1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 130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 Certificate Mania(考证热 )and then explain why so many college students will attend various certificate exams. You should write at least 120 wor
2、ds but no more than 180 words. Section A （ A） She will help the man later. （ B） She doesnt want to help the man with the homework. （ C） The man should do the homework himself. （ D） The man should watch the program first. （ A） She didnt notice the posters. （ B） Betty probably made the posters. （ C） T
3、he collection doesnt belong to Mary Ann. （ D） Mary Anns posters are very attractive. （ A） They didnt like the restaurant. （ B） The man generally eats more than the woman. （ C） The woman eats more than the man. （ D） They ate all the meals. （ A） He is indifferent of the interview. （ B） He is worried a
4、bout the result. （ C） He is confident about his performance. （ D） He is angry with the HR. （ A） Her present was a surprise to him. （ B） He had hoped the gift would surprise her. （ C） She wasnt surprised by the gift after all. （ D） He didnt know about the surprise party either. （ A） She can probably
5、do the job. （ B） She has heard about the letter. （ C） She has written many letters. （ D） She knows who the translator is. （ A） He was pleased to get the medal. （ B） He was very courageous. （ C） He used to be a firefighter. （ D） He was accused of causing fire. （ A） She doesnt like either of them. （ B
6、） John copied it from Jim. （ C） Jim copied it from John. （ D） One composition is the copy from the other. （ A） He will return to his hometown. （ B） He will play tennis. （ C） He will join the woman for dinner. （ D） He will go to a coffee shop with the woman. （ A） Because she doesnt drink coffee. （ B）
7、 Because she has a plane to catch. （ C） Because she has to go to a lesson. （ D） Because she doesnt like the man. （ A） He will postpone the trip. （ B） He will marry the woman. （ C） He will cook dinner for the woman. （ D） He will take tennis lessons. （ A） He wants the woman to pay for the insurance. （
8、 B） He wants to get some insurance for the content of his home. （ C） He wants to pay for the insurance. （ D） He wants to ask for his own insurance. （ A） His apartment. （ B） A fridge and a stereo system. （ C） His friends fridge. （ D） His friends stereo system. （ A） Fridge and stereo system. （ B） Watc
9、hes. （ C） CD and books. （ D） Television. （ A） $ 184.00 for a twelve-month period. （ B） $ 184.00 for a twenty-month period. （ C） $ 184.00 for a six-month period. （ D） $ 18.40 for a twelve-month period. Section B （ A） The degree of violence in program is too high. （ B） There shouldnt be any commercial
10、s on television. （ C） Watching too much television is undesirable for children. （ D） Television programs in the United States are of low quality. （ A） A recreational program. （ B） An educational program. （ C） A program for cartoons. （ D） A program for commercials. （ A） They will become inactive and
11、dull. （ B） They will not go to cinemas as often. （ C） They will forget to do their homework. （ D） They will imitate what they see in the program. （ A） They are living in the tall building of Manhattan. （ B） They are living in the tall building of Philadelphia. （ C） They are living in northern Pennsy
12、lvanias Pocono Mountains. （ D） They are living in their home with other wild lives. （ A） To gain support from the local community. （ B） To protect it from irresponsible development. （ C） To make it a better home for black bears. （ D） To provide financial security for future generations. （ A） More th
13、an 14,000 acres. （ B） Less than 14,000 acres. （ C） About 14,000 acres. （ D） More than 1,400 acres. （ A） Connecting with the wildlife. （ B） Connecting with the local administration. （ C） Connecting with the local conservancy. （ D） Connecting with the local community. （ A） Milly was probably her secre
14、t sweetheart. （ B） The farmer was threatening her. （ C） She was curious about who Milly was. （ D） She was a doctor. （ A） It was raining. （ B） It was clear. （ C） It was snowing. （ D） It was cloudy. （ A） The farmers secret sweetheart. （ B） The farmers mother. （ C） The farmers wife. （ D） The farmers si
15、ster. Section C 26 If you are a young college student, most of your concerns about your health and happiness in life are probably focused on the present. Basically, you want to feel good【 B1】 _, mentally, and emotionally now. You probably dont spend much time worrying about the distant future, such
16、as whether you will develop heart disease, or cancer, how you will take care of yourself in your【 B2】 _, or how long you are going to live. Such thoughts may have【 B3】 _once in a while. However, if you are in your thirties, forties, fifties, or older, such health-related thoughts are likely to becom
17、e【 B4】 _important to you. 【 B5】 _of your age, you can make a number of important changes in your【 B6】 _life style that will help you feel better physically and mentally. Recently researchers have found that, even in late adulthood, exercise, 【 B7】 _with weights, and better food can help elderly【 B8】
