1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 298及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition. Suppose you are required to write a “Want Ad for the Dean“. You are supposed to base this ad on the outline given below Duties: Meeting with students; presenting oral and writte
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3、(913) 8402815. Applications will be considered through August 15, 2006. Help Wanted 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
4、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 information is not given in the passage. 1 Take to the Hills! The rider galloped at top speed down the hil
5、l and on into the valley, through the pouring rain. “The dam is going!“ A few residents of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, took the riders advice and lived. Thousands of people, however, either never got the riders message or chose to disregard it. Many of those who didnt heed the warning paid with their l
6、ives. The citizens of Johnstown in 1889 had good reason for ignoring the advice. Once a year the old South Fork Dam seemed about to burst. The cry, “Take to the hills.“ had become an annual false alarm. This time, however, the riders warning should have been taken in earnest. The rider was John G. P
7、arke, a civil engineer who was in charge of the dam. The Great South Fork Dam was a huge earthen dike holding back the waters of an artificial lake. The dam had been constructed without any stone or cement. It had been built by piling up layer upon layer of soil, until the dam was 100 feet high. It
8、was 90 feet wide at its base. The dam had passed through the hands of a series of owners. In recent years the dam and the lake behind it had been bought by a group of millionaires. The millionaires called themselves the Great South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club. They spent thousands of dollars stock
9、ing the lake with fish. They also added screens to prevent the fish from getting out through the dams drainage holes. Fishing was good, and the lake had never been higher than that spring of 1889. May had been an unusually rainy month. The streets in the lower parts of Johnstown were already flooded
10、 with six feet of water. Behind the dam, the lake had been rising at the rate of one foot per hour. The owners of the fishing club sent workers to pile more dirt on top of the dam to keep it from overflowing. The owners also ordered the workers to remove the screens, which had become jammed with fis
11、h, sticks, and other debris. The workers tried hard to clear the jam, but John Parkes trained engineers eye could see that their efforts would be useless. Parke saddled a horse and began his ride through the valley warning people of the arriving floodwater. The rain continued to pour. At noon, the w
12、ater washed over the top of the dam. Almost immediately a big notch developed in the top of the dike. Then, according to witnesses, the whole dam simply disappeared. One minute there was a dam, and the next minute nothing. The lake moved into the valley like a living thing. In little more than half
13、an hour, the dam emptied completely, sending 45 billion gallons of water down the valley toward Johnstown. A wave of water reaching 125 feet high raced toward the city, leaping forward at the rate of 22 feet per second. The huge wall of water approached East Conemaugh, a suburb of Johnstown. As it d
14、id, railroad engineer John Hess looked up from the string of freight cars his locomotive was pushing. He saw the water bearing down on him, now moving at 50 miles per hour. Hess moved the locomotives throttle to wide open. Still pushing a string of freight cars before him, he raced the advancing flo
15、od into East Conemaugh. Hess tied down the locomotives whistle, and its screaming blast preceded the train into the village. Johnstown was a railroad city. People in the whole Johnstown area knew that a tied-down whistle could only mean a disaster. And the already flooded streets told them what kind
16、 of disaster it was. Many people who had ignored earlier warnings now headed for the hills. Unable to reach the center of Johnstown, railroader Hess jumped from the locomotive cab in East Conemaugh, ran into his house, and roused his family. The Hesses made their way up the side of a hill just befor
17、e the flood hit the village. As the great tumbling hill of water roared on toward the center of Johnstown, it ran into the East Conemaugh rail yard. In the yard was a roundhouse (机车库 ) containing 37 locomotives. The onrushing flood swept away both roundhouse and engines. The rush of waters was so fo
