1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 190及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then comment on peoples seeking for happiness endlessly. You should write at leas
2、t 120 words but no more than 180 words. Section A （ A） She operated her aircraft single-handed. （ B） She followed Boeings commercial route. （ C） She drove an old aircraft sponsored by Boeing. （ D） She stopped occasionally to repair aircraft. （ A） She uploaded her pictures on twitter. （ B） She lost h
3、er temper several times. （ C） She argued heatedly with technicians. （ D） She left photographers behind halfway. （ A） It raised the food prices. （ B） It met huge rent rises. （ C） It attracted more diners. （ D） It gained more profit. （ A） It will cut down the rented space. （ B） It will turn to offerin
4、g takeout instead. （ C） It will move to a place with cheaper rent. （ D） It will raise money from regular customers. （ A） It gained large amounts of money from oil. （ B） Its government raised the price of gasoline. （ C） Citizens got benefits from its government. （ D） It joined the International Monet
5、ary Fund. （ A） The international oil price crashed. （ B） The Saudi king was discontent with some citizens. （ C） Unemployment rate increased dramatically. （ D） Many Saudis had no concept of saving gas. （ A） Export more oil. （ B） Start taxing its people. （ C） Develop tourism industry. （ D） Reduce the
6、number of immigrants. Section B （ A） An international drivers license. （ B） An Arizona drivers license. （ C） A regular license. （ D） A limited license. （ A） A written exam and an oral exam. （ B） A road test with a parallel parking test. （ C） A thorough physical check-up. （ D） A traffic regulation te
7、st. （ A） A regular license will cost much more money. （ B） A regular license has a shorter effective period. （ C） A five-year license is much easier to get for students. （ D） A five-year license is more popular among students. （ A） An Italian student studies for two years. （ B） An Italian immigrant
8、resides for ever. （ C） A Spanish tourist is on a visit for half a year. （ D） A Spanish teacher teaches for three years. （ A） Someone phoned. （ B） Someone came. （ C） The woman went out. （ D） The woman phoned the man. （ A） She didnt take Mr. Cooper to the restaurant. （ B） She didnt phone him when Mr.
9、Cooper came. （ C） She has lost the card he had given to her. （ D） She made an excurse for her fault. （ A） An information card of a restaurant. （ B） His own business card. （ C） Mr. Coopers business card. （ D） A note of what to do. （ A） A student and a teacher. （ B） The secretary and the boss. （ C） A
10、salesgirl and a customer. （ D） The wife and the husband. Section C （ A） They wanted to follow his example. （ B） They fully supported his undertaking. （ C） They were puzzled by his decision. （ D） They were afraid he wasnt prepared. （ A） It is more exciting than space travel. （ B） It is much cheaper t
11、han space travel. （ C） It is much safer than space travel. （ D） It is less time-consuming than space travel. （ A） They both attract scientists attention. （ B） They both can be quite challenging. （ C） They are both thought-provoking. （ D） They both lead to surprising findings. （ A） To show how simple
12、 the mechanical aids for diving can be. （ B） To provide reasons for his changeable character. （ C） To explore the philosophical issues of space travel. （ D） To explain why he took up underwater exploration. （ A） Gold was discovered in the city. （ B） The citys population grew to twelve thousand. （ C）
13、 The Golden Gate Bridge was constructed. （ D） Telegraph communications with the East were established. （ A） It is almost two million. （ B） It is almost three million. （ C） It is almost five million. （ D） It is almost six million. （ A） It is one mile long. （ B） It cost 32 million dollars. （ C） It is
14、the largest in the world. （ D） It was completed in 1936. （ A） 300 million. （ B） 3 billion. （ C） Over 335 million. （ D） More than 28 million. （ A） National conflict. （ B） Agricultural problems. （ C） Population decrease. （ D） Economic problems. （ A） Asking people to use less water in the daily life. （
15、 B） Finding ways to use water for more than one purpose. （ C） Making good use of seawater for daily life. （ D） Importing fresh water from other countries. Section A 26 Official health advice that said household chores help keep you active has been proved wrong by the research, which shows that the p
16、eople who do the most housework are also the most overweight. A study of the physical activity habits of 4,563 adults, carried out by Professor Marie Murphy at the University of Ulster found that women and older people were particularly likely to list “【 C1】 _physical activity as a significant propo
17、rtion of their moderate to【 C2】 _physical activity“. Murphy said: “We found housework was reversely【 C3】 _to leanness, which suggests that either people are overestimating the amount of moderate-intensity physical activity they do through housework or are eating too much to【 C4】 _for the amount of a
