1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 120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 “ too much care spoils a child“.You should write at least 120 words but no m
2、ore than 180 words. Section A （ A） Use the womans mobile phone. （ B） Buy a mobile phone. （ C） Borrow some change. （ D） Use a pay phone. （ A） She forgets what they have done. （ B） She has been sick. （ C） She will help the man. （ D） She missed some classes. （ A） It is very boring. （ B） It is very diff
3、icult. （ C） It is very special. （ D） It is very wonderful. （ A） She doesnt want to help the man. （ B） She cant fix the computer. （ C） She cant send the e-mails now. （ D） She doesnt know how to send e-mails. （ A） Fix the power plug. （ B） Figure out the sound problem. （ C） Press the play button again.
4、 （ D） Make some sound. （ A） She wont have dinner until finishing the report. （ B） She is too busy to have dinner with them. （ C） She doesnt want to have dinner tonight. （ D） She wont finish the report until tomorrow. （ A） Having a rest. （ B） Going on with the work. （ C） Waiting another minute. （ D）
5、Eating some snacks. （ A） It is very interesting. （ B） It is very easy. （ C） It is very boring. （ D） It is very difficult. （ A） The man has traveled by plane. （ B） The man is allergic to nothing. （ C） The woman is going to the meeting. （ D） The woman has got a fever. （ A） She has got a cat. （ B） She
6、helped her friend with a cat. （ C） She is looking after a cat now. （ D） She is allergic to cats. （ A） Go back home. （ B） Go to the meeting. （ C） Send back the cat. （ D） See a doctor. （ A） She cant find another job. （ B） She cant cover the cost of living. （ C） She cant work as an investment adviser.
7、（ D） She cant make up for the loss of the company. （ A） He often tells lies. （ B） He has made a big mistake. （ C） He will say nothing to the boss. （ D） He is a good person. （ A） He gives some money to her. （ B） He finds another job for her. （ C） He offers her a place to live. （ D） He buys something
8、for her. （ A） Surprised. （ B） Disappointed. （ C） Delighted. （ D） Positive. Section B （ A） The position which the system provides. （ B） The information transmitted from satellites. （ C） The satellites that revolve around the earth. （ D） The portable device installed in vehicles. （ A） The accuracy of
9、GPS system. （ B） The cost of GPS devices. （ C） The weight of GPS devices. （ D） The speed of information transmission. （ A） Because it provides precise direction. （ B） Because it is affordable to ordinary users. （ C） Because it is the trend of the century. （ D） Because it is portable for anyone. （ A）
10、 Changes from childhood to adulthood. （ B） Measures to improve colleague relationship. （ C） Methods to improve handwriting. （ D） Letters to your favorite baseball player. （ A） You need much practice to reach perfection. （ B） You must start learning at your early years. （ C） You cant expect to be the
11、 best. （ D） You must try with your full efforts. （ A） Move the paper from time to time when necessary. （ B） Choose a pen of proper weight. （ C） Write forcefully with your index finger. （ D） Use the power of your shoulders and forearms. （ A） People who fish for fun. （ B） People who live on fishing. （
12、 C） People who fish with a fishing pole. （ D） People who fish in the salty sea water. （ A） To let them train young fishermen. （ B） To introduce the sport to them. （ C） To give them a chance of relaxation. （ D） To provide more communication between them. （ A） To increase their revenue taxes. （ B） To
13、encourage them to settle down. （ C） To encourage them to fish for a living. （ D） To save them the trouble of getting a license. （ A） You dont need a license at all. （ B） You must be an American citizen. （ C） You need only one license from a state. （ D） You need licenses from all bordering states. Se
14、ction C 26 Cigarette smoking kills. That we know. So, manufacturers made【 B1】_cigarettes as a safer smoking choice safer than tobacco. E-cigarettes contain the drug nicotine (尼古丁 )like cigarettes. But they do not use tobacco. And you do not light them. They are【 B2】 _by battery. So, if e-cigarettes
15、are so safe, why have poison control centers around the United States seen an【 B3】 _in telephone calls about e-cigarette poisonings? The answer is children. Most of the calls are from people【 B4】_children who have played with the devices. In the period of one month this year, the United States Cente
16、rs for Disease Control say 215 people called the Center with e-cigarette【 B5】 _ . More than half of these calls were for children aged five and younger. The devices【 B6】 _had made them sick. Tim McAfee is director of the CDCs office on Smoking and Health. He says the problem is【 B7】 _. Meaning, the
17、U.S.federal government does not control e-cigarettes even though they contain liquid nicotine. Mr. McAfee adds that liquid nicotine is a well-known danger. Mr. McAfee explains that nicotine poisoning happens when the【 B8】 _gets into the skin, gets into the eyes or is swallowed. Even a small amount,
