1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 104及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should start your essay with a brief account of students increasing reliance on technology to solve problems, and then explain the consequence of over-dependence on it. Yo
2、u should write at least120 words but no more than 180 words. “You have to solve this problem by yourself. You cant call tech support.“ Section A （ A） They dont have enough money to buy other things. （ B） They have bought some household appliances. （ C） They have enough money to buy chicken. （ D） The
3、y dont want to buy anything else. （ A） Find a larger room. （ B） Sell the old table. （ C） Buy two armchairs. （ D） Rearrange some furniture. （ A） He likes the brand Omega very much. （ B） He dislikes the womans recommendation. （ C） He wants to buy an expensive watch. （ D） He doesnt care about the desig
4、n of the wristwatch. （ A） She can do nothing to help the man. （ B） She knows nothing about basketball. （ C） They are not rich enough to buy another TV set. （ D） The man is always watching basketball games. （ A） Go to the cinema in spite of the cold weather. （ B） Stay at home and rest. （ C） Go over h
5、is lessons. （ D） Go to finish his work. （ A） The woman has given up learning English. （ B） The woman does well in pronunciation and spelling. （ C） The man also does well in pronunciation and grammar. （ D） Neither the man nor the woman is good at spelling. （ A） To make the woman angry. （ B） To please
6、 the mans mother. （ C） David is the mans good friend. （ D） David is good at carrying on conversations. （ A） The man has gone over three units of the course. （ B） The man has reviewed only eight units of the course. （ C） The man will spend the May Day holiday reviewing the twelve units. （ D） The man
7、has been fully prepared for the final exam. （ A） Calm. （ B） Angry. （ C） Interested. （ D） Funny. （ A） Go to the library. （ B） Pay the money. （ C） Go through registration. （ D） Get a checklist-release card. （ A） Give up registration and leave. （ B） Talk to the admissions representative. （ C） Go to the
8、 library immediately. （ D） Wait until the woman processes his registration. （ A） Doctor. （ B） Government official. （ C） Teacher. （ D） Babysitter. （ A） He is always ill. （ B） He is too active. （ C） He speaks too little. （ D） He does a bad thing. （ A） His parents disagree with that. （ B） His parents c
9、ant be with him. （ C） His parents think it is unhealthy. （ D） His parents order him to stay at home. （ A） It is signed by the state government. （ B） It could raise money from parents. （ C） It has been drawn up to protect children. （ D） It could help to fund afternoon programs. Section B （ A） Exposur
10、e to excessive noise. （ B） Lack of rest. （ C） Unpreventable accident. （ D） Intense work pressure. （ A） Moderate noise is harmless. （ B） Sound above 80 decibels can hurt hearing. （ C） Noise can make people feel stressed. （ D） There is no noise on campus. （ A） Do medical checkup regularly. （ B） Avoid
11、making noise. （ C） Limit exposure to harmful noise. （ D） Live in the place without noises. （ A） Measure damaging noises on campus. （ B） Make a list of campus noises. （ C） Figure out how to fight against noise. （ D） Explain the concept of noise. （ A） It costs no more than the normal construction. （ B
12、） It does a poor job of facing extreme weather. （ C） It holds up much better to extreme weather. （ D） It impacts weather changes and the economy. （ A） Wildfires. （ B） Famine. （ C） Flood. （ D） Plague. （ A） Make people come up with rough numbers and estimates. （ B） Make people use less energy and gene
13、rate fewer gases. （ C） Help scientists figure out what the future will bring. （ D） Encourage companies to emit more carbon dioxide. （ A） You will be delighted. （ B） You will not be affected. （ C） You may feel depressed. （ D） You will feel lonely. （ A） Social bonds will stay steady. （ B） One will los
14、e many friends. （ C） People can make friends more easily （ D） A social network will be destroyed. （ A） Transmit happy feelings to others. （ B） Reach out to people who need help. （ C） Pay more attention to lonely people. （ D） Interact with a happy person frequently. Section C 26 Since we are social b
15、eings, the quality of our lives depends in large measure on our interpersonal(人与人之间的 )relationships. One strength of the human condition is our【 B1】 _ to give and receive support from one another under stressful circumstances. Social support【 B2】 _ the exchange of resources among people based on the
16、ir interpersonal ties. Those of us with strong support systems appear better able to cope with major life changes and【 B3】 _problems. People with strong social ties live longer and have better health than those without such ties. Studies over a range of illnesses, from depression to heart disease,【
17、B4】 _that the presence of social support helps people【 B5】 _ illness, and the absence of such support makes poor health more likely. Social support【 B6】 _ stress in a number of ways. First, friends, relatives, and colleagues may let us know that they value us. Our self-respect is strengthened when w