18、ctivity undertaken.“ Kevin Fenton, director of health and wellbeing at Public Health England, suggested the study could【 C5】 _evidence that some people thought they were healthier than they actually were. “At an individual level there may be a【 C6】 _to overestimate the level of good behaviour were d
19、oing and this is reflected when people use food diaries, pedometers (计步器 ) or apps to measure more【 C7】 _what they have achieved.“ he said. But he defended everyday tasks as genuinely useful. He added: “From an individual【 C8】 _, physical activities such as housework, doing the shopping and walking
20、to collect children from school, can have【 C9】 _impacts on physical and mental wellbeing. People who are even more active will often see greater benefits and it is important to recognise that healthy weight is just one of the potential【 C10】 _of physical activity.“ A) account E) domestic I) perspect
21、ive M) related B) adjusted F) gentle J) positive N) tendency C) causes G) objectively K) practically O) vigorous D) compensate H) outcomes L) reinforce 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 Preparing Children to Be Safe at College A M
22、oney can buy many things to help children excel academically, like tutors and private school educations. But as those children go off to college, the one thing otherwise protective parents typically do not spend money on is making sure their children do not become victims of a crime. One reason is c
23、ost. The price of protection ranges from consultations billed at several hundred dollars an hour to Ostrander Internationals security assessment and training program, mainly for the children of international business executives, royalty and celebrities, which starts at $41,000 for the first year. B
24、Parents may believe that security at college is not something they have to worry about. But just because you are paying tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars for your childs education does not mean the university is a safe place. C A report released this week by Insite Security is sure to s
25、hake parents confidence. The security firm analyzed crime statistics on and around the campuses of the eight Ivy League colleges as well as Duke, Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago. This study was unique because it looked not only at the on-campus stati
26、stics that colleges are required to report, it also took into account crime in the areas where students socialize off campus. D The Insite report said three-quarters of the colleges and their surrounding areas had sex offense rates that were 83 percent higher than the national average, with Dartmout
27、h having the highest rate. It said that Harvard had the highest rate of stealing among the 12. “Keeping kids safe or making a wise decision about where your kids go to school is more complicated than reviewing the police log at the college security office,“ said Christopher Falkenberg, president of
28、Insite. E In response to the report, Sylvia Spears, dean of Dartmouth, said, “Increased reporting is not necessarily an indicator of increased sexual violence on campus but may indicate better education about sexual violence and increased awareness of various services and offices on a campus that ar
29、e available to a victim.“ A spokesman for Harvard said, “It is important to note that how property crimes are classified and reported varies from school to school, and when you look at property crime statistics as a whole, Harvard does not lead in the rankings.“ F For prominent families, the costs o
30、f a security plan to reduce these risks are part of life, but for most affluent families, such security is prohibitively expensiveeven though their children may be easily harmed by crime. Several security advisers here offered advice to wealthy families considering security plans while also providin
31、g tips to parents of more modest means. Top threats G Curtis Ostrander, the founder of Ostrander International and former vice president for risk management and public safety at Cornell, said the biggest threat he sought to counter was students belief that nothing was going to happen to them. His bu
32、siness focuses on the top targets for campus crime: international students and children from wealthy homes. It might seem obvious that someone adjusting to a new culture while getting used to college could run into problems. But children from families who are upper-middle class and higher on the wea
33、lth ladder are often innocent about personal security, and that makes them targets for theft, alcohol-related crimes and sexual assault (攻击 ). “If you grew up in a poorer neighborhood, youd be more aware of someone coming up behind you and stealing your bag,“ Mr. Ostrander said. He added that the ve
