1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 127及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 Write a short essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief account of The Necessity of Mental Health Education for College Students. And then explain why so many foreigners are learning Chinese. You should write
2、 at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Section A （ A） Take the ten oclock bus. （ B） Come back in five minutes. （ C） Go to New York another day. （ D） Call the airport. （ A） She was using the wrong paint. （ B） She has run out of paintbrushes. （ C） She doesnt feel like going to class. （ D） She
3、 has dropped out of art and is now in drama. （ A） A concert. （ B） An art museum. （ C） A flower shop. （ D） A restaurant. （ A） The man could not wait to see Susan. （ B） Susan is eager to pass the information she knows. （ C） Susan talks to people only on the phone. （ D） The man always knows the latest
4、news in town. （ A） Leave immediately. （ B） Watch the game on TV. （ C） Start to play. （ D） Eat a sandwich. （ A） She loves walking to work. （ B） She has to save money for her journey. （ C） She doesnt like the company she worked with. （ D） It took her too much time to go to work. （ A） To put him throug
5、h to the director. （ B） To have a talk with the director about his work. （ C） To arrange an appointment for him with the director. （ D） To go and see if the director can meet him right now. （ A） Detective stories. （ B） Stories about jail escapes. （ C） Love stories. （ D） Stories about royal families.
6、 （ A） Stay at home. （ B） Hold parties. （ C） Do part-time jobs. （ D） Travel. （ A） Hired Eric to take care of the pets. （ B） Hired Margaret to look after the house. （ C） Asked Mr. Cohen to take care of the children. （ D） Hired Eric to water the plants. （ A） By interviewing the applicants. （ B） By exam
7、ining the application letter. （ C） By taking suggestion from the student employment office. （ D） By listening to their friends recommendation. （ A） His major. （ B） High salary. （ C） His preference. （ D） His tutors advice. （ A） They just keep them in small cages. （ B） They dont feed them with enough
8、food. （ C） They give them too much training. （ D） They dont give them food at regular time. （ A） To obtain a toy. （ B） To decorate their life. （ C） To make money. （ D） To show their wealth. （ A） Tourist and animal feeder. （ B） Consultant and animal expert. （ C） Interviewer and interviewee. （ D） Pet
9、owner and animal doctor. Section B （ A） Because London taxi drivers all have gone through a very tough training period to get special taxi driving license. （ B） Because London taxi drivers all are very familiar with every street of London. （ C） Because all London drivers are living in the corner of
10、the Capital. （ D） Not given. （ A） Two years. （ B） Four years. （ C） Three years. （ D） Two to four years. （ A） To learn most direct route to every single road. （ B） To learn most direct route to every important building in London. （ C） To learn the most direct route to every single road and to every i
11、mportant building in London. （ D） To go around the city on small motorbikes practicing. （ A） Because learners have to pay for their own expenses on the tests and the medical exam. （ B） Because for some learners, the training cost is too expensive. （ C） Because the training time is too long. （ D） Bec
12、ause learners cannot get payment during the training period. （ A） To estimate the extreme weather. （ B） To develop the satellite technology. （ C） To improve agricultural output. （ D） To learn how to change information to maps more efficiently. （ A） By turning the intensity of sunshine into maps. （ B
13、） By analyzing the recent weather report. （ C） By capturing the microwave radiation from the soil. （ D） By analyzing information provided by ground observation centers. （ A） Acquire information from satellites more efficiently. （ B） Realize full coverage of area the satellite passes over. （ C） Build
14、 more ground observation centers. （ D） Compare satellites information with those from ground. （ A） People differ greatly in their ability to communicate. （ B） There are numerous languages in existence. （ C） Most public languages are inherently vague. （ D） Big gaps exist between private and public la
15、nguages. （ A） It is a sign of human intelligence. （ B） It improves with constant practice. （ C） It is something we are born with. （ D） It varies from person to person. （ A） How private languages are developed. （ B） How different languages are related. （ C） How people create their languages. （ D） How
