1、国家公共英语（四级）笔试模拟试卷 294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 What is the man s chief responsibility in the Green Peace organization? （ A） He s involved in anti-nuclear activity. （ B） He s responsible for conservation and protection of animals. （ C） He s the action organizer and arranges any protests. （ D） He s involved in protection and
5、support of the eco-system. 12 How does Green Peace try to stop people from dumping nuclear waste? （ A） They harass the dumping ship with boats. （ B） They attack the dumping ships. （ C） They talk with them in a mild way. （ D） They stop them in a violent way. 13 What is the woman s attitude towards th
6、e Green Peace campaigns? （ A） Contempt. （ B） Appreciate. （ C） Disapprove. （ D） Suspicious. 14 What crops does the farmer grow? （ A） Cotton every year. （ B） Corn and wheat. （ C） Rice. . （ D） Other things. 15 How does the farmer pay his employees? （ A） Hourly. （ B） Weekly. （ C） Monthly. （ D） Yearly. 1
7、6 What work does the farmer need to do? （ A） Irrigate my fields. （ B） Apply pesticides. （ C） Fix machines. （ D） All the above. 17 What is the food hall of Harold s noted for? （ A） The cheese sold there is very special. （ B） It sells many different kinds of food. （ C） It sells 250 kinds of bread. （ D
8、） It sells more than 180 kinds of chocolate. 18 Why is the Egyptian hall so famous? （ A） It looks like an Egyptian building from 4, 000 years ago. （ B） It is an Egyptian building from 4, 000 years ago. （ C） It sells all kinds of food. （ D） It produces much electricity. 19 What s the record of money
9、that customers spend in the department on one day? （ A） 30, 000 pounds. （ B） 300, 000 pounds. （ C） 9 million pounds. （ D） 1.5 million pounds. 20 About how many customers come to Harold s on an average day? （ A） 30, 000. （ B） 300, 000. （ C） 1.5 million. （ D） 9 million. 一、 Section II Use of English (1
10、5 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 Music comes in many forms; most countries have a style of their own.【 C1】_the turn of the century when jazz (爵士乐 ) was born, America had no prominent【 C2】 _of its
11、own. No one knows exactly when jazz was【 C3】 _, or by whom. But it began to be【 C4】 _in the early 1900s. Jazz is America s contribution to【 C5】 _music. In contrast to classical music, which【 C6】_formal European traditions. Jazz is spontaneous and free-form. It bubbles with energy, 【 C7】 _moods, inte
12、rests, and emotions of the people. In the 1920s, jazz【 C8】 _like America. And【 C9】 _it does today. The【 C10】 _of this music are as interesting as the music【 C11】 _, American Negroes, or blacks, as they are called today were the Jazz【 C12】 _. They were brought to the Southern states【 C13】 _slaves. Th
13、ey were sold to plantation owners and forced to work long【 C14】 _. When a Negro died, his friends and relatives【 C15】 _a procession to carry the body to the cemetery. In New Orleans, a band often accompanied the【 C16】 _. On the way to the cemetery the band played slow, solemn music suited to the occ
14、asion, 【 C17】 _on the way home the mood changed. Spirits lifted. Death had removed one of their【 C18】 _, but the living were glad to be alive. The band played【 C19】 _mu-sic, improvising (即兴表演 ) on both the harmony and the melody of the tunes【 C20】 _at the funeral. This music made everyone want to da
15、nce. It was an early form of Jazz. 21 【 C1】 （ A） Before （ B） At （ C） In （ D） On 22 【 C2】 （ A） music （ B） song （ C） melody （ D） style 23 【 C3】 （ A） discovered （ B） acted （ C） invented （ D） designed 24 【 C4】 （ A） noticed （ B） found （ C） listened （ D） heard 25 【 C5】 （ A） classical （ B） sacred （ C） popu
16、lar （ D） light 26 【 C6】 （ A） forms （ B） follows （ C） approaches （ D） introduces 27 【 C7】 （ A） expressing （ B） explaining （ C） exposing （ D） illustrating 28 【 C8】 （ A） appeared （ B） felt （ C） seemed （ D） sounded 29 【 C9】 （ A） as （ B） so （ C） either （ D） neither 30 【 C10】 （ A） origins （ B） originals （
17、 C） discoveries （ D） resources 31 【 C11】 （ A） concerned （ B） itself （ C） available （ D） oneself 32 【 C12】 （ A） players （ B） followers （ C） fans （ D） pioneers 33 【 C13】 （ A） for （ B） as （ C） with （ D） by 34 【 C14】 （ A） months （ B） weeks （ C） hours （ D） times 35 【 C15】 （ A） demonstrated （ B） composed
18、（ C） hosted （ D） formed 36 【 C16】 （ A） demonstration （ B） procession （ C） body （ D） march 37 【 C17】 （ A） Even （ B） Therefore （ C） Furthermore （ D） But 38 【 C18】 （ A） number （ B） members （ C） body （ D） relations 39 【 C19】 （ A） sad （ B） solemn （ C） happy （ D） funeral 40 【 C20】 （ A） whistled （ B） sung
