1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 10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 description of the picture and then express your views on the significance of waste sorting. You should write at least 120 words but no
2、 more than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） Add some parts to her report. （ B） Improve her writing. （ C） Get her report published. （ D） Rewrite her report. （ A） The man must pay his fees right away. （ B） She accept check as well as cash. （ C） Paying a little bit late is
3、acceptable. （ D） The man can pay within this month. （ A） Mike is good at Economics. （ B） Mike is good at Political Science. （ C） Mike likes Economics. （ D） Mike likes Political Science. （ A） The bank had fired the woman. （ B） The woman used to work for a lawyer. （ C） The work in the bank is more int
4、eresting. （ D） The woman used to work in a bank. （ A） He is successful in correcting the plan ahead of schedule. （ B） The woman is quite successful in correcting the plan. （ C） He is on his way doing the job. （ D） The woman had helped him a lot. （ A） The man went to Sams birthday party yesterday. （
5、B） The woman went to Sams birthday party yesterday. （ C） The woman has been terribly busy these days. （ D） The man went to his girlfriends birthday party. （ A） He cannot return the money right now. （ B） He can return the money today. （ C） He cannot return the money this month. （ D） He wants to borro
6、w more money. （ A） Join the team three years later. （ B） Spend less time on homework. （ C） Give up music for the moment. （ D） Try her best to win a prize. （ A） Inviting her friends to a gathering. （ B） Staying at home with her parents. （ C） Relaxing at the seashore. （ D） Working on her paper. （ A） F
7、inish her experiment. （ B） Work on a paper. （ C） Stay in the library. （ D） Lie out in the sun. （ A） She was too tired to continue. （ B） It was hard for her to run on the wet sand. （ C） She didnt like the volleyball game. （ D） She couldnt bear the burning hot weather. （ A） The water was too dirty. （
8、B） She was afraid of water. （ C） She hadnt learned to swim. （ D） The waters temperature was low. （ A） It should be done in advance. （ B） It should be finished more slowly. （ C） It can be done with plenty of time. （ D） It must be done at once. （ A） They have no weekend. （ B） The meetings usually go o
9、n too long. （ C） They cant get the up-to-date information in work. （ D） The colleagues dont stick to the deadlines. （ A） Everybody must finish their work on time. （ B） Everybody must know what they are doing. （ C） Everybody must work harder and harder. （ D） Everybody must attend the meeting. Section
10、 B （ A） They travel faster near the TV station. （ B） They can work better than ever before. （ C） They usually follow the curve of the earth. （ D） They travel in straight lines in all directions. （ A） Pay a monthly charge. （ B） Pay a yearly charge. （ C） Pay a daily charge. （ D） Pay an hourly charge.
11、（ A） All classrooms use cable television. （ B） City people can see extra programs. （ C） The charge of cable is much lowered. （ D） TV signals can be received more easily. （ A） He had no pension. （ B） He had a great car. （ C） He was right at the age of 56. （ D） He owned a recipe for chicken. （ A） Ask
12、his friends to sell Fried Chicken. （ B） Work as a cook in a famous restaurant, （ C） Sell his chicken recipe to restaurant owners. （ D） Study hard to work out a chicken recipe. （ A） 65. （ B） 105. （ C） 1008 （ D） 1009 （ A） Collectivism. （ B） Equality. （ C） Social group. （ D） Individualism. （ A） Equal r
13、ights and equal freedom. （ B） Equal worth and equal opportunity. （ C） Equal opportunity and equal pay. （ D） Equal worth and equal status. （ A） Protesting their unequal treatment. （ B） Enduring all the hardships willingly. （ C） Fulfilling their dreams through hard work. （ D） Learning how to get freed
14、om and equality. （ A） People can easily fight with each other. （ B） Conflicts with others become inevitable. （ C） Americans are too concerned about their status. （ D） Ones freedom can conflict with others rights. Section C 26 People whose jobs require them to sit for long periods of time suffer as m
15、uch from back pain as people who lift all day long. Many researchers believe that the huge increase in back pain over the past couple of【 B1】 _ has a lot to do with the fact that more and more of us are spending our work days in chairs. Many people have the【 B2】 _ that if their back pain becomes ver
16、y severe, they can always 【 B3】 _surgery. Nothing could be further from the truth. The amount of pain someone suffers from has very little to do with whether or not he or she could【 B4】 _surgery. One British researcher has estimated that for every 10,000 people who experience back pain, only four ne
