1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 329及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Electronic Dictionaries Are Not Good. You are required to write at least 120 words. Remember base your composition on the following Chinese outlines. 1. 很多学生喜欢使用电子词典。 2
2、使用电子词典的缺点。 3正确使用词典学习进步会大得多。 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 the statement agrees with the
3、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 Advanced Learners in Chinas Top Universities Andrew Chi-chih Yao, a Princeton professor who is recognized as one of the
4、 United Statess top computer scientists, was approached by Tsinghua University in Beijing last year to lead an advanced computer studies program, he did not hesitate. Why would a leading scientist at one of Americas top universities leave a prestigious program for a university that is little known o
5、utside of China? One reason is loyalty to the country where he was born, although he spent his academic career in the United States and was raised in Taiwan, China. “Patriotism does have something to do with it, because I just cannot imagine going anywhere else, even if the conditions were equal,“ h
6、e said. China wants to transform its top universities into the worlds best within a decade, and is spending billions of dollars to woo big-name scholars like Yao and to build first-class research laboratories. China has already pulled off one of the most remarkable expansions of education in modern
7、times, increasing the number of undergraduates and people who hold doctoral degrees five folded in 10 years. “First-class universities increasingly reflect a nations overall power,“ Wu Bangguo, Chinas second-ranking leader, said recently in a speech here marking the 100th anniversary of Fudan Univer
8、sity, the countrys first modern post-secondary institution. Chinas model is simple: recruit top foreign-trained Chinese and overseas-born ethnic Chinese to well-equipped labs, surround them with the brightest students and give them tremendous leeway. The new confidence about entering the worlds educ
9、ational elite is heard among politicians and university administrators, students and professors. Young Chinese visit the top campuses as if on a pilgrimage, posing for photographs before the arching stone gates they dream of entering as students. “Maybe in 20 years, MIT will be studying Tsinghuas ex
10、ample,“ says Rao Zihe, director of the Institute of Biophysics at Tsinghua, University, an institution that is renowned for its sciences and is regarded by many as Chinas finest university. “How long it will take to catch up cant be predicted, but in some respects we are already better than the Harv
11、ard today.“ In only a generation, since 1978, China has roughly 20 percent of its college-age population in higher education, up from 1.4 percent. In engineering alone, it is producing 442,000 undergraduates a year, along with 48,000 graduates with masters degrees and 8,000 doctorates. But only Peki
12、ng University and a few other top Chinese institutions have been internationally recognized as superior. Since 1998, when Jiang Zemin, then Chinas leader, officially started the effort to transform Chinese universities, state financing for higher education has more than doubled, reaching $ 10. 4 bil
13、lion in 2003, the last two years for which an official figure are unavailable. Xu Tian, a leading geneticist who was trained and still teaches at Yale, runs a laboratory at Fudan University that performs innovative work on the transposition of genes. On Aug. 12, his breakthrough research was feature
14、d on the cover of the prestigious journal, Cell, a first for a Chinese scientist. Peking University drew on the talents of Tian Gang, a leading mathematician from MIT, in setting up an international research center for advanced mathematics, among other high-level research centers. Officials at Pekin
15、g University estimate that as much as 40 percent of its faculty is trained overseas, most often in the United States. The president of Yale University, Richard Levin, was interviewed in Shanghai, where he was the featured guest in late September. “China has 20 percent of the worlds population, and i
16、t is safe to say it has more than 20 percent of the worlds best students,“ he said. “They have the raw talent.“ Levin also noted how Chinas low labor costs simplified the effort to upgrade. He said he had been astounded by the new laboratories at Shanghai Jiaotong University, the citys second-most p
17、restigious university, which he said could be built in China for $ 50 a square foot, or 0.09 square meters, compared with $ 500 a square foot at Yale. Some critics say that the country is trying to achieve excellence in too many areas at once, and that the plans of about 30 universities selected for
18、 heavy state investment have far too little differentiation, wasting money on duplication and sacrificing excellence. Even Levin tempered his enthusiasm with a warning that the “top schools have expanded much too fast and are diluting quality“ at Fudans centennial celebration, also had high praise f
19、or Chinas students. “It is important for different universities to have different qualities, just like a symphony,“ said Yang Fujia, a nuclear physicist and former president of Fudan University. “But all Chinese universities want to be comprehensive. Everybody wants to be the piano, having a medical
20、 school and lots of graduate students.“ “At Princeton, one mathematician spent nine years without publishing a paper, and then solved a problem that had been around for 360 years,“ said Yang, who now leads a small experimental university in Ningbo, a reference to Andrew Wiles and his solution to Fer
21、mats Last Theorem in the early 1990s. “No one minded that because they appreciate the dedication to hard work there: We dont have that spirit yet in China.“ Dr. Yao said he had expected to concentrate on creating a world-class Ph. D. program, but had found surprising weaknesses in undergraduate trai
22、ning and had decided to teach at that level. “You cant just say Ill only do the cutting edge stuff; thats not a workable solution,“ he said. “Youve got to teach the basics really well first.“ 2 This passage gives a general description of some of the famous universities in China. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） N
23、G 3 Andrew Chi-chih Yao went to teach at Tsinghua University willingly just because he was paid much higher there. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 People who hold doctoral degrees have five folded in 10 years. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 Tsinghua University has already caught up with the Harvard now. （ A） Y （ B
24、） N （ C） NG 6 State financing for higher education has come to $ 100 billion by the end of June, 2005. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 7 Yang Fujia is a nuclear physicist and former president of Fudan University. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 8 Dr. Yao emphasizes teaching the basics. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 9 Chinas mo
25、del is simple: recruit top foreign-trained Chinese and overseas-born ethnic Chinese to well-equipped labs, surround them _. 10 Officials at Peking University estimate that as much as 40 percent of its faculty is trained overseas, _. 11 Even Levin tempered his enthusiasm with a warning that the “top
26、schools _ “at Fudans centennial celebration, also had high praise for Chinas students. 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
27、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 answer. （ A） Italy defeated Argentina 2 to 1. （ B） The game is still going on. （ C） The game ended 20 minutes ago
28、. （ D） Argentina won the game. （ A） At a newsstand. （ B） At a newspaper office. （ C） At a car dealers. （ D） At a publishing house. （ A） People must give up cigarettes. （ B） A health warning on cigarette packs. （ C） The law doesnt allow people to smoke. （ D） Smoking can cause lung cancer. （ A） The wo
29、man misplaced her class permit for biology. （ B） The woman arrived for registration too early. （ C） The woman missed registration for the biology course. （ D） The woman got a wrong class permit. （ A） The man is thinking .about taking a new job. （ B） The man likes a job that enables him to travel. （
30、C） The man is sure that he will gain more by taking the job. （ D） The man doesnt want to stay home and take care of their child. （ A） He is not very enthusiastic about his English lessons. （ B） He has made great progress in his English. （ C） He is a student of the music department. （ D） He is not ve
31、ry interested in English songs. （ A） The man has changed his destination. （ B） The man is returning Iris ticket. （ C） The man is flying to New York tomorrow morning. （ D） The man cant manage to go to New York as planned. （ A） Teacher and student. （ B） Mechanic and customer. （ C） Boss and secretary.
