1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 111及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 1. Many students felt that it was hard to find a satisfactory job, because_. 2. To solve this problem, universities have a role to play_. 3. If those measures are put to practice, and if there are other effective measures, students will find it m
2、ore comfortable to confront the challenge of job hunting_. 二、 Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions attached to the passage. For questions 1-7, mark： Y (for YES) if
3、 the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 2 Marriage by the Numbers When Laurie Aronson was 29, she had little patience for people w
4、ho inquired why she still wasnt married. “Im not one of those unmarried women who sit home Friday night and cry,“ she said. As she passed 35, however, and one relationship after another failed to lead to the altar, she began to worry. “Things were kinking pretty depressive,“ she says. But then a clo
5、se friends brother a man shed known for yearsdivorced. Slowly their friendship blossomed into romance. At 39, Aronson married him, becoming Laurie Aronson Starr and the stepmother to his three kids. Then, after five years of treatment, she became pregnant with a son wholl be 4 in July. “My parents a
6、re thrilledits a relief for everyone,“ says Starr, now 49. “I wish I could have found the right person earlier and had more children. But Im very happy now.“ As happy endings go, hers has a particularly delicious irony. Twenty years ago this week, Aronson was one of more than a dozen single women fe
7、atured in the cover story of the magazine of Newsweek. In “The Marriage Crunch,“ the magazine reported on new research predicting that white, college-educated women who failed to marry in their 20s. According to the research, a woman who remained single at 30 had only a 20 percent chance of ever mar
8、rying. By 35, the probability dropped to 5 percent. In the storys most infamous line, it is reported that a 40-year-old single woman was “more likely to be killed by a terrorist“ than to ever marry. That comparison wasnt in the study, and even in those pre-9/11 days, it struck many people as an offe
9、nsive analogy (类推 ). Nonetheless, it quickly became established in pop culture and is still routinely cited in TV shows and news stories. Across the country, women reacted the research in Newsweek with fury, anxietyand skepticism. “The popular media have invented a national marital crisis on the bas
10、is of a single academic experiment. of doubtful statistical merit,“ wrote Susan Faludi, then a 27-year-old reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, who saw the controversy as one example against feminism (男女平等主义 ). Twenty years later, the situation looks far brighter. Those odds-shell-marry statistics
11、 turned out to be too pessimistic: today it appears that about 90 percent of baby-boomer men and women either have married or will marry, a ratio thats well in line with historical averages. And these days, about half of all women get married by their 20s, as they did in 1960. At least 14 percent of
12、 women born between 1955 and 1964 married after the age of 30. Today the median age for a first marriage25 for women, 27 for menis higher than ever before. Not everyone wants to marry, of course. And were long past those Jane Austen days when being “marriage-minded“ was primarily a female quality; t
13、oday many men openly hope for a wife just as much as women long for a husband. The good news is that older singles who desire a spouse appear to face far kinder odds nowadays. When the Census last passed the numbers in 1996, a single woman at 40 had a 40.8 percent chance of eventually marrying. Toda
14、y those odds are probably even higherand may be only slightly worse than the probability of correctly choosing “heads“ or “tails“ in a coin toss. To mark the anniversary of the cover story, the newspaper of Newsweek located 11 of the 14 single women in the story. Among them, eight are married and th
15、ree remain single. Several have children or stepchildren. None divorced. Twenty years ago Andrea Quattrocchi was a career-focused Boston hotel executive and reluctant to settle for a spouse who didnt share her fondness for sailing and sushi. Six years later she met her husband at a beachfront bars;
16、they married when she was 36. Today shes a stay-at-home mom with three kidsand yes, the couple regularly enjoys sushi and sailing. “You can have it all today if you waitthats what Id tell my daughter,“ she says. “Enjoy your life when youre single, then find someone in your 30s like Mommy did.“ The r