19、（ C） presented （ D） showed Part B Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D . Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 40 I d like to propose that for sixty to ninety minutes every evening right after the early evening news, all television b
20、roadcasting in America be prohibited by law. Let us take a serious, reasonable look at what the results might be if such a proposal were accepted. Families might use the time for a real family hour. Without the distraction of TV, they might sit around together after dinner and actually communicate w
21、ith one another. It is well known that many of our problems everything, in fact, from the generation gap to the high divorce rate to some forms of mental illness are caused at least in part by failure to communicate. We do not tell each other what makes us feel disturbed. The result is emotional dif
22、ficulty of one kind or another. By using the quiet family hour to discuss our problems, we might get to know each other better, and to like each other better. On evenings when such talk is unnecessary, families could rediscover more active pastimes. Freed from TV, forced to find their own activities
23、, they might take a ride together to watch the sunset, or they might take a walk together (remember feet?) and see the neighborhood with fresh, new eyes. With free time and no TV, children and adults might rediscover reading. There is more entertainment in a good book than in a month of typical TV p
24、rogramming. Educators report that the generation growing up with television can barely write an English sentence, even at the college level. Writing is often learned from reading. A more literate new generation could be a product of the quiet hour. A different form of reading might also be done, as
25、it was in the past: reading aloud. Few hobbies bring a family closer together than gathering around and listening to mother or father read a good story. The quiet hour could become the story hour. When the quiet hour ends, the TV networks form our newly discovered activities. At first glance, the id
26、ea of an hour without TV seems radical. What will parents do without the electronic baby-sitter? How will we spend the time? But it is not radical at all. It has been only twenty-five years since television came to control American free time. The people who are thirty-five and older can remember chi
27、ldhood without television, spent partly with radio which at least involved the listener s imagination but also with reading, learning, talking, playing games, inventing new activities. It wasnt that difficult. Honest. The truth is that we had a ball. 41 The failure to talk to each other causes all o
28、f the following EXCEPT （ A） the high divorce rate. （ B） a real family hour. （ C） the generation gap. （ D） some forms of mental illness. 42 If we turned off TV for an hour, which of the following is NOT true? （ A） We would not have any problems. （ B） There would be a higher divorce rate. （ C） Familie
29、s could take a ride together. （ D） We would have a new view to neighborhood. 43 According to the author, （ A） TV is more entertaining than good books. （ B） good books are as entertaining as TV. （ C） good books are not so entertaining as TV. （ D） good books are more entertaining than TV. 44 Because y
30、oung people nowadays dont read much, （ A） they find TV very entertaining. （ B） they have a lot of time for other pastimes. （ C） they have enough time to talk to one another. （ D） even college students cant write very well. 45 The idea of an hour without TV is NOT radical because （ A） TV is very popu
31、lar among people for only twenty-five years. （ B） TV is an electronic baby-sitter. （ C） we might get better shows. （ D） radio involves the listener s imagination. 45 Everyone of us lives and works on a small part of the earths surface, moves in a small circle, and of these acquaintances knows only a
32、 few intimately. Of any public event that has wide effects we see at best only a phase and an aspect. This is true that the eminent insiders, who draft treaties, make laws, and issue orders, are like those who have treaties framed on them, laws promulgated to them, orders given at them. Inevitably o
33、ur opinions cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, many things, that we can directly observe. So they have to be pieced together out of what others have reported and what we can imagine. Yet even the eyewitness does not bring back a naive picture of the scene. For experience seems to show tha
34、t he himself brings something to the scene which later he takes away from it, that oftener than not what he imagines to be the account of an event is really a transfiguration of it. Few facts in consciousness seem to be merely given. Most facts in consciousness seem to be partly made. A report is th