18、_significantly improve their health and add happiness to their life. We know much more about【 B9】 _health today than our parents and grandparents did in the past, which giving us the opportunity to avoid some of the health problems that have troubled them. And these new knowledge can【 B10】 _our chil
19、dren to help them become healthier than our generation. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 The flood of women into the job market boosted economic growth and changed U.S. society in many ways. Many in-home jobs that used to be done
20、【 C1】 _by women ranging from family shopping to preparing meals to doing【 C2】 _work still need to be done by someone. Husbands and children now do some of these jobs, a【 C3】 _that has changed the target market for many products. Or a working woman may face a crushing “poverty of time“ and look for h
21、elp elsewhere, creating opportunities for producers of frozen meals, child care centers, dry cleaners, financial services, and the like. Although there is still a big wage【 C4】 _between men and women, the income working women【 C5】 _gives them new independence and buying power. For example, women now
22、【 C6】 _about half of all cars. Not long ago, many cars dealers【 C7】 _women shoppers by ignoring them or suggesting that they come back with their husbands. Now car companies have realized that women are【 C8】_customers. Its interesting that some leading Japanese car dealers were the first to【 C9】 _pa
23、y attention to women customers. In Japan, fewer women have jobs or buy cars the Japanese society is still very much male-oriented. Perhaps it was the【 C10】 _contrast with Japanese society that prompted American firms to pay more attention to women buyers. A)scale B)retailed C)generate D)extreme E)te
24、chnically F)affordable G)situation H)really I)potential J)gap K)voluntary L)excessive M)insulted N)purchase O)primarily 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Creative Book Report Ideas A)Are you at a loss for creative book report idea
25、s for your students? If yes, then this article will help you make reading and reviewing books more creative for your class. In an age of PSPs, Xbox, anime and gaming arcades, reading has lost its foothold in the list of hobbies that children tend to cite. Most of the reading that kids do today, come
26、s in the form of compulsory books that they need to read for school and maybe that is the reason they find reading to be an insurmountable and boring task. If you want to inculcate the love for languages and literary masterpieces in your students and want them to devour books everyone should read, t
27、hen a good way of going about the same would be to get them to start working on creative book report ideas. While working on creative ideas for book reports, your students will have to understand the book in a way that allows them to come up with new ways to present to the class, the essence of the
28、book. B)As a teacher, while egging your students to activate their creative gray cells, you will have to help them out with basic ideas that they can work on. Depending on the age bracket that your students belong to, the creative book report ideas will vary. This is so, not just because of the vary
29、ing attention spans that children of various age groups possess but also because of the amount of work that kids can put into the report. While a middle school student will be comfortable handling a handy cam, a student from elementary school will be more fascinated if he is working with paints and
30、puppets. So do you want to know how to write a book report creatively? In this article, we will list out for you, a couple of good creative book report ideas for elementary students and for middle school students. C)A book report sandwich is a good creative idea for book reports. As a teacher you ca
31、n get drawings of a sandwich on sheets of paper that are of the color of the ingredients of your sandwich, for example, a cream sheet of paper to resemble mayonnaise, red to represent tomato and likewise. Obviously, each ingredient should be cut in a way that when assembled together, it looks like a
32、 sandwich. Now, give each of your students one of these book sandwiches to create their book report. It can start with the name of the book and the authors name on the top slice of the sandwich. The second ingredient can have the summary of the book on it. Each subsequent ingredient can have a descr
33、iption of the main characters, the setting of the book, the plot, and then his or her views about the book. Once they are done with their book reports, they can staple the book sandwich together and then, you can create a class bulletin board with all the book report sandwiches on display. D)One of