18、he says, can make a person sick. Nicotine poisoning can cause stomach pain or a sense of unbalance. Headaches are also【 B9】 _of nicotine poisoning. And too much nicotine can kill. Tim McAfee says e-cigarettes do not create the level of risk to people that tobacco products do. He【 B10】_that almost 50
19、0, 000 Americans die each year from cigarettes. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 While its easy enough to brush off a few sleepless nights with a pot of coffee and the occasional desk nap, you may be doing more harm than you real
20、ise. According to a new study from Surrey University, having less than six hours of sleep per night can actually shut down genes that play a key role in the bodys【 C1】 _of self-repair. We rely on our genes to constantly produce the proteins needed to【 C2】 _the wear on our bodies tissue that we suffe
21、r throughout the day. But when scientists divided 26 volunteers into two groups-one of which slept for less than 6 hours per night for an entire week and the other for 10 hours per night some of the sleep-deprived groups genes actually stopped working. The functions of 711 genes in total were altere
22、d in some way, 【 C3】 _ones involved in metabolism (新陈代谢 )nflammation (炎症 )mmunity and stress. There is some good news though; a week of normal sleep was enough to【 C4】 _the malfunctioning genes back to peak condition, but should the 【 C5】 _sleep patterns continue, health problems that arent quite so
23、 easily reversible, like obesity (肥胖 )and heart disease, have a【 C6】 _chance of cropping up. And this study only scratches the【 C7】 _, according to Professor Colin Smith, one of the scientists【 C8】 _in the study: This is only a week of sleep【 C9】 _and it is only five and a half or six hours a night.
24、 Many people have that amount of sleep for weeks, months and maybe even years so we have no idea how much【 C10】 _it might be. A)experiment I)slight B)high J)specifically C)involved K)substitute D)namely L)surface E)process M)unhealthy F)restore N)unstable G)restriction O)worse H)reverse 37 【 C1】 38
25、【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Why the Super-Rich Arent Leaving Much of Their Fortunes to Their Kids A)What do Sting, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have in common? All three have huge fortunes, and none of them are giving them to their kid
26、s. Sting just revealed that most of his $ 300 million would not end up with his six adult children. The musician said that he certainly didnt want to leave them trust funds that are obstacles round their necks. “ They have to work. All my kids know that and they rarely ask me for anything, which I r
27、eally respect and appreciate. “ B)Bill and Melinda Gates are giving a reported $ 10 million for each of their three children: pocket change compared with their $ 76 billion. Buffetts three kids each have a $ 2 billion foundation funded by Dear Old Dad. The rest of his money goes to charity, just lik
28、e Gates and several other billionaires who have invested their vast fortunes in improving the world. As Buffett famously put it, the perfect amount to leave children is “ enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing. “ C)All those spoiled ri
29、ch kids with more money than sense wont make smart choices or live healthy, productive lives if they have unlimited access to the money they inherit. Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has stated she has no intention of leaving a substantial inheritance: “I am determined that my children should have no f
30、inancial security. It ruins people not having to earn money. “ D)Wealthy families have always struggled with this issue. But the same drama is now playing out on a smaller scale for millions of baby boomers (婴儿潮时期出生的人 ), who hesitate to give away $30 trillion over the next 30 years the largest trans
31、fer of wealth in American history. What used to be a private family matter has become a public discussion about wealth, privilege and personal responsibility. Who gets the big money? Should it be the heirs? Or are they better off without it? E)“We probably struggled over this more than any other iss
32、ue,“ says a local self-made multimillionaire. The businessman and his wife, worth hundreds of millions, grew up modestly in middle-class families and wanted to create a financial plan that would take care of their children but not spoil them if the couple died suddenly. “ We were fearful of what mig
33、ht happen if they had control of a large amount of money at a young age,“ he says. “ The more we stared at that, the more we became uncomfortable. “ F)Inspired by Buffetts example, they created trusts for each of their now college-age children. Each kid has $2. 5 million controlled by trustees, who
