1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 125及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled University Students Pursuit of Famous Brands. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words according to the outline given below in Chinese. Write your ess
2、ay on Answer Sheet 1. 1大学校园里学生追求名牌的现象越来越常见； 2很多人对此很反对： 3你的看法。 Section A （ A） She can use his car. （ B） She can borrow someone elses car. （ C） She must get her car fixed. （ D） She cant borrow his car. （ A） Because he doesnt enjoy business trips as much as he used to. （ B） Because he doesnt think he i
3、s capable of doing the job. （ C） Because he thinks the pay is too low to support his family. （ D） Because he wants to spend more time with his family. （ A） Go and see a doctor. （ B） Stop smoking at once. （ C） Take some medicine. （ D） Reduce the amount of smoking. （ A） She has confidence in him. （ B）
4、 She is surprised at the news. （ C） She has also won a scholarship. （ D） She isnt interested in this news. （ A） He doesnt like to talk. （ B） He is a very kind man. （ C） He is friendly. （ D） He is not a pleasant person. （ A） To the bank. （ B） To a restaurant. （ C） To the grocers. （ D） To a bookstore.
5、 （ A） Try to help him to book another room in her hotel. （ B） Check his information to see if he has booked a room. （ C） Show him the way to the Grand Hotel. （ D） Help him to find rooms in another hotel. （ A） The man would rather have dinner than go shopping. （ B） The man is too tired to go shopping
6、. （ C） The man wants to go shopping. （ D） The woman wants to go out for dinner. （ A） It can resist earthquakes. （ B） It is easy to move away. （ C） It can keep away cold. （ D） It can keep sunshine out. （ A） Because they are the warmest. （ B） Because they can withstand hardware. （ C） Because they dont
7、 get stuck in the snow. （ D） Because the temperature is only 14C below zero. （ A） They are thrown away after being used. （ B） They will be built in future. （ C） They can be used for about 5 years. （ D） They can be built in a few years. （ A） By attending his professors lecture. （ B） By surfing on the
8、 Internet. （ C） By collecting materials from TV programs. （ D） By preparing for his presentation. （ A） He failed in a power test yesterday. （ B） He never expected himself to be happy. （ C） It was because of his fathers foot. （ D） He missed about 30 minutes of a program. （ A） His mothers use of the w
9、ashing machine. （ B） His fathers turning on the microwave oven. （ C） His long hours of watching TV. （ D） The switch on of two air-conditioners. （ A） Not use any electric appliances any time. （ B） Take part in a basketball final. （ C） Ask his neighbor to check the power. （ D） Watch a ball game on tel
10、evision. Section B （ A） She often practices taking notes. （ B） She often practices oiling the gate. （ C） She often practices singing high notes. （ D） She often practices overcoming her weakness. （ A） Because he had run out of gas. （ B） Because his tires were stabbed. （ C） Because he had heard a nois
11、e. （ D） Because he was attracted by Mrs. Jones. （ A） The noise came from the tires. （ B） The noise came form the brakes. （ C） The noise came from Mrs. Jones singing. （ D） The noise came from another car passing by. （ A） Hard work is the most important thing for ones success. （ B） Hard work may invit
12、e good luck. （ C） Good luck plays an important role in ones success. （ D） Success has nothing to do with luck. （ A） Working hard may prepare yourself opportunity. （ B） Success always depends on opportunity. （ C） Opportunity can replace hard work in job hunting. （ D） Working hard will ensure you succ
13、ess. （ A） Its Columbus pure luck. （ B） It proves that the earth is not round. （ C） It enriched the American people. （ D） Its one of the biggest lucky mistakes. （ A） He suffered a nervous breakdown. （ B） He was wrongly diagnosed. （ C） He was seriously injured. （ D） He developed a strange disease. （ A
14、） He was able to talk again. （ B） He raced to the nursing home. （ C） He could tell red and blue apart. （ D） He could not recognize his wife. （ A） Twenty-nine days. （ B） Two and a half months. （ C） Several minutes. （ D） Fourteen hours. （ A） They welcomed the publicity in the media. （ B） They avoided
15、appearing on television. （ C） They released a video of his progress. （ D） They declined to give details of his condition. Section C 26 Man is a land animal, but he is also closely tied to the sea.【 B1】 _history the sea has survived the needs of man. The sea has provided man with food and【 B2】_to tra
16、vel to many parts of the world. Today, experts【 B3】 _that nearly two-thirds of the worlds population lives within eighty kilometers of the seacoast. In the modern technological world the sea offers many resources to help mankind【 B4】 _. Resources on land are beginning to grow less. The sea, however,
