1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 118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 popularity of wifi.You should write at least 120 words but no more than
2、180 words. Section A （ A） He likes Paris a lot. （ B） He doesnt know French. （ C） He is good at French. （ D） He is a Frenchman. （ A） It was held in China. （ B） It was about setting up a factory. （ C） It has got a new board. （ D） It was unsuccessful. （ A） Persuade him to quit smoking. （ B） Find a new
3、job for him. （ C） Ask him to be independent. （ D） Tell him how to work. （ A） She is looking for a bus stop. （ B） She is heading for a place. （ C） She hates taking a walk. （ D） She knows the way herself. （ A） To buy a new map. （ B） To ask another person. （ C） To go with her. （ D） To find the library
4、himself. （ A） His sister. （ B） His father. （ C） His mother. （ D） His brother. （ A） Getting ready for the exams. （ B） Taking the final exams. （ C） Seeing somebody else. （ D） Preparing for something unknown. （ A） She is looking for Linda. （ B） Linda is staying with Mike. （ C） She doesnt know where Mik
5、e is. （ D） Mike is waiting for Linda. （ A） Do the interior decoration. （ B） Make a shopping list. （ C） Buy the materials. （ D） Make a design of the decoration. （ A） Make a schedule for their decoration. （ B） Get everything needed purchased in one trip. （ C） Be the weekend fighters through purchasing
6、. （ D） Go shopping as early as possible. （ A） Have the interior decoration done by themselves. （ B） Go shopping together to make it as expected. （ C） Buy building materials at different departments. （ D） Make a detailed plan and allocate the shopping list. （ A） He thinks he is too tired to do it. （
7、B） He does not care about it. （ C） He wants to change it. （ D） He agrees to it. （ A） It is very hot outside the room. （ B） The air conditioner makes the room hot. （ C） He fed the pig just now. （ D） He did morning exercise just now. （ A） Its cool and wet. （ B） Its hot and wet. （ C） Its cool and dry.
8、（ D） Its hot and dry. （ A） Do the housework for her. （ B） Give a winter coat to her. （ C） Get her a cup of hot tea. （ D） Get her a glass of iced tea. Section B （ A） They only receive money from businesses. （ B） They offer people news and entertainment. （ C） They are run by the government. （ D） They
9、are mainly for education. （ A） They are not as popular as before. （ B） They are developing faster and faster. （ C） They are replaced by new media. （ D） They are controlled by more owners. （ A） Televisions have got wires. （ B） Broadcast television uses public airwaves. （ C） Cable television has gaine
10、d popularity. （ D） Television programs are not paid any more. （ A） American people get more news and entertainment than before. （ B） There has been a considerable change in American media. （ C） Cable television has already taken place of traditional television. （ D） Business has controlled public me
11、dia in America. （ A） People do not read as much as before. （ B） People are tired of the old reading materials. （ C） People have more choices in reading. （ D） People do not have enough time to read. （ A） Women used to read more than men. （ B） Men have a better taste in reading than women. （ C） Women
12、read more than before but men dont. （ D） Men do not read as much literature as women. （ A） Young adults read more than before. （ B） Children read more than adults. （ C） Older people read more literature than before. （ D） Older people read more than young adults. （ A） They offer a chance for children
13、 to make friends. （ B） Children from poor families cant join them. （ C） Children have to stay outside overnight. （ D） Only children above 6 are allowed to join them. （ A） Children stay there for one day and one night. （ B） The time period ranges from 1 week to 8 weeks. （ C） The cost is up to 700 dol
14、lars totally. （ D） 4-year-olds are able to attend it. （ A） It earns money from the students. （ B） It organizes summer camps. （ C） It raises money from common people. （ D） It is in New York State. Section C 26 Should girls go to school only with other girls? Is it better for boys to attend all boys s
15、chools? Educators at school for girls in Washington D. C. believe children in classes【 B1】 _do better, but other experts say there is no real evidence to support that idea. They believe there are other more important things that make a school【 B2】_. Excel Academy is the first all-girl school in Wash
16、ington, D. C. that is【 B3】_operated and supported by taxpayers. It was established in 2007 and opened its doors in 2008. One of its students is Anyreah Clavijo who is 10 years old. Anyreah attended kindergarten in a classroom with boys. She says boys have more different interests than girls. She has
17、 now been at Excel for the last five years and【 B4】_it.“ They would like to support me and tell me that I can do it.They make me【 B5】 _Im loved and that Im the smartest person in the world,“ Anyreah said.The Excel Academy【 B6】 _free education to children from families without much money. It serves m
