1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 133及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following question. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Suppose a foreign friend of yours wants to buy a book, which book would you like to r
2、ecommend to him/her and why? Section A （ A） Live with his parents. （ B） Replace the old furniture. （ C） Fill the place with furniture. （ D） Choose another place. （ A） The woman favors the place. （ B） The woman drives a car. （ C） The man takes public transportation. （ D） The man lives nearby. （ A） Bu
3、y a new car that saves fuel. （ B） Rent a car for about half a month. （ C） Make a complaint about a car. （ D） Test drive a new car. （ A） The woman is going to operate on the man. （ B） The woman has mistaken the date of the operation. （ C） The man knows the details of the operation. （ D） The man will
4、take an operation in two days. （ A） Go on a diet. （ B） Avoid eating sweets. （ C） Change a new dentist. （ D） Go for a dentist. （ A） Go on working today. （ B） Ask for a sick leave. （ C） Change the time of the meeting. （ D） Go to hospital at once. （ A） Drink beer before dinner. （ B） Do some body exerci
5、se. （ C） Avoid drinking beer to keep fit. （ D） Do something more tempting. （ A） It is too hard for the woman to lose weight. （ B） The woman should not look at food. （ C） The woman has done everything wrongly. （ D） There are several factors that influence the weight. （ A） She cant find it. （ B） She w
6、ill fix it right now. （ C） She asks the man to sew it. （ D） She forgets where it is. （ A） It cannot be removed. （ B） It is from some drinks. （ C） It is made by the woman. （ D） It is newly made. （ A） 20% of the full price. （ B） 80% of the full price. （ C） Half of the full price. （ D） Full price. （ A）
7、 To take a computer class. （ B） To have an interview. （ C） To ask the man some questions. （ D） To discuss about the advertisement. （ A） She has a computer related major. （ B） She can mend computers. （ C） She is good at language. （ D） She is a college student now. （ A） Software can solve all the prob
8、lems. （ B） Software may take the place of hardware. （ C） Hardware is not needed any more. （ D） Hardware will develop better. （ A） Surprised. （ B） Disappointed. （ C） Self-confident. （ D） Hesitating. Section B （ A） She is a big film fan. （ B） Her favorites are normal. （ C） She looks older than her age
9、 （ D） She likes dressing up herself. （ A） She worries that Esther cant take care of herself. （ B） She doesnt believe Esthers learning ability. （ C） She pushes her to start as early as possible. （ D） She disagrees at first but finally agrees. （ A） Esther doesnt like the private school. （ B） Esther l
10、ikes talking with people a lot. （ C） Esther is much better than expected. （ D） Esther has a natural aptitude for science. （ A） To cheer ourselves up. （ B） To forget the anger. （ C） To relax ourselves. （ D） To have a rest. （ A） People with stress prefer to listen to music. （ B） People can release str
11、ess by listening to music. （ C） People who dont listen to music get more stressed. （ D） People get stressed after working for a long time. （ A） No hormone is released any more. （ B） The body cannot feel the stress. （ C） A new hormone is released. （ D） A hormone causing stress is reduced. （ A） They a
12、re natural and healthy food （ B） They help people lose weight. （ C） They are lowest in calories. （ D） They are popular with most people. （ A） Eat it in the early morning. （ B） Include various nutrients. （ C） Eat something low in calories. （ D） Eat much for the whole morning. （ A） Using new cups and
13、spoons. （ B） Eating meals at the right time. （ C） Stopping eating after feeling full. （ D） Working hard after meals. （ A） Appetite is the highest when sleeping. （ B） People will spend less time eating food. （ C） The body needs to relax after exercise. （ D） Energy is needed for the next days exercise
14、 Section C 26 Photographers are always looking for new inspiration, at least the good ones are. Their eyes are constantly searching for that【 B1】 _the composition or lighting that will help them snap their next masterpiece. This transfers into their everyday life, so even when they do not have thei
15、r photos in mind, they will be more than【 B2】 _point out the beauty of a particular scene they come across and change their partners【 B3】 _on things. A lot of people assume that photographers【 B4】 _physical beauty, but the really good ones can actually find beauty in anything and everyone! They find
16、 beauty in the harshest places and make them look stunning! This is a【 B5】 _talent to haveto change how a person looks at the world. Creativity【 B6】 _one artist to another, as well as from one art form to another, but it always leaves a distinct mark on a【 B7】 _the artist develops. Photography is a
