1、国家公共英语（四级）笔试模拟试卷 53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 twic
2、e. 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 Darwin was a great scientist wh
3、o studied 7 Those who fought against Darwins ideas were the men of 8 Later, Darwin wrote a book about the 9 Darwin filled his book with facts instead of just writing down 10 There have been men for more than PART C Directions: You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one
4、, 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 each piece ONLY ONCE. 11 Who is the speaker addressing? （ A） New
5、teachers. （ B） New students. （ C） Married students. （ D） An interviewer. 12 Which place students can cook meals? （ A） Mans dorms. （ B） Married student apartments. （ C） Coed dorms. （ D） Womens dorms. 13 What is special about the international houses? （ A） There only foreign students can apply. （ B） T
6、here students can buy meal ticket. （ C） There language and culture activities are organized. （ D） There children are allowed to live. 14 What does the woman do? （ A） A teacher of economics. （ B） A professor of studying happiness. （ C） A consultant on economic affairs. （ D） A specialist in political
7、science. 15 How are income and happiness related in Europe? （ A） Income affects happiness very much. （ B） Income affects happiness very little. （ C） Happiness affects income very much. （ D） Happiness affects income very little. 16 Whats the proportion of Americans who said they were very happy in 19
8、96? （ A） 30%. （ B） 35%. （ C） 37%. （ D） 39%. 17 What is “rush hours“? （ A） A period when cars are rushing on the roads. （ B） A period when people are going to or from their work. （ C） A period when cars are crowed on the roads. （ D） A period when people are crowed in the buses. 18 What are parking me
9、ters used to? （ A） To limit the numbers of cars parked in the streets. （ B） To prevent cars parked in the street from being stolen. （ C） To make it convenient for drivers to pay the fee. （ D） To limit the time of cars left in the streets. 19 What will happen if the parking meter registers“ time expi
10、red“? （ A） The car will be pushed away by policemen. （ B） The drivers license will be withdrawn. （ C） The owner of the car will be fined. （ D） The traffic wardens will drive the car away. 20 How do the traffic wardens protect the form they give to the motorist from rain? （ A） They put the form in a
11、little plastic envelope. （ B） They put the form under one of the windscreen wipers. （ C） They wait there until the motorist returns. （ D） They will ask the motorist to go to their office for the form. 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word
12、 for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. 20 Computers are now being pushed into schools. We know that multimedia will make 【 21】 _ easy and fun. Children will happily learn from 【 22】 _ characters while taught by expertly 【 23】 _ software. Who needs teachers when youve got 【
13、 24】 _ education? These expensive toys are difficult to use in the classrooms and 【 25】 _ extensive teacher training. Sure, kids love video games- 【 26】_ think of your own experience: can you 【 27】 _ even one educational filmstrip of many years ago? Ill 【 28】 _ you remember the two or three great te
14、achers who made a 【 29】 _ in your life. Then theres cyberbusiness. Were promised 【 30】 _ catalog shopping-just point and click for great deals. Well order airline tickets 【 31】 _ the network, book restaurants and negotiate sales 【 32】 _ . Stores will become obsolete. So how come my local mail does m
15、ore 【 33】 _ in an afternoon than the entire Internet 【 34】 _ in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to 【 35】_ money over the Internet, the network is 【 36】 _ a most essential ingredient of trade and commerce: salespeople. Whats absent from this electronic wonderland? People contact. Comput
16、ers and networks 【 37】 _ us from one another. A network chat line is a limp 【 38】_ for meeting friends over coffee. No interactive multimedia display 【 39】 _ to the excitement of a 【 40】 _ concert. This virtual reality where frustration is legion and where-in the holy names of Education and Progress
17、-important aspects of human interactions are relentlessly devalued. 21 【 21】 （ A） schoolwork （ B） exercise （ C） teamwork （ D） research 22 【 22】 （ A） stimulated （ B） animated （ C） developed （ D） interested 23 【 23】 （ A） guided （ B） prepared （ C） tailored （ D） sold 24 【 24】 （ A） computer-aided （ B） co
18、mputer-presented （ C） computer-designed （ D） computer-developed 25 【 25】 （ A） promise （ B） introduce （ C） encourage （ D） require 26 【 26】 （ A） but （ B） just （ C） and （ D） therefore 27 【 27】 （ A） appreciate （ B） recall （ C） comment （ D） produce 28 【 28】 （ A） recommend （ B） guess （ C） bet （ D） urge 29
