1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 612及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled How to Live a Colorful Life on Campus. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese: 1许多大学生希望自己的校园生活能够丰富多彩； 2有许多方式可以丰富大学生活； 3对此你有什么建议？ 二、 Par
2、t 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 information given in the passage;
3、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 The Choice Myth Last week, The Washington Post ran a front-page story that said most stay-at-home moms arent SUV-driving, daily yoga-doing, latte-drinkin
4、g white, upper-middle-class women who choose to leave their high-powered careers to answer the call to motherhood. Instead, they are disproportionately low-income, non-college educated, young and foreign-born; in other words, they are women whose horizons are greatly limited and for whom the cost of
5、 child care, very often, makes work not a workable choice at all. These findings, drawn from a new report by the Census Bureau, really ought to lead us to reframe our public conversations about who mothers are and why they do what they do. It should lead us away from all the moralistic bombast(大话 )
6、about mothers “choices“ and “priorities“. It should get us thinking less about choice, in fact, and make us focus more on the objective conditions that drive womens lives. And they should drive us to think about the choices that we as a society must make to guarantee that the best possible opportuni
7、ties are available for all families. The basic finding of this latest report that the more choices mothers have, the more likely they are to work has been known, to anyone whos taken the time to seriously look into the issue, for quite some time now. Ever since 2003, when Lisa Belkins article in The
8、 Times Magazine about highly privileged and ultra-high-achieving moms “The Opt-Out Revolution“ was generalized by the news media to claim that mothers overall were choosing to leave the work force in droves, researchers have been revisiting the state of mothers employment and reaching very similar c
9、onclusions. In 2005, the Motherhood Project at the Institute for American Values surveyed more than 2,000 women and published a report that said most mothers, given free choice in an ideal world, would choose to be employed provided their employment didnt impinge (侵占 ) excessively on their time with
10、 their kids. Approximately two-thirds said theyd ideally work part time or from home; only 16 percent said theyd prefer to work full-time. (Interestingly, the researchers said, it was the least-educated mothers who expressed the strongest preference for full-time work.) In 2007, the sociologists Dav
11、id Cotter, Paula England and Joan Hermsen looked carefully at four decades of employment data and found that women with choices those with college educations were overwhelmingly choosing to stay in the work force. The only women “opting out“ in any significant numbers were the very richest those wit
12、h husbands earning more than $125,000 a year and the very poorest those with husbands earning less than $23,400 a year. You might say that the movement of the richest women out of the workforce proves that women will, in the best of all possible worlds, go home. But these women often have husbands w
13、ho, in order to earn those top salaries, work 70 or 80 hours a week and travel extensively; someone has to he home. Many left high-powered careers that made similar demands on their time. They are privileged, its true, but very often they have also been cornered by the all-or-nothing non-choices of
14、our workplaces. The alternative narrative of constricted horizons, not choice that might have emerged from recent research has never really made it into the mainstream. It just cant, it seems, find a foothold. “The reason we keep getting this narrative is that there is this deep cultural conflict ab
15、out mothers employment,“ England told me this week. “On the one hand, people believe women should have equal opportunities, but on the other hand, we dont envision(展望 ) men taking on more child care and housework and, unlike Europe, we dont seem to be able to envision family-friendly work policies.
16、“ Why this matters and why opening this topic up for discussion is important is very clear: because our public policy continues to rest upon a fictitious idea, eternally recycled in the media, of mothers free choices, and not upon the constraints that truly drive their behavior. “If journalism repea
17、tedly frames the wrong problem, then the folks who make public policy may very well deliver the wrong solution,“ is how E. J. Graff, the associate director and senior researcher at Brandeis Universitys Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism once put it in the Columbia Journalism Review. “If
18、 women are happily choosing to stay home with their babies, thats a private decision. But. its a public policy issue if schools, jobs and other American institutions are structured in ways that make it frustratingly difficult, and sometimes impossible, for parents to manage both their jobs and famil
19、y responsibilities.“ It looked, not so long ago, as though things were going to change. Barack Obama made increasing womens work/life choices and providing more supports for working families a cornerstone of his campaign. All those lofty ideals, though, seem to have been forgotten in the realities o
20、f this recession, where plans to expand universal pre-K, paid family leave and subsidies for child care have gone the way of“ state budget revenues. Even workfare, The Times reported this week, is being discarded in California in favor of old-style no-work welfare, because its been deemed too costly
21、 to give poor mothers job skills while providing decent child care. In Fresno County, one of the first places in California where welfare recipients are being told about the policy change, which is voluntary for now, the new regulations arent being viewed as good news. “Especially when you have kids
22、, you cant just sit around and collect checks,“ one mother told The Times. For now, 90 percent of beneficiaries in Fresno County are choosing to keep working and receiving child care subsidies. When mothers can choose, they choose self-empowerment (自助自强 ). Because they know that there is no true dif
23、ference between their advancement and the advancement of their children. Why do we so enduringly deny them the dignity of choice? 2 According to the front-page story of the Washington Post, most stay-at-home moms _. （ A） choose to leave their work at their own wills （ B） have to stay at home rearing
24、 children （ C） have more housework to do （ D） are usually from upper-middle class 3 The findings from a new report make us _. （ A） pay attention to drive force of mums real situation （ B） focus more on the choices in moms life （ C） have more conversations with moms （ D） grow morally concerned with m
