1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 101及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay by commenting on the English proverb “East or west, home is best.“ You should write at least120 words but no more than 180 words. East or West, Home Is Best Section A （ A） Tell
2、 Joe about the reception dinner in time. （ B） Prepare another more interesting story. （ C） Practice more before telling the story. （ D） Keep silent about Joes story. （ A） Get her money back. （ B） Drive them away. （ C） Raise the current rent. （ D） Borrow fifty dollars from them. （ A） Creativity could
3、 be born with. （ B） It is difficult to have creativity. （ C） Creativity has to be trained. （ D） Creativity is a skill of art. （ A） The man is not satisfied with his job. （ B） The man gets along well with his girlfriend. （ C） The man has nothing to do so far. （ D） The man wants to spend more energy w
4、orking. （ A） The book is very interesting. （ B） He hasnt read the book yet. （ C） The book is too thick. （ D） He doesnt usually read spy thrillers. （ A） She doesnt agree with the man. （ B） The man neednt care Marks words. （ C） She always looks at everything in a positive way. （ D） The man should comm
5、unicate more with Mark. （ A） The woman had better call home now. （ B） The woman needs to save money regularly. （ C） The woman has spent too much shopping. （ D） The woman can borrow his things when necessary. （ A） He cant find the books he needs. （ B） All the books he wants are sold out. （ C） He cant
6、 check out the books he needs. （ D） Only the books he needs can be borrowed. （ A） A lot of preparation is needed before doing real climbing. （ B） Rock-climbing is not dangerous if you are strong enough. （ C） The man has chosen the class of rock-climbing. （ D） The man likes rock-climbing very much. （
7、 A） Hi-tech safety equipment ensures ones safety. （ B） One is safe if he is very careful. （ C） There are safety equipments prepared on the ground. （ D） A lot of people do rock-climbing and they are OK. （ A） She can make a lot of friends. （ B） She can learn mental discipline. （ C） She can get more fa
8、miliar with the man. （ D） She can lose weight. （ A） Take a climbing trip. （ B） Tell the woman once he has made a decision. （ C） Join the class. （ D） Join the class if the woman does. （ A） He hasnt enough money to go where he wants. （ B） He wants to visit many places. （ C） His family have different i
9、deas. （ D） He doesnt know his likes and dislikes. （ A） He plans to buy a new apartment. （ B） He is longing to spend his holiday in France. （ C） He wants to go fishing during the holiday. （ D） He doesnt care how much money to spend. （ A） Frame tent. （ B） Sleeping bags. （ C） A tin opener. （ D） Nothing
10、 at all. Section B （ A） Happy moods. （ B） Good memory. （ C） Proper reasoning. （ D） Some training. （ A） To improve old peoples memory and thinking ability. （ B） To test how long thinking skill lasts in trained older people. （ C） To help old people do daily work. （ D） To examine how long a well-traine
11、d old people can live. （ A） Speed of finishing short training class. （ B） Speed of receiving and understanding information. （ C） Speed of learning memory and thinking skills. （ D） Speed of generating correct reasoning. （ A） They disappear after the training. （ B） They endure for five years. （ C） The
12、y last for a full ten years. （ D） They remain forever. （ A） Its strong currency. （ B） Its high cost of buying a car. （ C） Its beautiful environment. （ D） Its massive immigrants. （ A） Sydney. （ B） Paris. （ C） Tokyo. （ D） New York City. （ A） High renting fees. （ B） Costly traveling expenses. （ C） High
13、 costs of groceries. （ D） High costs of education. （ A） Those who seldom sleep. （ B） Those who seldom drink. （ C） Those who often smoke. （ D） Those who often eat junk food. （ A） No smoking or drinking guarantees happiness. （ B） Kids with happy characters are less inclined to drink. （ C） Unhappy kids
14、 are more likely to be less healthy. （ D） Eating junk food worsens kids health. （ A） Eating fruits. （ B） Making friends. （ C） Drinking alcohol. （ D） Doing exercise. Section C 26 Teachers and parents normally call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to preschool children But a study s
15、uggests that calling attention to the words and letters on the page may【 B1】 _ better readers. The two-year study【 B2】 _children who were read to this way in class with children who were not. Those whose teachers most often discussed the print showed【 B3】 _ higher skills in reading, spelling and und
