[外语类试卷]大学英语四级模拟试卷37（无答案）.doc

1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 37（无答案）一、Part I Writing (30 minutes)1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic A Letter of Application for a school Loan, You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below in Chinese:1. 申请贷款的目的2. 申请贷款的原因3. 如果贷款获得批准，保证合理使用，并如期还款A

2、Letter of Application for a School Loan二、Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you 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 w

3、ith the information given in the passage;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.2 How To Get Famous in 30 SecondsOct. 6, 2001, was the night that would make David Bernal famous, although he didnt

4、know it at the time. He was 21 and a senior at California State University at Long Beach, majoring in art and illustration and doing a little break dancing on the side. On the night in question he had been hired to perform at a Korean-American talent show in Los Angeles. Theres a grainy amateur vide

5、o of the event in which you can see him mumble his name into the microphone and then do his thing for about 60 sec.The audience goes insane. Those watching cant believe whats happening. Bernal, who performs under the name David Elsewhere, describes his dance style as a mixture of “popping, waving, l

6、iquiding, breaking, roboting“. What this means in practice is that, first, his body physically melts into a little puddle and then rebuilds it self bone by bone; then he becomes a giant robot; then weird energies go surging through his arms and legs; then he makes it look as though something is craw

7、ling around under his shirt; then he becomes a springy hopping creature. And then, just like that, its over.Except it wasnt over. Somebody converted the grainy video from that night into a digital file and posted it on the Web. One by one, then hundreds by hundreds, people started downloading the vi

8、deo, e-mailing it, linking to it, sharing it, copying it and reuploading it. In other words, the little video went viralit multiplied and reproduced and spread out of control on the Internet like a virus. And millions of people caught it.Bernal is famous now, in a way, but its a new kind of fame, co

9、urtesy of a new medium. Viral videos are only a few minutes or even a few seconds long, and theyre generally amateur in execution and wildly eclectic in subject matter. Browse one of the websites that hosts them, like YouTnbe on Google Video, and youll see drunken karaoke, babies being born, plane c

10、rashes, burping contests, freakish sports accidents and far, far stranger things. The one thing they have in common is that people cant stop watching them.The viral video probably began with the infamous Dancing Baby, which surfaced in 1996. A strangely compelling animation of a diapered infant gett

11、ing its tiny groove on, the Dancing Baby was born as a software demo, but people started sending it to one another as an e-mail attachment. Until the Baby came along, nobody realized that that kind of spontaneous. In box-to-In box sharing, following the and-theyll-tell-two-friends model, could ever

12、add up to much, let alone scale to the level of a mass medium. “It wasnt as though a marketing firm attempted to create the phenomenon,“ says Michael Girard, one of the programmers who helped create the Dancing Baby.Soon, other clips followed the same branching path the Baby did: a cheerleader appar

13、ently being flipped through a basketball hoop; Paris Hiltons sex tape; Janet Jacksons famous wardrobe mall unction; a 19-year-old New Jersey man(doomed to be forever known as “the Numa Numa guy“) overenthusiastically lip synching to a Romanian pop song. Last December, Saturday Night Lives Lazy Sunda

14、y video appeared on the Net after airing on the show. The white-boy rap about cupcakes and Narnia immediately went viral, spawning haft a dozen catchphrases and endowing SNL with an aura of cool it hasnt enjoyed since Waynes World.But most viral videos come from amateurs, brilliant or lucky camcorde

15、r amateurs who just put their work on the Net and watch it take off. Traffic to viral-video sites is surging, driven by ubiquitous broad-hand Internet access and cheap, easy-to-use digital video cameras. Since last year, visits to Yahoo!s Video section have gone up 148%. Traffic to iF grew 102%. You

16、Tube, launched in December, is storming the Web. It already had 9 million unique visitors in February, compared with Google Videos 6.2 million and Yahoo!s 3.8 million. YouTubes traffic grew another 24% just last month, and the site shows more than 40 million videos a day. Visitors to YouTube spend a

17、n average of 15 minutes there per sessionthats an eternity in the quick-clicking world of the Web. Seriously, dont go to YouTube if you dont have some time to kill, because whatever time you have, YouTube will kill it.Viral videos are powerful, but that power can be a little scary. Once something go

18、es viral, theres no way to get the genie back in the bottle, and some things go viral that shouldnt. One notorious surveillance video, still at large online, shows a suspect in a San Bernardino County, Calif., police station shooting himself in the head with a pistol. Another video shows a chubby ki

