1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 106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 how our education system generally judge students, and then explain why academic achievement isnt an adequate way to judge
2、a student. You should write at least120 words but no more than 180 words. “Why is an A or B better than a C or D? Arent all letters equal in the eyes of God?“ Section A （ A） Julias friends dont call her very often. （ B） Julia doesnt like talking with her friends. （ C） Julia likes chatting on the pho
3、ne with her friends. （ D） Julia doesnt have many friends. （ A） In a library. （ B） In a book store. （ C） In a card store. （ D） In a 17th century building. （ A） Bring his ID card to buy the ticket. （ B） Go to Los Angeles by train. （ C） Get a ticket from other airlines. （ D） Buy the ticket at the airli
4、nes counter. （ A） He didnt work as hard as he was supposed to. （ B） He didnt pass the physics exam. （ C） He did better in an earlier exam. （ D） He found something wrong with the exam. （ A） It was disconnected due to late payment. （ B） It was broken by the man. （ C） It was taken back by the phone com
5、pany. （ D） Its line was cut off. （ A） He used to be her doctor. （ B） There are better doctors than him in town. （ C） Its difficult to meet him. （ D） He is a good doctor. （ A） The band members have been working hard. （ B） The band members are being paid to play. （ C） The band will perform better in t
6、he future. （ D） The band has never performed wonderfully. （ A） He left his notes at home. （ B） He doesnt know where his notes are. （ C） He doesnt want to lend his notes to her. （ D） He agrees to lend her his notes. （ A） An international drivers license. （ B） An Arizona drivers license. （ C） A regula
7、r license. （ D） A limited license. （ A） A regular license will cost much more money. （ B） A regular license has a shorter effective period. （ C） A five-year license is much easier to get for students. （ D） A five-year license is more popular among students. （ A） An Italian student studies for two ye
8、ars. （ B） An Italian immigrant resides for ever. （ C） A Spanish tourist is on a visit for half a year. （ D） A Spanish teacher teaches for three years. （ A） Someone phoned. （ B） Someone came. （ C） The woman went out. （ D） The woman phoned the man. （ A） She didnt take Mr. Cooper to the restaurant. （ B
9、） She didnt phone him when Mr. Cooper came. （ C） She has lost the card he had given to her. （ D） She made an excurse for her fault. （ A） An information card of a restaurant. （ B） His own business card. （ C） Mr. Coopers business card. （ D） A note of what to do. （ A） A student and a teacher. （ B） The
10、secretary and the boss. （ C） A salesgirl and a customer. （ D） The wife and the husband. Section B （ A） Resolve tough social and economic problems. （ B） Raise the major international challenges. （ C） Collect different world views together. （ D） Encourage people to seek happiness. （ A） It will help to
11、 look at the role of governments in culture. （ B） It will create a new platform to protect environment. （ C） It will help society to develop and grow. （ D） It will solve the pressing economic, social and environmental issues. （ A） Think about how to connect people around the world. （ B） To attract l
12、arge number of international talent together. （ C） Discuss how cultural policy can be enriched. （ D） To share ideas of tackling cultural problems. （ A） It is organized by Scotlands government. （ B） It strengthens friendships among nations （ C） It may be the greatest cultural festival. （ D） It is a u
13、nique gathering in the world. （ A） How to paint something. （ B） Who the painter Grand Wood was. （ C） Why a painting is popular. （ D） Simple farmers living in America. （ A） Because the design was too strong. （ B） Because the painting looked like a photograph. （ C） Because the painting was too simple.
