1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 150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 account of students increasing reliance on technology to solve problems, and then explain the consequence of over-dependence on it. Yo
2、u should write at least120 words but no more than 180 words. “You have to solve this problem by yourself. You cant call tech support.“ Section A （ A） They dont have enough money to buy other things. （ B） They have bought some household appliances. （ C） They have enough money to buy chicken. （ D） The
3、y dont want to buy anything else. （ A） Find a larger room. （ B） Sell the old table. （ C） Buy two armchairs. （ D） Rearrange some furniture. （ A） He likes the brand Omega very much. （ B） He dislikes the womans recommendation. （ C） He wants to buy an expensive watch. （ D） He doesnt care about the desig
4、n of the wristwatch. （ A） She can do nothing to help the man. （ B） She knows nothing about basketball. （ C） They are not rich enough to buy another TV set. （ D） The man is always watching basketball games. （ A） Go to the cinema in spite of the cold weather. （ B） Stay at home and rest. （ C） Go over h
5、is lessons. （ D） Go to finish his work. （ A） The woman has given up learning English. （ B） The woman does well in pronunciation and spelling. （ C） The man also does well in pronunciation and grammar. （ D） Neither the man nor the woman is good at spelling. （ A） To make the woman angry. （ B） To please
6、 the mans mother. （ C） David is the mans good friend. （ D） David is good at carrying on conversations. （ A） The man has gone over three units of the course. （ B） The man has reviewed only eight units of the course. （ C） The man will spend the May Day holiday reviewing the twelve units. （ D） The man
7、has been fully prepared for the final exam. （ A） Consult the man about investment strategy. （ B） Draw a large amount of money. （ C） Ask the man for financial advice. （ D） Open some bank accounts. （ A） Daily expenses. （ B） Big expenses. （ C） Holidays. （ D） Education fee. （ A） Her ID card and passport
8、. （ B） Her personal references. （ C） Her social security number. （ D） Her cover letter. （ A） A salesman. （ B） A real estate agent. （ C） A bank clerk. （ D） A consultant. （ A） It is of good quality. （ B） It works well. （ C） It is pretty huge. （ D） Its not functioning. （ A） He thinks its a good bargain
9、. （ B） He finds its just what he needs. （ C） He will use it more often than before. （ D） He considers it as a symbol of wealth. （ A） Rearrange its place. （ B） Return it to the store. （ C） Sell it to her. （ D） Give it to his friend. Section B （ A） Automobiles are more destructive to human society. （
10、B） Peacebreakers pay little attention to law and morality. （ C） Modern technology brings more harm than good. （ D） The lack of virtue is becoming more prevailing. （ A） Researchers show great interest in this. （ B） Few drivers know the dangers of accidents. （ C） Experts want to warn drivers of their
11、own safety. （ D） It is a main reason leading to accidents. （ A） Raising safety standards for vehicles. （ B） Establishing speed limits on more roads. （ C） Limiting the number of vehicles on express ways. （ D） Regulating the release of drivers licenses. （ A） To show that the motor vehicle is a very da
12、ngerous invention. （ B） To discuss traffic problems and propose possible solutions. （ C） To promote drivers social awareness and sense of responsibility. （ D） To warn drivers of the destruction of careless driving. （ A） They become more mature in a shorter time. （ B） They might be of different genes
13、 from their ancestors. （ C） They are much more nutritious with better taste. （ D） They might take a totally different look than before. （ A） Which food could be sold. （ B） How foods must be described. （ C） When certain foods are available. （ D） What nutrients food should contain. （ A） They have trou
14、ble in moving. （ B） They have trouble in speaking. （ C） They have trouble in sleeping. （ D） They have trouble in breathing. （ A） It plays an important role in the international economy. （ B） Japan is the largest trading partner of America. （ C） American banks have the most branches globally. （ D） Tr
15、ade between Japan and America is the most active of all. （ A） She was interested in living in different places. （ B） She wanted to know more about Japanese culture. （ C） She was promoted by her boss to a new position. （ D） She wanted to gain more knowledge of the field. （ A） She is the manager of th
16、e Tokyo branch bank. （ B） She studies economics in Japan. （ C） She works for a Japanese bank in America. （ D） She set up her own business in Japan. Section C 26 Since we are social beings, the quality of our lives depends in large measure on our interpersonal(人与人之间的 )relationships. One strength of t
17、he human condition is our【 B1】 _ to give and receive support from one another under stressful circumstances. Social support【 B2】 _ the exchange of resources among people based on their interpersonal ties. Those of us with strong support systems appear better able to cope with major life changes and【