16、erstanding. These results were found one year and even two years later. The author of the study says most preschool teachers would find this method【 B4】 _and wouldneed only a small change in the way they teach. They already read storybooks in class. The only difference would be【 B5】 _attention to th
17、e printed text. If you get children to pay attention to letters and words, it【 B6】 _that they will do better at word【 B7】 _ and spelling. But the research suggests that very few parents and teachers do this in a 【 B8】 _way. There are different ways that adults can talk to children about print. They
18、can point to a letter and discuss it, and even【 B9】 _the shape with a finger. They can point out a word: “This is dog.“ They can discuss the meaning of the print or how the words tell the story. And they can talk about the【 B10】 _of the printfor instance, showing how words are written left to right
19、in English. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Back in the carefree days of the Noughties boom, Britains youngsters were swept along by the buy-now-pay-later culture embraced by consumers up and down the country. During a decade of
20、 near-full employment, many【 C1】 _quickly from one joband one credit cardto another, and rainy days were such a distant memory that they【 C2】 _seemed worth saving for. But with the supply of cheap credit【 C3】 _up and a generation of school and university leavers about to【 C4】 _the recession-hit job
21、market, thousands of young people with no memory of the early 1990s recession are shocked into the【 C5】 _that the world of 2014 is very different. Katie Orme, 19, who lives in Birmingham, says she has decided never to get a credit card after seeing the problems that her parents and 22-year-old siste
22、r have had with debtjust one of the【 C6】 _lessons that she has had to learn. Orme finished her A-levels a year ago, and has been【 C7】 _for a joband living at home with her parentsever since. She has had to sign on to support herself and is now on a 12-week internship(实习期 )at the Princes Trust to imp
23、rove her【 C8】 _. The Trust says that the number of calls from【 C9】 _people such as Orme has shot up by 50% over six months. “Its so hard to get a job at the moment,“ she says, “its better to go and get more qualifications so when more jobs are【 C10】 _you will be better suited.“ A)searching B)skipped
24、 C)available D)mostly E)anxious F)mug G)hardly H)remedy I)realization J)dynamic K)resume L)painful M)neglected N)drying O)flood 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Preparing Children to Be Safe at College A)Money can buy many things
25、 to help children excel academically, like tutors and private school educations. But as those children go off to college, the one thing otherwise protective parents typically do not spend money on is making sure their children do not become victims of a crime. One reason is cost. The price of protec
26、tion ranges from consultations billed at several hundred dollars an hour to Ostrander Internationals security assessment and training program, mainly for the children of international business executives, royalty and celebrities, which starts at $41,000 for the first year. B)Parents may believe that
27、 security at college is not something they have to worry about. But just because you are paying tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars for your childs education does not mean the university is a safe place. C)A report released this week by Insite Security is sure to shake parents confidence.
28、 The security firm analyzed crime statistics on and around the campuses of the eight Ivy League colleges as well as Duke, Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago. This study was unique because it looked not only at the on-campus statistics that colleges are
29、required to report, it also took into account crime in the areas where students socialize off campus. D)The Insite report said three-quarters of the colleges and their surrounding areas had sex offense rates that were 83 percent higher than the national average, with Dartmouth having the highest rat
30、e. It said that Harvard had the highest rate of stealing among the 12. “Keeping kids safe or making a wise decision about where your kids go to school is more complicated than reviewing the police log at the college security office,“ said Christopher Falkenberg, president of Insite. E)In response to
31、 the report, Sylvia Spears, dean of Dartmouth, said, “Increased reporting is not necessarily an indicator of increased sexual violence on campus but may indicate better education about sexual violence and increased awareness of various services and offices on a campus that are available to a victim.
