1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 955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: Styles of Living. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese: 1有些人愿意和父母居住在一起 2有些人想自己独立居住 3我的看法 Styles of Living 二、 Part II Readi
2、ng 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; N (for NO)
3、 if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 2 The “Never-Stop“ Blogging To celebrate four years of marriage, Richard Wiggins and his wife, Judy Matthews, recently spent a week in Key West(基韦斯特市 ). Early on the
4、 morning of their anniversary, Ms. Matthews heard her husband get up and go into the bathroom. He stayed there for a long time. “I didnt hear any water running, so I wondered what was going on,“ Ms. Matthews said. When she knocked on the door, she found him seated with his laptop balanced on his kne
5、es, typing into his Web log, a collection of observations about the technical world, over a wireless link. The increasing biogging Blogging is a pastime for many, even a livelihood for a few. For some, it becomes an obsession (沉迷 ). Such bloggers often feel compelled to write several times daily and
6、 feel anxious if they dont keep up. As they spend more time sitting in front of their computers, they neglect family, friends and jobs. They blog at home, at work and on the road. They blog openly or sometimes, like Mr. Wiggins, quietly so as not to call attention to their habit. The number of blogg
7、ers has grown quickly, thanks to sites like , which makes it easy to set up a biog. Technorati, a blog-tracking service, has counted some 2.5 million blogs. Of course, most of those millions are abandoned or, at best, maintained infrequently. For many bloggers, the novelty soon wears off and their p
8、ersistence fades. Sometimes, too, the realization that no one is reading sets in. A few blogs have thousands of readers, but never have so many people written so much to be read by so few. By Jupiter Researchs estimate, only 4 percent of online users read blogs. The self. talking Mr. Wiggins Indeed,
9、 if a blog is compared to a conversation between a writer and readers, bloggers like Mr. Wiggins are having conversations largely with themselves. Mr. Wiggins, 48, a senior information technologist at Michigan State University in East Lansing, does not know how many readers he has; he suspects its n
10、ot many. But that does not seem to bother him. “Im just getting something off my chest,“ he said. Nor is he deterred(妨碍 ) by the fact that he endeavors for hours at a time on his blog for no money. He gets satisfaction in other ways. “Sometimes theres an I told you so aspect to it,“ he said. Recent
11、reflections on wigblog, blogspot, com have focused on Gmail, Googles new e-mail service. Mr. Wiggins points with pride to Wigblog posts that voiced early privacy concerns about Gmail. Being addicted Perhaps a chronically small audience is a blessing. For it seems that the more popular a blog becomes
12、, the more some bloggers feel the need to post. Mr. Pierce, who lives in Hollywood and works as a scheduler in the entertainment industry, said blogging began to feel like an addiction when he noticed that he would rather be with his computer than with his girlfriend - for technical reasons. “Shes g
13、ot an iMac, and I dont like her computer,“ Mr. Pierce said. When he is at his girlfriends house, hes getting ants in his pants. “We have little fights because I want to go home and write my thing,“ he said. Mr. Pierce described the rush he gets from what he called “the fix“ provided by his biog. “Th
14、e pleasure of reply is twofold,“ he said, “You can have instant response; youre going to hear about something really good or bad. And if I feel like Ive written something good, its enjoyable to go back and read it. And, like most addictions, those feelings go away quickly. So I have to do it again a
15、nd again. It is not uncommon among bloggers.“ A sense of achievement Joseph Lorenzo Hall, 26, a graduate student at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley who has studied bloggers, said that for some people blogging has replaced e-mail as a way t
16、o procrastinate (耽搁 ) at work. People like Mr. Pierce, who devote much of their free time to the care and feeding of their own blogs and posting to other blogs, do so largely because it makes them feel productive even if it is not a paying job. Mr. Wiggins has missed deadline after deadline at Searc