18、 B3】 _problems. People with strong social ties live longer and have better health than those without such ties. Studies over a range of illnesses, from depression to heart disease,【 B4】 _that the presence of social support helps people【 B5】 _ illness, and the absence of such support makes poor healt
19、h more likely. Social support【 B6】 _ stress in a number of ways. First, friends, relatives, and colleagues may let us know that they value us. Our self-respect is strengthened when we feel accepted by others despite our faults and【 B7】 _. Second, other people often provide us with informational supp
20、ort. They help us to define and understand our problems and find solutions to them. Third, we【 B8】 _find that engaging in leisure-time activities with others helps us to meet our social needs while at the same time【 B9】 _our worries and troubles. Finally, other people may give us helpful support 【 B
21、10】 _ aid, material resources, and needed services that reduces stress by helping us resolve and cope with our problems. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Back in the carefree days of the Noughties boom, Britains youngsters were s
22、wept along by the buy-now-pay-later culture embraced by consumers up and down the country. During a decade of near-full employment, many【 C1】 _quickly from one job and one credit card to another, and rainy days were such a distant memory that they【 C2】_seemed worth saving for. But with the supply of
23、 cheap credit【 C3】 _up and a generation of school and university leavers about to【 C4】 _the recession-hit job market, thousands of young people with no memory of the early 1990s recession are shocked into the【 C5】_that the world of 2014 is very different. Katie Orme, 19, who lives in Birmingham, say
24、s she has decided never to get a credit card after seeing the problems that her parents and 22-year-old sister have had with debt just one of the【 C6】 _lessons that she has had to learn. Orme finished her A-levels a year ago, and has been【 C7】 _for a job and living at home with her parents ever sinc
25、e. She has had to sign on to support herself and is now on a 12-week internship(实习期 )at the Princes Trust to improve her【 C8】 _. The Trust says that the number of calls from【 C9】 _people such as Orme has shot up by 50% over six months. “Its so hard to get a job at the moment,“ she says, “its better
26、to go and get more qualifications so when more jobs are【 C10】 _you will be better suited.“ A)searching B)skipped C)available D)mostly E)anxious F)mug G)hardly H)remedy I)realization J)dynamic K)resume L)painful M)neglected N)drying O)flood 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C
27、7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 What If You Could Learn Everything? A)Imagine every student has a tireless personal tutor, an artificially intelligent and inexhaustible companion that magically knows everything, knows the student, and helps her learn what she needs to know. “You guys sou
28、nd like youre from the future,“ Jose Ferreira, the CEO of the education technology startup Knewton, says. “Thats the most common reaction we get from others in the industry.“ B)Four years ago, this kind of talk sounded like typical Silicon Valley boast from another childish founder of a technology s
29、tartup. Today, Knewton says they can deliver the kinds of breakthroughs: several million data points generated daily by each of 1 million students from elementary school through college, using Knewtons “adaptive learning“ technology to study math, reading, and other fundamentals. Peter Thiel, the Pa
30、yPal co-founder, Facebook investor, and an early investor in Knewton, told Knewtons staff recently that the company has two key characteristics he looks for in a deal. “Before they happen, everybody thought it was impossible. Afterwards its too late for anyone else, because theyve already done it.“
31、C)Adaptive learning is an increasingly popular saying indicating educational software that customizes its presentation of material from moment to moment based on the users input. Its being hailed as a “revolution“ by both venture capitalists and big, established education companies. Starting this fa
32、ll, Knewtons technology will be available to the vast majority of the nations colleges and universities and K-12 school districts through new partnerships with three major textbook publishers: Pearson, MacMillan, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. And Ferreiras done all this even though he says neither
33、his investors nor his competition, to say nothing of the public or the press, really understand what Knewton can do. D)But heres the vision. Within 5 or 10 years, the paper textbook and mimeographed(油印的 )worksheet will be dead. Classroom exercises and homework text, audio, video, games will have shi