34、can release money only for education, health care, a home purchase or a business start-up. Any unspent money in the trust will continue to be invested and grow. Those restrictions remain in place until each child reaches age 40; after that, the money is all theirs to do as they please. By 40, their
35、parents assume they will be mature enough to use the money wisely or save it as a safety net. The rest of the multimillion-dollar family fortune is going to a foundation, which will eventually be managed by the children and can be used only for charity. The kids are aware of the trusts and the plann
36、ing that went into them. “ They really are thrilled with it,“ their father says. “ They want to be their own persons. “ A huge inheritance, he believes, can be a lifelong trap for children of rich parents. “ I didnt want them to look in the mirror and say, Who ami?“ G)Whether having so much money is
37、 good or bad for trust-fund babies depends on how the family has prepared the kids, their personal qualities and how well they handle the pressures of great wealth and the fear of not inheriting. For every party girl like Paris Hilton, theres an Ivanka Trump, who got a business degree from Wharton a
38、nd has made her familys money and famous name valuable into a prosperous career. Johnson used his inheritance to launch a filmmaking career and to live, all things considered, a relatively normal life in New York. “ In my case, it turned out to be a great benefit,“ he says. H)Most parents want to pr
39、otect their children from the dark excesses of money drugs, legal troubles, and so on and preserve the family fortune for future generations. That usually doesnt work out: The first generation makes the money, the second spends the majority of it, and the third drains the rest. Hence the old saying
40、goes like “ Shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations. “ Traditionally, the wealthy gave all their money to their children and grandchildren, and then hoped for the best. Baby boomers, says consulting firm Accenture managing director Bob Gach, are living longer and struggling to balance th
41、eir own retirement needs and interests with their childrens welfare. Boomers are different from previous generations; more likely to give away money while theyre still alive, more concerned about their adult children finding and keeping jobs. Excess properties typically go into tax-protected trusts.
42、 I)There are really good reasons to leave a legacy (遗产 )in a thoughtful way ways that promote the production and healthy lifestyles. Many trusts are structured to distribute inheritances at the specific ages determined in advance. A common practice is to give a third at 25, a third at 30 and the res
43、t at 35. Some inheritances are set up to encourage the heirs to graduate from college, marry or hold a job for a specific amount of years before any money will be released. J)A lot of people dont like to talk about money because they dont want the kids to know how much theyre actually worth or what
44、they might inherit. Although adult children in the United States have no legal rights to their parents money, its rare for heirs to get cut off with nothing. But that doesnt mean they get everything. Bill Gates, the worlds richest man, wont disclose the exact amount each of his three kids will inher
45、it, but he said theyll get an “ unbelievable“ education and health care and the reported $ 10 million, which still puts them firmly in the One Percent but not even close to their self-made fathers billions. For that, theyll have to found their own empire. In terms of their income, they will have to
46、pick a job they like and go to work. 47 If rich kids are well cultivated and prepared for the trust fund, it will be beneficial to their future. 48 A great many wealthy people tend to keep the amount of their possessions secret from their children. 49 Sting felt satisfied that all his children seldo
47、m requested anything from him and earned their living by themselves. 50 Traditionally, once you make a big fortune and it is spent within three generations, the family will lose it all. 51 How to deal with the big property has turned into a public concern instead of a private issue. 52 The inheritan
48、ce is commonly given out in portions at a certain age of the heirs decided in advance. 53 If an abundant inheritance is at the disposal of spoiled rich children, they wont choose or lead their lives wisely. 54 Baby boomers having longer life spans care both about their retirement requirements and ab
49、out their kids well-being. 55 A local businessman from rags to riches and his wife established a detailed plan about their hundreds of millions of money for their children. 56 Several billionaires have devoted a large sum of money to making the world better and better. Section C 56 That Orientals and Westerners think in different ways is not mere prejudice. Many psychological studies conducted over the past two decades suggest W
