1、国家公共英语（四级）笔试模拟试卷 98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 Sarahs father was an _. 2 Sarahs grandmother was _ years old when she died. 3 Sarahs father is the _ of her grandparents three children. 4 4. Sarahs aunt and uncle live in _. 5 Sarah is now working in _. PART B Directions: For Questions 6-10, you
3、 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 feeling very lonely when we were _. 7 The feeling of loneliness is very difficult _. 8 In order to sur
4、vive, we all put on a _. 9 It is easy to get the feeling that everyone except you is living a full, rich and busy life in _. 10 You tend to assume that your destination is less _. PART C Directions: You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to
5、 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 fundamental difference between plants and animals?
6、（ 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 TRUE about plants? （ A） They have the power o
7、f 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. （ B） Animals have more characteristics than
8、 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） That you get the right side of the tape facing
9、 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 to work. （ D） Stop the recorder. 16 What button do you press if you want to listen again what has been played? （ A） Pause but
10、ton. （ 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 members. （ D） The national interests of t
11、he 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 Group. 20 Whats the responsibility of the
12、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 Use of English (15 minutes) Directions:
13、 Read the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. 20 Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, reserved person who is fully 【 21】 _ only among people he knows well. In the presence of strangers or foreigners he often seams inhibit
14、ed. 【 22】 _ embarrassed. You have only to 【 23】 _ a commuter train any morning or evening to see the truth of this. Serious looking businessmen and women sit reading their newspapers or dozing in a corner; no one speaks. In fact, to do so would seem most unusual. 【 24】 _ , there is here an unwritten
15、 but clearly understood code of behavior which. 【 25】 _ broken, makes the person immediately the object of 【 26】 _ . It is a well-known fact that the English have a 【 27】 _ for the discussion of their weather and that, given half a chance, they will talk about it 【 28】 _ . Some people argue that it
16、is because English weather 【 29】 _ forecast and hence is a source of interest and. 【 30】 _ to everyone. This may be so. 【 31】 _ Englishmen cannot have much 【 32】 _ in the weathermen, who, after promising fine, sunny weather for the following day, are of- ten proved wrong 【 33】 _ a cloud over the Atl
17、antic brings rainy weather to all districts! The man in the street seems to be as accurate or as inaccurate as the weathermen in his 【 34】 _ . The overseas visitors may be excused for showing surprise at the number of references 【 35】 _ weather that the English make to each other in the course of a
18、single day. Very often conversational greetings are 【 36】 _ by comments on the weather. “Nice day, isnt it?“ “Beautiful!“ may well be heard instead of “Good morning, how are you?“ 【 37】 _ the foreigner may consider this exaggerated and comic, it is worthwhile pointing out that it could be used to hi
19、s ad- vantage. 【 38】 _ he wants to start a conversation with an Englishman but is 【 39】 _ to know where to begin, he could do well to mention the state of the weather. It is a safe subject which will 【 40】 _ an answer from even the most reserved of Englishmen. 21 【 21】 （ A） entertained （ B） relaxed
20、（ C） amused （ D） enlightened 22 【 22】 （ A） yet （ B） otherwise （ C） even （ D） though 23 【 23】 （ A） experience （ B） undergo （ C） travel （ D） witness 24 【 24】 （ A） Obviously （ B） Contrarily （ C） Frequently （ D） Practically 25 【 25】 （ A） unless （ B） if （ C） while （ D） as if 26 【 26】 （ A） suspicion （ B）
21、opposition （ C） attack （ D） study 27 【 27】 （ A） passion （ B） fancy （ C） necessity （ D） judgment 28 【 28】 （ A） at length （ B） to a great extent （ C） from their heart （ D） by all means 29 【 29】 （ A） follows （ B） predicts （ C） defies （ D） violates 30 【 30】 （ A） contribution （ B） deduction （ C） contempl
22、ation （ D） speculation 31 【 31】 （ A） Still （ B） Also （ C） Certainly （ D） Fundamentally 32 【 32】 （ A） faith （ B） reliance （ C） honor （ D） credit 33 【 33】 （ A） if （ B） once （ C） when （ D） whereas 34 【 34】 （ A） propositions （ B） predictions （ C） approval （ D） defiance 35 【 35】 （ A） about （ B） on （ C） a
23、s to （ D） to 36 【 36】 （ A） replaced （ B） conducted （ C） executed （ D） proposed 37 【 37】 （ A） Since （ B） Although （ C） However （ D） 13efore 38 【 38】 （ A） Even if （ B） Because （ C） If （ D） For 39 【 39】 （ A） at a loss （ B） at last （ C） in fact （ D） on the occasion 40 【 40】 （ A） stimulate （ B） constitut
24、e （ C） furnish （ D） provoke 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 Id like to propose that for sixty to ninety minutes every evening right after the early evening news, all television b
25、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
26、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
27、 difficulty 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 activi
28、ties, 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
29、TV programming. 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,
30、 as 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, th
31、e idea 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
32、 childhood without television, spent partly with radio - which at least involved the listeners 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 cause
33、s all of 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）
34、Families 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 Be
35、cause young 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 ve
36、ry popular 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
37、 only a 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. Inevi
38、tably our 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 s
39、how that 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 repor
40、t is the 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
41、 is also 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 reli
42、able observers. （ 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 wor
43、ld （ A） 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 or
44、der to 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
45、in the refrigerator.“ In my fridgeless fifties childhood, 1 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
46、all 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 techn
47、iques already existed - natural cooling, drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling. What refrigeration did promote was 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
48、are to 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
49、artificially-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 mm off your fridge next winter. You may not eat the hamburgers, but at least youll get ri