14、 （ D） Because the painting seemed to laugh at farmers. （ A） The painting was making fun of people. （ B） The painting was a symbol of the US. （ C） The painting expressed an understanding of people. （ D） The painting showed the strength of American farmers. （ A） All languages have equal values. （ B） S
15、ome languages need more efforts to learn. （ C） Some languages are certainly more important. （ D） English is the most important language worldwide. （ A） They predominate the English world. （ B） They are unable to adapt to the competitive world. （ C） They invest more time in learning a foreign languag
16、e. （ D） They may face a depressing economic future. （ A） To do business effectively. （ B） To meet others requirement. （ C） To improve linguistic skills. （ D） To promote proficiency in English. Section C 26 Imagining being asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in a society which【 B1】_ only o
17、f members of your own sex, how would you react? Unless there was something【 B2】_ wrong with you, you wouldnt be too happy about it, to say the【 B3】 _. It is all the more surprising therefore that so many parents in the world choose to【 B4】 _ such abnormal conditions on their children. Any discussion
18、 of this topic【 B5】 _question the aims of education.【 B6】 _childrens heads full of knowledge is far from being the most important among them. One of the chief aims of education is to equip future citizens with all they require to【 B7】 _in adult society. Now adult society is made up of men and women,
19、 so how can a segregated(隔离的 )school possibly offer the right sort of preparation for it? Anyone entering adult society after years of segregation can only be in for a shock. A co-educational school offers children nothing less than a small, true【 B8】 _of society. Boys and girls are given the opport
20、unity to get to know each other, to learn to live together from their earliest years. They are put in a position where they can compare themselves with each other in terms of 【 B9】 _ability, athletic achievement and many of the extra【 B10】 _ which are part of school life. In a co-educational school,
21、 everything falls into its proper place. But perhaps the greatest contribution of co-education is the healthy attitude to life it encourages. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 What do dieting and energy policy have in common? The
22、SnackWell effect. The name comes from those tasty little cookies that are【 C1】 _as being lower in fat and sugar. But they often lead dieters to eat more of them than【 C2】 _cookies and then wonder why theyre not losing weight. It turns out theres a SnackWell effect for energy use tooand it may make i
23、t tougher for us to cut back on carbon. When【 C3】 _conscious consumers buy an energy-efficient dishwasher, for example, they may feel less guilty about【 C4】 _the machine more often and as a result may not end up saving much on their utility bills. Likewise, studies indicate that people who 【 C5】 _mo
24、re-energy-efficient lights lose 5% to 12% of the expected savings by leaving them on longer. Much like dieters eating too many SnackWells, we can fail in our attempts to save energy and money. So resist the【 C6】 _to raise your thermostat(恒温器 )after you buy a more efficient furnace; lower the tempera
25、ture by a degree and shave another 1% off your heating bill. But even if we do what Jimmy Carter did and wear a 70s-style sweater all winter, we may end up spending those energy savings somewhere elselike on a plane【 C7】 _to Bermuda. A report estimated that【 C8】 _, this effect could reduce the savin
26、gs from energy efficiency by 10% or more. That doesnt mean energy-efficiency measures are【 C9】 _or that we should never go on vacation. But it does mean that cutting back on energy【 C10】 _, like dieting, is not an excuse to stuff ourselves on less guilty pleasures. A)ride B)urge C)saving D)special E
27、)regular F)advertised G)install H)environmentally I)globally J)route K)acting L)running M)consumption N)operated O)useless 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 The End of AIDS? A)On June 5th 1981 Americas Centres for Disease Control
28、and Prevention reported the outbreak of an unusual form of pneumonia(肺炎 )in Los Angeles. When, a few weeks later, its scientists noticed a similar cluster of a rare cancer called Kaposis sarcoma(肉瘤 )in San Francisco, they suspected that something strange and serious was coming. That something was AI
29、DS. B)Since then, 25m people have died from AIDS and another 34m are infected. The 30th anniversary of the diseases discovery has been taken by many as an occasion for hand-wringing. Yet the war on AIDS is going far better than anyone dared hope. A decade ago, half of the people in several southern
30、African countries were expected to die of AIDS. Now, the death rate is dropping. In 2005 the disease killed 2.1m people. In 2009, the most recent year for which data are available, the number was 1.8m. Some 5m lives have already been saved by drug treatment. In 33 of the worst-affected countries the
31、 rate of new infections is down by 25% or more from its peak. C)Even more hopeful is a recent study which suggests that the drugs used to treat AIDS may also stop its transmission. If that proves true, the drugs could achieve much of what a vaccine(疫苗 )would. The question for the world will no longe