18、e feel accepted by others despite our faults and【 B7】 _. Second, other people often provide us with informational support. They help us to define and understand our problems and find solutions to them. Third, we【 B8】 _find that engaging in leisure-time activities with others helps us to meet our soc
19、ial needs while at the same time【 B9】 _our worries and troubles. Finally, other people may give us helpful support 【 B10】 _ aid, material resources, and needed services that reduces stress by helping us resolve and cope with our problems. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7
20、】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Dont let vacations or business travel sideline(使退出 )your exercise routine. Physical activity is a great way to【 C1】 _stress and adjust to a new time zone when youre traveling. Heres how to get the most out of it: Find fitness-friendly【 C2】 _. Call ahead to
21、make sure your hotel or motel has a good fitness facility or at least a place where youll feel safe and【 C3】 _going for a walk. Take【 C4】 _of the local attractions. Many places offer their own【 C5】_exercise opportunities trails through beautiful parks or forests, beach walks, boat rides on the lake,
22、 bike rides out of town. Check the travel【 C6】 _of your bookstore or look on-line for information before you travel. Be sure to bring along what youll need. Walking shoes, gym shorts, a T-shirt, resistance bands make a checklist of all the things youll need while youre away and make sure to【 C7】 _it
23、 all. Use every opportunity. Too busy to set aside a block of time for【 C8】 _? Look for every opportunity you can to be active. Book a room on the third floor and take the stairs. Walk whenever you can between meetings, while youre waiting at the airport, on .our way from here to there. Be【 C9】 _. I
24、f youre on a busy business trip, dont add to the stress by trying to do too much. Spending【 C10】 _15 minutes on refreshing walking, along with climbing a few flights of stairs instead of taking the elevator, should hold you until you get home againand back to your regular routine. A)pack B)realistic
25、 C)advantage D)equipment E)identically F)accommodations G)activity H)enjoyable I)oppose J)sketch K)unique L)potential M)section N)relieve O)merely 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 What If You Could Learn Everything? A)Imagine eve
26、ry student has a tireless personal tutor, an artificially intelligent and inexhaustible companion that magically knows everything, knows the student, and helps her learn what she needs to know. “You guys sound like youre from the future,“ Jose Ferreira, the CEO of the education technology startup Kn
27、ewton, says. “Thats the most common reaction we get from others in the industry.“ B)Four years ago, this kind of talk sounded like typical Silicon Valley boast from another childish founder of a technology startup. Today, Knewton says they can deliver the kinds of breakthroughs: several million data
28、 points generated daily by each of 1 million students from elementary school through college, using Knewtons “adaptive learning“ technology to study math, reading, and other fundamentals. Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder, Facebook investor, and an early investor in Knewton, told Knewtons staff rec
29、ently that the company has two key characteristics he looks for in a deal. “Before they happen, everybody thought it was impossible. Afterwards its too late for anyone else, because theyve already done it.“ C)Adaptive learning is an increasingly popular saying indicating educational software that cu
30、stomizes its presentation of material from moment to moment based on the users input. Its being hailed as a “revolution“ by both venture capitalists and big, established education companies. Starting this fall, Knewtons technology will be available to the vast majority of the nations colleges and un
31、iversities and K-12 school districts through new partnerships with three major textbook publishers: Pearson, MacMillan, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. And Ferreiras done all this even though he says neither his investors nor his competition, to say nothing of the public or the press, really understa
32、nd what Knewton can do. D)But heres the vision. Within 5 or 10 years, the paper textbook and mimeographed(油印的 )worksheet will be dead. Classroom exercises and homework text, audio, video, games will have shifted entirely to the iPad or equivalent. And adaptive learning will help each user find the e
33、xact right piece of content needed, in the exact right format, at the exact right time, based on previous patterns of use. E)In an age of swelling class sizes, teacher layoffs, and students with a vast grouping of special needs and learning styles, some reformers greet these adaptive learning softwa