19、 【 29】 （ A） result （ B） mark （ C） impression （ D） difference 30 【 30】 （ A） immediate （ B） free （ C） versatile （ D） instant 31 【 31】 （ A） over （ B） with （ C） by （ D） in 32 【 32】 （ A） decisions （ B） agreements （ C） contracts （ D） plans 33 【 33】 （ A） communication （ B） commerce （ C） business （ D） progr
20、am 34 【 34】 （ A） reserves （ B） handles （ C） subscribes （ D） transmits 35 【 35】 （ A） mail （ B） deposit （ C） send （ D） save 36 【 36】 （ A） missing （ B） disappearing （ C） expelling （ D） retaining 37 【 37】 （ A） dismantle （ B） confine （ C） discriminate （ D） isolate 38 【 38】 （ A） occasion （ B） substitute （
21、 C） change （ D） compromise 39 【 39】 （ A） near （ B） up （ C） close （ D） back 40 【 40】 （ A） life （ B） alive （ C） living （ D） live 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 Language is, and sh
22、ould be, a living thing, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expressions. But there is a vital distinction between good developments, which add to the language, enabling us to say things we could not say before, and bad developments, which subtract from the language by rendering it less
23、precise. A vivid, colorful use of words is not to be confused with mere casual use. The casual use in which some professionals deliberately indulge is perhaps akin to the fashion of the unfinished work, which has eroded most of the arts in our time. And the true answer to it is the same-that art is
24、enhanced, no hindered, by discipline. You cannot carve satisfactorily in butter. The corruption of written English has been accompanied by an even sharper decline in the standard of spoken English. We speak very much less well than was common among educated Englishmen a generation or two ago. The mo
25、dern theatre has played a part in dimming our appreciation of language. Instead of the immensely articulate dialogue of, for example, Shaw (who was also very insistent on good pronunciation), audiences are now subjected to streams of barely literate trivia, often designed, only too well, to exhibit“
26、 lack of communication“, and filled with dirty words and grammatical errors of the intellectually impoverished. Emily Post once advised her reader: “The theatre is the best possible place to hear correctly-pronounced speech. “Alas, no more. One young actress was recently reported to be taking lesson
27、s in how to speak badly, so that she should fit in better. But the BBC is the worst traitor. After years of very successfully helping to raise the general standard of spoken English, it suddenly went into reverse. As the head of the Pronunciation Union shyly put it,“ In the 1960s the BBC opened the
28、field to a much wider range of speakers“. To hear a BBC disc jockey talking to the latest apelike pop idol is a truly shocking experience of verbal garbage. And the prospect seems to be of even worse to come. School teachers are actively encouraged to ignore little Johnnys incoherent grammar, bad sp
29、elling and haphazard punctuation, because worrying about such things might inhibit his creative genius. 41 According to the author, discipline will （ A） erode most of the arts. （ B） improve ones carving skill. （ C） improve arts. （ D） hinder arts. 42 What role do the plays in modem theatre play? （ A）
30、 They set a bad example for people not to appreciate fine language. （ B） They teach people best pronunciations. （ C） They introduce English classical literature to the audience. （ D） They tell people how to speak badly. 43 By saying “the BBC is the worst traitor“( Line 1 ,Paragraph 4) ,the author me
31、ans that （ A） the BBC employed foreign announcers with nonstandard spoken English. （ B） the BBC failed to keep helping to improve the standard of spoken English. （ C） the head of the Pronunciation Union thought the pronunciation of BBC announcers was not as good as before. （ D） the talking program i
32、n BBC is rubbish. 44 The author thinks the use of English will get worse in the future because （ A） even the BBC cannot use the language well. （ B） school teachers pay little attention to the bad use of language by their students. （ C） it is the trend of language development. （ D） pop idol use bad E
33、nglish and this becomes a fashion. 45 What is the authors attitude towards the change of English? （ A） Positive. （ B） Indifferent. （ C） Tolerant. （ D） Negative. 45 The health-care economy is full with unusual and even unique economic relationship. One of the least understood involves the peculiar ro
34、les of producer or“ provider“ and purchaser or“ consumer“ in the typical doctor-patient relationship. In most sectors of the economy, it is the seller who attempts to attract a potential buyer with various inducements of price, quality, and utility, and it is the buyer who makes the decision. Where