32、（ D） Client and lawyer. （ A） $ 20. （ B） $ 22. （ C） $ 20.80. （ D） $ 21.20. （ A） 12, 12. （ B） 6, 6. （ C） 12, 6. （ D） 6, 12. （ A） Good deals. （ B） Poor deals. （ C） One is good and the other is poor. （ D） Not mentioned in the conversation. （ A） Taking an exam. （ B） Having a class discussion. （ C） Giving
33、 presentation. （ D） Drawing graphs. （ A） Business. （ B） Physics. （ C） Art appreciation. （ D） Psychology. （ A） On foot. （ B） By car. （ C） By bus. （ D） By taxi. （ A） It was in spring. （ B） It was in winter. （ C） It was in summer. （ D） It was in fall. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hea
34、r 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 the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. （ A） Because it was too heavy. （ B） Because it did not ben
35、d easily. （ C） Because it did not shoot far. （ D） Because its string was short. （ A） It went out of use 300 years ago. （ B） It was invented after the short bow. （ C） It was discovered before fire and the wheel. （ D） Its still in use today. （ A） They are accurate and easy to pull. （ B） Their shooting
36、 range is 40 yards. （ C） They are usually used indoors. （ D） They took 100 years to develop. （ A） To find out the origin of carbon- 14 on Earth. （ B） To analyze the composition of different trees. （ C） To look into the pattern of solar wind activity. （ D） To examine the chemical elements in the Ice
37、Age. （ A） The quality of air. （ B） The number of trees. （ C） The lifecycle of trees. （ D） The intensity of solar burning. （ A） It follows a certain cycle. （ B） It affects the growth of trees. （ C） It has been increasing since the Ice Age. （ D） It is determined by the chemicals in the air. （ A） Someo
38、ne who is short is like a square peg. （ B） Someone who is not suited for his job. （ C） Someone who is standing in a square. （ D） Someone who is putting a square peg in a round hole. （ A） Because most of us have to do our jobs. （ B） Because most of us have chosen the wrong jobs. （ C） Because most of
39、us have to earn living from our jobs. （ D） Because most of us spend a great part of our lives doing our jobs. （ A） School education. （ B） Aptitude tests. （ C） Interviews with specialists. （ D） The study of books in our field of interest. （ A） Different Jobs for People. （ B） Work and Careers. （ C） Ar
40、e You Satisfied with Your Work? （ D） How to Find the Suitable Work? 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 require
41、d 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, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the 36 Very few people can get colleg
42、e degree before 11, but Michael was an exception. He started high school when he was 5, finishing in just nine months. He became the【 B1】_youngest college graduate when he was 10 years and 4 months old, earning an【 B2】_degree. Now at 11 Michaels working on a masters degree in【 B3】 _intelligence. But
43、 Michaels【 B4】 _hasnt always come easy.【 B5】 _his intelligence, he still lacks important life【 B6】 _. In one class, he had to struggle to understand【 B7】 _novels, because, he says, “Im 11. Ive never been in love before. Another【 B8】 _was his size.【 B9】 _.He likes computers so much【 B10】 _.He wants t
44、o make robots do all the Heavy tasks.【 B11】 _. 37 【 B1】 38 【 B2】 39 【 B3】 40 【 B4】 41 【 B5】 42 【 B6】 43 【 B7】 44 【 B8】 45 【 B9】 46 【 B10】 47 【 B11】 Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices giv
45、en in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than
46、once. 47 It is commonly believed in the United States that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The【 S1】 _between schooling and education implied by this remark is important. Education is much mor
47、e open-ended and【 S2】 _than schooling. Education knows no bounds. It can take【 S3】 _anywhere, whether in the shower or in the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe Of【 S4】 _learning. The agents of education
48、can range from a revered grandparent to the people debating politics on the radio, from a child to a distinguished【 S5】_. Whereas schooling has a certain predictability, education quite often produces surprises. A【 S6】 _conversation with a stranger may lead a person to discover how little is known o
49、f other religions. People are engaged in education from infancy on. Education, then, is a very broad, inclusive term. It is a【 S7】 _process, a process that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be an integral part of ones entire life. Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little from one setting to the next.【 S8】 _a country, chi