19、d waving a golf 7 ball retriever like a light saber. The kid, Ghyslain Raza, was 15 at the time. Three of his classmates found the footage and put it online, and it became an instant Internet classic. Soon strangers started making fun of Raza on the street. The San Francisco Giants put the video on

20、their Jumbotron. Raza, now 18, became known as the Star Wars Kid. He also became depressed and dropped out of school. Eventually he sued(控告) the classmates who had found the video. Two weeks ago, they settled for an undisclosed sum.Corporations are running into similar problems. They want to ride th

21、e viral train for the free publicity, but it doesnt always go where they want it to. In March Chevrolet organized an online make-your-own-commercial campaign for its Tahoe SUV. Green-minded humorists hijacked the campaign, creating widely circulated Tahoe ads with slogans like, “Nature? Itll grow ba

22、ck. Drive a car that costs the earth.“ Last year, Lee Ford and Dan Brooks, a London-based creative ad development team, came up with an “edgy“ Volkswagen spot for a demo reel: a terrorist tries to detonate a car bomb outside a crowded cafe. But the car, a VW Polo, is too sturdyit contains the blast,

23、 killing the terrorist but saving the caf. Shot on a shoestring budget, the clip is shocking, tasteless, stunningly effectiveand totally unauthorized. When it leaked onto the Net(it had been hidden on Ford and Brooks website), they were pretty stunned too. “We went to sleep, and then America got it,

24、“ says Ford, 33. “I woke in the morning and looked at our website. The hit rate was through the roof.“ The duo(成对的人 ) had to apologize to Volkswagen.Not every video goes viral. The vast majority go nowhereYouTube hosts millions of hours of drunken parties, tearful confessions, smiling babies, sleepi

25、ng cats and screen grabs from World of Warcraft, all doomed to obscurity. Nike showed a firm grasp of the form with a popular clip, an ad stealthily designed to look like amateur footage, showing soccer deity Ronaldinho putting on a pair of sneakers and then, incredibly, nailing the crossbar with a

26、soccer ball four times in a row. Some of the successes are accidental. For a while, one of the popular movies on Google Video was a 20-sec clip of a kid falling off a jungle gym. Others are inexplicable: a 24-year-old Midwesterner known as Nornna has so far posted 755 movie clips to YouTube in which

27、 she laconically narrates the details of her daily life. The videos are almost excruciatingly prosaic, but they have a huge grass-roots following, and they have made her one of the mediums homegrown celebrities.Other viral videos show genuine comic smarts. One night in January a couple of Emerson Co

28、llege students named Jonathan Ade and Patrick DiNicola had a brain wave and stayed up late re-editing footage from the Back to the Future trilogy to create Brokeback to the Future, the time-traveling love story of young Marty McFly(Michael J. Fox) and mad scientist Dr. Emmett Brown(Christopher Lloyd

29、). Viral gold. “A friend of ours posted it onto YouTube,“ says Ade, 21. “After that point it got away from us.“ Brokeback to the Future has been viewed more than 3 million times on YouTube alone and inspired dozens of knockoffs(including Lazy Brokeback, in which SNLs Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell f

30、ind each other to Be “crazy delicious“). “Professionally I think this is going to help me out in the long run in terms of my film career,“ says Ade.Thats quite possible. Theres a purity to viral videos that cant be replicated in other media, if you can use purity to refer to a medium that is at leas

31、t 5% fart jokes. Nothing can force a clip to go viral. It requires an authentic response from a mass audience, and the mainstream is learning to respect that. Soon after their unsanctioned VW spot hit the Net, viral admen Ford and Brooks were hired for a series of spoof political spots for Britains

32、Channel 4, and theyve gone on to work for McDonalds and the Sci Fi Channel Europe, among others. Says Brooks: “It put us on the map.“And what about David Bernal, a. k. a. David Elsewhere? Hes living the viral dream. Since that night in 2001, he has danced in commercials for 7-Eleven, Heineken, Pepsi

33、 and Apples iPod. He has shown his stuff on Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel and Steve Harvey. He did a Volkswagen ad that consists entirely of his gloriously funky reinterpretation of Gene Kellys classic Singin in the Rain routine. He even did a cameo in You Got Served. “The choreographer had seen the video

