[外语类试卷]大学英语四级模拟试卷623（无答案）.doc

1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 623（无答案）一、Part I Writing (30 minutes)1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of Giving Children Mobile Phones. You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below.1目前越来越多的家长给孩子配手机，目的是2也会带来一些问题3你的看法Giving Children Mobile Phones二、

2、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 with the information given in the passage;

3、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.1 Eat an Apple (Doctors Orders)The farm stand is becoming the new apothecary (药剂师), preparing and giving out apples not to mention vegetables such as articho

4、kes, asparagus and arugula to fill a novel kind of prescription.Doctors at three health centers in Massachusetts have begun advising patients to eat “prescription produce“ from local farmers markets, in an effort to fight obesity (when someone is very fat in a way that is unhealthy) in children of l

5、ow-income families. Now they will give coupons (赠券 ) amounting to $1 a day for each member of a patients family to promote healthy meals.“A lot of these kids have a very limited range of fruits and vegetables that are acceptable and familiar to them. Potentially, they will try more,“ said Dr. Suki T

6、epperberg, a family physician at Codman Square Health Center in Dorchester, one of the program sites. “The goal is to get them to increase their consumption of fruit and vegetables by one serving a day.“The effort may also help farmers markets compete with fast-food restaurants selling dollar value

7、meals. Farmers markets do more than $1 billion in annual sales in the United States, according to the Agriculture Department.Massachusetts was one of the first states to promote these markets as hubs of preventive health. In the 1980s, for example, the state began issuing coupons for farmers markets

8、 to low-income women who were pregnant or breast-feeding or for young children at risk for malnutrition (营养不良). Thirty-six states now have such farmers market nutrition programs aimed at women and young children.Thomas M. Menino, the mayor of Boston, said he believed the new childrens program, in wh

9、ich doctors write vegetable “prescriptions“ to be filled at farmers markets, was the first of its kind. Doctors will track participants to determine how the program affects their eating patterns and to monitor health indicators like weight and body mass index, he said.“When I go to work in the morni

10、ng, I see kids standing at the bus stop eating chips and drinking a soda,“ Mr. Menino said in a phone interview earlier this week. “I hope this will help them change their eating habits and lead to a healthier lifestyle.“The mayors attention to healthy eating dates to his days as a city councilman.

11、Most recently he has appointed a well-known chef as a food policy director to promote local foods in public schools and to foster market gardens in the city.Although obesity is a complex problem unlikely to be solved just by eating more vegetables, supporters of the vegetable coupon program hope tha

12、t physician intervention will spur young people to adopt the kind of behavioral changes that can help prevent lifelong obesity.Childhood obesity in the United States costs $14.1 billion annually in direct health expenses like prescription drugs and visits to doctors and emergency rooms, according to

13、 a recent article on the economics of childhood obesity published in the journal Health Affairs. Treating obesity-related illness in adults costs an estimated $147 billion annually, the article said.Although the vegetable prescription pilot project is small, its supporters see it as a model for enco

14、uraging obese children and their families to increase the volume and variety of fresh produce they eat.“Can we help people in low-income areas, who shop in the center of supermarkets for low-cost empty-calorie food, to shop at farmers markets by making fruit and vegetables more affordable?“ said Gus

15、 Schumacher, the chairman of Wholesome Wave, a nonprofit group in Bridgeport, Conn., that supports family farmers and community access to locally grown produce.If the pilot project is successful, Mr. Schumacher said, “farmers markets would become like a fruit and vegetable pharmacy (药房) for at-risk

16、families.“The pilot project plans to enroll up to 50 families of four at three health centers in Massachusetts that already have specialized childrens programs called healthy weight clinics.A foundation called CAVU, for Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited, sponsors the clinics that are administering th

17、e vegetable project. The Massachusetts Department of Agriculture and Wholesome Wave each contributed $10,000 in seed money. (Another arm of the program, at several health centers in Maine, is giving fresh produce coupons to pregnant mothers.) The program is to run until the end of the farmers market

18、 season in late fall.One month after Leslie-Ann Ogiste, a certified nursing assistant in Boston, and her 9-year-old son, Makael Constance, received their first vegetable prescription coupons at the Codman Center, they have lost a combined four pounds, she said. A staff member at the center told Ms.

