1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 113及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled Wechat in Our Life, and then explain why Wechat is increasingly popular now and analyze the impact of Wechat on peoples life. You should write at least 120 words but no mor
2、e than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） Children learn by example. （ B） Children must not tell lies. （ C） Children dont like discipline. （ D） Children must control their temper. （ A） Wait for the sale to start. （ B） Get further information about the sale. （ C） Call the T
3、V station to be sure if the ad is true. （ D） Buy a new suit. （ A） The woman doesnt think it exciting to travel by air. （ B） Theyll stay at home during the holidays. （ C） They are offered some plane tickets for their holidays. （ D） Theyll be flying somewhere for their vacation. （ A） Near the stairs.
4、（ B） On the platform. （ C） At the ticket office. （ D） At the information desk. （ A） He doesnt think that John is ill. （ B） He is aware that John is ill. （ C） He thinks that perhaps John is not in very good health. （ D） He doesnt think that John has a very good knowledge of physics. （ A） He could hel
5、p her with the problems. （ B） He could go out together with her. （ C） She should go out for a while. （ D） She should do the problems herself. （ A） Australian and American. （ B） Guest and host. （ C） Husband and wife. （ D） Professor and student. （ A） Because she cant watch TV. （ B） Because her ears we
6、re hurt. （ C） Because she cant hear the words on the telephone. （ D） Because her eyes were hurt. （ A） One of his classes finished early. （ B） He wanted to get some studying done. （ C） The library had a special display on the Industrial Revolution. （ D） His books were ten days overdue. （ A） Checked t
7、hem out. （ B） Took notes on them. （ C） Returned them to the shelves. （ D） Put them in his book bag. （ A） They are marked with colored labels. （ B） They are specially coded. （ C） They are checked out. （ D） They are inspected by the guard. （ A） Because her parents love her very much. （ B） Because her
8、parents never force her to do anything she doesnt want to do. （ C） Because she is allowed to have her career. （ D） Because she has too much freedom. （ A） She didnt need her parents money any more. （ B） She begins to get on well with her parents. （ C） She always stayed with her parents. （ D） She rent
9、ed a government house and lived alone. （ A） They allowed him to come to England immediately. （ B） They thought he should go abroad as a child. （ C） They were reluctant until their son persuaded them. （ D） They tried to control his English study. （ A） The two speakers are from different countries. （
10、B） The man gets along very well with his parents. （ C） British parents never interfere with their children. （ D） The man doesnt like his parents at all. Section B （ A） The threat of poisonous desert animals and plants. （ B） The exhaustion of energy resources. （ C） The destruction of energy resources
11、. （ D） The spread of the black powder from the fires. （ A） The underground oil resources have not been affected. （ B） Most of the desert animals and plants have managed to survive. （ C） The oil lakes soon dried up and stooped evaporating. （ D） The underground water resources have not been affected b
12、y the oil wells. （ A） To restore the normal production of the oil wells. （ B） To estimate the losses caused by the fire. （ C） To remove the oil left in the desert. （ D） To use the oil left in the oil lakes. （ A） In New York. （ B） In a bank. （ C） Near a prison. （ D） In the countryside. （ A） A policem
13、an. （ B） Mr. Blakes old friend. （ C） A prison official. （ D） A runaway criminal. （ A） At least 14 miles an hour. （ B） At least 40 miles an hour. （ C） At most 40 miles an hour. （ D） At most 14 miles an hour. （ A） Because a police-car followed him. （ B） Because he wanted the man in his car arrested. （
14、 C） Because it grew darker and darker. （ D） Because he wanted to return home earlier. （ A） A museum exhibition of African baskets. （ B） Changes in basket-weaving. （ C） Differences between African and American baskets. （ D） The development of basket weaving in one town. （ A） Their mothers taught them
15、. （ B） They traveled to Africa. （ C） They learned in school. （ D） They taught themselves. （ A） They sell them as a hobby. （ B） They make them as a hobby. （ C） They use them on their farms. （ D） They make and sell them to make a living. Section C 26 Why does cream go bad faster than butter? Some rese
16、archers think that it comes down to the structure of the food, not its chemical composition a finding that could help rid some processed foods of chemical preservatives. Cream and butter contain much【 B1】 _, so why cream should sour much faster has been a 【 B2】 _. Both are emulsions tiny globules of
17、 one liquid evenly【 B3】 _throughout another. The difference lies in whats in the globules and whats in the surrounding. In cream, fatty globules 【 B4】 _ in a sea of water. In butter, globules of a watery【 B5】 _are locked away in a sea of fat. The bacteria which make the food go bad prefer to live in