25、oms 4 Lisa Belkins articles in Time Magazin has _. （ A） attracted a lot of disagreement （ B） been misgeneralized by the news media （ C） been taken seriously （ D） been suspected by many researchers 5 According to the survey by the Motherhood Project, most mothers would prefer to _. （ A） leave the wor
26、k if the job demands too much time （ B） work if the children have gone to college （ C） work if the job doesnt take away too much time from children （ D） leave the work if the children demand their leaving 6 According to researchers, who had the strongest desire to work on full-time basis? （ A） The m
27、ost privileged woman. （ B） The least-educated morns. （ C） The best-educated mothers. （ D） The mothers without any child. 7 David Cotter together with two other colleagues found that _ （ A） women with college education were desperate to stay in work force （ B） both rich and poor women were will to st
28、ay at work （ C） the poorest women were desperate to stay at work （ D） the richest women had the most choices 8 Women have limited horizon because of _. （ A） more housework to do （ B） cultural conflict （ C） the demanding child-rearing （ D） their confined employment 9 E. J. Graff claimed if schools an
29、d jobs make it difficult for parents to make the choice, it will be _ 10 Increasing womens work/life choices and providing more supports for working families is Barack Obamas _. 11 In Fresno County, the majority of beneficiaries are receiving child care subsidies while _. Section A Directions: In th
30、is 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 spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must
31、read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. （ A） Shes a poor student. （ B） She shouldnt worry about her grades. （ C） She doesnt like to talk about her grades. （ D） She hasnt got her grades yet. （ A） The woman should buy some Jewelry instead. （ B） The woman should
32、 buy a battery from the Smiths Jewelry. （ C） He knows whats wrong with the womans watch. （ D） The jewelry store can probably repair the womans watch. （ A） Looking for a timetable. （ B） Buying some furniture. （ C） Reserving a table. （ D） Window shopping. （ A） He will definitely come. （ B） He cant acc
33、ept such generosity. （ C） He is too busy. （ D） He will be out of town this weekend. （ A） Jims grades were too poor to get a scholarship. （ B） Jim would have got a scholarship if his math grades had been better. （ C） Jims math was poor since he doesnt know how to measure. （ D） Jims math grades sharpl
34、y go down this time. （ A） A plumber. （ B） A salesman. （ C） An electrician. （ D） A telephone repairman. （ A） She didnt like the CDs the man bought. （ B） There wasnt a large selection at the CD store. （ C） The man bought a lot of CDs. （ D） She wanted to see what the man bought. （ A） Policeman and driv
35、er. （ B） Teacher and pupil. （ C） Policeman and thief. （ D） Director and actress. （ A） She has lost some of her important stuff. （ B） There is something wrong with her eyes. （ C） She doesnt know how to use steel to build construction. （ D） She doesnt know where to get the information she need. （ A） I
36、t takes time to collect the useful information. （ B） One can only read books in the library. （ C） All books are difficult to understand. （ D） One has to line up to borrow books. （ A） To find the information in the library. （ B） To borrow the books from her teacher. （ C） To give her shoes to Steve. （
37、 D） To consult her tutor what to do. （ A） A Teaching Skills summer course. （ B） Summer camping. （ C） Going cycling. （ D） Going windsurfing. （ A） The induction session is on Tuesday. （ B） The first set of seminars is held on Wednesday. （ C） The “Teaching“ session is scheduled on Thursday. （ D） Nothin
38、g is scheduled on Friday. （ A） They will work alone on their lessons. （ B） They will listen carefully to the lecture. （ C） They need to work in groups and come up with a great lesson. （ D） They can not criticize other lessons. （ A） They will leave as soon as the course is over. （ B） They will leave
39、on the 13th. （ C） They will leave on the 14th. （ D） They will leave on Monday the 15th. 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 quest
40、ion, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. （ A） Forty million people. （ B） Forty-five million people. （ C） Over three million people. （ D） Five million people. （ A） People infected with HIV virus should watch TV series like “Detective Vijay“. （ B） Governments sh
41、ould play a big role in fighting against AIDS. （ C） TV series like “Detective Vijay“ can make a lot of money. （ D） The media can play an effective role in fighting against AIDS. （ A） It is a policeman. （ B） It is an educative TV show in Ivory Coast. （ C） It is an educative TV show in South Africa. （
42、 D） It is an educative TV show in India. （ A） Because he set as many as sixty-five different records. （ B） Because he led his team to many championships. （ C） Because he still played the game after he retired. （ D） Because he didnt stop playing even when his wrist was broken. （ A） He was knocked out
43、 during one contest. （ B） He lost the final chance to win a championship. （ C） He broke a bone in the wrist during a match. （ D） He was awarded with a luxury house. （ A） To built a big house. （ B） To break the previous records set by himself. （ C） To play the New York team once again. （ D） To win on
44、e more championship for his team. （ A） People who invented the TV. （ B） People who launched a seaworthy boat. （ C） People who calculated the length of the year. （ D） Great conquerors, generals and soldiers. （ A） They are great soldiers. （ B） They are civilized. （ C） They are intelligent because they
45、 are good at fighting. （ D） They are right if they win the war. （ A） They want to be great soldiers. （ B） They want to be savages. （ C） They want to win then they can be right. （ D） They want to be civilizations. （ A） We have got to the stage of real civilization. （ B） We can keep the rules and beha
46、ve properly in daily life. （ C） Governments have learned to keep the rules. （ D） We still behave like savages. 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 i
47、s 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, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write
48、 down the 36 The United States government wants to know what the public thinks about its findings on the safety of【 36】 animals. The Food and Drug Administration says meat and milk from clones of adult cattle, pigs and goats are safe to eat. An FDA【 37】 called them “as safe to eat as the food we eat
49、 every day.“ And when those clones【 38】 sexually, the agency says, their【 39】 are safe to eat as well. But research on cloned sheep is limited. So the FDA【 40】 that sheep clones not be used for human food. The United States this year could become the first country to【 41】 the sale of foods from cloned animals. First, however, the public will have ninety clays to【 42】 on three proposed documents. On December twenty-eighth the FDA released a long rep