16、 children learn to use language. Section C 26 A unique laboratory at the University of Chicago is busy only at night. It is a dream laboratory where researchers are at work studying dreamers. Their findings have【 B1】_that everyone dreams from three to seven times a night; although【 B2】 _a person may
17、 remember none or only one of his dreams. What people dream usually【 B3】 _their waking life experiences, which are mostly visual in nature. Dream is【 B4】 _to be a passive event, a【 B5】 _that people experience but do not【 B6】 _control. While the subjects usually students sleep, special machines recor
18、d their【 B7】 _waves and eye movements as well as the body movements that signal the end of a dream. Surprisingly, all subjects sleep【 B8】 _. Observers report that a person usually feels anxious before a dream. Once the dream has started, his body relaxes and his eyes become more active, as if the cu
19、rtain had gone up on a show. As soon as the machine indicates that the dream is over, the sleeper is weakened by the researcher. He【 B9】 _, records his dream, and goes back to sleep perhaps to dream some more. Researchers have found that if the dreamer is wakened after his dream【 B10】 _. he can usua
20、lly recall the entire dream. If he is allowed to sleep even five more minutes, his memory of the dream will have faded. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Wise buying is a positive way in which you can make your money go further. T
21、he way you go about purchasing an article or a service can actually【 C1】 _your money or can add to the cost. Take the【 C2】 _example of a hairdryer. If you are buying a hairdryer, you might think that you are making the【 C3】 _buy if you choose one whose look you like and which is also the cheapest in
22、【 C4】 _. But when you get it home you may find that it takes twice as long as a more expensive【 C5】 _to dry your hair. The cost of the electricity plus the cost of your time could well make your hairdryer the most expensive one of all. So what principles should you【 C6】 _when you go out shopping? If
23、 you keep your home, your car or any valuable【 C7】 _in excellent condition, youll be saving money in the long run. Before you buy a new【 C8】 _. talk to someone who owns one. If you can, use it or borrow it to check it suits your particular purpose. Before you buy an expensive【 C9】 _. or a service, d
24、o check the price and what is on offer. If possible,【 C10】 _from three items or three estimates. A)possession B)save C)best D)appliance E)material F)choose G)simple H)person 1)price J)element K)model L)item M)easy N)adopt O)reasonable 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44
25、 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 A Grassroots Remedy A)Most of us spend our lives seeking the natural world. To this end, we walk the dog, play golf, go fishing, sit in the garden, drink outside rather than inside the pub, have a picnic, live in the suburbs, go to the seaside, buy a weekend pl
26、ace in the country. The most popular leisure activity in Britain is going for a walk. And when joggers(慢跑者 )jog, they dont run the streets. Every one of them instinctively heads to the park or the river. It is my profound belief that not only do we all need nature, but we all seek nature, whether we
27、 know we are doing so or not. B)But despite this, our children are growing up nature-deprived(丧失 ), I spent my boyhood climbing trees on Stratham Common, south London. These days, children are robbed of these ancient freedoms, due to problems like crime, traffic, the loss of the open spaces and odd
28、new perceptions about what is best for children, that is to say, things that can be bought, rather than things that can be found. C)The truth is to be found elsewhere. A study in the U.S. families had moved to better housing and the children were assessed for ADHD attention deficit hyperactivity dis
29、order(多动症 ). Those whose accommodation had more natural views showed an improvement of 19%; those who had the same improvement in material surroundings but no nice view improved just 4%. D)A study in Sweden indicated that kindergarten children who could play in a natural environment had less illness
30、 and greater physical ability than children used only to a normal playground. A U.S. study suggested that when a school gave children access to a natural environment, academic levels were raised across the entire school. E)Another study found that children play differently in a natural environment.