17、her, an online magazine for which he is a paid contributor. Barbara Quint, the editor of the magazine, said she did all she could to get him to deliver his columns on time. Then she discovered that Mr. Wiggins was busily posting articles to his blog instead of sending her the ones he had promised, s
18、ee said. “Here he is working all night on something read by five second cousins and a dog, and Im willing to pay him,“ she said. Ms. Quint has grown more understanding of his reasons, if not entirely sympathetic. “The Webs illusion of immortality(不朽的名声 ) is sometimes more attractive than actual cash
19、,“ she said. Blogging as routine Mr. Jarvis characterizes the blogging way of life as a routine rather than an obsession. “Its a habit,“ he said. “What youre really doing is telling people about something that they might find interesting. When that becomes part of your life, when you start thinking
20、in blog, it becomes part of you.“ Blog fatigue Suffering from a similar form of “blog fatigue,“ Bill Barol, a freelance writer in Santa Monica, California, simply stopped altogether after four years of nearly constant blogging. “It was starting to feel like work, and it was never supposed to be a jo
21、b,“ Mr. Barol said, “It was supposed to be an anti- job.“ Even with some 200 visitors to his blog each day, he has not posted to his blog since returning from a month of travel. Still, Mr. Barol said, he does not rule out a return to blogging someday. “There is this attractive thing that happens, th
22、is kind of snowball-rolling-down-a-hill thing, where the sheer momentum (动力 ) of several years posting becomes very keenly felt,“ he said. “And the absence of posting feels like - I dont know, laziness or something. 2 The passage gives examples of some typical bloggers to describe blogging as a new
23、way of online performance. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 Some bloggers can not shake off the strong de.sire of writing blogs and are addicted to it. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 Blogging serves ms an online entertainment only for net professionals because it requires proficient net skills. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） N
24、G 5 Wigblog always explores the information about e-mail service systems online. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 Mr. Pierce spends his leisure time on blogs dedicatedly in attempt to obtain a sense of achievement, rather than money. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 7 All bloggers considered blogging as a compulsive ad
25、diction to the unique style of writing. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 8 Mr. Banal who has stopped writing blogs will never resort to it again. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 9 Mr. Pierce enjoyed his blogging because of the genuine feeings and the _ he got from the online reply. 10 Although there are innumerable peop
26、le logging on the internet, the proportion of online users reading blogs is only _. 11 Having written blogs for a long time, Mr. Barol quits blogging flat because of _. Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversatio
27、n, 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） She knows the guy
28、who will give the lecture. （ B） She thinks the lecture might be informative. （ C） She wants to add something to her lecture. （ D） Shell finish her report this weekend. （ A） An art museum. （ B） A beautiful park. （ C） A college campus. （ D） An architectural exhibition. （ A） The houses for sale are of
29、poor quality. （ B） The houses are too expensive for the couple to buy. （ C） The housing developers provide free trips for potential buyers. （ D） The man is unwilling to take a look at the houses for sale. （ A） Talking about sports. （ B） Writing up local news. （ C） Reading newspapers. （ D） Putting up
30、 advertisements. （ A） She sold all her furniture before she moved house. （ B） She still keeps some old furniture in her new house. （ C） She plans to put all her old furniture in the basement. （ D） She bought a new set of furniture from Italy last month. （ A） He is taking care of his twin brother. （
31、B） He is worried about Rods health. （ C） He has been feeling ill all week. （ D） He has been in perfect condition. （ A） Have a short break. （ B） Take two weeks off. （ C） Continue her work outdoors. （ D） Go on vacation with the man. （ A） Teaching her son by herself. （ B） Having confidence in her son.