17、 still offers hope to【 B5】 _many of mans needs. The riches of the sea yet to be developed by mans technology are【 B6】 _. Oil and gas exploration has existed for nearly thirty years. Valuable【 B7】 _such as iron, nickel and copper exist on the ocean floor, ready to be【 B8】 _. Fish farming promises to
18、be a good way to produce large quantities of food. The culture of fish and selfish is an ancient skill practiced in the past mainly by【 B9】_peoples. Besides oil and gas, the sea may offer new sources of energy. Experts believe that the warm temperature of the ocean can be used in a way similar to th
19、at of the steam in a steamship. Ocean currents and waves offer possible use as a source of hydroelectric power. Technology is enabling man to explore even deeper under the sea. New undersea technology is providing divers with diving suits and【 B10】 _that are kept at sea-level pressure. The developme
20、nt of strong, new materials has made this possible. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 About one in twenty adults in the United States cannot read English. A new federal study shows that adults made little progress in their reading
21、 skills between 2005 and 2013. The National Assessment of Adult Literacy is the most important test of how well adult Americans can read. Researchers【 C1】 _19,000 people over the age of 16. The study represents an adult population of 222 million. Those who took part were studied on how well they cou
22、ld read and understand information used in everyday life. Researchers say part of the problem is that many young Americans do not read as much for pleasure anymore. Also, there are greater numbers of non-English speaking【 C2】 _. Reading skills can【 C3】 _affect the ability to earn a living. The best
23、readers were found to earn up to 28,000 dollars a year more than those who【 C4】_simply reading skills. Yet, compared to the【 C5】 _study in 2005, adult reading skills were about the same or lower across every level of education. This was true even among people who have completed college. By race and【
24、 C6】 _group, blacks and Asians had the biggest increased in English reading skills. But levels【 C7】 _among Hispanics(西班牙裔 ). Experts say, however, that while many Hispanics are【 C8】 _to read in English, they can read well in Spain. Overall, American adults improved the most in answering questions th
25、at【 C9】 _numbers. Even so, the test found that the average adult cannot do much more than perform simple, everyday math. The Department of Education says the literacy【 C10】 _show the need for reforms especially at the high school level. A)emigrates B)ethnic C)heightened D)findings E)decreased F)test
26、ed G)immigrants H)lacked I)letters J)previous K)directly L)involved M)unable N)surely O)latest 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 The Art of Friendship A)One evening a few years ago I found myself in an anxiety. Nothing was really
27、wrong my family and I were healthy, my career was busy and successful I was just feeling vaguely down and in need of a friend who could raise my spirits, someone who would meet me for coffee and let me rant until the clouds lifted. I dialed my best friend, who now lives across the country in Califor
28、nia, and got her voicemail. Thats when it started to dawn on me lonesomeness was at the root of my dreariness. My social life had dwindled to almost nothing, but somehow until that moment Id been too busy to notice. Now it hit me hard. My old friends, buddies since college or even childhood, knew ev
29、erything about me; when they left, they had taken my context with them. B)Research has shown the long-range negative consequences of social isolation on ones health. But my concerns were more short-term. I needed to feel understood right then in the way that only a girl friend can understand you. I
30、knew it would be wrong to expect my husband to replace my friends: He couldnt, and even if he could, to whom would I then complain about my husband? So I resolved to acquire new friends women like me who had kids and enjoyed rolling their eyes at the world a little bit just as I did. Since Id be mak
31、ing friends with more intention than Id ever given the process, I realized I could be selective, that I could in effect design my own social life. The downside, of course, was that I felt pretty frightened. C)After all, its a whole lot harder to make friends in midlife than it is when youre younger
32、a fact woman Ive spoken with point out again and again. As Leslie Danzig, 41, a Chicago theater director and mother, sees it, when youre in your teens and 20s, youre more or less friends with everyone unless theres a reason not to be. Your college roommate becomes your best pal at least partly due t
33、o proximity. Now there needs to be a reason to be friends. “There are many people Im comfortable around, but I wouldnt go so far as to call them friends. Comfort isnt enough to sustain a real friendship,“ Danzig says. D)At first, finding new companions felt awkward. At 40 I couldnt run up to people
