1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 55及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter of proposal to curb college students spending. You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below in Chinese: 1. 现在许多大学生花钱大手大脚 2. 很多大学生没有自己的经济来源 3. 反对那种认为社会整体水平提高了，大
2、学生过度消费无可厚非的观点 A Letter of Proposal 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 wi
3、th 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 Building Confidence The two arms of Coega, South Africas newest port, extend into the Indian Ocean gracefully. T
4、hese are built from thousands of huge, oddly-shaped, 30-ton concrete blocks. They are designed to protect the ships that, when the port is fully operational in 2007, will use this facility to ship iron mineral and other South African products to India and the rest of the world. The Call to Infrastru
5、cture Construction “If you want to change lives and the history of this continent, you need to develop infrastructure(基础设施 ),“ says Vuyelwa Qinga-Vika, spokeswoman for the CDC(Coega Development Corporation). “Were not going to advance if we dont even have the roads to bring medicine to the rural are
6、as. Weve got to start building.“ The call to construction is ringing out across Africa. Infrastructure is the new buzzword(口号 ), pushed by leaders from South Africas Thabo Mbeki to Senegals Abdulaye Wade. Its also a key topic at this weeks World Economic Forum(WEF) meeting in Cape Town, where politi
7、cal and business leaders from Africa will meet with heads of some of the worlds biggest companies to discuss, among other things, how Africas priority infrastructure projects can boost growth. According to a Gallup International survey commissioned by the WEF, Africans “focus more heavily on economi
8、c issues than do citizens in other parts of the world.“ One in three Africans fear a failure of the economy compared to just one in five globally. Despite a commodity boom that pushed growth to 5% in Africa last year, the continents leaders want better infrastructure to win more business. The New Pa
9、rtnership for Afiicas Development(NEPAD, an Mrican initiative that aims to attract $64 billion in annual investment by tackling bad governance, ending conflicts and making the continent more business-friendly, has put improved infrastructure near the top of its to-do list. “There can be no meaningfu
10、l development without trade,“ reads NEPADs infrastructure action plan. “And there can be no trade without adequate and reliable infrastructure.“ The need is as obvious as it is urgent. Africas roads and railway lines, ports and power network are neither adequate nor reliable. Outside of southern Afr
11、ica and Mauritius, much of the continents infrastructure is damaging or nonexistent. Consider the Democratic Republic of Congo. You could fit France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain and Britain inside it, and the country is packed with timber and minerals, yet it has only a few thousand kilometers of
12、road and 10,000 fixed telephone lines, and produces about the same amount of power as Albania. In other war-torn countries, such as Somalia and Sierra Leone, public buildings have been destroyed by years of fighting. Corruption and mismanagement have left public utilities in places such as Cameroon
13、and Nigeria ran down and inefficient. Infrastructure Vs Investment The lack of infrastructure blocks many companies from investing and drives up costs for those that do. The World Bank estimates that to ship a container from Baltimore in the U.S. to Tanzania costs about $1,000, but to transport that
14、 same container from Tanzania to neighboring Burundi cost $10,000. “In many countries, companies have to generate their own power, dig for water, pay heavy distribution and telephone charges,“ says David Hampshire, chairman of Diageo Africa, one of the continents biggest marketers of beer and spirit
15、s. “All these costs add up, and they end up being paid for by the consumer.“ To attract more investment, Africa has drawn up plans to spend billions over the next few decades. Zambia and Burkina Faso, both landlocked, want to build new rail lines through neighboring states to improve their connectio
16、ns to the sea. In East Africa, the Kenyon government and the rebel movement in southern Sudan plan to build a new railway trackat an estimated cost of more than $4 billionfrom Sudan more than 1,000 km south to Rongai, Kenya, about 170 km northwest of Nairobi, where it will connect with the existing
17、line to the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa. That infamous inefficient harbor, along with some half a dozen others around Africas coast, is set to undergo a massive expansion and modernization program over the next few years. The next decade may also finally see the completion of the Trans-Saharan High
18、way from Algeria to Lagos, Nigeria. Equally bold is the West African Gas Pipeline, which will tap natural gas from the Nigerian oil fields in the countrys southeast and then run almost 700 km along the coast with links to power plants in Lagos, Benin, Togo and Ghana. Funds for Infrastructure Surpris
