1、大学英语四级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 370及答案与解析 Section A （ A） More than dozens of people. （ B） At least 31 people. （ C） Less than 31 people. （ D） Less than dozens of people. （ A） In Iraq s northern province. （ B） In a small town of Iran. （ C） In Iran s northern province of Semnan. （ D） In a small city of Iraq. （ A） A
2、ccusations of betraying his country. （ B） Accusations of embezzling. （ C） Accusations of killing many common people. （ D） Accusations of spying for the militant group Hamas. （ A） In 2013. （ B） In 2014. （ C） In 2015. （ D） In 2012. （ A） 15 million people. （ B） 2. 16 billion people. （ C） 1.13 billion p
3、eople. （ D） 1.5 billion people. （ A） Great pressure from life and study. （ B） Individual familial inheritance. （ C） The influence of surroundings. （ D） Lots of salt and potassium in diets. （ A） To have enough sleep. （ B） To examine themselves at regular intervals. （ C） To provide better food options
4、 and health services. （ D） To do more exercise and eat healthy food. Section B （ A） Friends. （ B） Husband and wife. （ C） Sales clerk and customer. （ D） Travel agent and tourist. （ A） Staying at home. （ B） Going to Mount Tai. （ C） Going to the seaside. （ D） Going to a countryside. （ A） To go for a hi
5、king. （ B） To go to a trip alone. （ C） To see the sun rising from the sea on the top of Mount Tai. （ D） To see the sun setting in the countryside. （ A） On Friday. （ B） On Tuesday. （ C） On Monday. （ D） On Thursday. （ A） Students surf online. （ B） Changes in digital learning in China. （ C） How to reac
6、t the fact of students surfing online. （ D） The benefits of surfing online for children. （ A） About 50,000 schools. （ B） About 50 schools. （ C） About 500 schools. （ D） About 5,000 schools. （ A） They may be addicted in surfing online. （ B） Their study may be influenced. （ C） They might lose their lit
7、eracy and they cannot write. （ D） They may waste much time doing useless things. （ A） Because they think it s helpful to their study. （ B） Because surfing online is beneficial to children s writing. （ C） Because the Internet encourages them to study how to write. （ D） Because they find interesting t
8、hings to read on net. Section C （ A） Watching birds flying. （ B） Attracting and feeding wild birds. （ C） Keeping birds and feeding birds. （ D） Watching birds and doing some research. （ A） Loving different kinds of birds. （ B） Enough money. （ C） Accurate identification of birds. （ D） Making some rese
9、arch about birds. （ A） Because fewer birds appear. （ B） Because birds don t need much food. （ C） Because birds fly to remote places. （ D） Because fewer natural foods are available and air temperatures are lower. （ A） 55%. （ B） 65%. （ C） 35%. （ D） 45%. （ A） The policy of government. （ B） The law of t
10、he market. （ C） A temporary mismatch of slow-growing supply and robust demand. （ D） The effect of world s financial policy. （ A） 67 billion dollars. （ B） 56 billion dollars. （ C） More than 13 billion dollars. （ D） 36 billion dollars. （ A） Between 1908 and 1967. （ B） Between 1809 and 1908. （ C） Betwe
11、en 1879 and 1947. （ D） Between 1899 and 1918. （ A） It is mainly based on its rhythm. （ B） It doesn t depend on singer s skills. （ C） A specific type of syncopation in which melodic accents fall between metrical beats. （ D） It has a unique rhyme and rhythm. （ A） To attract more listeners. （ B） To pop
12、ularize their culture. （ C） To display their personality. （ D） To accentuate the beat. （ A） Legato. （ B） Swing. （ C） Tempered scale. （ D） Aliquot tone. 大学英语四级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 370答案与解析 Section A 1 【听力原文】 (1)At least 31 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a train collision in Northern Iran,
13、 officials say. Four carriages derailed and two caught fire after an intercity express train broke down between stations and was hit by another train early on Friday. The accident happened in subzero temperatures about 250km (150 miles) east of the capital, Tehran. Four of the fatalities were railwa
14、y employees, state media report. “The bodies of 31 dead have been identified and more than 70 people hospitalised,” State Governor Mohammad Reza Khabbaz told local media. A mechanical failure had forced the intercity express train to stop between stations, the governor said. (2)The crash occurred in
15、 Irans northern province of Semnan, on the main line between Tehran and Mashhad in the northeast. Red Crescent Director Hassan Shokrollahi said rescue efforts were hampered by the remote location of the crash site. “Due to the difficulty of access, only our helicopter has managed to reach the scene,
16、” he said. The injured were taken to hospitals in Semnan and Damghan. Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard. 1.How many people have been killed in the train collision? 2.Where did the crash occur? 1 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 3 【听力原文】 The top appeals court i
17、n Egypt overturned life sentences against former Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi and officials of the Muslim Brotherhood. The court cancelled the second of two life sentences against the former president. A death sentence against Morsi had been overturned by the same court a week before in the mid
