1、国家公共英语（四级）笔试模拟试卷 55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 The writer of the letter saw th
3、e advertisement over 7 The price - fifteen pounds and fifty pence-includes 8 What language is the set of the plays of Moliere in? 9 How much is the bill sent by the company to the author? 10 What are the angry letters sent by the company for? PART C Directions: You will hear three dialogues or monol
4、ogues. 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 each piece ONLY ONCE. 11 Who i
5、s likely to be left-handed? （ A） Men. （ B） Women. （ C） Children. （ D） Old people. 12 At what age the hand preference is clearly marked? （ A） Three years old. （ B） Before the age of three. （ C） Six and above. （ D） From three to six years old. 13 Which of the following is true about left-handers? （ A）
6、 Left-handers represent less than l0 percent of the general population in 1977. （ B） Left-handers represent more than 23 Percent of the general population in 1977. （ C） Left-handed people can not use the ordinary tools as well as the right-handed. （ D） Left-handed people are not as creative as right
7、-handed people. 14 It is said that Washingtons teeth were made of （ A） sheeps teeth. （ B） cows teeth. （ C） stone. （ D） wood. 15 When were Washingtons false teeth that were made of ivory shown publicly? （ A） A hundred years ago. （ B） Three months ago. （ C） Fifty years ago. （ D） Five years ago. 16 Whe
8、re are the cows teeth? （ A） In the back. （ B） In the front. （ C） On their bottom jaws. （ D） On their upper jaws. 17 Whom is the talk addressed to? （ A） Freshmen in the university. （ B） Teachers of different backgrounds. （ C） Students and teachers from computer college. （ D） Regular MA students and i
9、n-service teachers. 18 What do students taking this course worry about? （ A） Group discussions and seminars, （ B） The mini-research project. （ C） Assessment for the course. （ D） The written works. 19 When is the first piece of written work due? （ A） The middle of the semester. （ B） The end of the se
10、mester. （ C） The beginning of the semester. （ D） The end of the course. 20 If a student wants to discuss questions with the teacher, he/she should （ A） go to the teachers office after should. （ B） make an appointment in advance. （ C） go to the teachers at working hours. （ D） discuss the questions in
11、 class. 一、 Section II Use of English (15 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 Most people would be 【 21】 _ by the high quality of medicine 【 22】_ to most Americans. There is a lot of specialization, a g
12、reat deal of 【 23】_ to the individual, a 【 24】 _ amount of advanced technical equipment, and 【 25】 _ effort not to make mistakes because of the financial risk which doctors and hospitals must 【 26】 _ in the courts if they 【 27】 _ things badly. But the Americans are in a mess. The problem is the way
13、in 【 28】 _ health care is organized and 【 29】 _ . 【 30】 _ to public belief it is not just a free competition system. Besides the private system there has been a large public system, because private care was simply not 【 31】 _ the less fortunate and the elderly. But even with this huge public part of
14、 the system, 【 32】 _ this year will eat up 84.5 billion dollars-mom than 10 per cent of the U. S. Budget-large numbers of Americans are left 【 33】 _ . These include about half the 11 million unemployed and those who fail to meet the strict limits 【 34】 _ income fixed by a government trying to make s
15、avings wherever they can. The basic problem, however, is that them is no central control 【 35】 _ the health system. There is no 【 36】 _ to what doctors and hospitals charge for their services, other than what the public is able to pay. The number of doctors has shot up and prices have climbed. When
16、faced with toothache, a heart attack, or a sick child, all the unfortunate person concerned can do is 【 37】 _ up. Two thirds of the population 【 38】 _ covered by medical insurance. Doctors charge as much as they want 【 39】 _ that the insurance, company will pay the bill. The rising cost of medicine
17、in the U. S. A. is among the most worrying problems facing the country. In 1981 the countrys health bill climbed 15.9 per cent-about twice as fast as prices 【 40】 _ general.= 21 【 21】 （ A） compressed （ B） impressed （ C） obsessed （ D） repressed 22 【 22】 （ A） available （ B） applicable （ C） achievable
18、（ D） amenable 23 【 23】 （ A） extension （ B） retention （ C） attention （ D） exertion 24 【 24】 （ A） countless （ B） titanic （ C） broad （ D） vast 25 【 25】 （ A） intensive （ B） absorbed （ C） intense （ D） concentrated 26 【 26】 （ A） run into （ B） come into （ C） face （ D） defy 27 【 27】 （ A） treat （ B） deal （ C