34、fted entirely to the iPad or equivalent. And adaptive learning will help each user find the exact right piece of content needed, in the exact right format, at the exact right time, based on previous patterns of use. E)In an age of swelling class sizes, teacher layoffs, and students with a vast group
35、ing of special needs and learning styles, some reformers greet these adaptive learning software systems as a savior that could make learning more customized and effective and teaching more efficient. While battle lines are sharp in K-12 school reform over issues from charters to the Common Core nati
36、onal curriculum standards, digital innovations have fans across the political scope for their power to engage students and bring the classroom into the 21st century. F)Knewton, at base, is a recommendation engine but for learning. The recommendation engine is a core technology of the Internet, and p
37、robably one you encounter every day. Google uses recommendations: other people who entered these search terms clicked on this page, so well show it to you first. The more you use one of these websites, the more it knows about you not just about your current behavior, but about all the other searches
38、 and clicks youve done. In theory, as you spend more time with a site its recommendations will become more personalized. G)Rather than the set of all Web pages or all movies, the learning data set is, more or less, the universe of all facts. Ferreira calls these facts “atomic concepts,“ meaning that
39、 theyre indivisible into smaller concepts. When a textbook publisher like Pearson loads its curriculum into Knewtons platform, each piece of content it could be a video, a test question, or a paragraph of text is tagged with the appropriate concept or concepts. H)The platform forms a personalized st
40、udy plan based on that information and decides what the student should work on next, feeding the student the appropriate new pieces of content and continuously checking the progress. A dashboard(仪表盘 )shows the student how many “mastery points“ have been achieved and what to do next. Teachers, likewi
41、se, can see exactly which concepts the student is struggling with, and not only whether the homework problems have been done but also how many times each problem was attempted or how many hints were needed. The more people use the system, the better it gets; and the more you use it, the better it ge
42、ts for you. I)In a traditional class, a teacher moves a group of students through a predetermined sequence of material at a single pace. Reactions are delayed you dont get homework or pop quizzes back for a day or two. Some students are bored; some are confused. You can miss a key idea, fall behind,
43、 and never catch up. Software-enabled adaptive learning flips all of this on its head. Students can move at their own speed. They can get hints and instant feedback. Teachers, meanwhile, can spend class time targeting their help to individuals or small groups based on need. J)The Knewton system uses
44、 its analytics to keep students motivated. If it notices that you seem to have a confidence problem, because you too often blow questions that should be easy based on previous results, it will start you off with a few questions youre likely to get right. If youre stuck, choosing the wrong answer aga
45、in and again, it will throw out broader and broader hints before just showing you the right answer. It knows when to drill you on multiplication and when to give you a fun animated video to watch. K)These are early days, and the questions are mounting. Research indicates that emotional qualities lik
46、e courage, persistence, and motivation may be even more important to students success than the knowledge or skills they acquire, and they all depend heavily on human relationships. Knowledge acquisition is the only aspect of education that todays digital technology seems especially well adapted to.
47、So far, most software applications, platforms, apps, and games, including Knewtons, have been optimized for transferring quantitative, bounded bodies of facts in fields like math, science, or engineering, as well as basic literacy and grammar. An adaptive-learning platform like Knewtons is helpless
48、to analyze a students insight in class discussions, the special brilliance of an essay, or creativity in a group presentation. In a rare moment of modesty, Ferreira agrees. “In the end,“ he says, “maybe Knewton is just a tool.“ 47 Students get personalized study plan and teachers get detailed inform
49、ation about students performance from Knewton platform. 48 With cooperation with major textbook publishers, Knewtons technology will be accessible to many universities beginning from this autumn. 49 When curriculums are put into Knewtons platform, theyre labeled with proper concepts. 50 The Knewton system pays attention to students confidence problems. 51 Knewton basically works in the same way as Google, but only for learning. 52 A
