1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 278 及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 Write a composition on my view on producing nuclear weapons. Your composition should be more than 120 words. 1. 陈述你的观点。 2. 你的理由。 3. 结论。 二、 Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions: In this part, you will have
2、 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 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
3、 information is not given in the passage. 1 Should We Eat Living Foods or Dead Foods? Why should this question arise? Because the peoples of America and the world suffer grievously from widespread disease. Recent research has revealed that the quality of nutrients we put into our bodies determines t
4、he quality of our lives. We are all aware that engines perform well or poorly, depending upon the quality of the fuel used. Few of us realize that food quality directly determines our physical and mental performance abilities. I frequently receive phone calls and letters that go like this: Is it oka
5、y to eat corn? Potatoes? Bread? Prepared cereals? Beans? Tofu? And many other substances which must be cooked in order to be eaten. What questioners really meant was why these foods arent okay? I must then tell them of the many evils and curses that result from the eating of foods that have been hea
6、t deranged(扰乱 ). I tell them: “If you cant relish(享受 ) it in the fresh raw state, you shouldnt be eating it at all. “ To save myself a lot of letters and communications, I will, in this article, spell out many of the salient reasons why “dead“ foods should never enter the human mouth. The First thin
7、g I do with writers and callers is present the benefits of the living food enormous diet. For instance I might say: Living food eaters have more energy and stamina. Then I get the inevitable “why“ which is a way of saying “prove it.“ I proceed to heighten their curiosity with further statements like
8、: Those who live on living foods are better rested and better slept in less time. Those who eat most living foods are more alert, think clearer, sharper and more logically. Those who undertake the eating of live foods, especially in conjunction with an exercise regime(生活方式 ), experience drastic weig
9、ht loss. This is great for those people who need to lose weight. Those who rely upon living foods become more active and precise in their motions and actions as well as their thoughts. Hence they perform much better and with more competence. Living food eaters are less subject to stresses and nervou
10、s tensions than conventional eaters. Moreover, if an exercise regime of 15 to 30 minutes a day is followed, they are even less subject to stress. Living food eaters become virtually sickness-free! Of course a great deal of skepticism is often expressed after all, they need dispensation(特赦 ) as well
11、as justification for their love affairs with pizza, bread, potatoes and so on. They may even tell me that this is all just anecdotal, that is, just like old wives tales. I then tell them: “Why not try it yourself and experience the wonderful results. Then you can tell your own experiences anecdotall
12、y just as you are now anecdotally expressing your skepticism.“ Then I proceed to start putting the clinchers(关键性的话 ) on my case as follows: In nature all animals eat living foods as yielded up by nature. Only humans cook their foods and only humans suffer widespread sicknesses and ailments. Only hum
13、ans regularly and .consistently suffer premature death. Natural death in humans is so rare that it isnt even listed as a cause of death in our almanacs or statistics. Then the question often arises: “Whats so terrible about cooking foods? Everybody does it.“ To which I respond: “Just about everybody
14、 has cavities, poor eyesight that requires glasses, colds and other sicknesses, dont they?“ Then I answer further with some statements and citations that are obviously true: Cooking is a process of food destruction from the moment heat is applied to the foodstuff. Long before dry ashes result, food
15、values are totally destroyed. If you put your hand for just a moment into boiling water, or on a hot stove, that should forever persuade you just how destructive temperatures for perhaps half an hour or more are! What was living substance becomes totally dead very rapidly with exposure to heat! Prot
16、eins are completely devoid of nutritive values at temperatures commonly applied in cooking. Worse yet. Cooking renders foods toxic! The toxicity of the deranged debris of cooking is confirmed by the doubling and tripling of the white blood cells after the eating of a cooked food meal. The white bloo