18、dle of November. (3)The overturned charges include accusations of spying for the militant group Hamas. Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud is a lawyer for the Muslim Brotherhood. The group has been outlawed in Egypt. He told the French news agency AFP he believes the courts decision was fair because, in his
19、words, “the (first) verdict was full of legal flaws”. The former president and his associates will be retried in the two cases that were overturned. Morsi must still serve a 20-year sentence for his part in the detention and torture of protestors outside the presidential palace in 2012. Morsi became
20、 Egypts first democratically elected president in 2012. (4)But, he was arrested after being ousted by the Egyptian military in 2013. Former Defense Minister Abdel Fattah Al Sisi then took power. Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard. 3.What do the overturned charges incl
21、ude? 4.When was former Egyptian President arrested? 3 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 5 【听力原文】 Scientists said Imperial College London recently studied world blood pressure statistics between 1975 and 2015, and heres what they found: (5)1.13 billion people, more than 15 percent of the worlds
22、 population now have high blood pressure. Thats almost twice the number of people affected 40 years ago, but this is also because the world population has increased in the last 40 years and gotten older. Those with higher blood pressure today tend to live in poorer parts of the world. What causes el
23、evated blood pressure? (6)Lots of salt and potassium in diets, pollution and exposure to lead, and bad nutrition in childhood. High blood pressure can increase your risk of strokes, heart and kidney disease. But blood pressures arent rising everywhere. Rates have dropped in the U.S. and Canada. (7)E
24、xperts say better food options and health services have helped. Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard. 5.How many people in the world have high blood pressure? 6.What causes elevated blood pressure? 7.How to drop the rates of blood pressure? 5 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】
25、D 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 Section B 8 【听力原文】 W: Hi, John. You look so terrible, whats wrong with you? M: I am afraid of my test. Maybe I will fail to pass it. W: Dont worry too much about it. The test results have not come out. Maybe you will get the top of our class. M: Thank you for comfort
26、ing me. W: (8)Youre welcome, my friend. We have been working very hard the whole school year. The holiday is coming. Dont you think we need a nice holiday? M: Absolutely. Any suggestions? W: I am planning a trip. Do you want to join me? M: Why not? Id love to go with you. W: Great! But I cant make u
27、p my mind as to which city we should go. M: Er. (9)What about going to Mount Tai? W: Sounds great! The sunrise on the top of Mount Tai is a spectacle. M: (10)The dream that I am standing on the top of Mount Tai, seeing the sun rising from the sea is always in my mind. I am exciting that my dream wil
28、l come true. W: When would you like to start out? M: I will be free three days later. What about you? W: Well, let me see. We should leave sooner rather than later. (11-1)Today is Monday, we can go there on Friday. M: (11-2)OK, thats settled. See you on Friday. W: See you! Questions 8 to 11 are base
29、d on the conversation you have just heard. 8.Whats the relationship between the two speakers? 9.Whats the suggestion that the man provide? 10.Whats the dream of the man? 11.When will the two speakers start out? 8 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 9 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 12
30、【听力原文】 M:Speaking of the subject of today, (12)what changes have you seen happening in digital learning in China? W:I think there are some very good experimental projects, for example, I mentioned that Pro. He from BNUBeijing Normal University. They are doing some very interesting experimental proje
31、cts in some schools. (13)I think, there re about 50 schools where they have a lot of computers and they are really letting the students spend a lot of time with their computers. So I was impressed with that. I didnt expect to see such M:Dramatic changes? W:Theyre relatively large-scaled, 50 schools,
32、 although it is not 50,000 schools. It is not just one classroom. Thats study. It is quite a substantial size. That is just one example. My impression is that they are all quite a few people doing very interesting research projects, in order to do with digital education. M:Are you encouraging studen
33、ts to spend more time online by using computers, I mean, surfing? W:They dont need to be encouraged. Theyre all doing that. M:Yeah,they are doing that on their own, but the problem is that some of parents have the concern. (14)If children spend much more time surfing online, they might lose their li
34、teracy and they cannot write. That might be the problem. W:Well, first of all, that is not necessarily true. You cant generalize. It is true that you could waste your time surfing, but you could also do serious work surfing. So it depends on what they are doing. M:And the age of the students? W:I do