35、e joint product of the knower and known, in which the role of the observer is always selective and usually creative. The facts we see depend on where we are placed, and the habits of our eyes. 46 The limited time and space which man occupies suggest, according to the paragraph, （ A） mans life is als
36、o insignificant. （ B） mans opinions can not be accurate at all. （ C） human observations in general are all but partial. （ D） man cannot have any opinion. 47 Experts such as the so-called insiders （ A） usually have unbiased opinions. （ B） can also be prejudiced in their judgment. （ C） are reliable ob
37、servers. （ D） do not have correct information at all. 48 The word “naive“ in “a naive picture of the scene“ most likely means （ A） uneducated. （ B） immature. （ C） pure and reliable. （ D） informal. 49 The latter part of the paragraph suggests that individual consciousness of the phenomenal world （ A）
38、 is always fallacious. （ B） is always reliable. （ C） expresses a fusion of the subjective and the objective realities. （ D） shows a perfect reflection of what the world is. 50 By “selective“ and “creative“ , the author means that the observer of an event （ A） collects preferred materials in order to
39、 create. （ B） selects with the intention to create new ideas. （ C） selects and creates unconsciously and simultaneously. （ D） selects and creates objects deliberately. 50 The fridge is considered necessary. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food list appeared with the label;“Store in the
40、refrigerator. “ In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthy. The milkman came every day, the grocer, the butcher (肉商 ) , the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times each week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus (剩余 ) bread and milk became all
41、kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country. The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation. Many well-tried technique
42、s already existed natural cooling, drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling. What refrigeration did promote was marketing marketing hardware and electricity, market-ing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the world in search of a good price. So most of the worlds fridges are to
43、be found, not in the tropics where they might prove useful, but in the rich countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically almost unnecessary. Every winter, millions of fridges hum away continuously, and at vast expense, busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside an artific
44、ially-heated house while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge. The fridges effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been not important . If you dont believe me, try it yourself, invest in a food cabinet and turn off your f
45、ridge next winter. You may not eat the hamburgers, but at least youll get rid of that terrible hum. 51 The statement “In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily. “ suggests that （ A） the author was well-fed and healthy even without a fridge in his fifties. （ B） the author was n
46、ot accustomed to fridges even in his fifties. （ C） there was no fridge in the authors home in the 1950s. （ D） the fridge was in its early stage of development in the 1950s. 52 Why does the author say that nothing was wasted before the invention of fridges? （ A） People would not buy more food than wa
47、s necessary. （ B） Food was delivered to people two or three times a week. （ C） Food was sold fresh and did not get rotten easily. （ D） People had effective ways to preserve their food. 53 Who benefited the least from fridges according to the author? （ A） Inventors. （ B） Consumers. （ C） Manufacturers
48、. （ D） Travelling salesmen. 54 Which of the following phrases in the fifth paragraph indicates the fridges negative effect on the environment? （ A） Hum away continuously. （ B） Climatically almost unnecessary. （ C） Artificially-cooled space. （ D） With mild temperatures. 55 What is the authors overall
49、 attitude toward fridges? （ A） Neutral. （ B） Critical. （ C） Objective. （ D） Compromising. 55 Although there had been various small cameras developed, it was not until George Eastman introduced the Kodak in 1888 that the mass appeal of photography attracted America and Europe and thereafter spread quickly to the far corners of the earth. Eastman called his new famous camera the Kodak for no particular reason except that he liked the word. It was