17、good way to a distinct lifestyle, and gives you a【 B8】 _mind-set. With a few simple tips you can make your photos look great, but the originality and【 B9】 _values of the photos, are goals that you really need to be a talented and dedicated【 B10】 _to reach. It is just the general approach of document
18、ing particular moments in time in an as beautiful way as possible. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 In fact, even without humans, the Earths climate changes. Some climate change is【 C1】_. But, as greenhouse gases are added to the
19、 atmosphere, human influence “emerges“ from natural variability. Droughts, one of the most intensely studied climate events, are a perfect example of a(n) 【 C2】 _with both natural and human influences. Separating the【 C3】 _strengths of the influences is a challenge for scientists. However, with the
20、large social and economic costs of droughts, it is a challenge the scientists must【 C4】 _. In a very recent study published in the Journal of Climate, authors Richard Seager and Martin Hoerling cleverly used climate models forced by sea surface temperatures to【 C5】_how much of the past centurys Nort
21、h American droughts have been caused by ocean temperatures, natural variability and human influences. Droughts can be caused by a(n) 【 C6】 _of separate or interactional phenomena. At its root, drought results from the low【 C7】 _of water falling and sometimes higher temperatures(which increase evapor
22、ation rates). The beginning of drought can often be linked to variations in ocean temperatures. It is also found that the oceans can affect the atmosphere to create conditions that are【 C8】_responsible for drought. Whats more, temperature increases【 C9】 _with human-driven global warming also play a
23、role. This【 C10】 _agrees with other researchers who have shown that, while human-emitted greenhouse gas warming may not cause a particular drought, it can make drought come on earlier, faster, and harder than it otherwise would. A)associated B)attached C)conclusion D)conduct E)distinguish F)effect G
24、)natural H)partly I)quality J)quantity K)relative L)ridiculous M)Sm,ply N)undertake O)variety 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Dear Diary, I Hate You Reflections on journals in an age of overshare. A)I suspect that many people wh
25、o dont keep a diary worry that they ought to, and that, for some, the failure to do so is a source of incomprehensible self-hatred. What could be more worth remembering than ones own life? Is there a good excuse for forgetting even a single day? Something like this anxiety seems to have prompted the
26、 poet Sarah Manguso to begin writing a journal, which she has kept ever since. “I wrote so I could say I was truly paying attention,“ she tells us early in her memoir(回忆录 )“Ongoingness“. “Experience in itself wasnt enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizin
27、g Id missed it. “ B)The journal, first imagined as an amulet(护身符 )against the passage of time, has grown to overwhelming proportions. “I started keeping a diary twenty-five years ago,“ Manguso writes. “Its eight hundred thousand words long. “ And the memoir, a kind of meta-diary, is her attempt to q
28、uestion her crazy drive to maintain a record of her existence. Of all the psychological conditions to be burdened with, the crazy impulse to write is hardly the worst, and Manguso doesnt quite succeed in eliminating the suspicion that she is a little proud of her weird habits, perhaps even exaggerat
29、ing them. But she seems genuinely not proud of the diary. “Theres no reason to continue writing other than that I started writing at some pointand that, at some other point, Ill stop,“ she writes. Looking back at entries fills her with embarrassment and occasionally even indifference. She reports th
30、at, after finding that shed recorded “nothing of consequence“ in 1996, she “threw the year away. “ C)In her memoir, Manguso makes the striking decision never to quote the diary itself. As she started to look through the old journals, she writes, she became convinced that it was impossible to pull th
31、e “best bits“ from their context without distorting the sense of the whole-. “I decided that the only way to represent the diary in this book would be either to include the entire thing untouchedwhich would have required an additional eight thousand pagesor to include none of it. “ The diary, she ob
32、serves, is the memoirs “ dark matter“ , everywhere but invisible, and the book revolves around a center that is absent. D)Manguso, whose previous books include two other memoirs and two books of poetry, grew up outside Boston. Now in her early forties, she teaches writing in Los Angeles, at Otis Col
33、lege of Art and Design. But for most of the book we come away with only the roughest outline of Mangusos life. Shes married, with a son. Her son is young: her husband is from Hawaii: she was once very ill. The individual memories she chooses to share often dont link up to produce a continuous narrat