18、 the watery regions of the【 B6】 _. This means that in cream, the bacteria are free to grow throughout the mixture. When the situation is 【 B7】 _, the bacteria are locked away in【 B8】 _buried deep in the sea of fat. Trapped in this way,【 B9】 _colonies cannot spread and rapidly run out of nutrients. T
19、hey also slowly poison themselves with their waste products. In butter, there is a self-limiting system which stops the bacteria growing. The researchers are already working with food companies keen to see if their products can be made【 B10】 _bacterial attack through alterations to the foods structu
20、re. They believe that it will be possible to make the emulsions used in salad cream, for instance, more like that in butter. The key will be to do this while keeping the salad cream liquid and not turning it into a solid lump. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 3
21、5 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Videoconferencing is nothing more than a television set or PC monitor with a camera. Through the video conferencing, not only your voice but also your face, the surroundings and any other graphic and physical【 C1】 _can be captured and transmitted through the communicat
22、ion system with or without wires. Of course, when you go into the details, the technology involved is very【 C2】 _ and the subject matter littered with jargon. Such as ISDN(Integrated Services Digital Network), POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service)or the【 C3】 _behind bandwidth, latency and is ochrony wh
23、ich are used to explain how videoconferencing works. Good people communication is【 C4】 _in any business, and the more interaction you can achieve, the more likely it is that your【 C5】 _ will be the right ones. Videoconferencing not only allows you to speak to people in different locations, but also
24、note【 C6】 _expressions and gestures that let you know what the other person is really thinking. Meetings are made more【 C7】 _ by sharing documents and computer applications that a simple telephone cannot【 C8】 _.【 C9】 _, organizations are discovering the competitive advantages and the power of videoc
25、onferencing. With advances in performance, economical pricing, the ability to 【 C10】 _ essential meeting tools and connectivity to global telephone networks and standardized videoconferencing protocols, videoconferencing is now a practical reality for any organization. A)Fortunately B)effective C)im
26、ages D)articulate E)facial F)manage G)decisions H)connect I)advanced J)integrate K)progressive L)concepts M)pictures N)Increasingly O)important 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Endangered Peoples A)Today, it is not distance, but
27、culture that separates the peoples of the world. The central question of our time may be how to deal with cultural differences. So begins the book, Endangered Peoples, by Art Davidson. It is an attempt to provide understanding of the issues affecting the worlds native peoples. This book tells the st
28、ories of 21 tribes, cultures, and cultural areas that are struggling to survive. It tells each story through the voice of a member of the tribe .Mr. Davidson recorded their words. Art Wolfe and John Isaac took pictures of them. The organization called the Sierra Club published the book. B)The native
29、 groups live far apart in North America or South America, Africa or Asia. Yet their situations are similar. They are fighting the march of progress in an effort to keep themselves and their cultures alive. Some of them follow ancient ways most of the time. Some follow modern ways most of the time. T
30、hey have one foot in ancient world and one foot in modern world. They hope to continue to balance between these two worlds. Yet the pressures to forget their traditions and join the modern world may be too great. C)Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala, the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1992, offers her thoug
31、hts in the beginning of the book Endangered Peoples. She notes that many people claim that native people are like stories from the past. They are ruins that have died. She disagrees strongly. She says native communities are not remains of the past. They have a future, and they have much wisdom and r
32、ichness to offer the rest of the world. D)Art Davidson traveled thousands of miles around the world while working on the book. He talked to many people to gather their thoughts and feelings. Mr. Davidson notes that their desires are the same. People want to remain themselves, he says. They want to r
33、aise their children the way they were raised. They want their children to speak their mother tongue, their own language. They want them to have their parents values and customs. Mr. Davidson says the peoples cries are the same: “Does our culture have to die? Do we have to disappear as a people? “ E)