17、ed surgery. And yet, one of the most【 B5】_ asked questions that back pain sufferers ask is: “Whos the best specialist in town?“ Waste of time. Physicians today【 B6】 _physical activity and the use of posture(姿势 )support clothes to【 B7】 _ exercise while supporting back muscles. Not many years ago, bac
18、k pain patients were put to bed, sometimes for weeks or months. Two or three days of bed rest is now the【 B8】 _. Physically speaking, if you stay in bed, your muscle strength can decline by as much as three percent per day. At that rate, you will end up with no more energy left to【 B9】 _ normal dail
19、y routines. A lot of attention has recently been paid to【 B10】 _ links between depression and back pain. It is not rare. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “sile
20、nt“, the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an【 C1】 _accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were【 C2】 _by piano improvisations(即兴创作 )on po
21、pular tunes. At first, the music played【 C3】 _no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was【 C4】 _. Within a very short time, however, the incongruity(不协调 )of playing lively music to a【 C5】 _film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in【 C6】 _their piece
22、s to the mood of the film. As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain【 C7】 _, and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed. For a number of years the selection of music for each film program【 C8】 _ent
23、irely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal【 C9】 _for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before they were to b
24、e shown, the musical arrangement was【 C10】 _improvised in the greatest hurry. A)sufficient B)incredible C)accompanied D)comparatively E)matching F)rested G)normally H)occasions I)bore J)qualification K)solemn L)indispensable M)severe N)according O)cases 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 4
25、2 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 To Help the Kids, Parents Go Back to School A)For a few years now, every parent of a newborn baby in the South Florida district has received a congratulations packet while still in the hospital that includes, among other things, a colorful an
26、imal picture book(in three languages)and a letter from something called the Parent Academy. “Keep in mind that you are, and will always be, your childs first and most important teacher,“ the letter reads. “Miami-Dade County Public Schools has many resources and opportunities for you to make the most
27、 of that awesome responsibility.“ You have to admit, its a pretty genius interpretation of that old advertising saying “Get em while theyre young.“ B)While the concept of parent academies in which towns or school districts offer what are essentially classes and workshops on parenting skills has been
28、 around for more than a decade, several larger cities are starting or expanding such programs in an effort to engage parents who are otherwise uninvolved in their childs education. Philadelphia has invested heavily in this years launch of a comprehensive and wide-ranging program for parents. Boston
29、is restoring its Parent University following an earlier versions shutdown due to budget cuts. And Miamis Parent Academy, now in its fifth year, offers more than 100 workshops that range from Help Your Child Succeed in Math to Teaching Behavior Skills. C)Parent academies are particularly helpful for
30、urban communities full of mothers and fathers who for various reasons are disengaged from their childrens education. Many are single parents with second jobs that leave little time to help with schoolwork. Some are immigrants who dont understand much English. Some are parents uncomfortable with scho
31、olwork a survey released by Intel found that more than 50% of parents would rather talk to their kids about drugs or drunk driving than about math or science. And then theres the general confusion that often comes from dealing with a bureaucracy(官僚作风 )as complicated as the typical American school di
32、strict. “There are parents who are just not as well informed about the way schools work,“ says Karen Mapp, director of the Education Policy and Management Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “The policies, the procedures, what state test scores mean its not that they dont care; they
33、 just dont know how.“ D)Picture yourself in the following supposed situations: youre a parent who never graduated high school; youre a parent whose only interactions with schools have been negative ones; youre a parent who has zero recollection of how to divide fractions; youre a parent who has no c
34、lue as to what the important dates are on the college-application calendar. Now picture yourself experiencing all of the supposed situations at once, and then imagine how your child would suffer from your knowledge deficiency. For as much as the current wave of education reformers like to maintain t