19、） maneuver （ D） handle 28 【 28】 （ A） which （ B） that （ C） what （ D） when 29 【 29】 （ A） to finance （ B） financed （ C） the finance （ D） to be financed 30 【 30】 （ A） Contrary （ B） Opposed （ C） Averse （ D） Objected 31 【 31】 （ A） looking for （ B） looking into （ C） looking after （ D） looking over 32 【 32】
20、 （ A） which （ B） what （ C） that （ D） it 33 【 33】 （ A） over （ B） out （ C） off （ D） for 34 【 34】 （ A） for （ B） in （ C） with （ D） on 35 【 35】 （ A） over （ B） on （ C） under （ D） behind 36 【 36】 （ A） boundary （ B） restriction （ C） confinement （ D） limit 37 【 37】 （ A） to pay （ B） paying （ C） pay （ D） to ha
21、ve paid 38 【 38】 （ A） is being （ B） are （ C） have been （ D） is 39 【 39】 （ A） knowing （ B） to know （ C） they know （ D） known 40 【 40】 （ A） in （ B） with （ C） on （ D） for Part B Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D . Mark your answers
22、on ANSWER SHEET 1. 40 Did you know that only the female mosquito bites? Well, its true. And its not because shes un friendly; she needs blood to reproduce. Shes quite selective, and she chooses her victims carefully. First, she uses sensors to find her victim. These sensors are located on her two an
23、tennae and her three pairs of legs. With these sensors, she tests your body moisture, body warmth, and chemical substances in your sweat. If she likes what she finds, she bites. But if you dont appeal to her, shell reject you for some one more appetizing. If the mosquito likes you, she settles onto
24、your flesh very gently, and she breaks your skin with the tip in front of her nose. This tip is a kind of mouth and it sticks out just below the mosquitos eyes. It contains six sharp instruments called stylets. She stabs all six stylets into your skin at once, and if she hits a blood vessel, shell g
25、et a full dinner in about a minute. All this usually takes place too quickly and quietly that you may not have suspected anything was happening. Why does your skin itch after the mosquito bites? The itch is not really from the bite. It is from the liquid the mosquito mixes with your blood to keep it
26、 from forming into lumps as she sucks it up her proboscis tip. By the time the itching begins, she has gone. Heavy with your blood, she picks a spot-on a leaf or a wall or a stone-to quietly lay her eggs. Just one drop of blood will produce hundreds of eggs. All mosquitoes, male and female, pass thr
27、ough their early stages of development in or near water. In fact, mosquito eggs will not hatch without water-although the eggs can survive up to five years on dry land waiting for water. It is not surprising that the heavy rain produce large numbers of mosquitoes. Why did nature bother to create mos
28、quitoes? Just to annoy us? Probably that wasnt the main reason. Male mosquitoes live on the juice of flowers, and they never bite people since they do not need blood to reproduce as the female ones. Of course, mosquitoes have to reproduce, and unfortunately thats where you and I come in. Like it or
29、not, mosquitoes are here to stay. 41 The female mosquito bites because （ A） she is unfriendly. （ B） she needs blood to produce the young. （ C） she is selective in food. （ D） she can live longer with blood. 42 What does the female mosquito use to test her victims body and sweat? （ A） Her sensors. （ B
30、） Her antennae. （ C） Her legs. （ D） Her tip. 43 According to the text, which of the following statements is true? （ A） It takes the mosquito very short time to suck the blood from you. （ B） A lot of blood is needed to produce young mosquitoes. （ C） You can feel itch because the mosquito sucks your b
31、lood away. （ D） The mosquito is still on your body when you feel uncomfortable. 44 Why does rain produce a lot of mosquitoes? （ A） Mosquitoes can find enough food in rainy season. （ B） Rain makes grass grow fast. （ C） Rain provides a good living condition for mosquitoes. （ D） Rain provides an abunda
32、nt supply of water. 45 What is the authors attitude towards the existence of mosquitoes? （ A） Annoyed. （ B） Worried. （ C） Objective. （ D） Disappointed. 45 In our population ,which is now about 167 million, it is estimated there are more than 33 million people with I. Q. s below 90; it is a disturbin
33、g thought that these people will never, at any age, read much other than picture books, newspaper headlines, and the simplest of bestsellers, nor will they be able to make intelligent judgments on any complicated, important national or international problem. The intellectuals, of course, are at the
34、other end of the scale; they are people with I. Q. s of 130 or more, and there are slightly more than five million. From 150 to the top of the scale, there are only 2.1 million people. Careful tests have shown that at least half of these high-I. Q. people are never discovered, do not go to college,