18、ore than 600 girls from preschool, the youngest children to grade five.Three meals are【 B7】 _each day.Kaye Savage established the school and【 B8】 _it as its chief executive officer. She says that when boys and girls are taught together, the teachers teach for the boys. She says boys are a little lou
19、der and much more【 B9】 _than the girls. In her opinion that makes girls second-class【 B10】_in their own classrooms and schools. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 The point of factory farming is cheap meat, made possible by confini
20、ng large numbers of animals in small spaces. Perhaps the greatest hidden cost is its potential effect on human health. Small doses of antibiotics (抗生素 )-too small to kill bacteriaare【 C1】 _to factory farm animals as part of their【 C2】 _diet to promote growth and cancel the risks of overcrowding. Wha
21、t factory farms are really raising is antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which means that several classes of antibiotics no longer work the way they should in humans. We pay for cheap meat by【 C3】 _some of the most important drugs ever developed. Last week, the Natural Resources Defense Council, joined
22、by other advocacy groups, sued the Food and Drug Administration to【 C4】 _it to end the use of penicillin (盘尼西林 )and tetracycline (四环素） not for curing diseases in farm animals. Vets would still be able to treat sick animals with these drugs but could not【 C5】 _add the drugs to their diets. For years,
23、 the F. D. A. has had the scientific studies and the【 C6】 _to ban these drugs. But it has always bowed to【 C7】 _from the farm lobbies, despite the well-founded【 C8】 _of groups like the American Medical Association and the World Health Organization, which support an antibiotic ban. It is time for the
24、 F. D. A. to stop corporate factory farms from wasting【 C9】_drugs just to promote growth among animals confined in conditions that inherently create the risk of disease. The F. D. A. can change that by honoring its own scientific conclusions and its legislative obligation to end its【 C10】 _of unsafe
25、 drug uses. A)approval I)objections B)authority J)pressure C)compel K)regular D)compulsively L)routinely E)demand M)sacrificing F)fed N)support G)initiating O)valuable H)investigation 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Creative Des
26、truction of Higher Education A)Higher education is one of the great successes of the welfare country. What was once the privilege of a few has become a middle-class entitlement, thanks mainly to government support. Some 3. 5 million Americans and 5 million Europeans will graduate this summer. In the
27、 modern world universities are developing rapidly: China has added nearly 30 million places in 20 years. Yet the business has changed little since Aristotle taught at the Athenian Lyceum (雅典学院 ): young students still gather at a specific time and place to listen to the wisdom of scholars. B)At prese
28、nt, a revolution has begun, thanks to three forces: rising costs, changing demand and new technology. The result will be the complete change of the university. While the prices of cars, computers and much else have greatly fallen, universities have been able to charge ever more for the same service
29、because they are protected by public funding and the high values employers place on degrees. For two decades the cost of going to college in America has risen by 1.6 percentage points more than inflation every year. C)For most students, the university remains a great deal. The total lifetime income
30、from obtaining a college degree, in net-present-value (净现值 )terms, can increase as much as $590,000. But an increasing number of students have gone deep into debt, especially the 47% in America and 28% in Britain who do not complete their course. As for them, the degree by no means values for that s
31、um of money. And the government becomes more and more unwilling to fund the university. In America government funding per student fell by 27% between 2007 and 2012, while average tuition fees, adjusted for inflation, rose by 20% . In Britain, tuition fees close to zero two decades ago can reach $ 15
32、,000 a year. D)The second factor resulting in change is the labor market. In the standard model of higher education, people go to university in their 20s. A degree is an entry ticket to the professional classes. But automation is beginning to have the same effect on white-collar jobs as it has on bl
33、ue-collar ones. According to a study from Oxford University, 47% of occupations are at risk of being automated in the next few decades. As innovation wipes out some jobs and changes others, people will need to top up their human capital all through their lives. E)By themselves, these two forces woul