34、and wanted me to be in the movie,“ Bernal says. “Thats usually how it works. I dont have to audition. And even if I do, they just want to see if I can still do what I used to do.“2 David Bernal was famous since he entered the university.（A）Y（B） N（C） NG3 Viral videos usually last for a very short tim

35、e.（A）Y（B） N（C） NG4 You may find a video about a wedding ceremony by browse Google.（A）Y（B） N（C） NG5 The initiation of viral video is the infamous Dancing Baby, which surfaced in 1996.（A）Y（B） N（C） NG6 Visits Yahoo!s Video section have increased more than those to iF.（A）Y（B） N（C） NG7 The authors attitu

36、de towards the viral videos is approval.（A）Y（B） N（C） NG8 Corporations are not succeeded in riding the train for the free publicity.（A）Y（B） N（C） NG9 Ronaldinhos naihng the crossbar with a soccer ball four times in a row is really a _ thing.10 Ade thought that the popularity of his works would help hi

37、m in the long run in terms of his _.11 Since that night in 2001, David Bernal has danced in commercials for Pepsi, Apples iPod, 7-Eleven and _.Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions wi

38、ll 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）He prefers taking a plane.（B） He prefers taking

39、a bus.（C） He prefers traveling with the woman.（D）He prefers staying at home.（A）6:15.（B） 6:40.（C） 5:35.（D） 5:15.（A）She was speeding.（B） She ran a red light.（C） She drove in the wrong direction.（D）She turned a comer too fast.（A）She agrees with him partially.（B） She doesnt agree with him.（C） She advise

40、s him to be more careful.（D）She suggests that he be strict with his son.（A）Father and daughter.（B） Teacher and student.（C） Patient and doctor.（D）Athlete and coach.（A）At a restaurant.（B） In a bus.（C） At a store.（D）In a place.（A）She is tired of teaching.（B） She was dismissed from her job.（C） She is ch

41、anging her job.（D）The school is not hot.（A）That she is a librarian.（B） That she doesnt has the book.（C） That she probably has the book.（D）That she owns a bookstore.（A）They are in a hotel.（B） They are in a restaurant.（C） They are in an ice-cream shop.（D）They are in a snack bar.（A）They have leek and s

42、moked salmon tart.（B） They have roast pork stuffed with prunes and shallots.（C） They have a main coursechicken with honey.（D）They have the Manhattan clam chowder.（A）He doesnt have any bread pudding.（B） He doesnt have any salmon.（C） He doesnt have any iced tea.（D）He doesnt have any chicken soup.（A）Ab

43、out some aspects of social life in Thailand.（B） About some aspects of social life in Japan.（C） About what prints are popular among teenagers in Thailand.（D）About what prints are popular among teenagers in Japan.（A）Brown color.（B） Black color.（C） Dark color.（D）Bright color.（A）Samurai.（B） Cookie Monst

44、er.（C） Hello Kitty.（D）Anime character.（A）They usually listen to the radio at home.（B） They usually play the guitar at home.（C） They go out to dinner and drink beer.（D）They usually play the piano at home.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage,

45、 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.（A）An advertisement.（B） An address.（C） An operator.（D）Long distance rates.（A）The phone number you need to

46、know is not in your phone book.（B） You want to make a long distance call.（C） You dont know the long distance rates.（D）You need to know how to put the money in the slot.（A）Call Directory Assistance.（B） Know the area code.（C） Call the operator.（D）Talk to a computer.（A）One.（B） Few.（C） Several.（D）Many.（

47、A）One year.（B） Five years.（C） Seven years.（D）Ten years.（A）Ants tap plant insects till a drop of honey comes out.（B） Ants take care of plant insects.（C） Ants get their food from plant.（D）Ants get honey from bees.（A）Property owned by a group of people.（B） Privately-owned property.（C） Government-owned

48、property.（D）Peoples joint effort to share and protect natural resources.（A）Because it is financed by the government.（B） Because the rules are in accordance with the traditional values.（C） Because people are forced by the government to obey the rules.（D）Because people are told the importance to prote

49、ct the environment.（A）Limiting the amount of fish to be caught.（B） Forbidding the killing of wild animals.（C） Controlling land area.（D）Protecting irrigation water.（A）People in some developing countries have realized that the worlds resources are limited.（B） People in developed countries do not care much about common properly.（C） Laws have to be passed to protect natural resources.（D）Developing countries are short of resources.Section CDirections: In this section, y