31、In playgrounds, children create a hierarchy(等级 )based on physical abilities, with the tough ones taking the lead. But when a grassy area was planted with bushes, the children got much more into fantasy play, and the social hierarchy was now based on imagination and creativity. F)Most bullying(恃强凌弱 )
32、is found in schools where there is a tarmac(柏油碎石 )playground; the least bullying is in a natural area that the children are encouraged to explore. This reminds me unpleasantly of Sunny hill School in Stratham, with its harsh tarmac, where I used to hang about in corners fantasizing about wildlife. T
33、he children are frequently discouraged from involvement with natural spaces, for health and safety reasons, for fear that they might get dirty or that they might cause damage. So, instead, the damage is done to the children themselves: not to their bodies but to their souls. G)One of the great probl
34、ems of modern childhood is ADHD, now increasingly and expensively treated with drugs. Yet one study after another indicates that contact with nature gives huge benefits to ADHD children. However, we spend money on drugs rather than on green places. H)The life of old people is measurably better when
35、they have access to nature. The increasing emphasis for the growing population of old people is in quality rather than quantity of years. And study after study finds that a garden is the single most important thing in finding that quality. I)In wider and more difficult areas of life, there is eviden
36、ce to indicate that natural surroundings improve all kinds of things. Even problems with crime and aggressive behavior are reduced when there is contact with the natural world. Dr. William Bird, researcher from the Royal Society for the Protection of birds, states in his study, “A natural environmen
37、t can reduce violent behavior because its restorative process helps reduce anger and impulsive behavior.“ Wild places need encouraging for this reason, no matter how small their contribution. J)We tend to look on nature conservation as some kind of favor that human beings are granting to the natural
38、 world. The error here is far too deep: not only do humans need nature for themselves, but the very idea that humanity and the natural world are separable things is profoundly damaging. Human beings are a species of mammals(哺乳动物 ). For seven million years they lived on the planet as part of nature.
39、Our ancestral selves miss the natural world and long for contact with nonhuman life. Anyone who has patted a dog, stoked a cat, sat under a tree with a pint of beer, given or received a bunch of flowers or chosen to walk through the park on a nice day, understands that. We need the wild world. It is
40、 essential to our well-being, our health, our happiness. Without the wild world we are not more but less civilized. Without other living things around us we are less than human. K)Five Ways to Find Harmony with the Natural World Walk: Break the rhythm of permanently being under a roof. Get off a sto
41、p earlier, make a circuit of the park at lunchtime, walk the child to and from school, get a dog, feel yourself moving in moving air, look, listen, absorb. Sit: Take a moment, every now and then, to be still in an open space. In the garden, anywhere thats not in the office, anywhere out of the house
42、, away from the routine. Sit under a tree, look at water, feel refreshed, ever so slightly renewed. Drink: The best way to enjoy the natural world is by oneself; the second best way is in company. Take a drink outside with a good person, a good gathering: talk with the sun and the wind with birdsong
43、 for background. Learn: Expand your boundaries. Learn five species of bird, five butterflies, five trees, five bird songs. That way, you see and hear more: and your mind responds gratefully to the greater amount of wildness in your life. Travel: The places you always wanted to visit: by the seaside,
44、 in the country, in the hills. Take a weekend break, a day-trip, get out these and do it: for the scenery, for the way through the woods, for the birds, for the bees. Go somewhere special and bring specialness home. It lasts forever, after all. 47 The study in Sweden shows that more access to nature
45、 makes children less likely to fall ill. 48 The authors profound belief is that people instinctively seek nature in different ways. 49 It can be very helpful to provide more green spaces for children with ADHD. 50 Elderly people will enjoy a life of better quality when they contact more with nature.
46、 51 Nowadays, people think things that can be bought are best for children, rather than things that can be found. 52 Dr. William Bird suggests in his study that access to nature contributes to the reduction of violence. 53 According to a study in the U. S. Children with ADHD whose accommodation had
47、more natural views showed much better improvement. 54 Children who have chances to explore natural areas are less likely to be involved in bullying. 55 We can find harmony with the natural world in various ways, among which there are walking, sitting, drinking, learning and traveling. 56 It is extre
48、mely harmful to think that humanity and the natural world can be separated. Section C 56 Research that went into developing the highly specialized technology for space travel has resulted in many unexpected practical applications back on earth. Out of the engineering that produced rocket motors, liq
49、uid propellants, space suits, and other necessities of space flight came by-products that no one had anticipated. Equipment and procedures designed for astronauts and space flights have been successfully adapted for use in medicine, industry, and the home. These valuable products of space research, called spinoffs, have improved the quality of life on earth in many ways. Some of the best-known examples of spin-offs from space research are found in hospitals
