1、国家公共英语（四级）笔试模拟试卷 79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 Many people can remember feelin
3、g very lonely when we were _ 7 The feeling of loneliness is very difficult to_ 8 In order to survive, we all put on a_ 9 It is easy to get the feeling that everyone except_ . 10 you is making a full, rich and busy life in_ PART C Directions: You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listen
4、ing 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 What is the most fundamen
5、tal difference between plants and animals? （ A） Plants produce their own food but animals dont. （ B） Plant cells have a wall which is non-living in chemical nature but animal cells havent. （ C） Plants are green but animals arent. （ D） Plants cant move but animals can. 12 Which of the following is TR
6、UE about plants? （ A） They have the power of locomotion. （ B） They have a wider range of foods than animals. （ C） They are very diverse in their external appearance. （ D） They are less sensitive than animals. 13 What can we infer from the passage? （ A） Plants have more characteristics than animals.
7、（ B） Animals have more characteristics than plants. （ C） Plants and animals are different in several ways. （ D） Plants and animals are less powerful than human beings. 14 What must you make sure when you load the cassette? （ A） That you open the recorder. （ B） That you get the power supply. （ C） Tha
8、t you get the right side of the tape facing you. （ D） That you switch the recorder on. 15 What may the red thing do besides recording? （ A） Wipe off the sound on the tape. （ B） Play the recorder. （ C） Set the recorder work. （ D） Stop the recorder. 16 What button do you press if you want to listen ag
9、ain what has been played? （ A） Pause button. （ B） Record button. （ C） Forward button. （ D） Rewind button. 17 Whose interests does the Council of Ministers represent? （ A） The community interests. （ B） The interests of the foreign ministers from the member nations. （ C） The interests of the Council m
10、embers. （ D） The national interests of the members. 18 How many members did European Parliament have in 1995? （ A） 189. （ B） 626. （ C） 99. （ D） 17. 19 Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of the political groups? （ A） Communists. （ B） Socialists. （ C） The Liberal Democratic. （ D） Reform Gr
11、oup. 20 Whats the responsibility of the Court of Auditors? （ A） Reviews the legality of acts of the Commission and Council. （ B） Oversees long-term investment. （ C） Monitors the revenues and expenditures of the EU. （ D） Advises the Commission and the Council on general economic policy. 一、 Section II
12、 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 The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases 【 21】 _ the trial of Rosemary W
13、est. In a significant 【 22】 _ of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a 【 23】 _ bill that will propose making payments to witnesses 【 24】 _ and will strictly control the amount of 【 25】 _ that can be given to a case 【 26】 _ a trial begins. In a letter to Ge
14、rald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he 【 27】 _ with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not 【 28】 _ sufficient control. 【 29】 _ of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a 【 30】 _ of media protest when he sai
15、d the 【 31】 _ of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges 【 32】 _ to Parliament. The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which 【 33】 _ the European Convention on Human Rights legally 【 34】 _ in Britain, laid down that everybody was 【 35】 _ to
16、 privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families. “Press freedoms will be in safe hands 【 36】_ our British judges,“ he said. Witness payments became an 【 37】 _ after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were 【 38】 _ to have re
17、ceived payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised 【 39】 _ witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to 【 40】 _ guilty verdicts. 21 【 21】 （ A） as to （ B） for instance （ C） in particular （ D） such as 22 【 22】 （ A） tightening （ B） intensifying （ C） f
18、ocusing （ D） fastening 23 【 23】 （ A） sketch （ B） rough （ C） preliminary （ D） draft 24 【 24】 （ A） illogical （ B） illegal （ C） improbable （ D） improper 25 【 25】 （ A） publicity （ B） penalty （ C） popularity （ D） peculiarity 26 【 26】 （ A） since （ B） if （ C） before （ D） as 27 【 27】 （ A） sided （ B） shared
19、（ C） complied （ D） agreed 28 【 28】 （ A） present （ B） offer （ C） manifest （ D） indicate 29 【 29】 （ A） Release （ B） Publication （ C） Printing （ D） Exposure 30 【 30】 （ A） storm （ B） rage （ C） flare （ D） flash 31 【 31】 （ A） translation （ B） interpretation （ C） exhibition （ D） demonstration 32 【 32】 （ A）
20、 better than （ B） other than （ C） rather than （ D） sooner than 33 【 33】 （ A） changes （ B） makes （ C） sets （ D） turns 34 【 34】 （ A） binding （ B） convincing （ C） restraining （ D） sustaining 35 【 35】 （ A） authorized （ B） credited （ C） entitled （ D） qualified 36 【 36】 （ A） with （ B） to （ C） from （ D） by
21、 37 【 37】 （ A） impact （ B） incident （ C） inference （ D） issue 38 【 38】 （ A） stated （ B） remarked （ C） said （ D） told 39 【 39】 （ A） what （ B） when （ C） which （ D） that 40 【 40】 （ A） assure （ B） confide （ C） ensure （ D） guarantee Part B Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions b