19、Ogiste about a farmers market that is five minutes from her apartment, she said.“It worked wonders,“ said Ms. Ogiste, who bought and prepared eggplant, cucumbers, tomatoes, summer squash, com, bok choy, parsley, carrots and red onions. “Just the variety, it did help.“Ms. Ogiste said she had minced s

20、ome vegetables and used them in soup, pasta sauce and rice dishes the better to disguise the new good-for-you foods that she served her son.Makael said he did not mind. “Its really good,“ he said.Some nutrition researchers said that the Massachusetts project had a good chance of improving eating hab

21、its in the short term. But, they added, a vegetable prescription program in isolation may not have a long-term influence on reducing obesity. Families may revert to their former habits in the winter when the farmers markets are closed, these researchers said, or they may not be able to afford fresh

22、produce after the voucher program ends.Dr. Shikha Anand, the medical director of CAVUs healthy weight initiative, said the group hoped to make the veggie prescription project a year-round program through partnerships with grocery stores.But people tend to overeat junk food in higher proportion than

23、they undereat vegetables, said Dr. Deborah A. Cohen, a senior natural scientist at the RAND Corporation. So, unless people curtail (减少) excessive consumption of salty and sugary snacks, she said, behavioral changes like eating more fruit and vegetables will have limited effect on obesity.In a recent

24、 study led by Dr. Cohen, for example, people in southern Louisiana typically exceeded guidelines for eating salty and sugary foods by 120 percent in the course of a day while falling short of vegetable and fruit consumption by 20 percent.The weight clinics in Massachusetts chosen for the vegetable p

25、rescription test project already encourage families to cut down on unhealthy snacks.Even as Ms. Ogiste and her son started shopping at the farmers market and eating more fresh produce, for example, they also cut back on junk food, she said.“We have stopped the snacks. We are drinking more water and

26、less soda and less juice too,“ Ms. Ogiste said. “All of that helped.“2 Dr. Suki Tepperberg suggested that many overweight children_.（A）have consumed too much meat（B） dislike fruits and vegetables by nature（C） mainly come from wealthy families（D）will have more vegetables if provided3 Besides poor obe

27、se children, the vegetable “prescription“ program is also helpful for_.（A）doctors at the health centers（B） farmers in the local market（C） restaurants serving fast food（D）manufactures providing concerned medicine4 In the new childrens program, what doctors need to do is_.（A）evaluating the effect of t

28、he program（B） writing prescriptions at a farm stand（C） giving vegetable coupons to farmers（D）developing novel medicine to fight obesity5 According to the phone interview, why did Thomas M. Menino support the current farmers market nutrition programs?（A）He hoped to promote local foods in the whole ci

29、ty.（B） He wanted to change childrens unhealthy lifestyle.（C） He was persuaded by his food policy director to do so.（D）He had to fulfill his “healthy eating“ promise made years ago.6 Some people support the vegetable coupon program because they think_.（A）eating more fruits and vegetables can solve th

30、e problem of obesity（B） the program will encourage overweight children to take more exercises（C） it will save the patients a large amount of money on medical treatment（D）eating habits changed under doctors interventions will do patients good7 What do we know about Wholesome Wave from the passage?（A）

31、It is a nonprofit group that specializes in weight control.（B） It sponsors healthy weight clinics in local farmers markets.（C） It tries to make fresh food available to poor families.（D）It is giving vegetable coupons to pregnant women.8 What happened to Leslie-Ann Ogiste after she got the first veget

32、able coupons?（A）She successfully lost a lot of weight.（B） She spent a total of four pounds on vegetables.（C） She got her weight down a bit.（D）She gained weight due to the variety of the food.9 According to some nutrition researchers, the vegetable prescription program will have limited effect on obe