19、ingly, funds for new projects arent lacking. Africas richest countries are eager to build. South Afrieas government, for instance, is funding the new Coega port and industrial zone. “Private business is not too keen on putting money into infrastructure, so the government has said it will take the le
20、ad,“ says Lionel Billings, manager for Coegas enterprise development and investor interaction. Rich donor nations in the West often help finance schemes in poorer countries, as does the World Bank. A growing number of private and foreign government-backed infrastructure funds based in Europe and the
21、 U.S., such as AIG African Infrastructure Fund and New Africa Infrastructure Fund, are also supplying capital. The problem is confidence. Financiers, whether private or public, need projects that they can rely on. “Weve got liquidity were embarrassed about,“ says Keith Palmer, chairman of the London
22、-based Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund and vice chair of the U.K. investment bank NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd. “But theres a lack of well-structured, creditworthy opportunities.“ Business leaders cite numerous hurdles to investment: corruption, political instability and African governments lack of
23、capacity to run huge projects and reluctance to hand over control of projects to the private sector. Richard Laing, chief executive of the Commonwealth Development Corporation, Britains agency for investment in the developing world, says the problem is dealing with African governments which have “an
24、 unwillingness to let go and a lot of distrust.“ Theres also a catch-22: Africa needs investment and improved infrastructure to develop, but finds it hard to attract the capital such projects need without more development. Thormahlen Schweisstechnik, a German company that last year won the right to
25、construct and operate for 25 years the planned railway line from Southern Sudan to the Kenyah coast, is already running into problems with the Kenyan government. Klans Thormahlen, head of the company, says, “the decision-making process does not maintain its dynamics during the times of our absence.“
26、 A spokesman in the Kenyan Presidents office says that Kenya backs the scheme and is working with the German company to make sure the line is built. Back at Coega port, a huge crane lifts another concrete block into position. The dock area, which was constructed behind a dam wall, has now been flood
27、ed, and is awaiting its first ship. “One of the things that will make it meaningful for South Africans is to see the first businesses here,“ says Qinga-Vika. “It may just be concrete and steel and new roads, but this is a symbol of hope that were doing something to turn this city and continent aroun
28、d.“ 2 The passage is mainly about the poverty of the whole Africa which is in slow development. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 Africans are afraid of economical failure much more than other people in the world. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 Congo is equal to Albania on the length of road and the amount of energy
29、. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 Companies in Africa have to pay for the costs which result from infrastructure construction themselves. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 Zambia and Burkina Faso are the two countries without any coast lines. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 7 Kenya and the rebel movement in Sudan make an arran
30、gement of building a railway to Mombasa at a cost of about four billion dollars. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 8 It will have a bank loan to let the West African Gas Pipeline supply natural gas to four countries companies. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 9 The leading investor on African infrastructure projects is_.
31、10 According to business leaders, African governments are always unwilling to transfer the management of projects to_. 11 The meaningful event for South Africans may be Coega ports_. Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of ea
32、ch 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 answer. （ A） Beca
33、use she is a stranger here. （ B） Because people are curious. （ C） Because some money is missing. （ D） Because she didnt take a shower. （ A） About how to find the file he needs. （ B） About how to save money. （ C） About how to save a document in computer. （ D） About how to use the computer to type. （
34、A） He might get lost in the crowd. （ B） lie doesnt like to go to the meeting. （ C） He wont want to speak at the meeting. （ D） He has to go to another meeting first. （ A） Her teaching assistant would mark the exam papers. （ B） She would mark the exam papers herself. （ C） She would collect the exam pa
35、pers herself. （ D） She would teach for assistant how to mark the exam papers. （ A） Turn the alarm off. （ B） Live on a farm. （ C） Move his alarm clock. （ D） Go to bed earlier. （ A） The man is showing the woman around the city. （ B） The woman is asking the way. （ C） The man is a stranger to the city.