17、esearch that led to the marriage predictions began at Harvard and Yale in the mid-1980s. Three researchers- Nell Bennett, David Bloom and Patricia Craigbegan exploring why so many women werent marrying in their 20s, as most Americans traditionally had. Would these women still marry someday, or not a
18、t all? To find an answer, they used “life table“ techniques, applying data from past age group to predict future behaviorthe same method typically used to predict death rates. “Its the important tool of demography (人口统计学 ),“ says Johns Hopkins sociologist Andrew Cherlin. “They were looking at 40-yea
19、r-olds and making predictions for 20-year-olds.“ The researchers focused on women, not men, largely because government statisticians had collected better age-of-marriage data for females as part of its studies on birth patterns and birthrates. Despite the flawed statistics, some observers say the st
20、ory holds up well. “Once you got over the sensational aspects, there was a lot of substance,“ says E. Kay Trimberger, a sociologist at Sonoma State University and author of “The New Single Woman.“ Among other trends the original story identified were the rise in cohabitation, the emergence of single
21、 mothers by choice, the fact that many single women were very happy with their lives, and an increasingly out-of-the-closet gay population as factors affecting marriage rates. Some demographers immediately doubted the odds. Within months Census researchers did their own study and concluded that a 40
22、-year-old single woman really had a 17 to 23 percent probability of eventually marrying, not 2.6 percent. In retrospect, the demographers faced a huge challenge in getting these predictions right. Thats because marital behavior was undergoing a profound shift. Before 1980, a woman who hadnt married
23、by 30 probably never would. But times were changing. “Women werent remaining unmarried because marriage was less appealing, but because it was becoming more appealing to wait,“ says Steven Martin, a University of Maryland sociologist. Such unexpected shifts are part of what makes demographic forecas
24、ting extremely difficult, not unlike making weather forecasts in the midst of a hurricane. Even though the original forecasts were wrong, todays researchers remain respectful of Bennett, Bloom and Craigs work. Their marriage-forecast numbers were only a minor part of their study, and the authors rem
25、ain proud of their papers larger findings on the diverging marriage rates between blacks and whites and the role that education plays in marriage. Today a new generation of sociologists (社会学家 ) continues to tinker (修补 ) with the delayed-marriage puzzle. 2 When Laurie Aronson was over 35, she did not
26、 feel worried because she was unwilling to get married. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 According to the research in Newsweek, it was predicted that the older an after-her-20s but unmarried woman was, the less possibly she would marry. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 Susan Faludi disagreed with the prediction of th
27、e research in Newsweek. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 In 1960, there are more than 50% of all women that would get married before their 20s. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 From the passage, it is known most men in those Jane Austen days were willing to keep single. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 7 Among the 14 single wom
28、en in the cover story of Newsweek, eight of them are married and the rest six still remain single now. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 8 The “life table“ techniques can be also adopted to predict death rates. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 9 According to Steven Martin, women retrained unmarried because it was becoming
29、 mote appealing to _. 10 Nowadays, demographic forecasting is becoming extremely difficult partly because of _. 11 Today a new generation of sociologists continues to further study the puzzle of _. Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. A
30、t the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best an
31、swer. （ A） Attend the birthday party. （ B） Miss the birthday party. （ C） Go home before birthday party. （ D） Feel unhappy at the party. （ A） She is a secretary. （ B） She is a reporter. （ C） She is a novelist. （ D） She is a shop assistant. （ A） At gas station. （ B） At a bank. （ C） At a hospital. （ D）
32、 At a school. （ A） It is thundering. （ B） The wind blows heavily. （ C） Somebody is pouring water. （ D） It is raining heavily. （ A） His memory is very terrific. （ B） He is very familiar with the route. （ C） He is tired of having a meeting at that hotel. （ D） He has many meetings in that hotel. （ A） H