22、elow each text by choosing A, B, C or D . Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 40 Id like to propose that for sixty to ninety minutes every evening fight after the early evening news, all television broadcasting in America be prohibited by law. Let us take a serious, reasonable look at what the resu
23、lts 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 with one another. It is well known that many of our problems everything, in fact, from the generation
24、 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 difficulty of one kind or another. By using the quiet family hour to discuss our problems, we might get
25、 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, they might take a ride together to watch the sunset, or they might take a walk together (remember
26、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 programming. Educators report that the generation growing up with television can barely write an Engli
27、sh 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 it was in the past: reading aloud. Few hobbies bring a family closer together than gathering around a
28、nd 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 idea of an hour without TV seems radical. What will parents do without the electronic baby-sitter? How
29、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 childhood without television, spent partly with radio which at least involved the listeners imagination
30、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 of the following EXCEPT （ A） the high divorce rate. （ B） a real family hour. （ C） the generation gap. （
31、 D） some forms of metal 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） Families could take a ride together. （ D） We would have a new view to neighborhood. 43 According to the author
32、, （ 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 young people nowadays don t read much, （ A） they find TV very entertaining. （ B） they have a lot of time
33、 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 popular among people for only twenty-five years. （ B） TV is an electronic baby-sitter. （ C） we might get b
34、etter shows. （ D） radio involves the listeners 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 few intimately. Of any public event that has wide effects we see at best only a phase and an aspect. T
35、his is true that the eminent insiders who draft treaties, make laws, andissue orders, as it is of those who have treaties framed on them, laws promulgated to them, orders given at them. Inevitably our opinions cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, many things, that we can directly observe. S
36、o 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 that he himself brings something to the scene which later he takes away from it, that oftener than not w
37、hat 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 the joint product of the knower and known, in which the role of the observer is always selective and us
38、ually 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 paragraphes, （ A） mans life is also insignificant. （ B） mans opinions can not be accurate at all. （ C） human observations in general
39、are all but partial. （ D） man can not 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 observers. （ D） do not have correct information at all. 48 The word “naive“ in “a naive picture of t
40、he scene“ most likely means （ A） uneducated. （ B） immature. （ C） pure and reliable. （ D） informal. 49 The second paragraph suggests that individual consciousness of the phenomenal world （ A） is always fallacious. （ B） is always reliable. （ C） expresses a fusion of the subjective and the objective re
41、alities. （ 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 create. （ B） selects with the intention to create new ideas. （ C） selects and creates unconsciously and simult
42、aneously. （ 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 refrigerator.“ In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthy. The milkman came every day, the
43、 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 kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on food deliveries hav
44、e 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 techniques already existed natural cooling, drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling. What refrigeration did promote wa
45、s marketing marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the world in search of a good price. So most of the worlds fridges are to be found, not in the tropics where they might prove useful, but in the rich countries with mild temperatures where
46、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 artificially-heated housewhile outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge. The fridges effect upon th
47、e 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 fridge next winter. You may not eat the hamburgers, but at least youll get rid of that terrible hum. 51 The statement
48、“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 not accustomed to fridges even in his fifties. （ C） there was no fridge in the authors home in the 1950s. （ D） the frid
49、ge 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 was 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.