35、and live out their lives in humble, even though usually respected, occupations. The fact that there are discords between groups along the I. Q. scale is an intricate matter. For one thing, the people at any given level show a curious tendency to disapprove of the mental activities of the people at e
36、very other level, above or below: The scorn of the highbrow when he sees a picture book reader is equal to the contempt of the strong, median-I. Q. football player for the genius who wander about, reading poetry when he could be getting a good workout in the gym. It is a curious fact that high intel
37、ligence is rarely associated with the excess adrenal activity necessary for success in the bad, competitive world of business; the highbrow comes rather low on the Order of humans. Each group sublimates its hostility, the intellectual often by writing something cutting about the business man, the la
38、tter by driving a conspicuously more expensive car than the former can afford. A complicating factor is the rise of the mass media of communication television, radio, the movies, and magazines with multimillion circulations. Many observers have pointed out that while all of these, to succeed, must b
39、e aimed at the median I. Q. , the creative efforts involved have to be made at a much higher level; this situation frequently invalidate the creative intelligence of those who earn their livings through mass communication. 46 According to :the text, which is the right description about people with I
40、. Q. s below 90? （ A） They can make intelligent judgments on complex issues. （ B） What they can read is very simple. （ C） They can go to college. （ D） They live a humble life. 47 What is the high-I. Q. peoples life like? （ A） All of them go to universities. （ B） Most of them are famous person. （ C）
41、Some of them live an ordinary life with a humble job. （ D） Most of them live a noble life. 48 What can we infer from Paragraph 2? （ A） People with high-I. Q. will not look down upon those with low-I. Q. （ B） People with low-I. Q. will not look down upon those with high-I. Q. （ C） People of different
42、 I. Q. group, either high or low, will scorn others. （ D） Highbrows will never be looked down upon. 49 The author points out the rise of mass media of communication is a complex factor, because （ A） a lot of people like the mass media and it has great influence on peoples mind. （ B） the mass media i
43、s a success and it requires creative efforts to be made. （ C） the mass media is the most effective, modern way of circulating information. （ D） the mass media aims at the median I. Q. and this fact kills the creative intelligence of people who work in this field. 50 What is this text mainly about? （
44、 A） The life of people with I. Q. s below 90. （ B） The life of people with the highest I. Q. （ C） The reason why people have different I. Q. levels. （ D） People with different I. Q. levels and the confliction among them. 50 The potential economic benefits of financial literacy extend beyond governme
45、nt budgets. More in formed consumers-not just investors-would increase the efficiency of markets and help keep dishonest sellers at bay. If financial illiteracy leads to greater debt, then increased consumption today will be at the expense of less later, as interest payments weigh on household budge
46、ts. Once people make financial decisions, they tend to stick to them even if a change might make more sense. Watson Wyatt, a consultancy, says that about half of Britons in defined-contribution pension: plans (in which retirement benefits depend on investments performance) never change the allocatio
47、n of assets. One-third have not even reviewed them for several years. There is evidence that such inertia is a feature of other financial markets, including the one for mortgages. America has had a variety of financial-education programmes for some time, generally relying on the private sector. Most
48、 large companies and many smaller ones put on investment seminars for their employees, run by outside experts. Many of those who attend these seminars later increase their saving for retirement. However, there is a fine line between education and advice. Although education and sales are meant to be
49、strictly separated, many of those giving the seminars work for firms that sell financial products. Some employers have been hesitant to sponsor financial seminars for fear of being sued, notes Lynn Dudley of the American Benefits Council, a lobby group. Two bills now before Congress at tempt to deal with this question. Meanwhile, a growing number of pension schemes offer “lifestyle“ or “life-cycle“ funds. Despite all the activity, experts cautio