17、d cells are a first line of defense and are, collectively, popularly called “the immune system.“ As confirmed by hundred of researches cited in the prestigious National Academy of Sciences National Research Councils book, “Diet, Nutrition and Cancer, all cooking quickly generates carcinogens(诱癌物质 )
18、in foods. When you eat cooked proteins and fats you are eating numerous carcinogenic products caused by cooking. Vitamins are rather quickly destroyed by cooking. Minerals quickly lose their organic context and are returned to their native state as they occur in soil, sea water, rocks, metals and so
19、 on. Over 90% of Americans have plaque in their arteries! Worse yet, inorganic minerals are highly toxic. Cooked foods not only take longer to digest but often prove to be indigestible as in the case of heated proteins. Cooked foods quickly putrefy (腐烂 ) in the intestinal (肠内的 ) tract while living f
20、oods are almost totally absorbed before theyre oxidized enough for yeast and bacterial ferments (发酵 ) and putrefaction. This evidenced by the fact that the average conventional eater has about two pounds of intestinal bacteria whereas living food eaters have only a few ounces. About 20% of the feces
21、 of cooked food eaters are dead bacteria whereas living food eaters give off only a fraction of dead bacteria. If you cook a potato and put it on the counter alongside a raw one, the raw potato will last for weeks and even sprout whereas the cooked potato will ferment in one or two days. This gives
22、you some idea about what happens to cooked foods in the intestinal tract where fermentation and putrefaction that may take place in a day or two in the open occurs in an hour or two in the intestinal tract. Again, indigestion is an indication that fermentation and/or putrefaction is taking place. Th
23、us you can see that dead foods make dull, diseased and sooner dead people. You dont have to take my word for in Get yourself some guinea pigs, white mice or white rats. What humans take years to exhibit, they manifest within weeks. Feed a control group their regular diet in a raw condition. Feed the
24、 other control group the same foods but cooked! Better yet, you Can go on a raw food or living foods diet and see the wonderful results enumerated herein for yourself! Of course you may have to go through discomforts when the body, with better foods, begins purifying itself. I think this rather nice
25、ly sums up the most salient reasons why you should shun (回避 ) cooked foods-why you should, if you treasure health and happiness, eat only living foods! 2 This article tries to advise that we should eat not cooked foods but living foods. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 Few of us realize that food quality dir
26、ectly determines our physical and mental performance abilities. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 Many questioners ask me about my hobbies. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 The First thing I do with writers and callers is present the benefits of the cooked food enormous diet. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 According to the a
27、uthor, living food eaters are more subject to stresses and nervous tensions than conventional eaters. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 7 According to the author, cooking is a process of food destruction from the moment heat is applied to the foodstuff. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 8 When you eat cooked proteins and f
28、ats you are eating few carcinogenic products caused by cooking. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 9 Cooked foods not only take longer to digest but often prove to be indigestible as in the case of_. 10 This evidenced by the fact that the average conventional eater has about two pounds of intestinal bacteria whe
29、reas living food eaters have_. 11 If you cook a potato and put it on the counter alongside a raw one, the raw potato will last for weeks and even sprout whereas the cooked potato will ferment in_. Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At
30、 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 ans
31、wer. （ A） He might lend her his extra pen. （ B） He might give her some ink. （ C） He might offer her a pencil. （ D） He might tell her to buy a new pen. （ A） Once a week. （ B） Twice a week. （ C） Three times a week. （ D） Four times a week. （ A） Joan may have taken a wrong train. （ B） Joan wont come to
32、the conference. （ C） Joan will miss the next conference. （ D） Joan may be late for the opening speech. （ A） He feels the Smiths have done a clever thing. （ B） He thinks that it is unwise to invest all their money in stocks. （ C） He thinks the Smiths should buy stocks later. （ D） He thinks that the S