18、rceful that it carried the locomotives, weighing 40 tons each, on top of the flood. The rolling mountain of water, now filled with locomotives, freight cars, houses, trees, horses, and humans, rushed on. A great cloud of dust and moisture rolled before the racing floodwaters. The dust cloud was so h
19、eavy that many residents of Johnstown never saw the rolling floodwaters behind it. The cloud was quickly named the death mist. The mountain of water continued its headlong rush. Just before it reached Johnstown, it destroyed the Gautier Wire Works.The buildings of the wire works and its hundreds of
20、miles of flesh-piercing barbed wire were added to the swirling debris. The giant rolling hill of water rushed into the heart of Johnstown. The flood swept into two distinct parts like the arms of the letter Y. One arm of the flood roared through the residential part of town. Churches, schools, and h
21、ouses gave way before its power; 800 homes were flushed away. The second arm of the flood, a rumbling mass of houses, trains, people, and animals, swept up to a stone bridge that spanned the valley. The debris caught in the bridges stone arches and became wedged there. A collection of hundreds of pa
22、rts of buildings and thousands of residents became hopelessly bound in coils of barbed wire. The water formed a great swirling whirlpool behind them. Hundreds of additional people had approached the whirlpool on makeshift (临时代用的 ) rafts (木筏 ) made from pieces of wreckage. They leaped onto the swirli
23、ng debris, joining the people already trapped there. Then a new horror broke out. Many stoves, their fires still burning floated into and ignited the mass of debris. Residents on the bridge overhead and on the nearby shore managed to rescue some people by reaching for them with long poles and ropes.
24、Thousands of victims found themselves trapped between the still rising water and the flames. Some accounts of the flood claim that 200 people committed suicide by deliberately jumping into the flames. They were just a few of the 2,000 to 7,000 people believed to have lost their lives at Johnstown. A
25、 week after the flood, a demolition (爆破 ) expert placed nine 50-pound cases of dynamite in the debris and cleared the jam. The waters were free to pass under the bridge and continue the 75-mile trip down the valley to Pittsburgh. The people of that city made an astounding find. The floodwaters had c
26、arried a piece of wooden flooring from Johnstown to Pittsburgh. On that bit of wreckage, completely unhurt by the wild tide, was a healthy five-month-old baby. 2 All around the world, floods cause loss of life and destruction of property. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 Few people believed the dam had been
27、burst because there had been too many false alarms. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 The millionaires of the Great South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, who were more concerned with their fishing club than with the safety of the people of Johnstown, did nothing effective to prevent the flood. （ A） Y （ B） N （
28、C） NG 5 Putting screens over the dams drainage holes turned Out to be a fatal mistake a major error that led to the bursting of the dam. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 Hundreds of people tried to escape the Johnstown flood by making rafts from pieces of wreckage but none of them survived. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C
29、） NG 7 If John Hess hadnt raced his locomotive into town with the whistle tied down, the flood would not have swept away the other locomotives in the rail yard. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 8 The second part of the flood, carrying people, houses, and other things with it, moved swiftly to a bridge that cro
30、ssed the valley. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 9 According to the article,_caused the mass of the debris to ignite and the effect was that_. 10 The Johnstown flood is described as an example of a disaster that resulted from the combination of_and _. 11 _ people lost their lives in the flood but _ miraculous
31、ly survived the wild tide on a piece of wooden flooring. Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spok
32、en 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 answer. （ A） She is very much afraid. （ B） She has never heard of the place. （ C） She is not familiar with the place. （ D） She has never taken
33、the bus before. （ A） Two boys and a girl. （ B） Four boys and a girl. （ C） Two boys and three girls. （ D） Two boys and two girls. （ A） Yes, he did. （ B） No, he didnt. （ C） Yes, he has. （ D） No, he hasnt. （ A） The rooms are better but not the service. （ B） The service is better but the rooms are dirty