34、ive. We get Manguso, at fourteen, looking through a telescope for a comet(彗星 ), failing to see it, and not caring: Manguso, in 1992, writing mostly about hating her mother: Manguso, in college, discovering that a boyfriend has read her diary: Manguso, in her late thirties, drinking tea in an attempt
35、 to trigger early labor, hoping that her husband can be present for both the birth of his son and, an ocean away, the death of his mother. E)The memoir, rather than being a summary of the life recorded by the diary, is mostly a set of deep thoughts on the fact of the diarys existence. The tone is ma
36、tter-of-fact, and the controlled, even dull sentences seem deliberately to reject the wild, exaggerative quality of a diary. The book proceeds in rare, brief fragments, almost like prose poems. None are longer than a page, and some are just a single sentence. F)Manguso seldom reveals any particularl
37、y sensitive information, and yet her material is, in a sense, vastly more intimate than what we usually think of as private. Her impressions, while clear, are true to the vague mental life as we experience it. “Ongoingness“ is an attempt to take, as Virginia Woolf wrote, “ a token of some real thing
38、 behind appearances“ and “ make it real by putting it into words. “ Its hard to think of a riskier way to write. G)The great merit of the book is that it succeeds in not feeling abstract, even though it frequently avoids specificity. There is, in fact, a narrative here, although one that functions w
39、ithout the normal signposts(明显的线索或迹象 )of life-writing. Instead, it is a narrative about the gradual shift, as Manguso gets older, in her relationship to time. It is telling that motherhood receives the most attention. “Then I became a mother,“ she writes. “I began to spend time differently. “ She kn
40、ows that this is something all parents discover“this has all been said before“but the consequences are nonetheless immense. “Nursing an infant creates so much lost, empty time,“ she writes. H)As Mangusos sense of time dissolves, so does her devotion to the diary. In her twenties, she wrote down her
41、experiences constantly and in minute detail. In her thirties, the diary became more of a log: “The rhapsodies(狂想曲 )of the previous decade thinned out. “ As she entered her forties, “reflection disappeared almost completely. “ Manguso doesnt say that she intends to stop keeping her diary, but the sub
42、title of the memoir“The End of a Diary“implies that the habit may have outlived its usefulness. Another meaning hides, too: Why does one keep a diary at all? As she looks back on the huge project, she feels its uselessness. I)One could argue that reading memoirs comes more naturally to us now than e
43、ver before. Our critical faculties are primed as theyve never been. Social media annoy us daily with fragmented first-person accounts of peoples lives. But what constantly self-reporting your own life does not seem to enable a person to doat least, not yetis to communicate to others a private sense
44、of what it feels like to be you. With “ Ongoingness“ Manguso has achieved this. In her almost illusive deep thoughts on time and what it means to preserve ones own life, she has managed to copy an entirely interior world. She has written the memoir we didnt realize we needed. 47 “Ongoingness“ descri
45、bes how Manguso gradually changes in her relationship to time as she grows old. 48 Someone may consider that it becomes more natural for us to read memoirs than ever before because our critical faculties are ready. 49 Manguso started keeping a diary because of a feeling of worry present in many peop
46、le. 50 Mangusos mother-in-law passed away when she was going to give birth to her son. 51 Manguso believed that it was impossible to extract the best parts of her diary from their context in a true way. 52 Mangusos memoir mainly involves deep thoughts based on the existence of the diary instead of a
47、 life summary recorded by the diary. 53 It seems that Manguso does not take pride in her diary indeed even though she keeps a journal for a long time. 54 What Manguso decides to share in her memoir is not a successive narrative. 55 Readers can rarely find anything sensitive in Mangusos material. 56
48、Manguso devotes less to the diary as her sense of time fades away. Section C 56 In London, over half of the homes built between 1919 and 1980 had one garage. But many are becoming needless. Between 2002 and 2012 the proportion of vehicles kept in garages at night dropped from 22% to 14% . This is in
49、 part because some households now have more cars than garage space. But it is also because big modern cars do not fit in older garages, says David Leibling, a transport expert. Few rust when left outside, and many are more difficult to steal: between 2003 and 2013 the number of vehicle being stolen in England and Wales fell 76% . Instead, garages now solve a different set of problems. Householders unable to move to larger homes h