34、Art Davidson lived for more than 25 years among native people in the American state of Alaska. He says his interest in native peoples began his boyhood when he found an ancient stone arrowhead. The arrowhead was used as a weapon to hunt food. The hunter was an American Indian, long dead. Mr. Davidso
35、n realized then that Indians had lived in the state of Colorado, right where he was standing. And it was then, he says, that he first wondered: “Where are they? Where did they go? “He found answers to his early question. Many of the native peoples had disappeared. They were forced off their lands. O
36、r they were killed in battle. Or they died from diseases brought by new settlers. Other native peoples remained, but they had to fight to survive the pressures of the modern world. F)The Gwichin are an example of the survivors. They have lived in what is now Alaska and Canada for 10,000 years. Now a
37、bout 5,000 Gwichin remain. They are mainly hunters. They hunt the caribou, a large deer with big horns that travels across the huge spaces of the far north. For centuries, they have used all parts of the caribou: the meat for food, the skins for clothes, the bones for tools. Hunting caribou is the w
38、ay of life of the Gwichin. G)One Gwichin told Art Davidson of memories from his childhood. It was a time when the tribe lived quietly in its own corner of the world. He spoke to Mr. Davidson in these words: “Aslong as I can remember, someone would sit by a fire on the hilltop every spring and autumn
39、. His job was to look for caribou. If he saw a caribou, he would wave his arms or he would make hisfire to give off more smoke. Then the village would come to life! People ran up to the hilltop. The tribes seemed to be at its best at these gatherings. We were all filled with happiness and sharing!“
40、H)About ten years ago, the modern world invaded the quiet world of the Gwichin. Oil companies wanted to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve. This area was the placewhere the caribou gave birth to their young. The Gwichin feared the caribou would disappear. One Gwichin woman descri
41、bes the situation in these words: “Oil development threatens the caribou. If the caribou are threatened, then the people are threatened. Oil company official and American lawmakers do not seem to understand. They do not come into our homes and share our food. They have never tried to understand the
42、feeling expressed in our songs and our prayers.They have not seen the old people cry. Our elders have seen parts of our culture destroyed. Theyworry that our people may disappear forever. “ I)A scientist with a British oil company dismisses(驳回 , 打消 )the fears of the Gwichin. He also says they have n
43、o choice. They will have to change. The Gwichin, however, are resisting. They took legal action to stop the oil companies. But they won only a temporary ban on oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve.Pressures continue on other native people, as Art Davidson describes in his book. T
44、hepressures come from expanding populations, dam projects that flood tribal lands, and political and economic conflicts threaten the culture, lands, and lives of such groups as the Quechua of Peru, the Malagasy of Madagascar and the Ainu of Japan. J)The organization called Cultural Survival has been
45、 in existence for 22 years. It tries to protect the rights and cultures of peoples throughout the world. It has about 12,000 members. And it receives help from a large number of students who work without pay. Theodore MacDonald is director of the Cultural Survival Research Center. He says the organi
46、zation has three main jobs. It does research and publishes information. It works with native people directly. And it creates markets for goods produced by native communities. K)Late last year, Cultural Survival published a book called State of the Peoples: a Global Human Rights Report on Societies i
47、n Danger. The book contains reports from researchers who work for Cultural Survival, from experts on native peoples, and from native peoples themselves. The book describes the conditions of different native and minority groups. It includes longer reports about several threatened societies, including
48、 the Penan of Malaysia and the Anishinabe of North American. And it provides the names of organizations similar to Cultural Survival for activists, researchers and the press. L)David Maybury-Lewis started the Cultural Survival organization. Mr. Maybury-Lewis believes powerful groups rob native peopl
49、es of their lives, lands, or resources. About 6,000 groups are left in the world. A native group is one that has its own langue. It hasa long-term link to a homeland. And it has governed itself. Theodore MacDonald says Cultural Survival works to protect the rights of groups, not just individual people. He says the organization would like to develop a system of early warnings when these rights are threatened .Mr. MacDonald notes that conflicts bet