33、e is going to sign a contract. （ B） He is signing his check to buy something. （ C） He wants to skim through the piece. （ D） He wants to register his name to enroll a course. （ A） Olnly the man performs badly in the examination. （ B） The man is likely to pass the examination. （ C） Somebody may be wor
34、se than the man. （ D） The woman advices the man not to give up. （ A） They cant get through to David. （ B） David has been busy recently. （ C） They are going to invite David to see a film. （ D） They want to see the film without David. （ A） Tennis sets. （ B） Computer and TV set. （ C） Bookcase and book
35、shelf. （ D） Refrigerator and kitchen stuff. （ A） Give them to the second and third year students for free. （ B） Sell them to the second-hand bookshop. （ C） Advertise them in the student newspaper for sale. （ D） Advertise them on the university notice boards. （ A） It may not pay well. （ B） It may not
36、 come on time. （ C） It may not take your goods. （ D） It may charge the quote. （ A） In a shop today. （ B） In a street today. （ C） In the street yesterday. （ D） In a shop yesterday. （ A） It sold sport shoes near a bank. （ B） It sold sport shoes but soon went bankrupt. （ C） It sold sport suits near a b
37、ank. （ D） It sold sport suits but soon went bankrupt. （ A） Because his beer was not fine. （ B） Because he sold hard drinks. （ C） Because he sold beer. （ D） Because his hard drinks were not fine. （ A） Some people didnt support him. （ B） Some people are jealous of him. （ C） His wife wanted him to give
38、 up his business. （ D） He has no confidence to run his business any more. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must
39、choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. （ A） Coal, oil and iron. （ B） Materials and production. （ C） Oil, electricity and labor. （ D） Trained college graduates. （ A） Industry and education have a clear mutuality of interests. （ B） Businessmen and educators have a harmoniou
40、s friendship. （ C） Industry and training are inseparable. （ D） Universities and corporation contributions are not important. （ A） Mutual distrust. （ B） Rapid expanding of economy. （ C） High taxes. （ D） Radicals. （ A） Computers are fast. （ B） Computers do not often provide evidences or witnesses. （ C
41、） Computers can replace paperwork. （ D） Computers are safe from human temptation. （ A） The police, found his name in the records of an illegal gambling operation. （ B） His customer reported to the police about the crime. （ C） He confessed his crime to the police. （ D） The bank noticed his crime and
42、reported it to the police. （ A） Because most computer criminals are major employees. （ B） Because many employees use computers to steal money. （ C） Because they do not know how to deal with computer crime at all. （ D） Because there might be more computer crimes done by experts. （ A） Because both far
43、mers and scientists try. to make weather forecast. （ B） Because people in all countries make weather forecast. （ C） Because it is easy to make weather forecast. （ D） Because he wants to make it clear how important to make weather forecast. （ A） Wet and stormy weather is on the way. （ B） Fine weather
44、 is expected. （ C） Its going to be cold. （ D） The rain will continue. （ A） Things far away are easy to be recognized. （ B） Sounds far away are clearly heard. （ C） A rainbow appears during rainy weather. （ D） The air is filled with water. （ A） It will clear up soon. （ B） Its going to rain. （ C） It wi
45、ll be a fine day. （ D） The rain will stop. Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks n
46、umbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the 37 Together, the United States and Brazil produce more tha
47、n 70% of the worlds alcohol. In the United States, alcohol is produced mostly from corn, and is also【 B1】 with a high tax. Brazilian alcohol【 B2】 is mainly from sugar cane. In Brazil, about 40% of all motor fuel is alcohol. Many Brazilians drive flex-fuel【 B3】 , which can use either gasoline or alco
48、hol. As this【 B4】 is so successful, General Motors has stopped making cars for the Brazilian market that only use gasoline. In the United States, vehicles that nm on pure alcohol are【 B5】 . But most cars can run on a mixture of gasoline and 10% alcohol. Some states require【 B6】 alcohol and gas to cu
49、t pollution. Yet the use of an important food crop for fuel has led to【 B7】 . Alcohol now makes up about 12% of all corn use in the United States. At【 B8】 growth rates, that could nearly double by 2015. Some people worry that【 B9】 . Therefore, fuel researchers are exploring additional ways to make alcohol.【 B10】 . This material is known as stover. But stover protects against soil loss to wind and water.【 B11】 . 37 【 B1】 38 【 B2】 39 【 B3】 40 【 B4】 41 【 B5】 42 【 B6】 43