35、circumstances permit the buyer no choice because there is effectively only one seller and the product is relatively essential, government usually asserts monopoly and places the industry under price and other regulations. Neither of these conditions prevails in most of the health care industry. In t
36、he heath-care industry, the doctor-patient relationship is the mirror image of the original relationship between producer and consumer. Once an individual has chosen to see a physician-and even then there may be no real choice it is the physician who usually makes all significant purchasing decision
37、: whether the patient should return “next Wednesday,“ whether X-rays are needed, whether drugs should be prescribed, etc. It is a rare and sophisticated patient who will challenge such professional decisions or raise in advance questions about price, especially when the ailment is regarded as seriou
38、s. This is particularly significant in relation to hospital care. The physician must certify the need for hospitalization, determine what procedures will be performed, and announce when the patient may be discharged. The patient may be consulted about some of these decisions, but in the main ii is t
39、he doctors judgments that are final. Little wonder then that in the eyes of the hospital it is the physician who is the real“ consumer“. As a consequence, the medical staff represents the“ power center“ in hospital policy and decision making, not the administration. Although usually there are in thi
40、s situation four identifiable participants, the physician, the hospital, the patient, and the payer (generally an insurance carrier or government) the physician makes the essential decisions for all of them. The hospital becomes an extension of the physician; the payer generally meets most of the bo
41、na fide bills generated by the physician/hospital; and for the most part the patient plays a passive role. In routine or minor illness, or just plain worries, the patients options are, of course, much greater with respect to use and price. In illness that is of some significance, however, such choic
42、es tend to evaporate, and it is for ill ness that the bulk of the health-care dollar is spent. We estimate that about 75-80 percent of health care expenditures are determined by physicians, not patients. For this reason, economy measures directed at patients or the general public is relatively ineff
43、ective. 46 In what aspect is the health-care economy different from other sectors of economy? （ A） The relationship between sellers and buyers. （ B） The price of the products. （ C） The quality of the products. （ D） The regulations of health-care industry. 47 By saying“ mirror image“ ( Line 1, Paragr
44、aph 2), the author means that （ A） doctors and patients always put themselves in the others shoes. （ B） the doctor-patient relationship is the same as the ordinary relationship between producer and consumer. （ C） the doctor-patient relationship reverses the ordinary relationship between producer and
45、 consumer. （ D） the role of doctors is a contrast to the role of their patients. 48 When receiving treatment, patients are always （ A） active by challenging the doctors decision. （ B） passive without questioning anything. （ C） satisfied with the treatment. （ D） disobedient to the doctors persuasion.
46、 49 We learn from Paragraph 5 that （ A） hospitals usually represented by physicians play the decisive role. （ B） the payer can check the. bill given by the physician/hospital. （ C） the patients play the decisive role. （ D） the payers play the decisive role. 50 In significant illness, patients can （
47、A） choose what treatment they receive. （ B） decide the price of their treatment. （ C） pay only the about 75-80 percent of the expenditures. （ D） have no options for treatment and price. 50 Distance education is enrollment and study with an educational institution that provides lesson materials prepa
48、red in a sequential and logical order for study by students on their own. When each lesson is completed, the student mails or transmits the assigned work to the institution for correction, grading, comment, and subject matter guidance by qualified instructors; Corrected assignments are re turned pro
49、mptly to the student. This exchange provides a personalized student-teacher relationship. If a student slows his or her pace or fails to send assignments, the school provides encouragement. Al though some institutions provide employment information and assistance, no famous school ever guarantees a job to graduates. Distance education and self-study are different. Self-study materials provide no instructional service. Corrected assignments, examinations, and