32、“ A spokesman for Harvard said, “It is important to note that how property crimes are classified and reported varies from school to school, and when you look at property crime statistics as a whole, Harvard does not lead in the rankings.“ F)For prominent families, the costs of a security plan to red
33、uce these risks are part of life, but for most affluent families, such security is prohibitively expensiveeven though their children may be easily harmed by crime. Several security advisers here offered advice to wealthy families considering security plans while also providing tips to parents of mor
34、e modest means. Top threats G)Curtis Ostrander, the founder of Ostrander International and former vice president for risk management and public safety at Cornell, said the biggest threat he sought to counter was students belief that nothing was going to happen to them. His business focuses on the to
35、p targets for campus crime: international students and children from wealthy homes. It might seem obvious that someone adjusting to a new culture while getting used to college could run into problems. But children from families who are upper-middle class and higher on the wealth ladder are often inn
36、ocent about personal security, and that makes them targets for theft, alcohol-related crimes and sexual assault(攻击 ). “If you grew up in a poorer neighborhood, youd be more aware of someone coming up behind you and stealing your bag,“ Mr. Ostrander said. He added that the very rich were the least pr
37、epared: “Having security growing up makes it worse because they never had to consider the threats.“ H)Mr. Falkenberg said a new trick illustrated this problem. It starts with an attractive, older woman pretending to fall in love with a wealthy male student in the hope of getting pregnant, if not mar
38、ried, and laying claim to his familys money. “Theyre only innocent kids, and the story is always the same,“ he said. “Its really hard because you have to tell the kid this is not the love of his life.“ Student responsibility I)Regardless of the threat, the key is to work with students before they le
39、ave for college. And this is where the fees for one-on-one preparation start to climb. Mr. Ostrander, for example, has a psychologist and a self-defense instructor on staff, and he will work personally with the student in the home country or on campus. Thomas Ruskin, president of CMP Protective and
40、Investigative Group, said his agents had accompanied clients children on trips, pretending tour guides or drivers, but had also done simple things like monitoring tracking technology on their cellphones. “Its about teaching them how to leave the nest but also to teach them what theyve been protected
41、 from,“ Mr. Ruskin said. J)Short of hiring an expensive consultant, parents themselves can do more to prepare children for what can happen on campus. For male students, the main worries are being beaten up or involved in an alcohol-related crime, and for women, the concerns center on sexual assault.
42、 Yet Mr. Ostrander says parents usually do not do enough to prepare children for theft and computer frauds. These include the infamous Nigerian prince asking for money and more personalized frauds devised from the abundance of personal information on the Web. “Some of us say thats just common sense,
43、 but not for people without a lot of life experience“ he said. Parental anxiety K)Thinking about what could happen to your child is enough to send the most level-headed parent into overprotective mode. Yet the experts offered some simple steps for parents to take. For example, encourage your daughte
44、r to use campus escorts(护送者 )at night. The worst thing a parent can do for a child, the experts agreed, is send a bodyguard to class. The same goes for the middle-class parent repeatedly warning a child not to drink. That could lead to worse behavior. “We dont say, Dont drink,“ Mr. Ostrander said. “
45、We say, If you drink, here are some of the possible problems.“ He added, “I teach these kids in classes, but these are the same skills they will use the rest of their lives to be safe.“ And that is what any parent wants from college. 47 As for the male students, the main concern centers on being bea
46、ten up and involved in an alcohol-related crime. 48 The students growing up in a poorer neighborhood tend to be more aware of property crimes. 49 The most level-headed parents may turn into overprotective mode if they just think about what could happen to their children at college. 50 The report rel
47、eased by Insite Security was unique in that it analyzed the crimes off campus along with the on-campus crimes statistics. 51 According to a recent report, the sex offense rates near most campuses were much higher than the national average. 52 Training students before they go to college is the key to
48、 tackle security threats at college. 53 Most protective parents dont think of spending money on preparing children to be safe at college. 54 The price of a security plan to reduce potential campus risk is too high for most affluent families. 55 As a way to protect children, sending a bodyguard to cl
49、ass is as bad as repeatedly warning a child not to drink. 56 The rise of reported sexual violence on campus may mean increased awareness and improved understanding of sexual violence. Section C 56 Pregnant women who suffer lapses(忘却 )in memory or concentration may no longer be able to blame it on “the bump“. The idea that bearing children affects ones brain powerthe “baby brain“is a myth, researchers say. Their study found no difference in how pregna