35、hat quality teachers and schools can help overcome environmental factors, a childs home life plays an undeniable role in how well they learn, says Mapp. E)“Ive been doing research on family engagement for about 16 years now,“ she says. “And theres 40 years of research that indicates a pretty positiv
36、e relationship between families being engaged in their childrens education and positive effects on students in terms of their academic achievement. “Mapp is currently helping write a case study on Miamis Parent Academy program, which is one of the nations most successful big-city attempts in this ar
37、ea. Privately funded by local philanthropists(慈善家 )and businesses, the Parent Academy has seen more than 120,000 people participate in its workshops during the past half-decade. It has taught parents everything from how to reinforce reading lessons at home to how to deal with threat and the dangers
38、of sexing. F)The county has partly adjusted its approach to serve its large non-English-speaking community. “Many of our newly arrived immigrants dont understand what they can do to support their childs success, and they dont understand the system theres no point in going to the school board when yo
39、ure concerned about your childs homework,“ says Anne Thompson, director of the Miami-Dade program. Because of language issues, she often sees students having to do their parents jobs in terms of navigating school bureaucracy. G)In Philadelphia, superintendent Arlene Ackerman set up a Parent Universi
40、ty this year after expressing concern over low literacy rates for parents and children, as well as a general lack of parental engagement among low-income families, especially among African-American men. Tasked with cherry-picking the best elements from other programs around the country(and tossing t
41、he worst), Karren Dunkley, deputy of the Philadelphia School Districts Office of Parent, Family and Community Services, and her colleagues realized that they needed to ground the program within the context of adult continuing education. That is, if youre trying to teach adults something, give them t
42、he respect of having it resemble a real class, which meets more than once, reinforces lessons and allows parents to form learning-centered relationships with instructors and fellow students just as their kids do. “When we looked around the country, we found one-hit wonders, where parents would come
43、into schools for daylong workshops,“ says Dunkley. “That really didnt produce transformative results, nor did it sustain interest or truly give support to parents.“ H)Supported primarily by federal funds, the Philadelphia Parent Academys “curriculum“ runs the scope from a 10-week math-literacy cours
44、e to a multipart social-etiquette(社交礼仪 )class to a one-day session on attendance and truancy(逃课 )that teaches parents about “compulsory education and attendance law.“ Its all targeted toward families in need: parents of children at low-performing schools and residents of housing projects and emergen
45、cy shelters. Of course, theres no guarantee that the people who need these programs the most will actually take advantage of them you cant force parents to care, no matter how many free classes you offer. Still, says Harvards Mapp, you have to make progress where you can. “Family engagement is a sha
46、red, mutual partnership between educators and parents,“ she says. “Its a two-way conversation between home and school.“ 47 Some students have to navigate school bureaucracy by themselves, because their parents dont know English. 48 Some big cities are launching parent academies programs to engage pa
47、rents in their childs education. 49 The letter in the congratulations packet intends to persuade parents to go back to school. 50 Mapp believes that besides teachers and schools, the parents help at home is essential for childrens study. 51 A government official realized that the parent academic pro
48、gram should be on the basis of adult continuing education. 52 Educators and parents should work in a shared, mutual partnership to help the kids, says a university staff member. 53 The survey by Intel found that more than half of parents were unwilling to deal with schoolwork. 54 Miamis Parent Acade
49、my program is considered as a great success. 55 The Philadelphia Parent Academys “curriculum“ is funded primarily by federal funds. 56 A Parent University was set up in Philadelphia partly due to the high illiteracy rates for parents and children. Section C 56 U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan appealed Friday for a new generation of extraordinary teachers, calling education the civil rights cause of our time. Dunc