34、d be pushing change.A thirdtechnologyensures it.The internet, which has turned businesses from newspapers through music to book sale upside down, will turn over higher education.Now the MOOC, or “ Massive Open Online Course“ , is offering students the chance to listen to star lecturers and get a deg
35、ree for a fraction of the cost of attending a university. MOOCs started in 2008; however, they have so far failed to live up to their promise. Largely because there is no formal system of accreditation (认证 ), drop-out rates have been high. But this is changing as private investors and existing unive
36、rsities are drawn in.One provider, Coursera, claims over 8 million registered users. Though its courses are free, it received its first $ 1 million in incomes last year after introducing the option to pay a fee of between $ 30 and $ 100 to have course results certified. Another, Udacity, has teamed
37、up with AT its showing off. When we log in to Facebook or Twitter we see an infinitely updating stream of people enjoying themselves. Its not real life, because people only post about the good things whereas all the dull or deep stuff doesnt get mentioned. But despite this obvious fact, it subconsci
38、ously makes us feel like everyone is having a better time than us. This is the curse of our age. We walk around with the tools to capture extensive data about our surroundings and transmit them in real-time to every acquaintance weve made. We end up with a diminished perception of reality because we
39、re more concerned about choosing a good Instagram filter for our meal than how it tastes. I dont think that its inherently wrong to want to keep the world updated about what youre doing. But when you go through life robotically posting about everything you do, youre not a human being. Youre just a p
40、rism (棱镜 )that takes bits of light and sound and channels them into the Cloud. The key thing to remember is that you are not enriching your experiences by sharing them online; youre detracting (转移 )from them because all your efforts are focused on making them look attractive to other people. Once yo
41、u stop seeing things through the eyes of the people following you on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, you can make your experiences significant, because you were there and you saw the sights and smelled the smells and heard the sounds, not because you snapped a photo of it through a half-inch camer
42、a lens. 62 What do we learn from the first two paragraphs? （ A） Rain Room exhibition received a large audience in London. （ B） Most people feel obligated to share their experiences with friends. （ C） Many people want to notify others of their experiences by Tweeting. （ D） All people having gone to t
43、he Rain Room took pictures. 63 It seems to the author that_. （ A） Facebook or Twitter is a good place where we share personal experiences （ B） people seldom show depressing stuff on the social networking websites （ C） most people tend to show off that they are having a better time than others （ D） s
44、haring experiences on the social networking websites is not real life 64 By talking of “a good Instagram filter for our meal“ (Lines 3-4, Para. 4, the author wants to show that_. （ A） we are surrounded by various tools to capture our daily data （ B） we are more concerned about how our life seems to
45、be to others （ C） we transmit our experiences immediately to everybody we know （ D） we gain more extensive perception of reality with digital tools 65 What kind of behavior does the author consider wrong? （ A） Informing the world of what you are doing. （ B） Posting about everything you do roboticall
46、y. （ C） Keeping your friends updated about the digital tools. （ D） Channeling your personal photos into the Cloud. 66 What suggestion does the author make in the last paragraph? （ A） Enrich your experiences by sharing them online. （ B） Make efforts to make your life attractive to others. （ C） Stop e
47、xternalizing your personal experiences. （ D） Record the details of what you see, smell and hear. 二、 Part Translation 67 “汉语热 ”(Mandarin fever)已成为全球语言交际系统中的一种普遍现象。据统计，目前全世界 94个国家和地区开设了 300多所孔子学院 (Confucius Institute)和300多个孔子课堂，全球学习汉语的人数已超过 4 000万人。事实上，目前海外正在掀起的汉语热，一方面是由于中国经济快速发展带来的民族自信心的上升，另一方面也是全球化形
48、势下跨文化交流需求与日俱增的效应所致。 大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 118答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 【正确答案】 On the Popularity of Wifi As is vividly depicted in the drawing, three birds are standing on the wire, while another is standing on the other side without wire, with its whole body floating in the air. One of the th
49、ree birds says: “ Hes got wifi. “ By depicting this image, the drawer attempts to expose the popularity of wifi nowadays. But every coin has two sides, so does wifi. On the one hand, it makes it possible for a wireless-enabled computer or personal digital assistant to connect to the Internet almost anytime, anywhere, making our life more convenient and interesting. And with the development of society, free wifi will