34、re systems as a savior that could make learning more customized and effective and teaching more efficient. While battle lines are sharp in K-12 school reform over issues from charters to the Common Core national curriculum standards, digital innovations have fans across the political scope for their
35、 power to engage students and bring the classroom into the 21st century. F)Knewton, at base, is a recommendation engine but for learning. The recommendation engine is a core technology of the Internet, and probably one you encounter every day. Google uses recommendations: other people who entered th
36、ese search terms clicked on this page, so well show it to you first. The more you use one of these websites, the more it knows about you not just about your current behavior, but about all the other searches and clicks youve done. In theory, as you spend more time with a site its recommendations wil
37、l become more personalized. G)Rather than the set of all Web pages or all movies, the learning data set is, more or less, the universe of all facts. Ferreira calls these facts “atomic concepts,“ meaning that theyre indivisible into smaller concepts. When a textbook publisher like Pearson loads its c
38、urriculum into Knewtons platform, each piece of content it could be a video, a test question, or a paragraph of text is tagged with the appropriate concept or concepts. H)The platform forms a personalized study plan based on that information and decides what the student should work on next, feeding
39、the student the appropriate new pieces of content and continuously checking the progress. A dashboard(仪表盘 )shows the student how many “mastery points“ have been achieved and what to do next. Teachers, likewise, can see exactly which concepts the student is struggling with, and not only whether the h
40、omework problems have been done but also how many times each problem was attempted or how many hints were needed. The more people use the system, the better it gets; and the more you use it, the better it gets for you. I)In a traditional class, a teacher moves a group of students through a predeterm
41、ined sequence of material at a single pace. Reactions are delayed you dont get homework or pop quizzes back for a day or two. Some students are bored; some are confused. You can miss a key idea, fall behind, and never catch up. Software-enabled adaptive learning flips all of this on its head. Studen
42、ts can move at their own speed. They can get hints and instant feedback. Teachers, meanwhile, can spend class time targeting their help to individuals or small groups based on need. J)The Knewton system uses its analytics to keep students motivated. If it notices that you seem to have a confidence p
43、roblem, because you too often blow questions that should be easy based on previous results, it will start you off with a few questions youre likely to get right. If youre stuck, choosing the wrong answer again and again, it will throw out broader and broader hints before just showing you the right a
44、nswer. It knows when to drill you on multiplication and when to give you a fun animated video to watch. K)These are early days, and the questions are mounting. Research indicates that emotional qualities like courage, persistence, and motivation may be even more important to students success than th
45、e knowledge or skills they acquire, and they all depend heavily on human relationships. Knowledge acquisition is the only aspect of education that todays digital technology seems especially well adapted to. So far, most software applications, platforms, apps, and games, including Knewtons, have been
46、 optimized for transferring quantitative, bounded bodies of facts in fields like math, science, or engineering, as well as basic literacy and grammar. An adaptive-learning platform like Knewtons is helpless to analyze a students insight in class discussions, the special brilliance of an essay, or cr
47、eativity in a group presentation. In a rare moment of modesty, Ferreira agrees. “In the end,“ he says, “maybe Knewton is just a tool.“ 47 Students get personalized study plan and teachers get detailed information about students performance from Knewton platform. 48 With cooperation with major textbo
48、ok publishers, Knewtons technology will be accessible to many universities beginning from this autumn. 49 When curriculums are put into Knewtons platform, theyre labeled with proper concepts. 50 The Knewton system pays attention to students confidence problems. 51 Knewton basically works in the same
49、 way as Google, but only for learning. 52 Adaptive learning is a phrase used to indicate educational software that changes the materials presented to users according to their input. 53 Knewton helps little in developing students emotional qualities. 54 Adaptive learning software systems have many political supporters. 55 In a traditional class, students cant get timely homework feedback. 56 An investor believed in Knewton becaus