33、miths should move. （ A） The woman should get another job. （ B） The woman should be more patient. （ C） The woman congratulated the wrong person. （ D） The woman was waiting in the wrong place. （ A） The transportation for the trip is free. （ B） The class dont enjoy going on the field trip. （ C） Some pe
34、ople may not go on the trip. （ D） All of the class members have paid the fee. （ A） Compare her own papers to others. （ B） Watch out for the usual typing mistakes. （ C） Have someone else type her papers. （ D） Ask another person to check her papers. （ A） He did better than expected. （ B） He failed his
35、 test. （ C） He always gets excellent grades. （ D） He found his notes. （ A） He will have the final exam on that day. （ B） He has other papers to prepare. （ C） He has been iii for 4 days. （ D） He isnt able to borrow the textbook from the library. （ A） Prof. Brown. （ B） The Dean. （ C） The doctor. （ D）
36、The assistant. （ A） After having the request signed by the doctor. （ B） After meeting Prof. Brown. （ C） After talking with the Dean. （ D） After meeting Mr. Cheng. （ A） The long distance between his home town and New York. （ B） His unpopular character. （ C） The high unemployment rate in New York. （ D
37、） His criminal record. （ A） He wanted to be put in prison again. （ B） He needed the money to support his family. （ C） He hated the barber there. （ D） He wanted to make himself well known. （ A） Mr. Spears enjoyed living in prison. （ B） Mr. Spears was known as a greedy man in his community. （ C） The p
38、olice in New York were not very efficient. （ D） The only way for Mr. Spears to support his family was by going to prison again. （ A） To smoke in a public place. （ B） To make a fool of oneself. （ C） To smoke when a girl is in the room. （ D） To spit in the street. （ A） She is Prof. Jamesons daughter.
39、（ B） She works part-time as Prof. Jamesons secretary. （ C） She used to do the job herself. （ D） She just came out of an interview for the job. （ A） It should be higher. （ B） Its satisfied. （ C） Its the same as the post office pays. （ D） It varies according to the persons experience. （ A） Make up hom
40、ework problems. （ B） Do research in the library. （ C） Teach an introductory economics course. （ D） Grade homework sets and record them on the computer. （ A） He wonders if hell have enough time to do the job. （ B） He is afraid he wont know enough to do the job well. （ C） He fears that the job may be
41、too boring. （ D） He thinks Prof. Jameson has someone else in mind. 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 choose
42、the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. （ A） Little opportunity to rest during the day. （ B） Not drinking enough coffee. （ C） Sitting the entire day. （ D） Exercising too much. （ A） To make suggestions about proper nutrition. （ B） To report the latest breakthroughs in medical scie
43、nce. （ C） To talk about sleeping problems. （ D） To offer advice on how to increase ones energy. （ A） Late 1950s. （ B） Late 1900s. （ C） 1960s to 1970s. （ D） 1980. （ A） More and more women join the movement fighting for their fights. （ B） Womens employment covers most of fields. （ C） There are 7 milli
44、on women in U.S. who have the rights to vote. （ D） Men and womens voting number is 7 million in difference. （ A） Because women were not satisfied with the traditional roles of wife and mother. （ B） Because women are capable and independent. （ C） Because they want to combine themselves with outside w
45、orld. （ D） Both B and C. （ A） Women have changed their status. （ B） Womens liberation movement. （ C） Womens political rights. （ D） Women become powerful working force in U.S Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you s
46、hould listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered 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,
47、you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the 36 The way of life in Greek city-states remained mostly the same for a long time. People in the【 B1】 _center lived in low apartment buildings or single-family homes, depending on their wealth. Dwellings, public buildings, and t
48、emples were situated around the place where people【 B2】 _for conversation and to buy food and crafts at dally markets. Citizens also lived in small villages or farmhouses【 B3】 _around the city-states countryside. In Athens, more people lived outside the citys wall than【 B4】 _. Houses were simple,【 B
49、5】 _bedrooms, storage moms, and a kitchen around a small inner courtyard, but no bathrooms. Waste was dumped in a pit outside the door and then collected for【 B6】 _in the countryside. Most families were nuclear, meaning a household【 B7】 _of a single set of parents and their children, but generally no other relatives. Fathers were【 B8】 _for supporting the family by work or by investments in land and c0rrnnerce. Mothers were responsible for managing the households supplies a