32、（ C） Asking the teacher for extra help. （ D） Telling her son not to worry. （ A） Because it has simple themes. （ B） Because its lyrics are in English. （ C） Because it depicts the feelings of the common people. （ D） Because it has a fast pace and rhythmic beat. （ A） A druggists suggestion. （ B） An art
33、icle. （ C） An advertisement. （ D） A sales clerks comment. （ A） The relationship of purchases made to time spent shopping. （ B） The length of time required for drugstore shopping. （ C） The increases in the size and stock of drugstores. （ D） The buying of clothing from department stores. （ A） People e
34、njoy shopping in them. （ B） People spend little time in them. （ C） People are more likely to buy something in them if time is limited. （ D） People spend too much time reading articles about quick cures sold in drugstores. （ A） They know what they want to buy. （ B） They have little money to spend. （
35、C） They talk themselves out of purchases. （ D） They shop at the cheapest stores. 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
36、u must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. （ A） Its comfortable hotels. （ B） Its good weather all year round. （ C） Its exciting football matches. （ D） Its religious beliefs. （ A） Watch a funny movie online. （ B） Listen to the laughter of colleagues. （ C） Remember ball
37、passing times. （ D） Pass the ball back and forth. （ A） Workers who listened to the laughter saved effort for the task. （ B） Workers who watched the funny short film made fewer mistakes. （ C） Workers who laughed for a few minutes focused more on the task. （ D） Workers who listened to the laughter mad
38、e fewer mistakes. （ A） Workers will become less focused when using the Internet freely. （ B） Forbidding workers using the Internet freely will decrease their productivity. （ C） Workers will be distracted from their work when given Internet breaks. （ D） Companies could increase productivity by giving
39、 employees more freedom. （ A） He didnt like physics any more. （ B） His eyesight was too poor. （ C） Physics was too hard for him. （ D） He had to work to support himself. （ A） He was not happy with the new director. （ B） He was not qualified to be an engineer. （ C） He wanted to travel. （ D） He found h
40、is job boring. （ A） He wanted to work with his friend. （ B） He enjoyed traveling around the world. （ C） He wanted to go to Spain. （ D） He was rejected by the engineering firm. （ A） He enjoyed teaching English. （ B） He wanted to earn more to support his family. （ C） The owner of the school promised h
41、im a good position. （ D） He could earn more as a teacher than as a travel agent. 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, yo
42、u 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 33 Abel Xavier, Midd
43、lesbroughs Portuguese defender, has failed a drug test and been suspended from all football by FIFA, footballs world governing body. Xaviers urine 【 B1】 _ after Boros UEFA Cup tie in Xanthi, Greece, was found to be positive. Xavier is protesting his 【 B2】 _ to the club. Xavier is believed to have be
44、en taking a supplement to 【 B3】 _ a virus. For the time 【 B4】 _ Middlesbrough are 【 B5】 _ by Xavier, though they are making no public statements, but a further test will now follow on Xaviers sample and, if that is found to be positive, then the defender, who turns 33 next month, may be banned for a
45、 【 B6】 _ period that his career is effectively over. UEFA is overseeing the investigation as the test was taken after a game under its 【 B7】 _ and the relevant 【 B8】 _ is due to meet and report next Monday. Boro would confirm only that Xavier had failed one test. An UEFA spokesman said: “The next st
46、ep would be to examine the B sample. If that was positive, he would face sanctions laid out in the protocol passed between FIFA and WADA(World Anti-Doping Agency).“ 【 B9】 _, although Edgar Davids, now of Tottenham, was banned four years ago for eight months having been found with nandrolone in his s
47、ystem while at Juventus. 【 B10】 _. Shortly after Jaap Stam left Old Trafford he was banned for three months and fined $50, 000 for testing positive for nandrolone. 【 B11】_. 33 【 B1】 34 【 B2】 35 【 B3】 36 【 B4】 37 【 B5】 38 【 B6】 39 【 B7】 40 【 B8】 41 【 B9】 42 【 B10】 43 【 B11】 Section A Directions: In t
48、his section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given 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 cor
49、responding letter for each item with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. 43 Skip that third helping of roast beef, save the planet and do your heart a favor at the same time. Thats the advice of Alan Dangour of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and colleagues who【 S1】 _the livestock industrys potential to help the UK reduce its car