34、ry rich were the least prepared: “Having security growing up makes it worse because they never had to consider the threats.“ H Mr. Falkenberg said a new trick illustrated this problem. It starts with an attractive, older woman pretending to fall in love with a wealthy male student in the hope of get
35、ting pregnant, if not married, and laying claim to his familys money. “Theyre only innocent kids, and the story is always the same,“ he said. “Its really hard because you have to tell the kid this is not the love of his life.“ Student responsibility I Regardless of the threat, the key is to work wit
36、h students before they leave for college. And this is where the fees for one-on-one preparation start to climb. Mr. Ostrander, for example, has a psychologist and a self-defense instructor on staff, and he will work personally with the student in the home country or on campus. Thomas Ruskin, preside
37、nt of CMP Protective and Investigative Group, said his agents had accompanied clients children on trips, pretending tour guides or drivers, but had also done simple things like monitoring tracking technology on their cellphones. “Its about teaching them how to leave the nest but also to teach them w
38、hat theyve been protected from,“ Mr. Ruskin said. J Short of hiring an expensive consultant, parents themselves can do more to prepare children for what can happen on campus. For male students, the main worries are being beaten up or involved in an alcohol-related crime, and for women, the concerns
39、center on sexual assault. Yet Mr. Ostrander says parents usually do not do enough to prepare children for theft and computer frauds. These include the infamous Nigerian prince asking for money and more personalized frauds devised from the abundance of personal information on the Web. “Some of us say
40、 thats just common sense, but not for people without a lot of life experience,“ he said. Parental anxiety K Thinking about what could happen to your child is enough to send the most level-headed parent into overprotective mode. Yet the experts offered some simple steps for parents to take. For examp
41、le, encourage your daughter to use campus escorts (护送者 ) at night. The worst thing a parent can do for a child, the experts agreed, is send a bodyguard to class. The same goes for the middle-class parent repeatedly warning a child not to drink That could lead to worse behavior. “We dont say, Dont dr
42、ink,“ Mr. Ostrander said. “We say, If you drink, here are some of the possible problems.“ He added, “I teach these kids in classes, but these are the same skills they will use the rest of their lives to be safe.“ And that is what any parent wants from college. 37 As for the male students, the main c
43、oncern centers on being beaten up and involved in an alcohol-related crime. 38 The students growing up in a poorer neighborhood tend to be more aware of property crimes. 39 The most level-headed parents may turn into overprotective mode if they just think about what could happen to their children at
44、 college. 40 The report released by Insite Security was unique in that it analyzed the crimes off campus along with the on-campus crimes statistics. 41 According to a recent report, the sex offense rates near most campuses were much higher than the national average. 42 Training students before they
45、go to college is the key to tackle security threats at college. 43 Most protective parents dont think of spending money on preparing children to be safe at college. 44 The price of a security plan to reduce potential campus risk is too high for most affluent families. 45 As a way to protect children
46、, sending a bodyguard to class is as bad as repeatedly warning a child not to drink. 46 The rise of reported sexual violence on campus may mean increased awareness and improved understanding of sexual violence. Section C 46 Hollywood has a message for scientists: If you want something thats 100% acc
47、urate in every way, go watch a documentary. The thing is, when it comes to movies, narrative wins. The writers job is to get the characters right, not the science, says Tse, who cowrote Watchmen, one of last years most-anticipated superhero films. It annoys him, too, when things dont make sense. He
48、spent a lot of time and energy trying to find a fix for a logical problem in Watchmenthat one character, Dan, uses a completely obvious password to hack into the computer of Adrian, who is supremely intelligent. But for practical reasons, that kind of problem often just cant be fixed. Maybe it would
49、 take too long, in an already long movie, or distract too much from the narrative, or cost too much to shoot. Writers have faced similar problems with the TV show Heroes. The series follows a group of characters that have acquired superpowers: one is invisible, and one can walk through walls. One little boy can control electronics with his mind, which is “completely scientifically crazy,“ says Joe Pokaski, a writer who has worked on every one of the shows 76 episodes
