、of a disaster that resulted from the combination of_and _. 11 _ people lost their lives in the flood but _ miraculously survived the wild tide on a piece of wooden flooring. Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conver

31、sation, 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. （ A） 7 dollars. （

32、B） 8 dollars. （ C） 4 dollars. （ D） 5 dollars. （ A） She agrees to go for a picnic. （ B） She refuses the mans invitation. （ C） She thinks it is funny to go for a picnic at present. （ D） She refuses to answer the question. （ A） He is a professor. （ B） He is a journalist. （ C） He is an artist. （ D） He i

33、s a director. （ A） It was 7:00. （ B） It was 7:10. （ C） It was 6:50. （ D） It was 6:30. （ A） At a hotel. （ B） In a school. （ C） At a booking office. （ D） In a restaurant. （ A） Paris. （ B） Lyon. （ C） Boston. （ D） New York. （ A） In the cafeteria. （ B） In her friends house. （ C） In the restaurant. （ D） A

34、t her desk. （ A） He likes it very much. （ B） He dislikes the first part of it. （ C） He is not concerned about it. （ D） He is not sure whether he likes it or not. （ A） The rooms are smaller and darker than those in the other flat they looked at. （ B） The rooms are larger and darker than those in the

35、other flat they looked at. （ C） The rooms are brighter and smaller than those in the other flat they looked at. （ D） The rooms are brighter and larger than those in the other flat they looked at. （ A） One of them has a part-time job. （ B） They like climbing stairs because it helps them keep fit. （ C

36、） The man is more concerned about money than the woman. （ D） They will ride their bicycles to university. （ A） The rent. （ B） Redecorating the flat. （ C） How they can use the extra room. （ D） There is no landlady. （ A） John and his cousin. （ B） Susan. （ C） Johns cousin. （ D） Susans cousin. （ A） Writ

37、e a paper for him. （ B） Substitute for him. （ C） Take him to an interview. （ D） Help him look after his cousin （ A） Be on duty at the library. （ B） Watch the tousle festival. （ C） Show his cousin around the city. （ D） Pick up Susans cousin at the station. （ A） A film. （ B） The art festival. （ C） A p

38、lay. （ D） The music Festival. 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

39、 marked A, B, C and D. （ A） He didnt like physics any more. （ B） His eyesight was too poor. （ C） Physics was too hard for him. （ D） He had to work to support himself. （ A） He was not happy with the new director. （ B） He was not qualified to be an engineer. （ C） He wanted to travel. （ D） He found his

40、 job boring. （ A） He enjoyed teaching English. （ B） He wanted to earn more to support his family. （ C） The owner of the school promised him a good position. （ D） He could earn more as a teacher than as a travel agent. （ A） To help older politicians get elected. （ B） To practice their law knowledge,

41、（ C） To prepare for their own future elections. （ D） To find a job in the political club. （ A） Having frequent meetings with their supporters. （ B） Winning public support by making speeches. （ C） Balancing government budget. （ D） Fighting corruption. （ A） His standpoint in important issues. （ B） His

42、 effort to get equal rights for women. （ C） His ability to create job opportunities. （ D） His performance at work. （ A） The growth of Detroit as an industrial city. （ B） Detroit, the fifth largest city in the U.S.A. （ C） The geographical advantages of Detroit. （ D） The Car industry in the U. S. A. （

43、 A） 56%. （ B） 96%. （ C） 24%. （ D） 28%. （ A） 96 hours. （ B） 24 hours. （ C） 48 hours. （ D） 28 hours. （ A） Bicycles. （ B） Cars. （ C） Machines. （ D） Farm tools. 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 care

44、fully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either us

45、e the exact words you have just heard or write down the 36 The fast immigrants who came to New England in the 1600s left their own countries for religious masons. They had religious beliefs different from the 【 B1】 _ beliefs of their country, and they wanted to live in a place where they could be fr

46、ee to have their own beliefs. When tiffs new country 【 B2】 _ its independence from Britain in 1776, the 【 B3】 _ of church and state was one of the basic laws for the United States. This 【 B4】 _ of an official national religion and the resultant freedom to believe in whatever one wants has 【 B5】_ man

47、y new immigrants. In the United States, there are examples of every kind of world religion-Buddhist, Islamic, Bahai, to name only a few. But most of the people in the United States fall into one of two 【 B6】 _ -Christian or Jewish. The majority of people in the United States were 【 B7】 _ as Christia

48、ns. They believe in Christ, or Jesus. They think of Sunday as a holy day and 【 B8】 _ in major groups: Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. A third group, Orthodoxy, is not as common in the United States. 【 B9】 _ . Because the majority of early Americans were Protestant, there has sometimes been disc

49、rimination against new immigrants, such as those who were Roman Catholic. Protestants were reluctant to share their traditional power with members of other churches or religions. 【 B10】 _ The second half of the 20th century has been a decline in the strength of traditional religion in the USA. 【 B11】 _ . 37 【 B1】 38 【 B2】 39 【 B3】 40 【 B4】 41 【 B5】 42 【 B6】 43 【 B7】 44 【 B8】 45 【 B9】 46 【 B10】 47 【 B11】 Section A Directions: In this section, there i