34、the way my 4-year-old daughters do in the playground and ask, “Will you be my friend?“ “Every time you start a new relationship, youre vulnerable again,“ agrees Kathleen Hall, D Min, founder and CEO of the Stress Institute, in Atlanta. “Youre asking, Would you like to come into my life? It makes us
35、self-conscious.“ E)Fortunately, my discomfort soon passed. I realized that as a mature friend seeker my vulnerability risk was actually pretty low. If someone didnt take me up on my offer, so what: I wasnt in junior high, when I might have been rejected for having the wrong clothes or hair. At my ag
36、e I have amassed enough self-esteem to realize that I have plenty to offer. F)Were all so busy, in fact, that mutual interests say, in a project, class, or cause that we already make time for become the perfect catalysts for bringing us in contact with candidates for camaraderie. Michelle Mertes, 35
37、, a teacher and mother of two in Wausau, Wisconsin, says a new friend she made at church came as a pleasant surprise. “In high school I chose friends based on their popularity and how being part of their circle might reflect on me. Nows its our shared values and activities that count.“ Mertes says h
38、er pal, with whom she organized the churchs youth programs, is nothing like her but their drive and organizational skills make them ideal friends. G)Happily, as awkward as making new friends can be, self-esteem issues do not factor in or if they do, you can easily put them into perspective. Danzig t
39、ells of the mother of a child in her sons preschool, a tall, beautiful woman who is married to a big-deal rock musician. “I said to my husband, shes too cool for me,“ she jokes. “I get intimidated by people. But once I got to know her, she turned out to be pretty laid-back and friendly.“ In the end
40、there was no chemistry between them, so they didnt become good pals. “I realized that we werent each others type, but it wasnt about hierarchy.“ What midlife friendship is about, it seems, is reflecting the person youve become(or are still becoming)back at yourself, thus reinforcing the progress you
41、ve made in your life. H)Harlene Katzman, 41, a lawyer in New York City, notes that her oldest friends knew her back when she was less sure of herself. As much as she loves them, she believes they sometimes respond to issues in light of who she once was. An old chum has the goods on you. With recentl
42、y made friends, you can turn over a new leaf. I)A new friend, chosen right, can also help you point your boat in the direction you want to go. Hanna Dershowitz, 39, an attorney and mother in Los Angeles, found that a new acquaintance from work was exactly what she needed in a friend. In addition to
43、liking and respecting Julia, Dershowitz had a feeling that the fit and athletic younger woman would help her to get in shape. J)While youre busy making new friends, remember that you still need to nurture your old ones. We asked Maria Paul, author of The Friendship Crisis: Finding, Making, and Keepi
44、ng Friends When Youre Not a Kid Anymore, for the best ways to maintain these important relationships. Keep in touch. Your friends should be a priority; schedule regular lunch dates or coffee catch-up sessions, no matter how busy you are. Know her business. Keep track of important events in a friends
45、 life and show your support. Call or e-mail to let her know youre thinking of her. Speak your mind. Tell a friend(politely)if something she did really upset you. If you cant be totally honest, then you need to reexamine the relationship. Accept her flaws. No one is perfect, so work around her quirks
46、 shes chronically late, or shes a bit negative to cut down on frustration and fights. Boost her ego. Heartfelt compliments make everyone feel great, so tell her how much you love her new sweater or what a great job she did on a work project. 47 Leslie Danzig thought making friends at ones middle age
47、 needed some reasons. 48 A well-chosen new friend can help you go in the direction that you like. 49 A few years ago the author felt lonely and depressed when she phoned her best friend in another city who was much wanted then but unavailable. 50 According to Kathleen Hall, one might feel sensitive
48、in the first course of making new friends. 51 Midlife friendship can help you realize your direction of life and reinforce the progress youve made in your life. 52 In Maria Pauls book, to be a better friend, you should keep track with your friends, care for your friends job, express yourself, accept
49、 her flaws and compliment your friend for her/his good dressing and job. 53 For the author, a girl friend might be the right person to understand her and erase her negative feeling. 54 According to Michelle Mertes, midlife friendship is based on the shared values and activities. 55 As a mature friend seeker, the author finds herself with enough confidence to offer and take rejection with