34、the good techniques is to retell a story; it is also one of the favorite creative book report ideas among students. The job that the student will have is to read the book and then pick a few objects at his/her home which will allow him/her to retell the story in a way that makes it interesting for h
35、is/ her audience. Every time he/she picks out an object from the bag to report the book he/she has read, there has to be a valid connection between the book and the object, which the student can first ask the audience to guess and then go ahead and explain it. This idea is spin-off on the normal sho
36、w and tells and allows for an interactive book report session. E)This is one of the creative ideas for book reports in which, as the teacher, you will have to divide your class into groups and give them one book each. The students can then read the book and get together and write a play and act it o
37、ut for the class. To give a deeper insight into the book, one of the students can play the role of the author and as a group, the students can try and recreate the thought process of the author. The student playing the role of the author can then interrupt the play at important junctures and talk ab
38、out the reasons for these twists in the play and how he/she came up with these plot lines. F)As a young adult, your students fascination may go beyond the immediate concerns of the book. He/she may want to understand the circumstances in which the book was written, the times then, the events happeni
39、ng in the world and get the authors perspective about the book. Encourage your students to think on those lines. Divide the class into pairs and give each pair one book to read. Let them then do the roles of the author and a journalist. You can have an interview session in front of the class, enabli
40、ng them to dissect the book and get a peek into the authors world. G)In a technology-obsessed world, it may be a very tiny minority of your class that does not get excited with the prospect of shooting a film. It is one of the best creative book report ideas for middle school, and you will need to d
41、ivide the class into groups and give them at least two months to adapt the book that they have been assigned, into a film. The movie should have a well-adapted screenplay, and all other prerequisites, like a lighting engineer, sound engineer, costume designer, etc. At the end of the given time, the
42、film can be screened in front of the class and then discussed. H)If you are on the lookout for good individual creative book report ideas, then this one could be for you. Assign every student a book and then ask them to start maintaining a diary, from the authors point of view. Ask them to come up w
43、ith imaginary incidents from the authors life and use historical events to explain why the author wrote the book in a certain manner. Alternately, you can also ask your students to give a surrogate ending to the story. I)These are just few of the options that you could use to inspire your students t
44、o come up with creative book report ideas. As kids we tend to be more imaginative and creative. Encourage your students to think out of the box and appreciate them for their efforts. This will help you have a class that is not only lively and inquisitive by nature but also a class that will cultivat
45、e a love for words. 47 Teachers can create a class bulletin board to display all the book report sandwiches after their students finish their reports. 48 Adopting the method of knowing your author, teachers can encourage students to think beyond the immediate concerns of the book. 49 Asking the stud
46、ents to write from their own point of view is suitable for teachers who are on the lookout for good individual creative book report ideas. 50 Retelling a story is one of the favorite creative book report ideas among students and it tells and allows for an interactive book report session. 51 Nowadays
47、, most of book children read are those they need to read for school. 52 As kids teachers tend to be more imaginative and creative. 53 While working on creative ideas for book reports, students will have to understand the book. 54 The creative book report ideas vary according to ages because children
48、 in different age groups have different attention span. 55 If teachers ask their students to shoot a film about a book, they should give them no fewer than two months. 56 That teachers have to divide their class into groups and give them one book each is a good creative book report ideas. Section C
49、56 We all know the Internet does not run fast enough. What we often do not know is why. When a Web page is slow downloading, we usually attribute it to the kind of computer we have, the speed of the connection or the time of day. But in fact there are other things that can figure in, and they are often hidden. Did you know that there are only 13 “root name servers“ in the world, serving all 150 million people using the Internet? A root server is a