35、nt think it depends on the ages. Like the experiment I mentioned that Pro. He is doing that these are first and second grade students. They are just learning to write. (15)Why are they learning to write? Because they find interesting things to read on net. By surfing, of course they learn to read an
36、d as they learn to read, they also learn to write. Thats an example. Surfing helps them improve writing. They write better, they learn more than the other students. Its true that you can see the opposite also. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12.Whats the subject
37、 of the topic? 13.How many schools allow students to spend a lot of time in computers? 14.What result might be caused if children spend much time surfing online according to some of parents? 15.Why are students learning to write? 12 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 13 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 15 【
38、正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 Section C 16 【听力原文】 (16)Attracting and feeding wild birds are entertaining activities that have long been enjoyed by people all over the world. Feeding birds has become so popular that prepared feed mixtures are readily available. We feed birds for many reasons. Many pleasant hours
39、 can come from watching birds. A hobby often develops into a serious study of their habits. (17)Accurate identification of birds is usually the first goal. But observations that an amateur bird-watcher can make are really limitless. There is, however, responsibility associated with bird feeding, inc
40、luding a disease hazard. Attracting numbers of birds continually to the same spot can be harmful to them, particularly species that pick food from the ground contaminated by the droppings of other birds. (18)In winter feeding efforts are most satisfying to people and are of greatest benefit to birds
41、. During this time when fewer natural foods are available and air temperatures are lower, extra feeding can keep a bird warm and well. Once begun, feeding should never stop during these lean months. If you start a local increase of birds, be prepared to do what may be required to eliminate hazards t
42、o those you want to befriend. A constant supply of food should be given until the cold is over and spring has come. If feeding is stopped during severe weather, birds used to relying upon the feeders must starve. Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16.What activity does
43、the speaker refer to? 17.Whats the first goal of developing this hobby? 18.Why does the speaker say feeding efforts in winter are most satisfying? 16 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 17 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 18 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 19 【听力原文】 As online rivals whizz ahead, hotels try to be both big and nimble. Hotel com
44、panies check out well just now. (19)On May 3rd Hyatt became the latest chain to report sunny resultsprofits were up by 55% over the same quarter in 2015. In America RevPAR (revenue divided by rooms available in a given period) has risen for the past six years, according to STR, a data outfit. Analys
45、ts debate when fortunes will change. (20)Americas market has been supported by a temporary mismatch of slow-growing supply and robust demand. In the long term, however, the greatest uncertainty is not cyclical, but structural, as online firms change the industrys shape. Neither Airbnb, a room-sharin
46、g site, nor online travel agents are hotels obvious adversaries. Big hotel chains subsist on weary business travelers; Airbnb does not. Yet the growing popularity of the platform, now valued at around $25 billion, means it may siphon more guests from hotels in future. Booking sites help hotels but c
47、homp into their margins with fees of up to 25%. Last year they accounted for nearly one in five bookings in America, up from one in ten in 2006, according to Phocuswright, a research firm. In Europe, where the hotel market is more fragmented, online agents account for one in four. For hotel firms, o
48、ne solution is to get bigger. After a bidding war with Anbang, a Chinese insurer, (21)Marriott agreed to buy Starwood for more than $13 billion last month. The result will be a 1.1m room behemoth. Other firms are bulking up, too. Last year saw $67 billion of hotel mergers, according to Dealogic, a r
49、esearch firmthe highest level since 2007. Scale will help hotels battle their main competitors: other hotels. Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. 19.How much does Hyatts profit increase by? 20.What has been supported Americas market? 21.How much did Marriott agree to buy Starwood for? 19 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 20 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 21 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 22 【听力原文】 (22)Ragtime is an American musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1899 and 1918. It has had several periods of revival since then and is still