34、. （ C） It is even worse. （ D） Both the rooms and the service are better. （ A） She doesnt want to see the game; she prefers to stay at home. （ B） She thinks its going to be difficult to get tickets. （ C） She already has got tickets for both of them. （ D） Anyway, they can have the chance of watching t
35、he game on TV. （ A） Forty-five minutes. （ B） Fifteen minutes. （ C） Five minutes. （ D） Ten minutes. （ A） The woman tells the man where to have a snack. （ B） The man wants to know how to get to Joes house. （ C） The woman tells the man how to get to a cinema. （ D） The man lost his way in the street. （
36、A） Even though finals are over, they still have to study for a few more weeks. （ B） Theyve been in school a few weeks. （ C） They are studying hard for their finals. （ D） The school year seemed to go by very quickly. （ A） She is a receptionist. （ B） She is a painter. （ C） She is a color consultant. （
37、 D） She is a psychologist. （ A） Colorful clothes make you feel more energetic. （ B） Wearing a bright color can make you look more energetic and capable. （ C） Bright colors tend to bring out your personality. （ D） Different colors help you express different shades of your message. （ A） Choose the rig
38、ht colors for your personality. （ B） Make a special effort to learn the language of color. （ C） Wear bright colors to make you look energetic and capable. （ D） It might be helpful to know something about how colors affect people around. （ A） He wanted to buy a hearing-aid. （ B） He wanted to have a h
39、earing-aid repaired. （ C） He wanted to get a pen and a piece of paper. （ D） He wanted to solve his own problem. （ A） He explained it in words. （ B） He made some gestures. （ C） He wrote it on a piece of paper. （ D） He drew a picture about it. （ A） He was deaf, but not dumb. （ B） He was dumb, but not
40、deaf. （ C） He was deaf and dumb. （ D） He couldnt speak because he had just had a throat operation. （ A） About fifty years before the first modern Olympics. （ B） Fifty years ago. （ C） When the crawl was developed. （ D） After the breast stroke was developed. （ A） The meeting is boring. （ B） Theyve had
41、 a long day. （ C） There are many good restaurants in the downtown area. （ D） Food is an interesting subject. （ A） To look for a place to eat. （ B） To do some shopping. （ C） To finish the meeting and go home for a good rest. （ D） Stay in town for the whole week. （ A） To an Italian restaurant across t
42、he street. （ B） To a French restaurant on Rainbow Avenue. （ C） To a Mexican restaurant around the corner. （ D） To an Oriental restaurant on the main street. （ A） She has lived here for a long time. （ B） She is fond of good food. （ C） She likes cooking. （ D） She has friends working there. （ A） They w
43、ent out for a walk. （ B） They went to a dark road. （ C） They stayed at home. （ D） They went to a movie. （ A） They saw a woman running fast along the road. （ B） They saw a woman running after a man. （ C） They saw a woman running and shouting for help. （ D） They saw a man beating a woman. （ A） Because
44、 the man asked him for help. （ B） Because he thought that the woman might need some help. （ C） Because he wanted to catch the woman. （ D） Because the woman was waving to him. （ A） Because the womans husband was angry with her. （ B） Because the woman was angry with her husband. （ C） Because they were
45、 trying to catch a bus. （ D） Because the last one would wash the dishes at home. （ A） They havent reached a decision yet. （ B） They have decided to go hunting bears. （ C） They want to go camping. （ D） They want to go exploring the country. （ A） Susie. （ B） Tom. （ C） The speaker. （ D） The speakers hu
46、sband. （ A） They chased the hear away. （ B） They stayed outside the tent and did nothing. （ C） They climbed up a tree. （ D） They put some honey outside for the hear to eat. （ A） He ate the honey. （ B） He drank the beer. （ C） He chased the people away. （ D） He turned things upside down. Section C Sec
47、tion 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 numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you
48、 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 38 What was the most popular mix about the United States in the 19th century was that of the free and si
49、mple life of the farmer. It was said that the farmers worked hard on their own land to【 B1】 _whatever their families needed. They might sometimes trade with their neighbors, but in general they could get along just fine by relying on themselves, not on【 B2】 _ties with others. This is how Thomas Jefferson【 B3】_ the farmers at the beginning of the 19th century. And at that time, this may have been close to the truth especially on the【 B4】 _. But by the mid c