36、（ D） The two persons are talking about sending letters. （ A） She has confidence in him. （ B） She has also won a scholarship. （ C） She is surprised at the news. （ D） She is not interested in the news. （ A） He has a friend who majored in economics. （ B） He hasnt taken more than one economics course. （
37、 C） Hes been learning economics this year. （ D） He couldnt make any sense out of his course. （ A） Remarking on the film of Harry Potter. （ B） Interviewing a successful woman writer. （ C） Talking about their traveling experience on a train. （ D） Asking the woman to do him a favor. （ A） The popularity
38、 of the Harry books. （ B） The publishing of the Harry books. （ C） Meeting one of her old teachers. （ D） Having the must interesting train journey. （ A） Less frightening. （ B） Less interesting. （ C） More frightening. （ D） More interesting. （ A） Going out for dinner. （ B） Visit to Japan. （ C） Eating t
39、oo much. （ D） School gate. （ A） Serving so much. （ B） Too heavy. （ C） Having much oil of cream. （ D） Using much natural flavors. （ A） Italian restaurant. （ B） Chinese restaurant. （ C） Japanese restaurant. （ D） School gate. （ A） The style of Chinese uses much natural flavors. （ B） Chinese food is the
40、 same as Italian food. （ C） Chinese food is good. （ D） Chinese food is terrible. 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, yo
41、u must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. （ A） The great numbers of people engaged in cigarette producing. （ B） The rapid development of cigarette-making machine. （ C） The rapid development of cigarette-making factories. （ D） The increasing output of tobacco. （ A） For
42、ty-three. （ B） Thirty-one. （ C） Seventy-five. （ D） Forty-six. （ A） Income, years of schooling, and job type. （ B） Income and work environment. （ C） Education and mood. （ D） Occupation and influence of family members. （ A） Under 18. （ B） Under 16. （ C） Over 19. （ D） Under 17. （ A） In a registry offic
43、e. （ B） In a church. （ C） By a public announcement. （ D） Secretly with the company of two passers-by. （ A） Look carefully before one jumps. （ B） Think carefully before one makes any decision. （ C） Think carefully before they make the decision to get married. （ D） Take longer time to make up ones min
44、d to divorce. （ A） Its publication was banned by the British government. （ B） It was the first weekly newspaper. （ C） It caused a prison revolt. （ D） It was the first magazine ever published. （ A） News around the world. （ B） Issues and policies of England. （ C） Criticism on the Church. （ D） Mixture
45、of various contents. （ A） He wrote articles critical of the Church of England. （ B） He refused to stop publishing The Review. （ C） He refused to pay publishing taxes. （ D） He refused to join the Church of England. （ A） It was not really a magazine. （ B） It featured a variety of articles and stories.
46、 （ C） It was praised by readers of poetry. （ D） It was unpopular with political analysis. 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
47、 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, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the 37 Last sum
48、mer I went through a training program and became a literacy volunteer. The training I received, though 【 B1】 _, did nut tell me how it was to work with a real student, however. When I began to 【 B2】 _ what other peoples lives were like because they could not read, I 【 B3】 _ the true importance of re
49、ading. My first student Connie was a 40-year-old 【 B4】 _ mother of two. In the first lesson, I found out she walked three miles to the nearest 【 B5】 _ twice a week because she didnt know which bus to take. When I told her I would get her a bus 【 B6】 _, she told me it would not help because she could not read it. She said she also had 【 B7】 _ once she got to the supermarket because she couldnt always remember what she needed. Since she did not know how to s