32、r be whether it can wipe out the plague, but whether it is prepared to pay the price. The appliance of science D)If AIDS is defeated, it will be thanks to an alliance of science, activism and unselfishness. The science has come from the worlds drug companies, which leapt on the problem. In 1996 a ba
33、tch of similar drugs, all of them inhibiting the activity of one of the AIDS viruss crucial enzymes(霉素 ), appeared almost simultaneously. The effect was miraculous, if you(or your government)could afford the $15,000 a year that those drugs cost when they first came on the market. E)Much of the activ
34、ism came from rich-world gays. Having persuaded drug companies into creating the new medicines, the activists bullied them into dropping the price. That would have happened anyway, but activism made it happen faster. The unselfishness was aroused as it became clear by the mid-1990s that AIDS was not
35、 just a rich-world disease. Three-quarters of those affected wereand still arein Africa. Unlike most infections, which strike children and the elderly, AIDS hits the most productive members of society: businessmen, civil servants, engineers, teachers, doctors, nurses. Thanks to an enormous effort by
36、 Western philanthropists(慈善家 )and some politicians(this is one area where even the left should give credit to George Bush junior), a series of programmes has brought drugs to those infected. F)The result is unsatisfactory. Not enough peoplesome 6.6m of the 16m who would most quickly benefitare getti
37、ng the drugs. And the pills are not a cure. Stop taking them, and the virus bounces back. But it is a huge step forward from ten years ago. G)What can science offer now? A few peoples immune systems control the disease naturally, which suggests a vaccine might be possible, and antibodies have been d
38、iscovered that neutralise the virus and might thus form the basis of AIDS-clearing drugs. But a cure still seems a long way off. Prevention is, for the moment, the better bet. A question of money H)In the early days scientists were often attacked by activists for being more concerned with trying to
39、prevent the epidemic spreading than treating the affected. Now it seems that treatment and prevention will come in the same pill. If you can stop the virus reproducing in someones body, you not only save his life, you also reduce the number of viruses for him to pass on. Get enough people on drugs a
40、nd it would be like vaccinating them: the chain of transmission would be broken. I)That is a huge task. It is not just a matter of bringing in those who should already be on the drugs(the 16m who show symptoms or whose immune systems are critically weak). To prevent transmission, treatment would in
41、theory need to be expanded to all the 34m people infected with the disease. That would mean more effective screening, which is planned already, and also a willingness by those without the symptoms to be treated. That willingness might be there, though, if it would protect peoples uninfected lovers.
42、J)Such a programme would take years and also cost a lot of money. About $16 billion a year is spent on AIDS in poor and middle-income countries. Half is generated locally and half is foreign aid. A report in this weeks Lancet suggests a carefully crafted mixture of approaches that does not involve t
43、reating all those without symptoms would bring great benefit for not much more than thisa peak of $22 billion in 2015, and a fall thereafter. Moreover, most of the extra spending would be offset by savings on the treatment of those who would have been infected, but were notsome 12m people, if the sc
44、ientists have done their sums right. At $500 per person per year, the benefits would far outweigh the costs in purely economic terms; though donors will need to compare the gain from spending more on knocking out AIDS against other worthy causes, such as eliminating malaria(疟疾 ). K)For the moment, t
45、he struggle is to stop some rich countries giving less. The Netherlands and Spain are cutting their contributions to the Global Fund, one of the two main distributors of the life-saving drugs, and Italy has stopped paying altogether. On June 8th the United Nations meets to discuss what to do next. T
46、hose who see the UN as a mere talking-shop should remember that its first meeting on AIDS launched the Global Fund. It is still a long haul. But AIDS can be beaten. A plague that 30 years ago was blamed on mans wickedness has ended up showing him in a better, more inventive and generous light. 47 If
47、 the anti-AIDS drugs can stop AIDS from transmitting, the wipe-out of the plague will be out of question. 48 Activists forced the drug institutions not only to create new drugs but also to lower the drug price. 49 People used to blame scientists for paying more attention to preventing the spread of
48、AIDs than treating patients infected with it. 50 AIDS was first discovered by American scientists about some thirty years ago. 51 Even though drugs with amazing effect appeared in 1990s, they were too expensive for most patients to afford. 52 About 50% of the money spent on AIDS, in the poor and mid
49、dle-income countries, comes from foreign assistance. 53 Some rich countries in Europe are decreasing their anti-AIDS investment to Global Fund. 54 More effective screening and willingness are required to prevent AIDS from transmitting. 55 Unlike most infectious diseases that hit the weak members, AIDS strikes the most capable members of society. 56 Scientists have discovered some antibodies which might help to produce drugs that can clear AIDS. Section C