33、sity if carried out_.10 To effectively reduce obesity, Dr. Deborah A. Cohen suggested overweight people eat less11 In Ms. Ogiste and her sons current diet, fresh vegetables are increased while junk food isSection ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversati

34、ons. 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 b

35、est answer.（A）The man has nothing to do so far.（B） The man is not satisfied with his current job.（C） The man wants to spend more energy working.（D）The man doesnt get along well with his girlfriend.（A）The man speaks English all the time.（B） The man is trying to improve his spoken English.（C） The woma

36、n is teaching the man how to write in English.（D）The woman will never speak English unless she absolutely has to.（A）The bus station.（B） The school.（C） The airport.（D）The travel agency.（A）Andrew is an undergraduate student.（B） Andrew has worked on a newspaper before.（C） Andrew does not want to work o

37、n a newspaper.（D）Andrew ever worked as a part-time magazine editor.（A）Go to a meeting for the handicapped.（B） Design a uniform for the meeting.（C） Do some charity in the meeting.（D）Look for a job in the meeting.（A）She doesnt really want that much.（B） She thinks the meal is different here.（C） Shed li

38、ke only a cup of milk for breakfast.（D）She doesnt like cooking every morning.（A）The man made a bad suggestion.（B） The woman will take the mans advice.（C） The woman has taught Jim in a pleasant way.（D）The man has spoiled the peaceful atmosphere.（A）TV is extremely superficial.（B） News reports dont tel

39、l anything.（C） News shows are not presenting the news.（D）TV is good at presenting the news.（A）Its difficult to obtain happiness.（B） Happiness is only a state of mind.（C） Happiness is closely related to material life.（D）People shouldnt always ask what happiness is.（A）They have no dreams.（B） They dont

40、 feel being loved.（C） They get used to what they have.（D）They only cherish the material things.（A）Expensive ones.（B） Cheap ones.（C） Gifts made carefully.（D）Gifts that wont last.（A）A cheap new car.（B） An extravagant new car.（C） An old Buick Century.（D）A used car thats a bargain.（A）She is too old to s

41、ee clearly.（B） She has been tired of the old car.（C） She is seriously ill.（D）She has been hurt in an accident.（A）It looks very new inside and outside.（B） There is nothing wrong with the car.（C） Many parts in the car need renewing.（D）It was expensive when it was new.（A）$2,650 or so.（B） $500 or less.（

42、C） Over $3,500.（D）$10,000 or so. Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Section BDirections: 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

43、 hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.（A）Animals perform many useful and entertaining jobs.（B） Different animals have their own characteristics.（C） Animals should be given proper training.（D）Animals are very important in the eco-system.（A）Dogs h

44、ave a natural instinct to guide the blind.（B） Horses have a natural instinct to return home.（C） Guide dogs sometimes may not obey their masters.（D）Racing horses are less smart than the other horses.（A）They should not be frightened by wild horses.（B） They should not be disturbed by other noises.（C） T

45、hey should understand the horses special language.（D）They should be very patient and understanding.（A）In family life.（B） In education departments.（C） In social contribution.（D）In business world.（A）Husbands can also breastfeed their children.（B） Women and men equally share housework.（C） Wives are no

46、longer submissive and obedient.（D）Parents have new attitude towards bringing up children.（A）Changes in childrens rearing.（B） Changes in mens and womens roles.（C） Changes in mens role in family life.（D）Changes in womens role in society.（A）He was well-known on the West Coast.（B） He made many political

47、 achievements.（C） He supported financial aid to farmers.（D）He was a popular war hero.（A）He had various political experiences.（B） He preferred civilian clothes to uniform.（C） He was tall and handsome.（D）He was gentle and careful.（A）He lost the support of farmers.（B） He was opposed by the Whig Party.（

48、C） He was in power for only a short period.（D）He came into conflict with parliament members.（A）In 1848.（B） In 1849.（C） In 1850.（D）In 1851.Section CDirections: 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 genera

49、l 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 use the exact words you have just heard or write down the 36 Many businesses, such as department stores, restaurants, hotels and airline companies, use a credit system for selling their products and【B1】_